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A report published by the National Bureau of Economic Research finds
that lead exposure is linked to behavioral problems, school suspensions.
A report by The American Prospect Magazine has found that children with high blood-lead levels are more likely to be suspended from school. While the link between lead exposure and behavioral disorders is known, the report emphasizes the multifaceted issue of lead poisoning in poorer communities.
In the report, researchers found evidence linking lead exposure in children to an increased chance of school suspension and juvenile detention. The study used data from blood-lead levels and detention data for 120,000 children. Researchers found that a one unit increase in lead exposure increased suspensions issued to children by at least 6% and detentions by at least 27%.
An important feature of the report is that researchers can now name lead poisoning as a source of school discipline issues. Prior to the report, researchers were aware of a possible link but couldn't conclude if it was lead poisoning or poverty causing school discipline issues.
"What we find is that there's a pretty robust relationship between early childhood lead levels as measured by the blood tests and future disciplinary infractions," Anna Aizer, contributing researcher, said in a recent press conference.
Although the use of lead is highly regulated in the United States, many children are still exposed to dangerous levels of lead. State to state, progress in reducing lead poisoning in children has been unbalanced, especially in poor urban areas without the means to renovate old housing stock. Lead-based paint can flake away in old homes and be ingested or inhaled. Lead dust from construction or industrial waste can accumulate in soil. Toxic run-off can accumulate in drinking water, as lead particles from deteriorating lead water pipes.
As a result, disadvantaged children - a group already more likely to live in older housing stock - are disproportionately affected by lead poisoning, and it leads to disproportionate instances of school behavioral problems. For disadvantaged children, this can reduce their access to education and put them on track to juvenile detention.
This report comes right after another paper Aizer and other researchers co-published last year. In a similar study, they found that reducing children's blood-lead levels had significant positive effects on school performance.
"A one unit decrease in blood-lead levels reduces the probability of being substantially below proficient in reading by 3.1 percentage points," the report stated.
In 2014, the Justice Policy Institute reported that the cost of juvenile detention reached nearly $150,000 per year state to state.
"Governments need to think about this. Crime is just an incredibly expensive outcome for a state, and lead mitigation is so much cheaper relative to that," Anna Aizer said.
Certainly, reviewing the impact that lead exposure has on children is imperative for our nation's future. With more breakthroughs in lead poisoning research, it's evident that controlling lead exposure should be priority for all.
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I am a hybrid* designer who enjoys prototyping, conceptualizing and designing interfaces
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Congress passed an extension of the closing deadline for the Homebuyer Tax Credit, the Homebuyer Assistance and Improvement Act (H.R. 5623). The extension applies only to transactions that have signed contracts in place as of April 30, 2010, that have not yet closed. The legislation is designed to create a seamless extension; the new closing deadline for eligible transactions is now September 30, 2010. There will be no gap between June 30 and the date the President signs the bill into law. Extending the tax credit closing deadline will help provide additional stability to real estate markets across the nation.
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Our Stickler Quiz
Last night's banquet at the Grove Park Inn was a great success, with nearly 100 attendees. This year's entertainment was our first Stickler Quiz, thirty questions of detailed Stickley family trivia, which led to some cutthoat competition among our Stickley … Continue reading
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Infinite Variety: Women of the Arts and Crafts Movement
"Infinite Variety: Women of the Arts and Crafts Movement" by Pat Bartinique In celebration of Women's History month Pat Bartinique will present a lecture exploring the role of women in the Arts and Crafts Movement. The lecture will be on … Continue reading
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News On The Arts&Crafts Tours
We thought our readers would be interested to know that Elaine Hirschl Ellis of Arts & Crafts Tours has just reduced the prices of three 2009 English Arts & Crafts Tours: Far From the Crowd: Retreats of Royalty, Writers and … Continue reading
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Last Minute Tickets For The 22nd Annual Arts & Crafts Conference and Antiques Show
There's still time to register for the Grove Park Inn Arts & Crafts Conference and Antiques Show, at the Grove Park Inn Resort in Asheville, North Carolina on February 20-22, 2009. Book your tickets online now by clicking here!
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Every day, most of Facebook's 11 million Ukrainian users see the familiar blue and white interface on their computer screens or smartphones. Most, that is, since some of them simply don't use any social nets on a daily basis. But there are also those who cannot see it because they are being prevented from doing so. The current wave of Ukrainian accounts being banned and blocked by Facebook is only the latest in a series that began in 2015. Officially, this is supposedly connected to the new security policy Facebook has introduced since a slew of political scandals emerged over its sale of users' personal data and accusations that it was "fostering" interference in the 2016 US election. Now Facebook is trying to be the model of proper security, but these efforts are having some unexpected side effects for Ukrainians.
The reasons given for blocking an FB account can be several. Right now there are no clear indications of what exactly users cannot do in the network. However, the most widespread is the blocking of the use of language that is insulting towards specific groups of people or nationalities. Moreover, the degree of offensiveness is determined by the social network itself, often in a fairly inconsistent manner. More than likely, there is a list of "red flag" words that are supposed to be caught by moderators.
Based on observations of user activity, however, there is a well-developed network of bots that begin to file hundreds of complaints about a specific post or individual on order. This leads to a far faster rate of blocking against that person. Today, the most popular insults, based on the frequency of notifications about being blocked, are words like "moskal" or "katsap," terms that historically have referred to Russians in a pejorative manner, just like "maloros" and "khakhol" are used against Ukrainians. A person using such terms can end up on the wrong side of Facebook and find their account blocked for 3, 7 or 30 days, depending on their previous track record.
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In their hunt for compromising evidence, moderators can review that individual's timeline as far back as the critical 2013-2014 period. Plenty of Ukrainians have been blocked for posts that are as much as four years old. What's more Facebook's administration has been very unpredictable: a ban can be issued simply because someone reposted news about Zakarpattia Governor Ghennadiy Moskal whose last name sounds exactly like a pejorative name for the Russians mentioned above. Another person can leave numerous absolutely aggressive comments using the entire range of offensive language and be left in peace.
Ukrainian users have noticed one particular trait: more attention is being paid to leaders in Facebook, not to ordinary users, people with very large numbers of friends and followers. Typically these can be show business or sports stars, politicians or community activists. Where professional politicians avoid "hate speech", volunteers feel such constraints far less. Because they, and even more so those who are taking care of the needs of the front in eastern Ukraine or soldiers who have managed to return from the front alive, have plenty of reason to call things by their names. Those who have seen war first hand and not just during a news program, or who have buried a brother at arms are unlikely to be cautious about what they say in their comments.
And so nearly all well-known activists already have several reserve accounts in order to be able to communicate with their friends uninterruptedly. Sean Townsend, the spokesperson for Ukraine's Cyber Alliance, recently himself returned from the latest ban, admits that he ended up in the moderators' bad books through "hate speech" that was found in posts about war crimes in the self-proclaimed proxy republics in occupied Donbas, "DNR" and "LNR", which had been exposed by hackers. Townsend notes that Facebook's community rules allow users to condemn unacceptable things. But trying to contact the social network's censoring commission to get an explanation has proved impossible.
Yet not everyone is blocked simply for offending Russians. Some Ukrainians have been blocked for relatively neutral posts and even illustrations. Sometimes these are not even expressions of their personal opinion: people have been blocked for reposting someone else's post or comment. Fortunately, there are fewer complicated and absurd instances like the case in 2015 where an MP was blocked because he shared another MP's announcing that he had been blocked for sharing a video from the first MP! Veteran bloggers have been banned for publishing excerpts of books they have written or for expressing their views about the system of benefits for participants in the ATO.
Moreover, it's not just Ukrainians who have been victims of blocked accounts. A similar situation has taken place with activist Georgian users. One blogger told The Ukrainian Week that his account was blocked on April 1, 2018 for something he had posted in 2011, in which he expressed his position about the then-upcoming Georgian parliamentary election... without anything that could be called "hate speech." The comment made no direct mention of Russia or its inhabitants: it simply criticized Georgian political parties that were under the sway of pro-Russian oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili. This blogger thought that the blocking of his account was connected to his anti-RF news activity. He and his team had apparently fallen under the sights of the Russian secret service after Georgia had established news resources to counter Kremlin propaganda in the early 2000s. The latest was the 6th ban in the last four years.
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It appears that Ukraine's and Georgia's common enemy is active not just in the real world. Blocking activist users or members of Ukrainian or Georgian volunteer communities such as InformNapalm just before controversial studies are about to be published is nothing more than an attempt to shut people's mouths so that they can't disseminate information about Russia that Moscow doesn't like. And although Russian Facebook users are also banned—which they blame on the insidious US State Department, global conspiracies and Mark Zuckerberg himself with his "digital concentration camps" —, such incidents are significantly fewer than in the Ukrainian segment of Facebook.
The moderators have also raised many eyebrows, as the company has not revealed who they are, what their personal motivation and interests are, or who supervises their activities and how. Zuckerberg was questioned about this very aspect in recent hearings in the US Congress, where he stated that the company was working on an AI system that would evaluate online content in real time. Despite statements such as this, so far the moderating is done by humans and not always objectively.
Last but not least, the behavior of Facebook administrators could well be dictated by the fact that the company has no national representative office in either Georgia or Ukraine. Despite a direct appeal by President Poroshenko to Zuckerberg and an announcement by the Facebook founder in 2015 about considering opening an office in Ukraine, nothing actually happened. The owner of the world's most popular social network noted that Ukrainian users were being served by the company's Dublin office, whose employees have no political position regarding the conflict between the Russian Federation and Ukraine.
Clearly, Ukraine's government has no leverage over such a powerful global and, most importantly, private company. Deputy Information Minister Dmytro Zolotukhin says that his agency has sent enquiries regarding blocked accounts to Facebook's European offices. According to the responses, the blocking was taking place "because of violations of Facebook's policies." Still, the ministry continues to find ways to present its views of the problem to Facebook's management. The main obstacle, says Zolotukhin, is the lack of effective legal and regulatory means that might force the company to uphold free speech principles.
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For Ukraine, foreign experience might come in handy here. For instance, Germany recently passed a law on combating aggression and hostility in social networks that indicates just how the network's administration should respond to the dissemination of distorted information and manifestations of disrespect. But there will always be a dilemma between moderating content and freedom of speech. This was evident in a suit against Facebook brought by a citizen of Germany who was able to persuade the court that the deletion of his comment and the blocking of his account were wrong. Facebook now has to either challenge the court ruling or pay a €250,000 fine. As long as the necessary legislation is not in place, users have to themselves keep track of what they are writing or have written in the past. To help users search for the kinds of phrases that might catch the eyes of censors, a plug-in has already been written for browsers that automatically finds information about all the user's publications. Meanwhile, in order to express their opinions, Ukrainians can always take advantage of the fact that their language is rich in synonyms.
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If you have just got engaged, congratulations! This will be a hugely happy time in your life, and a very exciting one at that. You have made a commitment to be with your partner on a new level, so it is time to revel in all of those romantic feelings you hold for one another. Soon enough it will be time to start planning your wedding day itself – something which can be both pleasurable as well as stressful on occasion. The reason for this is because you want everything to go perfectly, especially if you already have an idea in your head about how the day will play out.
The venue can make a massive difference to the theme, flow, and enjoyment of the day, so this will be something that you consider at length. Not only do you need to figure out where to have your ceremony, but you will also need to choose a place to hold your reception and wedding breakfast. So what options are there, and what should you choose?
Church: the main choices here are Church of England or Roman Catholic churches. You may choose one of these options if you or your fiancé wants to hold a religious style wedding. Those having a Church of England wedding will have to attend a number of Sunday services beforehand, and banns have to be called before the big day. Basic fees are £415. Roman Catholic services require baptism and confirmation certificates to be presented to your priest, and you should schedule in time for marriage preparation talks as well as attending Mass.
Registry Office: you may choose to have a civil ceremony if you do not follow or practice a religion. There are registry offices throughout the UK which can be booked up to a year before your desired wedding date. The style of building can vary from one town to the next, so you could do some research if you want to have a certain look and feel to your wedding venue.
Licensed venue: if you would prefer to have your wedding ceremony somewhere different such as a manor house or zoo, you should have a look at the licensed venues in your area. A registrar can attend for an extra fee, but it would mean that you could do the day exactly as you want it. Have a look at some unique licensed venue ideas on foleyphotography.co.uk.
Hotel or golf resort: for your reception, you can do the day however you like – you might just want a meal at home! However most people want to have their guests catered for so they choose something like a hotel or golf club where there is plenty of space for large numbers. Visit a few that you're interested in to get an idea of function rooms, possible menus, and expected costs.
Country pub: for those who prefer a simpler approach to cuisine, you might want to choose a country pub instead. There are plenty of pubs and inns that have a beautiful function room that you can hire for exclusive use. Have a play on Google to see what you can come up with.


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While I generally limit the amount of cursing and vulgarity on my blog, the use of the F word in this posting is purposeful. I am reading "The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k" by Mark Manson and I am really enjoying it. I will admit it did take me about a chapter to adjust to his use of the F-word and other vulgarity, (because there is a bit), but I am trying to appreciate this in terms of his message. I choose to write about this today because where I am today, at this point in my life, it really is speaking to me.
So, let's paint the picture, I am sitting in Panera Bread working on my freelance assignment, stressing over my interview later today with a company that didn't pick me the first time, happy I finally got a job, (a part-time retail), but knowing it isn't enough to live on and has no benefits, worrying about finances, bombarded by emails from every retailer I shop at about sales, new fall styles, markdowns, and everything else, and just wanting to give into consumerism and go crazy but understanding that doing that will leave me in a worse financial situation and more stressed out! Oh it's a cruel world we live in! So, as all of this (and more) is weighing me down, I am also trying to remember what I read from Manson last night.
To this point in the text, I have been faced to think about how I am always wishing I had something that I don't have. for instance, more money, more work, more clothes, a certain car, a different dwelling somewhere nicer, etc. All of these wants and wishes subconsciously tell us that we are not good enough, we have not achieved enough, and that we are failing. We train our brains to think this way, we come to believe this and we are unhappy, overworked, stressed out, and we suffer, EVERY SINGLE DAY. Manson implores us to turn that on its head and only "give a f**k" about certain things. We are constantly bombarded with these trigger things and generally we simply react, but he says we decide whether or not to let it bother us. He talks about how when we are having a bad day, we go to social media and we see all these pictures from people who have f'ing perfect/amazing lives and we are pushed even further into our bad mood because we are convinced that we are having a worse off day than we actually are. Instead of just having a bad day and looking forward to tomorrow, we look at other people's lives today and are convinced that we can never have a life like that and therefore, all of our days are bad days in comparison.
Damn, I don't know about you, but that is a depressing concept to me. Lately I have been trying to remind myself how blessed I am despite all of the crap I am dealing with. In reality, I am not in danger of starving or being homeless. Worse case, I can break my lease and move back home or to my grandparent's house. But I don't have to do that because my parents are able to help and provide what I can't come up with right now. I had the ability to go to an amazing university despite FAFSA not covering much. I have a car to get around, I can walk, talk and see. My family loves me and isn't abusive. They are generally supportive. I have a great number of friends through Junior League, I am able to attend Junior League Southwest Conference next month, and I am in good health. There are many more things to be thankful for that I could list, but I think you get the point. So why do I still worry about what I don't have?
Manson says that not giving a f**k, as he encourages us to do, is not actually being indifferent about everything, it is about being indifferent to the things that don't matter. Those new fall arrivals at LOFT that I am not buying, they don't matter. The new markdowns at Kendra Scott, those won't help me be happy with myself. These are difficult concepts for me because shopping and buying makes me happy. But when you can't do that, but you do anyways, remorse hits you hard. It's a self-depreciating cycle.
My goal for today is to just give a f**k about what actually matters. I give a f**k about my freelance assignment, my interview this evening, and my safety on the road. Otherwise, I will ignore the emails that aren't from a specific person, commercials that want me to buy something, and other's actions that are infuriating, (like the a-hole who will inevitably cut me off sometime today :D). I encourage you to do something similar. Even if all you can do is choose two things today to ignore, to not give a f**k about. Life can be an amazing experience, so let's focus on our own lives and figure out how we can be content so we can spread that contented feeling!


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The pages currently include directions to St. Theresa's cemetery, St. John Vianney cemetery, St. Paul's cemetery and St. John of the Cross cemetery. We hope to soon be able to include grave listings for all the cemeteries. Please check back soon.
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Languages Connect is an integral part of the Strategy for Foreign Languages which sets out a roadmap to put Ireland in the top ten countries in Europe for the teaching and learning of foreign languages.
Specialising in foreign languages can lead to a career traveling the globe as an interpreter, diplomat or foreign correspondent, giving you a front-row seat to watch history unfold.
Amost any career from finance, to law to engineering can be transformed by studying a foreign language.
If you are still in school, choose at least one language subject to keep your options for the future open and so you can include it on your CV.
The languages sector is about communicating. Language skills enable us to exchange ideas, buy and sell, discover and function, learn and teach, work together and make connections.
Laura studied German and Commerce in NUIG and is based in SAP's Galway office. Her role is to support the partners using the SAP software which means she uses German on a day to day basis in work.
What were the main 'career decision' milestones in your life so far?
The first one was definitely my subject choices for the Leaving Cert, mainly Business Studies and German. I always had an interest in business, but I was quite indecisive as to what path I wanted to take after school. With Business, I knew there were many different routes that I could go down. Choosing German as my language was an easy decision for me. My teacher at the time was very passionate about the language and had a good relationship with the secondary school in our twinning town in Germany. Knowing that I got the chance to do an exchange with that school was enough of a decider for me! It was only after visiting the country that I knew I wanted to further study the language and find a career path with an opportunity to use it.
I then went on to study International Commerce & German in NUIG. During my time in college, I lived and studied in Gottingen for one year. I learned so much about the German culture and only grew to love the language more. Returning to final year in Galway, it was clear to see that there was a huge demand for languages in various sectors of work, with so many international companies setting up in Ireland.
At Grad fairs, companies were crying out for languages, no matter what degree you had. This really boosted my confidence in applying for jobs. In between finishing final year and my current role, I did a 6-month internship in Coca-Cola. This stood to me when applying for my role in SAP, as it gave me the chance to learn all the little things that I would never have thought of. When my time was coming to an end in Coca-Cola, I uploaded my CV to a career site called Monster.ie and within a few days, I got a call from a recruiter at SAP, where I'm currently working.
Who are the people who most influenced your career direction?
How did you go about getting your current job?
I wasn't all too sure what area of business I wanted to go into, but I knew I wanted to use my language. SAP would have always been at the careers fairs, but I never took any interest as I didn't have any background in IT. However, after uploading my CV to Monster.ie and a couple of phone calls with the recruiter from the company, I figured out that there were many different options for those without IT experience. I went for the interview and was won over by the place. Interviews were never a strong point for me, so I was over the moon to get the call for the second round. I put a lot of work into preparing and it paid off in the end.
Describe a typical day?
The department I work in is called Partner Service Delivery. We are there to support the SAP partners through their lifecycle with as a SAP PartnerEdge Partner, through various difference services, from the recruitment of partners to registering their deals and providing general helpline support where and when it's needed. Our partners are based all over the world, so we have 6 different office locations globally to support them, with Galway being the main one. As you can imagine, there's a lot of diversity between the different regions we support. With this, it is important for our team to understand the cultural differences of each. You learn so much every day about the different partners and how their needs may vary from another.
What are the main tasks and responsibilities?
Up until December of last year, I was a partner support representative. This meant working on the partner helpline (via phone / email / live chat) and supporting the partners with any questions or issues they had. I was also heavily involved in Deal Registration, where partners could submit applications to resell SAP software to customers. My role here was to review these applications and ensure they were compliant with the regulations and met all criteria needed. Since then, I have moved on to a Team Lead role, working alongside the manager of the overall team. This involves a lot of planning, meetings, 1 to 1 sessions with team members, recruitment and so on.
What are the main challenges?
A huge challenge for me at the start was speaking German to native Germans on the phone. It was quite daunting at the start, but you get used to it after a while. Another challenge of mine was presenting in team meetings. Again, it's one of those things that become second nature to you the more you do. You need to remember that everyone is in the same boat when doing these things!
What's cool?
What I really like about my job is that it's very social. I did not expect that coming into an office environment. There's a very friendly atmosphere in here, which makes any stressful day a lot easier. We also do a lot of events and meet ups outside of work too, which is great for team building. Another thing I must include is the free tea, coffee and on-site lunches. It saves so much time in the mornings!
What particular skills do you bring to your workplace?
What subjects did you take in school and how have these influenced your career path?
Outside of the mandatory subjects, I studied Business, Economics, Agri Science and German. They were 100% great help in getting where I am today. Agri Science was quite a random choice, but I thought it was but an interesting one, and I loved it. If was to go back and take the Leaving Cert again I would probably choose all the same subjects!
What is your education to date?
I went to Secondary School in Davitt College, Castlebar, where I completed my Leaving Cert in 2011. That September, I started my Bachelor of Commerce with German degree in NUI Galway. This was a 4-year course and I spent my 3rd year in Germany as part of the Erasmus programme. I didn't go on to do a masters, as I was unsure what career path I wanted to take. I have since sussed that one out!
What aspects of your education have proven most important for your job?
We had a module in our final year of college, called ICE (Innovation, Creativity & Enterprise). If you have ever watched Dragon's Den, this module is exactly what that is, minus being on tele in front of Gavin Duffy and co.! We had to come up with a unique product/service, competing against other groups in the course and at the end of the module the best idea won.
This involved a lot of research and advice from mentors and entrepreneurs. We had to present our idea to a panel each week and outline why our idea was best. It was a great learning experience and I'd do it all over again if I could. It really boosted my confidence in presenting and opened my eyes to the possibilities there are for innovative graduates.
What have been the most rewarding events in your career so far?
We run a programme here called Girlsmart4tech. It involves regular meetings/Skype calls with other colleagues in SAP Galway, to organize several days in the year for primary school girls to come into SAP and take part in various activities throughout the day. The aim of the program is to give young females a glimpse of the 'techy' world, opening their eyes to the possibilities and changing up that IT/Software professional stereotype. It's so rewarding and every event to date has been a great success.
I was also involved in attending career sessions and job fairs, representing SAP and advising students on how to apply for roles within the company. The biggest achievement for me to date has to be my promotion to my current role as a Team Lead. It's been a wonderful experience and I couldn't ask for a better team to work for.
What personal qualities do you have that helps you in your career?
What is your dream job?
Does your job allow you to have a lifestyle you are happy with?
Yes, absolutely. I think that one of the most important things to have is a work/life balance. We're on flexi-time, which means I can work an extra hour during the week to leave an hour or two early on a Friday. It's a very social place to work, with many internal and external events happening throughout the year.
What advice would you give to someone considering this job?
I'm a strong believer in Less is more. Keep your CV as minimal as possible - highlight your skills and interests without going into too much details. This will draw in the attention of a recruiter to find out more about you. Apply for many roles, even if some of them aren't exactly what you're looking for. This is so helpful in prepping for that interview that you really want to do well in.
I also think it's helpful doing mock interviews with your friends or colleagues, as they can give you all the feedback you need. Another important thing is to know a bit about the company, it'll show that you're keen and that you've done your prep work. Never ever learn off interview answers, they can be spotted a mile away and it only increases your nerves. Be yourself and that's all any interviewer will look for.
What are the three most important personal characteristics required for the job?
Have you undertaken, or do you plan to undertake any further training as part of your job?
Most definitely. It�s important to upskill yourself at every opportunity, even if you�re happy with your current role. It can be a challenge at times, as day-to-day work can get in the way and you can end up putting training to the bottom of the priority list. For this, I set reminders in my calendar do something small every week to up-skill myself.
What kinds of work experience would provide a good background for this position?


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Our Lady of Lourdes Parish is a Community of communities of disciples of Christ who care for one another, share with each other and come together in prayer and to celebrate God's love and mercy as they find nourishment in the sacraments.
Our Lady of Lourdes in Tujunga, CA had its simple beginnings in October 1920 with a simple mass attended by 23 people in the Forester family living room. Twenty-one years after, a new and larger church that could seat 450 people was built in what is now the lower school ground.
Twenty-nine years later, Our Lady of Lourdes opened as a two-room school and expanded through 1960.
The present-day church now seats 950 people who were built in 1969 together with the rectory.
Today, Our Lady of Lourdes is home to a Church community with a parish school where faith formation is integral to the academic formation with great care given to the safety of the children on campus and its periphery.
We are embarking now on the formation and organization of Team Ministries in the Religious Education Department, the Confirmation and Youth Ministry Department and expanding this way of doing things with the different lay ministries and lay organizations/movements.
With the vision of celebrating the centennial of this parish in the year 2020, we have embarked boldly in putting a new environment inside the Church with newly painted walls and ceilings, newly refurbished pews and new carpets and tiles. We believe that we stand on the shoulders of those who have gone before us and thus, we are called to be real stewards as heirs to the rich history and tradition of Our Lady of Lourdes.
On-going Formation, Organization, and Mobilization are the three-fold thrusts of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish as we journey to our centennial in the year 2020 and beyond.


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Transformation to a digital service provider
Bahrain-based telecoms operator Batelco, teamed up AlNadeem,Ericsson and Net4Things to demonstrate a range of smart solutions at GITEX
BATELCO, in collaboration with Ericsson, AlNadeem and Net4Things, demonstrated a range of smart solutions at the Batelco stand, as part of the Bahrain Pavilion, at GITEX Technology Week 2016.
The four companies partnered to demo a variety of cloud and sustainability solutions in line with the topic of the event; Re-imagining realities. The range of advanced technologies showcased how life experiences in a smart city are enhanced through more connectivity, with a particular focus on Smart Business, Smart Life and Smart Education, allowing citizens to live and work in more sustainable societies.
The companies also highlighted Connected Print, Cloud Productivity Solution, Microsoft Office 365, web Hosting & Cloud Security along with smart solutions for homes and hospitals.
Batelco, in line with its commitment to enable the Kingdom of Bahrain's future vision, has already launched Bahrain WiFi. The nationwide WiFi rollout has begun with a number of hotspots including several high traffic areas around Bahrain.
Batelco has also launched a cutting edge IoT Connected Vehicle Solution to support the requirements of the education and transportation sectors. The new solution delivers a complete transportation security solution and that has been designed and developed to address growing market needs, particularly from the education sector, to support safety issues for school children and university students.
In another key signing on the sidelines of GITEX 2016, Batelco announced a platinum partnership agreement with Sophos, a key IT security and data protection company. Batelco is constantly on the quest to expand its security services portfolio in order to support the increasing security requirements for organisations across all sectors. The signing with Sophos is in line with efforts to provide relevant security for Bahrain's enterprise sector.
Rounding off a very productive and successful week at GITEX, Batelco was presented with an award in recognition of its outstanding performance as a key partner in Bahrain, by Westcon-Comstor. Batelco has a well-established relationship with Westcon-Comstor enabling the it to deliver top quality products and services for its business customers.


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A man died after the car he was in was hit by a Metra Rock Island District train on the Southwest Side near Blue Island and Calumet Park, authorities said.
Chicago fire crews responded to near 119th Street and Marshfield Avenue about 7:10 p.m. for a vehicle hit by a train and found a man in a vehicle who was declared dead on the scene, said Chief Juan Hernandez, a Chicago Fire Department spokesman.
The Loop-bound train that had left Joliet about 6:15 p.m. hit the vehicle a little after 7, said Michael Gillis, a Metra spokesman.
One train was canceled and its service combined with another, and the train involved was stopped for the rescue operation and investigation. Check Metra's website for service updates.


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The requirements of our present-
When testing is applied as a learning tool, it is commonly called retrieval practice. The premise for using this tool is that every time a piece of information is recollected from memory, the memory itself changes. The neurological structure of the memory becomes stronger, more stable and requires less energy and effort when accessed in the future.
Furthermore, fMRI studies have shown that recalling information from memory, as compared with simply rereading it, generates significantly higher levels of activity in areas of the brain associated with consolidation. And it was shown that high activation in these areas while learning results in superior long-
Some experts would venture so far as to say that recalling what we already know is a more powerful learning event than storing that same information in the first place.
Interestingly, testing not only improves retention for the information being retrieved, but also stimulates and improves retention for related information—i.e., information that was not specifically tested but is somehow connected.
Moreover, the act of testing—of consciously calling to mind information from memory and applying it to a challenge—also promotes what is commonly referred to as deep learning. Practitioners immersed in deep learning are able to understand the underlying principles of a topic and to draw inferences from these; they are able to connect the individual pieces of information, and they are able to apply this understanding in different contexts and circumstances (which is commonly referred to as transfer).
For all the abovementioned reasons, teachers should aim to make testing a central part of the students learning process. Alas, given the way by which testing can ultimately determine one's future, and the way that such a dependency has been embedded in the education system for so long, it is challenging to reintroduce innocent, stress-
Agarwal, Pooja K., Patrice M. Bain, and Roger W. Chamberlain. 2012. "The value of applied research: Retrieval practice improves classroom learning and recommendations from a teacher, a principal, and a scientist." Educational Psychology Review (Springer US) 24 (3): 437-
Dunlosky, John, Katherine A. Rawson, Elizabeth J. Marsh, Mitchell J. Nathan, and Daniel T. Willingham. 2013. "Improving students' learning with effective learning techniques promising directions from cognitive and educational psychology." Psychological Science in the Public Interest (SAGE Publications) 14 (1): 4-
Karpicke, Jeffrey D., and Henry L. Roediger. 2008. "The critical importance of retrieval for learning." Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) 319 (5865): 966-
Paul, Annie M. 2015. "A new vision for testing." Scientific American 313 (2): 54-
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Tracking your menstrual cycle can be important for a number of reasons. These include determining your normal pattern, which can help you identify changes that could signal a problem. Counting your menstrual cycle days also helps you identify your most likely fertile period to prevent pregnancy or enhance your chances of conception. Menstrual tracking is simple, requiring only a calendar or electronic tracking method.
Normal Cycle Variation
Women's menstrual cycles may vary considerably. Although the so-called normal cycle is 28 days, many healthy women have periods as frequently as every 22 days or as infrequently as every 36 days, according to the authors of a May 2006 article published in the "Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic and Neonatal Nursing." The length of menstrual bleeding also varies from 4 to 7 days. Menstrual cycle length and flow may also vary from one cycle to the next in the same woman. Stress and illness are among the many possible reasons for a variation in the menstrual cycle from one month to the next.
Counting the Days
To track your menstrual cycle, note the first day of your period on a calendar or electronic device. Online applications are also available to help you track it. Note the number of days you experience bleeding, which will help you determine the average length of your menstrual flow. Continue to count days until your next period occurs and note the total number of days between the beginning of 1 period and the beginning of the next. This is your menstrual cycle length. Continue to track your periods for several months until you determine your usual cycle.


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We are submitting a few of our Halloween photos for the Sunday Selfies Hop, hosted by our sweet furiends at , The cat on my head. We already posted some of these photos on our Friday post but thought those of you who didn't visit that post might like to see us in costume too. We hope efurrybody had a fun and safe Halloween!
Duffy as the Lion (King).
Malou as a sweet pumpkin.
Esme as Lambie.
Levon as Eeyore the donkey.
Mitalee as a Holstein calf .
Have a Sunny Sunday and don't forget to HOP! It's a wonderful way to visit old and new furiends alike.
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Louay Safi, spokesperson for the Syrian National Coalition, gestures as he speaks during a press conference on the third day of Syrian peace talks at the United Nations Offices in Geneva on January 27, 2014. AFP PHOTO / FABRICE COFFRINI
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The Syrian opposition is willing to lift a siege on three pro-government villages in the north of the country as part of a wider agreement to relieve besieged towns on both sides, the opposition's spokesman said on Tuesday.Louay al-Safi told reporters at the end of a morning session of talks in Geneva that Free Syrian Army fighters are willing to relieve pressure on the Shi'ite Muslim villages of Nubl, al-Zahra and al-Foua.But he said President Bashar al-Assad's government has not agreed to lift the siege on the rebel-held Old City of Homs, seen as crucial for the success of any deal.


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Light up any room with orange cat pictures. What can be more cheerful than an orange cat?
Indeed, a ginger cat will add a splash of color to any spot. But what if you don't have an orange cat lying around? Get an orange cat picture!
So here are some orange tabby cat pictures for your enjoyment.
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I hope these pictures brighten up your day, if only for a moment. I personally love all kinds of cat pictures, but the pictures of orange cats are so colorful I'm just drawn to them. And remember that these images make fantastic cat lover gifts, too.
Do you have an orange cat? Then take advantage of that and create your own art. You can even give your unique creations as gifts. Better yet, if the intended gift recipient has an orange or red cat, use a picture of your friend's cat to customize your gift.
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Formats and tools
- Unit Description
- Reconstruct the unit from the xml and display it as an HTML page.
- Assessment Tool
- an assessor resource that builds a framework for writing an assessment tool
- Assessment Template
- generate a spreadsheet for marking this unit in a classroom environment. Put student names in the top row and check them off as they demonstrate competenece for each of the unit's elements and performance criteria.
- Assessment Matrix
- a slightly different format than the assessment template. A spreadsheet with unit names, elements and performance criteria in separate columns. Put assessment names in column headings to track which performance criteria each one covers. Good for ensuring that you've covered every one of the performance criteria with your assessment instrument (all assessement tools together).
- Wiki Markup
- mark up the unit in a wiki markup codes, ready to copy and paste into a wiki page. The output will work in most wikis but is designed to work particularly well as a Wikiversity learning project.
- Evidence Guide
- create an evidence guide for workplace assessment and RPL applicants
- Competency Mapping Template
- Unit of Competency Mapping – Information for Teachers/Assessors – Information for Learners. A template for developing assessments for a unit, which will help you to create valid, fair and reliable assessments for the unit, ready to give to trainers and students
- Observation Checklist
- create an observation checklist for workplace assessment and RPL applicants. This is similar to the evidence guide above, but a little shorter and friendlier on your printer. You will also need to create a seperate Assessor Marking Guide for guidelines on gathering evidence and a list of key points for each activity observed using the unit's range statement, required skills and evidence required (see the unit's html page for details)
- Self Assessment Survey
- A form for students to assess thier current skill levels against each of the unit's performance criteria. Cut and paste into a web document or print and distribute in hard copy.
- Moodle Outcomes
- Create a csv file of the unit's performance criteria to import into a moodle course as outcomes, ready to associate with each of your assignments. Here's a quick 'how to' for importing these into moodle 2.x
- Registered Training Organisations
- Trying to find someone to train or assess you? This link lists all the RTOs that are currently registered to deliver BSBPMG602A, 'Direct the scope of a project program'.
- Google Links
- links to google searches, with filtering in place to maximise the usefulness of the returned results
- Books
- Reference books for 'Direct the scope of a project program' on fishpond.com.au. This online store has a huge range of books, pretty reasonable prices, free delivery in Australia *and* they give a small commission to ntisthis.com for every purchase, so go nuts :)
Elements and Performance Criteria
1. Authorise projects
1.1. Analyse needs, in consultation with client and relevant stakeholders, to justify each project and to designate project managers
1.2. Conduct project selection and prioritisation within guidelines provided by, or under the direction of, a relevant (governance) authority
1.3. Make project authorisation recommendations to relevant authority as the basis for future project management activity, and commitment of resources and effort
2. Define and plan program scope
2.1. Define projects' objectives, major deliverables and resource requirements at the project and program level, and confirm them with the governance group or relevant authority
2.2. Determine and agree measurable project outcomes and benefits to enable quantified evaluation of program performance
2.3. Develop, agree on and communicate scope definition, scope management strategies and plans
2.4. Align program scope to business requirements and organisational strategy
3. Manage program scope
3.1. Conduct regular program reviews to measure project performance and to ensure that stated program and business/strategic objectives are met
3.2. Establish and maintain change management system to form the basis of ongoing scope management
3.3. Conduct reviews of scope changes and take action to ensure that project and program objectives are achieved or modified
3.4. Measure project outcomes against defined program scope and aligned strategic objectives
3.5. Communicate results of program outcomes to relevant authority
3.6. Pass on scope management lessons learned to higher project authority for application in planning and implementation of later projects within the program


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This event will emphasize the need for prudent ethical judgment when interpreting the rules and determining the public interest.
Participants will use polling questions to interact with the instructor and demonstrate how to apply the rules to real ethical dilemmas.
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- Independence
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- AICPA Code of Professional Conduct
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This course will satisfy the four hour Regulatory Ethics requirement for CPAs. Participants will benefit from a review of the ethics rules and the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct.
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Shah Rukh Khan Celebrates His KKR Win With Mamta Di
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The IPL fever is drawing to its closure and with the semi finals hitting in, Shah Rukh Khan's Kolkata Knight Riders has comfortably defeated Kings XI Punjab in the Qualifier 1 by finally making it to the finals! Yes! With a huge margin of 28 runs, KKR has made it one step closer to win the IPL 2014! Now that calls for some celebration right? Well, indeed it was a grand celebration for our King Khan! Apart from storming his excitement on the field at Kolkata, SRK further went up to West Bengal's chief minister Mamta Banerjee and feasted over some fish fry over the win! Yes! "My KKR how beautiful were they tonight. Fish fry with Mamata Di...ride along the Kolkata roads with all celebrating," he tweeted. Aah...we can definitely sense his excitement echoing...So jingling to some Korbo Lorbo Jeetbo Re, stay tuned to Moviezadda for more updates!
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Burchett knew he wanted to draw comics from the time he was five and assumed everyone wanted to do that job, but found it was difficult to share that dream with any of the adults around him. "My parents lived through the Depression. My father said, 'Why don't you get a stable job?'" Burchett said of how tough it was initially to even verbalize his dream. School guidance counselors offered no help as they did not know how people became involved professionally in comics.
He eventually earned a teaching degree that went unused as he found himself breaking into advertising the old fashioned way: through the mail room. Five years later, he was an art director at the company working on television ads, but still yearned to work in comics. At night Burchett would toil away on samples. "Like everybody, I accumulated rejection slips," he joked. All the while, he continued to improve his technique. Finally, during the direct market boom of the early 1980s, he found work at Eclipse, Pacific and other publishers that sprang up during the era. He characterized the work as "usually just one-off things."
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Reading about First Comics opening up in Chicago, Burchett rushed to send his samples to the new company. His logic: "If I wait until they have books on the shelves, they'll be flooded with submissions." He was hired to ink an eight-page backup story written my Mike Barr. The assignment would lead to a long association with First's co-founder Mike Gold.
"Just because you have a regular gig doesn't mean you're working in comics," he explained. "You have to build up a reputation for being dependable." In the ensuing five years, he continued as an art director by day while working on comics and his reputation in the field by night. He recalled brutally hot summer nights in Missouri when he "sat there in gym shorts hoping none of my sweat got on the page."
Despite becoming a dependable hand at First, work slowed after Gold left the company. When Gold was firmly established at DC Comics, he called Burchett and offered him a number of projects that fell through, including a run on "The Shadow" that wound up going to Bill Sienkiewicz when the original penciller assigned to the project "vanished." Gold then offered Burchett the "Blackhawk" feature in "Action Comics Weekly."
When "Action" changed to a weekly schedule in the mid-1980s, the plan involved a number of creative teams on rotating features to accommodate the production schedule and give each team a break. Burchett never enjoyed a break as the "Blackhawk" feature started late thanks to government intervention. "Mike Grell was going to write the first story, but he was on an extended trip to Asia and dictating his scripts into a tape recorder. The first tape was lost in U.S. Customs for six weeks!"
Even with the rough start, "Blackhawk" proved to be a popular feature and never rotated out of "Action Comics Weekly" until Burchett received a call from Gold. The book was going to become its own monthly title, but there was a catch. "We were already behind schedule," Burchett said.
"I was finishing issue #7 when issue #6 hit the stands," he said of the pace of production. "It was my baptism by fire." It also allowed him to finally quit the ad agency. When the series ended, he went back to jumping from title to title with work as varied as the short-lived Impact Comics line to inking Dan Jurgens when the writer/artist took the reins of "Justice League America" in the mid-1990s.
This eventually led to a fifteen-year association with the Batman animated tie-in comics. Initially, he was hired as an inker and a sort of "continuity cop," making sure each new penciller stayed on model with the Bruce Timm design style. "Once they found Mike Parobeck, he became the series penciller," Burchett recalled. "It was one of the best instances of working on anything. The team on that book was the best." Rick discovered a new fanbase at conventions thanks to the TV show tie-in books -- an audience made up of women, children and animation fans that the publisher coveted, but could not get to read their mainstream titles. The fans were loyal, but DC itself was never fond of it. "They didn't like the animated books and probably wouldn't have published them if not for Warner Bros.," he said.
Unfortunately, when the DC Animated Universe tie-ins ceased, work again became difficult to come by. Editors assumed he could only work in the Timm style and "people didn't want the cartoony stuff."
After some "floundering, picking up stuff here and there," and a run on "She-Hulk" with Dan Slott, Burchett found himself sending out samples again."The job of the greeter at Wal-Mart was looking pretty good," he joked.
During the rough patch, he was talking with writer Greg Rucka, who was disenchanted with mainstream comics. They discussed outlining a project that they could market to book publishers, but Burchett offered to do it as a webcomic. Listing a number of ideas, settings and visuals they both always wanted to have in a comic, they had the basis for "Lady Sabre and the Pirates of the Ineffable Aether." The steampunk strip about a privateer of the seas and skies launched in July of 2011 and has been growing a loyal following ever since.
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In order to make the fans feel like they are part of the process, web site designer and "third guy" Eric Newsom asked the readers what they wanted from the team. The response surprised them all: "People wanted it to be a book they can buy." With two-and-half years of story already in the can, Rucka and Burchett chose to print the first five chapters. Weighing their options, the team went to the readership again and asked if they should approach a publisher or crowdfund the collection. The audience thought it was best to let them invest directly via crowfunding website Kickstarter.
Researching the printing and shipping costs, Rucka, Burchett and Newsom settled on a goal of $27,500, made their video proposal and uploaded it to Kickstarter in May of last year. The three were optimistic about reaching their goal, figuring it would happen by the end of the campaign. The project was funded in eight hours with a final total of $143,000. Suddenly, the webcomic had huge buzz around it and outlets as varied as MTV News wanted to know how they did it. "[We] use common sense whenever possible," Burchett said. "Don't cheat the reader."
All the money funded new incentives and a capital investment Rucka and Newsom wanted Burchett to make: an up-to-date computer and a Cintiq tablet. "Greg said, 'Look, if we make $110,000 can we call that Rick 2.0 and get you the stuff?'" Believing they'd never hit that stretch goal, Burchett agreed. Once Rucka and Newsom announced their plans to the readers, the money came in even heavier.
Because they were open in regards to using a portion of the funds to update Burchett's set-up, one fan offered up his employer's friend-and-family discount to make the computer and tablet less of a strain on the budget. Now updated, Burchett said, "I'm living in the future." The artist is still getting used to the tablet, but like everything else regarding "Lady Sabre," it is a new education.
"It's been like that now for three years," he said. "I learned to color, I learned to use a tablet and we learned to publish a book." The end product became a more elaborate hardcover volume, leading Burchett to learn how to design a dust jacket. Though the process was slower than they expected, the books finally arrived three weeks ago and are slowly getting shipped by Rucka to the Kickstarter backers. Any remaining units may become available on the strip's website.
With the success of the campaign, the team is planning to continue the print editions. There is even some interest from an established publisher to release the first volume as a trade paperback. Burchett, after all those years of hard work in comics, is happy with the response. "People seem to like it," he said.
"Lady Sabre and the Pirates of the Ineffable Aether" can be read at www.IneffableAether.com.


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Useful Tips And Advice For The Game Of Golf
Are you a new golfer? You may feel dazed and confused about golf in the beginning, however, you are like most who pick up the game. That is a completely rational feeling to have, but the solution is below. Read these tips to learn how to play golf.
Try walking, instead of renting yourself a golf cart. This will exponentially increase the amount of exercise that you get on the course, and turn it into an extremely beneficial way to improve your health! Your joints and muscles will also be looser and stay warm if you walk.
Having a fit body is key to playing a great game of golf. Utilize your core as well as your arms to generate strength. The force of your whole body should be used to swing the club. You are then more likely to hit the ball farther without swinging your arms as forcefully.
A good golf tip to help with your swing is to coordinate the movements of your body with your swing. Do not fall into the trap of many beginning golfers and assume that arm strength is all that is needed. A much better way to get that coveted swing distance is to move your whole body as the club moves.
Wiggling your toes can tell you much about your posture as you are getting ready to take a golf swing. If you can move your feet very easily, then you have not aligned your body properly enough to take your shot. The proper position would be to lean into the golf ball, allowing your feet to move slightly, but not overly much.
Don't take golf too seriously. Everyone makes mistakes and the ability to laugh at them will help you to learn from your flubs and relax while you play.
Be certain to keep a pure mental focus and concentration on your next stroke. Whether you have been hitting well or poorly so far doesn't matter – you're only as good as your next shot. Dwelling on past errors will just cause you to make more errors, so just focus on the present.
Knowing how to keep track of your score is a crucial element of playing golf. This is important because your score is often used to judge how good of a player you are. When keeping score, every time you attempt to hit the ball is counted as a stroke. Your score at each hole is calculated as the number of strokes it takes for you to get your ball to the hole. The idea is to get as few strokes possible!
When you take a grasp on the handle of your club, make sure not to favor one hand over the other. Holding the club too tight can cause your ball to veer to the right. On the other hand, tightening the grip too far will have the reverse effect and cut a well-aimed ball towards the left. You will be able to find just the right grip by watching whether your shots veer left or right.
To help you hit better golf shots, pay close attention to how you are addressing the ball. Your position plays a large role in the distance that your shot will achieve. If your slouch goes too far or even not far enough, then your ball isn't going to get a lot of distance from your shot.
Before you purchase any golf club, be sure to check your club heads! If the club has a worn, shiny spot near its center, it has been overused by its previous owner. This worn spot is not good for your shot, as the head of the club does not connect with the ball correctly.
To maximize your shot, you always want to ensure that prior to swinging, your hold on the club is correct. Your palms will be firmly on the handle with the thumbs pointing downward. Both hands will be touching each other on the club. To hit the ball farther, choke up on the club.
Don't stand or hold your club in an unnatural position. If it feels uncomfortable, you probably won't be able to play well. First, practice your body's placement with the ball without having a club in hand. Stand up while flexing your knees, bend them slightly at your waist and have your arms drop right on your front. Clasp your hands together as if you were holding the club. This is all you need to do to assume a position that is natural, if you are not feeling right at that position you are doing too much.
Although it seems complicated it is not. It can be a relaxing sport. After reading this article, you should be more comfortable with golfing. Now is a great time to get out there and try your new skills!


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Holy Sepulchre: center of the world
Given the enormous spiritual value of the Holy Sepulchre, a destination for pilgrims and tourists from all over the world, Association pro Terra Sancta has developed a project specifically directed not only towards its preservation but also its enhancement.
Despite the fact that it is one of the most visited places in the world, tourists often do not have sufficient information to enable them to understand the architectural evolution of the church, linked to different historical periods and events.
The project aims to utilize multimedia as a tool for information and promotion of the historical and architectural evolution of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. An additional objective is to support the Franciscan friars in their centuries old work to preserve this Holy Place, by providing experts and volunteers to participate in the restoration activities.
The project grew out of a collaboration with the Studio Biblicum Francescanum.
Three-dimensional models of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in different periods have been produced, allowing a virtual visit and an examination of the church in its entirety. In addition, three-dimensional videos available online provide useful information both for pilgrims preparing their visits and for those who do not have this possibility. This approach is linked to the broader initiative of Association pro Terra Santa to promote the Holy Places and the archaeological and artistic collections of the Custody of the Holy Land – an initiative which also includes the Terra Sancta Museum.
Young volunteers are participating in restoration activities, coordinated by the Custody's Technical Office in collaboration with local and foreign experts. The maintenance of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is in fact a ongoing requirement, as the thousands of pilgrims who visit it each year are aware.
Your donation
Help the Church of the Holy Sepulchre! Your donation will ensure a precious support for the Franciscan friars who for centuries have been safeguarding this Holy Place, for the benefit of the local communities as well as pilgrims from throughout the world.


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Her Name is Olivia
(Author's Note: The following is a non-game related human interest story that pertains to the volunteer organization Broadcast for Reps / Spam for Heals, or B4R as it will be […]
(Author's Note: The following is a non-game related human interest story that pertains to the volunteer organization Broadcast for Reps / Spam for Heals, or B4R as it will be […]
(Author's Note: The following is a non-game related human interest story that pertains to the volunteer organization Broadcast for Reps / Spam for Heals, or B4R as it will be referred to frequently in this column. Real names besides the reported victim have been redacted in this particular piece, even though Facebook public groups are available to view by anyone. Troll posting in the comments section of TheNeocom will not be tolerated under any circumstances and will result in banhammers being swung judiciously.)
On the morning of October 4th, 2016, a post was made in the EVE Online Public Group on Facebook that drew quite a bit of attention. A member of the public group posted that while in a B4R environment, a fellow EVE player and friend of the original poster had been harassed on her posts in-game for a period of hours while reaching out to the B4R community and had subsequently attempted suicide:
With the permission of the older sister, the OP released the victim's Facebook page for messages of support which you can find here.
The Neocom's Manic Velocity reached out to Coffee Rocks of B4R when the news of this incident dropped:
"I know nothing about it, but I'm going to pass it along to my folks do they can blow up that girl's page with words of support. There are a few really off-their-knocker trolls that purposefully troll B4R posts cause they get sick enjoyment out of it..."
News of this quickly spread within the group over a period of a couple hours as the members tried to make sense of whether the story and source were credible. Before Olivia eventually lost consciousness, some details of the responsible parties were described as belonging to a corporation in Manifesto Alliance. Further details are not known at this time and are probably going to be dealt with internally between the involved parties and CCP. Our understanding is that CCP has been notified, but we have not sought comment for obvious reasons. The Neocom did however invite the statement of a representative of Manifesto regarding the report and who had (under his real name which will again be redacted) voiced his sympathy and support for Olivia:
"Manifesto Alliance here. We do not approve or condone this sort of behavior, leadership was unaware of the incident, and we will not stand idly by. Once we can get a confirmation on the identity of those involved, and a verification of what happened, we will deal with the offenders; with the full extent of punishments we can as a player group within the game. Included with reprimands, the offenders will be removed from the alliance; pending identification and verification of the incident and those involved. I am very sorry that this happened."
At this time, we know that Olivia is in stable condition, but unconscious. For further information, we invite you to follow the thread in the EVE Online Facebook Group and please consider lending your support to Olivia, her friends, and the rest of the supporting community. If we get further details about this incident via logs or receive further word on Olivia's condition, we will update this article and share the news via social media. We also ask that if you witness in-game harassment of a person at risk of suicide, that you notify CCP Guard or CCP Mimic immediately, and alert Broadcast for Reps / Spam for Heals via their public discord.
(Via the Broadcast for Reps Eve Forums post, If you receive threats of suicide in-game, the following is the list of steps to take immediately:
1. Open a new trouble ticket
2. Select type "Game Play Support"
3. Select category "Stuck" and "Stuck Character"
4. Put "Suicidal person" or something similar in the subject, and include a description of what you witnessed. Attach any chat logs or screenshots that can help the GM's.
Additionally, if you can, try to keep the person talking. Listen to what they have to say. You can encourage them to contact us at Broadcast 4 Reps, but please get the ticket in first so that CCP can get to work while you are talking.
You can find additional avenues for reporting suicidal threats in gaming and social media here: Helping Others Online.
If you are dealing with depression or contemplating suicide, please seek help.
Per statement by Olivia's older sister found HERE:
Hello, as most of you know already my sister Olivia is in the hospital, due to a suicide attempt. I wanted to give you an update on her current condition. She is stable, safe, and sleeping. She is, as far as we know, ok at this time. We are working with the powers that be in an effort to make sure, the vile people that hurt her, are dealt with swiftly and correctly. I want to note that, the information that we obtained, chat logs and the like, are being passed on to all parties that need them currently. In game alliance leadership teams of the involved pilots with be given this information once everything has been handled through the proper channels.
I'd also like to take this time to thank all of you for your overwhelming support through all of this. I want to give a special thanks to the well over 100 FB messages of love and support my sister received, from this community and I hope that one day I can repay your kindness. Once she has woken up I will be sure to either read them to her, or have her read them. Again thank you so very much for the support, and I will keep anyone interested appraised of the situation.
o7 fly safe
CCP Falcon has acknowledged they are working on the situation
Website has links to hotlines for 60 – some countries. No one should ever have to go through this hell, especially not alone.
Trolling has its place, but never ANYWHERE NEAR the B4R. We are lucky enough to have a community that is very tightly knit and often very ready and willing to go to the ends of the earth to help, but there will always be people who do not know when enough is enough. I fully expect CCP to not only bring the banhammer in full force, but also to involve the police depending on what evidence they are able to collect – just as many other game devs have in the past.
As Alex said, if you are struggling, you are not alone. There are countless resources to help get the help that is needed.
As a mod for B4R (and an IRL counsellor) this ilevel of asshattery is something we are always on the lookout for and we DO quash as soon as it raises it's ugly head. Unfortunately some people are unable to find an element of compassion and decency and I just hope Olivia (and others) realise that B4R is still as safe as we can make it and will always be there for anyone that needs support.
Spanky Ikkala
Why is anyone surprised by this?
We are talking about Eve, where the managers and dev's of CCP revel in sociopathic behaviour demonstrated by CCP's customers and where CCP ENCOURAGES this kind of activity ingame. Why would anyone be shocked that the same awful people that do awful stuff in game cross the line to do awful stuff in real life, especially if it is under some cloak of semi-anonymity.
If you troll a B4R post you really are the lowest form of scum. In game trolling has its place, and being a virtual PoS is one thing. B4R and BestOfUs however are organizations meant to give RL support to gamers that may not have such a support network outside of a digital world. Many gamers are anti social in real life, for whatever reason, social awkwardness or even just a general dislike of people. Trolling posts for B4R or the BestOfUs community is a reflection that you really are a RL degenerate scumbag piece of human garbage. If CCP can leave a representative in these channels, find the pieces of human waste and swing a serious ban hammer on their current accounts as well email and IP addresses of anyone that wants to troll these groups, that would be the minimum of an appropriate response.
Update : This story was proven to be a complete scam. CCP is already looking into banning the OP who started this.


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The Autonomous University of Puebla is an institution with a rich background history that from its foundation as a University in 1937 became a major player in the development of the state of Puebla. Today, with the participation and commitment of the community, our university ranks as one of the best public institutions of higher education in the country, and there are 10 guiding principles that guide us on the road to excellence.
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We are building the University of the Future through collegiate exercises, university dialogues, consultations with social and government sectors in order to trigger new paradigms in university life.
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We make available to society, governments and productive players, the knowledge generated by the university to help solve the lags and to drive innovative strategies to address social issues.
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Maryborough District Health Service's Palliative Care unit is officially launched and open – now it's time for the community to dig deep to raise funds for a $1.2 million Wellness and Support Centre.
The district's Community Bank® branches in Avoca and Maryborough launched the Appeal with a $100,000 cheque.
It's now time for the community to donate.
The Wellness and Support Centre will not only benefit patients but importantly, their careers and family members.
During the recovery process it is so important for patients and those caring for them to be able to open the doors and walk outside; to watch the sun rise and set each day and to be comfortable in what is primarily a medical environment.
All donations $2 and over are tax deductible.


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The West Coast of Canada is among the most picturesque places in the world. Winding fiords carry Pacific Ocean waters from the Queen Charlotte Strait into the heart of British Columbia's Coast Mountain range. Towering cedar, spruce and fir forests line the shores.
Humpback and orcas, Dall's porpoise and Pacific white-sided dolphin roam these waters. Brandt's cormorants nest on rocky shores, harlequin ducks bob in the sheltered coves, and Steller's sea lions lounge on rocks.
And in the woods, grizzlies, black bears, and wolves prowl. This is the Great Bear Rainforest, the world's largest intact temperate rainforest.
Royal Canadian Geographic Society photographer Mike Beedell will be leading a visit to the Great Bear Rainforest, this September aboard the 68 ft sailing vessel, Island Odyssey. His guests will enjoy the trip of a lifetime to one of Canada's most magical places.
Visit Great Bear Rainforest with Mike Beedell, September 20-29.