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Belgium's most successful club cruised to the title in 2010 before a late collapse 12 months ago saw them miss out on the league to Genk. The Brussels side had lost player of the year Mbark Boussoufa to nouveau riche Russians Anzhi Makhachkala during last season's run-in and also sold teenage sensation Romelu Lukaku to Chelsea last summer, but coach Ariël Jacobs replaced these players sensibly and Anderlecht end the regular season on top of the table.
This is the third campaign since the much-maligned playoff structure was introduced, with the format seeing the league split after 30 games and the top six going on to compete for the title over the final ten matches. If that sounds simple enough, then confusion comes in as clubs see their points tallies from the regular season halved after the split. That means Anderlecht's six-point lead over Club Brugge with one regular season game left to play is not as significant as it initially appears.
But the evidence from the campaign to date suggests Les Mauves will take some shifting from top spot.
They have often struggled on their travels this season, particularly against the smaller sides, but against their title rivals they have always been a step ahead, and they remain unbeaten at home. Jacobs' side crushed bitter rivals Standard Liège 5-0 at their Constant Vanden Stock stadium back in the autumn, and have also thumped Club Brugge, Genk and Cercle Brugge on home turf. Those results, along with away wins at Standard, Genk and Kortrijk, should give them the necessary confidence ahead of the run-in.
However, the biggest worry for Jacobs in the closing weeks of the season could be the fitness of star striker Matías Suárez. The Argentine has been outstanding, with 17 goals and 12 assists in all competitions. That form helped the 23-year-old win the Golden Shoe award for Belgium's best player in 2011 and he has recently been linked with moves to Marseille and Arsenal. But a nagging knee injury is giving major cause for concern, and Jacobs has admitted that an operation may be the only solution.
Despite that, there is enough quality throughout the side, with experienced Hungarian Roland Juhasz forming a mean central-defensive partnership with Cheikhou Kouyaté, a 22-year-old from Senegal who has been linked with big-spending Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester City. However, Kouyaté himself believes he will still be in Brussels next season. "I am not yet ready to play for a club like Manchester City, but I will be in a year or two," he said recently.
Scouts have also been keeping a close eye on Argentine international playmaker Lucas Biglia, while in front of him 20-year-old Brazilian Fernando Canesin is a great prospect. Belgian international Guillaume Gillet is the team's leading scorer with 12 league goals, and neither Milan Jovanovic nor Dieumerci Mbokani needed much time to settle after returning to the country following disappointing spells abroad.
Serbian winger Jovanovic starred at Standard and, after making little impression during a year at Liverpool, he was more than happy to come back to Belgium when Anderlecht came calling last summer. Mbokani, meanwhile, joined after disastrous spells at Monaco and Wolfsburg but has recovered the form he showed during his time at Standard and has weighed in with ten league goals.
But despite being the favourites to reclaim the title, there is still pressure on coach Jacobs. Critics were not impressed by his team's showing in the Europa League, when they bowed out to AZ Alkmaar in the last 32, and his four-and-a-half year spell in charge could come to an end this summer, with president Roger Vanden Stock believed to be keen to bring in former Belgium goalkeeper Michel Preud'homme.
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But Hackney collective Gaggle, who bill themselves as London's only sci-fi riot choir, are rather different. The NME and Radio 1 love them. So does the Culture Show's Lauren Laverne. "They look like a bunch of nu-rave Pre-Raphelites, and they've all got these amazing technicolor cloaks on," she says.
Sexy, scary, very loud and ranging in age from 21 to 37, the stomping all-girl choir is made up of teachers, fashion designers, even an anti-terrorism expert. They have sung at Latitude, Field Day and 93 Feet East on Brick Lane. They even did an a cappella performance around the Fourth Plinth.
Christmas is choir season and though unfairly we think of choral singers as grey-haired Songs of Praise types, London is now overflowing with indie choirs such as Gaggle, The Funk Chorus (who dress up in flares and psychedelia to perform James Brown and George Clinton) and the Feral Choir, a 100-strong collective of amateur voices. Forget cabaret or stand-up, choirs are now one of the best ways to meet new people. There's the physical joy of singing, then you all pile into the pub (Gaggle's spiritual home is The George Tavern on Commercial Road, E1).
My own memories of the school choir were harrowing. Ever tuneless, I was asked to mime silently. But with indie choirs, it doesn't matter if you're not formally trained. According to Phil Minton, who set up the Feral Choir: "My experience of working with singers, many of whom think they cannot sing, has strengthened my conviction that the human voice is capable of so much more than is generally understood."
Minton's workshops normally begin with laughter, a non-verbal "vocal technique" that uses the voice in spontaneous and sometimes very extreme ways. "I encourage participants to take a vocal leap and explore all possibilities through exercises and improvisations, leading to a concert."
Gaggle conductor Deborah Coughlin actually used to be in the band 586, but was looking to do something more powerful. "I thought, why not put a mass of women on stage dancing in scary costumes and singing weird harmonies?" Gigs are huge fun, but there is a darker side. Gaggle's single Flies, released in January, inspired by the poetry of William Blake, takes a long hard look at binge drinking.
Convent-educated, she knows about choral arrangement. But this is far more experimental. Backing tracks have sub-bass, dubbing and glitches. "Every girl has her own vocal superpowers — it's not like they are relying on some amp to get their own special sound — they've got it in their mouths and we can back it up with anything we like."
Choirs are democratic: you're part of an ensemble, something bigger than yourself. Coughlin says every girl brings a different dynamic to the group and the interaction between them — on a personal and social level — sets them apart from any other band around at the moment. "They haven't been trained, which makes it so exciting because they don't sing like an X Factor audition kind of person."
Next Friday, Extraordinary Voices at Tate Britain is a celebration of choirs and communal singing "which explores the use of the voice as an instrument of extraordinary physical and cultural resonance".
There will be a cappella performances from The London Bulgarian and Georgian choirs. Members of London "club choir" The Shout will sing songs through megaphones in Arabic and Hebrew, on step ladders high across the cavernous Durveen Galleries. Artist Geoff Fazan's busking band will attempt to cover the entire Bob Dylan songbook.
And there will be a chance for the audience to create two new scratch choirs and perform with The Funk Chorus and The Feral Choir. According to Laura Godfrey-Isaacs of London art collective Home, which organises the event: "We want to give people a taster to see what it's like to sing in a choir, rather than just coming along as audience members. It's about exploring what your voice is." With indie choirs, you don't have to turn up to millions of rehearsals. Often the call goes out via Facebook. "We work like a social network," says The Funk Chorus's Barby Asante. "We have 70 people we can call on when we have a gig."
And it doesn't stop at singing. Choir members write their own blogs, create artwork and engage politically. As Coughlin observes: "Gaggle could become anything — an internet dating site, frock shop or socio-political movement!"
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With the threat of terrorism hanging over the 2014 Winter Games at Sochi, how can Americans who are attending ensure they stay safe?
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Roger Williams University is inextricably connected to Roger Williams, the 17th-century leader devoted to freedom of conscience and social justice who founded a community in Rhode Island based on those tenets. Roger Williams' philosophy, and what has been called his "lively experiment," nurtured the growth of vibrant and open societies. Our pursuit of excellence in education, academic accomplishment and community service is rooted in his focus on intellectual exchange, critical thinking, inclusiveness and innovation as a means of improving a free society. It is this legacy that inspires our core purpose.
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Sometimes you hear news that causes a double-take, like these items from 1962.
* That's not candy! Someone left an open bag of copper sulfate near a Los Angeles pool and a 4th grader found it. Thinking it was blue "rock candy," he offered it to his classmates. More than 50 tasted it, and 10 actually chewed and swallowed the algaecide, requiring hospitalization. Fortunately, all recovered.
* Keep on truckin'. A doctor in Palm Desert, Calif., sold his home, which was to be demolished and replaced by a bank. But he couldn't bear to see his new pool destroyed, so he sold it for one dollar to a guy in nearby Indio. The catch: The buyer had to move the 12-by-30-foot gunite pool down Highway 111 to its new home. So arrangements were made to dig around the vessel and, using wire cable netting, lift it out of the ground and truck it down the highway.
* All that jazz. A North Carolina pool builder came up with a unique way to thank new customers. Henry "Buddy" Klein, who also was a jazz drummer, would throw a free pool party for clients upon completion of a job, with live music by the Buddy Klein Combo.
* Is that a skunk? The little Nebraska village of Bertrand came up with some imaginative ways to raise money for its swimming pool fund. At a day-long auction, some interesting stuff went on the block, including a descented skunk ("sold for $20!") and a crate of ducks. The haul: $3,000. Excited by the auction's success, the organizer immediately scheduled a variety show and a cookbook sale to help reach the $24,000 goal.
* Scuba-crazy. A couple whose lives revolved around their scuba-diving hobby had a special pool built at their San Fernando Valley, Calif., home. The 35-foot-wide pool boasted 32 feet of 12-foot depth, and 24 feet of 3- to 5-foot depths. Cost: approximately $10,000. The grand opening attracted the important diving figures of the day: Lloyd Bridges, star of the "Sea Hunt" TV show; Zale Parry, an underwater photographer/actress also on "Sea Hunt"; and Alberta Jones, an endurance diver famous for staying underwater 50 hours or more at a time.
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Interesting that after my post late last week regarding DNP's bio-succinic acid ventures in Asia, Cereplast announced today their bioplastic distribution deal with Chinese plastic company Vulcan Plastics Technology Co. Ltd. (the company is based in Hongkong under the name S&P Sourcing Co. Ltd).
Under the deal, Vulcan will distribute Cereplast's Compostables and Hybrids resins to converters and manufacturers in Guangdong and Fujian provinces, which are said to be one of the largest industrial plastic manufacturing centers in China.
In the press release, Cereplast noted that China's domestic plastic consumption is expected to reach 38.8m tonnes/year by 2012.
The question here is whether Chinese consumers are ready to pay premium for bioplastic products or will these end-products manufactured in China will be shipped back to US and Europe? That could screw up the whole carbon footprint picture (think about transportation emissions…).
Of course there are other Asian countries such as Japan and even Singapore who will not qualm as much on costs for premium-priced environment-friendly products. As DNP noted in my previous bio-succinic acid post, Japan is a potential big market for bio-based chemicals.
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Robert Pattinson: LAX Jet-Setter
Finished up with a short visit to the west coast, Robert Pattinson was spotted as he caught a flight out of Los Angeles International Airport on Sunday afternoon (July 26).
Toting around his back pack and sporting his Yankees ballcap and trusty Ray Ban sunglasses, the "Twilight" heartthrob stayed in Los Angeles a few days following an appearance at Comic-Con in San Diego late last week.
Recently having filmed the new movie "Remember Me" in New York City, Pattinson spoke to press about his rise to stardom and the impact that it has had on his life.
Though he's one of Hollywood's hottest actors, Pattinson tells he hasn't changed all that much, saying, "I never do anything normal anyway. And I just get other people to do it now."
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According to data we found over on Audiblog.nl, we are expecting Audi to release a S or RS model of the Q3 that will have the potent 310hp engine, the same base engine that is found in the TT RS and RS 3. Our anticipation is that they will launch a line of all new S model options within the Q3 and Q5 platforms with upgrade engines. We hope they include the Q7 in the mix too, but personally we think that they will focus their efforts on the smaller, more sportier Q3 and Q5 first.
The Etka data shown here clearly confirms this data! Time will only tell the details about the Q3 "S" and when and where it will be available. Unfortunately, at this time I don't see the Q3 or Q3 "S" coming to the USA any time soon.
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I just watched a great webinar from Social Buzz Club with special guest Pam Brossman, author of The Millionaire Attitude. That's a book I will just have to read! What I learned in the past hour has to be shared. I learned so much, thank you Pam!
1- If I don't start my day on a positive note, the day won't go well. Start the day with a smile and happy thoughts.
2- Take the time to map out my goals, not just for the day but for the year. Things I plan to achieve, places I want to go, how much income I wish to make, and things I'd like to buy. If you write it all down and plan it, it will happen.
3- Pam challenged us to think of one big goal for the year, and announce it on social media, because when you do, you have engaged others and won't want to fail, so you will make it happen. (Going to think of what that will be!)
4- A great business issue to consider; of all the potential clients and estimates written, how many in the past 30 days, signed on and became clients?
5- Know Your Worth! Yes, this is the most important issue that most forget about. Sometimes when things aren't going exactly as we wish, we start to doubt ourselves. Forget that and stop it right now! Everyone has abundant talent, creative gifts and has a voice that needs to be heard. Just get out there and do what you must.
6- ****This one gets a star!**** Color is so important! Bright colors attract business! As a designer I loved this part and how in the slides she showed some before and after photos. Pam and her husband, Steve Brossman, who live in Australia, now wear and use certain bright colors in their branding, print marketing, interior design and clothing. Cyan, Blue, Red, Orange, Purple… when you stand out with color, people notice you, and certain colors mean certain things, love this. (Time to get rid of the beige, gray, black, well maybe not the black…)
So, what has this made me think about?
Everyday is open to what I make it. I can choose to be down or up, decide every minute of every day just how to spend that day. What projects to work on, who to work with, and how to find those new potential targeted clients by how I express myself, both visually and physically.
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1. How To Pronounce Hamburger
This seems like a good place to start. Many of the words are simple words that are rarely mistaken for being pronounced any other way. They abide by the phonetic laws of English. When they're pronounced incorrectly, it's pretty darn funny.
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YouTube videos encompass virtually every niche and genre known to man. Falling somewhere in between silly and educational, the PronunciationManual channel has made a science out of hilariously incorrect eight-second word pronunciations.
We corresponded via email with the anonymous creator of the videos to find out what inspired the project.
It appears that the channel was not launched as a satire on the PronouncationBook, a channel dedicated to pronouncing some of the more whacky-looking English words, but created out of benevolence.
"I am a very good person, so with the combination of being a very good person and knowing that people need help, it was a natural fit, like how celebrities take away poor infant children from terrible villages to live inside of custom Bottega Veneta child holsters, except in the form of pronunciation videos on YouTube. "
Asked to provide any sort of background information, the creator was recalcitrant. But the person behind the curtain certainly wasn't shy about the process of identifying and pronouncing new words - or that they have easy access to an online thesaurus.
"I think up a word that people might not know how to say, and then I type it into the video window, and then I say it out three times in a clear and strong voice, and then I click the other button, and the computer puts it on youTube, and then I exeunt the eldritch, crystal-encrusted and sweetgrass scented Pronunciation Ark that I built in my back yard…"
Totally makes sense now, right?
Regardless of who is behind it all, the word humor tickles our writing funnybone and we find some of the videos to be downright hilarious. If you enjoy them as much as we do, you'll end up clicking through as many as possible to see which ones are winners and which are losers.
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Q: I have heard I can get free mulch from the Town. How do I get it?
A: Each year, Public Works makes mulch from tree limbs collected during the weekly yardwaste pickup. Any excess mulch is made available to the residents of Zebulon while it lasts. Residents must sign a waiver form permitting home delivery of the mulch. Forms may be mailed/delivered to Zebulon Public Works at 450 E. Horton Street or faxed to 919-269-2617. Residents may also obtain a form at the Finance Department on the first floor of Town Hall at 1003 N. Arendell Avenue.
Q: When is yardwaste pickup scheduled for my street?
A: Yardwaste pickup occurs every 2 weeks. Click for a copy of the yardwaste map or for a copy of the Yardwaste Calendar 2017-2018. Printed copies of the calendar/map are available at Town Hall and at Public Works.
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A: If you have large bulky trash, such as furniture or appliances, which cannot be picked up with your regular trash, please place the items on the right-of-way before 7:00 a.m. on Friday for pickup by public works staff. Please be sure to place items away from power lines, trees and mailboxes. This service is provided to all residential dwellings at no additional charge. However, the Town will not pick up items that cannot be taken to the landfill.
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A: Please place your garbage cart and recycling cart approximately 2-3 feet apart with the lid opening to the street. This allows the mechanical arms to get between the carts for easier pickup. Of course, never put your carts next to your mailbox or under low hanging trees or power lines.
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A: There are 5 annual holidays which can affect your household solid waste and recycling pickup day. Those holidays are: New Year's Day, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, and Christmas Day. If any of these holidays occur on Monday, your household waste will be collected on Tuesday. During other holidays, your pickup day follows the regular schedule. Please have your garbage cart and recycling cart at the curb on Sunday evening.
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Kissing is all about the chemistry
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- "You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss …" or is it?
Despite the classic lyrics of the song from the movie "Casablanca," scientist Sheril Kirshenbaum says there is a lot of science behind the popular act of kissing.
"There's a chemical basis for what happens when our bodies meet at the lips," Kirshenbaum said.
She began exploring the subject in depth, she said, after writing a scientific article on the subject in conjunction with Valentine's Day. From there, the interest of other scientists blossomed and she decided there was enough interest for her to write a book on the subject, which resulted in "The Science of Kissing."
"There really is a chemical basis for falling in love," Kirshenbaum said . "I don't think trying to understand it takes any of the romance out of the equation."
Kirshenbaum explained her theory Thursday during the IdeaFestival, a four-day event designed to promote innovation and creative thinking.
Daniel Erb came to the festival from Lexington and was intrigued by the subject of the science of kissing.
"It's fascinating," Erb said of Kirshenbaum's ideas. "It's a human behavior you see everywhere."
Knowing some of the chemical and hormonal reasons for kissing doesn't spoil the mystery, Erb said. "It's still fun."
In her research, Kirshenbaum found literature that explores the differences between how men and women approach kissing. She pointed out that women report that a kiss is an important gauge of compatibility for them, while men often view kissing as a "means to an end."
Scientifically, Kirshenbaum said that may be connected to the limits of female reproduction, which biologically makes women want to find better mates because they cannot have an unlimited number of children.
Often, she said, a kiss can provide a window into long-term compatibility. "A first kiss is nature's ultimate litmus test," she said.
Mindy Russo, who came from Connecticut for the festival, said she was intrigued by the idea that hormonal reactions may play a part in the longevity of a relationship, rather than simply personality compatibility.
"It didn't occur to me that that could be hormonal," Russo said. "Our bodies themselves have so much to do with our lives."
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Susan Sommer, Director of Constitutional Litigation at Lambda Legal, made the following statement:
"Love conquers all. Today our state government rose above the political fray and did the right thing for New York families. Equality prevailed.
"Today we celebrate with the thousands of lesbian and gay New Yorkers who will now be able to get married in their own home towns instead of traveling to do so. It takes a lot of people working together to make history. We congratulate our colleagues at Empire State Pride Agenda and our other sister organizations who formed New Yorkers United for Marriage and fought so hard for this victory, and all the activists and allies in New York who wrote letters and made phone calls. We thank Governor Cuomo for his leadership, and we are proud of the state legislators who voted for equality.
"The path to equality in New York, like in other states, has had twists and turns. In 2004, Lambda Legal brought a marriage equality lawsuit in state court (Hernandez v. Robles), and while we won an early victory at the trial court, that decision was later overturned. But we never stopped fighting for the rights of same-sex couples and their families in New York. We won legal battles to establish recognition of out-of-state marriages, and just last year, we won a high court decision protecting the parental rights of a lesbian mother.
"Equality carries momentum. Same-sex couples have the freedom to marry in two out of three of the states in the tri-state area, and it's time for New Jersey to catch up. We will soon be in New Jersey to announce the next chapter of our work to bring marriage equality to that state."
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Nov. 16, 2007 — The University of Virginia has continued to see an increase in the number and percentage of students who chose to participate in study-abroad programs, according to an annual report released by the Institute of International Education and data from the University's International Studies Office.
Open Doors, the IIE's annual report on international activities, shows that U.Va. ranked 14th among all U.S. colleges and universities for study-abroad participation among its students, based on data from the 2005-06 academic year. That year, 1,712 U.Va. students traveled abroad, up from 1,684 in the previous report.
The University had ranked 10th a year ago and 17th two years ago. The shifting rankings reflects increasing emphasis that all colleges and universities are placing on international study, according to Rebecca Brown, director of U.Va.'s International Studies Office.
The Open Doors report indicated that study abroad increased by 8.5 percent nationwide, to a total of 223,534 students, and that the number of American students receiving academic credit for their study abroad has increased by 150 percent in the past decade, from fewer than 90,000 students in 1995-96.
In addition to total number of participants, U.Va. ranked 22nd among doctoral/research universities in the percentage of undergraduates who studied abroad in 2005-06, at 36.3 percent.
U.Va. ranked 19th in the doctoral/research university category in the number of students (859) participating in "short-term duration programs," which are defined as those that take place during the summer, January term, or those which have a duration of eight weeks or less. The University began its January term in 2005, and eight study-abroad programs will be offered in the upcoming January term 2008, in Belize, Germany, Ghana, Ireland, Italy, Nicaragua and Spain.
While the Open Doors report reflects only the 2005-06 academic year, the International Studies Office can already report that the trend of increased study abroad continued into 2006-07. During that year, 1,914 graduate and undergraduate students studied abroad, compared with 1,875 that the International Studies office recorded in 2005-06.
Marina S. Markot, associate director of study abroad at U.Va., notes that the discrepancy between the figures in the Open Door study (1,712) and U.Va.'s figures is because the Open Door study counts only U.S. students.
Of the 1,914 students who participated in 2006-07, 1,436 were undergraduates and 478 were graduate students. The number of undergraduate students who studied or conducted research abroad in 2006-07 represents 42 percent of the graduating class of 2006.
The Open Doors study showed that while the United Kingdom, Italy and Spain are the top three destinations, students are opting for more varied locales. The percentage of students going to Asia is up 26 percent, Latin America is up 14 percent, Africa is up 19 percent and the Middle East is up 31 percent.
According to Markot, the University's program remains anchored in its long-standing programs, like U.Va. programs in Jordan; Lima, Peru; Lyon, France; Oxford, England and Valencia, Spain — "programs that have been providing high-quality academic programs for decades and continue to attract students from across Grounds and beyond with innovative ways of providing students with the best possible education."
For example, U.Va.'s Valencia program now offers an option for students with strong language skills to enroll directly into the Catholic University of Valencia. U.Va. in Peru has expanded its institutional affiliations, and students attending the program now will have access to courses not only at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, but also at the Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya.
But as is true nationally, the number and variety of programs continues to grow. In 2006-2007, U.Va. expanded its offerings in China and Italy, added new programs in Belize, Ghana, Tanzania, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Germany.
"U.Va. in Costa Rica fills the growing demand for more intermediate level Spanish Language courses," Markot said. "Programs in China covered such areas as intensive Chinese language, Chinese culture, history and politics, architecture, and of course, 'Doing Business with China.'"
Markot said that, based on feedback from East China Normal University, U.Va. in Shanghai's language program is considered to be the best intensive Chinese program in Shanghai.
"We paid particular attention last year to developing programs for majors that usually find it challenging to go abroad due to very restrictive curricula," Markot said. "To respond to the student interest in education abroad, the School of Nursing launched several initiatives that allowed students to conduct their clinical practica overseas – in South Africa, Honduras and Denmark — while the School of Engineering successfully launched an exploratory program, which in its first year took students to Germany to observe German engineering education and visit German engineering firms."
U.Va. has been the academic sponsor of Semester at Sea for almost two years, and the shipboard education program is currently completing its second voyage under the deanship of a University faculty member. Fifteen U.Va. students were enrolled on the Summer 2007 voyage and seven students are on the current voyage.
The International Studies Office supports the University's international mission by developing and coordinating activities and services designed to create and enhance a globally aware, culturally diverse education and research environment.
For information about study abroad, contact Markot at (434) 982-3012 or visit www.virginia.edu/iso.


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Green Jobs with Roots
For the founders of Cleveland's Evergreen Coops, putting a handful of people to work at minimum wage isn't worth it. They are aiming at nothing less than a ground-up economic transformation — one owned by the very people it's intended to help.
By Miriam Axel-Lute Posted on October 17, 2010
In a couple years, residents of some of the poorest neighborhoods in Cleveland will be the collective owners of the largest collection of solar panels in the state of Ohio. Next door, sixty locations on the Cleveland Clinic's campus will be serving salads made from locally grown lettuce year-round—where local means not "a farm closer than California," but a greenhouse staffed and owned by neighborhood residents on a former brownfield mere miles away.
A few years after that, laundry workers in those same neighborhoods will have not only living wage jobs but equity ownership accounts in a green business worth tens of thousands of dollars each.
These are heady things to contemplate for the six neighborhoods surrounding Cleveland's University Circle, where the current median income is $18,500, unemployment is at least 30 percent (and underemployment another 20 percent), and foreclosure rates are among the worse in the city.
But the Evergreen Cooperative Initiative, which launched Ohio Cooperative Solar and Evergreen Cooperative Laundry in the past year and expects the Green City Growers greenhouse to be operational by 2011, is no pipe dream. Though its ambitions for economic transformation are high, so are its standards for practicality.
The Cleveland Model
Evergreen was launched in 2007 by a working group convened by the Cleveland Foundation and including the Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals, Case Western Reserve University, and the city of Cleveland. The heart of the Evergreen strategy is the marriage of for-profit worker-owned cooperatives and local procurement.
As part of the formerly industrialized Midwest, Cleveland knows only too well that one of the problems with creating jobs is that sometimes they leave again—outsourced overseas or tempted away by subsidies offered by other desperate regions. Evergreen's worker-owned cooperatives model sidesteps these issues. Worker-owners are unlikely to vote to offshore their own jobs. Plus, without money being siphoned off to corporate overhead or a profit-minded entrepreneur, cooperatives are in a better position to pay living wages and still be competitive.
The local procurement angle means that the coop's customers are likely to stay put as well. Rather than launching businesses based on workforce skill sets or entrepreneurial ideas, the Evergreen working group started by looking at the $3 billion per year that the 40 some University Circle anchor institutions already spend on goods and services and asking what parts of that spending they could redirect locally.
They hired Ted Howard of the Democracy Collaborative to do an inventory. From the results, he created a matrix of 30 potential services for which there was high demand among multiple anchor institutions that might reasonably be served through a local cooperative.
Because Evergreen's founders were interested in long-term transformative effect, they picked from this list based on whether the business could:
- employ at least 50 people, at at least $10.50/hour plus healthcare;
- be competitive, not rely on only one customer, and not displace existing jobs;
- be in a growing sector where they can stand out by creating the most sustainable business in that sector in Northeast Ohio; and
- be profitable enough for worker-owners to accumulate $65,000 in their equity accounts in six to seven years while returning some profits to a collective fund for use in starting new cooperatives.
And they would have to do this while hiring only from within the targeted neighborhoods.
Looked at through these lenses, three business ideas floated to the top:
The first was laundry. Even a single hospital needs 15 million pounds of laundry washed per year, and there are about 50 hospitals and 250 nursing homes in a 50-mile radius of University Circle. There was huge potential for greening with the introduction of water- and energy-efficient equipment and low-toxicity cleaners. And the timing was right as well: Some of the institutions have been working with a vendor that is closing. Many nursing homes have been doing laundry in house but are looking to outsource because their equipment is aging and they want the space to expand. The VA hospital has been driving its laundry 30 miles roundtrip to another VA with an in-house laundry, but that facility is scheduled to close.
Evergreen Cooperative Laundry, which launched in October 2009, is the greenest commercial scale laundry in Ohio, and expects to employ 50 people. The first groups of workers made it through their trial period and became full worker-owners in Summer 2010, and they are on track to be turning a profit by Fall 2010 as planned.
Ohio Cooperative Solar (OCS) was actually the idea of some of the institutions, who came to the Evergreen planners and said they were worried about energy costs and eager to deploy solar on their rooftops as part of their greening efforts. The problem was, as nonprofit institutions, they couldn't benefit from federal tax credits for solar installation, and so couldn't quite make the investment pencil out. OCS is the solution: OCS installs, owns, and maintains the panels, gets the tax credits, and sells the energy to the institutions. To avoid seasonal unemployment, in the winter OCS does weatherization.
At the moment OCS is doing most of the installation work, calling in master electricians for the final hookups, but all the workers are in training to be certified to do the entire installation. OCS's first installation on the Cleveland Clinic is meeting all expectations and the clinic is eagerly waiting in line for a second. OCS has already revised its employment projections from 50 to 75.
Local food is a sexy topic these days—but it often involves farmer's markets or home-based specialty food businesses, which don't fit Evergreen's models. Instead, Green City Growers is building the largest urban greenhouse in the country. The five-acre greenhouse, on a former brownfield near good public transit, will grow lettuce and herbs year-round, incorporating numerous innovative energy-efficiency measures, such as a wind turbine, double insulating curtains, and LED lighting. They have been told by the institutions and distributors that they will be able to sell as much as they can grow. They hope to break ground in Fall 2010.
Miriam Axel-Lute is editor of Shelterforce and associate director of the National Housing Institute. Her email is miriam at nhi dot org.
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- "The Cleveland Model," by Gar Alperovitz, Thad Williamson, and Ted Howard, The Nation, February 11, 2010
- "Asset-Building Comes of Age," by Gar Alperovitz, Steve Dubb, and Ted Howard, Shelterforce, Spring 2007


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Cyber security is now a diplomatic priority for the United States with Washington looking to build relationships to tackle information theft and reduce the risk of conflict, a senior official said.
State Department coordinator for cyber issues, Christopher Painter, said the United States faced a host of potential threats in cyberspace from freelance hackers to militants and potentially rival states. Diplomacy and policy was only just beginning to catch up with technology, he said. "It is clear that cyber security is now a policy imperative," he said. "It goes across governance issues, economic issues, military issues. The best course of action is to engage with countries and have a free and frank discussion. We're just at the beginning of this." Painter, appointed in April after working as senior director for cyber security policy at the White House, would not discuss recent security breaches nor say who he thought might be responsible. But it was clear issues needed to be addressed, he said.
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[MY VIEW] Two yellow cards in two games still result in a one-game suspension, but FIFA has changed the stage at which a player's yellow-card slate is wiped
clean. The new rule on accumulated yellow-card suspensions was designed to prevent stars from missing the final, but it could have an even deeper impact on the tournament.
At past World Cups, a single yellow card received during the group stage was deleted before the knockout stage and the count began anew at the round of 16. At the 2010 World Cup, a yellow card isn't expunged from a player's record until after the quarterfinal.
A player who receives his second yellow of the tournament in the quarterfinal will be banned from the semifinal. But players face no consequence for a single yellow card in the semifinal. FIFA wants to ensure that teams in the final are at full strength.
The example commonly cited on this issue was Michael Ballack missing 2002 World Cup final. Germany's best player received his second yellow of the second round in the semifinals, forcing him to miss the final, a 2-0 Brazil win.
(Under the new regulations, Ballack would have missed Germany's quarterfinal against the USA, in which he scored the winner, because he was cautioned in the final group game and round of 16 game. And Germany may not have gotten to the final. But anyhow ...)
Under the previous format, the longest stretch a player would have to go without getting cautioned twice was three games (either in the first round or knockout stage). That shouldn't be too difficult.
Now a player must go five games without two yellows to avoid a ban.
There's big positive to the new format: it could rein in thuggish defenders.
The majority of yellow cards are handed out for fouls that stifle an attacking player. We know well enough that most defenders will scythe down a threatening dribbler if the consequences aren't dire.
Among the promising aspects of the tournament during the low-scoring first 16 games of the group openers was that referees didn't hesitate to pull yellow cards for the cynical fouls that plague the game.
As the tournament progresses and the cautions become more costly, defenders will have to rely on fair means to battle the skillful and creative players. That should give us more entertaining soccer and more goals.
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It sounds like your girl had a pretty severe and potentially anaphylactic reaction. Anaphylactic reactions do have a high percentage of being fatal. Your fast action was good. She may need to stay at the hospital for a few days if they don't get an immediate response with steroids and antihistamines. Since reactions can continue for several hours after the initial incident it would be ideal to have her stay at the hospital. I would be sure to ask your vet for emergency drugs to keep on hand in the future should this happen again.


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PNW Blogger Holiday Party 2013
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Sunday, November 3, 2013 from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM (PST)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
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Event Details
The 3rd annual PNW Blogger Holiday Party is almost here! Are you excited? Yeah, so am I! What are the details? Well...
- The event will be held on Sunday, November 3rd, 2013 from 10 am to 1 pm.
- The location is at the fantastic Union/Pine, in Portland, OR.
- Bloody Marys.
- Mimosas.
- Breakfast snacks.
- Dessert.
- Gift bags!
- Paper Rose Bow craft with Lia Griffith.
- Photobooth (with Hurtienne Photography running it).
- Each attendee has the chance to win a Dell XPS 10 tablet (64 GB)!
It will be good. Space is limited, so get your tickets soon. We hope to see you there!
P.S. We cannot accept ticket returns, but will have a waitlist open. Please email thepapermama at gmail dot com if you cannot make it to the event (the last day to transfer tickets is October 28th, 2013).
When & Where
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Sunday, November 3, 2013 from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM (PST)
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Well, a bit has happened since I last wrote. Mom's added some additional supplements to help reduce the inflamation in my hip joints. She read a lot of good reviews on a natural product from Australia called "Dog Gone Pain", or DGP so I've been taking that for a few weeks now. I'm also taking Ester-C which is supposed to help a lot in healing the damage to my hips along with additional MSM. But the greatest part is we've all been eating more of a raw diet lately... lots of fresh organic chicken, beef, fish, veggies, bones and yogurt. Mom says she's amazed with how much we love this kind of food... we wolf it down faster than anything we've eaten before... so she says it must be good, besides, what's better than fresh and natural?? I only take aspirin now when I get to be more active, like this weekend...
It was my daddy's 50th birthday this Friday, so to celebrate we all escaped to The Sea Ranch which is a small peaceful community on Hwy 1 on the Mendocino Coast. We had a lot of fun walking on the trails on the bluffs overlooking the ocean and down by the shore. We were even so lucky to be there during low tide and explored the tide-pools. I was so lost in my little adventure this weekend, I didn't even think about my hips much at all. Or, the supplements are really starting to take effect.... whatever it is, I SURE HAD FUN!!!!! Mommy was sooo happy too because she saw me romping around like I used to and seeing me wide-eyed and happy for a change! Mom now put my doggy bed in the back of the Jeep so I could relax in that while we drive around... I really enjoy that and it gives my hips some much needed relief after all those nice walks.
Well, just wanted to check in and let you know that I'm doing pretty good now. Mom is going to check with a surgeon on a total hip replacement soon, but we'll probably hold off on the actual surgery (whatever it will be) until I get really tired of the pain and well before my leg muscles begin to atrophy. But right now, I'm a happy little doggy again - yaaaaaaaay!!
Til next time...
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Hi all... this is my first diary entry and I want to say I am really enjoying making friends here at Dogster and hope to make many more!
Well, I'll just start by saying I am Opie, a 3 1/2 year old handsome Jack Russell Terrier who was born in Arlington Texas. My parents got me through a breeder there and they said it was love at first sight - Mommy wanted a "baby" and then the great day came when she found me and took me home with her and daddy to live with them forever! That was a happy day...
Here's the sad news... yesterday they took me to a new vet to get a full evaluation on something mommy has been worrying about and the doc checked me out good (he was super nice to me and I was happy and wagging my tail) and then took x-rays. They said I was so cooperative, they didn't even need to sedate me for the x-rays. Well, I wasn't in the room when the doctor took the images to my parents, but later they told me that I have a big "boo-boo" on my behind. They said it was something called Hip Dysplasia and that I have had it since birth - a birth defect I suppose. Well, that confirmed my mom's worries about how I "bunny hop" sometimes when I run really fast. I haven't been in much pain because I really am a happy-go-lucky kinda fella, but since a month ago, I have been starting to be a bit cranky and I growled at mommy when she touched my back legs. So, I guess the news is out... I really don't know what it's like to be without this problem because I kind of gradually grew into it but they tell me it could get worse. The good news is there are treatments for it. Mommy has put me on a higher dose of a better Glucosamine/Condroiton/MSM formula called ArthiSoothe-GOLD Hip & Joint Formula with Ester-C by NaturVet and not only are they yummy but they seem to be helping also. She also gives me baby-aspirin 2x a day on my "grumpy days" which I don't really like to take but it does make me feel better too. Fortunately the doc said that I was in remarkably good condition considering the extent of the damage to my hips... so all the good nutritious foods and vitamins and glucosamine mommy and daddy have been giving me since I was a baby must've sure helped! Also, the ladies there at the vet really drooled over me.. haha... they said I was very handsome and they especially went ga-ga over my beard! But then while I was in the examination room, Sugar went out to use the potty and on her way back there was a young black lab mix who I am told she "kissed"... can you imagine??? So when mommy and daddy went to pay the bill, I saw this fella while I was up in mommy's arms and he came up to Sugar and they were getting all smoochy and I of course showed my displeasure and began to growl. The lab's owners began to giggle and said "Ohhh oh, her man is not happy at all about that!"... guess I got my message across... let it be known from this day forward, "SUGAR IS MY GAL!!!"
Well, today was a good day... daddy took me and Sugar swimming in the big pool and was it fun!! Then mommy fed me some raspberry fat-free yogurt and gave me an aspirin... yummy and then I took a nap. I knew mommy was kind of sad about the "news" yesterday but I kept assuring her that I'm no different today than I was yesterday or last week and that everything will be ok... I will always love her, and I know she loves me too. I guess I'm a very lucky guy!
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In these days of spiraling costs, paying last year's price is good news.
But actually seeing a decrease -- without loss of quality or service -- now that's better news.
That's exactly what is happening at The University of Akron-Wayne College.
When students tallied their tuition bills for 1999-2000 fall and spring semesters at Wayne, the rate they paid was unchanged from the 1998-1999 academic year. The steady rate was due to a tuition freeze mandated by the state's Access Challenge initiative.
And there is more good news. Tuition costs will decrease by 5 percent this fall and then by another 5 percent in fall 2001.
"It could be that the state is responding to statistical information that Ohio is near the bottom when compared to other states as far as percentage of population obtaining a higher education," said Dr. Jack Kristofco, dean of Wayne College.
"But contrary to what we might think," Kristofco said "Ohio has been noted among the states that are not supporting higher education.
"The number of colleges in Ohio is certainly impressive but the perception in many cases is that college is too expensive," he said.
With the initiatives in place, the average full-time student could easily save more than $300 a year by starting their bachelor's degree or by getting an associate degree at Wayne rather than at Akron's main campus.
For example, currently students at Wayne pay $140 per credit hour for classes compared to $173 for the Akron campus. In the fall, that amount will go to $133 at Wayne while students at the main campus will pay $183. For the fall 2001, Wayne students will pay $130 compared to $194 at Akron.
Twenty years ago, Ohio subsidized 50 percent of all higher public education, Kristofco said. That amount has decreased to 42 percent today -- leaving that extra 8 percent on the shoulders of students -- and their parents.
"There is no loss of services," Kristofco said "and it will have no negative effects on the campuses. The Access dollars simply offset the loss of revenue. This will move up the state's share of the picking up the tab for higher education."
"This is something that doesn't happen often," Kristofco said. "Lots of prospective students might look at this and say 'what's the catch?' but there isn't one."
Access Challenge, with $35 million appropriated by the state in fiscal 2000 and $65 million appropriated in fiscal 2001, will decrease the cost of college credits by 5 percent for the academic year 2000-2001 and then by an additional 5 percent in 2001-2002 for community, technical and regional branch campuses, of which Wayne is included.
"The Ohio Board of Regents sees these campuses as 'ports of access,'" said Tami Lowe, manager of business operations and finance at Wayne College. "Anyone who starts an education will probably be looking at community, technical and regional branch campuses."
"Cost can be a barrier to many students," Lowe said. "The money they save in tuition could usually pay for the cost of books and other associated expenses."
With many being scared by rising tuition costs, Lowe said that the state is feeling the effects of an under-educated workforce.
"It used to be that in Ohio a person could make a good living working in a factory making tires," she said. "Those jobs have gone away."
"The intent of the program is to attract more people to higher education by mitigating some of the costs," Lowe said, noting that most statistics show that for every dollar pumped in to higher education, two dollars are ultimately saved.
"It's an excellent investment from the state's perspective," Lowe said. "With an uneducated workforce, costs are higher. Access Challenge is consistent with the governor's plan to prepare the workforce for the technology out there."
Lowe said that she and other staff members are sending letters to prospective students to detail the tuition decreases so that they know college education is more accessible. A billboard ad campaign will also be put in place in the upcoming months.
Wayne's student enrollment has been rising at a steady rate recently, with about 1,500 enrolled this semester and 1,550 expected for the fall.
In addition, Kristofco said, students are adding the number of credit hours they are carrying.
"The initiative was aptly named Access Challenge," Kristofco said "It will allow access to education for those who otherwise might have found the costs prohibitive."


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Sermon Illustrations > Evangelism, cf. witnessing, death of Christ > Let Your Light Shine
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Dr. Paul Brand was speaking to a medical college in India on "Let your light so shine before men that they may behold your good works and glorify your Father." In front of the lectern was a oil lamp, with its cotton wick burning from the shallow dish of oil. As he preached, the lamp ran out of oil, the wick burned dry, and the smoke made him cough. He immediately used the opportunity.
"Some of us here are like this wick," he said. "We're trying to shine for the glory of God, but we stink. That's what happens when we use ourselves as the fuel of our witness rather than the Holy Spirit.
"Wicks can last indefinitely, burning brightly and without irritating smoke, if the fuel, the Holy "Spirit, is in constant supply."
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As previously reported, Bo Dallas is scheduled to make his main roster WWE television debut on the next episode of WWE SmackDown, which is being taped on Tuesday night at the O2 Arena in London, England.
Much like Adam Rose, however, Dallas is not scheduled to compete in the ring for a few weeks while his character is established on television with the audience.
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It's Not Okay To Publicly Shame An Ex For Aborting Your Child, Even If That Woman Is Stacey Dash
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There are a lot of things one could criticize Stacey Dash for (her stance on Obama, her thoughts on the wage gap, the list goes on), but one area that should be off-limits are her reproductive choices — though the irony of a woman so tightly...
This Is Why You Shouldn't Publicly Shame Your Child As a Form of Discipline
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The shocking tale of a 13-year-old girl committing suicide this weekend in Tacoma, Washington is one of the reasons why people shouldn't publicly shame their children on social media. Isabel Laxamana's father posted a video of him shaming her online by cutting off her long...
Amber Rose Organizes SlutWalk After Kanye West '30 Showers' Comments
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In a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight Amber Rose discussed the motivation behind her upcoming SlutWalk in Los Angeles. After her ex, Kanye West, stated in an interview that he had to take 30 showers after dating her, to date Kim Kardashian, Rose said she...
Watch Out for the Big Girls: Jill Scott's Provocative Hacked Photos Cause Criticism
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It Happened To Me: My Middle School Nurse Shamed Me For Having Big Boobs
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In 6th grade, I didn't realize like I do now the impact of a white woman calling out the size of my body and its parts.
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Welcome To El Sol Academy
Thank you for your interest in El Sol Science & Arts Academy of Santa Ana, an outstanding dual-immersion charter school in Santa Ana, California. Founded in 2001 with 110 students in kindergarten and 1st grade, El Sol now has over 850 students enrolled in preschool through eighth grade. El Sol values accountability and expects everyone – including students, teachers, administrators, parents, and the community – to support the success of the school. As a result, in it's short history, El Sol has dramatically raised its test scores to become one of the top-two performing schools in Santa Ana.
El Sol Campus Tour
El Sol Academy is located on 2.8 acres near downtown Santa Ana. Our campus is divided into a main campus and upper campus.
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Our main campus has our administration office (temporarily located on Halesworth Street) and preschool through 5th grade.
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Just print or draw your own design on a piece of paper and stick it on the underside of the iPhone case and then you can embellish it with the Swarovski crystals you love! For a professional effect, we suggest to color the iPhone case with acrylic paints before embellishing with the crystals.
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