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APTI 418 – NOX Emissions: Formation & Control
Dates: January 27-29, 2015
Workshop Location
Green Square Building
217 W. Jones St
Room 1210
Raleigh, NC 27603
INSTRUCTORS: Omni Professionals, Martin Rock and Bob Hall
Course Description
Class Length: 3 - day lecture course
High ambient levels of ozone have caused new standards and requirements for most major sources of nitrogen oxides. These include utility and industrial boilers, stationary gas turbines and reciprocating engines. This course starts with a review of combustion technology and the types of combustion sources, followed by a discussion of methods to reduce NOx formation by combustion modification. The operation of proven and developing back end control technologies is presented together with a general review of NOx regulation,
Target Audience
The course is targeted to air regulatory staff, but is also suited to environmental managers or environmental consultants from private industry
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Please register on line at www.APTI-learn.net
Registration Deadline: January 19, 2014
NOTE: There is NO registration fee for state and local employees attending this meeting. A nominal fee will be charged for Federal employees.
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Eligibility Requirements
May I apply for the EB-5 program if I have been previously denied a visa to the US?
If you have been previously denied a visa to the US, you may still apply for an
Are there any minimum or maximum age limits for investors?
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Is it required that I have a degree of higher education to apply for the EB-5 program?
Some visas for
Do I need to speak English in order to qualify for the EB-5 program?
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Do I need to have earned the money for the investment myself? What are permitted sources of investment?
No. For example, the money can be a gift. The only requirement would be to show that the gifted money was legally earned, and that taxes (if applicable) were paid on the gift. Another example would be using the proceeds of the sale of real estate to fund the investment, or to take out a mortgage on real estate and use the proceeds for the investment. Stock sales, salary, dividends, interest, and inheritance are all recognized sources of investment.
If a member of the investor's family works for the EB-5 enterprise, will this count for purposes of the job creation requirement?
Members of the investor's family may work for the new enterprise, but they cannot be considered as one of the ten employees required for eligibility for the
Can qualified individuals from any country apply or are there restrictions based on citizenship?
Citizens of any country may apply for permanent residence in the US through the
Is it required to show that I am in good health?
In most cases, health does not factor into whether a foreign national may apply for an
Must I have previous business experience to qualify for the EB-5 program?
No, the
What documents are required for the EB-5 process?
While documentation is
What fees and expenses will I incur aside from the $500,000 or $1,000,000 investment?
Besides the $500,000 or $1,000,000 investment, the regional centers require fees to cover their marketing and administrative expenses in the amount of $25–50,000. In certain cases, these expenses can be negotiated. Legal fees vary, depending on the attorney. Government duties, medical exam expenses, courier costs, and translation can add another $5–10,000.
What is the most common reason for rejection of an EB-5 petition?
In most cases when an
What is the most common reason for rejection of a petition to remove conditions?
The most common reasons for refusal of the condition removal petition are in circumstances when the
What percentage of EB-5 petitions are approved?
While statistics vary over the years, usually between 80–90% of
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The Iconic Alexa Chung Hairstyles
Alexa Chung always amazes us with her perfect hairstyle. Whether it's a casual event or gala event, the celebrity always knows how to style her hair. You can find several iconic hairstyles that she has made. The tousled waved hairstyle still becomes the most iconic hairstyle that she ever wore for an event.
In the past years, you have seen Alexa Chung sporting different hairstyles. From ombre hair color to retro up-dos, the person seems to have the daring personality in experimenting with her hair. Alexa Chung hairstyles may vary, but one thing that she always shows in her hairstyles is her casual waves. She has seen sporting short bob or medium length haircut, but it's always in casual waves. It seems to be her personal signature to her hair. Her undone hairstyle is a trend. Many has tried to copy the hairstyle that looks simple, yet chic.
She has natural dark brown hair and she seems to know exactly what need to be done to her hair. Now, as L'Oreal spokeperson, she has shared tips and secrets of her hairstyle. It actually doesn't take a lot of effort to give some attention to the hair. You just need to know your hair better to get the best look of your hair.


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This 38 acre parcel is prime farm land with 1400 feet (more or less) of Wishkah River frontage. Abundant wildlife including great Salmon & Blue Back fishing from your own river access, elk, deer, duck & geese. There is a barn on the property that works for hay storage and natural spring irrigation for the fields with a 1000 gallon holding tank. This is in the flood plain and unsuitable for a home.
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Title: Lonely Hearts
Series: Love Lessons #3
Author: Heidi Cullinan
Publisher: Samhain
Our rating:
Publication date: August 2015
Genre: M/M romance/New adult
Length: 312 pages
Click to see price on Amazon
Review Summary: A hurt/comfort college-based gay romance with one character I couldn't get enough of, and another who was his perfect 'other half'.
Plot Summary/Description
Baz Acker's family has thrown enough money at him to keep his painful past firmly in the past. But what will happen when his college friends move on, and he has nowhere to go? Last year he took a bullet for Elijah Prince, and he's never regretted it. But how does Elijah feel?
Elijah's history has forced him to withdraw way into his own mind when things get rough. However much Baz attracts him, Elijah freezes in the publicity that comes with being the acknowledged lover of the son of an ambitious politician. Will Baz be the rock he yearns for, or the iceberg that sinks him?
Lonely Hearts Review
WARNING: this review contains spoilers for the previous book in the series. See our Fever Pitch review and I recommend reading that one first.
Elijah and Baz are a classic couple. Both of these two guys are prickly like cacti, for different reasons. They are the kind of characters any self-respecting romance reader will be rooting for. So we're engaged right from the start – in fact, from the previous book, if we've read it. If not, you do get a summary of the climactic life-saving event, at the start of this one.
In Fever Pitch, Elijah was Aaron's snarky and hard-to-know roommate, and Baz was the guy that everybody loved but nobody *loved* or even knew inside out. Events at the end of that book saw the two of them connected, instinctively on Baz's part and involuntarily on Elijah's, because of their separate personal histories. It takes the two of them a while to get past that, but when they do, the connection goes very deep.
Elijah grew up in a fundamentalist religious family, with parents who believe that as a gay man, he's the spawn of Satan, and it's their duty to kill him. Literally. Baz and his high school boyfriend were beaten up on the street and left for dead. Baz survived, disabled, but his boyfriend didn't. Survivor guilt plagues him, and he doesn't hesitate to take the bullet that's aimed at Elijah.
This event creates a connection between them, but also a distance, because of the debt owed. The debt is greater because Baz is wealthy, and Elijah, without parental support, is penniless. Some authors would skate over these differences and bring them together whatever, but Heidi Cullinan is skilled enough to see that it's not that easy. Elijah has a chip on his shoulder that takes a while to overcome.
Sometimes an author has to work to convince the reader that a happy ending will last, but not in this case. Elijah and Baz have very different backgrounds, but their issues are dealt with thoroughly, not swept under the carpet, but laid to rest permanently. The guys have enough in common that we can imagine them sticking very close together always, once their differences are accepted between them. Baz is outgoing and would have a lot of friends on the surface, but there'd always be a tight inner circle around just the two of them, that nobody else would or could breach.
A very cute couple and if you like a bit of angst before the HEA, as I do, don't miss this one.


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The drawbacks and difficulties of military life are explored in this film. Paolo Passeri (Michele Placido) is a college graduate, somewhat spoiled, somewhat effete, who finds himself in an officer training program under the stern martinet, Captain Asciutto (Franco Nero). He gradually becomes acclimated to the military mind-set, and when the Captain's wife (more
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Old keys can unlock something beautiful.
Adsum House For Women & Children needs your old, unwanted keys to help create their next fundraising campaign.
They are going to use them to create HOPE.
They can't tell you exactly what that means right now – they want it to be a surprise – but they will say, it is going to be a beautiful work of art that will draw attention to the need for secure housing and support for homeless women. Your old keys can play a big part in raising awareness and inspiring donations.
You can drop them off or mail them to us by October 11 at:Adsum House Attn. Kathy McNab 2421 Brunswick St. Halifax, NS, B3K 2Z4 Open 24 hrs.
Or, if you put on a "Key Drive" and collect a large number of keys from co-workers, your school or your neighbourhood, we would be happy to pick them up.
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I took Eden and Safa with me to vote and after we got in the car Eden wanted to talk politics. So we talked about it for a bit, then she said, "Mama, can only men be the president?" I could feel my heart break. We talked for a bit about that. Thirty minutes later I'm in Target getting Eden new panties when Safa spies the Thomas (whom she LOVES) boy underwear and asks if she can have them. This country may not be ready for a female president, but I'll be damned if my girl isn't gonna get those Thomas panties.
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Peter's now a father for the fourth time - Insania!
Peter Andre was probably the happiest male celebrity in town last week, when his wife Emily MacDonagh gave birth to their second child together.
A baby boy, Peter announced the happy news via a post to Twitter, exclaiming that they were 'very happy' – but kept a lot of surrounding details quiet, including the all-important name of the brand new bundle of joy.
But the dad-of-four has now opened up more about the birth, and it seems as if he's just as excited for another round of fatherhood – aww!
More: New father Peter Andre opes up about his social anxiety
Read: All the Latest Celebrity News
'He's such a joy and doing really well – as is his mum,' Pete began in his chat with new! magazine.
'It's hard to tell who he looks like, but he does look different to how Amelia did when she was born. I think he looks more like me.'
And we definitely believe him – judging by the looks of Junior and Princess, his children with ex-wife Katie Price, he has strong genes! When it comes to names, however, he's keeping schtum – as there's been a bit of trouble deciding on the right one.
'We have so many we like, but every time we go to say it, it just doesn't stick. I love names like Oscar and Arthur, but Emily's not so keen.'
Throughout her pregnancy, Emily experienced some health issues – and Peter was by her side the whole time. And that carried through all the way to childbirth and beyond, with him even crashing on the floor of the hospital room!
'I was so tired because I'd been sleeping on the floor in the maternity unit. I've got such bad baby brain! I forgot what sleepless nights were like.'
However, Pete wasn't tired enough to remember that Emily's probably a lot more tired than he is!
'I'm struggling, but I haven't had to breastfeed so I'm lucky! My respect for Ems just goes up and up.'
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She will provide you with enough information allowing you to make a wise and educated decision whether it's buying or selling & most important, help you save money.
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A tattoo is a big commitment for any human being. Whether it is the first time you are getting a tattoo or whether you have already been tattooed a number of times, a tattoo stays on your skin for the remainder of your life. Hence it is very important to properly think about what you want your tattoo to look like. Many people nowadays are opting for Maori tribal tattoo designs. These tribal designs have a beauty, authenticity, mysterious and edge to them. Some designs are more common and popular than other ones.
It is important to do your research properly before deciding on the design. The Maori symbols and designs all have rich meanings associated with them. There are several online tattoo forums are the internet which can give you reliable meanings of the different designs. For example the sun symbol represents brilliance, light, leadership, natural wealth, richness and nourishment amongst the people of the Maori tribe. Thus, it is important to understand the meaning of the designs before you decide which design you want to get for your tattoo.
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They are lured into Lebanon to work as models, masseuses or dancers in nightclubs. But some of these young Eastern European women, especially from Moldova, are sold by criminal networks to brothels, where they are forced to work as prostitutes.
These were among the findings of a report about human trafficking in Lebanon released recently by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
According to the report, Lebanon appears to be a destination for potential victims of human trafficking, especially for sex-related purposes. But it remains very difficult to assess the gravity of the phenomenon partly because the crime of trafficking remains hidden and few cases are reported, the report said:
Victims are afraid to speak out, dreading retribution or stigmatization. Many simply do not know their rights. Silence perpetuates the cycle of exploitation.
Another major obstacle in identifying and helping victims is the absence of laws explicitly criminalizing trafficking. Only about 60 cases of human trafficking are officially identified every year in Lebanon, which, according to the report, does not reflect the reality of the situation in the country.
Lebanese authorities claim they are trying to fight trafficking. Recently, Lebanon's Justice Minister Ibrahim Najjar described trading in human beings as "contrary to all the rules and principles of any contemporary and civilized society."
— Raed Rafei in Beirut
Photo: A woman dances on the bar of a Beirut nightclub. Credit: Marwan Naamani/AFP/Getty Images
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Filed under: Aragaki Yui, Opinion, Otsuka Ai, Perfume
First things first: with some computer problems, I haven't really been too caught up on the scene and what's happening – which means I haven't been blogging much and probably won't be blogging much for awhile.
But just for fun while I'm borrowing a friend's computer, here's a list of the ladies in Japanese entertainment I want to look like the most. I found that many times, talent and popularity doesn't equal me exactly wanting to look at them – and women that male fans (and some female fans) drool over don't seem so hot to me.
So based completely on being shallow and judgmental on looks for once, here's my top ten girls:
10. Toda Erika
Toda Erika used to look a little weird and awkward to me, but it's mostly her fashion that caught my attention. I'll admit, I only started liking her after I saw her in her drama Liar Game with a great colorful costume, bright tights and all. Also, recently she's been going for a more sexy look – and it's really working for her.
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Chrysler Building in Manhattan.
Thornton Tomasetti devised a two-year, fast-track restoration of this landmark building from grade to pinnacle of the spire involving more than 75 suspended scaffold drops, industrial rope access and discrete surgical repairs to stabilize the building's façade. The work included examining and designing repairs for deteriorated lintels and relieving angles, cracked and spalled stone and brick masonry, eroded mortar, and restoration of the 3,500 original historic steel windows including corroded window sills and deteriorated paint.
In addition to providing an initial evaluation of the building façade's condition and extensive budget analysis, we continued working on the project throughout the repair phase. The firm's field engineers joined the contractor's work crews on hanging scaffolds to conduct a comprehensive inspection of the façade and map problem areas for both immediate and later repair work. Restoration continued with selective replacement of deteriorated street-level storefronts matching the original while permitting handicap access.
Deficiencies at the building's iconic spire resulted in damage to its historic stainless steel cladding and allowed leaks to corrode internal structures. Together with Vertical Access, a firm specializing in industrial rope access and building inspections, Thornton Tomasetti performed an aggressive inspection and testing program utilizing rope-climbing equipment and techniques. This examination resulted in the design, repair and selective replacement of a few panels in the stainless steel sheet metal spire.
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James Baldwin was one of America's finest and most influential writers. By the time he died in 1987, his books, such as The Fire Next Time, Go Tell It on the Mountain, and Giovanni's Room, had become modern classics.
James Campbell knew Baldwin for ten years before Baldwin's death. For this book, he interviewed many of Baldwin's friends and examined several hundred pages of correspondence. He quotes from the vast and disturbing file that the FBI compiled on Baldwin and he discusses Baldwin's sometimes turbulent relationships with Norman Mailer, Richard Wright, and Marlon Brando, as well as his friendship with Martin Luther King Jr. Elegantly written, candid, and original, Talking at the Gates is a comprehensive account of the life and work of a writer who believed that "the unexamined life is not worth living."
Talking at the Gates A Life of James Baldwin, With a New Afterword
The Price of the Beat
'Ah! si j'avais à écrire une histoire des noirs,
je devrais interviewer les blancs.'
James Baldwin, unpublished interview
with Christian de Bartillat, 1974
Chapter Twenty-fourIn February 1978, James Baldwin received an invitation to address students at Edinburgh University. It was an informal request—so much so, indeed, that it came without the endorsement of the university or of any student body, and with no mention of a fee or travelling expenses. In fact, it was scarcely more than a letter of response to Baldwin's writing, with a postscript asking him please to come to Scotland.
He was not short of invitations, but for some reason he accepted this one. Scotland was one of the few European countries he had yet to visit, and he was touched, or so he told me later, by the personal approach, and by the 'authority' of the letter.
My invitation to Baldwin to come to Edinburgh was not just 'personal': it was impossibly inept and naïve. I wrote without a thought in the world of how to pay his fee, whatever that might have been, of how to transport him from St-Paul de Vence to Edinburgh, of where to put him up for the night, or even of how to feed him while he was there.
When Bernard Hassell replied, saying that Mr. Baldwin would like to 'speak to the students of the Univ. of Edinburgh in April when he is on his way to California', I was elated—and then appalled. What was I going to do with him, assuming he got here under his own steam? Offer him a pallet on the floor and a pint in the pub? My resources would stretch to nothing grander—I had no resources. A literature tutor with whom I discussed the problem (it had suddenly become a 'problem') gently suggested that the great American writer might expect to receive some money once his obligation to speak to the students was fulfilled. I had even less experience of money than of arranging for famous people to visit ancient universities.
The whole thing collapsed, with just two days to go, when a telegram arrived saying that he was unable to make it after all, owing to a bad bout of flu, and that I should contact him to arrange an alternative date.
Disappointment was edged out by relief. I telephoned him at his home in St-Paul and he offered a date in August, when, alas, the students would be on holiday. We agreed to call it off. It was a 'dead letter', Baldwin said. He hoped he would visit Scotland one day. He said he liked my accent. We left it at that.
Or at least he did. Nine months later, I wrote to Baldwin again. By this time I had assumed the editorship of a small-circulation literary quarterly, the New Edinburgh Review, and I folded my letter into a review copy of a book: The Making of Jazz by James Lincoln Collier, a white American music historian. While there were many allusions to jazz in his essays, I prodded Baldwin, he had never devoted a piece to the subject on its own. Perhaps he might welcome the opportunity to do so?
There was no reply, so after some weeks I sent a reminder. 'It looked a fairly interesting book to me,' I wrote, 'and I thought the possibility of writing something might catch your fancy.' And I added matily, 'Hope this finds you well.' This elicited a note, scrawled at the foot of my own letter, which was returned to me: 'Would love to do a long piece: but cannot do it within the dead-line. Am not free before the end of May.'
It amounted to a written agreement. Again I was thrilled, but my joy had to compete with dread that, as before, it might fall through. A long piece? I thought of The Fire Next Time; I thought of 'The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy': perhaps Baldwin's next great long piece would appear in the New Edinburgh Review, and I would be his editor.
Of course, we had no money. Our contributors received £20, perhaps £30 for a very long piece or an exceptionally good short story. They were supposed to be motivated by the energy of literature itself. I remembered reading in Norman Podhoretz's Making It that Baldwin had been paid about $12,000 by the New Yorker in 1962 for the article which became The Fire Next Time (the true figure was closer to half that amount). What on earth would he say to £20? In one issue of theNew Edinburgh Review I had reprinted a short piece by William Burroughs—which I had actually got from him for free some years before for another little magazine—and then posted him a cheque for £10, to be drawn on my own bank account. Burroughs, disgusted, sent the cheque straight to his English agent, who returned it to me, stating acidly that I had insulted her client.
I telephoned Baldwin, said I was delighted that he had agreed to write something for the magazine, but mentioned my embarrassment.
'Don't worry about money,' he replied in an amicable, low-slung growl. I had a feeling that 'not worrying about money' could mean one thing to me and another to James Baldwin, so I persisted. If he wrote 4,000 worlds, we could stretch to an unprecedented £80.
'Eighty pounds?' Baldwin paused. 'That's O.K.'
The deal was done. We agreed a July deadline. On the appointed day, a telegram arrived.
JAMES BALDWIN IN ST PAUL DE VENCE Cannot do justice in the length proposed? How long did Baldwin want to go? As far as I was concerned, he could have an entire issue of the magazine—he could have the next year's worth if he wanted it.
I called. This book had given him a great deal to think about, he said; it was a heavy burden to carry; I had forced him into a confrontation with something 'very important about my life'; he had been re-reading Uncle Tom's Cabin in the light of Collier's account, and there was a connection he needed to explore . . .
He told me to ring him at the end of the week, which I did, then again at the beginning of the week, then in the middle, then at the end, then at the beginning of the next week . . . Almost every time I rang a different person answered the phone. They got to know me. Friendly, confident, black voices. 'Oh, Mr. Campbell! How are you? Jimmy's not up yet. Can you call again in an hour?' Or else Baldwin would come to the phone: courteous, asking after my health, or about Scotland, or the weather . . . 'I'm working on the piece right now . . . but it's very hot down here.'
Finally, he wrote it. I don't believe he ever would have, had I not told him—ingenuously expecting contributors to hand in their copy when they said they would—that we had had the cover printed and that his name and photograph were on it.
'I'm on the cover!' Baldwin gasped. 'I'd better get to work.
When the essay arrived, it was not quite as long as I had hoped, and perhaps had been led to expect, though it was close to our original target of 4,000 words. No mention was made in it of Uncle Tom's Cabin. It was called—the title was created first, as was often his practice—'Of the Sorrow Songs: The Cross of Redemption', after the final chapter of W.E.B. DuBois's seminal work, The Souls of Black Folk.
Following an introductory attack on the limitations of Collier's book, it settled into a meditation on the music which 'begins on the auction block'. It was not a great essay, in the style of 'Notes of a Native Son', but it was a good one, and it could not have been written by anyone else. It was driven by the need to affirm the connection between art and life: art was important because the life it sprang from was more important—
the slave mother . . . weep[s], until this hour, for her slaughtered son . . . whoever cannot face this can never pay the price for the beat which is the key to music and the key to life.
Music is our witness and our ally. The beat is the confession which recognizes, changes and conquers time.
I did not actually meet Baldwin for almost another two years, and once again the encounter followed a somewhat comic pattern.
After 'Of the Sorrow Songs' was completed, he rounded off our dealings with an open invitation to visit him in St-Paul—'if you ever happen to be down this way'. He also gave me some phone numbers where I could contact him in New York, those of his brother and his mother, saying that they always knew where he was, and that we should keep in touch.
The hand of friendship extended in this way greatly flattered me, and I resolved to make sure that I would 'happen to be down this way' before long.
The opportunity occurred early the next summer, which I spent in Paris. I rang Baldwin from a telephone box. 'How are you, baby?' he asked. I was fine—and him? Baldwin chuckled. 'A li'l tight, a li'l tight . . . but that's OK.' I explained that, if it was convenient, I would like to take up my invitation to visist him, in the middle of the following week. Baldwin didn't hesitate; he said he would be delighted. We fixed a day for my arrival, and I asked: 'Shall I phone you before leaving Paris?'
'Only if you have time,' he said. 'Call me when you get to Nice.'
I said I would. 'Goodbye, then.'
Ciao, baby!'
In fact, I did not call before leaving, not wanting to tempt a postponement. As a present, I bought a record of the great pianist Mary Lou Williams, and took the early-morning train from Paris to Nice. Nine hours later, I crossed the road from the station to a café, where I dialed Baldwin's number. For the first time in our telephone life, he picked up the receiver himself.
'Mr. Baldwin—'
'Hey, baby, how are you? Where are you?'
'I'm in Nice.'
Baldwin exploded. 'You're in Nice, man! Oh baby . . .' his voice decelerated to a crawl, 'you should've let me know.'
Before I had a chance to protest that he himself had said it was unnecessary to call in advance, he asked: 'Do you have any French money?' Yes, of course I did. I had been in Paris for weeks. 'OK, look. Take a cab to St-Paul de Vence. Do you know any French? Ask the driver to let you down at a restaurant called the Colombe d'Or. He'll know it. I'll be there.'
I reached the Colombe d'Or but he wasn't in the bar. When I asked the barman about 'Monsieur Baldwin', he shrugged and looked vague. I lugged my bag across the road to the large café which took up one side of the place, and waited in the open air, watching the men playing boules. Within quarter of an hour, Baldwin appeared at the junction about fifty yards away: small and slight, in sunglasses and a short-sleeved shirt, with a mincing walk; looking all around, he seemed like a stranger himself. My mental image of him was out of date. With grey in his hair, he was no longer the young man I had read and read about.
I approached.
He took off the sunglasses.
'Are you him?'
We went into the Colombe d'Or, where the barman now looked very pleased to see both of us. I was not an autograph hunter; I was Monsieur Baldwin's—Jeemy's—friend.
He seemed nervous and shy. After two or three drinks, he asked: 'Where are you staying?'
I must have betrayed my alarm, because he answered for me: 'You're welcome to stay down at the house, if you like.'
Bernard Hassell joined us. He stared at me wonderingly and said my name very slowly as we shook hands, as if what he saw was the solution to a puzzle.
He went ahead, taking my bag with him, and Baldwin and I walked downhill together from St-Paul on to the road which led to the village of La Colle, and, before that, to Baldwin's venerable stone house. It was 14 July and very hot. Baldwin gave me a drink and we stood in the garden talking as the celebratory fireworks began to be launched from the village on the hill. He looked me in the eye. 'You're home,' he said.
It was not until long afterwards, thinking once again about my awkward entrance and the abundant hospitality in the week that followed, that I realized he had forgotten all about our conversation of a few days before. 'A li'l tight,' he had said over the line to Paris. I don't think he ever remembered. When he asked, 'Do you have any French money?' (I was to discover that he was quite used to people coming only to borrow money), he thought I was newly landed from Edinburgh.
Each time I suggested I might leave, Baldwin or Bernard would tell me to stay another night. 'There's a party tomorrow evening in Grasse,' Bernard said one day. 'Why not hang around for that?'
We travelled in a taxi, which was waiting for us when we came out several hours later. As we went through the door to the house, Bernard leading, a well-known English thriller-writer was standing by the entrance. Our arrival had been keenly anticipated. He grasped Bernard's hand.
'James Baldwin. I'm so pleased to meet you. We travelled on the same plane together from Paris to Nice the other day. I saw you in first class and I thought to myself, that must be James Baldwin.'
Bernard withdrew his hand 'I'm Bernard Hassell. That's James Baldwin.' Later, he sneered: 'Sees a black man travelling first class and thinks he must be James Baldwin. Shit.'
At the party, Baldwin performed the role of celebrity superbly. Theatricality was central to his nature. No less characteristic of him than his integrity was his self-dramatization, a certain campness in his poise, an unflagging willingness to perform, and a weakness for flashbulbs and recognition in public places. He was as likely to allude to Marlon Brando and Sammy Davis, in discussing his contemporaries, as he was to mention Saul Bellow or Ralph Ellison. I remember him half-sitting on the round table in the middle of the floor, one foot up on a chair, at the centre of a ring of people. He was telling a funny story about the difficulty he had in getting Giovanni's Room published. I noticed how he undercut his pride with a self-deprecating humour, but without compromising it. He told them how the writing of The Fire Next Time came about almost by accident.
'I was supposed to write about Africa for the New Yorker, but it didn't work out. I couldn't. So I had to do something for them, to prove I hadn't been in Africa for three months jerking off—on their money!'
He had a precise and practised delivery, a fond wit, and a tremendously engaging way of throwing back his head and laughing when you said something funny or when you shared one of his jokes. He was at home with the adoration and the awe, but he appeared genuinely trusting and generous with people, irrespective of colour, class or gender. He knew he was a celebrity and an exotic species, yet far from indulging himself in the attention he commanded, he seemed to give something in return to each of his admirers individually.
In the taxi on the way home—Bernard had gone on ahead—I asked him why he did it, why he played the role, somewhere between prince and court jester, to people who clearly were autograph hunters. All they knew about Giovanni's Room and The Fire Next Time was that somebody famous had written them, and that they were rubbing shoulders with Somebody.
Baldwin had no time for my superciliousness. 'I've smashed enough glasses!' he said in the back of the cab, widening his enormous eyes and fanning the fingers of one suddenly upraised hand. 'I've made enough speeches! That doesn't help. People have to learn to touch—each—other.'
He liked the fact that we had, as he put it, 'worked together', and enjoyed introducing me to people as 'one of my editors'. He asked me to read the typescript of an essay he had just finished, and some poems; the essay was for Playboy and was the original for his book about the Atlanta child-killings, The Evidence of Things Not Seen. It was stamped with many of Baldwin's fine hallmarks, but I could see that the compact, epistolatory, intimately lyrical manner of the 1950s and early 1960s had deserted him for good, as a singer's voice will coarsen or a painter's style congeal. I liked the poems less, but of one long poem, 'Staggerlee wonders', I said that it fascinated me to find his voice released from the necessity of discourse and left free to play in the abstractions of verse.
Baldwin looked at me as if I had said something original when in fact I had been struggling to find anything to say at all. 'Released from discourse', he kept repeating, over and over again. 'Released from discourse.'
By chance, I found out that he was being paid a huge sum for the Playboy article, which was not much longer than the one he had written for the New Edinburgh Review. Yet, without being asked, he offered to write for the New Edinburgh Review again. Such magazines were important, he said. Reputations were established in their pages. He had started out in journals like that himself.
Later, I saw that writing for a little magazine like the New Edinburgh Review brought him an alternative wealth: it put him back in touch with his early days in Paris. Not in the nostalgic way that flicking through the pages of one of his first books might have done, but by enabling him to be as he had been then, one of a circle of young writers, artists and editors, when such magazines were the only ones to open their pages to him. He had known the honour inherent in intrinsically necessary creative work, and it had given him the courage to go for broke, become a writer or nothing at all. In the New Edinburgh Review, he welcomed the opportunity to hark back to those values, that climate, that writer; to write on behalf of the energy of literature itself.
His achievement really had been to plant seeds in stone, to carve a form out of rock, the rock of ages. 'The rock claimed me,' he said. It was a religious calling, primarily, a mission for the sake of the have-nots, which had got tangled up in an American mix of aggrandisement, gold and fame. The whiff of puritanism coming off the pages of a small, amateurish journal from Scotland rallied the struggling artist in him—the artist he was trying to revive.
He did not rise before noon. The newspapers came, one in English, one in French, and in fine weather he sat outside at the canopied table where dinner had ended well after twelve the night before, and drank a Johnnie Walker Black Label on the rocks.
When he showed me his study in the lower part of the house—what he called 'the torture chamber'—I noticed many books on the shelves on black subjects and by black writers. On the table was a novel by Ishmael Reed, a member of the west-coast avant garde and the new enfant terrible of Afro-American letters. Baldwin had publicly expressed admiration for Reed's work, but Reed had scorned and insulted him, saying that Baldwin was 'a hustler who comes on like Job'. Like the taunts from other quarters about his homosexuality, it wounded Baldwin deeply.
It hurt him to discover that writers of Reed's age regarded him as part of an older generation, as being 'past it', when he was not yet sixty. Hardly had he got used to being a grand old man than they were trying to extinguish him, just as he had shut off his own mentor, Richard Wright.
Baldwin would not accept retirement. 'I am just beginning as a writer,' he proclaimed one evening in the Colombe d'Or. A phone call had come through to the bar from Playboy, redirected from the house by Bernard, saying that they liked his piece. Baldwin looked as if he had won a prize. He raised his glass. 'I am just—beginning—as a writer!'
He wanted to find his way back to the artist he had been before the outbreak of the civil rights war called him to national service. He had wandered off-track. But now the map had changed. Ishmael Reed had changed it. Alice Walker had changed it, and Toni Morrison. Ralph Ellison, who had published Invisible Man in 1952 and very little since, was still changing it. Was Ellison, more or less a one-book man, going to outpace the prolific Baldwin at the post? Baldwin's intention, stated first in 1964, to 'challenge the language' to contain his experience, had not come to much. His intellectual powers were uniquely strong and subtle, but he required an aesthetic stimulus, a new rapport with characters and ideas. Without that, high standing as an artist, which at the outset his career had promised, would elude him.
In my view, at that time, the terms 'black writing' and 'black writer' did not fit him anyway. I had no difficulty in avoiding concepts like those. Baldwin the novelist was an old-fashioned American realist. No more was I, a non-American, inclined to think of him as a black writer than of Mailer as a Jewish writer, or Robert Lowell as a Boston writer. His subject, like theirs, was our common predicament. In fact, I could see that Baldwin and I shared a culture—Calvinism—and fragments of a common history. Born 'James Jones', he bore the name of a Celt, as I did. One of his preoccupations was the miscegenation of the races in America and he himself had white relations. Perhaps Celtic blood flowed through his veins.
If he was forced to take the view from the margin, that again was something I was familiar with—Burns, Scott, Stevenson, MacDiarmid and all Scottish writers down to my own generation were also on the outside looking in, and had seen themselves as such. 'Jimmy noticed that you billed him as an American writer in the New Edinburgh review,' Bernard told me one day, 'and not as a black writer. He liked that.'
So what about launching this new beginning from a port where not all the natives were black? What about women's liberation as a subject? Vietnam? The US Indians? What about an essay on the differences between Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, as he'd been explaining them to me last night? What about Henry James, what about Hemingway?
My motives were partly selfish: I wanted to see, hear, feel, Baldwin's virtuosic prose range over subjects that were important to me. I had just written something about Hemingway, for example; it wasn't bad, but it wasn't outstanding. I longed to focus Baldwin's pen on it, as if it were a shining light, to create something 'unexpected', as William Shawn said of The Fire Next Time.
'Hemingway?' Baldwin looked puzzled. 'I don't think so. Faulkner, maybe. Something, you know, that I could connect with.'
Later, however, he told me he had re-read The Sun Also Rises, and had liked it better than he had expected to. So perhaps he could have connected, after all, and written something fresh and distinct about Hemingway, about the Paris expatriates of the 1920s and the novels they wrote.
But I had begun to see, by then, that the black writer he had become was standing in his way.
About the Book
James Baldwin was one of America's finest and most influential writers. By the time he died in 1987, his books, such as The Fire Next Time, Go Tell It on the Mountain, and Giovanni's Room, had become modern classics.
" James Campbell has ably blended both scholarship and personal recollection."—New York Times Book Review
"Must reading for anyone interested in James Baldwin."—Washington Post Book World
"Frank and affectionate. . . . Approaching Baldwin without reverence, though not quite irreverently, Campbell brings a mixture of intellectual integrity and something like truculence to the biographer's task."—Times Literary Supplement
"Campbell has met the challenge and written a first-rate work. The best biography so far. . . . He deals not only with the facts of his subject's life but also with his works."—Chicago Tribune
"A life-sized portrait in very broad strokes. . . . . A lively book that is immensely readable, serious, careful, and informed."—Boston Sunday Globe
"[A] marvelously illuminating literary biography . . . . [and] an affectionate yet critical portrait."—Publishers Weekly"Campbell's biography is scrupulously researched and also uncovers new material about Baldwin's life and offers a well-argued case for a re-reading of Baldwin's oeuvre. Campbell knew Baldwin well, but his affection for the man has not dulled his critical pen. When I first met Baldwin he referred me to Campbell as the man to talk to if I wished to know more about his life and work."—Caryl Phillips, author of The Atlantic Sound
Table of Contents
Author's Note
I. No Story, Ma
II. Lord, I ain't No Stranger Now
III. A Severe Cross
IV. Tear This Building Down
V. The Price of the Beat
Afterward to the 2002 Edition
Abbreviations Used in Notes


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The things we do for Elgg – after a hard day presenting and consulting, we retired to the bar to do yet more project work. It's a busy life! (Photo taken by Dave on my slightly grainy Nokia phone.)


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John Willan steps down as Chairman of Hazard Chase
John Willan has announced that as of 31st August 2011 he will step down as Chairman of Hazard Chase Limited. He joined the company as a non-executive director in 1996 and became chairman at the time of the management buyout from N.W. Brown and Company in 1999. He will continue as a Governor of the Royal Academy of Music, as Chairman of the International Artist Managers' Association and as an adviser to Orchid Classics.
James Brown, Managing Director of Hazard Chase comments "John has made a huge contribution to the development of the company and will be greatly missed".


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Rumors about the death of Internet browsing technology may be exaggerated, but Vienna, Va.-based BTG Inc. and its partner, PointCast, hope to put a few nails in the coffin.
This spring the pair launches FedCast - a free application that will "broadcast" up-to-the-minute government news and information directly to the computer screens of federal employees and contractors.
At a Virtual Government '97 conference sponsored by the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association last week, BTG officials confirmed that FedCast - a network of five government channels - will be online by early April.
PointCast, based in Santa Clara, Calif., has recently surged to the head of a new Internet access class known as push technology. The free service, which came on the market in 1996, already delivers global news and customized information to more than 1.7 million viewers, a figure that grows by 350,000 new registrations each month, according to PointCast. The service, like other traditional broadcast mediums, takes its revenues from paid advertisements.
The service, like other traditional broadcast mediums, takes its revenues from paid advertisements.
"What's more, the information that users receive is interactive and customizable, so they can choose what information they want to receive on their screens."
Most recently, PointCast has set its sights on providing custom-tailored Web information to vertical markets. Its first target has been the federal government.
Last year, it brought on systems integrator BTG to pull together content for FedCast, the first of a class of industry-specific networks that the company calls CommunityCasts or "extranets."
Although PointCast handles all advertising and broadcast functions, BTG will be the prime partner in this relationship, Rudolph said.
"We realize that we don't know the federal market as well as our partner does," he said. "And in this domain, content is the critical factor. It has to be compelling and dynamic if the service is to be successful."
Paul Collins, vice president of BTG, stated that many federal employees - including Vice President Al Gore - are already tuning in to the PointCast network, which features channels on such topics as headline news, industry information, stock quotes and weather.
By adding the FedCast channels, viewers can access five new channels: Government Newsstand, Defense, Agency, Legislative and Government Employee. These channels allow employees and other interested parties to stay abreast of agency and congressional actions, as well as job openings in the federal government, employee benefits and health care concerns, and access to an up-to-date legislative calendar and government directory.
In time, BTG plans to add other channels, which can be done seamlessly at the broadcast facility.
Partners expect a huge response.
"We aspire to eventually have hundreds of thousands of viewers," Collins said, noting that the prospective audience includes not only active federal employees but retired employees, veterans, union officials, government organizations and government contractors.
"We've gotten an extremely favorable response from the government community, not only for using the service, but they also see it as a good vehicle for distributing information to their own targeted audience."
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Advertising on the network gives companies a chance to target a very captive audience. A channel viewer in the top, right-hand corner of the screen continually runs 30-second ad spots.
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A DAY IN THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE - Special educational program available for touring to schools and educational institution created for Caramoor center for Music and the Arts in 1993 and still in residence there. featured on ABC TV as seen onwww.alessandrabelloni.com/videogallery
Experience what thousands of school kids have enjoyed at Caramoor. A Day in the Renaissance will take your students to Italy with songs and dances, street theater, music, masks. A special children's workshop of Italian Renaissance Instruments, music , dance and Theatre of the Commedia dell'Arte:
The actors will explain the Italian Renaissance history, talking about the painters, art, sculptures, explorers, music and theatre. The musicians will demonstrate instruments as recorders, viola, violin renaissance guitar, will demonstrate the masked character of the comical Renaissance theatre of Commedia dell'Arte such as Pulcinella, Arlecchino, Don Giovanni and the woman Ricciulina, they will teach the song with gestures typical of the Commedia character entitled Ricciulina, and the popular Renaissance dance tarantella del '600.
featuring the children's production of THE ADVENTURES OF DON GIOVANNI AND HIS SERVANT ARLECCHINO comic opera based on a 16th century Neapolitan Commedia dell'Arte manuscript, the play features the hilarious shenanigans of Arlecchino his fiancee "Ricciulina", a servant who falls instead for his master Don Giovanni, and the servant Sebastiano, Ricciulina's brother, who favors his sister match with the wealthy Don Giovanni rather than Pulcinella. As in the opera, Don Giovanni is punished in the end when he meets a ghost (giant puppet) and he's taken to hell by the devil in a "dance macabre" This opera is featured at the CARAMOOR workshops, where children are invited to join singing and dancing the Tarantella with the "irresistible" Ricciulina.
The company is formed by seven artists from this CAST:
Alessandra Belloni, Artistic Director, Ricciulina, singer, percussionist , dance, Mark Mindek, Arlecchino,James Karcher, Don Giovanni, actor /sward fighter, Susan Eberenz, flutes /recorders, Joe Deninzon or Susan Mitchell violin, Wilson Montuori, guitars, Max Mc Guire Actor, (Zanni), Cynthia Enfield, Actress /singer Ricciulina, Francesca Silvano Dancer
Cynthia Enfield, Actress /singer Ricciulina, Francesca Silvano Dancer
LIVE ON ABC TV in Chicago -http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=resources&id=8592878
Excerpts from the show, "Tarantelle Canti D'Amore", performed by Alessandra Belloni and John La Barbera with I Giullari Di Piazza at Symphony Space, New York City on October 30, 2009.
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Since we started Probably Awkward and I was able to create a forum in which to air my ongoing disgruntlement regarding all that is quirky in the world, two questions inevitably arise when I get into offline (read: in person) discussions with folks: 1. How could I possibly hate someone as adorable as Zooey Deschanel?, and 2. Can men be afflicted by the quirk?
The answer to the first question can be found in the Jezebel piece on her from several months ago, which I'll link to again, since it encapsulates everything so neatly and so wonderfully smirkily. [Read it here.] As for the second question: have you seen The Science of Sleep? I love Gael Garcia Bernal, and in a parallel universe I'm Charlotte Gainsbourg and have the best bangs ever -- but my god, if you want a textbook example of emotional damage as a catalyst for meeting-cute and oh boy let's see what madcap adventures ensue!, you needn't look much further than that. If not for his infinite talent in making music videos that I actually enjoy watching, I'd probably brand Michel Gondry the King of the Quirk.
If you've already seen The Science of Sleep and are thinking, well but maybe that was an anomaly; Michel Gondry's too cool for the quirk, then might I turn your attention to this upcoming monstrosity?
I'd really like to know what compelled Ryan Gosling -- dear, hott Ryan Gosling -- to participate in this. A quick look over at imdb tells me next to nothing about Lars and the Real Girl, though the youtube page from which I swiped the trailer says that this Lars character is " a loveable introvert whose emotional baggage has kept him from fully embracing life." Man, that's just about every guy I know and/or have dated. And you know what? They're fully functional human beings. They manage to speak in complete sentences. Maybe, though, the movie might be worth watching if it turned out to be sort of like Mannequin, and the blow-up doll comes to life. Cast Miranda July in the role and then watch the quirky sparks fly!
[MD: I can only hope this is as uplifting as the 2003 release Love Object. One man's horror thriller is another man's romantic comedy!]


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In 2017, the GS Group holding company announced the sale of its share in the joint venture Beximco Communication Ltd that operates in Bangladesh under the RealVU brand. In so doing, the holding company has successfully completed an investment project to create the first satellite Pay-TV operator in the country. Beximco Communication Ltd will continue to operate the broadcasting equipment and infrastructure developed and integrated by GS Group.
The RealVU project was launched in April 2016 in partnership with BEXIMCO, a Bangladeshi diversified conglomerate. GS Group served as an investor and provided the supply and integration of its own software and hardware solutions, which will still remain the basis of RealVU even after GS Group leaves the project.
The first national DTH-platform RealVU provides high-quality digital broadcasting throughout Bangladesh. The operator offers 112 SD and HD TV channels, including international channels in English, popular Indian TV content, as well as channels with local content produced in Bangladesh. Digital TV set-top boxes developed by GS Group meet the needs of today's TV viewers offering smart functions such as PVR and TimeShift along with an electronic program guide (EPG).
RealVU is the second foreign broadcasting project launched with the direct involvement of GS Group. From 2012 to 2016, the holding company successfully implemented a project of creating One TV, the first nationwide DTT-operator in the Kingdom of Cambodia.
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Educators within Adventist schools are committed to lifelong learning. Initiatives that are being rolled out within Adventist Schools support this ideal and the following programs are well utilised by teachers and leaders within the system.
Professional practice within an Adventist school requires commitment to and compliance with the Adventist Identity Professional Stanards for Teachers. These are established as supplementary requirements to the AITSL National Professional Standards for Teachers and clarify the additional expectations that are imposed on classroom teachers within Adventist Schools Australia.
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In order to put a cohesive application for Haas School of Business you need to have a clear understanding of your application strategy specifically your career goals and your strengths/weaknesses. Haas School of Business require you to answer six questions with the short answer having only 250 words space to complete your answer. It is quite challenging and you have to address a variety of accomplishments and attributes to create a comprehensive application.
Since the career goal question comes towards the end of the application, the AdCom wants to learn more about your personal story. Be consistent with your story and make sure that the career goals at the end is not a big surprise for the admissions committee. Your personality and experience should blend well with your career goals.
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1. What are you most passionate about? Why? (250 word maximum)
Similar to what matters most, and why, this question seeks to get at your core values. What do you wake up in the middle of the night thinking about? (You may want to keep a pencil by your bed to get your creative thoughts flowing!) What common threads have been woven throughout your life, whether altruistic, artistic or personal?
Whatever your passion is, make sure you can draw a conclusion about why you are passionate, and preferably you are able to weave your passion through this entire set of essays.
2. Tell us about your most significant accomplishment. (250 word maximum)
Your accomplishment can be big or small, but it should be significant to you. While you have limited space, this is an opportunity to demonstrate what matters to you and to showcase one of your proudest moments.
While you are asked only about the accomplishment, the best essays will use this limited space to demonstrate clearly what the accomplishment was (be specific!) as well as commenting upon the significance of the accomplishment.
3. At Haas, our distinctive culture is defined by four key principles — question the status quo; confidence without attitude; students always; and beyond yourself. Give an example of when you have demonstrated one of these principles. (250 words maximum, Review Berkeley-Haas' Defining Principles)
This is an ideal place to demonstrate fit with Haas by focusing on the values of the Haas community. You are given the option to address several key attributes of the Haas Defining Principles and you will want to choose the attribute that both clearly demonstrates a strength for you, and has a clear supporting example you can cite. The situational question would like to see your values in action as part of the question. When approaching a situational essay like this it's important to provide both a concrete example and to explain what you thought, felt and did during the situation.
4. There are many ways to learn about our program, what steps have you taken to learn about the Berkeley MBA? (250-word maximum)
This is another great opportunity to demonstrate your fit and enthusiasm for the Haas MBA program. Basic research will certainly include a visit to the website and perusal of the course catalog. To really demonstrate fit you will benefit from visiting campus, attending an informational session or connecting with alumni or current students. The personal touch is often the most helpful, and will give you an opportunity to really understand how you can personally be connected to the school.
Required Essays:
Give us an example of a situation in which you displayed leadership. (500 word maximum)
Both required essays are the same as they were last year. In this essay you will want to think about a specific leadership experience and what you did, said, felt and accomplished. Leadership can be expressed in many ways. Perhaps you lead a team of people at work, or in a volunteer capacity. If you do not have a formal leadership role you might have led a project or contributed as a strong leader from a team perspective. Whichever type of leadership experience you had, make sure to provide specifics of the situation. Strong results always stand out!
What are your post-MBA short-term and long-term career goals? How do your professional experiences relate to these goals? How will an MBA from Berkeley help you achieve these specific career goals? (1000 word maximum)
This is a fairly typical career goals essay that asks for both short- and long-term goals and the background that led you to this juncture in your career. This year it will be especially important to logically connect your background and your future, as schools will be looking for candidates who can be successful in a challenging job market.
Be specific about why Haas is the right program to pursue your goals as well. Make sure you have determined exactly what courses make sense for your career goals and the programs and clubs that you will participate in to reach your personal and professional goals.
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(Optional) Please feel free to provide a statement concerning any information you would like to add to your application that you haven't addressed elsewhere. (500 word maximum)
This optional essay can be used for any weakness you would like to address, or simply as an opportunity to end with some additional information that will help you stand out from the application pool. If there is an aspect of your background that was not illustrated in previous questions this can be a great opportunity.
If you have a weakness you would like to address here, focus on specifics. Describe what happened, why it is not representative of your potential, and provide specific examples of how you have performed better in your life since. Explanations and not excuses are always the best path.
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Others are showing their highlight reels. Meanwhile, you're thinking about what's on your cutting room floor.
Behind every "overnight success" you will find years of struggle – years of blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
Everyone picks the ripe fruit off the tree, but few helped plant the sapling or nurtured it afterward.
Everyone drinks the wine, but no one sees the crushing of the grapes.
People see the money, but they don't know if it comes from cash reserves or incoming revenues.
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It's crazy.
Some say, it's all fun and games until someone gets their eye poked out. Then it's just fun you can't see.
That's better than not having fun at all.
A world and a life with no fun is something we'd rather not see.
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July 1-July 28, 2018
Tuition: $8495
The Oxford Tradition was founded in 1985, and is housed in Pembroke and Corpus Christi Colleges. Our students live in the same rooms as undergraduates during the year, and work with leading academics, including Rhodes Scholars and University lecturers. They pick two courses, a Major and a Minor, from a myriad of choices that includes Medical Science, Business, and Law; immerse themselves in Oxford; and go on field trips, including one to London. They also learn how to apply to UK universities. Students can also opt to add on the Paris Connection and spend 6 days in Paris before heading home. Scroll down to read course descriptions, faculty bios, and apply now!
Optional add-on: Students who attend The Oxford Tradition can extend their stay in Europe with 6 days in Paris! Click here to learn more.
Students on The Oxford Tradition can choose from over 40 academic and creative courses that are designed to make use Oxford and its extraordinary resources. All the courses are experiential. They involve daily field-trips to museum, eminent guest speakers, project-work, and more. Our most popular courses include Medical Science, Business Management, Politics, and Law and Society. Descriptions for these are below, and you can follow the link to read more about all our courses.
Students examine the British and American legal systems and how they reflect the values and institutions of their respective societies. Emphasis is placed on legal history and modes of thought, precedent-setting cases, current controversies, and the kind of first-hand courtroom observation that brings them to life. Each course includes visits to a court and sessions with lawyers. Major courses culminate in a formal moot court competition.
This hands-on course introduces students to key aspects of medicine and modern medical practice. Combining specialist lectures with experiments and class discussions, students learn the main principles of human anatomy and physiology, the pathology and significance of certain diseases, the main challenges that medical science faces today, and the variety and changing nature of careers in medicine.
How do business organizations start, grow, and thrive? What analytical, interpersonal, and technical skills are required to make sense of and address the problems facing companies of all sizes? This course includes visits to Oxford's Saïd Business School and covers a diverse range of topics including economics, finance management, information technology, marketing, law, and purchasing. It culminates in the design and creation of a business model.
Oxford's famous undergraduate degree, Politics, Philosophy, and Economics (PPE), is adapted for our students. They examine the institutions and policies of modern Britain and contrast the British, American, European, and East Asian approaches to global problems. Students engage in practical exercises such as a fantasy stock portfolio competition and complete the month by participating in a mock Parliament.
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Our teachers are academics and researchers drawn from the University and established creative professionals. A few biographies are listed below, and you can follow the link to meet all our faculty.
BSc Aberystwyth University, MPhil, DPhil University of Oxford
Dr. Chan completed his doctorate at the University of Oxford as the Sir John Swire Scholar at St. Antony's College. His thesis was on the evolution of developing country coalitions in international climate change negotiations. He is currently investigating North-South relations, developing countries in the post-Cold War era, climate change negotiations, global environmental governance, inequality in world politics, and the power and roles of norms and ideas in international relations. Dr. Chan is also an active practitioner, having advised the delegations of several countries at international climate conferences, and having worked for Members of Parliament in the U.K.
BA, MPhil University of Oxford
William is conducting doctoral research at the University of Oxford, where he is based in Balliol College. His thesis focuses on ethics, political philosophy, and the role of empathy in morality. He is also interested in the possibility of blame-free morality; the connections between philosophy and meditation; the idea of learning through experience; and the potential roles for philosophy in social activism. Before taking up his current post at Oxford, William was employed as a management consultant. He routinely conducted mindful empathy workshops with groups such as Giving What We Can, World at Play, and the Kibera School for Girls in Nairobi, Kenya. Outside of academia, William enjoys tennis and yoga.
BS University of Bordeaux, MS University of Poitiers, PhD Université Paris Diderot, Paris VII
Dr. Récalde is a postdoctoral researcher in cell culture, molecular biology, and immunostaining at the University of Oxford, where she works in the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine. Her work has been published in a wide range of journals, and she regularly presents her findings at academic conferences across the world. Dr. Récalde has extensive teaching experience, and has supervised students up to PhD level at the University of Oxford.
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Students reside in the center of Oxford, in Corpus Christi and Pembroke Colleges.
Founded in 1517, the College boasts an elaborate sundial, built in 1581, that still stands today. Early visitors included Catherine of Aragon and the great linguist and philosopher Erasmus of Rotterdam. The College President, John Rainolds, led the scholars who produced the King James Bible in 1611. More recent alumni include the philosopher Isaiah Berlin, writer Vikram Seth, and several British politicians in office today.
Founded in 1624 by King James I, Pembroke boasts former Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, American Senator J. William Fulbright, and Samuel Johnson, author of The Dictionary of the English Language, among its alums.
Our extracurricular program maintains a healthy balance between study and leisure, allowing students to relax and unwind while continuing to immerse themselves in their new home.
Students might punt on the Cherwell, attend dances, go on hikes, play soccer, tennis, quidditch, cricket, or go for a run. On another day, they might choose from a museum tour, a choral concert, or a Shakespeare play, or visit one of the many sites in in Oxford that mark pivotal events in British history. Every college is both a chapter in the University's story, and a glimpse into centuries of intellectual endeavor and academic tradition. From discovering Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum to following in C.S. Lewis's footsteps, students have almost unlimited opportunities to be out and about. One might find them browsing an antiquarian bookshop, Blackwells bookshop, visiting an exhibition at the famous Ashmolean Museum, watching a play outside Oxford's Norman castle, picnicking in the University Parks, or simply watching the world go by in a local café.
The Paris Connection is a 6-night extension to The Oxford Tradition. Students are taken to Paris on the final day. They are housed at the MIJE, in the Marais, a beautiful historic district on the rive droite. The area is home to art galleries, cafés, and boutiques, and is within easy reach of, among others, Notre Dame, the Île Saint-Louis, the Louvre, the Tuileries, the Picasso Museum, and the Pompidou.
The schedule is carefully designed to make the most of our students' time while blending study and fun. Activities include expert-led visits of world-famous museums and monuments, outings to Montmartre, the catacombs, fun-fairs, shopping, and sampling different French cuisines in a selection of traditional restaurants. Paris becomes the perfect place for discovery and learning.
Paris Connection
Every student is met personally at Heathrow or Gatwick airport upon arrival and escorted to Oxford. At the end of the program, they are accompanied back to the airport, where we oversee check-in and departure. A representative stays at the airport until every flight has departed.
Corpus Christi and Pembroke are situated in very safe neighborhoods, with controlled access and twenty-four hour security. Day-to-day life is overseen by teams of Deans - professional educators drawn from leading schools in the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia. Both Colleges have a program office, in a central location, which is open and permanently staffed by Deans from before 8am until well past midnight. Every student checks in personally, every evening, with the Deans on duty. The Program Director, Deans, residential staff, and some members of faculty live in the residences, ensuring round-the-clock care and supervision.
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Every summer, students and teachers on The Oxford Tradition maintain a blog, which provides unparalleled insight into daily life, classes, and activities. Last summer's blog is available here!
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Open House: Golf View Villas at Club Campestre, San Jose del Cabo
My colleagues, Coldwell Banker Riveras real estate representatives in San Jose del Cabo, were extremely busy lately! If you have been following us on our Facebook page /CBRiveras or on Twitter @CBRiveras, you might have noticed several of beautiful new listings in Club Campestre, that we have added to our portfolio lately. We have a wide selection of golf view homesites and stunning golf front and ocean view Villas, that why we'd like to invite you to join us at the Open House at Club Campestre:
Club Campestre Open House, San Jose del Cabo
(Los Valles Neighborhood). Signs available for directions once you have entered Security Gate.
Date: Friday, February 10th, from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm
We will be showing 3 great homes: Villa Renata, Villa Andrea and Villa Lolita.
Refreshments and snacks served.
If you are not familiar with Club Campestre, it is literally "The Place to Live", as they say on their website. I could count at least couple of reasons for that, but you can also ask all the details about them to my colleagues Katia Cao and Cherine Khouzam. Club Campestre is gracefully laid out over the rolling foothills of the Sierra de la Laguna Mountains, with sweeping views of the Sea of Cortes and their 18 hole Nicklaus Design golf course. All three homes we will be showing, have included a membershib to Club Campestre Beach Club!
The homes shown at the open house:
I hope to see you at our open house. These homes at Club Campestre are beautiful; a perfect location for golf lovers, for all longing to see ocean views from any corner of your home, and for all who love Los Cabos lifestyle.
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Several years ago, the partners at Berns Weiss recognized that virtual currency (also referred to as digital currency or cryptocurrency) and blockchain distributed ledger technology have the potential to revolutionize how individuals, businesses, and the government interact with one another. The technology that underlies cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum not only allows for the transfer of value and payments, but it also provides an open, verifiable system free from intermediaries that permits the transfer of information and property rights between participants. As is often the case with new technologies, individuals and companies that use virtual currencies and are working on applications that run on the blockchain are currently confronted with a legal system that has developed in response to old technology.
Berns Weiss is ideally positioned to protect the rights of the individuals who participate in the developing virtual currency/blockchain eco-system. Its partners have decades of experience protecting the rights of consumers through litigation in federal and state court. Further, our Virtual Currency and Blockchain technology practice group is staffed by attorneys that have developed the necessary experience and expertise to guide individuals and businesses working on virtual currency and blockchain applications through the existing legal labyrinth. Our firm currently provides legal services to software developers and outside general counsel services to start-ups in this field. Additionally, the group's attorneys serve on a Federal Reserve committee concerning payment technology , have participated in numerous virtual currency and blockchain conferences and events, have co-authored a virtual currency guide, and are frequent contributors to a news site devoted to Ethereum and blockchain news. Berns Weiss also maintains a Virtual Currency and Blockchain blog, where emerging ideas and multifaceted problems from the virtual currency and blockchain world are explored and dissected through a discerning legal lens.
Our firm is unique in that we are able to supplement our attorneys' substantial experience and expertise with technical capabilities that are derived from direct access to coders and back-end software developers working at a blockchain-based software design studio founded by our managing partner. This enables us to develop a more thorough understanding of blockchain software applications. Berns Weiss is well-equipped to assist companies and developers in analyzing the potential legal consequences that accompany the rapid growth of this burgeoning technology and to investigate a myriad of relevant regulatory compliance issues. As the blockchain community continues to grow, and as regulators and legislators push to pass new laws to address this technology, Berns Weiss should be your first choice as a partner in developing real world solutions to address this virtual frontier.


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If you are a student at the University of Portsmouth there is no way you've got this far and not heard about Purple Door. Just in case you have managed to miss their existence altogether (really where have you been?) Purple Door offer support to students, and even graduates, on career planning, work experience, volunteering, part-time jobs, placements, business startup and graduate jobs. They will do anything from helping you find a little job for a few hours a week, to just chatting about what you think you might want to do, to helping you write or polish up a CV, to working towards that all-important application to your dream graduate job.
The classic phrase I seem to come back to time and time again is I am a worrier by nature. I am a worrier by nature and so the idea of graduating in a few short months is just terrifying! I am so scared of ending up with no job or, perhaps even worse, a job I absolutely can't stand and feel trapped in. I don't want to be living off my parents in my childhood bedroom for the next 10 years. I am determined to succeed!
So, last week I went to Purple Door. I had been once before to discuss part-time work but it had only been rather brief. You can book in-depth 40 minute meetings for careers advice and the like but also it is probably easier to just walk in. On both occasions I have just walked in. They'll ask for your student number and name and then you'll sit and wait for a couple of minutes whilst someone becomes available.
The man I spoke to was incredibly patient and listened to me babble about my uncertain future. I had brought in a recent CV which I knew needed a little makeover. I thought this would help him to assess where I needed to go from here before applying for jobs, in terms of experience. He went through it thoroughly, bit by bit and we redrafted a new one.
He told me that the nature of my field means I can't start applying yet. Employers who are recruiting now for my industry will need someone who cans start pretty much immediately. Jobs in other fields like law or engineering have graduate schemes and will begin scouting and interviewing around this time, and even earlier! As a writer and aspiring editor/publisher there is little I can do in terms of graduate jobs right now. In a few months I was advised back to Purple Door with my newly formatted CV and I can begin the job hunt!
For now, I just need to keep on doing what I'm doing. I need to keep my eye on job websites to help me see what is out there and the kind of things I would like to be applying for. The Guardian Jobs is a great one, as well as using the Purple Door search itself. I need to calm down and remember I still have time to get my life all figured out. I'm only 20! It is comforting to know that Purple Door will be there for me for the next 5 and a half years if I need help. Going there restored a confidence in myself and my achievements. It made me excited to start the next chapter of my life as a graduate. I can't wait to see what the future will hold.


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Using GPS units, navigate through a scavenger hunt to learn about the plants that Indigenous people and early settlers used to help them survive the harsh Canadian wilderness.
Foley Mountain Educational Programming
The outdoor environmental education program at Foley Mountain provides students with interactive, experiential, curriculum-based experiences that will help them to understand our natural world and their relationship with it. The Program can accommodate up to 60 students per day and all equipment is provided. All programs are approximately 1.5 hours in duration. Descriptions are offered as general guidelines — if there are specific objectives that you would like to accomplish, please let us know. Although grade levels are recommended for each program, these are only guidelines. Please select any desired fields to narrow your search.
The Secret Lives of Plants
Educational Programming Costs
Half Day Program
$175 per group
(maximum 30 students)
(90 minutes with an RVCA instructor)
Full Day Program
$250 per group
(maximum 30 students)
(two 90 minutes with an RVCA instructor)
Interested in just visiting Foley Mountain with your class but not booking a program? The cost is $2.50/person. This does not include the use of buildings other than access to public washrooms. To reserve facilities, contact staff. Staff must still be contacted to book a self-directed visit.
Camping (programming not included)
$6 per night per student
$75 minimum fee for the group


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I've been following this case pretty closely and it just gets weirder and weirder by the day…
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Wow, video production quality on this is great! Oakley-funded of course, to show off Austin, TX.
Oh my gosh! The music in the background is the sample used in "Huddle Formation" by The Go! Team.
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Modest Mouse - "That'll Be The Day"
We recently heard about the forthcoming Buddy Holly tribute record, Rave On Buddy Holly, which will include contributions from The Black Keys, She & Him, My Morning Jacket, Julian Cassablancas, Cee Lo Green, and indie rock divinities Modest Mouse. We have now received Modest Mouse's instalment, a cover of "That'll Be The Day," which is the title track from Holly's third full length, the last album released before his tragic death in 1959.
Isaac Brock and co successfully transform the song, into a Modest Mouse tune, removing the 50s rock n roll aesthetic and making it a quirky, folk ballad, strengthened by violin strings and Brock's signature vocal stylings. Check it out below; Rave On Buddy Holly comes out June 28th via Fantasy Records.
Modest Mouse - "That'll Be The Day" (Buddy Holly cover)