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Patagonia and Social Responsibility in the Supply Chain: A History
The Apparel Industry
The term sweatshop was first used in the nineteenth century to describe sewing factories where the conditions were hot, crowded and airless—and the workers paid a pittance for 16-hour days. Public awareness of sweatshops is not new. New York's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1913, which killed 146 workers, mostly young women, over half of them Jewish immigrants, sparked calls for reform. Exactly a century later, the Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh killed more than 1100 workers—and raised new calls for reform.
Yet people still work long, underpaid hours in deplorable conditions in thousands of factories. People (predominantly women) who work in the global garment industry are often poor, young, uneducated and disenfranchised. Labor laws (and enforcement) can be lax. Workers are sometimes taken advantage of, discriminated against, denied the right to unionize, harassed, threatened and cheated. Working conditions can be unsafe and unhealthy.
This is not to say that sewing is universally bad work or that all factories are sweatshops. For 200 years, garment sewing has been an entry-level occupation in industrializing countries, often providing local women their first independent income. Many factories produce clothing under safe, healthy and humane working conditions and pay legal, if low, wages, but they are the exception rather than the rule.
Patagonia's Place in the Industry
Our own employees—the nearly two thousand people who work directly for us in our offices, stores and distribution center—are paid fairly and enjoy good benefits, including generous health care, subsidized child care (in Ventura and Reno), flexible work schedules and paid time off for environmental internships. Many employees share our values, care about quality and are active in environmental and community causes. Turnover is in the single digits, and on average, we receive a couple hundred résumés each month.
Like most clothing companies, we do not make our own products, nor do we own any of the factories that do. We design, test, market and sell Patagonia gear. These are our areas of strength. We pay other companies, who have the technical expertise and equipment, to produce the fabrics and do the actual cutting and sewing. This poses special challenges for us because we feel responsible for any work.
Patagonia's Supply Chain
When considering new factories, or evaluating current ones, we take a fourfold vetting approach—one that includes social and environmental practices equally with quality standards and business requirements like financial stability, adequate capacity and fair pricing.
Our Social/Environmental Responsibility (SER) team can veto a decision to work with a new factory (as can, as always, our Quality team). This practice is rare in the apparel business and keeps us out of factories that don't share our social and environmental values. We have also trained our Sourcing and Supply Planning teams in responsible purchasing practices to minimize negative impact on the factory workers and the environment that could result from our own business decisions. Our sourcing and quality staff work closely with our SER team and hold a joint weekly meeting to make supply chain decisions.
The Road Ahead
We have three big projects in progress.
1) We are working within the industry to help make the living-wage principle a concrete reality for garment workers. To this end, we are expanding our Fair Trade Certified™ program, for which Patagonia pays an additional premium directly to the workers in participating factories that can be used as a bonus to either increase wages or for a community development project. Fair Trade Certified products will represent a significant portion of the line and produce tangible, measurable benefits for workers by fall 2015. We consider the Fair Trade program to be the first step in our commitment to paying garment workers a living wage.
We are also a part of the Fair Labor Association's fair compensation project, in which member brands and suppliers will pilot and implement living-wage models in the supply chain.
2) We are intensifying our efforts to improve labor conditions in the supply chain beyond the cut-and-sew factories (the textile mills, dye houses, etc.). We have taken significant steps in an effort to stop human trafficking in fabric mills in Taiwan that supply Patagonia. We have reached agreements with our suppliers to repay to migrant workers recruitment fees higher than allowed by law and to discontinue entirely the practice of charging (or allowing labor brokers to charge) migrant workers recruitment fees, effective June 2015.
3) In a proactive effort to encourage and strengthen our factories' ability to manage fire safety, we joined and seed funded the Fair Labor Association's Fire Safety Initiative in 2013. This global program trains workers and factory management to actively promote fire safety, and recognize hazards and eliminate them without delay or seeking management approval. We are currently scaling the training to the rest of our factories.
1973 to 1990:
We try to work with factories that share our values of quality and integrity. Our belief is that "you can't make good products in a bad factory." We work with clean, well-run factories that have skilled, experienced workers and a low turnover rate.
As we grow we recognize the need to test these assumptions and begin to formalize our contractor review process. In 1990 we ask our contract managers and Quality team to begin reviewing the factories they visit, both for product quality and working conditions. We make the decision not to work with any factory we can't visit.
We unveil a "contractor relationship assessment" at our first supplier conference, to which we invite representatives from every factory we work with. The assessment is a scorecard kept with each factory to rate its performance in different areas. We ask factory managers to do the same. If we give a factory a low mark in one area and the factory scores itself high, the difference becomes the subject of conversation and focus. Our approach is informal, but our demands for high quality largely keep us on the responsible side of social compliance.
We begin contracting with third-party auditors to visit and assess potential new factories. Though audits are but a snapshot in time, they do give an idea of a factory's work conditions and management systems. They're also a good way to initiate discussions about change.
A human-rights organization reveals that Wal-Mart sells Kathie Lee Gifford clothing made under license by a Honduran sweatshop employing 13- and 14-year-old girls who work 20-hour days for 31 cents an hour. The work originally had been contracted to a reputable U.S. manufacturer. But to meet strong sales demand, that factory subcontracted the work to another business that in turn subcontracted to the Honduran factory.
After a public outcry, Kathie Lee Gifford, to her credit, joined the anti-sweatshop movement. Both Gifford and Patagonia were invited to take part in President Clinton's "No Sweat Initiative." As a result of what we learned, we created a more formal process for our company and became founding members of the Fair Labor Association (FLA), an independent multi-stakeholder verification and training organization that audits our factories.
Early 2000s:
After these several steps forward, we take a step back when we begin sourcing products in new factories that can produce them at a lower cost. The number of factories we work with balloons, and some of these subcontract work to other factories we know nothing about. We lose track of whom we do business with and what working conditions are like in many of our factories. For a while we drop out of the FLA.
We hire a manager of social responsibility to monitor social compliance throughout our supply chain and begin to work again with the FLA. We educate Patagonia employees about factory workplace issues to help them understand how their own actions can unwittingly cause factory workers to suffer longer workweeks, hurry-up pressure and greater stress.
Late 2000s:
We expand our brand collaboration efforts in auditing, special engagements (with local third-party experts to help solve specific problems within a factory), and information sharing. Three of our cut-and-sew suppliers (with a total of eight factories) are now FLA members (and thus are held to the same high membership standards Patagonia must meet). We work more closely with our factories and become more familiar with their supply chain. To strengthen individual relationships and increase transparency within our supply chain, we reduce the number of primary factories we work with by 50 percent.
We launch The Footprint Chronicles®, which traces the social and environmental impact of our products.
We ask Verité, an international nonprofit social auditing, training and capacity-building organization, to train the 75 employees who visit our suppliers' factories to fully understand Patagonia's Workplace Code of Conduct. We conduct internal refresher sessions annually for both new and seasoned employees.
We elevate the Social Responsibility Manager position to a high-level Director of Social and Environmental Responsibility. This integrates social and environmental work at the factory level.
We identify all subcontractors and now audit close to 100 percent of our cut-and-sew factories, including subcontractor locations.
Patagonia helps gather the top leaders in the apparel industry, non-governmental organizations, academia and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for an inaugural meeting to determine the feasibility of working together to create an index of social and environmental performance. As of 2015, there will be more than 100 members of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, which represent a third of all clothing and footwear sold on the planet. The Coalition's aim: "An apparel industry that produces no unnecessary environmental harm and has a positive impact on the people and communities associated with its activities."
We begin auditing raw-materials suppliers in December. We implement a new, cutting-edge human-trafficking detection tool. We hold our first internal training on human trafficking in the supply chain to all of our product supply chain staff.
We launch our California Transparency in Supply Chains disclosure late in 2011.
We launch our formalized Responsible Purchasing Practices per Fair Labor Association requirements of our Sourcing team.
Our audits of raw-materials suppliers reveal that labor brokers charge migrant workers from Asian countries up to $7,000 to get a job in Taiwanese fabric mills that supply Patagonia. We identify the audit results as red flags for human trafficking. The practice is considered an acceptable part of doing business by our suppliers, though brokers regularly charge above legal limits. Transportation, work visas and other essentials are included. But paying that kind of money for a factory job is an almost impossible burden for workers already struggling to make a living.
In an effort to understand the social and environmental impacts of our supply chain, we launch a revised and even more transparent Footprint Chronicles website.
Early in the year, we strengthen our Code of Conduct, which outlines responsible practices for our supply chain, to include a living-wage component and implement policies to consider the living-wage rate in our costing formulas. These efforts are part of short-, medium- and long-term strategies to address living wages in our supply chain.
We begin to execute our short, medium and long-term strategy to eradicate human trafficking in Taiwan. We host a one-day brand forum in San Francisco to which we invite some 40 brands to talk about human trafficking in the supply chain.
Partnering with Verité, an NGO dedicated to ensuring people around the world work under safe, fair and legal conditions–we conduct in-depth migrant worker assessments with four of our suppliers in Taiwan.
We set out to develop a new standard, institute changes in our supply chain, repay current workers, and share our recommended standards with other companies that want to eradicate similar practices by their suppliers.
In May we begin selling Fair Trade Certified™ apparel. We start small with ten women's sportswear styles sewn in three factories in India owned by Pratibha Syntex. As of spring 2015, we offer 33 styles–21 made in a Fair Trade Certified sewing facility and 12 made with Fair Trade Certified cotton.
For every Fair Trade Certified item produced for Patagonia, we pay a community-development premium. The money goes into an account controlled by the cooperative of farmers or association of factory workers who decide how best to use it. The funds are designated for social, economic and environmental development projects. For example, cotton farmers may choose to use the money for agricultural improvements, rainwater catchment systems or to build a school or a health clinic. Workers in Fair Trade factories may invest in healthcare for their children, bicycles for easier transit to and from work or a cash bonus that can get them closer to a living wage.
All workers in the factories and farms that make our Fair Trade Certified clothing benefit from the funds, whether they work directly on Patagonia products or not.
We are invited to present our work on human trafficking to the White House Forum on Combating Human Trafficking in Supply Chains, led by Secretary of State John Kerry. We require our suppliers in Taiwan to stop charging labor-broker fees for foreign workers hired after June 1. We also mandate that currently employed workers be repaid fees that exceeded the legal amount.
Our factory partners commit to partnering with us to eliminate human rights issues in our supply chain and we are pleased to see their strong overall commitment to doing right by their workers.
Representatives of Taiwan's Ministry of Labor Workforce Development Agency now provide training to our suppliers on the practice of direct hiring.
And, because this form of human trafficking is not confined to the island of Taiwan, we apply our new migrant worker standard to our entire tier 1 (mill level) supply chain (but have not found the same issues outside Taiwan). We also make the standard publicly available to any company that would like to adopt it.


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I am one of those people who had an iTunes account way before having an .mac or MobileMe account. Since one can't really merge accounts, I have been trying to decide what to do about my iCloud account.
According to Apple's documentation, their recommended setup is to upgrade your me.com account to iCloud, and then just use your iTunes account for purchases and iTunes in the cloud.
I am debating on actually NOT fully migrating my MobileMe account to iCloud, and instead upgrading my iTunes account to the iCloud account.
My question is this - if I upgrade say my gmail.com account to iCloud, and sign up for a new me.com address - is that address ONLY used for email?
For example, if my wife wants to share a calendar with me, she would use my iCloud account (which would be my gmail account), rather than my new me.com email address?

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Day eighteen: How'd you get your hair like that?
On day eighteen of "How'd you get your hair like that?" I encountered a beard. It was, perhaps the most amazing beard in all of the land.
Denver, meet Kalvin and his man-beard: a product of drinking whiskey, cutting lumber, gator wrestling, fishing with his bare hands and changing a flat tire.
Kalvin's head is bald, his beard is long, and his knuckles say "Adorable" (see the tattoo on his knuckles for further details).
This is the beard to beat. Many men compliment this growth, Kalvin tells me. One would think his beard is a source of great envy for guys. But it's not. Rather, it's a beacon of hope for men everywhere – something Kalvin likes to refer to as the "Menaissance."
Follow my series here and on Twitter, with @notjappycamper and #denverhair.
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BALTIMORE – More school records fell by the wayside as the UMBC track and field team opened weekend competition at the Morgan State Legacy Meet and the Larry Ellis Invitational at Princeton.
At the crosstown meet at Morgan State, freshman Sophia Cologer (Annapolis, Md./Broadneck) broke the UMBC program record in the 3,000m steeplechase while in New Jersey, seniors Cody Mezebish (Westminster, Md./South Carroll) and Andrew Smith (Chadds Ford, Pa./Garnet Valley) both bettered their own marks in the 800m run.
Competing in Baltimore, Cologer bested the field by crossing the line with a time of 11:22.35. Her time is a 22-second improvement over her previous best (11:44.42) set two weeks ago at the Colonial Relays, and eclipses the previous Retriever record of 11:29.56 set by Keri Wilson in 2012.
At Princeton, Mezebish clipped her school record time of 2:10.68 set last week at George Mason by placing second in her heat and 13th overall with a time of 2:10.38. The Retriever senior came into the weekend trailing only Albany's Brianne Bellon whose top time of 2:09.95 set at the ECAC Indoor Championships. Smith, meanwhile, trimmed his school record from 1:50.05 set last week, down to 1:49.64 and finished sixth out of 72 competitors. The senior entered the weekend leading the conference while ranking 50th in the nation.
The Retriever men also had a successful day in the steeplechase event as senior Vinny DiSalvo (Washingtonville, N.Y./Washingtonville) won the event at Morgan State while sophomore Redatu Semeon (Waldorf, Md./Thomas Stone) set a personal-best and senior Brandan McGee (Hiram, Ohio/Crestwood) recorded a season-best time at Princeton. DiSalvo topped the field in Baltimore with a time of 9:33.13, and in New Jersey Semeon improved his America East leading time to 9:07.52 and McGee crossed the line at 9:30.69.
Senior Jake Albino (Hampton, N.Y./Minisink Valley) ran a season-best time of 3:52.04 while competing in the 1,500m run in the Garden State.
In the javelin at Morgan State, senior Sean Kshimetski (Pasadena, Md./Chesapeake) advanced to the finals with a personal-best heave of 53.66m (176'0"). His throw also moves him up to fourth all-time in the Retriever record book. Freshman Abigale Slonski (Griswold, Conn./Griswold) was just off of her personal-best with a toss of 31.61m (103'8") in the women's competition.
Junior Thor Serafenas (Olney, Md./Good Counsel/Clemson) won the hammer throw for the second season in a row at the Morgan State meet, while also earning his second victory in the event in 2014. In his second throw of the afternoon, Serafenas registered a distance of 55.65m (182'7"), nearly 13 feet farther than the second-place finisher. Senior Ray Stinsman III (Mt. Laurel, N.J./Lenape) finished fourth, recording a season-best toss of 48.53m (159'3").
In the women's competition, sophomore Nneoma Edokobi (Rockville, Md./Richard Montgomery) advanced to the finals and finished sixth with a top throw of 41.57m (136'5").
In the final event of the night at Princeton, sophomore Hassan Omar (Frederick, Md./Thomas Johnson) won his heat of the 5,000m run with a personal-best time of 14:21.69 to move up to second all-time in the Retriever record book.
The Retriever team continues weekend action on Saturday at the Morgan State Legacy Meet at Hughes Stadium.


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Currently: Cash Looking to: Buy @ 44.51
As of 11/29/19 as of 12:27pm EST: $45.39
LAST WEEK: We suggested buying IEV / European equity proxies when IEV tests $44.51 with stops below $44.40 and with a target of $47.40.
UPDATE: The European ETF (IEV) appears to be setting up for a short-term pullback to around $44.71 or $44.10. From there, we are expecting further upside action – perhaps up towards the $47.40 we put forth in last week's report.
We would be buyers of IEV or European equity proxies when IEV tests $44.71. Honor stops on a close below $44.10 and look to take profits up at $47.40.
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You probably have lots of questions about treatment. But you may feel unsure about when to ask them.
You don't have to ask all your questions at once. There will be other chances to speak to your healthcare team, so it's fine if you think of new questions or need to ask a question again. You can make another appointment or speak to your healthcare team over the phone. Some healthcare professionals can also be contacted by email. You may find it easier to email your questions to them, if this is an option.
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Type Level Naturals
This page collects information on how to work with type-level natural numbers, as implemented in the Haskell compiler GHC (ticket #4385).
User's Guide
Notes on Design
- Alternative Design For Singletons
- Avoiding Partial Type Functions
- Naturals or Integers?
Notes on the Implementation
- Implementation of GHC.TypeNats
- Axioms for Natural Number Operators
- GHC Interaction Rules (Notational Conventions)
External links
- The implementation resides in several repositories:
- (git) Changes to GHC are on branch type-nats in: git://code.galois.com/type-naturals/ghc.git
- (darcs) Changes to the base library are at http://code.galois.com/darcs/type-naturals/09-Jan-2011/base/
- (darcs) Changes to the template-haskell library are at http://code.galois.com/darcs/type-naturals/09-Jan-2011/template-haskell/
- More advanced example: https://github.com/yav/memory-arrays/tree/master


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By Kirpal Singh, Ph.D
"Kicharee" is a Punjabi word that means "mixture." In India it is commonly used to describe any number of things randomly thrown together, including people, ingredients or circumstances. But in our 3HO lifestyle "kicharee" refers to a magical mixture of rice, beans, vegetables and spices based on Yogi Bhajan's simple recipe for mung beans and rice. So let's understand how and why the Yogi gave us this recipe and why he considered it the most complete food, easy to digest (pre-digested in his words) and one of the most therapeutic foods in the Ayurvedic system of healing.
Magic Mung Beans
The basic recipe is simple:
•1 cup of Basmati rice
•½ to 1 cup of mung beans
•1 cup of diced onions
•1 to 2 cups of cut vegetables
•1 to 2 tablespoons of shortening – such as almond oil, ghee or olive oil
•Salt and spices to taste, including but not limited to: turmeric, cumin, ginger, garlic, red and black pepper, soy sauce and or Braggs and sea salt
•9 to 10 cups of water
•Other possible ingredients may include vegetable broth, lemon (including skin), kelp, mint, parsley
Throw it all in a pot and boil until soft. Or, sauté the onions and spices into a masala and add after the rice and beans are cooked. Or, cook the beans, vegetables and spices first and add the rice last. The finished product is a soupy, mildly spicy and a yummy tasty treat. Mung beans and rice may be served plain or accompanied by yoghurt or cheese or pieces of avocado.
At the Conscious Cookery in Denver we used to call it Bhajan's Banquet and serve it with melted cheese on top. It was one of our most popular dishes. When I moved to India I was looking forward to sampling it at their local restaurants. I was disappointed. Nobody had even heard of it. When I described it they said, "Oh that's just a kitcharee. It is not restaurant food." Well I finally did find it, in hospitals. In fact, when we had to spend some time at a hospital, kitcharee was the only food available. It was explained to me that it was the best food for healing and it is easily digested. It turns out that the Ayurvedic sciences are well integrated into India's healthcare systems.
Yogijii drew on his vast knowledge of Ayurveda to give us his recipe for mung beans and rice. He often recommended it as a mono diet for forty days of cleansing, detoxification and healing. The diet changes the chemistry of the blood, balances the energies in the organs and tissues and relieves the chronic stress of dietary excess or deficiency. It energizes the body, clears the mind and is completely satisfying. What could be better than that? The spice combination restores the vitality of the digestive system, the Ayurvedic agni, the heat and fire that digests our food. Ayurvedic practitioners know that the health of the entire body is dependent on our digestion.
Besides hospitals, the only other times in India that I found kicharee served was at ashrams. From time immemorial practicing yogis have eaten this simple diet to enhance their spiritual practice. It provides a perfect balance of easily digested proteins and complex carbohydrates that sustains the body while allowing deep meditation and detoxification. Yogiji gave it as the basic diet for our Summer and Winter Solstices to compliment the powerful spiritual cleansing of the Tantric Yoga. Whether you choose kicharee as a tasty meal or use it as a cleansing mono diet, it is a close as you can get to the perfect food.
Kirpal Singh Khalsa served as director of Guru Ram Das Ashram, Boulder, from 1972 – 1992. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Colorado and taught in the Sociology Department from 1980 to 1992. From 1992 – 2003 he served as Academic Director for Sikh Dharma Education International and helped found Miri Piri Academy in Amritsar, India. He currently lives with the Sikh community in Espanola, NM.


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Paperless drywall is justifiably hyped as virtually mold-proof, but also widely maligned for several drawbacks. Cost is the biggest issue. Paperless drywall is pricier than its traditional paper-faced alternatives. This immediately rules out paperless drywall for many homeowners, but it shouldn't. In the long run, it can be a money saver and even a lifesaver.
Tales of moldy paper drywall
I spent several months outside New Orleans working for the St. Bernard Project and rebuilding homes destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. I saw plenty of mold in that time — in both gutted homes and homes that were flooded during reconstruction. It also appeared on both white and green drywall. The green boards are paper-faced gypsum board treated with mold-resistant material. They are clearly not mold-proof, however, as I witnessed in St. Bernard Parish. Granted, these were not normal conditions, but they certainly brought home the fact that mold-resistant "greenboard" still has plenty of tasty paper for mold to eat. It's just masked with chemicals to repel the mold.
What is paperless drywall?
As an alternative, paperless drywall has fiberglass facing on the gypsum sheets. It also is not guaranteed to be 100-percent mold-proof, but it at least eliminates a major potential food source for mold spores.
Arguments against paperless drywall
Paperless drywall costs more. It can be hard to find, and you can expect to pay about $1 more per sheet for paperless drywall than mold-resistant "greenboard." Moreover, some users complain that the lack of paper facing further drives up installation costs. Paperless drywall can be harder to attach to the wall because screws are more likely to drive too far into the drywall. These deepset screws don't hold up the drywall, allowing more pieces to break and requiring more screws.
Why we like paperless drywall
On the other hand, paperless drywall is generally sturdier and less likely to warp, dent and tear. Therefore, it may last longer, and you'll need to replace fewer defective boards.
Fiberglass is a skin and lung irritant. The fiberglass dust raised by cutting paperless drywall can be more irritating than standard drywall dust. Some people suggest this makes it as dangerous as the mold it aims to prevent. However, fiberglass irritation is not a long-term health hazard, just a temporary nuisance. Moreover, it can easily be avoided with simple safety gear: long sleeves, masks, glasses and gloves.
Tips from drywall guru Myron Ferguson
Paperless drywall is trickier to finish. This one may come as the biggest surprise to untrained homeowners. The fiberglass facing has a rougher surface than paper facing, which some users don't notice until they have painted the wall and they see an ugly bumpy texture that doesn't match the drywall throughout the rest of the house.
Also, drywall guru Myron Ferguson offers a solution to the deepset screw problem in a recent Fine Homebuilding magazine article. He suggests attaching the drywall to the framing with Liquid Nails or other adhesive before screwing it on. This allows for fewer additional fasteners and compensates for any overly deep screws. He also suggests leaving screws slightly protruding, then sinking them to the perfect "dimpled" depth by hand.
Again, Ferguson comes to the rescue with two tips: Either lightly sand the whole surface or apply a thin skim coat of joint compound.
Finally, Ferguson offers a final tip. If you are going to the extra effort to avoid the mold-attracting paper on the drywall, paper tape between the drywall sheets will defeat that purpose. Instead, use fiberglass mesh tape.
Paperless drywall may not be perfect, but it is a great idea for your bathrooms, kitchens and other moisture-prone areas. It offers better peace of mind that mold is not growing in your walls.
Steve Graham originally wrote this story for Networx.com. It is reprinted with permission here.
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Welcome. Love to see a picture of your bike.
I can not ride one due to a wrist problem. My right wrist would want to twist and the cops would want to talk to me on the side of the road.
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There are members here from all over the world so hopefully as you become aquainted with the place you will have the chance ot meet some of us, either here or on the road.
If you have any questions, thoughts, or suggestions, let us know and once again, welcome!
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Junior defender Baba Omosegbon and the Crimson are 1-1-2 in league play (Gil Talbot).
The Game:
The Harvard men's soccer team looks to snap a two-game losing skid as it visits Ivy League rival Dartmouth Saturday evening for a 7 p.m. showdown.
The Crimson enters the weekend at 4-5-5 overall and 1-1-2 in conference play, while the Big Green, who fell at No. 18 Boston College, 2-1, Wednesday, is 6-6-1 and 1-3-0 in Ancient Eight action. Harvard stands fourth in the Ivy League standings with five points, and the Big Green sits tied with Columbia and Yale for fifth with three points each. Penn and Princeton are both 4-0-0 in conference games and are tied for first with 12 points apiece.
Follow From Home:
Once again, live statistics will be available for all Harvard home games and most road contests this season. Video of Saturday's game will also be available via a subscription.
Last Time Out:
In a game shown live nationally on ESPNU, Scott Prozeller gave Harvard a 1-0 lead in the 28th minute with a goal off a set piece, but the Crimson could not hold on and fell at No. 23 Princeton, 2-1. Austin Harms recorded four saves in goal.
A History Lesson:
The Crimson and Big Green have met 83 times, with Harvard owning a 42-33-8 lead in the all-time series, which started in 1921. Each team is 2-2 in the last four contests between the Ivy League rivals after Harvard earned a 2-1 victory last season in Cambridge. In that win, Kwaku Nyamekye '10 and Andre Akpan '10 each netted a goal, while Austin Harms made four stops.
About Harvard:
The Crimson boasts a 2-2-4 record in road games this season, as Harvard has defeated Massachusetts (Sept. 6) and Holy Cross (Oct. 6) this fall. Opponents are outscoring the Crimson by a 16-14 margin and have the corner kick edge over Harvard, 61-42.
With his goal at Princeton, Scott Prozeller (3-1-7) is tied with Brian Rogers (3-1-7) for the team lead in goals and points. Connor McCarthy (2-1-5) and Kyle Henderson (1-3-5) are also scoring threats for the Crimson.
Austin Harms has seen most of the time in net and carries a 3-4-4 record with three clean sheets into Saturday's game. He also owns a 1.09 goals-against average and 37 saves. With his three shutouts this season, Harms ranks second in Harvard history with 16 career clean sheets. He needs three shutouts to tie Ryan Johnson '19 for the program record.
About Dartmouth:
The Big Green has dropped two straight games by 2-1 scores after falling at Boston College and at Columbia. Dartmouth owns a 4-2 record at home this season with wins over Holy Cross, San Diego, New Mexico and Yale. The Big Green has tallied 20 goals, while surrendering 19, and has earned 92 corner kicks on the year.
Daniel Keat (3-1-7) and Teo Larsson-Sax (3-0-6) are tied for the team lead with three goals apiece, while Lucky Mkosana (2-3-7) has handed out the most assists on the squad.
Sean Donovan boasts a winning record in net, going 5-4-1 with one shutout to his credit. He also sports a 1.25 goals-against average and 28 saves.
Around the Ivy League:
In other action around the conference, Yale hosts Columbia at 4:30 p.m., Princeton visits Cornell at 7 p.m., and Brown heads to Philadelphia to take on Penn at 7:30 p.m.
Up Next:
Harvard will play its final home game of the season, as the Crimson hosts Columbia Saturday, Nov. 6 at 1:30 p.m. Prior to the game, Harvard will honor its five seniors: Shomesh Chaudhuri, Alex Chi, Jaren LaGreca, Robert Millock and James Pelletier.


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Leo Bill, Finbar Lynch and Simona Bitmate Star in Anthony Weigh's SILENCE OF THE SEA at Trafalgar Studios, Now thru Feb 2
According to the Daily Mail, Leo Bill, Finbar Lynch and Simona Bitmate star in a new version of Vercors' Silence of the Sea by Anthony Weigh, playing Trafalgar Studios' Donmar Warehouse series from tonight, January 10 through February 2, 2013.Read the original report here.
The production's description reads: "In a time of conflict, a soldier is billeted to the home of an old man and his niece. Powerless to turn him away, they resist him with silence - a silence that becomes their most potent weapon."
Directed by Simon Evans, Silence of the Sea features designer Ben Stones, lighting designer David Plater and sound designer Gregory Clarke.
Bill has appeared on the West End in Posh and A Woman Killed With Kindness. Lynch's West End credits include The Duchess of Malfi; he has also appeared in Broadway's Not About Nightingales. Bitmate recently appeared in Under a Foreign Sky, Arcola's You Always Forget Something and more.


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PHOENIX, Feb. 26 (UPI) -- Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer vetoed a bill Wednesday that would have let businesses refuse to serve gays and others on religious-freedom grounds.
In her remarks explaining why she vetoed Senate Bill 1062, the Republican governor said she gave the measure "careful evaluation and deliberate consideration," but found it wanting in regards to proponents' contention it would have enhanced religious freedom.
"I call them like I see them, despite the cheers or boos from the crowd," Brewer said in a statement posted on her official website.
"I took the time necessary to make the right decision. I met or spoke with my attorneys, lawmakers and citizens supporting and opposing this legislation. I listened and asked questions.
"As governor, I have protected religious freedoms when there is a specific and present concern that exists in our state. And I have the record to prove it.
But, she said, S.B. 1062 "does not address a specific and present concern related to religious liberty in Arizona. I have not heard of one example in Arizona where a business owner's religious liberty has been violated. The bill is broadly worded and could result in unintended and negative consequences."
So she vetoed it.
"To the supporters of the legislation, I want you to know that I understand that long-held norms about marriage and family are being challenged as never before," she said.
"Our society is undergoing many dramatic changes. However, I sincerely believe that Senate Bill 1062 has the potential to create more problems than it purports to solve.
"It could divide Arizona in ways we cannot even imagine and no one would ever want. Religious liberty is a core American and Arizona value, so is non-discrimination.
"Going forward, let's turn the ugliness of the debate over Senate Bill 1062 into a renewed search for greater respect and understanding among all Arizonans and Americans."
Brewer had until Saturday to sign or veto the bill, passed by the state Legislature last week, or do nothing and let it automatically become law.
The decision she made had the backing of 2012 GOP presidential nominee and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who had joined a growing chorus of high-profile Republicans urging Brewer to veto the measure.
"@GovBrewer: veto of #SB1062 is right," Romney said on Twitter.
Arizona's U.S. senators, John McCain and Jeff Flake, both Republicans, sent out nearly identical Twitter messages Monday saying they hoped Brewer would veto the bill.
An executive from Apple Inc., which plans to build a major manufacturing plant in Mesa, called the governor to urge her to reject the measure. American Airlines Group Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Douglas Parker, overseeing the merger of American Airlines and Phoenix-based US Airways, sent Brewer a letter citing the state's "economic comeback" and saying, "There is genuine concern throughout the business community that this bill, if signed into law, would jeopardize all that has been accomplished so far."
The National Football League, which will hold Super Bowl XLIX next year at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, said it was "following" the debate.
Democratic Delaware Gov. Jack Markell told MSNBC if Brewer signed the measure, "the NFL may be looking, or maybe should be looking, to move the Super Bowl out of the state."
Cathi Herrod, president of the Center for Arizona Policy, an architect of the bill, called attacks on the legislation "politics at its absolute worse."
"Instead of having an honest discussion about the true meaning of religious liberty, opponents of the bill have hijacked this discussion through lies, personal attacks and irresponsible reporting," she said in a statement.
The measure, passed by both chambers of the Republican-controlled Legislature, would have allowed businesses whose owners cited sincerely held religious beliefs to deny service to gays and others. It would have let them cite the law as a defense in any action brought against them claiming discrimination.
The bill was similar to measures that failed or faced major setbacks this month in five other states -- Idaho, Kansas, Maine, South Dakota and Tennessee. Similar bills are proposed in Georgia, Hawaii, Missouri, Ohio and Oklahoma, and one is being drafted in Utah.


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The iPod and dedicated MP3 market is in decline (Apple's fiscal 2012 results reported a 21 percent decline year-over-year from the last winter quarter) — no thanks to the smartphones and tablets. How might Apple revive its once mighty money printer? By redesigning the iPod Nano.
Japanese Apple blog Macotara reports Apple's seventh-generation iPod Nano will see a return to the elongated design that was dropped after the fifth-generation. The current iPod Nano released in 2010 eschewed the Click Wheel and video camera in favor of a 240x240 pixel touchscreen and a clip (just like the one on the iPod Shuffle).
Macotara believes a return to the Nano's roots are in order and along for the ride will be the Home button that is found on Apple's iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch products. At this time, the site is not sure if the new Nano will run on any version of iOS or if it will be a running the same OS as the current Nano, that looks like iOS but is only skinned to be so.
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There's an identity crisis within the iPod family now. Apple's newest cash cows are the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. An elongated iPod Nano with a Home button feels like it might start stepping into iPod Touch territory. Basically, the new iPod Nano would be like an iPod Touch Nano. Can two such devices co-exist? Or will Apple give the iPod Touch the shaft (unlikely)?
In many ways, Apple returning back to the long iPod Nano form factor feels right. The current iPod Nano, despite the many iWatch accessories it spawned always felt like it should have been the iPod Shuffle's successor. Because of its it tiny size and clip, it was almost too Nano to be an iPod Nano.
I know I loved my second-gen iPod Nano. When people griped about the third-gen iPod Nano aka the iPod "fatty," Apple responded by returning back to the long and skinny form factor the following year. Apple's tendency to return back to old designs and give them a fresh coat of paint is one of its strongest assets.
Would a new iPod Nano priced aggressively sell like hotcakes even virtually everybody has an iPod? You betcha. That my friend is how you teach an old dog new tricks: with makeup.


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Chris Burman is a Greenpeace New Zealand street fundraiser. He has personally gathered 6,160 signatures for our Save the Arctic petition. That made him a world-beater in Greenpeace outreach campaigning circles, and won him a trip to the Arctic Circle, aboard the Greenpeace vessel the Arctic Sunrise.
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Today we had the opportunity to get down and dirty. On our way back from the ice edge we sailed through the Forland Sundet to a beach called Poolepynten on the Island of Prins Karls Forland to pick up rubbish.
Armed with rubber gloves and rubbish bags, a dozen of us strolled down the beach. We recognized in the snow some paw prints from an Arctic fox. About a kilometre away three reindeer were lying down to shelter themselves from the wind.
But how on Earth could such a remote place, hardly inhabited, have rubbish on its beaches you might ask? Well, both the Gulf Stream and the currents from Siberia happen to pass by, and bring in fishing nets, ropes, floats, and even the odd spray cans, bottles and plastic containers. The weirdest things we found were two different shoes and a comput... Read more >
The Arctic Sunrise has sailed us all the way to the edge of the sea ice. We found it far west at 78 to 79 degrees latitude North, almost 16 hours sailing further away than normal. We are in a record melting year indeed.
We anchored on an ice sheet for a couple of days to get a good feeling what the melting Arctic is like, to take a few pictures and of course to see if we could spot a polar bear.
I took it upon myself to climb up the Crow's Nest 25 metres above the ship, and take in the 360 degree view. As far as I could see it was just one giant cracked ice sheet.
We are right in the middle of nowhere. The view and the silence are breath-taking. It just makes you feel alive. This white palace is classic polar bear territory, and sure enough we got to spot a mum and her cub strolling al... Read more >
The best way to get around in the Arctic waters of Spitzbergen, an island in Norway's Svalbard archipelago, is on an icebreaker. So it's good that the Arctic Sunrise is one of those -you don't want to get stuck around here.
This morning, after I'd had breakfast and cleaned the toilets (one of the chores I do every morning on the ship), a good dozen of us went for a trip to a glacier on the island of Blomstrand. The island was long believed to be a peninsula, but after the dramatic melting of the glaciers in the region, it became apparent what it really was. Armed with a picture of the glaciers taken in 1928, Greenpeace went and photographed it in 2001 to mark the difference.
Today we are going back and the trend has unfortunately not changed.
Blomstrand's glaciers, like many others, are... Read more >
In preparation for the Arctic tour of Svalbard on the Arctic Sunrise, it will surely be fascinating to visit the global seed vault, the research bases, and walk around glaciers.
But the ultimate goal has to be to spot a walrus, or even better, a polar bear in its natural habitat. I know from previous encounters with sea lions back in New Zealand that it would probably be best to stay far away from a walrus. Imagine how far away you need to stay from a polar bear!
The Greenpeace crew is so well prepared for a possible run in, that they dedicated a whole chapter of a manual to 'Safety protocol for Greenpeace operations in areas with polar bears.' We are also all to engage in polar bear safety training.
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Chris Burman is a Greenpeace New Zealand street fundraiser. He has personally gathered 7,595 signatures for Greenpeace's Save the Arctic petition . That made him a world-beater in Greenpeace street campaigning circles, and won him a trip to the Arctic Circle, aboard the Greenpeace vessel the Arctic Sunrise. Below is the first of a series of blogs on his experience. Each is a few days old, because of the delays in getting an internet service aboard the ship - the region is incredibly remote, after all.
I am being told that the trip will start in Longyearbyen (Norway) and will go around (the Arctic island of) Svalbard to bear witness of the changing Arctic.
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Come to the Lord's Judgement Seat
By: Paul Thompson
Each one of you, come with great joy to the seat of God's judgement, and step forward into the Light of Christ, so that you may be enlightened, cleansed, and guided by it. Christ, who enlightens everyone who comes into the world, is the one and only agency sufficient for your salvation from the sins which run through human nature. He stands at the door and knocks, and anyone who hears him may open and let him in.
It is to Christ that I direct you, away from the many idols which the world adores. Hear him, whom God has sent to be our one, true, inward Teacher. Hear no other, for no other can lead you in the wholesome ways beloved of God, no other can guide you into the Kingdom of Heaven, here and now as you live, no other can command you and give you the power to obey.
To all who would hear! Firstly to those who profess no religion - Christ is the answer to your emptiness. He pursues you and seeks you out even though you may wish to have nothing to do with religion. Fine! Have nothing to do with religion, but have everything to do with Christ!
Next to those who have an outward religion, especially to those who profess Christ. Now is the time to let Christ bring you and your outward practices to judgement. God said to the house of Israel, by his prophet Ezekiel: "Go ye, serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols". There are many who claim the name of Christians, who, in their own wills and imaginations, would bring into worship such pollution and who set up idols in their hearts. O Jerusalem! Thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood, and when the Lord washed thee thoroughly, anointed thee, covered thee with silk and linen, and decked thee with gold and silver! For now thou dost trust in thine own beauty, and playest the harlot because of thy renown, and pourest out thy fornication on every one that passeth by!
So every one of you that claims to be one of the Lord's people, all bring your profession before the seat of his judgement; bring it to the threshing floor, where the grain is separated from the chaff, which is taken and burned; bring it to the refining fire, where the dross will be burned away from the true metal; bring it under the hammer which breaks open hard hearts, and before the sword which cuts away flesh; bring it into the Light which discovers all. Come penitent, begging for mercy, in poverty of Spirit; come, be brought as you are, blind or lame, or in your grave clothes. Come to be washed clean once more, to be anointed and raised up once more, to be clothed in white once more, to receive a crown and gold and silver once more. Come to be washed and to drink at the fountain of living water; come to be healed; come to hear the Law, at the feet of the Master; come without money to buy the heavenly food without price; come and eat the bread from heaven and drink the wine from heaven, which nourishes the newborn of the church; come and receive the daily manna; come into the kingdom of the Prince of Peace, and come to hear the Wonderful, the Counsellor.
Christ, the Shepherd, calls you, each one by name. Heed him, and know his voice, all other voices are false. By this you shall know others of his flock - they will not gather in their own wills [because it may be such-and-such a day, or because they seem to agree about what scripture says!], but in answer to Christ's voice. They will be silent before the Lord and wait upon him, the Head of the Church, whom the Father has set above us as our King and Prophet, and says, "Hear ye him".
This is the testimony of the Christian, that his first joy is to come to worship, to gather in the name of Christ, to feel Christ there among the brethren as he had promised. In worship, he first stands afar off and will not raise his eyes, but asks first for mercy as a sinner. Thus he enters the Sabbath which is inward and true, where all of man's work is set aside, and the Lord of the Sabbath comes to him and to the brethren, to order their worship. In this worship, there is wonder and joy! Praise God! Amen.


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In addition to her work as a studio instructor, Ya-Fei Chuang has designed the Piano Interpretation & Performance Seminar offered through NEC's School of Continuing Education.
Prizewinner at the Cologne International Piano Competition at age 18, Chuang has appeared at festivals that include the Beethoven Festival (Warsaw) with Christoph Eschenbach, the European Music Festival (Stuttgart), the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, the Bach Festival in Leipzig, the Shannon Festival (Ireland), Oulu (Finland), Ravinia, Sarasota, Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, Oregon Bach Festival, Celebrity Series in Boston, and Tanglewood (USA).
The Ruhr Festival (Germany) released a CD of her May 2007 festival solo recital, which was also included as a premium in the leading German music magazine Fono Forum.
Chuang has appeared with the Spectrum Concerts in Berlin, at the Fromm Foundation concerts at Harvard, at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge (USA), and has performed in venues such as Boston's Symphony Hall, Jordan Hall, Ozawa Hall, Cologne and Berlin Philharmonic Hall, Schauspielhaus Berlin, Gewandhaus Leipzig, and as a duo partner with Kim Kashkashian, Robert Levin, and Steven Isserlis.
Her recent engagements include concerts and recordings in the Berlin Philharmonic Hall, with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Malaysian Philharmonic, at the National Concert Hall Taipei, in the US, Europe, South America, Asia, many returning engagements to festivals, and 4 CDs to be released, including by Naxos, New York Philomusica, and ECM.
Ya-Fei Chuang first performed on television in her native Taiwan at the age of eight and gave her first public recital at age nine. She won first prize at the nationally televised "Genius vs. Genius" Competition at age ten and first prize at the National Competition (Taiwan) at age eleven.
The following year she received unprecedented fellowships and scholarships from several prestigious foundations in Germany and Taiwan that enabled her to pursue pre-college, undergraduate, and masters-level studies at the Freiburg Conservatory (Musikhochschule) with Mechthild Hatz (a student of Alfred Cortot), Rosa Sabater, and Robert Levin, completing the six-year course of study in four. During this time she was awarded prizes including the Basel-Colmar-Freiburg Arts Prize and the Mendelssohn Prize in Freiburg. She subsequently concluded her German studies with Pavel Gililov, receiving a soloist exam (final degree) at the Musikhochschule of Cologne.
In 1993 Ya-Fei Chuang moved to the United States, where she earned a graduate diploma at New England Conservatory, with Russell Sherman. In addition to her faculty positions at New England Conservatory and the Boston Conservatory, and teaches masterclasses in Asia, Europe, and the U.S., including at Tanglewood, and at the Mozarteum Salzburg. In 2007, Chuang was a presenter of the World Piano Pedagogy Conference.
Ya-Fei Chuang's mastery of the most challenging solo repertoire is complemented by extensive activities as a chamber musician and duo partner, and by her commitment to contemporary music, including world premieres of works by Stanley Walden and Thomas Oboe Lee, and future projects with John Harbison. She is represented by ARTRA Artist Management of Chicago.
Studies at the Freiburg Conservatory with Mechthild Hatz, Rosa Sabater and Robert Levin; studies at the Musikhochshule of Cologne with Pavel Gililov; Graduate Diploma (NEC); studies with Russell Sherman. Also faculty of the Boston Conservatory.
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Lizzie Abbott
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – After going 1-4 on its annual spring break trip to California, the Harvard women's water polo team has returned home and is set to meet Brown March 21 at Blodgett Pool. The match, which is one of Harvard's two remaining home games, is scheduled for a 7 p.m. start.
The Crimson (9-9) is off to a .500 start with a pair of upperclassmen leading the way. Junior Aisha Price has a team-high 47 goals, while senior Devan Kennifer has tallied 42 scores to go along with 27 assists and 59 steals. Kennifer leads the team in both assists and steals, while Price leads the team with 10 hat tricks on the season. Senior Monica Zdrojewski, who has scored in eight straight contests, is third on the team with 30 goals. Ariel Dukes leads the Crimson with 109 saves, including an impressive 13-save performance in Harvard's last game at No. 6 UC Irvine.
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Harvard went 1-4 on its trip to California while facing some of the nation's best competition. The Crimson fell to ranked teams No. 16 UC Santa Barbara, No. 6 UC Irvine and Long Beach State, which is receiving votes. Harvard topped Whittier, 15-4, behind a hat trick from Monica Zdrojewski for its lone win in the Golden State.
The Bears (11-6), which received votes in the CWPA poll March 14, will be back in the pool after 10 days off from competition. In its last time out, Brown beat St. Francis (N.Y.), 18-7, and Iona, 9-3, at the Marist Invite March 11. Brown finished the invite 4-0 after beating the host Red Foxes and No. 13 Michigan on the first day of the tournament.
All-Time Series
Harvard leads the all-time series against Brown, 55-42-1. The Crimson topped the Bears three times last season by an average of six goals.
Up Next
The Crimson will travel to Washington, D.C., March 31 for games against Mercyhurst and George Washington.
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Lizzie Abbott
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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - University teaching jobs in Costa Rica? Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in University teaching jobs in Costa Rica? Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Costa Rica View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message Tiger BeerJoined: 08 Feb 2003Posts: 778Location: Hong Kong Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 3:25 pm Post subject: University teaching jobs in Costa Rica? I have a MA TESOL and have taught at universities in both Japan & Korea. 6 years university teaching experience. What are the chances of someone like me finding a job teaching at a college or university in Costa Rica? My passport is an American one.. Back to top voltaireJoined: 03 Dec 2006Posts: 179Location: 'The secret of being boring is to say everything.' Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2010 12:03 pm Post subject: Last edited by voltaire on Tue Jun 15, 2010 1:40 pm; edited 2 times in total Back to top voltaireJoined: 03 Dec 2006Posts: 179Location: 'The secret of being boring is to say everything.' Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2010 12:06 pm Post subject: Me too. I have years and years of experience, a TESL certificate, but also a wife and children - in a country that shall remain nameless- to support. Is there much of a chance of getting a good university or high school job that pays well enough for me to send money to my family, or -dare I say it- would allow the whole family to live in Cost Rica? I am not at all particular about what city or province I would live in. P.S. I appreciate how unlikely this all is, but if you can offer any useful information, I am grateful. Back to top roadballmintJoined: 24 May 2009Posts: 10 Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 7:04 pm Post subject: Costa Rica is not as "university-going" as Japan or Korea, so finding a university job might take some more leg-work. It might be best to directly contact the English departments at various universities. Voltaire- I doubt you would make enough money to support a family back in your home country. It might be possible to have your family come live with you in CR as the cost of living is much lower than in other countries (that is- if you don't mind living like the locals: modest apartment, eating in most days, and using public buses for transportation). However, if you want to maintain a western lifestyle it can get very expensive very fast. If you want to live in a nice house, eat out every day, and have a car, a teaching job- even a university teaching job- may not be enough to cover that. Also, you mentioned you have children. Unless your children are already fluent in Spanish, you will probably have to pay to send them to an international school. That's a huge expense and something to consider if you're bringing a family. Back to top zeddiezJoined: 06 May 2006Posts: 34 Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 10:12 pm Post subject: University teaching jobs in Costa Rica? I almost got a job at Interamericana University in Heredia (which turned into Ulatina). Very low pay 12 hours a week for 172,000.00 per month. I said no. Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Costa Rica All times are GMT Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Where to Begin----------------General DiscussionNewbie ForumCurrent Events ForumTechnology ForumOnline Teaching Forum Africa Forums----------------General Africa Forum Asia Forums----------------CambodiaChina (Job-related Posts Only)China (Off-Topic)Hong KongIndiaIndonesiaJapanMalaysiaPhilippinesSingaporeTaiwanThailandGeneral Asia ForumVietnam Caribbean Forums----------------General Caribbean Forum Europe Forums----------------Czech RepublicFranceGermanyGreeceItalyMacedonia and the BalkansPolandRomaniaRussia & C.I.S.SpainTurkeyUkraineUnited KingdomGeneral Europe Forum Latin America Forums----------------ArgentinaBrazilChileColombiaCosta RicaMexicoMexico (off-topic)PeruGeneral Latin America Forum The Middle East Forums----------------BahrainEgyptIsraelKuwaitOmanQatarSaudi ArabiaUnited Arab EmiratesGeneral Middle East Forum North America Forums----------------General North America Forum Oceania----------------Australia/New Zealand You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum This page is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Contact Dave's ESL Cafe Copyright © 2018 Dave Sperling. All Rights Reserved. Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group Teaching Jobs in China


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The Flexibility of Flex CircuitsPosted in: Flex/Rigid Flex
Old technologies never die; they just get new names. Flex circuits have been around for many years in the IC packaging business and have been called almost as many names. In the early days, it was tape automated bonding (TAB). General Electric called it Mimi-Mod; Motorola called it Spider, and the first patent (despite an IP spat) was granted to Frances Hugle of Hugle Industries in 1969.


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One Mom's Pre-Olympic Adventure in London and Paris: Part Two
From The London Eye to the crown jewels, four amazing days with my twin boys in London.
-Deborah Perry Piscione
Last time, Deborah told us about what went into planning a kid-friendly adventure abroad with her seven-year-old twin boys. Read on to hear the exciting details about their trip!
Day 1: Friday
The London Eye, Piccadilly Circus, Covent Garden and Leicester Square.
As soon as we arrived at the Park Plaza Westminster Bridge Hotel (162.33 GBP or $251.54 per night)., we were amazed by the view of Parliament, Big Ben and the London Eye from our hotel suite, and the size and comfort of the room, not typical for London. I had not spent much time on the South Bank before, but this location is within walking distance of about every site on our must-see list, except for the Tower of London. The Westminster and Waterloo tube stops are a few short blocks away, so we were never in need of pricey taxi rides.
Once we checked in, I made all of us drink a lot of water and sleep for a few hours before our 3:00 pm ticket to ride the London Eye, the enormous Ferris wheel that allows you to see most of London with a bird's eye view. This 30 minute ride is a treat and gives you the opportunity to get quickly acclimated to the surrounding neighborhoods.
From there, I just had to take the boys over to Piccadilly Circus and do the walk to Covent Garden, areas that I spent so much time in during my time in London. In many ways London has changed, but it many ways it's exactly the same. I missed seeing many of the pubs I used to frequent, and cringed to see the Starbucks on every corner that once housed London's famous and traditional pubs.
Next I wanted to plot how to get some theater tickets. My boys are fans of the "Horrible Histories," a popular London-based book and magazine series, tickets to its newly created play was a must. We also ran over to the half-price ticket office in Leicester Square, but they laughed at me when I asked if they had any half price tickets to The Lion King. The play is nearly sold out, and "Disney does not discount," I was told. I vacillated over whether I wanted to spend the money since we could see The Lion King back in the states for a fraction of the cost. (The Dollar to the British Pound is not favorable. During our trip the exchange rate was $1.66 for every pound.)
Day 2: Saturday:
Parliament, the Natural History Museum, a pub for traditional fish and chips, The Lion King.
Saturdays are the days that Parliament allows foreign visitors to tour its historic buildings. I wasn't sure it would be of interest to the boys, but there is so much ancient war history that they were entranced just touching the stone wall entrance to the House of Commons that had been damaged by bombs back in 1941.
The Natural History Museum is not to be missed. A friend of mine went there a few years ago, and said I'd be amazed by how many dinosaur artifacts they have. Still, I was not prepared to walk in and encounter dinosaurs galore — and even one that was left partially excavated!
I broke down and took the boys to The Lion King, and it was worth every penny. It's a beautiful story that is great for impressionable children and the production is really fantastic. I had chills when the actors performed solos.
Afterwards we grabbed a bite to eat at the White Horse pub outside of Covent Garden. Even though we were in the heart of the theater district, this spot is a favorite among locals and it was nice to escape from all the tourists and soak up the authentic vibe. However, the fish and chips were not the fish and chips I was accustomed to, and my boys were a bit turned off by the attached heads and tails of this fish!
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Lipscomb Lady Bisons competed in two separate tennis matches at home against MTSU and Evansville Friday and Saturday – walking away from both matches winless, but more experienced.
In Friday night's game against MTSU, the team lost 7-0 in a match that saw a doubles win for sophomores Jenny Borck and Deahna Welcher.
Coach Andrew Harris spoke positively to the team's efforts against the Blue Raiders.
In doubles, Harris said improvement was shown.
"We are still working on finding good, consistent combinations in doubles, and we definitely saw some good things Friday night," Harris said.
In the singles competition Harris said he also saw some growth for the improving team.
"We had a lot of close matches from top to bottom," Harris said.
In Saturday's match against Evansville, the Lady Bisons put up a tough fight against the Purple Aces, but lost 6-1. Borck won her individual match, and the doubles team of Borck and Welcher netted their second victory of the weekend.
Harris said he was impressed with the team's overall doubles performance, but still saw areas where improvement was needed.
"We came out with a lot of energy – a lot better in doubles, and still need to keep looking at combinations and working on executing critical points," Harris said. "But I was pleased with the effort and the attitude."
In the singles competitions against Evansville, Harris noted the continuous improvement.
"In singles, we had some tight matches," Harris said. "I was impressed with the fight of the girls and just their continuous attitude while they were competing.
"We need to continue to work on getting better in our game situational management, but other than that, I think there are some things that I look forward to working with them on as we go through the season."
The Lady Bisons, 0-3, will seek their first win of the season as they host Tennessee-Chattanooga Saturday, Feb. 2.