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We play out so many karmic connections until we realize there is a better way. Karma is necessary to learn about ourselves, to evolve more into loving, sincere people. We can bypass karma having to play out as much if we are willing to deepen into our being and access our truest connection. This connecting is like coming home. It is about forgiveness of all the people and events we have called into our lives to teach us. It is to learn more directly, more openly from within ourselves, thus bypassing many difficult, suffering situations.
If we are truly willing to step off the karmic wheel of perpetual life lessons then we can begin to learn more gently, easily, effortlessly from within our own soul. This enables to move about within ourselves and in the world without as much drama. The drama drops. It's no longer attractive and we begin to cherish this inner communion. Drama is as old as time, so this shift requires devotion and dedication. The more one is orienting to their inner knowing, the more the drama begins to cease.
An inner connection begins to synch up as the main relationship in life. The inner world becomes more alive, more tangibly real. The outer drama, is just a distraction for coming in and feeling into the peace and emptiness which will sustain in ways the drama never could. Notice that most of our experiences seem to be ladened with same repetitive beliefs we have been carrying most of our lives.
We came to heal core issues; like I'm not good enough, or I'm unworthy of love and meaningful support. No matter how good something appears at first, the old core wound begins to creep back in. Instead running after new experiences to show that the painful belief is not true. Come in instead and just notice that these core wounds are seeking to be held within in a new way. This is about unconditional love being offered within. This loving acceptance allows us to stop playing out the wounded behavior enough so that we can begin to change our outer behavior.
If our wound is that we are not good enough, we will feel this unconditional love is present within us to met it. To bring in the feeling of being more patient and tolerant with ourselves. It may also encourage us to not take more than we can handle, thus failing yet again. We learn to balance our lives out in ways that we are able to care deeply for ourselves and learn to show up for others in balanced ways. When we listen or feel the inner words and nudgings they begin to guide is particular ways that help us to succeed. We may not win the big lottery or reach the top of our profession or create the greatest contribution for humanity or we may.
It just doesn't matter as much. When we are aligning more fully with our inwardly guided purpose we feel a deep abiding connection to what is truly real. This is the catalyst of a whole new way of living. It enables us to feel a freedom from all the old collective mindset. We can more easily step out of all the old archetypal stories of hero and victim consciousness. then a simpler, purer love connection arises which is about being the love which we are. This will not effectively be used to rescue. It's more about that saying…teaching people how to fish, rather than giving them fish.
When the victim consciousness stops being rescued, the victim begins to see that they can choose to awaken to a new consciousness or drown. Of course, we have played all these victim, perpetrator, rescuer stories out forever on our planet. Coming home to this realization needs a lot of internal support in the form of insight, awareness, unconditional love and direct guidance around right action. If we overlook these connections and continue to play our new situations, we will find ourselves back on the karmic wheel in the exact same place. This is why so many situations start to bring up the same unhealed beliefs as before. Vey familiar aren't they.
This time stop and enter into communion with the answer to all this repetitive suffering. Isn't all getting boring at this point? Has it felt painful enough? Are you ready? Great…then come on in.
Let's take a brief dive in. Breathe with me, feel into your heart, welcome your heart…the source of the unconditional love connection. Now welcome in your soul…breathing in more deeply. Pause feel into this deeper connection. This may take a minute. We're just making a connection. Now breathe into your third eye, between your eyes…your guidance for direction in the world resides here. Connect to the crown of your head…where we connect with our awareness and awakening to divine presence.
Great…these are your power connections. There are others within us, but these are the most important now. Feel into being a little more a whole and a little less needy of outer direction.
Recognize that all true power eminates from within this sanctuary. Randomly throughout your die make these connections. Notice if you begin to hear words from deeper within or nudges that help direct how you go about your day. When you are involved in drama, pause for a few minutes and access this inner knowing. Ask, what is most helpful for me to know now? Listen or even better write out your answer. I have a notebook I write in and ask this question almost everyday. It truly helps me to the answer. It may not as directly related to the drama as it is to the understanding that we most need inn that moment.
What we receive from our inner knowing is not ways in which to go back into the karmic lesson and replay it or fix it, rather, it is about how to get out of the cycle completely. This is more about true freedom, not temporary fulfillment. Pausing and deepening, listening and the acting is the way out of all the repetitive suffering. Have you had enough yet? Are you tired, bored and frustrated? Stop, don't grab for a new life experience, simply connect and listen and use your life experience to free you rather than entrap you.
I assure you if you are lying, controlling, running, attacking or clinging you are stuck. There is one way out of this…develop this inner connection. Then take action to apologize for your mistakes freeing up the karma and most importantly learn from the lesson by behaving from a more mature and aware place within you. If your behavior has harmed an animal, child, adult anyone forgive yourself and apologize either through your words or through new more loving behavior. Listen to your inner connection to learn how to best make amends to yourself or to the other.
Cultivate your inner communion. Come back into peace with yourself. Ask for inner guidance. Listen or feel into this connection. When you know the right direction act on it in a timely manner. If you procrastinate for your egos timing or you don't follow through at all…no problem…you'll get to play it over and over again until you can take responsibility for your actions.
Honor these inner connections by making time and space for them. Commune within as much as you can. Cultivate this as your real home. Your inner and outer world will begin to take on the same peace. You will find new, more freeing opportunities, your world will resemble the inner peace which you are honoring.
with great peace an love for your homecoming;


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I'm having a problem with my program deciding to stop responding. The program is as follows:
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The program has a simple purpose: the goal is to have it be a sort of study guide. It will also be the first program I use new or delete in.
I had a similar problem awhile back when I learned the basics of normal C. I would forget the ampersand before my inputs in scanf and it would stop responding in the exact same way, but I didn't use scanf here.
I'm not certain, ut I think it's a similar problem with using new. Removing the delete command didn't fix it.
If it matters, I use the Digital Mars compiler, which is run from the command line, cmd.
EDIT: I have made a small modification so that the first 3 lines no longer make it so that memory for the strings is allocated twice, it now says this:
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Also, I thought it might help to mention that I don't get any errors or warnings. I don't see a problem, but there clearly is one. I don't tthink my program would just quit responding like that.


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I went looking for information about the Canada Fitness program today, and I couldn't find anything. Perhaps it's dead?
During my elementary school years, each spring we were forced to engage in a set of fitness tests — chin-ups and running figured prominently — and based on our individual results, we were awarded either a bronze, silver, gold or the "Award of Excellence." Or, if you were like me, you received none of the above and instead were "awarded" a small plastic "participation pin."
Although it's hard not to laud any program that endeavoured to make us all more fit, I can't think of any one effort in my time inside the walls of formal education that did more to turn me off physical activity.
Presumably the theory went that we down in the dregs of the participation pin ghetto were supposed to strive to better ourselves, with hopes that one day we could become bronze, silver, gold, or "excellent."
In practice, we all thought the program silly and perhaps mean-spirited, for it seemed to rate natural abilities more than anything else. And, heck, we couldn't do anything about that. Not quite eugenics. But not as far off as I'd like, either.
I was at the gym today trying to a pushup and remembered how in year 7 I was able to do the 60 seconds on the flexed arm hang to get my Award of Excellence. Came across this site today. Often thing the same testing should be brought back. Having fitness goals never hurt me and some kids today could sure benefit from goals. What ever happened to a bit of competive spirit?
I remember the CFT program well, or at least, the late 70s-early 80s version of it. Long before computers and affordable home video game systems, all we DID was spend every minute we possibly could OUTSIDE, running around and doing STUFF. Important stuff! We walked/ran/biked EVERYWHERE. Going to the arcade? It's only about 20 blocks thataway. Going to the quarry/sandpit to do bike jumps? Only a few miles…(don't even get me started on how horror stricken parents of today would be if their kids wanted to go to an old quarry sandpit to jump their bikes off 15 foot dunes/sandpiles!) So we were in pretty good shape.
I did ok at the running/sprint tests, pretty good at the situp/pushup tests, but where I kicked serious butt was the flexed arm hang. I dunno how I did it, but I was up there for 23min18sec. Whether it was a locked joint thing, or a zen thing (I do remember just closing my eyes and breathing smoothly/rhythmically), I hung there for nearly half an hour while a host of other kids hung, dropped and cried. Then they made me get down because it was time for lunch.
I do remember being sore as hell the next couple days, though. Our daily recess routine of playing "G-Force — Battle of the Planets" (I was always Keyop!) was torture.
I look at my sister's kids, especially my 10yr old niece/goddaughter who's put on about 30 pounds in the last year, and firmly believe that we need to bring back the CFT program! We need to de-pudge our children!
I can't believe there are so many of us that remember the CFT….now I am a 30 year old homeschooling mom and I would love to try it with my kids. I LOVED the shuttle run and hated HATED the flexed arm hang. Can anyone find this program? Has it been completed deleted like some covert operations file? It would be such a laugh to try it again with friends to see how out of shape we are in comparison with our 10 year old selves. If anyone finds it, please email me. I would love to see the return of some sort of physical activity for children that requires more fortitude than they are used to exerting on video games and movies. What doesn't kill us makes us stronger, right?
So the comments here are clearly in two categories; one — people who think the awards were barbaric, and two — those who realize they were just a way of assessing fitness. Obviously the first group is now ruling Canada! I recently saw the noted Corner Gas episode and became aware of activ8, the "replacement " for the Awards, which "celebrates" "ability" and "improvement". Apparently now a grossly obese Canadian who improves their 10 yard walk time from 30 seconds to 29 is worthy of an award??? Give me an f'n break!
My husband and I are transplanted Canucks living in NJ. We just watched the episode of Corner Gas (got the DVDs — LOVE THEM!!) that was mentioned above about the Canada Fitness Tests. Too funny!!! I had forgotten about those brutal tests too. I absolutely hated the endurance run — it killed me every year. I was never a great athlete — I think my best was a silver — and usually I got bronze or the dreaded participation award. BUT — I do think it was a good idea and if the stupid Phys Ed. teachers would have actually had the kids train for it, it wouldn't have been so bad. But take a kid that never runs any distance and tell him to run a mile?? Fugetaboudit. It was brutal. And yes, cruel.
The test was discontinued in '92, the reason being it didn't encourage those who needed it the most. Or something like that. However, some schools (certainly mine) continued to do the test without the incentive of a badge. I believe my school continued the program until '98 when a new teacher took over. I usualy got silver, a few gold and a few bronze. I don't remember dreading it, but I don't remember being overly fond of it. I think it would be a fine idea to start it again, it should no longer be a traumatising experiance to not recieve an award as it seems likely that the majority wouldn't be capable of getting one. Kids today need some incentive.
I have found the information that you all might be looking for. I was able to get my hands on a copy of the program. If done correctly, you were suppose to have had a pre-test in the fall and then been given opportunity to increase your fitness in gym and by yourself. Then in the spring, you should have been tested again. These results were the ones to be used for awards. The events were: push-ups, shuttle run, partial curl-ups, standing long jump, 50 metre run and endurance test. For younger children, the push-ups used to be the flex arm hang. I only have the results for up the age 13. To get an excellence badge, you had to get 39 — push-ups, 11.4sec — shuttle run, 59 partial curl-ups, 200cm — standing long jump, 7.7sec — 50m run & 11:21 — 2400meter run. To get a bronze: 11 push-ups, 13.5sec — shuttle run, 28 — partial curl-ups, 151cm — standing long jump, 9.2sec — 50meter run & 15:35 — 2400meter endurance run.
There is a President's challenge down in the states that you can find online that is based off of the Canada Fitness awards program. It has most of the same tests and provides results for up to 17years of age.
I enjoyed the fitness testing very much and received Excellence badges every year. It is a shame that so many of you put so much value in a badge. I never did well on my timed math facts and had to call out my score in front of the class, but you don't see math facts being eliminated from school or anyone calling them brutal or cruel. You can not be good at every subject. It takes hard work and practice to get better. Just because you did not do well, does not mean that the program was bad. It just took work to get better and did any of you actually work at trying to get better? I am a PE specialist now and would love to have the program come back, like it has in the states.
here's an update,they're bringing back ParticipACTION;election coming? Funding's going to be mostly corporate based this time 'round,so hope it's long term.We'll see what the 21C version of participAction does for the current 16 and under generation who have weight and repetitive use injury issues.
This is great! I'm writing a script, and at one point, the main characters are sitting in a bar trying to remember what the events in this Fitness Test were. I couldn't remember all of them myself. I only remembered the dreaded endurance run, the flexed arm hang and the sprint. So, I set about looking for some info. It is surprisingly hard to find.
As for my own achievements in this: 1 Silver, 2 Bronze, 1 Sticker. Remember the damn sticker? It was like they were saying, "Thanks for playing." I got that the year they put me up into the next age group. So instead of four big laps in the endurance run, I had to do EIGHT! And at one point, I tried to cheat by not running all the way around the cones, and this one little bastard (who always got Gold or Excellent) saw me and ran to tell the teacher.
The year I got Silver, I went to a particularly rough school, where more often than not I had to run like the devil to avoid a solid beating after school. It whipped me into shape pretty quick.
Thank you all for the memories. That's hilarious that the Hip song mentions the flexed-arm hang. I'll have to listen to it again.
I was just looking to see if I could find the Canada Fitness Test Booklet online and stumbled onto this blog. I was interested to read everyone's feelings about the Test.
As I kid I moved at least once a year and we were too poor to play organized sports, so it was hard to compare myself to the other kids. I just felt like a loser…. I remember the first time I did the test, I was scared to death!!! I was already at the bottom of the social pecking order and expected the test to demonstrate my weakness for all to see. To my surprise, I was actually good at the things tested in the Canada Fitness Test! It was a big boost for my self-esteem. To see popular, jock kids failing the flex-arm hang when I had just been up there until the teacher told me to come down, was a revelation. I never felt physically inferior again. I hindsight, it is sad that my own elation came at the expense of other kids.
Anyway, if anyone out there has an old Canada Fitness Test booklet packed away somewhere, I would be happy to buy it.
The Canada Fitness Test was the single worst thing about elementary school. I wish I had gone to one of those no-flexed-arm-hang-for-girls schools that some of you talk about, then maybe I wouldn't have played hookey week after week in order to miss phys ed class. The jocks' comments about their own academic failures not resulting in math being taken out of the curriculum have no relevance in the discussion of the CFT's demise. No one at my school who scored badly on a math or spelling test was ever mocked and taunted day in and day out for weeks on end for it, but the same cannot be said for those of us whose time on the flexed-arm hang measured in the deciseconds! All this test made me do was miss a lot of school in order to avoid it, and count the days till the middle of Grade 10, when I would never again have to attend another phys ed class for as long as I lived. If we want Canadians to do better at the Olympics, how about giving kids the opportunity to try a wealth of sports? Chances are, a great deal more children will find something they're good at, perhaps even leading them to lifelong fitness. I have since gone on to bicycle to Mexico and back from Edmonton, to Atlanta (one-way), around Ireland, across France, and around Tasmania. I've even (VOLUNTARILY) run a few 5-K races, no thanks to the CFT!
I remember this test well. I consistently got bronze on account of being unable to do a single sit up and yet it was the only thing about elementary school gym that I really liked. I was proud that I always placed near the top in about 3 of the 6 events. I could then complain bitterly about the injustice of a scoring system that surely, in no way, properly recognized the level of my achievement. The only respect I ever earned in gym class may have come from getting that little bronze patch and knowing that I flat out beat all the "award of excellence" winners in the 50 yard dash and 300 yard run.
As soon as I heard the word, Canada Fitness Test, I immediately had flashbacks of my fifth grade white and blue North Star running shoes which were anchored to the floor of a stinking gritty gym by a classmates hands, while I, straining and turning red and purple, desperately tried to crank out 60(?) sit ups in 2 minutes. I can't remember if I got Silver or Gold but I do remember how hard I worked to do well on those tests and how important it was to do well on them. I concur with the other females who cursed the flexed arm hang. It was torture-pure and simple. Fun times. I often wondered if those tests were still in existence. Perhaps it is my rose coloured glasses but I also remember how few of us were fat back then, not because we were super athletes but because we were always outside playing. Remember the Participaction commercials? Was that the same era?
Curious…can anyone confirm that the Canada Fitness Test/Program that we all had to endure was an initiative of ParticipACTION? Any help is much appreciated!
I just did this in Air Cadets (yes, this test still exists). I got Bronze, but the reason I didn't get Silver is that the timekeeper on the Shuttle Run was rounding to the nearest second instead of tenth of the second.
Here's a link to the full scoring matrix and test instructions: http://titanous.com/cadets/fit…
I live in the UK and was a keen follower of the RCAF 5BX in the late sixties and achieved chart 5 A+ in my late 20's. Now in my late 60,s I strive for a chart 2 C…….anno domini.
For those of you wanting a link to the 5BX for men and the SBX for women, visit the following url for free downloads of both.
I feel that whilst being the forerunner of the ParticipAction Awards/tests the 5BX and SBX should have remained as they were and extended down from RCAF cadet age into the juniors. These regimen offered no hangups for participants as the grades made allowances for body weight and builds and did not include the giving of badges, nor did they prompt Physical Capability (PC) grade announcements.
What is more 23million copies of th *BX publications were sold globally and became the defacto standard for practically all commercial aircrew to use prior to their contractual medical examinations. What a shame that Dr Bill Orban did not receive a cent in recognition of his work.
Watching the episode of Corner Gas with the ParticipACTION spoof in it brought back vivid memories of doing the Canada Fitness Test in elementary school in the early 1980s. I'm not exaggerating when I say that it completely turned me off any kind of exercise until adulthood. Perhaps my school implemented the program incorrectly, but we never had the opportunity to learn or practice the skills we needed to succeed at the test — it was just given to us toward the end of the school year, usually without warning. To me it was akin to writing a math test without having taken a math class — with 26 of your peers and one disapproving teacher looking on. I'm not one to whine about things that happened in my childhood and I'm definitely in favour of all kids getting plenty of opportunities to exercise, but geez, there has to be a happy medium between humiliating kids who aren't naturally athletically inclined and the current trend toward lavishing praise on everyone for fear of damaging their precious self-esteem.
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Does anyone rememeber the distance we had to run for the Canada Fitness Test? Was it 2400 m, 6 laps around a 400 m track.
How many sit-ups did we have to do in a minute to get Excellence?
I remember consistently getting the "thanks for trying" participation pin. I had two problems. For one, I was much shorter and smaller than the norm so events like the standing long jump left me markedly disadvantaged. Secondly, having cerebral palsy made it more difficult for me to run. I usually finished with a silver in the 50m dash but the 2400m killed me. I remember being paired with a jock in the grade eight flexed arm hang and decided I would just hold on until after he let go. It was the highlight of my Canada Fitness career.
In grade seven we did the first try in the fall and the second try in the spring thing and actually worked at my situps and improved from 18 in a minute to 45.
I was very strong at Math and was willing to help any of my peers in that subject so generally nobody mocked my handicapped Canada Fitness tests.
I was wondering of anyone was able to find a copy of the canada fitness test. i am teacher and would love to give it to my students. thanks
I enjoyed reading all the comments on the Canada Fitness Test — I live in BC, and the government in its eternal wisdom has decided that our kids are all fat, and has mandated 30 minutes of exercise per day, and is banning junk food from our schools. Duh, I say. Just bring back the Canada Fitness Test, but make the flexed arm hang optional. I am and was a scrawny little runt, but I couldn't do the flexed arm hang to save my life. The endurance run and the speed sit-ups, however, those were my areas of expertise!!
At our school in the late 70s the endurance run was 1600m. As a 10km runner now, I recall thinking back then that that distance seemed incomprehensively long, and I couldn't figure out why anyone would ever need to be able to run that far. I too remember the flexed arm hang being more as some sort of bizarre mental test of will rather than anything to do with fitness. Some of the most athletic kids in our class couldn't last more than 10 seconds. Why didn't they just call it the pain threshold test? In a strange way this seems to have been a unifying rite of passage for Canadians of our generation.
I'm currently in high school and the pass two classes we had a fitness test. Today we had a beep test …. I passed level 3. Now I have no idea if that is good or not compared to the average in Quebec or Canada I have been looking and I can't seem to find anything. Would anyone be able to tell me the average for 12-16 girls for:
-Beep Test
-Sit ups
-Push ups
-Grip test
-Standing long jump
So if anyone has this information I would be very thankful. :)(Please just post it on this board)
Thank you,
I confirmed with the re-invented ParticipACTION that the Canada Fitness Test was NOT developed or implemented by them, but was a government initiative. I have the standards for kids ages 12-18 but nothing below this age. If ANYONE (retired teacher etc.) has a copy of the standards for the younger groups PLEASE e-mail me directly or post on this site!
Thanks in advance!
Just reminiscing about my elementary school years when me and another girl won the "award of excellence" in the Canada Fitness Challenge. We had our pictures taken by the local newspaper, Prince Albert Daily Herald. I recall my friend donned a "summer outfit" of white slacks and a summer blouse. Me.. I turned up in a pair of denim cutoffs, tank top and bare feet (my usual summer attire). Anyway, I am proud to say the that the "Canada Fitness Challenge" inspired me my whole life. I am now a 46-year-old-soon-to-be-grandma and I continue to make fitness and health my addiction.
Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness.
- Earl of Derby
I loved doing Canada Fitness — likely because I received the Award of Excellence every year. Until reading the comments here, I never really considered how the not so athletic kids must have felt. Regardless, I think the skills tested were a fantastic way of pushing kids to the limit to achieve their best. I suppose a more modern spin on this program could be to do the testing several times through the year and present awards based on improvement from a previous result rather than using a predetermined standard. I think this would be motivating for all the students and a great way to encourage physical fitness.
i remember waiting forever for the gym teacher to time us on the flexed arm hang. By the time he got over to us I had burned out my arms trying to see if I could do it. I never even got a bronze but I did manage to make the school soccer, volleyball, basketball(team mvp), cross country and track teams. I don't think the testing was a very good measure of ones abilities and my non-athletic wife is constantly reminding me as I head off (at age 50) to the soccer field that she has her award of excellence.
It was the shuttle run that killed me and prevented me from attaining my Award of Excellence. I am a teacher now. One of the subjects that I teach is Phys-Ed. I was saddened to learn that these awards are no longer available. I have read many of the above posts and find some of them suggest a double standard. Why is it okay to relegate Phys-ed to an improvement/participation based model when every other subject is rigorously tested? Just a thought.
I looooved the CFP!! I always got the award of excellence (which included the arm hang for girls). I was always so excited when the time came for it every year. Thanks for all the memories everyone! :o)
I actually have in my possession a complete chart for the Canada Fitness Award. So, if there are any questions regarding it throw them on here and I will endeavour to answer them. The chart has the standards from ages 6 to 17. My question is does anyone remember how the shuttle run was run and what was the distance you ran between? I can't remember for the life of me…
Ok so after a bottle and a half of wine, we somehow came to the subject of this test, the CFT. Sorry, but this blog has brought back memories for us all and we literally have never laughed so hard reading the comments………we can so relate. As many of you, we are were completely traumatized by the test although some of us managed to attain the Award of Excellence (small dig there). From what we recall, the shuttle run took place in the gym. So it appears to be a dash of 25m, running to grab the 'bean bag' of which there were 2. Total distance covered was probably 100m. Start, run 25m, grab bag 1, return to start, run back to grab bean bag 2 and return to start. As far as we can remember anyway. Thanks for the memories.
Ah, the beloved/ begruged CFT…LMAO well I never got an award badge, despite excelling in sports. were we really supposed to get a participation pin/ sticker? the endurance run didn't take asthma into account anymore more or less then any disability, illness, or injury. my teacher called it the neccesary evil, we were never graded on this, i was always forced to stop on the endurance run because i wasn't breathing properly.
watching my kids in school and going through 3 gym teachers i've noticed the quality is different. the current teacher has tested them at the beginning of the year in things like flexibilty, coordination, strength, endurance and balance. the goal is to see an improvement by the end of the year.
these days the education system seems more concearned about social growth then achieving academically or physically. with the lack of discipline and pushing kids ahead without the neccesary skills, is it really a surprise that that our kids lack self control/ self discipline when they seldom hear the word no? tv/ game systems/ computer babysitters , convienient for parents wanting time for themselves. let's hope the past 20years have taught us what we need to know and we can move forward. really the testing is ok, it's all the to do with badges and singling people out that's not so great.
I wish to find and acquire the 2 booklets 5BX and SBX, which I had 40 years ago. I am 80 and out of shape. Perhaps the exercises will do me a lot of good.
hi i am writing this to see if anyone still has the badge for excellance i won one before and have lost it over the years and am just wondering if anyone has one and they would like to sell please email me if your interested…if not sell even email me pics so i can show my son when he gets older it funny how after you have children thing like that all of the sudden mean much more then what they did thanks and hope to here from you guys soon….
Ok so the original posting was entered March 10, 2003… nearly SIX YEARS ago!! Not only are people seeking this info, but we're still relishing the discussion and sharing memories— the good, bad & ugly. This page contains spectacular feedback on what worked and what did NOT work with the Canada Fitness Test. Anyone heard of Nike SPARQ training?
check out http://www.sparqtraining.com and http://sparqmagazine.com
There is a basic multi-sport 5-event SPARQ test.
20m sprint
kneeling ball toss
agility shuttle
vertical jump
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The cool part is that you receive a score for EACH event and an OVERALL score. Based on feedback here it might be ultra cool to feature different Cdn Olympic athletes and their scores to show that the best excell in DIFFERENT AREAS. For example a decathlete will score poorly on the shuttle run but a football player is likely to excell at this event. It's kind of like featuring different "heroes" for the various Briggs-Meyers "personality tests".
I'm eager to hear feedback on whether people think this would be an improvement over the current/obsolete fitness testing model offered by GO ACTIVE! (Stellick Mktg. Comm.)
Please feel free to contact me with your thoughts.
McDonald's sponsoring a fitness test for elementary school kids. Anyone else see the irony in that?
peace, Ingrid
I loved the Canada fitness test. The 50 m was, at times, my stumbling block. Has anyone found a booklet that shows the events and standards?
I just found the booklet and card that you would fill out for this. So if anyone wants a copy I can make a .pdf of it and send it to you.
Hi Sandy,
Would love to get a .pdf of the booklet and card.
Do you still have a copy of the booklet/standards? Could you send a scan?
I have my booklet and my results from grade 6. All I had up till then was a gold, and I decided that I would earn my award of excellence! I worked at it all winter, sit up, my feet tucked under the coach, long jump in the living room until my Mom could not handle the noise. As soon as it was dry enough in the spring I started running 1 mile a day. And I pracised the flexed arm hang in our barn, my Dad had hung up a swing from the rafters, nothing came easy for me, but I earned it that year, and best of all I beat all the boys except for one in the flexed arm hang, I stayed up for 78 sec! I was really proud of myself, I guess that is why I still have all the stuff, the booklet, the badge and the signed paper for Trudeau, and a pic of me grinning ear to ear, dated June 1977.
I remember this torture with fondness, only because I actually improved from one year to the next. I think this got started in my school district in 1973 or 1974. Anyway after a couple of years of achieving only recognition for participation I finally managed a bronze in 1976 then a silver in 1977. I felt pretty proud of myself since I was one of those kids with medical excuses and would be given to the last team by the default of being last to be picked. I considered this program to be a competition with a set standard and since I knew I would never be a Gary Nylund who went on to a much anticipated but unfortunately short NHL career I thought silver was pretty good for an athletic underachiever. No body explained it to us but once we reached high school the program was no longer graded and the awards were put to an end, however our school's Phys Ed department decided to continue the program and I recall another fellow student and myself breaking, or so our teacher told us, the best recorded time for the dreaded flexed arm hang. We didn't get to compete head to head but I know I managed 3 minutes and 12 seconds. I stopped because I was shaking so hard that my fellow classmates were making fun of me. I don't know that I could have lasted much longer anyway but the alleged achievement felt pretty good. I remember only the 6 events; Flexed arm hang, Shuttle run, Standing broad jump, 100 meter dash, 400 meter run and Speed sit-ups, all very punishing. However I have yet to use any of these skills in my daily life.
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AGAINST OBESITY ———————————NOT AGAINST OBESE PEOPLE. Lets talk about the Fault Based Model. The unmotivated ,unhealthy eating ,lazy,personal choice,lack of willpower and lifestyle model. When we consider that 90 % of people feel that obesity is a personal choice and there are no other hidden factors , the lens is narrowed.
Factors like poverty ,fastfood marketing ,urban vs rural ,where you are born ,and countless other issues . All of this effort narrows the lens . Particapaction has many corporate sponsors . What industry would make an investment so as to keep the lens on PERSONAL ACCOUNTABILITY ??????
Stop by my youtube site to view 11 videos . Several from the Rudd Center at Yale . The goal is to discuss the issue and share the materials .
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I am doing a science project on the Canada Fitness test. If anyone has a booklet that they could scan with the results page, that would be great. I will be testing 12 year old students and want to compare scores today with those when the CFT was used in school 20-30 years ago to see if student's are more or less fit now. Anything you could send would be appreciated.
Just for all the people still asking about the standards, this link to the cadet program was previously posted, and will tell you everything you need to know about the CFP, diagrams of the events and time requirements (for 12 — 18 years old). Page two says that this is reprinted with permission from the Canadian Fitness Program, so it's the real deal. lol
Sorry page 4:
8. The ACFP is based on the Canada Fitness Award, a programme
of Fitness Canada Government of Canada. The figures are reproduced
with permission.
9. If you have achieved a Canada Fitness Award level from school or
from another organization, you can get credit for this at Cadets. You will
probably have to bring in proof of this level. Check with your instructor or
training officer to determine the procedure.
Don't know if my perennial silver achievement would have got me into the cadets.
Wow! My husband (who grew up in the States) just asked me, out of the blue, if there was a Canadian equivalent to the Presidential Fitness Test. Am I right in reading that it was based on the Candian Tests? That's pretty crazy.
My memories were pretty much of dread and fear… thankfully, I never scored "Participation," but I was a perennia "Bronze" achiever. I always score in the excellence category for the crunches, and beat nearly everyone in my class. We had this teacher who used a piano metronome to keep time, and I always thought that was funny.
My nemesis, however, was the endurance run. I used to practice with my Dad, but no matter how much I practiced, I never scored high enough on the endurance run to get anything more than a bronze overall. It was devastating. In my grade 8 year, I had done well enough all the other events to get my first gold! I kept time on the endurance run, and I had my friends cheering me on, but it was such a hot day, that I got heat exhaustion, and had to slow nearly to a crawl just to finish the last lap. I cried so hard because it was so close. I got another bronze that year.
On a more positive note, one boy in my class, who never got anything but "Participation," let everyone in the school know that his goal was to get a medal that same grade eight year. The entire class was cheering him on, and he got a bronze. He recieved a standing ovation from our whole class on achieving his first and only medal in Canada Fitness.
I have a few comments in regards to the Canadian Fitness Testing. I was always one of the smallest, shortest, skinniest guys in my classes every year until grade 10. Perhaps I was better suited for this testing than someone overweight or obese but I busted my back and put every single ounce of energy and strength into Canada Fitness. I grew up in a home where sports outside of school was not an option until i was 13. My family simply couldn't afford any of it.
Canada fitness was not only from my experience the most fun part of the entire year in gym class. It's the first thing in my memory that I fully 100% put forth my greatest effort. This is academically, physically, mentally, all of it. Achieving a high level in Canada Fitness was for whatever reason super important to me. It's the first thing in my life that I achieved myself, for myself, by myself and the first real thing I truly "applied" myself to.
I can understand how some kids could find getting a "participation" award from the program but that should not be the focus, or the topic of your pain or your ill memory. What should be remembered is that you tried your best, you applied yourself and wasn't it super fun? I had many friends that got the participation award and were happy, proud of themselves because they finished the long distance run, they finished everything and those were huge goals for them to simply finish! The program pushed them, it pushed them hard, it made them set goals and achieve them. What's negative about that?
If in fact some were made fun of because of the grade they got on the testing, that's truly heinous, but I remember it happening and myself and my friends used to freak out on people that would brag or make fun of others for not getting something better than a bronze. I never got anything but Excellence in any year (and still have my patches and certificates), and yet I still stuck up for those that didn't achieve that, but they tried their best, they had fun and that's the best possible scenario with this testing.
Lighten up, it was fun, it was a break from "dodgeball" or "european handball" or whatever dumb game we were playing in gym that day. You got to be in cool little groups, a buddy to record your results and broke the boring same old thing every day.
Kids today should only be so lucky to have such programs in place.
I'm with you Steve. I was always a scrawny kid but held my own in the Canada Fitness Test. I graduated with a degree in P.E. and now teach in an elementary school. I got a hold of the old standards and run the grade 7&8's through the program. I don't give awards but use the results as part of their fitness evaluation. Too bad that schools have taken the emphasis off "excellence" and replaced with "participation" and "self-esteem building". Maybe if society went back to encouraging personal responsibility and effort, our students wouldn't be in such poor physical shape.
I loved these tests! I was always way above excellent in the long distant run, but usually around gold or silver in the rest. The all around jocks did best, I remember, as they were pretty good at everything. I remember that flexed arm hang like it was yesterday. We did in the guy's bathroom on some shower rod. We'd all watch as our peers would hang red-faced for as long as we could.
This was great fun! It was a true measure of your total fitness and athletic ability.This should be incorporated in the schools today, along with some mentoring and encouragement from our teachers, maybe we could get our children motivated to have fun and interact while working out. The overall health benefits would also surely reflect better grades? Lets get our youth moving and the blood pumping, and in participating in these tests, goals to strive for.


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|I don't know, Percy, but every hero has one. If you don't find it and learn to control it ... well, they don't call it 'fatal' for nothing.
–Annabeth Chase talking about fatal flaws, in The Sea of Monsters
Fatal Flaws are mental or physical weaknesses that demigods, humans, and immortals possess. These flaws can often cause the downfall of the being, but are particularly dangerous to demigods. In Greek plays, they are often referred to as "Tragic Flaws".
Fatal Flaws are first mentioned in The Sea of Monsters when Annabeth Chase wants to listen to the Siren's song to learn her fatal flaw. She then explains to Percy Jackson what fatal flaws are. Fatal flaws are mentioned frequently throughout the series. Percy's flaw is personal/excessive loyalty, which was told to him by Athena in The Titan's Curse. She says it is a dangerous flaw for the hero of the Great Prophecy to possess, possibly because it means he would "sacrifice the world" to save someone he really cares about. Athena also mentions that flaws that have a good motive are usually the most dangerous ones. They are often the same for demigod children of the same godly origin.
Siren's Music
The Siren's music has an oral hypnotic effect. When the Sirens sing, they sometimes reveal your fatal flaw. Flaws can produce an enticing image which is what lure sailors and adventurers to their deaths, either by drowning, being eaten by the Sirens, or by hitting the sharp rocks (and in modern times, mines) surrounding the island. When Annabeth and Percy are passing by their island, she asks him to tie her to the mast so she can hear the song but not escape to her death. However, after hearing the song, she manages to cut herself free with her knife and dives overboard because of the Siren's hypnotic song. When Percy goes to save her, he sees her vision. She thinks she can fix Luke Castellan, bring her mother and father back together again, and designed a brand new Manhattan. This is due to her fatal flaw, hubris or deadly pride.
Known Fatal Flaws
- Percy Jackson: His fatal flaw is excessive/personal loyalty. He will risk his life for anyone: his friends, family, strangers, and sometimes even his enemies (like when he warned enemy demigods the Princess Andromeda was about to explode).
- Annabeth Chase: Her fatal flaw is hubris, deadly pride. She thinks she can do anything better than everyone, even the gods, such as saving her family and build a brand new world exactly as she wanted (seen in The Sea of Monsters when she heard the Siren's music). Annabeth also says that many children of Athena share the same fatal flaw. In addition, her other fatal flaws are ambition. She desires power even though she knows she does not need it.
- Nico di Angelo: His fatal flaw is holding grudges. He will hold a grudge even if it costs him his own life. In The Battle of the Labyrinth, his deceased sister, Bianca di Angelo, tells him that holding grudges is very dangerous for children of Hades.
- Thalia Grace: Her fatal flaw is ambition. She desires power even though she knows she does not need it. She almost joined Kronos's army because of this in The Titan's Curse.
- Leo Valdez: His fatal flaw is a feeling of inferiority. He always feels like he's the least important; even in the team of seven demigods, he feels that he is the "seventh wheel."
- Drew Tanaka: Her fatal flaw is vanity, or excessive pride in one's appearance, qualities, abilities, and achievements. She shares this flaw among many other children of Aphrodite.
- Arachne: Her fatal flaw is hubris, deadly pride. She thinks she can do anything (weaving, in her case) better than everyone else, even the gods. This resulted in Athena turning her into a monster spider.
- Pandora: Her fatal flaw was curiosity. When she was given the pithos from the gods, her curiosity made her open the pithos, which she was ordered not to do, causing the world's destruction.
- Michael Varus: His fatal flaws are ambition and hubris. He showed ambition when he chose to journey to Alaska to solve the Prophecy of Seven, and he demonstrated the latter when ignoring the current augur's advice that the prophecy was not for him.
- Odysseus: His fatal flaw was hubris. This was shown by his encounter with Polyphemus, when declared his true name after escaping the island, and by the statement that he won the Trojan War by himself, without any help from a god. Both of these brought the wrath of Poseidon upon him.
- Perseus: His fatal flaw is anxiety. This was shown when he wanted to prove himself worthy of hospitality. He ended up promising that he would kill Medusa because of this, which gave rise to his near-impossible quest.
- Hazel Levesque: Her fatal flaw was her past. This is shown by her flashbacks, and even though she ended up losing them, she still remembers her first life and treats it like her new life. For example, she treats Leo as if he were Sammy.
- Luke Castellan: His fatal flaw was his excessive wrath. He was unable to forgive his father Hermes for what he had been through. Luke's anger blinded him so much that he went against his closest friends. By the time he realized it, it was too late and Luke ended up sacrificing himself.
- Frank Zhang: His fatal flaw was his low self-esteem. In Son of Neptune, he showed doubts of his own self-worth, which caused him to panic at the time he is needed. However, after the Blessing of Mars, these flaws seem to have faded a little bit.
- Phaethon: His fatal flaw was his recklessness. As a result of being raised by his over-protective mother and sisters, he starts to carelessly get himself in trouble. This flaw caused him to ride the chariot, ignoring the advice, and leading to his own death.
- Jason Grace: His fatal flaw is his temptation to deliberate. For years in Camp Jupiter, Jason always relied on careful choices, compromises, and hearing both sides of a debate. He never chose what he wanted. He never knew where he wanted to belong. Notus said that Jason reminds him of his own children, blown place to place, undecided, change day to day. Notus warned him that such hesitation could kill him.
- Piper McLean: Her fatal flaw is her low self-esteem. Being a daughter of a seemingly 'useless' love goddess, Aphrodite, she thinks herself as useless and invaluable. She feels so poorly of herself, which causes her getting constantly bullied by kids from Wilderness School. But these flaws seem to have reduced after House of Hades.
- Hercules: His fatal flaw was his wrath. This flaw has led him to kill his own family, which caused him to the Twelve Labors. After that, he pushed an innocent boy off a cliff, causing him to work for the queen.
- Theseus: His fatal flaw is impulsiveness/recklessness. He dumped Ariadne and rashly acted along with his brother Pirithous. He had the audacity to affront Hades, for which he was punished. Later, he fell out of favor from his subjects and died.
- Bellerophon: His fatal flaw was hubris. He was too proud and attempted to force his way into Olympus. Zeus crippled him and the hero died slowly.
- Thomas Jefferson Jr.: T.J., like all children of Tyr, has an instinctive inability to resist a challenge. This has lead to his death during the American Civil War and being baited into stabbing a stone giant in the heart.
- Otrera: Her fatal flaw was hubris. She was too proud and fought Dionysus, almost getting herself killed in the process.
- Psyche: Her fatal flaw was low self-esteem. She didn't trust herself to make the right decisions and was tricked by her sister to look upon Eros' true form.
- It is stated by Athena that the most dangerous flaws are those that are good in moderation. In Percy's case, it is good to be loyal to your friends, but being overly loyal could lead to sacrificing Olympus or make you predictable to your enemies.
- Of all the known Fatal Flaws, hubris is seen to be the most common throughout the series.
- Hamartia is another word for a fatal flaw used mainly in the context of literature in reference to characters.
- Thomas Jefferson Jr. is the only known Norse demigod whose fatal flaw is known.


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|Nutrition & Dietetics
Personal Bests
- Outdoor
- 100m: 12.39 (2017-18 at Raleigh Relays)
- 200m: 24.61 (2017-18 at Holy Cross Invitational)
- 400m: 54.10 (2017-18 at UConn Northeast Challenge)
- Indoor
- 60m: 7.83 (2017-18 at Sorlien Memorial Invitational)
- 200m: 25.32 (2017-18 at Beantown Challenge)
- 300m: 40.10 (2017-18 at Brown University Alden Invitational)
- Outdoor:
- Placed second in the 4x400m relay (3:41.86) at the Penn Relays.
- Won the 200m (24.61s) and the 4x400m relay (3:51.30) and finished second in the 4x100m relay (47.63s) at the Holy Cross Invitational.
- Finished second in the 400m (54.10s) and sixth in the 4x100m relay (48.14s) at the UConn Northeast Challenge.
- Finished eighth in the 4x100m relay (46.99s) and 31st in the 100m (12.39s) at the Raleigh Relays.
- Indoor:
- Won the 200m (25.37s) and the 4x400m relay (3:49.33) and finished second in the 60m (7.83s) at the Sorlien Memorial Invitational.
- Finished second in the 200m (25.32s) at the Beantown Challenge.
- Won the 300m (40.10s) and 4x400m relay (3:51.80) at the Brown University Alden Invitational.
Before URI
- Spent two years at Assumption, where she was a member of the track & field team.
- Holds Assumption records in the 100m, 200m, and 400m.
- NEICAAA Outdoor Championship qualifier in the 400m.
- Graduated from Portsmouth High School.
- Four-year member of the soccer, indoor track, and outdoor track teams.
- Captained both track teams her junior and senior year.
- Daughter of Ian and Kim.
- Has one brother, Nick, a freshman at URI.
- Chose URI for the track program and Nutrition & Dietetics program.
- Favorite athlete is Allyson Felix.
- Favorite team is the Boston Red Sox.
- Majoring in Nutrition & Dietetics.


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Do you have fun plans for Thanksgiving yet? I bet you're looking for a hairstyle that makes a statement? Maybe one that is truly simple to make? Then you've come to the right place! If you know me, even a tiny bit, then you know I have a soft spot...read more.
This year is sure to see many Harley Quinn costumes. She is a fan favorite from the popular Suicide Squad movie. Today we share an easy hairstyle to go with your costume!We used 'B-Wild' temporary hair color in Lynx Pink and Bengal Blue. It was easy to work with and...read more.
The unicorn is a breath-taking animal. Who wouldn't want to be described as rare, beautiful or majestic? There was something very magical the day we filmed which left us so excited to share this magnificent hairstyle with you!Out of all our Spooktorials, this one might be my very favorite! We...read more.
Halloween is one of our favorite Holidays on CGH! We are super excited to share some new ideas for 2016. To kick off our #CGHSpooktorial series we have Rylan channeling her inner Cave Woman!We are calling this one the Cave Woman Half-Up. We used a styrofoam bone from Michaels to create...read more.
Everyone loves the Waterfall Braid! And a great bun is in the love column as well. Put them together and you get a little magic! Combo hairstyles can be so much fun. I love that this keeps the hair off my shoulders during the summer heat. Styling tools are really not...read more.
Every year about this time I get major hair envy because it seems like everyone I know is going to Coachella or Stagecoach, and I'm over here seeing all these cute outfits and hairstyles posted via social media. Since I won't be going this year (again) I at least thought...read more.
On Easter Sunday we celebrate re-birth and new life. We say goodbye to winter and hello to spring! Easter marks the time we break out florals and bring color back into our wardrobe. You simply cannot forget a fresh spring hairstyle to celebrate Easter! I picked out a few of...read more.
I think that this Faux Fishtail Braid Crown is absolutely stunning! We've shown you how to use this faux braiding technique in one of our very first hairstyle tutorials from six years ago, as part of our Daddy 'Do series where Shaun does the hair. The point is, this type of faux...read more.
If you love tiebacks and braid backs, this hairstyle is for you! I love that this hairstyle is so simple and you can definitely do this one on yourself. This Boho hairstyle would be perfect for a spring/summer music festival, a romantic date, or everyday of the week! You could...read more.
Hello Lovelies! So happy to be back with some love in the (h)air inspiration for you this month! 😉 We're approaching one of my favourite days in February – Valentine's day! Even though we should celebrate love and romance every day, it's so easy to get caught up with our day...read more.


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Working Drawings
Once you've created one or more suitable concept sketches, the next step is to make working drawings. These are drawings that are proportionally accurate but at a reduced scale, often 1/4 of full size. They are used to refine design details and to determine specific dimensions of the various components. Perhaps the most common type of working drawing is an orthographic projection that provides separate straight-on views of the front, side (usually right) and top of the object. All three views or elevations go on the same piece of paper with the top view directly above the front view and the right side view directly to the right of the front view.
Base Cabinet Construction Sketch
This method of construction blends European style cabinets, with what's known as traditional style. The major distinction between the two is traditional style cabinets have a face frame. While this adds to the design, (the beauty of wood and all that), it is also more costly to produce. It adds considerable labor and materials to the mix. There is also the disadvantage of making the cabinet openings smaller. A 24" European base cabinet will have 22 1/2" of clear access, while a traditional cabinet will have only 20" clear access. If you add a center stile, (vertical divider between two doors), in the center of the face frame, it reduces the opening even more.
Concept sketching is a free-wheeling type of informal drawing that helps you flesh out the basic design of an object before advancing to the more exacting scaled drawings. The essence of sketching is simple: draw whatever pops into your mind, revising as you go until you find a design you like best. With a little practice, you might even find sketching to be fun. The tools of the trade are simple: a medium soft lead pencil (#2 or so), an eraser, (you'll be doing lots of erasing), and white paper. Some folks like to use a bound spiral notebook because the pages remain intact and are easy to browse through for later reference. Plain old printer paper works fine for me. Beginners may prefer lined paper.
How Do You Go From Inspiration to Sketchbook
Woodworkers have a mixed blessing: Ideas can come from anywhere and at anytime, but sometimes there seems no end to the inspiration that fills your mind. It can be a bit overwhelming at times. So, how do you capture these bursts of woodworking illumination? The best way to flesh out your ideas is to simply sketch them. A lot of woodworkers are intimidated at the idea of keeping a sketchbook. What we're talking about here are simple quick sketches to just get the basic idea down on paper, not a masterpiece of illustration. The good news is you don't have to be an artist or have gone through years of technical drawing and drafting courses to have a sketchbook full of your brilliant masterpieces. Here's a few quick and easy tips for improving your skills and gain the confidence to fill volumes of sketchbooks.
Furniture Mock Ups
Having had the pleasure of knowing, and working with Mr. Jefferson Clark, a well known Philadelphia, Pa., designer, and teacher of design, at Drexel University, I learned a number of valuable lessons. While Jeff is now retired, his teachings are part of my business in a very integral way. There was a time when I would have rather chewed off my arm, than to admit to that. One of the most difficult lessons for me, as a General Contractor, who was trying to complete a project on time, and on budget, was the importance of doing a mock up. Hearing Jeff mutter those despicable words, "Let's Do A Mock Up", would send me very close to the edge.
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Wednesday, 26 March 2014
The InstaWeek that was
As you know, your views and feedback is extremely important to me so please let me know what you think of this kind of post and if it's something you'd like to see as a regular feature. Have a great day! Xx
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I love when people post their week in Instagrams! I think its such a cute little feature to keep you updated :)ReplyDelete
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I like your shoes und jewellery so much! <3
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LOVE your nails! Gorgeous color! That mocha latte looks so amazing too... I miss coffee! Great pics!!ReplyDelete
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Thank you so much, that's very nice of you and I really appreciate it, but since I've already done the Liebster last year I won't do it again - I hope you understand but I'm very happy to take part in other TAGs :o). XxDelete
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Thank you ladies - I hope it's perfectly normal to match your jewellery and nail color... :o). XxDelete
I like this kind of posts! It's a little peek into bloggers' life and we're all a bit nosey. I am very new to instagram as well but I'm getting into it and might do a similar posts in the future.ReplyDelete
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Administration, Development, Assessments
Frank Glowaty has been an elementary educator in the Joliet Diocesan School System for over thirty-eight years. He has experience as a teacher, department chair, coach, athletic director, assistant principal, development director and principal. Currently he works with nearly six hundred thirty children at Ss. Peter & Paul School in Naperville, Illinois, in the dual capacity of Principal and Development Director.
Since assuming the dual role of development director in 1988, he has helped Ss. Peter & Paul School build a capital improvement endowment of $2.3 million. In addition, $400,000 has been raised through an annual golf outing for tuition for needy students, and another $350,000 has been donated to fund twelve partial scholarships that also provide tuition assistance. Besides the scholarships, there is a Tuition Assistance endowment in excess of $1 million that combined with the scholarships provides $70,000 in financial aid annually. In addition, he has built a Teachers' endowment valued at $4.4 million from which annual earnings are used to supplement teachers' salaries. Finally, the school has commitments of $1.7 in planned gifts.
In addition to his teaching and administrative experience, he has conducted numerous parish, School Board, and Diocesan workshops and in-services throughout the Joliet and Chicago Dioceses. He is past-president of the Joliet Diocesan Principals' Association and remains active in many community boards. A member of the North Central College and Benedictine University Education Advisory Boards, he has also served on the Lewis University Alumni Board as well as Dominican University's Administrative Leadership Committee where he has been a guest lecturer in their summer development symposiums. His speaking experience also includes nine previous NCEA Conventions.
Mr. Glowaty holds degrees from Lewis University and St. Xavier College. He has been trained for institutional development by Catholic School Management, Robert F. Sharpe & Company, and the Chicago Council on Planned Giving.
He serves Catholic School Management, on a part-time basis, working with elementary school clients in planning, development and administrative areas.


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Facebook has this morning taken down one of the most popular 'fan-pages' on its site without offering as much as an explanation to nearly 20,000 of its members.
The page titled 'SYED ZAID ZAMAN HAMID: OFFICIAL' has been taken offline for what Facebook calls 'violation of terms and conditions', without providing details as to exactly what term or condition was violated.
Zaid Hamid is Pakistan's most highly rated and popular Security and Defence analyst, with regular tv appearances on all major Pakistani channels as well as Doha based Al-Jazeera TV and occasionally on Indian media. He has featured in many popular tv shows, covering a wide rage of topics such as Islamic history, philosophy, and regional security and geo-politics. Zaid has also featured alongside Ali Azmat, a veteran of the Pakistani popular music scene, in a show titled 'Iqbal ka Pakistan' on the youth-oriented 'AAG' tv channel; one of the most watched tv programmes with the highest ratings for the tv network.
Zaid Hamid is one of Pakistan's most popular figures and has in a very short time become the voice of the youth of Pakistan who feel frustrated at the incompetence of the US installed democratic government. In his tv programmes, Zaid has constantly called for a complete review of Pakistan's relations with the United States, due to the latter's inability to purge the influx of weapons and funds from Afghanistan directed to terrorists in Pakistan.
Zaid's facebook page, launched just over a month ago, had reached almost 20,000 members before it was taken offline by facebook, and was used mainly for updates on upcoming television and public appearances, and sharing photographs and videos of Zaid's TV appearances.
Facebook have yet to provide an actual explanation as opposed to a generic automated message. Untill the time that facebook provides the exact reason for taking down Mr.Hamid's page, it will be considered as yet another attempt to silence the critics of the US-backed government of Pakistan and will only add to the disenchangtment of Pakistan's youth with the current establishment.
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Private Equity Team
Sulaiman M. Al-Rubaie
Mr. Al-Rubaie has more than 17 years of experience in merchant banking and private equity. He has a wealth of experience across many areas including advisory, mergers & acquisitions, equity and debt capital markets and restructuring.
He started his career with boutique investment bank, Brask and Company (Acquired by Kaupthing Bank), in their placement and later in their M&A team with a focus on the high growth industries. He then moved back to Kuwait to join the investment banking team at Global Investment House where he led and co-led the formation, placement, and strategic monitoring of companies in various sectors. He later joined Eastgate Capital Group, the private equity and real estate investment arm of National Commercial Bank of Saudi Arabia, in Dubai and was a member of their transactions team. He joined Global again in 2010 as Vice President in the alternative asset management group and managed the overall restructuring of the Private Equity department and the numerous funds. He was promoted to become Executive Vice President in 2015, Deputy CEO in April 2017, Acting CEO in July 2018 and CEO in July 2019. Mr. Al-Rubaie is a member of the Frontiers Market and Middle East Councils of the EMPEA and is a board member of Boursa Kuwait in addition to numerous companies in the GCC and the Levant.
Mr. Al-Rubaie received his MBA from London Business School and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
Ihsan Sancay
With his 18 years private equity and corporate finance experience, Mr. Sancay co-heads the Private Equity practice at GCM. In this role, he led several investment and exit processes in MENA and Turkey and also represented GCM on the Board of Directors of investee companies.
He managed the investment process of various high profile buyout transactions, namely Bicakcilar, Yargici and SPX and the exit process of TAV Airports. Before setting up the Global office in Istanbul in 2008, he worked for IS Private Equity, the private equity arm of Turkey's biggest private bank (in terms of assets). During his tenure with IS Private Equity, he witnessed and experienced the evolution of the private equity industry in Turkey and steered some landmark deals and exits in sectors such as healthcare, cinema and entertainment, retail, production and heavy industrials. Ihsan commenced his career with Coopers and Lybrand in 1997, and following the merger with Price Waterhouse, he continued as part of the PricewaterhouseCoopers Corporate Finance and M&A team. He is well experienced in mid-market private equity, leveraged buyouts, corporate structuring, M&A and project finance.
He has advised major financial and strategic companies in the US, Europe and CIS. He has also assisted portfolio companies with project financing, private placements and debt syndications, as well as public listings in the Alternative Investment Market (London) and Istanbul Stock Exchange (Turkey). Ihsan holds a MBA degree from Bilkent University in Turkey, and holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics and Minor Degree in Business Administration from Middle East Technical University. He also holds CPA from Turkey.
Sharad Jain
Mr. Jain has over 20 years of experience in investment analysis and valuation of listed and unlisted stocks in various countries across MENA, Turkey and India. He is heading Global's Private Equity team in the Dubai office. He has ten years of experience in leading private equity transactions and portfolio companies in MENA, India and Turkey. Sharad has led key transactions such as TAV (an airport construction and management company in Turkey), Dubai Financial Market, Parsvnath Developers (a real estate and infrastructure company in India), Tasheed Real Estate Company (a real estate company in Qatar), a logistics company focused on over dimensional consignments and a component manufacturer in India. Prior to joining Global, he was a Senior Equity Research Analyst with Batlivala & Karani Securities India Pvt. Ltd, where his role included research and analysis of infrastructure companies and conglomerates. Some of the companies covered were VSNL (owner of largest bandwidth capacity globally), Torrent Cables (the most efficient distribution cable manufacturer in India), KEC International (the largest transmission tower company in India with presence in 20 other countries). He was rated as the "Star Analyst' for Indian equities in the year 2004 by 'The Week' (a leading Indian business weekly). Sharad received his Masters in Business Administration from the Middlesex University Business School (London, UK).
Chandresh Bhatt
Mr. Bhatt has over 22 years of experience, spanning over private equity and equity research. He joined Global's Private Equity team from the Research department 3 years ago to assist in analysis and portfolio company support. Currently he is heading ASA (Analytics, Support & Administration) team at Global Capital Management. As part of ASA, he is responsible for the department's reporting in relation to portfolio companies and the funds. He also plays a key role in the department's compliance and risk functions as well as in the budgeting exercise. With his equity research background, he is of great assistance in terms of deal sourcing, evaluation, due diligence and valuation. He is also actively engaged in managing portfolio companies in Kuwait and in India through board representation and also through management committees. He has wide industry relationships which have been utilized from time to time to source proprietary transactions in sectors such as healthcare, NBFC, infrastructure and education. During his career in Research, he spearheaded a team of analysts in sectors including telecom, utilities (power & water), banking, cement, FMCG and pharmaceuticals. He covered key companies such as Zain (Kuwait), Etisalat (UAE), Omantel (Oman) and Oordeoo (Qatar & Kuwait) in the telecom sector; Qatar Electricity & Water Company and Saudi Electricity Company in the utilities sector and Qatar National Bank, Doha Bank and Commercial Bank of Qatar in the banking sector. Chandresh holds a Bachelor's degree in Commerce from University of Mumbai, India and Post-Graduate Diploma in Financial Management (PGDFM) from L. N. Welingkar Institute of Management Development & Research, Mumbai, India.
Zakir Hussain Rizvi, CFA
Mr. Rizvi is a Partner in Global Capital Management, a fully owned subsidiary of Global Investment House and has over 14 years of experience in valuations, M&A and transaction advisory, having worked with leading international consulting firms, including the Big Four. Zakir is the Chairman of a leading F&B company in the GCC, he has been the Vice Chair of a listed finance company in Jordan, he sits on the board of a bank in Malaysia and on the board of a consumer finance company in Kuwait. He also sits on the investment committees of various private equity funds managed by Global. Zakir is leading the Global MENA Financial Assets (GMFA) fund management team and is responsible for fund administration and management in addition to representing the fund on the boards of various portfolio companies. Prior to joining the GCM team in June 2011, in his advisory roles at Protiviti (subsidiary of Robert Half International) and KPMG, he advised on transactions across a suite of sectors, ranging from banking, consumer finance, telecom, real estate, oil and gas, industrial products, food and beverages, health care, etc. He has advised on some of the landmark M&A transactions in the MENA region, totaling in excess of US$ 10 billion. He is well experienced in deploying and exiting private capital, developing private equity products, funds restructuring, portfolio companies turn around and fund admin & governance matters
Zakir is a CFA Charter holder from CFA Institute USA, an attendee of Harvard Business School's Private Equity and Venture Capital Programme. He holds an MBA from Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires (INSEAD), France besides holding Masters in Economics from IAE Graduate School of Management, France and Masters in Economics from Government College Lahore, Pakistan.
Ahmed Abdullah
Mr. Abdullah is a Senior Director in Global Capital Management and is co-managing the Global Opportunistic Fund I. He has over 17 years of experience in the financial services sector. Having started his career at Egyptian Commercial Bank, he was responsible for branch network expansion and spearheaded the bank's expansion in Sudan. Post acquisition by Piraeus Bank, he headed the investment banking department, acting as the main coordinator between the headquarters in Athens and Egypt. In his present role, Ahmed represents Global Capital Management on the boards of several portfolio companies including Gulf Takaful, which is one of the largest Takaful companies in Kuwait, and Emirates Retakaful, a leading Retakaful company in the region. He is also a board member of Elaj Group, one of the leading healthcare investment companies in the region, focusing on Saudi Arabia and Egypt. From 2008 till 2012, he was a board member of KGL Logistics, where he was part of the IPO/listing committee. Ahmed was also part of the team that set up Al Rayan Holding Company Kuwait, a leading education company in the region, for which he helped raise acquisition finance from local banks.
Mr. Abdullah holds a Master's Degree (Risk Management) in Banking and Financial Science together with certificates in Portfolio Asset Management & Islamic Financial Analysis
Mohammed Masri
Mr. Masri is a Senior Director in Global Capital Management and has 13 years of professional experience in private equity, transaction advisory and audit. In his current role, he manages the Direct Investment Fund with US$ 100 million of invested capital. Prior to that, he led the Due Diligence Team within the Strategic Investment Group of Global Investment House, where his team advised different private equity funds, totaling around US$ 1.1 billion. In this capacity, his role entailed conducting due diligence on various potential investment opportunities. Over the years, he also led several transaction teams engaged in the evaluation of private equity transactions in the MENA region in diverse sectors including, financial services, banking, investment companies, construction, telecom, education, real estate, retail, etc. Mohammed is the Chairman of a listed finance company in Jordan.
Prior to joining Global, Mohammed managed the Financial Assurance team at KPMG. He led several external audit, assurance and Agreed Upon Procedures exercises and spearheaded numerous financial due diligence projects. Mohammed holds a Bachelors degree in Accounting from the Jordanian University.
Gokce Manav
Mr. Manav has around eleven years of private equity and corporate finance experience and is a director in Global Capital Management in the Turkey office. He was involved in the sourcing of Bicakcilar Group, Yargici and Olgarlar and navigated their investment processes. He is currently managing Global's Turkish assets of which he is a board and an executive committee member. He works closely with the CEOs and CFOs of portfolio companies with regards to operations such as evaluation of investment projects, establishing JVs, project finance and C level recruitments. Gokce is also an audit committee member of Bicakcilar and Yargici.
Prior to joining the Global office in Istanbul in 2008, he worked for Unlu and Co, one of the most active investment banks in the mid-market M&A segment. Prior to that he was part of the corporate finance team in Global Securities and worked for Borusan Telekom. He has vast experience in mid-market private equity, privatizations and M&A advisory in Turkey. Gokce holds an MSc degree and BA in Financial Engineering and Management from Bogazici University in Turkey.
Dirar Al-Ameer
Mr. Al Ameer has over 10 years of experience in financial services and has been a lead member of the Analytics, Support and Administration group (ASA) at Global Capital Management since 2007. His strategic thinking and private equity industry knowledge has been instrumental in providing ongoing advice to fund principals regarding front, middle and back office solutions. He oversaw structuring and placement of five private equity funds with a total AUM of US$ 1.8bn. He maintains an active relationship with the fund administrators and other service providers and coordinates internally with the Operations and Finance teams on such matters.
Prior to joining GCM, Mr. Al Ameer held a position at Minacs World Wide as a Financial Product and Customer Relations Consultant in the retail banking sector where his duties focused on middle office trade and client support. Mr. Al Ameer is a graduate of Mount Saint Vincent University where he holds B.B.A in Marketing and Management. He is actively involved in the supervision of Jordan Trade Facilities Services, wherein he is a member of the executive committee of the Board of Directors. In this role he is engaged in credit evaluation and approval.
Hani El-Afghani
Mr. El-Afghani is a Senior Associate in Global Capital Management and is the most recent addition to the team. He has cumulative 8 years of private equity experience, from origination to execution to fundraising. Mr. El-Afghani was part of GCM's private equity team in 2008 for three years and a board member of GCM's Indian investments (Uma Precision and Reach Cargo), prior to embarking on his MBA. Post-graduation, Mr. El-Afghani joined Probitas Partners (London office), a private equity placement firm where he project managed two complete fundraises, an Italian SME €150mn direct equity fund and a UK turnaround €350mn direct equity fund. His responsibilities included overseeing all fund marketing materials and developing a fundraising marketing strategy prior to the pre-marketing phase.
Mr. El-Afghani has a full spectrum of private equity experience from his first stint in GCM in adding value through managing portfolio companies to his latest role at Probitas Partners in raising private equity funds and direct interaction with LPs. He is currently part of the New Products Development Team of GCM. His main responsibilities include facilitating exits for portfolio companies and support in establishing new products/funds. Mr. El-Afghani received his Bachelors of Mechanical Engineering from Queen Mary University of London and his MBA from Hult Business School.