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FAO Emergency consultation - Avian influenza H7N9
Jul 2013
In April 2013, some of the world's top scientists gathered at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) for an emergency consultation on the new avian influenza threat called H7N9.
Animal and public health specialists teamed up with virologists, disease control managers, anthropologists and a wide range of other experts to translate current knowledge into practical advice. The resulting guidelines were designed to help member countries prepare for and manage the risks posed by H7N9.


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Global catalyst demand expected to reach $ 19.5 bn in 2016
Global demand for petroleum refining, chemical synthesis, and polymerization catalysts will rise 5.8 %/year to $ 19.5 billion in 2016, according to World Catalysts, a new study from the Freedonia Group Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
The study further says growth will result from rising output of refining, chemical, and polymer industries, particularly in developing nations, as well as from an ongoing shift in catalyst product mix toward higher value, more efficient catalysts.
Polymerization catalysts, says the study, will grow the strongest, with gains in large developing economies, as well as in the Middle East.
In developed economies, catalyst demand will grow moderately, restrained by weak demand for motor fuels.
Rapid growth through 2016 will occur in both Asia and the Middle East.
In Asia, China and India will lead the growth, which will result from rapid industrialization and expansion of the refining, chemical, and polymer industries. China's rising income levels, vehicle ownership, and industrial activity will all contribute to strong demand growth for catalysts.
In the Middle East, Saudi Arabia and other large oil and natural gas producers will continue efforts to expand and diversify their economies by investing in new chemical and petroleum refining capacity.
Polymer producers in the Middle East will increasingly compete globally.
Brazil will lead strong growth in Central and South America as it begins to develop its natural gas and oil resources.
The study says this will provide a competitive advantage for chemical and polymer producers, while the nation's large population will provide a strong market for products manufactured with the use of catalysts.
Catalyst demand in North America, says the study, will growth healthily as well, due largely to a rebound in chemical and polymer production as companies take advantage of comparatively low natural gas prices. These have fallen from the historical highs observed during 2006-11.
Low gas prices will also encourage further development of catalyst technologies involved in converting natural gas to liquid fuels and other products.
Demand for refining catalysts in North America will be flat, the study says, as motor vehicle fuel demand stagnates in the face of competition from biofuels and increasing fuel efficiency of vehicles.
In addition, intense competition among global export markets will depress margins for North American refiners.

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Regulators Look for Three More Libor Settlements
Regulators hope to reach settlements with Rabobank, Lloyds and ICAP by the end of this summer. WSJ's David Enrich reports on the second wave of rate-rigging penalties that is expected in the largest financial fraud scandal in history.
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There isn't a week that goes by these days that you don't hear about the 4-inch iPhone. It's looking very likely that Apple's next iPhone will come with a new elongated screen along with an even higher resolution than the iPhone 4S's Retina display.
Last week, The Wall Street Journal made headlines when it unofficially confirmed the next iPhone will come with a 4-inch display, increasing .5-inches from the current iPhone 4S's 3.5-inch display. Reuters then quickly "confirmed" the WSJ's story.
Wednesday, Apple blog 9to5Mac revealed a few tidbits that add more fuel to those two fires.
U.S. & World
News from around the country and around the globe
The crux of the report is that the next iPhone will sport a 3.95-inch display with 1136x640 resolution (that's up from the current 960x640 resolution on the iPhone 4S). The iPhone's dimensions will remain roughly the same, meaning the actual size of the device will not grow, despite the slightly larger screen. A smaller dock connector is also included on the prototypes, reaffirming a previous report from iMore.
9to5Mac says Apple's currently testing two next-gen iPhones in "thick, locked shells in order to disguise the exterior design to 'undisclosed' employees."
iOS 6 is also being tweaked and tested with the new higher resolution to accommodate a fifth row of icons.
The main issue with a "taller" screen for the iPhone is the changed aspect ratio. Both the iPhone and iPad have a 3:2 aspect ratio that allows easy scaling of apps (2x). But an 1136x640 resolution iPhone would make scaling iPhone apps up to the iPad a tad troublesome, as apps would be designed to be closer to 16:9 than 3:2. Apple, could of course always just add "black bars" to its apps when scaling up to the iPad.
A 3.95-inch 1136x640 resolution iPhone isn't going to dethrone the 4-inch+ 1280x720 screens commonly found on most Android smartphones today, but it'll give Apple fans something to cheer for.
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Film - Feature | October 24 | 3:10-4:40 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
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The temptation is to take Bergmans masterpiece for granted. It is probably the most famous of all those modern, post-Pirandellian films concerned with themselves as works of art. It also contains one of the most truly erotic sequences on film, demonstrating what can be done on screen with told material. An actress named Elizabeth (Liv Ullmann) elects to become silent and is put into the care of Alma (Bibi Andersson), a nurse companion. The actresss act, we soon learn, has two aspects: it is a wish for ethical purity, but it is also a species of sadism, a virtually impregnable position of strength from which to manipulate her nurse, who is charged with the burden of talking. By the end of the film, the two characters are engaged in a desperate Strindberg-like duel of identities, and Bergman has turned that struggle into a metaphor for the fate of language, art, and consciousness itself.
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'AIDA on-line' is a Web-based simulation program which allows people with diabetes and their relatives, as well as health-care professionals and students, to experiment with insulin dosage and dietary adjustments via the Internet.
People who wish to make use of the simulator should be aware that the simulations have not been formally verified; nor are they individualised for any particular patient. Therefore it could be dangerous for someone with diabetes to act on the results of the simulated data.
Users should be aware that 'AIDA on-line' can only be regarded as an "educated guess" as to what might happen to a diabetic patient following a change in either insulin or diet. Furthermore, this guess is based on a large number of assumptions which may not all apply to all people with diabetes. Given this, the output from 'AIDA on-line' should be regarded as only applying to hypothetical cases (or "imaginary" patients), and not to a single real subject. Good diabetes care requires the input of a doctor or diabetes specialist supported by a team of specialist nurses, dieticians, diabetes educators, pharmacists, chiropodists, etc... 'AIDA on-line' and this insulin tutorial are not replacements for such a team.
Rather 'AIDA on-line' should simply be regarded as a 'toy' which some patients and health-care workers have found fun and interesting to use. It is provided here free-of-charge, and integrated with this insulin tutorial, in the hope that more people may find it of some use.
Changes in therapy should always be discussed with your doctor. The authors hereby disclaim any liability for the use of this Web-based simulator and / or this insulin tutorial.
Please note: Diabetes practices and regimens can vary between countries, hospitals / clinics, and even between specialists. Therefore what may be encouraged in one setting may not be so recommended in another. This insulin tutorial is not meant to provide a didactic (regimented / fixed) plan for using insulin. Rather the tutorial is intended to show some possible ways of doing things, and provide some explanations as to why things may be done in a certain way. Furthermore it is hoped that this tutorial may encourage people to think a bit more about what insulin regimens are feasible, and how such regimens might be improved and / or tailored for an individual. In all this it is important to remember that people's mileage may vary - so what works for one person may not necessarily be appropriate for someone else. Therefore, as with all medical information on the Web, it is important that - if you have diabetes - you consult your doctor or diabetes specialist before considering acting on any of the information discussed in this tutorial.
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Is this thread about carbon emmisions or just carbon in general?
'Carbon emmissions' is a rather lazy term (not having a go, swears, I know everyone uses it), people should say 'carbon dioxide emmissions' if that's what they mean - methane, which also contains carbon, is a much worse greenhouse gas (weight for weight), while chloroflourocarbons are worse still.
So a ton of carbon in the form of CFCs is much worse, environmentally, than a ton of carbon in CO2.
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GRAPHENE - a single sheet of graphite only one atom thick with. Useful for making single electron transistors. Way cool.
remember the whole "cows farting" spiel that the USA laid on us before kyoto?
well apparently it aint such a joke. (i think) it's a source of approx 15% of our carbon!
which is a good argument for being a vegan they say...
The main downside being, you don't get to eat lovely, lovely meat...
George Monbiot seems to me to be the most reliable watchdog on the sorry state of the planet vis-a-vis carbon emissions and governments' failur eto do anything about it. (And I have to say that Woebot's derisory comments about him here not so long ago were misleading and unfair.)
This is well worth reading.
Seems my response was inappropriate, sorry haha.
Buckyballs are kool tho.
Right, I'm not really up on my science, so this question may seem a bit daft but it's something I've wondered for a while now. Can we actually reduce the level of CO2 in the atmosphere by cutting emissions, or are we simply stopping the situation getting any worse? Where does the excess carbon dioxide go? Into the water supply, into the earth...or is it up there forever?
CO2 is naturally soaked up by plants: they use the carbon to form carbohydrates (sugars, starches and cellulose) and output oxygen (O2). So if human CO2 emmissions suddenly stopped - or were even just reduced to a manageable level - the excess CO2 in the atmosphere would eventually be reduced to the natural equilibrium level. I have no idea how long this would take, mind you. The problem at the moment is that CO2 emmissions are continuously increasing, while the amount of rainforest (they're not called 'the lungs of the planet' for nothing) is constantly decreasing.
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Trees use ("fix") carbon; animals exhale, flatulate and emit (in the case of industrial humans) carbon. When trees die the insects, rot etc. which break them down release their carbon again. More trees = less carbon in the atmosphere. Unfortunately trees and the related eco-systems of large rain-forests etc. are being razed all over the planet.
[edit - apologies for simul-post with Mr.Tea's above]
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Oh yeah, I remember now. Animals produce carbon dioxide and plants produce oxygen. That's primary school biology. Christ, I can be dense sometimes.


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Ballet Repertory Theatre Presents
The Nutcracker
A Classic Holiday Tradition
KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Ave NW
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423 Central Avenue NW
Albuquerque NM 87102
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The Nutcracker
Celebrating the sights and sounds of the season, Ballet Repertory Theatre presents the beloved holiday tradition, The Nutcracker, full of your favorite mischievous mice, sweet dancing treats, and a sprinkle of sparkling snowflakes! Bring your family and friends to BRT's Nutcracker – an Albuquerque favorite since 1996.
All persons entering the theater must have a ticket (including infants).
Special prices for groups larger than 10 available, please contact the KiMo Ticket Office for more information.
Late comers will be seated at the discretion of the House Manager.


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ownsel necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 52 diseños de 15 diseñadores freelance.
We are looking for a classy, sleek, professional looking logo, along with business cards and stationary, to represent the Select group of companies which currently consist of Select Catering, Select Wines and Cafe Select.
SelectCatering.ie, SelectWines.ie, CafeSelect.ie, SelectGroup.ie
Desired Color Scheme:
Open to ideas but have silver and royal blue in mind
Desired Style:
We are pushing towards a 3D logo but are open to any ideas you might have. We also have it in mind to use a foil finish on the logo for the business cards if that requires anything special.
Accepted File Formats:
psd, jpeg, ai, (vector format for van)
We are looking for a classy, sleek, professional looking logo, along with business cards and stationary, to represent the Select group of companies which currently consist of Select Catering, Select Wines and Cafe Select. It will be used on their respective business cards, websites, tee shirts/uniforms, vans, stationary, etc. What we want is a logo that is universally usable with each category of the company based on the SELECT tag with the different companies activities attached for each one individually. The catering company has the tag line of "Any occasion is worth it!" It specialises in outside catering, delivering fine food to private and corporate events and weddings. Select Wines is a new company and is currently having an ecommerce site designed. It was started to work in tandem with the catering company to provide better value wine to our customers. Café Select is just a registered name at present as we are currently looking for a suitable premises to expand our business into the upmarket café area but what we want is one logo to represent all the companies and just add the different tags for each company if that's possible. We will leave the brief open after that and look forward to seeing what excellent ideas you all come up with. This is our first time entering a listing so we are not fully sure of the file formats we need (need to be able to enlarge for graphics for van and I believe its vector graphics we need but please correct me if I am wrong about this) and please forgive us if we leave out any information you need. We will answer any questions as quickly as possible. Good Luck!
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Small price differences can make options seem more similar, easing our buying decisions
(Medical Xpress)—Some retailers, such as Apple's iTunes, are known for using uniform pricing in an effort to simplify consumers' choices and perhaps increase their tendency to make impulse purchases. But other stores, like supermarkets, often have small price differences across product flavors and brands.
As counterintuitive as it might seem, these small price differences may actually make the options seem more similar, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The research shows that adding small differences can actually help to make choosing less difficult and reduce the likelihood that we'll put off making a choice.
Traditional models of similarity – along with everyday intuition – would suggest that increasing the differences between objects can't make them seem more similar. But researchers Nathan Novemsky and Ravi Dhar of the Yale School of Management, along with Jongmin Kim of Singapore Management University, hypothesized that small differences might actually draw attention to the attributes that are identical – attributes we would otherwise ignore.
So, for example, if we have to choose between two cereals that have the same price, we're likely to ignore price and focus on the similarity in flavor. But if the prices are slightly different, we'll focus on similarities in both price and flavor, leading us to see the cereals as more similar overall.
In the first study, university students chose between two kinds of tea. They saw an image and read information about the ingredients, benefits, and price of each tea.
Students who were told the teas had the same price judged them to be less similar than the students who thought they had different prices, confirming the researchers' hypothesis. And this finding wasn't limited to tea: Novemsky and his colleagues observed the same pattern with other options, including cereals and restaurant entrees.
Results from a second study suggest that we do pay attention to identical attributes but only when our attention is drawn to them.
So what consequences might this effect have for actual decision-making?
Additional studies revealed that students had more difficulty choosing between objects with the same price because they were seen as less substitutable for one another. And students were more likely to actually purchase an object when the prices were different. In the final study, introducing a 3% difference in price nearly doubled the number of purchases.
Ultimately, these studies suggest that these small differences increase perceived similarity, which helps to make choosing less difficult and decreases the likelihood that we'll defer making a choice.
Novemsky and his colleagues note that small differences across choice options probably seem trivial to most people. In a follow-up study, most participants predicted that small price differences wouldn't affect their choices; they also underestimated their tendency to pay attention to those differences.
But, together, the findings of these studies suggest just the opposite – small differences can have a substantial impact on how we choose.
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School of Business Building and Programs Supporter Elliot Mayrock '73
Adding to Family Legacy
Over the years, the gifts Elliot Mayrock '73 has made to the College have supported a variety of student opportunities while establishing a substantial philanthropic legacy for the Mayrock family. Most recently, among other campaign contributions, he made a significant gift to the new School of Business building. In honor of his generosity, a classroom in a prominent location will bear the names of Elliot's parents, Harry and Marjorie Fortunoff Mayrock.
The elder Mayrocks were accomplished businesspeople. The family had a prominent role in building Fortunoff stores, a distinctive retail operation in the New York area. Their son feels that celebrating their memory in the new business school is an appropriate honor.
After graduating, Mayrock joined the Fortunoff management team; he was responsible for developing the company's successful home furnishings business.
Mayrock's duties took him around the globe in search of unique products. He made his first of many visits to China in 1979, and "started developing relationships with the Chinese community," he says. He has watched growth and development transform Asia and now thinks the area is ready to become a dominant world leader.
Mayrock recognizes that the new business school building offers the potential to transform IC's academic programs. One way for the school to grow is to engage the nascent business communities of Asia. "Ithaca can reach out to an eager academic and entrepreneurial community through the universal medium of business studies," he says.
Soon Mayrock and his wife, Alecia, and their two children will embark on an extended trip to China. "We may stay nine months to a year," he says. "We want our children to experience the culture first-hand, so when they grow up they will have an intrinsic understanding of it, no matter what they choose to do with their lives."
Elliot Mayrock's focus on the future is based on a solid understanding of the past. He graduated with honors in history. "I learned so much at Ithaca," he says. "I was deeply touched by wonderful people like [history professors] Paul McBride and Joe Tempesta. Ithaca also gave me my first exposure to international studies, in a course taught by Jack Pavia."
Mayrock's early gifts to the College established learning programs devoted to history and that honored the memory of his parents. In 1979 he set up the Marjorie Fortunoff Mayrock Memorial Lecture Series in history, a vibrant program that has brought many notable historians, including Walter LaFeber, to campus. Later he created the Harry Mayrock Memorial Award, also devoted to the study of history, and in 1997 he endowed the Elliot Mayrock '73 History Scholarship to help deserving students.
Elliot Mayrock and his family are returning the generosity of Ithaca faculty by making a world of difference for his alma mater and its students—today and tomorrow.
You, too, can help Ithaca College business students get the best possible preparation for successful lives as global citizens, in the innovative sustainable learning laboratory now under construction. Join Elliot Mayrock and his family in making a world of difference; contribute to the School of Business priority. Visit ithaca.edu/campaign and click on "Give to Campaign" at the left, then check "School of Business building" on the contribution form. Watch construction progress at ithaca.edu/business.


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This summer, Philip Gasbarro '14 and Brendan O'Sullivan, associate professor of philosophy, tackled a provocative question: Can the mind fit in to the natural world? After weeks of analysis, the pair plans to submit their research for publication in academic journals and at professional conferences.
A Summer of Research
While some college students use the summer to relax and recharge, a select group of Stonehill undergraduates were hard at work in campus labs and libraries completing original, publishable research alongside faculty collaborators.
Now in its 18th year, the Stonehill Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) offers students an early opportunity to perform graduate-level research in the social and natural sciences and the humanities. Their hands-on involvement is a significant competitive advantage in graduate and professional school applications as well as in post-college employment opportunities.
Laura Dzgoeva '14, one of 50 SURE Scholars during the summer of 2013, helped to translate Russian poetry, "I am extremely proud of what we've accomplished this summer. It's kind of helped expand my horizons and taught me things I never would have learned."
Laura is not alone. SURE participants often characterize the program as one of their favorite and most influential Stonehill experiences. "It's really just that intense and that awesome," agrees Philip Gasbarro '14, who will submit his philosophy research to peer-reviewed journals.
The program also allows faculty to connect with students and build lasting relationships. Associate Professor of Psychology Christopher Poirier, who was among the 32 Stonehill SURE mentors, appreciates the bonds he developed this summer. "Working with SURE students, we tend to have a lot of conversations about career interests, graduate school plans—and we get to know each other really well."


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There's a judging controversy in the Olympic ice dancing competition.
In the short program on Sunday, top Canadian pair Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir finished 2.56 points behind rivals Charlie White and Meryl Davis of the U.S.
Virtue and Moir were initially ecstatic about their performance, but those expressions turned sour when their surprisingly low score was announced.
The pair lost points because one of their elements, the "Finnstep," was judged to be level 3 instead of level 4.
The guy who invented the element, Petri Kokko, said on Twitter that Virtue and Moir's routine was misjudged:
I don't understand the judging in #icedancing. @Virtue_Moir should be leading in my honest opinion. #finnstep #Sochi2014
— Petri Kokko (@coccco) February 16, 2014
"I was surprised," Moir said afterward, "I thought our levels were better than in the team competition, so I'd have to see it. But just the slightest thing."
In a Toronto Star article that all but alleged that the ice dancing competition was fixed, another Canadian ice dancer, Kaitlyn Weaver, called the judging "fishy" after her own routine was supposedly underscored.
"Everyone's a little confused at this point. The technical score is fishy, " she said.
The controversy comes a week after a the French magazine L'Equipe reported a rumor that there was an Olympic figure skating conspiracy in place where an American judge would help the Russians win the team competition and a Russian judge would help the Americans in the ice dancing competition.
U.S. figure skating denied the report, calling it categorically false.
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New York, February 15, 2012--A Togolese journalist says he has been threatened repeatedly after conducting reporting for an as-yet-undisclosed story involving a top government official.
On February 9, Max Savi Carmel, news editor of the private Benin-based bimonthly Tribune d'Afrique, was stopped by gendarmes in Lomé, the capital, and told to follow them to the offices of Intelligence and Investigation Services (SRI), a Togolese security agency, news reports said. Carmel was held for several hours and questioned about his sources and his information on a pending story involving Abass Bonfoh, president of the Togolese National Assembly, the journalist told CPJ. After he was released from custody, Carmel said, he discovered his car had been damaged and ransacked. The journalist said he filed a complaint with the police on Monday.
Carmel told CPJ that Tribune d'Afrique, which had not yet published a story, was not disclosing any details of the pending matter. He said the paper had not yet sought the official's comments.
Carmel told CPJ that he later received at least two threatening anonymous phone calls and strange visitors came to his home seeking information about him from his family. "I have not slept in my house since this all began. I really fear for my safety and that of my family," the journalist said.
"It is outrageous that Max Savi Carmel was detained, interrogated, and harassed for hours by the police for simply doing his job," said CPJ Africa Advocacy Coordinator Mohamed Keita. "We hold Togolese authorities responsible for the safety of Max Savi Carmel and urge authorities in Lomé to investigate the threats against this journalist."
In a telephone interview with CPJ on Monday, Bonfoh declined to comment, saying, "I cannot speak of this matter over the phone. If you want, you come around, but I will not discuss this over the phone."
Although Tribune d'Afrique is based in Benin, it is circulated in seven countries in West Africa, including Togo. The magazine's Togo bureau chief, David Cudjoe Amekudzi, told CPJ that the news outlet was temporarily suspending its publication in the country for fear of its journalists facing reprisal for their reporting.
Tribune d'Afrique has been targeted in the past. In August 2010, a judge ordered a ban on the paper's distribution in Togo and imposed damages and fines of more than 60 million CFA francs (US$113,000) over a story on the alleged involvement of a presidential adviser in drug trafficking, CPJ research shows. An appeals court judge lifted the ban and fines, ordered the newspaper's circulation to be suspended for three months, and awarded the plaintiff 10 million CFA francs (US$19,000) in damages, according to news reports.


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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The National Transportation Safety Board has scheduled a hearing to determine the likely cause of the 2013 Asiana plane crash at San Francisco International Airport that left three Chinese teens dead.
The NTSB announced on Thursday that the hearing will be held in Washington on June 24.
The Boeing 777's landing gear and tail hit a seawall on July 6, 2013 after investigators said it came in too low and too slow. More than 200 people were injured.
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I am honored today to have as my guest, a real Miami Vice detective, Michael Berish. Mike was born and raised on the banks of the Hudson River in Poughkeepsie, New York. He received an A.A. degree in Criminal Justice, graduated from the University of Pittsburgh on an academic scholarship—with a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology, and later earned his Master of Arts degree in Communications from Miami's Barry University, where he took courses in Production, Directing, Screenplay Writing. Read More
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Here again. Got much further in my game, but I'm trying to pan for gold. I managed to fill the pot to 1/3, but now when I put them on the pan they say there is no gold. I have finished every puzzle except the lake, the chief, and the eye statue, and this gold thing is really driving me crazy! What do I need to do to keep getting gold?
Puzzle 6 - Dem Bones
You can complete puzzle 6 without removing the "Block Totem". There will be like 2-3 blue heathens that will try to block the mausoleum. Drop a villager on top of them and try to convert them. When you have spoken to them and drop your villager again then will run away and leave the area. Now drop your villagers at the mausoleum and clear the blockage :) When they come back just drop a villager on them again and repeat untill you're done :P
I completed it in 2 hours after the game started and removed the block totem like 20 hours later. It will take like 10 minutes to remove the blockage.
To Yzisme, thanks regarding the glitch - works like a charm. Way to go on that tip! I managed to hold 3 or 4 orange masked terrors with one expectant mother. Better to use them as they don't work anyway. I have managed to get FOUR master builders,and building up tech points for level three of the game.
hi to all...first of all, thanks for all the help :)
second, i need help.
i've restored the mausoleum and took down the temple near it. but i can't seem to convert the last purple guy, the master builder. he never seems to be around to challenge him, he mostly hangs around the mausoleum. i've tried to push him a bit with my master builder and manage to get him to the part from where he is supposed to see me challenging him, but he still doesn't see it. so...what am i to do now?
i hope i won't have to start over, since i'm rather ahead. i thought maybe letting him cramping up the mausoleum, maybe that would get him away from it? any suggestions? thanks in advance!
wow i am so annoyed, i followed all the tips in this room and so nearly completed the game trophies and all, all i needed was the eagle and suddenly my babies are stuck at nursing 123 minutes, my children wont grow, i NEVER manipulated time... so angry i was enjoying my game and breeding experiments ! GRRR everything else was completed ! oh yeah... except jenga :(
You're welcome :D
Does everyone remember the little island in Virtual Villagers- The lost children? The little island kids can't get off of? I found the VV5 equivalent :D
If you haven't got it yet from all of my subtle hinting, she can't move. ;)
Strategy guide.
Picking People.
When picking people, it's best to have at least two children, and to have your adults young; but the thing that I've found helps the most is getting people who like Learning or Running.
Erm. To be continued. It's harder than I thought... but I can do a walk-through thought.
Does anyone know if there's a fix for the breeding bug? I had a 77 yo nursing mother. I've tried changing from fast to slow, rebooting and making them young again. Nothing changes the timing. I have a bunch of 13 and 14 yo's nursing! I have noticed, however, that this bug seems to affect women who are made young and then have a child.
Here are random events I've gotten-
(Remember, these may not be identically worded, seeing as this is from my memory)
~ There is a loud sound, and children fall out of the waterfall! "That was fun!" One yells. "Let's do it again!" Unfortunately, their village is to far away for your villagers, so the children are adopted into the tribe. (+4/5 children)
~ (Heathren name) has watched your tribe and has decided that they like what they see. They approached (your villager name) and asked if they could join. (your villager) doesn't know if they trust them or not- it didn't seem to have been enough time for learning much.(I chose yes) (+1)
~(your villager name) wakes up one morning to find that bees (or ants?) have overtaken the Noi bush! Should they shoo them away?
(I picked no)
From watching the bees/ants, (your villager) learned a lot about farming. Unfortunately, in the process the bees ate all the noi fruit.
(+ a farming skill level)
~ your villagers wake up to find sneaky footprints around the grainery.It seems some food has been stolen!
(- random numbers, usually around 300)
Another random event-
(exact wording)
~A tame bird is found with a note tied to its leg. It bears news from another village saying that there are signs that the balance is starting to be restored to the island through the combined efforts of the other tribes. Scientific evidence follows...
Your tribe gains some tech from the document.
(+2000 or less)
Here's another I just got >.>
` (Villager name) has found a way into the five pools!
- Bathe quickly before anyone notices
- Enjoy the pools
(I chose enjoy the pools)
(Villager name) knows that the heathens might catch him, but he thinks "Hah! Who are those heathens to hog the pools?" Unfortunately, the heathens see him and he is quickly surrounded. He hides his face in fear, but it is to late. Now his face is hidden behind a mask. The heathens have added one to their number.
well it''s starting to annoy me...i just can't get enough energy to get the god power to revive my fish.
i also cannot make any more baby's.
i now have 33 villagers and when i put two of them in the loveshack it say's there isn't enough spacing to house more villagers..
i've build all houses..so i don''t know what to doooo :(
Heeeere's another XP:
~ (villager name) is starting to doubt the existence of the guiding hand. He looks up, expecting a miracle.
-give him a miracle.
-don't give him a miracle.
I chose give.
You make butterflies appear above his head. He however, thinks it's a natural phenomenon. True devotion comes from within.
(nothing happens)
Im having problems with my de-aged nursing mothers aswell, they get pregnant but never "have" the baby. It is seeming to be only with the ones i used the de-age god power. Even if i use the power again on the same villager i end up with a 5 year old with a baby!!! and the circle continues.
Any suggestions on how to fix this?
I'm having troubles, my knowledge totem is guarded by 2 scary red people and 3 orange(2 work in the science lab). I use the butterflies to gather lots of kids to distract the orange people but it doesn't work, even when I use the bees on them all. After dragging ALL my people onto the totem, I find they have already fled from the guards, then my spells wear off. What can I do? Can you please direct any replies to: firstname.lastname@example.com? Thanks!!!
I just realized something gross. I guess its a bug, but I had no kids in my tribe so I set all of my Villagers to parenting, then found that when the men ran out of women to smooch, they became homosexual!!
Also, has anyone found out what to do if the Knowledge Totem is guarded by 2 red masks and an orange???
In regard to the building challenge, the villager I put on time warp "disappeared" as well. In reality, he was just scurrying around at top speed elsewhere on the screen. Just pick him up and drop him back on the challenge once it resets and you will be able to solve the challenge.
Shelley and AhChi, you cannot deliver the necklace until you solve the puzzle where you return the eye to the gray and gold totem by the woods where the heathens go when it rains.
The dry land about the lake is the heathens' ruined village where they congregate as you destroy totems.
The sunshine power will get rid of rain.
You get lightning power once you build up your max energy bar. As you add to your tribe and find relics, your max energy bar increases. Once you fill it, new powers become available.
Riku, your child cannot pick up the piece of necklace by the statue b/c that is where they store the pieces they have found. Every time you convert a purple heathen, you get a necklace piece. Drop a child on it and it will take it to the statue. Once you have all four pieces of the necklace, you can assemble it.
Is there a limit to the age of the mothers? My 73-yr-old just had a baby.
A semi-permanent solution for Rascal and other Yellows!
This will only work once the lake is filled. Try dropping a child onto the lake towards the south edge, notice they don't swim, they just sort of get stuck there.
If you haven't mastered the art of "decoys" yet, here's how you do it: Drop a child near some yellows, then pick him up and slowly move him. The yellows will follow, if they lose interest, drop the child for a second then pick them back up), you can "lead" yellows anywhere on the map this way.
For this trick, you will be using a child and decoying all the yellows into the lake.
Rascal is a child, so cannot swim, get her stuck first by decoying her around the South West edge of the water (you'll see some rocks, then a sand bar, then more rocks - this second more southern set of rocks is where she'll get stuck - basically on top of the flat rock), when she reaches this spot, move your little decoy out into the water about a quarter inch away and drop them. The decoy and Rascal should stay there (decoy in water, Rascal at the edge). If they don't, pick the decoy back up and re-position until they do.
Pick up another child and use them to decoy the rest of the yellows into the lake. Once you get them to swim to the original decoy, then just swoop away (don't drop a second child here) and go back for more until all the yellows are stuck around the first decoy. Don't drop any more villagers in this area.
If you close the game, you will have to re-do this because everyone moves when the game re-opens.
Ok, I've just started playing the game, and I'm trying to dismantle the hunger totem... And I can't! I have distracted the yellow guards, but the red ones won't budge. I've used the bees power more than 10 times, because I first thought the problem was with the exact position I should click on the bush... But no matter where I click, the red guards just run around near the totem, and when I try to get my villagers to work on the totem, they either get scared by the heathens and run away, or they get attacked by the stupid bees! I admit, I'M FRUSTRATED! I don't know what to do anymore...
Oh, yeah, and there are two red guards in front of the totem, and in your screenshot up there, there's only one guard, and it's right next to the bush...
So, I have 91 villagers, all except four relics and four science items, and have 722 max energy. I have also fully researched everything except Science and solved all puzzles except for 14 (currently in round three of building).
I know I need 800 to get an earthquake, but how do I increase my energy when all the purple heathens are converted, the chief is converted and all except four blue heathens are converted. By my calculations, converting the four heathens would get me 20 more energy and finding the other relics/science items would get me 24. So, 722+44 is only 766. I need 34 more to get to 800.
Never mind,I found the solution myself... And just so everyone knows, there is another, much easier way to get rid of all the guards around the hunger totem
Simply use the lightning power on the guards, regardless of whether you choose to lure the yellow guards away and trap them by clicking 'M' or just luring them close to the red guards, and then use the lightning on them all. Then u simply bring your villagers to the totem and dismantle it. The red guards might return to their posts later on, but they'll leave it as soon as they 'realise' the totem is gone...
Mess Safely with the clock!
Hi, there is a safe way to mess with the clock.
1) Before changing the clock be sure to have enough food to last as long as you will fast forward.
2) Do not go over the crop-time, meaning, if you have 12 minutes until crops are available, fast forward up to 10 minutes and leave the 2 reamining minutes for the game to complete during normal playing mode.
3) Do not skip over an hour change. If you want to fast-forward past an hour-cjange, first go to 58 or 59 minutes (Ex: 18:59)and after the computer changes the full hour,(Ex:19:00) then fast forward the rest of the needed time. Keep your change in minutes.
4)Be sure to Stop the game before putting your clock back to normal time.
Select the Pause option. Also, before pausing the game and putting your clock back, make sure you have noni on the bush and crops on the land.
I messed with the game clock in all virtual villagers games. I had a lot of problems before I came up with these rules.
Happy playing to everyone : )
I was having problems with puzzle six and decided to restart, then I realized
that if you do the puzzle at the beginning, then there are only blue masks in the area and there's no so much debris. It's a lot easier, because then all you have to do to keep the masked people from reburying is drop a person on them.


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LOS ANGELES, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- Supporters of California's ban on same-sex marriage say they're asking a federal appeals court to reject a ruling against Proposition 8.
The group ProtectMarriage has asked the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider the panel's 2-1 ruling striking down the ban. ProtectMarriage said the San Francisco panel was wrong in finding the ballot measure stigmatized gays and lesbians, the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday.
The panel's ruling was based on a 1996 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that a majority cannot take away rights from a minority without a legitimate reason.
ProtectMarriage said voters who supported the 2008 ballot measure banning same-sex marriage weren't disapproving of gay people, they were trying to preserve the institution of marriage.
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Highlights: Raptors, Shorebirds, Songbirds, Upland Birds, Waterbirds, Waterfowl
Access: Year-round. Access free of charge.
Directions: From Riggins, US 95 S for ~1 mi; L (E) on Big Salmon River Rd (CR 1614/FR 103); zero odometer; road parallels the Salmon River for 20+ mi.
Description: All along the Salmon River, Lewis's Woodpecker abound. Check Allison Ck (mp 9.7) and Spring Bar Campground (mp 10.4) for riparian species. Also check Van Ck (mp 11.2), Elkhorn Ck (mp 14.7), and Carry Ck (mp 23.2). These areas are good for American Kestrel, Northern Flicker, Mountain Chickadee, Cedar Waxwing, Red-eyed Vireo, MacGillivray's Warbler, Yellow-breasted Chat, Song Sparrow, and Lazuli Bunting in spring and fall. Look for Bald Eagle, Northern Flicker, Hairy Woodpecker, Golden-crowned Kinglet, and Black-capped Chickadee during the winter. Check rock areas for White-throated Swift, Canyon Wren, and Chukar. Walk across the Wind River foot-bridge to explore the 1992 Scott Fire area for woodpeckers.
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I got this award from Mama Drama Times Two. If you are not an avid Mama Drama reader- you are missing out. She and The Other Mother are the kind of gals I'd love to sit at the kitchen table and play board games and drink margaritas with. These lovely ladies are foster moms extraordinaire. Seriously- they take on about a million squillion foster children (mostly teenagers!) and they deal with crazy on a daily basis. However, they do it with such compassion and such commitment. They are amazing heroes to the children that they foster. But even more than that, my favorite thing about Mama Drama and The Other Mother is even though they have been together for a long time, they still talk about each other with such love and respect and complete admiration. Their relationship to each other and to the children they share their lives with is truly inspiring.
The rules for the blog award are: post the award on your blog, link back to the person that gave it to you, and give it to whomever you want to. But make sure they are beautiful. I have so many beautiful bloggy friends it is hard as heck to choose. But here goes...
Baby Webbsite: This is my high school friend Rachael's blog. She blogs about her little cutie, Walker, and she is a fantastic mother. Plus- the girl can rap. And any mama who raps ridiculous things like the clean-up song is a winner in my book! She is model gorgeous and she is a woman with a huge heart for God. We just love their little family. Scoot on over to her blog- she is hysterical and gives great parenting advice!
Stellar Parenting 101: J. over at Stellar Parenting is just a fantastic read. She deals with parenting and attachment issues with her adopted children. She's been navigating these waters for a while and reading her stuff has been such a great source of information and hope for me as we start to go through attachment issues with Miles. Plus- she's Canadian and I love me some Canadians!
Babbling Abby: Abby blogs about all kinds of things. She's a mother and a teacher and does great posts about decorating and dressing on a budget. The girl can take $5 to a yard sale and come home with a whole new house full of furniture. She's cute and blonde and her legs are about 25 feet long ;-) We share a love for Target and reality television. If you need a good laugh, I highly recommend her blog.
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AMAZING jacket, package strong and very well done, i love the calendar bonus.... thank you so much
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The RAF Aircrew Sweater was just as nice. A perfect complement!
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The latter investigation brought him into contact with Robert F. Kennedy in the late 1950s. The two men forged a strong working relationship and personal friendship, and in 1960, Seigenthaler helped to campaign for John F. Kennedy's presidential run. Shortly after the election, Seigenthaler declined a position as newly-appointed Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy's press secretary, preferring to keep journalism and politics separate. Still, he wanted to work for the administration, so he accepted a job as RFK's administrative assistant instead. During his short tenure working for the Justice Department, Seigenthaler played an instrumental role in negotiating with Alabama Governor John Patterson and Eugene "Bull" Connor for the safe passage of the Freedom Riders in 1961, which he describes in detail.
In 1962, Seigenthaler left the Justice Department to become the editor of The Tennessean. He speaks at length and in great detail about the changing nature of southern journalism during the 1960s and 1970s, paying particular attention to the impact of cultural homogenization and the corporate takeover of regional newspapers. According to Seigenthaler, during the 1960s and early 1970s, racism and poverty were not problems for the South alone but for the nation as a whole. In addition, Seigenthaler laments that the trend toward moderation in national politics would limit social justice activism. The interview concludes with Seigenthaler's commentary about Robert F. Kennedy's assassination and his role in Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign.
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The two American internet giants insisted their contributions to the UK system were appropriate, despite the concession by fellow US-based company Starbucks that it "needed to do more" in paying its way in this country.
Simon Walker, director general of the IoD, said it was "very frustrating for many companies who pay large tax bills that some multinationals are able to avoid doing so". But he echoed Google's position that it was a situation for to the Government, not the companies, to resolve.
"The solution must be simplifying the tax system, not simply hectoring from Westminster," he said. "If these firms are immoral to take advantage of tax loopholes, then politicians are surely immoral for creating the loopholes in the first place. Taxes should be simpler, to cut down on avoidance and relieve the burden our complex tax code puts on companies who do try to do the right thing."
The Chancellor on Monday announced an extra £150m funding for HM Revenue & Customs to boost its systems and legal efforts to crack down on tax avoidance. The Treasury said it will recruit an extra 100 investigators for an "affluence unit" to stop the wealthy dodging tax. The extra effort is expected to generate £2bn of extra tax every year until 2015.
Mr Osborne is expected to use his Autumn Statement tomorrow to announce measures to tackle the inadequacies of the tax system to levy web-based companies. The Chancellor is expected to appoint a tax expert to lead a consultation with other jurisdictions into the practicalities of a levying international internet companies.
In a report published on Monday, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) accused Amazon, Google and Starbucks of "immorally minimising their tax obligations". The report also called for the Government to "get a grip on large corporations which generate significant income in the UK but pay little or no tax".
Starbucks announced at the weekend that it had entered into talks with HMRC having "listened to feedback from our customers and employees". The coffee chain admitted that to "further build public trust, we need to do more".
The company said it would release details of its proposed tax arrangements later this week. On Monday, Margaret Hodge, chairman of the PAC, said that Starbucks' climb-down was "very promising."
During recent evidence to the PAC, it emerged that over the past three years Amazon's UK division has paid just £2.3m corporation tax on £7.1bn sales. Google paid £6m corporation tax on £2.5bn of UK revenues in 2011. Google stuck by the comments of it UK boss, Matt Brittin, who said last week that the company "plays by the rules set by politicians".


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New NAEP Scores Reveal Education Shell Game
Over the past two decades, the media and federal education officials have tended to focus on modestly improving test score trends of 4th and 8th graders. As my colleague Neal has mentioned, new 12th grade results were released today, and they once again call that practice into question.
Whether one looks at the fixed "Long Term Trends" series of national test results reaching back to the early 1970s, or at the ever‐evolving "Nation's Report Card" series, it seems as though student achievement has improved a little over time at the 4th and (to a lesser extent) 8th grade levels. By the same token, both of those data series show little or no improvement in achievement at the end of high‐school over the past one, two, or four decades. Indeed the most recent 12th grade results show a small but statistically significant decline in reading scores since 1992.
High school graduates are no better prepared today than they were in previous generations, despite the fact that we're spending 3 times as much on their K‑12 educations. Some of what they're learning they may be learning a bit earlier, but when applying to college it's the K‑12 academic destination that matters, not the journey.
And that destination suggests that the past four decades of so‐called public "school reform" have done nothing to improve the academic preparation of high school seniors for college, life and work. Not ESEA. Not NCLB.
Perhaps government is not the best source of progress and innovation after all? Perhaps if we want to see progress and innovation in education we should allow it to participate in the free enterprise system that has been responsible for staggering productivity growth in every field not dominated by a government monopoly?


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Lakeland College is one of 16 U.S. colleges and universities selected by the Institute of International Education (IIE) for the 2013-2014 Brazil initiative of IIE's International Academic Partnership Program (IAPP).
Lakeland will participate in a year-long program comprised of training activities designed to assist in implementing and sustaining partnerships with counterparts in Brazil. The program includes a week-long study tour to Brazil in spring 2014 to learn first-hand about the Brazilian higher education system and meet with potential partner campuses.
A 10-member steering committee at Lakeland has adopted the following as Lakeland's expected outcomes:
- Create university partnerships in Brazil for both short term and long term study abroad options for Lakeland students.
- Recruit more Brazilian students to attend Lakeland and therefore educate U.S. students about Brazil and its culture.
- Connect what is happening in Brazil with Lakeland College's faculty expertise. Associate Professor of History Krista Feinberg is teaching a course this spring on the history of modern Brazil, and Lakeland's biology faculty are interested in tropical biology in Brazil.
- Help achieve the college's goal to internationalize the campus, and have a strategic plan related to Brazil.
"For decades, Lakeland has made a strong commitment to international education," said Interim President Dan Eck. "Creating a strong presence in Brazil complements our existing international programs and presents new study abroad opportunities for our students."
This semester, Lakeland has 75 international students from 13 countries enrolled at its main campus in Sheboygan County.
Since 1990, Lakeland has operated a two-year campus in Tokyo, Japan, and Lakeland has sister school relationships with the following institutions:
- Koje College and Ansan University in Korea
- East China Institute of Technology and Shanghai Finance University in China
- Universität Kassel and (beginning next year) the Erfurt University of Applied Sciences in Germany
- Universidad Reformada in Colombia
- The University of Luxembourg in Luxembourg
The other participating U.S. campuses in the Brazil Initiative are: Dartmouth College, Farleigh Dickinson University, The City of New York's Lehman College, Medaille College, Rice University, Stetson University, Troy University, University of Arizona, University of Michigan-Dearborn, University of Missouri, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, University of Wisconsin-Stout, University of Wisconsin- Whitewater, Wayne State University and Western New Mexico University.
IIE's Center for International Partnerships in Higher Education will guide the campus representatives through a strategic planning process in the current academic year geared towards establishing partnerships with institutions in Brazil. This group will also have the opportunity to benefit from the experiences of previous delegations of high-level officials who represented 14 U.S. higher education institutions in 2013 and 18 additional institutions in 2012.
"Higher education stands to play a vital role in Brazil" said IIE's President and CEO Allan E. Goodman, "and educational partnerships between the US and Brazil will help build Brazil's intellectual capital while fostering key institutional partnerships between the two nations."
These partnership programs offer timely resources for campuses in both countries to explore areas of academic cooperation, including exchanging students and scholars and collaborating on research projects and degree programs.
Over the past few years, both the U.S. Department of State and the government of Brazil have emphasized the importance of educational collaboration. Continued cooperation between the two countries is evidenced by the expansion of the Fulbright and Brazil Scientific Mobility programs, the addition of English, a new language immersion program in Brazil, and the ongoing alliance in the US-Brazil Joint Action Plan on Racial Equality.
Brazil has become increasingly important to US higher education with the creation of the Brazil Science Mobility Program (BSMP) by the Brazilian government in 2011. This multiyear initiative will send 75,000 fully funded Brazilian students abroad for training in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields, with an additional 25,000 scholarships to be funded by the private sector.
Working with the Fulbright Commission, Brazil's Ministry of Education, Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) and the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), IIE has placed more than 6,000 undergraduate students from Brazil at 349 U.S. colleges and universities since the program's start, and a projected 7,370 students will receive scholarships to study at U.S. institutions in 2014.
Institute of International Education
The Institute of International Education is a world leader in the international exchange of people and ideas. An independent, not-for-profit organization founded in 1919, IIE has network of 18 offices worldwide and over 1,000 member institutions. IIE designs and implements programs of study and training for students, educators, young professionals and trainees from all sectors with funding from government agencies, foundations, and corporations. IIE also conducts policy research and program evaluations, and provides advising and counseling on international education and opportunities abroad. www.iie.org


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text: Good Advice about Paying for CollegeHow to finance a degree is a major factor in the college decision for most families. Thankfully, there are numerous resources that help take the stress and confusion out of paying for a four-year private college education. Minnesota's Private Colleges Council (with the help of a variety of contributors) produced a series of videos that present tips from experts and families about how to make a private college most affordable. Common questions are answered and concerns are addressed in this 20-minute video, including: Key steps for families, working with financial aid offices, benefits of a private college, finding the net price of college, and examples of how families make it work. Watch the full video below or click the titles below the video for information about individual segments. The Minnesota Private Colleges Council also presents the Paying for College videos in Spanish, Hmong, and Somali. If you have other questions about attending Hamline or the different financial aid options available for our students,please email our Undergraduate Admission Office or call 651-523-2207. Why A Private College?(this clip begins at the 0:23 mark) This clip addresses the question: Why should we choose a private college instead of a state university? The benefits of a private college are outlined, including: High graduation rates, small communities, personalized attention, and student career preparation. Statistics on private colleges have shown that students are more likely to graduate in four years, and some colleges — like Hamline — offer four-year graduation assurance (see details on Hamline's graduation assurance policy). Moreover, faculty to student ratios and class sizes both tend to be smaller at private institutions as opposed to public schools. Finding the Net Price(this clip begins at the 3:00 mark) Hamline student Libby Otto, featured in this video clip, says she is paying less at Hamline than she would have to attend the state school she was considering. Despite common perceptions, private colleges can be just as or more affordable than public institutions due to need and merit-based awards. Often private colleges offer about half the sticker price in gift aid which does not need to be repaid. Tuition and fees, room and board, books and supplies, transportation, and personal expenses are all the cost of attendance, which is then subtracted from grants, scholarships, and gift money, and that equals the net price or out-of-pocket expense to your family. How Families Make it Work (this clip begins at the 8:00 mark) For many families, even after finding the net price and being aware of gift money, costs can be intimidating. The annual FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) form is the first step for families to determine their eligibility for financial aid from a variety of federal programs. Pell grants, Minnesota grants, Stafford loans, and Parent Plus loans are all possibilities for financial assistance. Having students take advantage of work-study opportunities and encouraging saving habits are also helpful. Key Steps (this clip begins at the 15:40 mark) In this clip, key steps are laid out for parents and students in order to maximize the ease of planning for college expenses. Key steps include: Start saving early, keep your options open, search for private scholarships, complete the FAFSA form, compare financial aid packages, and consider the value of the program you're paying for.


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The world needs more tech-savvy leaders like President Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron. Leaders who understand how to use the latest gadgets like iPads. Cameron's moving ahead of the pack with app that'll provide him with real time data on England.
According to The Telegraph, David Cameron's "personalized iPad app" will "allow the Prime Minister to see the latest NHS waiting-figures, crime statistics, unemployment numbers and a wide variety of other data at a glance."
In addition to the figures, his app will also pipe in news from Google and Twitter in real-time so that he's on top of breaking news. Like it or not, Twitter is a platform for breaking news as demonstrated by the death of Osama bin Laden first breaking in 140 characters.
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The Telegraph says that the Cabinet Office will have the app ready by next March.
Plenty of politicians use iPads. This appears to be the first time a political leader is getting his very own custom app (which is probably not going to be distributed publicly) to run a nation.
It was announced a few weeks ago that the British Parliament spent about $26,450 on 34 iPads of various models to be "used to explore how mobile computing might be used to support the work of Parliament, and what cost savings or environmental benefits might be gained."
Via The Telegraph