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UBC re Volume 26, Number 1. Jan. 9, 1980. Published by Information Services, University of B.C., 2075 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1W5, 228-3131. Jim Banham and Judith Walker, editors. ISSN 0497-2929. UBC sets enrolment record UBC's enrolment for 1979-80 fiscal year stands at an all-time high of 32,607 students, a 2.2 per cent increase over the last fiscal year when 31,895 were registered. The enrolment total for the current fiscal year was boosted by increased registrations for all three of UBC's major academic sessions — the 1979 spring session, which had an enrolment increase of 7.5 per cent; the 1979 summer session, which had an increase of 4 5 per cent; and the current 1979-80 daytime winter session, which has registered 23,161 students, a 2.1 per cent increase over the previous year. UBC bases its total enrolment on the fiscal year, which runs from April 1 each year to the following March 31, for the purpose of reporting official figures to the Universities Council, the body that acts as an intermediary between the three public universities and the provincial government. UBC's total enrolment of 32,607 in the 1979-80 fiscal year is the total of the following enrolments in the period April 1, 1979, to March 31, 1980 (1978-79 figures in brackets): 1979 spring session - 2,757 (2,565); 1979 summer session — 4,153 (3,975); 1979-80 daytime winter session 23,161 (22,676); 1979-80 nighttime winter session - 1,183 (1,221); 1979-80 Guided Independent Study (correspondence courses offered through the Centre for Continuing Education) - 1,353(1,458). The 485-student increase in UBC's daytime winter session enrolment is almost evenly divided in terms of numbers between undergraduate and graduate programs. Undergraduate enrolment is up by 264 students (1.3 per cent) from 19,604 in 1978-79 to 19,868 in the current winter session. An increase of 221 students in the Faculty of Graduate Studies represents a whopping 7.2 per cent increase to 3,293 students from 3,072 in the 1978-79 winter session. UBC Reports asked Dr. William Tetlow, director of UBC's Office of Institutional Analysis and Planning, to comment on the enrolment increases. He said the most significant enrolment increases at the graduate level are in two areas — master's degrees offered in professional schools such as Commerce, Medicine and Education, and degree programs at the doctoral level. "The enrolment increase at the graduate level," he said, "is probably due to two factors — economic conditions and the recent increase in the amount of money available for research." In times of economic stress, he said, many people decide to obtain master's degrees in order to upgrade their job qualifications. "And enrolment at the doctoral level is very closely linked to research funding. The fact that UBC, in the last fiscal year, had an increase of 23 per cent to almost $26 million in the amount of money available for research is bound to be reflected in increased graduate-student enrolment." One matter that still gives cause for concern occurs at the opposite end of the enrolment picture and is reflected Please turn to page 2 See ENROLMENT Walter C. Koerner acute care unit nearing completion on Wesbrook Mall will be in the spotlight during a two-day Open House in March this year, which will focus on UBC's Health Sciences Centre. For details on UBC's revamped Open House schedule, see story below. Health care in spotlight at March Open House "Tomorrow's health care today' is the theme of the health sciences Open House at UBC on Friday and Saturday, March 14 and 15. The Open House will follow the official opening of the Walter C. Koerner acute care unit on Thursday, March 13. Tours of the 240-bed unit will be offered as part of the health sciences open house. For campus old-timers used to UBC hosting a University-wide Open House every three years, this spring's Open House will be a departure. Traditionally, the event has been organized by the Alma Mater Society. Following last year's campus wide Open House, chairman Geoff Smith, a fourth-year agriculture student, suggested a re-organization. Mr. Smith said that faculty should also shoulder the responsibility. He also said that the event was important enough to hold each year, and recommended that each year one-third of the campus act as host. As a result, the president's office and deans have agreed that Open House become a joint responsibility of both students and faculty. This year, it will be hosted by the health sciences — the Faculties of Dentistry, Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, and the Schools of Nursing and Rehabilitation Medicine. Next year the host will be the applied sciences — the Faculties of Agricultural Sciences, Applied Science and Forestry. And in 1982 the host will be the humanities and natural sciences — the Faculties of Arts, Commerce and Business Administration, Education, Law and Science. Five students vie for two seats on UBC Board Five students will be vying for the two student seats on UBC's 15-member Board of Governors this month as part of the annual elections of students to Board and Senate positions. Election day is Tuesday, Jan. 22, with an advance poll held the previous day, Monday, Jan. 21, from 5 to 7 p.m. The five students nominated for Board positions are: Anthony Dickinson, fourth-year Applied Science; Valgeet Johl, second-year Arts; John Pellizzon, third-year Applied Science; Bob Staley, third-year Arts; and Shirley Waters, fourth-year Home Economics. There are 17 positions open to students on the UBC Senate, the academic parliament of the University which is concerned with all academic matters. Of those 17 positions, 2 will be contested, 12 have been filled by acclamation, and 3 have no nominations. Students in Graduate Studies will choose between Peter Fryer, a Ph.D. candidate in Chemical Engineering, and Richard Szeliski, an M.A.Sc. candidate in Electrical Engineering, as their representative on Senate. Students in Pharmaceutical Sciences must choose between Randy Sigurdson, second year, and Cedric Thompson, third year, as their representative. Elected by acclamation to Senate are Joe Fitzpatrick for Agricultural Sciences, Jeffrey Holm for Applied Science, Marilyn MacPherson for Arts, Richard Wilczek for Dentistry, Frank Lee for Education, Linda Stewart for Law, and Martin Braun for Science. Five students will be senators-at-large: Ian Bakshi, Applied Science; Marty Lund, Social Work; Alida Moonen, Arts; Chris Niwinski, Applied Science; and Shirley Waters, Home Economics. Outside job policy approved A new policy statement governing the outside professional activities of UBC faculty members has been approved by the University's Board of Governors. The statement is the result of discussions between UBC's administration and Faculty Association The statement was approved by the University's committee of deans and bv an overwhelming vote oi approval by members of the Faculty Association before being forwarded to the Board for approval. The statement requires faculty members to ensure that beads, dnec tors and deans are "fully informed about the general nature and extent of all outside professional activities." WRITTEN APPROVAL The statement sets out three situa tions in which "prior written approval" for outside professional activi ties is required. These are when University facilities are used, when the faculty member's absence requires the cancelling or rescheduling of classes, and when the total outside profession al activity in any one vear becomes "substantial." The policy statement provides for each University ficulty to formulate its own definition of "substantial," and for this definition to be approved by UBC's president. Until faculties obtain approval for a different definition of the word, the policy statement defines it as "involv ing a commitment of time equivalent to more than one half-day per seven- day week." The definition of substantial, as well as detailed policies and procedures on outside professional activities, will be drawn up by faculty committees established by deans. Recommendations by these committees will be approved at a general meeting of the faculty before being forwarded to the president for approval. The policy statement also provides for the appointment by UBC's president of a University-wide committee to advise him on the policy and procedures on outside professional activities. The committee will advise on all policies brought forward by the faculties and consider "measures to provide equity throughout the University." The policy applies to all full-time faculty members, professional librarians, program directors in the Centre for Continuing Education, and to department heads, school and institute directors, faculty deans and UBC vice- presidents. STATEMENT PREAMBLE A preamble to the policy statement says the University "recognizes that the competence and effectiveness of faculty members as teachers and scholars may be enhanced by their participation in certain kinds of outside professional activities. ' "Furthermore, such participation frequently advances the purpose of the University in serving the needs of the larger community of which it is a part." It is expected, the preamble continues, "that full-time faculty members will be engaged for the whole of the year... in teaching, research (or other creative work or scholarly activities appropriate to their discipline) and other University service." The final clause of the preamble says the "essential principle of the University's policy on outside professional activities is that professional commitments by faculty to tasks outside their responsibilities to the University — that is, their responsibilities to their students, their discipline and their colleagues — must be such that the University responsibilities do not suffer." UBCreports page 2 Teacher-shortage prediction criticized at Senate President Douglas Kenny says declining enrolments in faculties of education at UBC and other public universities are the result of statements by ministry of education officials in the provincial government, who imply that there is no longer a great need for teachers in B.C. The president made the comment during a discussion of UBC's final enrolment figures for the 1979-80 winter session, which were presented to Senate at its December meeting. (For a fuller report on enrolment figures, see story on page 1.) The president added that he understood the ministry was likely to issue a statement in the near future to the effect that there may well be a shortage of teachers in B.C. unless there are increases in enrolment in education faculties, which is "exactly the opposite to what was said last year." President Kenny said these changes of opinion "pose problems for my office and the faculties of education at the three public universities because it's very hard to plan when there are rapid oscillations in the system." Acting dean of Education Dr. Roy Bentley told Senate that "the people who should be looking ahead and making projections have not been looking at their own data, which show not just a possible shortage but a very severe shortage of elementary and secondary school teachers beginning right now but becoming very obvious in 1981." There are those, Dr. Bentley said, who believe that a public statement will correct the situation. It will correct it only temporarily, he added, and for one small group, the people who are not sure of what they want to do and are looking for Careers. But the better students and some very good members of the teaching staff will start looking elsewhere for career opportunities, he said, "and the problem is how we get those people back." Dr. Bentley also emphasfted that in the past 10 years the comWhed output of the three faculties of education at UBC, SFU and UVic had produced only about 50 per cent of the total number of teachers needed in B.C. Satellite to broadcast media forum The field development division of the Faculty of Education will break new ground on Jan. 22 when it launches UBC's first Anik-B satellite course, a six-hour forum on the news media designed for B.C. teachers. Moderating the forum will be Prof. Angus Gunn, widely known for his experiments in the use of the mass media for educational purposes. He has written and served as co-ordinator for series of articles that have appeared locally in The Province newspaper and in other Canadian newspapers. Associated with him in these projects have been members of UBC's Departments of Geography and History. Anik-B, a communications satellite in stationary orbit 23,000 miles above Saskatchewan, provides one-way video and two-way audio communication from a transmitting station located on the campus of the B.C. Institute of Technology. Stations for reception and response are located on Vancouver Island, in the Interior and in northern B.C. with subsidiary links to other centres. Reception at these centres can also be linked with local cable television systems. UBC is showing real leadership in the field of continuing education in Canada and accounts for some 15 per cent of the total number of people who enrol annually for continuing education programs in B.C., Senate was told at its December meeting. Jindra Kulich, director of UBC's Centre for Continuing Education, who annually compiles a report on all UBC's continuing education activities, said a journal published in Switzerland had characterized UBC as having "possibly the largest continuing education institution in the world. That's not quite true," Mr. Kulich added, "but it's nice to be regarded as one of the leading universities in this area." He said UBC had also been chosen as one of 29 institutions to seiye as a model for universities and their involvement with the community at an international conference to be held in Paris this February. Mr. Kulich will speak at the meeting on UBC's program. The report to Senate compiled by Mr. Kulich shows that registrations in 1978-79 totalled more than 71,600 in continuing education programs offered by the Office of Extra-Sessional Studies, Centre for Continuing Education, Division of Continuing Education in the Health Sciences and professional programs offered in Commerce and Business Administration, Social Work and Education. * « * B.C. students taking degree programs offered by the Open Learning Institute would be well advised to take some of their undergraduate work at UBC if they plan to apply in future for entry into professional or graduate schools. This was the burden of remarks by President Kenny and dean of Graduate Studies Dr. Peter Larkin, who commented at Senate's December meeting on remarks by Prof. John Dennison of the Faculty of Education. Prof. Dennison said that in some other jurisdictions students who had obtained degrees from institutions similar to the OLI found they had difficulty gaining entry to university professional and graduate programs. "I wouldn't want to see that happening here," he added. President Kenny said OLI graduates would be treated in the same way as UBC graduates who apply for admission to professional and graduate schools. He added that last year UBC refused admission to those faculties which have entrance quotas about 1,000 students who were qualified for entry and who could have graduated. "We simply don't have the slots for those students," he said. OLI graduates who measure up will be accepted, the president continued, "but there are no guarantees for them because there are no guarantees for our own students and there are a lot of heart-broken British Columbians who cannot get in even though they could graduate." Dean of Graduate Studies Dr. Peter Larkin said his faculty accepts less than half of those who apply. Many applicants will be disappointed, he said, even though they meet the minimum requirements for graduate work "because they won't be considered to have comparable experience to people who have taken their training in more formal and traditional ways." He said students currently in the system should be alerted to the realization that if they want to go on to graduate work they would be well advised to come to the campus rather than take correspondence courses. UBC's Faculty of Medicine is planning to admit 120 first-year medical students in the fall of 1980, dean of Medicine Dr. William Webber told the December meeting of Senate. The medical school, which this year enrolled 100 first-year students, is currently undergoing a phased enrolment expansion which will eventually see 160 students in the entering class. The enrolment increase is linked to the current physical expansion of the medical school involving expenditures of more than $50 million for construction of a new acute-care unit for the campus Health Sciences Centre Hospital and for new teaching and research space at hospitals in the Vancouver area where senior medical students receive clinical training. UBC's Board of Governors approved the medical school enrolment increase at its November meeting, "subject to the necessary resources being available." Latest addition to UBC's art collection, now valued at nearly $1.5 million, is this oil painting by Canadian artist Jack Markell, presented last week to President Douglas Kenny, left, by Dr. and Mrs. Ralph Spitzer on behalf of a group of friends and admirers of Mr. Markell, a native of Winnipeg, who died in Vancouver last year. The painting, entitled "Cellist with Still Life," joins two others by the same artist already in the UBC collection. An exhibition of Markell's paintings is currently on display at the downtown Robson Square Media Centre until Jan. 15. Dr. Spitzer is an associate professor of pathology at UBC. ENROLMENT Continued from page 1 in the size of the first-year class. Even though the number of first- year students increased by 3.5 per cent from 3,271 in 1978-79 to 3,384 this year, there has been no change in the so-called "participation rate," the percentage of 18-24 year old students who are enrolled in post-secondary institutions in B.C. "Overall," said Dr. Tetlow, "only about 14 per cent of B.C.'s 18-24 year olds are enrolled in any post- secondary institution. "That's a very small percentage. B.C. is four percentage points below Alberta and six below Ontario in participation rate and very far below the United States, where more than 25 per cent of the 18-24 year olds are enrolled in some form of post-secondary education." Dr. Tetlow sees an improved participation rate as the key factor which would offset any decline resulting from fewer grade 12 students. The number of grade 12s is projected to decline from its present level of 37,000 to approximately 29,000- 30,000 by 1984. UBC presently enrols about 7 per cent of the preceding year's grade 12 students, he explains, so that the decline of 7,000 grade 12s means a drop of 500 entrants to UBC if the 7 per cent factor remains constant. "Consequently, if UBC increases its percentage to only a modest 9 per cent, the projected decline in numbers would be more than offset. "And if you add to UBC's potential future enrolment increases in the number of mature students, an expan sion of graduate enrolment and a greater number coming on from community colleges, there's not just the possibility for maintaining enrolments at their present level but a real potential for growth." Dr. Tetlow also draws attention to the continuing increase in the number of students enrolled this year for part- time studies (11 or fewer units). Sixteen per cent of UBC's 1979-80 winter daytime enrolment are in this category compared to 15 per cent last year and 6 per cent in 1972. Virtually every degree program offered by the University showed an enrolment increase for the current winter session. Enrolment for general B.A. programs in the Faculty of Arts is up 5 per cent, Commerce and Business Administration is up 8.5 per cent, Science by 4.3 per cent, and the number of unclassified students (who hold university degrees but are not currently enrolled in any degree program) is up by 15 per cent. The lone UBC faculty that experienced an enrolment decline was Education — down 9 per cent from last year. The situation in this faculty was the subject of comments at the December meeting of UBC's Senate, reported on this page. Other factors identified by Dr. Tetlow as contributing to the increase in UBC's 1979-80 daytime winter session enrolment include: • An increase in the number of students transferring to UBC from other provinces, which Dr. Tetlow believes is due primarily to westward migration; and • An increase in the number of students transferring from other institutions in B.C. UBCreports pageS President's report reviews 1978-79 academic year UBC enrolled a record number of students, increased research spending by 23 per cent, added the 2,000,000th volume to its library, and granted its 100,000th degree in the 1978-79 academic year. Those are some of the highlights of the 48-page annual report of President Douglas Kenny to the University's Senate and Board of Governors for the 12 months to Aug. 3L 1979. (Copies of the report are available from Information Services, 228-3131.) A financial statement issued as part UBC architects study in India for four months While most UBC students this week are settling into a new term on campus, a group of Architecture students should now be settling into the first leg of a four-month long study experience in northern India. The 20 students, along with Architecture faculty members Bud Wood, John Haaf, and their families, left Vancouver in the early hours of Boxing Day morning, flying to India by way of Korea.and Bangkok, and arriving in Calcutta four days later. The long hours of travel were the cheapest means of getting to India, Bud Wood explained before he left, an important consideration as the students who are taking the study- abroad term must pay for their own transportation, accommodation and food for the four months. After 10 days of touring some of the northern cities of India, getting a feel for the culture and concerns of the country, the students will settle in Ahmedabad in the Gujarat province of India. Not only is that city the centre of the fabric industry, but also a centre for scholars, with a very large university and "a very, very good school of design and architecture," Bud Wood explained. Mr. Wood, who has been planning this study-abroad term for about three years, chose Ahmedabad as a home base for the experience mainly because of the excellent reputation of the architecture school there, but also because English is the common language for communication for Indians from various regions and provinces of the country. This term is really part of an ongoing exchange program between UBC and the Ahmedabad school. During the fall term, Prof. Kulbhushan Jain from India was at UBC holding seminars with the architecture students and faculty members. Next year Dr. Richard Seaton of the UBC architecture school will be in residence as a professor in Ahmedabad. During the four months of the students' stay in India, there will be close co-operation between the two schools as well. The 20 students will be divided into five groups of four students each plus one Indian student, and in those groups they will take on various projects concerning the existing urban environment, neighborhood relationships, studies of villages surrounding the city, and so on. The city of Ahmedabad is "fairly young," according to Bud Wood, having been remodelled in 1411 A.D. It's a walled city with "incredible density of population," where things move fairly slowly. The latest street map which Mr. Wood was able to obtain from Ahmedabad's city hall is dated 1941. Throughout the fall term the students who were taking the term abroad have been immersing themselves as much as possible in the Indian culture, studying history and society, making Indian meals, meeting with Indians now living in Canada. "You just can't wander into India," Mr. Wood cautioned. "We've explored the area as thoroughly as we BUD WOOD can without actually being there," he said, although he himself has spent two weeks of each of the last two years in Ahmedabad making arrangements for the exchange. And the group will be staying in a brand new hotel in the city because, as Mr. Wood explained, "it would be impossible for us to live India-style. We'd spend all of our time fighting our environment." The students, all of whom are in their second year of study, will receive half a year's credit for the study term. "I look on it as a partnership between the students, the University and the Canadian International Development Agency" (which has given UBC a grant over a number of years' for the exchange project), Mr. Wood said. Three study UBC hospital UBC's Board of Governors has initiated action regarding the governance and administrative structure of the Health Sciences Centre Hospital. To this end, the Board has retained a committee of three advisors with strong backgrounds in health care: Dr. W.A. Cochrane, former dean of Medicine and president of the University of Calgary and now chairman, Connaught Labs, Toronto, who will serve as chairman; Dr. M. Whitelaw, professor emeritus of medicine, UBC; and Mr. J. Flett, president of the Vancouver General Hospital. The advisory committee will review the experience of other institutions with comparable responsibilities in health care, teaching and research. The committee will hold interviews and receive any views by mail from interested individuals in the University and throughout British Columbia. The advisory committee can be contacted by telephone at 228-5662, or at the Office of the Co-ordinator, Health Sciences Centre, 400-2194 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver V6T 1Z6. of the report shows that UBC spent $180 million in 1978-79, with the provincial government providing most of the money through its operating grant of $123 million. Student fees brought in $16 million, or 8.6 per cent of the University's total income. After noting that UBC enrolled its first students only 63 years ago, President Kenny says UBC now is widely respected for the quality of its students, its graduates and its faculty. "Our goal must be to create a distinguished centre of learning which ranks among the very finest in Canada and the western world," Dr. Kenny says. "There is no doubt in my mind that the resources exist to enable this University to attain this objective." Some highlights from the report: • Enrolment at UBC in 1978-79 for winter, spring and summer credit programs totalled a record 32,625 students. • Every unit at UBC offering continuing education programs experienced enrolment increases, with courses offered in all parts of the province. Professional programs enjoyed an enrolment increase of 20 per cent, use of the downtown Women's Resources Centre was up 30 per cent, and enrolment rose 73 per cent in adult education training. • With those taking continuing education courses added to the total of "regular" students, enrolment at UBC for 1978-79 was just under 100,000. • The University received $26 million for research. Each of UBC's 12 faculties showed an increase in research funding over the previous year, with the Faculties of Medicine and Science each receiving more than $7 million. Only the University of Toronto and McGill University received more research money among Canadian universities. • UBC opened two new buildings — the Aquatic Centre and the Library Processing Centre — and construction continued on the Acute Care Unit of the Health Sciences Centre Hospital. The University was authorized to borrow the $3.5 million needed to complete the Asian Centre, and work on this has resumed. • More than 200 research projects were carried out at UBC during 1978-79, many of them at points far removed from the campus and the Lower Mainland. Such projects included the effect of poisonous plants on cattle in the Cariboo, mine tailing reclamation research near Kimberley, landslides in southern B.C., explosion risks in coal mines, and research into white pine blister rust which has affected trees on Vancouver Island and the Kootenays. • In the total first-year class of 3,271 students, women outnumbered men 54.3 per cent to 45.7 per cent. In the overall daytime winter enrolment, including the Faculty of Graduate Studies, women made up 45.2 per cent of the student population. • Two career-oriented programs were initiated and expanded by the Women Students' Office. An internship program offers students the opportunity to work off-campus on a part-time basis during the winter session in a field related to their academic interests; a co-op program integrates formal academic study during the winter with summer work in business, government or industry. • Athletic competition between UBC and Simon Fraser University was resumed during the 1978-79 academic year, with UBC defeating SFU in both football and soccer President Kenny refers indirectly in his report to UBC's increasingly- stringent entrance requirements, and calls for public support. "I believe that the public will be sympathetic to our needs if we demonstrate that we are doing everything within our power to maintain academic standards and provide service to the community at large." Educator dies Professor emeritus of Education Dr. Clarence E. Smith, a UBC faculty member from 1958 to 1971, died on Jan. 2 at the age of 74. Before joining the UBC faculty, Prof. Smith taught at the University of Manitoba, where he was director of the School of Social Work from 1943 to 1953, the University of Saskatchewan, wtiere he was dean of Education from 1953 to 1955; and at McGill University, where he was MacDonald Professor of Education for three years. A native of England, Prof. Smith was a graduate of the University of London, where he was awarded the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1925, and Cambridge University, where he received his teacher's diploma in 1926. He also held the degrees of Master of Arts and Doctor of Paedagogy from the University of Toronto and was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws by the University of Manitoba in 1958. Before coming to Canada, Prof. Smith taught in England and the West Indies and from 1936 to 1940 was a lecturer and research assistant in the Department of Higher Degrees and Research of the University of London's Institute of Education. Prof. Smith is survived by his wife, May; a son, Peter; and a daughter, Susan. In lieu of flowers, the family has requested that memorial donations be sent to the United Appeal of Greater Vancouver. Sedgewick lecture Prof. Garnett Sedgewick, the most famous professor of his day at the University of British Columbia, will himself be the subject of the Sedgewick Memorial Lecture at UBC tomorrow (Thursday, Jan. 10). Prof. Philip Akrigg, a former colleague and student of Prof. Sedgewick, will give the lecture at 8:15 p.m. in Rooms 101-102 of the Curtis Law Building. His topic is "Garnett Sedgewick: The Man and His Achievement." The lecture marks the 60th anniversary of Prof. Sedgewick's appointment as head of the UBC English department, where he became famous for his scholarly writings and lectures on Shakespeare. He was a faculty member from 1918 until his death in 1949 at the age of 67. Open meeting set Andre Fortier, president of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, will chair an open meeting at UBC Tuesday (Jan. 15) to hear the views of UBC faculty members on council granting policies. The meeting, to be held in the Board and Senate Room of the Old Administration Building from 2 to 4 p.m., will be of interest to faculty members in Arts, Education, Commerce and Business Administration and Law. The council, which assists research and scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, has taken over some of the granting functions of the Canada Council, which is now solely reponsi- ble for funding the performing arts. •r* ■f..»! <*"!!?" :s«a OBCalendar -#» UBC CALENDAR DEADLINES Events in the week of: Jan. 20 to Jan. 26 Deadline is 5 p.m. Jan. 10 Jan. 27 to Feb. 2 Deadline is 5 p.m. Jan. 17 Send notices to Information Services. 6328 Memorial Road (Old Administration Building), Campus. Further information is available at 228-3131. SUNDAY, JAN. 13 7:30 p.m. FESTIVAL OF RELIGION AND THE ARTS, a three-week festival of lectures, music and film Opening worship at the Vancouver School of Theology, Chapel of the Epiphany. MONDAY, JAN. 14 12:30 p.m. FESTIVAL OF RELIGION AND THE ARTS Lecture. Don Robinson on Spirituality and Popular Music. Art Gallery, Student Union Building. 3:30 p.m. APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR. Dr R. Laurie Johnston, Computer Science, University of Toronto, on Software for Solving Boundary- Value Problems for Laplace's Equation Using Fundamental Solutions. Room 203 Mathematics Building. 8:00 p.m. ICE HOCKEY. UBC Thunderbirds vs. Czechoslovakia National Junior Team. Thunderbird Winter Sports Centre TUESDAY, JAN. 15 12:30 p.m. FESTIVAL OF RELIGION AND THE ARTS. Music with Ron Reed in the conversation pit Student Union Building. WOMEN STUDENTS' OFFICE presents the first in a series of five weekly workshops on Career Choices, with Dr. Leigh Bowie of the Women Students' Office, on Career Choices - Intermediate Stages. Room S6S, Brock Hall. En quines. 228-2415. FREESEE FILM SERIES presents a six-part series on Civilization with Kenneth Clark. This week's film is The Light of Experience. Auditorium, Student Union Building. Free BOTANY SEMINAR. Dr. Gerald Straley, Van- Dusen Botanical Gardens, Vancouver, on Systematic Studies of Arnica (Compositae) in Western North America. Room 3219, Biological Sciences Building. 2:00 p.m. OPEN MEETING chaired by Andre Fortier, president of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, to hear views of faculty memebrs on council granting policies. Of interest to faculty members in Arts, Education, Commerce and Business Administration and Law. Board and Senate Room, Old Administration Building. 3:30 p.m. FESTIVAL OF RELIGION AND THE ARTS presents Jesus Christ: Superstar. Auditorium, Student Union Building. Admission, $1. The film will be repeated at 7:30 p.m. OCEANOGRAPHY SEMINAR. Dr. Mary Jane Perry, Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, on Strategies of Adaptation of the Photosynthetic Apparatus of Marine Phyto- plankton to Light Intensity. Room 1465, west wing, Biological Sciences Building. 4:30 p.m. CHEMISTRY SEMINAR. Dr. PatJost, Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, on The Lipid-Protein Interface in Membranes. Current Controversies. Room 250, Chemistry Building. 9:00 p.m. UBC PUBLIC AFFAIRS, presented by the Cen tre for Continuing Education, begins its spring series with guest speaker Dr. Donald Blake, Political Science, UBC, on The Federal Election: Here We Go Again 1 Host, Gerald Savory. Channel 10. Vancouver Cablevision. The program will be repeated on Wednesday, Jan. 16 at 3 p.m. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 16 12 noon PHARMACOLOGY SEMINAR. Dr. C.J. Hanna, Pulmonary Research Laboratory, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, on Studies on the Action of Combination Bronchodilators. Room 114, Block C, Medical Sciences Building. 12:30 p.m. FESTIVAL OF RELIGION AND THE ARTS. Jim and Jean Strathdee in concert in the Art Gallery, Student Union Building. ART EDUCATION FILMS presents Time Machine. Room 6, Scarfe Building. LAW STUDENTS ASSOCIATION Film Committee presents For 20 Cents a Day about the depression era in B.C. Rooms 101/102, Law Building. KOERNER FOUNDATION presents Leslie Guinn, baritone and associate professor in Music, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in a Lieder Recital accompanied by Prof. Wallace Berry, piano. Recital Hall, Music Building. 3:30 p.m. FESTIVAL OF RELIGION AND THE ARTS. Sue McCaslin reads her poetry in the Art Gallery, Student Union Building. 3:30 p.m. OCEANOGRAPHY SEMINAR. Dr. J. Field, University of Capetown, South Africa, on The Influence of Upwelling on Kelp Beds Off South Africa. Room 1465, west wing. Biological Sciences Building. 7:30 p.m. FESTIVAL OF RELIGION AND THE ARTS. Jim and Jean Strathdee in concert in the Art Gallery, Student Union Building. 8:00 p.m. FESTIVAL OF RELIGION AND THE ARTS presents a double screen slide presentation on Guernica. Room 104, Lasserre Building. THURSDAY, JAN. 17 12:30 p.m. FESTIVAL OF RELIGION AND THE ARTS Lecture. Irving Hexham on Man, Superman, Son of Man. Art Gallery Student Union Building. HISTORY LECTURE. Prof. Joyce Oldham Appleby, History, San Diego University, Calif on The Origins of the Modern Western Conception of Human Nature. Room 100, Buchanan Building. WOMEN STUDENTS' OFFICE presents tht first in a series of five weekly workshops on Careei Choices with Susan England, Women Students Office, on Career Choices - Beginning Stages. Room 304, Brock Hall. Enquiries, 228-2415 WOMEN STUDENTS' OFFICE presents the first in a series of three one-hour workshops to Increase Your Skills in Preparation of Essays with Nancy Horsman, Women Students' Office. Room 301, Brock Hall. Enquiries, 228-2415. NOON-HOUR TRAVELS WITH ZOOLOGISTS. Dr. D.J. Randall, Zoology, UBC, on The Palau Islands and the People of Paradise. Room 2000, Biological Sciences Building. 3:30 p.m. FESTIVAL OF RELIGION AND THE ARTS. The Strathdees in concert in the Art Gallery. Student Union Building. PSYCHOLOGY COLLOQUIUM. Dr. Anthony G. Phillips, UBC, on Searching for the Biochemical Basis of Reward. Room 203, Scarfe Building. 3:30 p.m. HISTORY LECTURE. Prof. Joyce Oldham Appleby, History, San Diego University, Calif., on The Historian and the Social Sciences: A Later Look. Penthouse, Buchanan Building. 4:00 p.m. PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM. Irving Ozier, UBC, on Avoided-Crossing Molecular-Beam Spectroscopy. Room 201, Hennings Building. 4:30 p.m. BIOMEMBRANE GROUP SEMINAR. Dr. Evan Evans, Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, on Methods of Physical Mechanics and Thermodynamics for Membrane Research. Lecture Hall 3, Woodward Instructional Resources Centre. 8:00 p.m. FESTIVAL OF RELIGION AND THE ARTS. The Strathdees in concert at University Hill United Church. Admission, $2; $1 for children. FRIDAY, JAN. 18 9:00 a.m. PEDIATRIC GRAND ROUNDS. Dr. J. Hogg, Pulmonary Research Laboratory, St. Paul's Hospital, on Pathophysiology of AstJima. Lecture Theatre B. Vancouver General Hospital. 11:30 a.m. DEVELOPMENTAL MEDICINE SEMINAR. Dr. B. Poland, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, UBC, on Embryonic Development in Recurrent Aborters and Pregnancy Monitoring. Room 15, Centre for Developmental Medicine, 811 W. 10th Ave. 12:30 p.m. FESTIVAL OF RELIGION AND THE ARTS. Recorder recital with Jim Whittaker and friends in the Art Gallery, Student Union Building. 1:00 p.m. MEDICAL GENETICS SEMINAR. Dr. S. Katz on Calcium Transport Processes in Patients With Cystic Fibrosis: A Possible Defect in CF. 4th floor conference room, Health Centre for Children, Vancouver General Hospital. 3:30 p.m. CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR. Axel Meisen on An Introduction to Supercritical Fluid Extraction. Room 206, Chemical Engineering Building. FESTIVAL OF RELIGION AND THE ARTS. Music Open Stage with hosts Ron Read and Thomas McCay in the Art Gallery, Student Union Building. 4:00 p.m. ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY Lecture. Prof. K.C. Chang, Anthropology, Harvard University, on Chinese Archeology: Its Contribution to Issues of General Anthropological Significance. Room 207, Anthropology and Sociology Building. 6:45 p.m. WOMEN'S BASKETBALL. UBC Thunderettes play the University of Victoria. War Memorial Gymnasium. 7:00 p.m. SWIMMING. UBC meets Simon Fraser University. Aquatic Centre. 7:30 p.m. HEALTH SCIENCES STUDENTS Committee are holding the annual Beer and Skits night until 1:30 a.m. Happy hour 7:30-8:50 p.m. Ballroom, Student Union Building. Admission, $1, by ad vance ticket only available from health sciences rep. 8:30 p.m. MEN'S BASKETBALL. UBC Thunderbirds vs. University of Victoria. War Memorial Gymnasium. SATURDAY, JAN. 19 3:00 p.m. GYMNASTICS. UBC vs. the University of Washington. Gym G. Osborne Centre Thunderbird Blvd. 6:45 p.m. WOMEN'S BASKETBALL. UBC Thunderettes vs. the University of Victoria. War Memorial Gymnasium. 8:30 p.m. MEN'S BASKETBALL. UBC Thunderbirds vs. the University of Victoria. War Memorial Gym nasium. SEDGEWICK MEMORIAL LECTURE The 1980 Sedgewick Memorial Lecture will be given by Professor Emeritus of English Philip Akrigg on Thursday. Jan. "iO, at 8:15 p.m. in Room 101*102 of the George Curtis {Faculty of Law) Building. Prof. Akrigg will speak on 'Garnett Sedgewick: The Man and His Achievement' to mark the 60th anniversary of Prof. Sedgewick s appointment as head of UBC's English department. Prof. Akrigg is a former student and colleague of Prof. Sedgewick, ARTS AND SCIENCE EXHIBIT Volunteers are wanted to work in an arts and science exhibit. The Extended i, at the Centennial Museum from Feb. \b to May 19. The more than 40 exhibit areas include sound, optics, color, mathematics, holograms and sound sculptures. Training begins Tuesday, Jan. 15, and volunteers are asked to donate three hours a week of their time. For further information, contact the Arts and Sciences Centre office at City Hall, 873-7161 A Festival of Religion and the Arts offers a variety of musical events this week — Tuesday through Friday. Also of musical interest, a concert Wednesday at 12:30 with baritone Leslie Guinn and pianist Wallace Berry, Recital Hall, Music Building. MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY EXHIBITS On display now at UBC's Museum of Anthropology is Cycles: The Graphic Art of Robert Davidson, Haida, which will continue until February 3. Two new exhibits are on display: Reflections of India: Paintings from the 17th to the 19th Century and Rajasthan Artifacts Collected on a Field Trip to Northwest India During the Summer of 1979. Both of these will be in the museum until February 11. The museum is open Tuesday through Sunday at 6393 Northwest Marine Dr. "TOUCHABLES" EXHIBIT A "touchable" exhibit experience for the visually handicapped is offered by the Museum of Anthropology. 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Galixo CEO Raphael Dana and Seedstars World organizer Julien Berthomier were invited for a live interview broadcast on CEO Facetime by Capital TV, the first and only business TV in Malaysia. Hosted by Ashikin Rahmat, the episode talks about Malaysian startups, the tech ecosystem in the country as well as the upcoming Seedstars World Kuala Lumpur event, happening on the same day in the afternoon at the Startup Hub in Putrajaya.
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Fourth Sunday of Lent, 11th March 2018. Cycle B
St John the Evangelist
128 Bebington Road, New Ferry, CH62 5BJ
Diocese of Shrewsbury (reg. charity 234025)
Parish Priest: Fr Bernard Forshaw Deacon: Revd Michael Daly Phone: 0151 645 3314
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Websites: www.stjohnevang.co.uk www.lpa24.org
Fourth Sunday of Lent, 11th March 2018. Cycle B
On television you can sometimes see people in the crowd at sports events holding up a placard that simply says "John 3:16". They are Christians who want to get you to find out what the text says in John's gospel: "God loved the world so much that he sent his only Son so that anyone who believes in him may not be lost but have eternal life".
You can see why they hold up that particular reference. In a sense it sums up the whole purpose of the incarnation. It captures the heart of the gospel message in one verse. And yet it comes as something of a surprise to many people. In popular culture God is portrayed as a severe character, as someone who is just dying for us to put a foot wrong so that he can send down lightning bolts, earthquakes and floods and condemn the whole lot of us.
However, as this text from today's gospel reminds us, God sent his Son not because he detested the world but because he loves it so much. And the purpose of the Son's coming to eartha was not to wreak destruction but to ensure salvation.
God became one of us. A fellow human being is also our God: Jesus the Christ. And strange though it seems, God is on our side and is rich in love. When we choose to ignore what's good for us we come face to face with God. But what's God's preferred remedy? Is it punishment and death? No. It's mercy and grace.
People who try to discredit religion say that it thrives on fear, that it only makes its followers psychologically dependent on a greater being that holds the threat of annihilation over them. Maybe they should read this text. God sent his Son because he loves us and doesn't want us to miss out on the fullness of life.
So as we continue our journey through Lent we move towards the Easter manifestation of God's true glory, of his victory over all that threatens to hold us down and drag us back. While we ready ourselves for the great feast we can rejoice in the fact that God is on our side and we can thank him just for being our God and for bothering to have us as his sons and daughters, the ones he loved so much that he sent his only Son to.
All-loving God, we give thanks and praise for mothers young and old. We pray for young mothers, who give life and count toes and tend to our every need; May they be blessed with patience and tenderness to care for their families and themselves with joy.
We pray for our own mothers who have nurtured and cared for us; May they continue to guide us in strong and gentle ways.
We remember mothers who are separated from their children because of war, poverty or conflict; May they feel the loving embrace of our God who wipes every tear away.
We pray for women who are not mothers but still love and shape us with motherly care and compassion.
We remember mothers, grandmothers, and great-grandmothers who are no longer with us but who live forever in our memory and nourish us with their love. Amen.
Caritas Shrewsbury is looking for an experienced and enthusiastic person to be their Volunteer Co-ordinator. The post is for 28 hrs per week and will you will be expected to travel extensively across the Diocese. For more information and an application pack please contact Claire Griffiths Tel 0151 652 1281; email email@example.com. Application packs can also be downloaded from our website caritasshrewsbury.org.uk. Closing date for applications is the 4th April 2018
Celebrate North West 2018 will be held at All Hallows College, Brooklands Avenue, Macclesfield SK11 on 28-29th April.
Costs vary. Theme "See, I am doing a new thing" (Isaiah 43-19)
Contact Chris & Martina for booking details: email firstname.lastname@example.com Tel No. 01706 640359
Please continue to give generously to the Foodbank. The need is as great as ever. Please check the notice board at the back of Church for most needed items for the ADLENT APPEAL AND Easter Egg Donations. Items urgently needed tea, tinned spaghetti, shampoo, fruit squash and toothpaste.
Please take a copy of the Wednesday Word. It is a helpful reflection on next Sunday's readings.
If you have a notice for the bulletin please email it to the parish email address or put it through the presbytery letter box by 12 noon on Thursdays. Many thanks.
|Fourth Sunday of Lent
Cycle B
|Ints Powell Family
For All Mothers
Stations of the Cross
Prayer Meeting
|Fr Stephen Dwyer RIP
|Stephen Flattery RIP
|Winifred Sweeney RIP
|Ints Alexander Family
|Service of Word & Communion
|Carmel Mass
|Fifth Sunday of Lent
Cycle B
|St John's Parishioners
Jamie Armstrong RIP
Stations of the Cross
Prayer Meeting
|Children's liturgy Sundays during 9.30 Mass.
|Saturday 4.15-4.45pm
|Morning Prayer
|15 minutes before daily masses
|Each Thursday in Lent
|Morning Mass at 7.30am
|Each Saturday in Lent
|Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions 11.00am until 12 Noon
|Each Sunday in Lent
|Stations of the Cross at 3.00pm in Main Church
|CAFOD Soup Lunches
Friday 16th March
|Mass 11.30am followed by soup lunch in the Parish Centre
LENT 2018 BEBINGTON Churches Together
Lenten Lunches
|Wednesday, 14th March
|Christ Church,
Hr. Bebington
|Wednesday , 21st March
|St John's, New Ferry
Meeting at 10.30am for tea/coffee. Service begins at 11am and a soup lunch follows
Tea & Coffee after Sunday 9.30am Mass every week in the Parish Centre. Why not stay a while and meet up with friends old and new.
Readers: If you are UNAVAILABLE during the Easter Period (24th March-1st April) please inform Dot Humphrey as soon as possible. Thank you.
Gift Aid/Planned Giving. New Offertory Envelopes dated from 8th April 2018 are available for collection from the table at the back of Church. Please take yours. Any questions to Steve Bell please.
Money Matters: Offertory: £701.27p
Thank you for your continued generosity
CAFOD Family Fast Day Envelopes can be returned in the Offertory bag any weekend up to and including Palm Sunday
24th/25th March
Birkenhead & East Wirral Deanery: Reconciliation Service with individual confessions will be held on Tuesday, 13th March at 7.00pm at St Michael & All Angel's Woodchurch. All welcome
24 Hours for the Lord here at St John's from 9.00am on Saturday 24th March until 9.00am on Palm Sunday 25th March. Masses, Adoration, Stations of the Cross, Rosary, Informal Prayer and Praise etc. More details in next week's bulletin. Coincidentally this weekend marks the 1st Anniversary of the New Ferry explosion.
Eucharistic Congress: "Adoremus" The First National Eucharistic Congress in England and Wales for 110 years is being held in Liverpool 7th-9th September 2018. You are warmly invited to attend part of the 3 day event comprising of a Symposium Day (7th Sept) specifically aimed at teachers, catechists, musicians and clergy. A six hour stage led event (8th Sept) with key note speakers:
Bishop Robert Barron and Cardinal Vincent Nichols as well as music and drama, presentations, prayer and adoration; and concluding Mass on Sunday
(9th Sept) celebrated at Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral followed by an outdoor procession. To participate book through Fr Bernard by 14th March. Further details can be accessed from the home page link on the diocesan website www.dioceseofshrewsbury.org
INTO THE DEEP – Parish Youth Leaders Training and Retreat Day March 17th 2018 at Our Lady's Parish Centre, Ellesmere Port. 10am-3pm.
Join the Shrewsbury Youth Mission Team as we go INTO THE DEEP for a day to encourage, empower and equip Parish Youth Leaders and their ministry. The day has been designed for all those who provide catechesis, Sacramental Preparation, lead Youth Groups and work in Schools, or indeed anyone who has an interest in working with young people. There is no cost to the day, just bring along a packed lunch. To reserve your place email:
St Patrick's Day Ceili Night – In aid of Macmillan cancer support. Event includes Irish music, Irish Bingo, Irish dancing display, raffle March 17 at 7:30pm Hulme Hall, Port Sunlight ( please note a change of venue- NOT now at St Anne's club). Adults £8, OAP £5, CHILD £3. PAY ON THE DOOR
A "Welcome Café" in association with FairShare is now being held every Tuesday from 11.00am to 1pm at St Anne's Parish Centre,
Highfield Road, Rock Ferry. Free Tea,Coffee and food to eat in or take home. FairShare are the UK's largest charity fighting hunger and food waste. It's really quite simple. They redistribute fresh, in date and good to eat surplus food to the local community.Why not go along on Tuesday and see how FairShare can help/support you and your family in these difficult times.
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It's been a while since I posted one of these. My TBR pile got pretty small, so I took a run to my local bookstore the other day. I could probably add Expiration Date to the list, but since I already reviewed it, it will be excluded. What did I buy?
A Drink Before the War by, Dennis Lehane. I haven't read any of his books but I hear good things. Also liked the movie Gone, Baby Gone. I figured the first Kenzie/Gennaro book would be a good place to start.
Stalking the Angel, by Robert Crais. I've read L.A. Requiem and The Monkey's Raincoat, so I figured I'd continue my crawl through Crais's back catalog.
The Dawn Patrol, by Don Winslow. A lot of people, including Dave White, had nothing but praise for this book. Figured since summer's around the corner, it would be a good time to pick it up.
The Cleaner, by Brett Battles. I'd read a story by Battles in the Killer Year Anthology and put his debut on my list. I'm surprised it took me this long to pick it up.
The Power and the Glory, by Graham Greene. Going a little highbrow with this one. Someone was talking about this on one of the group blogs I read. It's supposed to be Greene's best work. The Catholic Church has been outlawed in a Mexican state, all the priests are forced out of their vows and forced to take a wife. It's a story of faith and persecution and follows an unnamed priest who refuses to give up his vows and the police lieutenant charged with tracking the priest down.


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Open Data Day is only 7 days away, the countdown has begun! With events in 13 cities across Germany, we're definitely going to see some new data sets published, new open data projects created and apps redeployed. But many people going to these events aren't going with a specific project in mind. So here are three ideas for what you can work on next Saturday.
Click-that-hood (code) is geo game based on open data. As the time counts down, you need to identify the geography of your city, country, or continent. It has data from lots of places all over the world, but it's missing some data from Germany. This Open Data Day, add your city.
There are detailed howto instructions, but the short version is:
Here's where it has already been deployed:
This Open Data Day, you can add geo data for any of these German cities:
Click-that-hood is a very quick project once you find the data. It's definitely a project that you can start and finish during the event.
Last year in Denver, Colorado I made a twitter bot called @CutePetsDenver. Every few hours it gets data about adoptable animals and tweets adorable pics and info. As a part of their intake procedure, most city shelters & non-profit shelters take photos and record data about homeless animals. Generally this data rarely ever ends up in online places where people can see it, which is shame because it means animals stay homeless longer. Sometimes the data ends up on a shelter website, but it almost never ends up on social spaces online like twitter, facebook, instagram, and so on. The CutePets bot bridges that gap by taking info about adoptable animals and periodically sharing it on social media.
Only a few months after launching the first bot in Denver, people in other cities were working with the code and got it working with their city's animal shelter data. It has now been redeployed in 15 different US cities, including Boston, San Francisco, Austin, and Minneapolis. Now let's bring it to Germany!
There are detailed deployment instructions, but the quick version is:
Right now there is only one barrier to redeploying this project in German cities: we need pet data. If you're looking for a project for Open Data Day, you could work on getting the data opened up and deploy the first CutePets bot in your city.
In short, we need a simple API. The ideal solution would be an API that connects to a database for a shelter. If that's not possible, you can hack it together with scrapping. That's how I made the first version in Denver. Your API endpoint can be populated entirely by scraped data. In Denver we just scraped the data from a webpage, put it into a json API, then had wrote the twitter bot to consume that API. Later when I was able to get in touch with the owners of the data, we were able to create an API direct from their database.
If you take on this project for Open Data Day, check out this specification that I wrote for pet data. If the data comes out fitting that json api, you would just need to connect the CutePets code to your API and (tada!) you have a twitter bot.
Paws If You Like Open Data](http://www.codeforamerica.org/blog/2014/04/28/raise-your-paws-if-you-like-open-data/). The code is available here, with step-by-step instructions for redeployment: https://github.com/codeforamerica/cutepets.
There are dozens of apps from Code for Germany, some of them just need more data. For example, last year a team from Berlin's Open Data Day cleaned up some data about Altglascontainer and made a filterable map of Altglascontainer locations. The problem is that they were only able to get data for one neighborhood in Berlin.
Are you a member of a Lab and have a project that is ready for other people to redeploy? Or is there a dataset that you need for your app that and you need help from other people who could work on trying to get it? Or maybe there's a feature for your existing Lab project that you want help with. Get in touch, we may be able to help connect you with people. We'll have Code for Germany staff at a few different cities and would love to encourage people to work on redeployments and collaborating across the country.Email me if you ideas for redeployments: drew -a- codeforamerica.org.


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My wife laptop has Outlook 2016. In order to allow her calendar to sync with her mobile devices I changed the email setup for her Outlook.com associated email address from IMAP to Exchange.
Following this change the other accounts both POP and IMAP stopped sending and receiving with an "object not found error". I shut the computer down and rebooted it. After that Outlook would not open.
The research I did suggested deleting the profile and making a new one. This got Outlook working. I was able to find the PST files for each of the IMAP and POP accounts and have been been able to restore them but all of the Notes have disappeared. Is there anywhere I should look to find these?
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2019 – 2020 Tuition Schedule and Fees
One tuition rate for all, Catholic or non-Catholic. All fees are included except for registration fee, graduation fee (8th grade), Nursery & Kindergarten Music Together, After-School Programs, the Academy Parent Association dues or other optional programs.
Generous discounts are offered to families that enroll more than one child.
$500 discount off the total tuition for any new family enrolling in Grades K – 8. Student (s) must remain at OLBSCA for the entire year. Credit will be applied to the final tuition bill in April.
Refer-A-Family Program for grades K – 8. When the new family comes to register, they must indicate on the registration form that an OLBSCA family has referred them. Student(s) must remain at OLBSCA for the entire year. The $500 credit to the OLBSCA family will be applied to the final tuition bill in April. This discount is given to the referring family only.
Tuition will be billed monthly due on: July 15, August 15, September 15, October 15, November 15, December 15, January 15, February 15, March 15, April 15.
All families must enroll in FACTS Tuition Management for the collection of tuition. FACTS is the company we use to manage our tuition billing and payment activities. Once you have registered, FACTS will begin the account set-up process by sending you an email inviting you to open your account using the link which will be included in the email. You will follow the steps to open your account and select a payment option which include scheduled monthly debit, online pay and pay by mail. FACTS will automatically bill and provide monthly statements, secure online access to your account and a phone number to contact a representative if needed. There is no cost to you as OLBSCA will pay for the service directly. See flyer for FAQs.
Partial tuition assistance is available through Futures in Education. To apply, go to Futures in Education at www. Futuresineducation.org and click on "Apply for Scholarships". The deadline to apply is March 29, 2019 for families already receiving assistance and April 29, 2019 for new families. The financial aid application fee will be reimbursed by our Academy.
Tuition for Grades K – 8
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|$ 520
|2 children
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|3 children
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*Pre3 tuition is discounted for families with multiple children at the K-8 rates above.
Fees for Re-registering Families
Before February 15, 2019
$250 per family
$200 Additional registration fee for incoming Nursery students
$450 maximum
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$300 per family
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Before February 15, 2019
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$450 for two or more children
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Before School: The Before School Program offers faculty/staff supervision of your child/children beginning at 7:15AM for those who need to drop off their child/children before 7:45AM. Students attending the Before School Program must enter the school via the Auditorium and sign in. The fee for this program is $35 per child per month.
After School: Operates from dismissal until 6:00 PM. Faculty/staff supervised activities include: homework, indoor/outdoor games, free play and arts & crafts. A light snack is provided. Lunch and drink should be sent to school on all half days.
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February 2014
Medical practice website rebuild, branding, marketing, print and digital advertising.Back
Like most businesses, a medical office provides services to only patients (clients) with specific needs and for which they can provide positive results. Maine Spine and Nerve delivers pain relief to many patients who suffer from spinal issues and neuropathy and, after treatment, are often able to return to an active life.
The original Maine Spine & Nerve website was dark, not well organized and focused on the pain patients were experiencing. The brand message was inconsistent and visually unappealing. In addition, the website wasn't showing up in searches and didn't engage with visitors nor encourage them to take action. Following a series of discovery meetings where we learned about MSNI and their patients, a new websites was built that focuses on "Getting Your Life Back." Soft colors and engaging photos are used generously throughout the website along with quality copy, videos and patient testimonials to inform prospective patients about services. The new website is attractive, informative, engaging and converting visitors to patients.
Since the practice treats a select population, a self-screening questionnaire was used to help sort potentially qualified patients from patients who can not be treated. Once a potential patient has successfully completed the questionnaire, they are provided an opportunity to schedule their appointment online. Standard website features include content management, patient database and email marketing to continue conversations with patients.
An SEO package has helped Maine Spine & Nerve Institute develop a strong online presence and be recognized as a leader in their field. GCMD also upgraded their online listings and directories so MSNI is found in numerous searches.
Maine Spine & Nerve also ran a number of digital advertising through the newspaper that drove traffic to a carefully, crafted landing page designed to bring patients through a survey and ultimately visit the office for treatment. Conversions for the digital ads was significantly higher than similar digital ads run by other businesses. The digital ads coincided with print newspaper ads who had a similar theme to message and visuals.
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LONDON — One of the country's best-known television entertainers, Rolf Harris — for whom Queen Elizabeth II once sat for a portrait — has been arrested on suspicion of unspecified sexual offenses in the latest twist in the sexual abuse scandal that has shaken Britain's public broadcaster, British news reports said Friday.
Mr. Harris, 83, was arrested on March 28, but only identified by name on Friday by The Sun newspaper. The BBC followed suit, having previously refrained from identifying him for what the broadcaster called "legal reasons." The BBC said Friday that the entertainer had not been formally charged with an offense.
He was arrested as part of Operation Yewtree, an investigation the police opened last year after hundreds of accusations of sexual abuse against Jimmy Savile, a onetime disc jockey and television personality who died in 2011 at the age of 84. Some accusations involved Mr. Savile as well as other suspects, and investigators also examined accusations of "others" acting on their own. Mr. Harris fell into that last group.
Like Mr. Savile, Mr. Harris had been known to successive generations of Britons and Australians as an affable, if quirky, national treasure, a fixture on television and entertainment shows who played on his Australian roots and his skills as an artist and musician.
Bearded, bespectacled and slightly breathless in his presentation, Mr. Harris's performances ranged from quick-fire sketches to music-making with instruments, like the tubular didgeridoo, from the Australian outback. He worked for many years on BBC programs but started his latest show on the commercial Channel 5 in 2012.
The Sun said more than a million people had watched Mr. Harris's most recent television appearance on Wednesday in a show called "Animal Clinic" about distressed animals.
Social media sites had been buzzing with speculation about Mr. Harris since officers searched his home in Berkshire, outside London, last November when he was not there. The police have arrested 12 people in Operation Yewtree, many of them associated with the entertainment business.
A police statement on March 28, two days before Mr. Harris's 83rd birthday, said: "An 82-year-old man from Berkshire was arrested by officers on Operation Yewtree on suspicion of sexual offenses.
"He has been bailed to a date in May pending further inquiries. The individual falls under the strand of the investigation we have termed 'others.'"
An Australian who moved to Britain in 1952, Mr. Harris made his name decades ago with humorous and sentimental songs, like "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport," "Jake the Peg," and "Two Little Boys," a song composed in 1902 about childhood friends who later became soldiers in the American Civil War.
In 2005 he unveiled his portrait of the queen at Buckingham Palace as she approached her 80th birthday, showing her smiling, silver-haired and dressed in a turquoise-green jacket.


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Multi-instrumentalist/composer/improviser born 1972 in Rockford, Illinois, probably best known to the general public as being a very fast, high-energy percussionist fusing free jazz and black/death/speed metal approaches. Weasel Walter (first name, last name) moved to Chicago in 1990 and founded the mercurial jazz/punk/noise/metal/prog project the Flying Luttenbachers in late 1991 with Hal Russell. In its various incarnations the group recorded 16 full-length albums and toured the United States and Europe extensively.
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Imagine how tough would that be if you're 'dieting'?
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I used to eat like 4 pastries a day when I worked as a masterbaker in Lidl
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Denon 2802's HT performance is very good. For music only CD playback, it is fair. As for the FM tuner, it is poor. I am using the Denon with AR 302 speakers (Front) and the matching AR center channel; SONY 560 DVD; Music Hall CD player. Overall, I am disappointed with the Denon. I had upgraded from the Onkyo 434 and quite frankly, I prefer the Onkyo to the Denon. It was a clearer and cleaner sounding receiver. If I were doing it again, I would consider the Onkyo 595 or the Outlaw ($600 range list - new).
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New Delhi: Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy today said Harvard University should have a re-look at its decision to remove courses taught by him while maintaining that it should have sought his comments before reaching a conclusion.
"The article was written for a Mumbai newspaper and I teach economics in Harvard. I would assume that they would have sent their petition to me asking for my comments which is a normal procedure. But they have not done that," he claimed. Swamy said the decision was a "dangerous one" as it makes a person teaching in Harvard accountable for what he writes on any subject anywhere in the world.
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The Spring into Summer Readathon is here and I'm getting this party started! Over the next two days I'm going to be updating this post periodically with my status and participating in challenges and reports. Giveaways and mini-challenges run every two hours and I can't wait to dive in. You can follow all the action on Twitter via the hashtag #SiSRead or get the details at Squeaky Books. And without further ado…
What do you hope to read during the read-a-thon?
I hope to tackle some of my review books and also take the time to read some books I've been putting on the back burner while finishing school. I've gotten into the bad habit of focusing too much attention on review copies and not breaking it up with stuff I actually want to read just for fun. It's time to kick that to the curb!
What book are you starting with?
Spellbound by Cara Lynn Shultz. I started this on the train to work this morning and am LOVING it so far. I know it's a review copy, but I can't put this one down!
I hope to read:
At least three books, which seems doable, plus finish the two I've already started. I think it will depend on whether husband goes to work tomorrow and/or limits his intrusions.
Here are some of the titles I'm going to try to get through: SPELLBOUND by Cara Lynn Shultz; WHEN YOU DARE by Lori Foster; DIVERGENT by Veronica Roth; THE ESPRESSOLOGIST by Kristina Springer; VAMPIRE EMPIRE: THE GREYFRIAR by Clay and Susan Griffith; WILD CHILD by Mike Wells; OCTOBER GIRLS by L.C. Glazebrook; LEGACY by Cayla Kluver
Where are you going to read?
I'm reading from home. Not too exciting. I'll probably vacillate between the couch and my bed.
What will you include in your updates?
Enna (Squeaky Books) has given us a standard for our updates, which I'm going to use as well. It covers books and pages read, as well as the time spent reading. Mine will have to be modified a bit for Kindle books that don't have page counts, so for those I'll use percentages.
Update: 5:00 p.m. CDT
I'm finishing up this post and then getting down to business!
Total books read: 0
Total pages read: 0
Books read since last update: 0
Pages read since last update: 0
Total time read: 0
How I'm currently feeling: Anxious! I hope I meet my goal. THE PRESSURE! I'm scrapping this mini-challenge attempt so I can get to reading already. I'll check back in a few hours for the next challenge.
Update and Day 1 Report: 1:09 a.m. CDT
I majorly failed at day one. I was hoping to get through at least one whole book and I couldn't make it happen. We had a big stressful morning at work and I'm now too sleepy to finish. I'm really loving SPELLBOUND, but I have to call it a night.
1. First of all, give us an end-of-day status update. Books read, pages read, you know the drill!
Total books read: 0
Total pages read: around 250 (65% done)
Books read since last update: 0
Pages read since last update: around 250
Total time read: 4 hours or so
How I'm currently feeling: Disappointed! Hopefully tomorrow I can get going and not be so easily distracted by Twitter.
What is the favorite thing you have read today?
Considering I've only read one book, I'd say SPELLBOUND.
Which mini-challenge was your favorite?
I haven't participated in any, but my favorite to read was the picture puzzle challenge.
What has been your favorite thing about the read-a-thon?
Checking out the challenges and tweets. It's nice to feel like this is a community effort.
What has been your LEAST favorite thing about the read-a-thon?
My inability to read quickly. I'm so into this book that I'm savoring it. This may have been a poor choice for a readathon after all, but I don't have the strength to abandon it yet!
Are you on track to meet your goals?
Blech. No. I don't know how much I'll be able to focus/accomplish tomorrow, but I doubt very much that I'll have the patience to read 5 books in one day.
Will you be participating tomorrow? Do you have any new goals?
Yes, I'll be participating. I'll probably unplug for large chunks so I can actually read without as many distractions. I think my new goal is to finish my current read and finish DIVERGENT. If I'm feeling up to it, I'll try for one more.
Update: 11:30 a.m. CDT – Mini-challenge #7
Total books read: 1
Total pages read: 384
Books read since last update: 1
Pages read since last update: around 130
Total time read: 5.5 hours or so
How I'm currently feeling: I'm glad I at least got through one whole book. These are shameful times in the LET house, my friends. Seriously, could I read any slower? Doubtful.
Mini-challenge: Name one book you think should be taught in school, grade of your choice.
Shakespeare. Is that cheating? It's really hard for me to pick just one, as I consider at least a handful of them required reading: Othello, Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Merchant of Venice. Frankly, I think each of these contain life lessons worth some deep reflection. Nobody expresses the power of choice quite so poignantly as Shakespeare. Every action has a consequence, and our decisions (or indecision) impact the world in big ways.
I also happen to think that challenging students to discuss these themes while reading outside of their comfort zone is equally important. Language evolves, but the messages stay the same. Shakespeare can be understood, and this realization builds confidence in young readers. I read my first Shakespeare play in 8th grade, but I think students would be capable of better discussions in high school.
Sorry to get preachy, folks. Will's my man.
Update: 7:00 p.m. CDT – Mini-challenge #11
Total books read: 2
Total pages read: 586
Books read since last update: 1
Pages read since last update: 202
Total time read: 8.5 hours or so
How I'm currently feeling: Despite the challenge of the readathon, I have been very unmotivated to speed through books. I feel better that I finished another (albeit short) book, but I think I've reached my capacity. Hubs turned on the Tony Awards from last week and I haven't been able to really give my attention to DIVERGENT as a result. I think I might be done for the day.
Mini-challenge: If you could live in the world of one book, which would it be and why?
This is such a great question. I was going to say something historical, but I'm not sure I'd want to rough it without indoor plumbing and modern medicine. Instead, I'll go with ANNA AND THE FRENCH KISS. Oh, to be young and in love in a snooty boarding school in Paris! Sign me up!


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In 2014, adults were consuming an average 8g of sugar per day, 2g over the recommended maximum amount. This is according Public Health England's (PHE) recent report: National Diet and Nutrition Survey.
A significant downward trend in salt intake in adults was observed between 2005-06 and 2008-09. However, there was no significant decrease between 2008-09 and 2014.
Excess salt consumption can raise blood pressure and increase the risk of heart disease and stroke. According to PHE's report, a reduction in salt intake from 8g to 6g could prevent over 8000 premature deaths each year and save the NHS over £570 million a year.
Dr Alison Tedstone, Chief Nutritionist at PHE, said: "The majority of the salt we eat is in everyday foods so it's important to check labels and choose lower salt options. Many manufacturers and retailers have significantly reduced the salt levels in everyday foods. However, more needs to be done, especially by restaurants, cafes and takeaways."
Prof Graham MacGregor Chairman of Consensus Action on Salt and Health (CASH) said: "This is a tragedy for public health. The food industry is the biggest and most powerful industry in the world. Most of the foods that it currently provides are very high in salt, fat and sugars, causing strokes, heart failure and heart attacks,obesity, type 2 diabetes and cancer.
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