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Education Secretary Michael Gove has told Parliament's spending watchdog to "stick" a planned £6,000 MPs' pay rise.
The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) says salaries should increase to £74,000 by 2015, but that perks should be cut and pensions made less generous.
Party leaders have criticised the rise but Ipsa's boss argues it will bring MPs into line with other professionals.
Mr Gove called Ipsa "silly" and said parliamentarians were "well paid".
The watchdog is to consult on the rise but MPs cannot block it because they handed control of the decision to the independent body in the wake of the 2009 expenses scandal.
The Ipsa proposals include:
- A salary of £74,000 in 2015, with rises after that linked to average earnings across the whole economy
- A new pension on a par with other parts of the public sector, moving from a final-salary to career-average scheme, which Ipsa says will save taxpayers nearly £2.5m a year
- Scrapping "resettlement payments", which were worth up to £64,766 for long-serving MPs still of working age, the first £30,000 of which was tax-free. and introducing "more modest" redundancy packages, available only to those who contest their seat and lose
- A "tighter regime" of business costs and expenses - including an end to the £15-a-night meal allowance and taxis home after late sittings
MPs are currently paid £66,396, but that is due to rise to £67,060 in April 2014 and rise by a further 1% the following year.
The recommendation amounts to a rise of around £6,300 a year, or 9.3%, on what MPs would be getting in 2015.
Asked whether the extra increase should go ahead, Mr Gove said: "Absolutely not. MPs are incredibly well paid at the moment anyway, as are ministers."
He added: "Ipsa - it's a bit of a silly organisation really and pay rise? They can stick it."
A Downing Street spokesman said: "The cost of politics should go down, not up. And MPs' pay shouldn't go up while public sector pay is, rightly, being constrained."
'Not a pay rise'
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, who has said he will not take the increase, said it was "about the worst time to advocate a double-digit pay increase for MPs", adding that the public would find it "incomprehensible".
Labour leader Ed Miliband said he did not believe the rise should go ahead - and confirmed he would not take it if it did, but he said he was confident Ipsa would change its recommendation after a public backlash.
"I don't think MPs should be getting a 10% pay rise when nurses and teachers are facing either pay freezes or very low increases and people in the private sector are facing similar circumstances," he said.
Prime Minister David Cameron has criticised the proposed increase but a No 10 source declined to comment on whether he would be taking it.
Pressed on the question, the spokesman said: "It's not a pay rise. It's a proposal". He pointed out the package was still to go out to consultation and Downing Street would be submitting its own response.
But Ipsa chairman Sir Ian Kennedy defended the proposal, saying: "The history of MPs' pay and pensions is a catalogue of fixes, fudges and failures to act. The package we put forward today represents the end of the era of MPs' remuneration being settled by MPs themselves.
"For the first time, an independent body will decide what MPs should receive. We will do so in full view, and after consultation with the public."
Sir Ian told BBC Radio 5 Live's Victoria Derbyshire phone-in programme that MPs should be treated like "modern professionals" and part of the package was a "radical proposal" to introduce an annual "report card" to show the public what MPs did for their money.
He said the pay rise proposal was "fair" because MPs' pay had "fallen back" over the years and they needed to properly rewarded for the job they did, adding that the expenses scandal had been the result of too much pay restraint.
Sir Ian said there was never a good time to increase salaries, but said the changes were designed to "last a generation rather than just respond to the latest political issue", and taken together with the expenses reforms would save taxpayers money.
He said he would over the next two months listen to the views of the public who had taken part in the consultation on the Ipsa website, but he believed the package was not over-generous and was in line with previous recommendations by the senior salaries review board and other bodies.
Sir Ian is paid £700 a day and works on average two days a week, which he said added up to an annual salary of between £60,000 and the "high 70s".
Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen backed Ipsa's stance, telling BBC Radio 4's World at One: "I don't believe that MPs are remunerated sufficiently for the job that they do, if you want to attract the right sort of people.
"I don't want Parliament to be only for people of independent wealth, for people who treat it [their salary] as pocket money."


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Between attending a meeting about "Community Councils" and the arrival of Donald Trump, it's a welcome return for Lesley to the pod this week.
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In a week where petrol, pasties and George Galloway's victory in Bradford were in the headlines, Professor Thor Gylfason from Iceland came to the Scottish Parliament to talk aout their 'crowd sourced' constitution.
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DC Universe's Protector of the Green returns to live-action.
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I like to keep a jar of this chili sauce in my fridge but ran out of stock for a while now. I can't seems to find any fresh red chili here :(
I totally have to make this!!! Sounds absolutely delicious...thanks for sharing Lesley!
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I absolutely love this sauce. Great with steamed chicken.. eheh. ;)
Yes!! to keep a jar of this type of chili sauce is really handy to eat wt any meal we cook,right?I thought fresh vege and fruits are abundant in Cali,no? The red long pepperI bought cost me $1.49 apound only...The price is good huh?
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Vitra Design Museum GalleryBritish artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg (born in London in 1982) investigates the relationship between nature and the man-made, exploring how this interconnection changes through advances in design and technology. The resulting artworks tell evocative stories that are at once provocative and ironic. From 20 July to 24 November 2019, the Vitra Design Museum Gallery presents a solo exhibition tracing Ginsberg's journey as an artist and critical designer. Trained in architecture and interaction design, she has been especially interested in the emerging technoscience of »synthetic biology« – the design of living matter. Within this context, Ginsberg has been intrigued by the premise that underpins all approaches to design: the desire to make things »better«. But what exactly does better mean? Better for whom? And who decides? These questions, which are crucial in times of radical technological and scientific advances, are the basis of »Better Nature«.
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In what might be dubbed the Big Bang Theory of Jazz, the world began in April 1923 when King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band with Louis Armstrong in tow stepped into the Gennett Recording studio and cut nine sides. The Oliver band had been knocking 'em dead for several months in nearby Chicago at the cavernous South Side dance hall Lincoln Gardens, and these recordings would become the gold standard for early New Orleans jazz. Even more significant for the future of jazz, although Louis would play his first recorded solos on these sessions, he would soon outgrow the limited space for him in such ensembles of collective improvisation. He just wanted to cut loose and blow, and as people heard him and his fame grew, he would evolve into the first star of jazz and almost single-handedly transform jazz from a dance music to that of improvising solo performance.
You can witness what Louis had become by 1933 in the first Louis on film – that year he was captured in a live performance on a Copenhagen concert stage – no Hollywood gimmicks or studio post-dubbing of music. And you can explore that transformation in Amoeba's new Vinyl Vault. In honor of, and as tribute to Louis, we have added digital files of virtually all of Louis' early records from 1923 to 1928, remastered directly from the cleanest original 78s available. So have fun exploring the Louis Armstrong archive in Amoeba's Vinyl Vault.
King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band (April 1923 to December 1923)
When I first started collecting 78s, I avoided early "pre-electric" discs because the sound was a bit distant and thin compared to the electric process, which was still a few years off in the future, and I passed up many of these 1923 King Oliver Gennetts. Now I look back on my screwed up priorities and feel it was akin to throwing away a hundred dollar bill because it was too wrinkled. Musically, if not sonically, these early King Oliver Gennetts still hold up as some of the most exuberant discs ever recorded. Every player attacked the thread of melody at once, each adding fuel to the fire without getting in each other's way – never mind that you're not a jazz fan, and don't confuse these recordings with later derivative white revival "dixieland" (or "dorksieland" as some of my friends call it). Early jazz was first and foremost dance music, the rock 'n' roll of its day, and New Orleans style was loud, brash, rock solid dance music, activating hormones and posing the same kind of threat to middle America that rock 'n' roll would in the 1950s. Check out this1925 headline from a Cincinnati newspaper zeroing in on the insidious influence of jazz.


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Kassel Fotobook Festival 2010
This may be a bit of old news by now since my travels have prevented me from my usual postings but I wanted to mention the fun happenings at the 2010 Kassel Photobook Festival. This year Dieter Nuebert and crew changed the venue to the main hall where Documenta takes place every 5 years. The building is twice the size of the art school where the festival has been the last two years but the place drew a great crowd - about double the attendance of last year. There were more booksellers, better exhibition spaces for the visiting artists and, most importantly, more scenic views for the smoking convention which has now become another event in itself.
After a free ride to Kassel with the Schaden crew and briefly helping them set up their tables I scoped out the other booksellers. Dirk Bakker was present and had some great stuff including a 'newspaper' for the Becher's Anonyme Skulpturen. A stand from Vice Versa manned by Kurt Salchli offered up a few really cool books (a new Richard Prince book Four Cowboys and Car Crash Studies 2001-2010 by Raffael Waldner). Schaden had the largest set up and many good things as usual, including a new book of Yutaka Takanashi (Photography 1965-1974) from Only Photography books. Takanashi is currently enjoying a nice exhibition of many vintage prints at Galerie Priska Pasquer in Koln.
Yannick Bouillis of Shashin Books in Amsterdam had many nice titles. He is now specializing completely in Dutch photo and art books and his prices are very good. Last year when I visited his shop, I picked up a couple titles from him and even though some were in Parr/Badger, he still had them on the shelf for regular price. This year he had a couple perfect copies of Why Mister Why for around 60 euros each for instance. Check out his online store, I wasn't familiar with half of the books he had at the festival.
One set of books I missed out on seeing fast enough to get myself were by the artist Ferdinand Krivet. It is a set of three individual books published in 1971 by Verlag Kiepenhevert in Koln. I think the title of the set is Stars: A lexicon in three chapters. Reminiscent of Klaus Staeck's Pornografie, they are completely made from appropriated imagery. Thanks to Walther Zoller and Cecilia for letting me see what I missed.
Another surprise was taking a second look at Nico Krebs and Taiyo Onorato's book The Great Unreal from Editions Patrick Frey (2009). I hadn't liked it much on my first leafing last year but now I am dragging it home. Also a big surprise was Viviane Sassen's Flamboya from Contrasto. Once I got past what I think is a horrible cover (too cutesy and trite), the inner book is pretty wonderful. Her book Sol y Luna from Libraryman was released last year but wasn't much my cup of tea. Also, there is a retrospective of Michael Schmidt taking place in Hamburg at the Haus der Kunst so they published a very nice hardcover catalog of work from 1989/1990. That comes home with me as well. I was trying to show restraint the whole festival but you know how things work.
Of the other tables, there was one for my favorite bookmakers and schools, the Institut fur BuchKunst in Leipzig. It was a real pleasure to sit and talk with Gunther Karl Bose,one of the instructors there and a great bookmaker himself. I featured two of his books on 5B4 last year. They only hasd a few books for offer but he showed me a few out-of-print titles which blew my mind. One which I must get my hands on, published just recently and already OOP, is XX-: The SS-Rune as a special Character on Typewriters by Elisabeth Hinrichs, Aileen Ittner and Daniel Rother. It is an examination of fascism presented through a history of the typewriters used during the Third Reich and the special lead type characters they invented. According to Gunther, this book was made mainly as a response to Steven Heller's Iron Fists, a book which they thought was a little too one dimensional in dealing with the subject. As I mentioned it is OOP partly due to the small print runs of their books (around 250 - 400 copies each) but also because the main newspaper in Frankfurt wrote a full article about it because it is a design and research masterwork. I somehow will get one and write about it.
In between many hours browsing titles, lectures took place with Paul Graham, Alec Soth, Rinko Kawauchi, Rob Hornstra, Joachim Schmid, Leiko Shiga, Niels Stomps, Sybren Kuiper, Lesley Martin speaking on Aperture's history, Ferdinand Brüggemann talking about Japanese books, a presentation about Soviet photobooks, Dr. Bettina Lockmann on the outsider view of Japan, and many others. I didn't see all of them but was amazed at the rock-star status of Alec who started his lecture with an old drive-in movie style pre-film ad "Show time with Alec Soth (rhymes with 'both'.)." Surprising with all of the lectures was how few questions were asked after each presentation. Maybe the hall is intimidating but I remember last year there were many more.
The exhibition for the Best Photobooks of the Year was fascinating as Stanley Greene's newest book Black Passport garnered THREE nominations. I was pleasantly surprised that Darius Himes of Radius Books nominated my Books on Books study of Yutaka Takanashi's Toshi-e as his pick. Thank you Darius! Like last year, a nice catalog of the choices was produced and is available for sale.
The other main attraction was the book dummy show. Each year the festival has a call for entries for unpublished photographers to submit a book. This year over 400 books were entered and the best 50 were put on display. This year's winner was the photographer Werner Amann and his book American.
After three and a half days of books and hotel bar marathons even I was so sick of photobooks that I needed refuge and left after one last post-game beer with Dieter and the clean-up crew - catching a ride to Amsterdam with Yannick Bouillis and Sebastien Girard. I drew the short straw and wound up crammed into the back of a van with boxes of left over books crushing me, my spine being readjusted with ever bump of the highway on the four hour ride. We unloaded the van at 2:00am and after a sleepless night listening to Girard start snoring not 4 minutes after laying down, I did the best thing possible the next morning - search out the bookshops in Amsterdam.


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A nice 40-mile round trip from Cambridge to Council and back in early October 2019. Trail surface was mostly dry, ranging from gravel to a bit rocky. Not great for road bikes but good for mountain bikes and very good for the fat-tire (4-inch-wide) e-bike (allowed) I used this time. Most casual mountain bikers might average about 10 MPH. This section is almost all away from the highway and other roads, so very peaceful. Trees and river views increase as you go north. I had to open about eight cattle gates but none were locked and this may vary by season. There is camping and lodging at Mundo Hot Springs and several other places along or near this segment of trail. Thanks to the many volunteers who maintain this great trail!
This is so worth while to ride. We started in Weiser, rode to Cambridge.
Then stayed at the Frontier motel and finished with the ride to New Meadows. The trail the first half is gravelly, be ready for that. We also slimed our tires and only had one flat that sealed up right away. The second half to New meadows is a better trail and so gorgeous. The wildflowers are amazing and the animals we saw, deer, foxes, bunnies, turkeys, chukkars and lots of birds. You can get a shuttle thru frontier motel. They bring your vehicle to the hotel so you can pack what you need! Don't eat at Ginny's in Cambridge. It's horrible. Mundo Hot springs is not so great either. Just a warm pool to soak in. I don't think it's the real deal actually.
Record heavy snows and the resulting above average run off have closed most of the trail. As of April Only eastern most 9 miles remain open. Federal water managers predict above flood stage releases into June. Check City of Boise website for closure maps. A key bridge between Boise and Garden City has been removed to save it from falling in the river and park managers say it will have to be relocated. Thus when flooding subsides you will not be able to ride the trail from one end to the other non stop. When it dries out it is still a great trail you will have to ride part and find the detour around the missing bridge to continue on.
Three of us rode almost the full length of the trail on October 8 & 9. Weather was perfect. We rode downgrade from north to south and overnighted at Mundo Hot Springs, strategically located at the midway point. Sophie the owner is awesome and prepares delicious meals. And, nothing better than a hot soak after a 40 mile ride.
We saw very few others and dont think any were doing the full length. The trail is a mix of everything from a few paved sections to some areas that were a little muddy. Rocky seems most prevelent. Id say to do the full length, fat tires and minimum of weekend warrior level fitness are required.
Most upper section is evergreen type and then gets into open high desert type terrain for say the lower 80% of the trail. Summer riding in the exposed sun would seem pretty rough to me. The ten or so miles from the Presley Trailhead to Weiser were probably the least scenic, mostly farm fileds.
Saw a good bit of wildlife including a bear at a safe distance and some mountain sheep foraging on the side of a steep hill. While we were prepared for goatheads, none of us had a flat tire (thankfully).
This is a neat trail (underutilized) that folks should enjoy.
Rode this trail from Eagle all the way to Lucky Peak reservoir over 2 days in late September. A great experience overall. Suggestions would be for a bit better markings along the route, as the downtown areas can be a bit confusing and congested.
The only negative is a local weed called goatheads....nasty little things that resemble organic thumbtacks....flattened 3 of 4 tires late one afternoon. Advise you carry a tire pump!!
My husband and I found this trail and really enjoyed this short walk.It is well-maintained and a pleasant time was had by both.
We traveled this trail in July from Cambridge to Council, with the ambition of going as far as Starkey then back to Council. While fortunately the day time temp was not as warm as it could be (like 100), the sun still beats down on us as there is limited shade. Once we hit Council for a break in the shade to cool off, we decided that we were done. The trail is peaceful, and the grade is easy. The trail surfaces did vary from compacted to very loose, so one does need to keep one eye on the terrain. You must also watch the surroundings for wildlife as we did enjoy what we saw. We traveled 20 miles of the tail and did not see any other riders. We stayed at the Mundo Hot Springs in Cambridge. We jockeyed a truck up to Council so that we'd have a way back to the RV Park. We enjoyed the hot springs that evening!
My husband and I just rode 30 miles of the Weiser River Trail. Our friend, Bob Patrick, dropped us off at Midvale and we rode to Weiser. We took our mountain bikes since it is a gravel and slightly rocky road. The trail had been smoothed out and in good shape although our legs and behinds, a little less so!
What a great time!!
We enjoyed starting out in the farm country with the snowcapped mountains in the background and then made our way into the amazing canyon that hosts the Weiser River. Spring is a perfect time of the year, the canyon was green and lush with twists and turns and the river in full flow. While we didn't see any other wildlife, the river was full of duck and geese playing in the river.
About the time our legs and rear ends needed a break, we came upon a bench and picnic site near Concrete. That was great, a nice resting spot! No latte stand;) but we made do!
Along the trail there are railroad trestles that marked your mileage so you had an idea how far along you are. After Presley, we left the canyon behind and the last 10 miles or so we were back in the farm country. Our legs and behinds were very glad to see the Weiser trailhead, thirty miles later! It was a great experience and would highly recommend it.
A rider does need to have enough food and water and a tire repair kit. Between Midvale and Presley when you are in the canyon there isn't any services or cell service.
We would highly recommend it and looking forward to trying the northern trails later in the spring.
Biked this trail from Evergreen campground to Council last week with my 14 year old grandsons. We dropped off my Honda 110 trail bike in Council for a shuttle vehicle and proceeded to campground for overnighter and started down trail at noon next day. Awesome experience riding about 18 miles through forest and over numerous rail trestles crossing Weiser River. Stopped about half way so boys could take a dip in river. This stretch of the trail can compete with any trails I have seen pics in brochures. Plan to do it again with older buddies (senior citizens) in near future.
First rode downhill from Tamarack, about 10 years ago. The bridge decks weren't finished then, so if you turned your bike sideways, the pedals stuck out far enough it wouldn't fall through the gaps between the timbers. I figured the trail needed to be finished. Fast forward to today. Started in Council, going north, ten miles up & then back. The trail is a gravel doubletrack after the first mile. Mostly a firm roadbed, but at ranch road crossings, there's enough broken rock gravel to replace your front yard, that is: barely rideable. A horse would walk around that. And the gates, couldn't ride for ten minutes without another livestock gate. What did the cattlemen do when the trainmen didn't stop their train every mile or so for a livestock gate? I can't imagine that they did. Solitude was great, I'm no backwoods tracker, but the dust on the trail said I was the only bicycle through there since the last ATV's rode through. Another reviewer wrote that they need to pave this. I don't think these Idaho counties would spend to do that, but, it's about the only way I can think of to reconcile the overall length of this trail with the recreational intent. A harsh, hard, trail in a very pretty valley with all the potential to be a premium cycling destination.
This is a great, long trail that takes you through varying landscapes. The trail itself has a variety of surfaces. There were some rocky stretches, but nothing we couldn't plow through with some effort for a mile here or there.
Unfortunately, because of logistics, we rode it during a 100+ heat-wave in early July. We recommend going during more moderate temperatures.
We were happy to have showers and camping at Mundo Hot Springs. Also, happy to have a willing shuttle driver from Colonial Motel in Weiser. We highly recommend those two services for overnight and one-way bikers.
Have been looking for a good map of the Boise Greenbelt, but this is not it, Yet. It is a good start but missing the trails that run on both sides. It could also add bathrooms, air pumps, water coolers along the way. It would also help to display mileage marks.
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Ubuntu's Unity desktop invites comparisons to GNOME 3 for a bunch of reasons, but one important similarity is their reliance on hardware OpenGL support to power their visual animations and effects. In their first releases, both desktops used "fallback" modes to handle systems without OpenGL support, but in Ubuntu 11.10, Unity is available for those systems using a new project called Unity2D.
I think Unity2D is not just a terrible idea, but also another example of the new direction that Ubuntu is taking that makes me wonder if it'll be my distribution of choice for much longer.
Not so unified
Unity2D removes the reliance on OpenGL by avoiding it entirely: it's a rewrite of Unity from the ground up, based on the Qt toolkit and using the Metacity window manager instead of Compiz. While it looks and feels much like standard Unity, it's an entirely separate codebase, and keeping the two in sync as features are added will require a substantial amount of extra work. Perhaps the Ubuntu developers have the resources needed to keep up, but it seems like a very shortsighted approach to me.
GNOME 3's current fallback desktop is definitely a hack, too — it cobbles together a UI that looks a bit like GNOME Shell using the panel and related components that have been ported from GNOME 2. It has neither the flexibility of GNOME 2 nor the elegance of GNOME 3, so it's not a particularly compelling experience, but the Fedora developers plan to make the full GNOME Shell experience available for nearly everyone in Fedora 17, using some very cool technology.
Software OpenGL with llvmpipe
OpenGL isn't inherently limited to systems with hardware acceleration; Xorg actually provides a software implementation of OpenGL by default whenever hardware support is unavailable, but its performance is far low to handle desktop effects. However, a new software renderer, called llvmpipe, aims to change that. By using LLVM, a generic virtual machine that produces optimised x86 or AMD64 code on-the-fly, and utilising multiple CPU cores, llvmpipe performs far better than the standard Xorg renderer.
The gains are impressive: running Quake III Arena at 800×600 on my dual-core laptop, Xorg's renderer managed 3.9 FPS, while llvmpipe managed a fairly playable 34.9 FPS. While that only makes llvmpipe about as fast as my old Matrox G400, that's okay — it just has to be fast enough, and for GNOME Shell, and even the odd game, it definitely seems to be. llvmpipe has actually been used as the default software render in Fedora since Fedora 15, but it's only in Fedora 17 that it supports all of the OpenGL features required to run a compositing window manager.
I tested the Fedora 17 development packages (aka "Rawhide") in a KVM virtual machine, and it worked fairly well; logging in revealed a complete GNOME Shell desktop, and while it was a little choppy, it was definitely usable. I'd definitely expect it to be faster on an actual PC, especially with a mutli-core CPU. The Fedora developers have plans to improve performance, too, by optimising llvmpipe and disabling some minor effects.
So, on the one hand, we have Fedora working on key infrastructure that will improve the Linux desktop experience for all users without hardware OpenGL acceleration, and on the other, we have Ubuntu developers throwing effort away on a developmental dead end. Ubuntu has copped flak before for not contributing to Linux development, but I don't generally buy in to that argument — "contribution" isn't something you can measure just by analysing commit logs or counting lines of code. Canonical can pay its developers to do whatever it wants them to do, but increasingly, it seems that the effort they're expending is pushing Ubuntu in a direction I'm not sure I want to follow.
It's hard to elaborate on exactly why I feel that way — I think it's really down to little things, like insisting on forging its own path with Unity, the increasing number of built-in monetised services, and their sleazy dealings with Banshee (be sure to read the comments on that one!). Maybe the result is a great OS for a lot of users, but for me, Ubuntu is slowly drifting away from being the OS I want it to be.


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Refresh of an existing Hobbyist Software logo.
I like the existing logo, but the graphics behind it are somewhat clunky.
I'm looking for a high resolution re-build of the approximately the same logo (it should be clearly the same concept).
You do have some flexibility on the exact implementation.
These elements should definitely remain :
1) A holder/magnifying device
like these: http://compare.ebay.co.uk/like/4002…s&var=sbar
If you can find good stock art, then I would consider using that, otherwise you probably need to draw one.
2) Some indications of the hobbyist / under construction nature (currently indicated with the sketch lines around the title)
3) The text
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the end product will be a high resolution photoshop or illustrator file with a logo that I could use on different backgrounds.
Update for clarity
the existing version comes from artwork that was built originally at a lower resolution, then enlarged using a different 'helper' with a badly added magnifying effect. You can see the rough edges in the attached work. I then had to apply some kind of blotch filter to cover up other problems with the art.
I'm not a photoshop expert - and it shows.
If the existing logo was based on a high res illustrator file - then I would be sticking with that.
One good outcome for me would be to just get a faithful re-build with good high-res art and a realistic helper.
However given that I'm running the competition, I'm also open to subtle improvements!
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MONTREAL — A libel and defamation lawsuit against LifeSiteNews.com, filed by Canadian priest Father Raymond Gravel, who describes himself as "pro-choice," will go to trial.
Father Gravel claims that LifeSiteNews' depiction of him in the agency's news articles as "pro-abortion" is libelous, because he says he is "pro-choice" but does not support abortion per se.
"This case represents a danger to free speech of pro-life Canadians in terms of their being able to refer to stances embracing 'choice' as 'pro-abortion' rather than the nomenclature of their opposition," John-Henry Westen, LifeSiteNews' editor in chief, told Catholic News Agency Feb. 21.
Western said the suit is a "very significant attack" on religious freedom, freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
"It is being argued that we are not media, and should that argument be accepted in court, would that not challenge all the other new online media outlets, even those of the left?"
Father Gravel served as a member of Parliament in Canada from 2006 to 2008, after reportedly being granted "special permission by the Vatican to run for federal office," according to the CBC.
While serving as a member of Parliament, Father Gravel supported the nomination of an abortionist who was once detained in Dachau to the Order of Canada and opposed a bill which would have acknowledged injury of a fetus during commission of a crime as a separate offense from injury to the child's mother.
"I've never gone against the Church doctrine," he told the CBC in 2008.
In 2008, the Vatican "forced him to choose between Parliament and the Catholic Church," the CBC reported. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith had received complaints from Catholics who noticed his positions as a parliamentarian that were at odds with the faith.
Father Gravel claims that LifeSiteNews' reporting about him ruined his reputation as a politician and priest. He seeks damages of 500,000 Canadian dollars, or about $492,000, as well as costs.
On Jan. 11, a Quebec judge ruled that the lawsuit can advance to trial, dismissing the claims of LifeSiteNews that Father Gravel is merely intending to gag them.
The damages sought by Father Gravel are identical to a full year's budget for the site, according to its editors. It has already spent some $170,000 on the suit.
The Diocese of Joliette, to which Father Gravel belongs, did not reply to press inquiries in time for publication.
The site has run some 41 articles about Father Gravel in 11 years and maintains that it merely reported his public statements and media commentaries airing his disagreement with Church doctrine and the teaching authority of Canadian prelates.
"In our reporting on Gravel, we were very careful only to repeat exactly what he said. There was no animosity toward him; in fact, we stated our concern for the Church, but also for Father Gravel himself," Weston told The Wanderer.
"If this case were outside the issues of abortion and homosexuality and were just about a politician upset that a media organization pointed out his radical views to a wider audience, it would be laughed out of court. But because it is dealing with issues deemed sacred in the new morality, it is being given credence," he added.
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Blog of Dr. Miland Brown that features different aspects of world history. Not everything can be covered but sites dealing with any historical issue or topic are possible future posts. Also includes sites which discuss teaching history. Dr. Brown is an academic in North America.
Monday, April 14, 2008
Did the Welsh Discover America?
I find the site speculative at best. If this is true, why did the Mandans get his so hard by Small Pox in 1781 when 40,000 were reduced to 2,000? I imagine European descendants would have more immunity than that. Even if this theory is correct, the Welsh would not have been the first Europeans. The Norse were in North America before 1170. I guess this is a creative use of legends. If this story is true, DNA testing ought to be able to prove it.
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The story of MADOC, a Welsh prince, who is reputed to have discovered America in 1170, over 300 years before Columbus, has fascinated me for many years.
It is said that he sailed across the Atlantic Ocean from Wales, a small country on the western side of the British mainland, which together with Ireland, Scotland and England, make up the British Isles.
Many believe that he and his followers initially settled in the Georgia/Tennessee/Kentucky area, eventually moving to the Upper Missouri, where they were assimilated into a tribe called the Mandans. New evidence is also emerging about a small band of MADOC's followers who remained in the Ohio area and are called 'White Madoc'.
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A plaque placed in 1953 by the Daughters of the American Revolution in Mobile, Alabama commemorating the voyage by the Welsh Prince Madoc to the America's has been removed and placed in storage by the Alabama State Parks Department.
Many people feel that this is a bit of a slight to the memory of generations of Welsh immigrants and Americans of Welsh descent who helped to build this country.
Over 1,200 people from the US, Canada, Wales and elsewhere around the world have signed the petition so far and we are looking for more people to sign to illustrate the depth of the Welsh feeling on this matter.
We feel that this plaque is an important part of both Welsh and American history and are hoping that you might be interested in signing the petition and helping us get this memorial reinstated to its rightful home.
The petition can be found at: www.petitiononline.com/AWA0987/petition.html
Thank you very much for your time.
Dave Parry
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The site is down - perhaps for good.
I've never heard of this before although there is credible evidence that Basque fishermen stumbled across America before Columbus ever did.
See Mark Kurlansky: The Basque History of the World
It has been proven by history that different sub groups of Europeans can have different resistances to certain diseases, for example, following the years of the Saxon incursions into post Roman Britain a disease swepted through the land that killed 7 out of 10 native Britons but only 1 in ten of Saxons.
- Dave Baeckelandt said...
The historical evidence is slight but there is a real possibility. For example, Willem of Bruges, a Flemish canon of the cathedral at Kortryk (in West Flanders) apparently was well-known to the Flemish settlers in Wales (Pembrokeshire) and wrote (a now lost) record (ca 1250) of Madoc's visit to America. In Flanders he was referred to as "Willem who wrote about Madoc".
According to Alan Wilson, who has spend decades researching this, the correct date is 562, not 1170. He uses various ancient birth records, bardic literature and more so it's not just single-source crap however tenuous it may be.


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About a visual wizard and a fantastic legacy of films which transformed and influenced the science fiction genre as we know it. The Russian filmmaker, Pavel Klusjantsev, has had an extraordinary influence on an entire genre of films. Throughout his career at the film studio in St. Petersburg, Klushantsev pioneered and invented legendary techniques for filming the planets, stars and weightnessless - long before anyone else. He went on to redefine the science fiction genre and influence the way Hollywood made their science fiction films, including the Academy Award-winning Visual Effects Master, Robert Skotak, a man who spent years trying to track Klushantsev down. This is a film about a fantastic inventor and dreamer whose destiny was intimately linked with the Space Race and the whims of the Soviet dictatorship. However, despite dying blind and penniless, Klushantsev has left an indelible mark on the history of film and inspired countless filmmakers. The Star Dreamer ensures that the name of Pavel Klushantsev lives on.
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Just saw this amazing documentary on australia's SBS network. I'm glad I did because I had not heard of this director before. Goes to show how unrecognised his life has been as I am in the film business and unless I had seen this doco his story would have perhaps escaped me. It is a sad indictment of the soviet era where political motivation was more important than the individual. This ideology is more suited to ants than humans. Klushantsev's work was embraced in the height of the space race where it was seen as a valuable propaganda tool. When the usefulness of this concept faded he was summarily dismissed from the studio he helped make a success and died in 1999, blind, penniless and virtually forgotten. He had developed many key, innovative technical and visual concepts that were totally original in scope and execution, many of which were subsequently used, or stolen, by future film-makers. There are some startling similarities with ideas embraced in such landmark western films as "2001: A Space Odyssey", "Aliens", "Terminator" and many others. Klushantsev's amazing "Planeta Bur" - 1962 (aka "Planet Of Storms")was literally ripped to pieces and used in two C-Grade US productions, "Voyage To The Prehistoric Planet" - 1965 - directed by Peter Bogdonovich and the other "Voyage To The Planet of Prehistoric Women" - 1968 - directed by Roger Corman. Klushantsev was uncredited in both these films. All sci-fi fans should see this doco and find a way to view Klushantsev's main films.
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Vernon company faces lawsuit from 'copyright troll'
BRATTLEBORO -- A local business owner who has successfully relied on her website to sell fine furniture made in Vermont is finding out the Internet also has a dark side.
"Saturday (May 24) the Windham County Sheriff Came to my house and served me a copyright infringement lawsuit," wrote Peggy Farabaugh on vermontfurnitureblog.com. She explained that she was being sued because a photograph that was used to illustrate the sale of a dining set to a customer in Hawaii, and that she thought was available for reuse through a site that offers free downloads, was in fact copyrighted by a Hawaiian photographer.
"But it was invisibly tagged," wrote Farabaugh, who told the Reformer that she had been advised by her attorney not to speak with the media. However, said Farabaugh, the Reformer was free to use any material on her blog post.
"On May 5, 2012, I received a letter from Carolyn Wright and Cindy Hsu at PhotoAttorney.com demanding $9,500 for use of the photo," wrote Farabaugh, who, with her husband, Ken, owns Vermont Woods Studios. "If I refused to pay up within 10 days, they said VKT might sue me for $150,000."
By utilizing a Google search with the terms VKT and "copyright infringement," the Reformer was able to determine VKT is Vincent K. Tylor, who has filed a number of such lawsuits over the past few years.
"I immediately took the photo down and called VKT to explain," wrote Farabaugh. "He refused to talk to me, insisting that all correspondence go through PhotoAttorney.com. I called and emailed PhotoAttorney.com several times trying to reach a fair settlement. We negotiated for months and eventually they went away."
Vermont Woods Studios works with Vermont craftspeople to market and sell their furniture online and at Stonehurst, a gallery and showroom in Vernon.
On April 25, Farabaugh received a letter from Woolf Gafni & Fowler, in Los Angeles, representing Tylor and demanding $12,000 by May 5. According to the letter, Tylor had been offered between $150 and $300 by Vermont Woods, however Tylor's licensing rates are five to 10 times that amount. If the $12,000 is not paid, claims the letter, Tylor "may elect to obtain statutory damages of up to $30,000 for each infringement or up to $150,000 for each willful infringement."
"Vermont Woods Studios has presented no real defenses to their copyright infringement precluding such an award," noted the letter.
Following receipt of the letter, Farabaugh contacted Adam Gafni.
"I ... discussed the facts and explained that we are a small company that cannot afford a $12,000 fee nor did I think it appropriate," she wrote on her blog. "I asked him to drop the lawsuit. He told me to make him an offer to settle and I said I'd been advised not to settle. At that point, he accused me of extortion, said 'see you in court -- have a nice day' and hung up the phone. VKT filed a $150,000 lawsuit shortly thereafter."
According to Mitch Stoltz, a staff attorney with Electronic Frontier Foundation, Farabaugh did what many people do, and what EFF recommends you never do -- talk to a plaintiff's attorney.
"They will try to trap you into revealing information that can be used against you in a court of law."
Matthew Chan, who set up ExtortionLetterInfo.com, was not surprised when he learned of Farabaugh's initial reaction.
"Most people aren't copyright savvy, don't know how to defend themselves and don't know how the psychology of these scams works," said Chan. "They rely on scare tactics. That's why the scam often works."
Chan, who lives in Columbus, Georgia, set up his website in 2008 after he was received what he calls "an extortion letter" from Getty Images for copyright infringement. But different from Farabaugh's case, Chan was never sued and he never settled.
"I started ELI for myself, not for other people. As my case wore on, more and more victims came forth. I decided to keep the website running for these cases."
Shortly after he set up the website, he was joined by Oscar Michelin, an attorney who serves as legal adviser and provides legal guidance and legal education related to ELI's mission.
Chan said he is very familiar with Vincent K. Tylor, who puts up images on free wallpaper sites that people can use for desktop savers. But if that image is used for any commercial purposes whatsoever, he said, then Tylor swoops in with a lawsuit.
"This insures that he has a steady stream of accidental infringements."
Copyright trolls are banking on when someone files a lawsuit, most people will pay it off, he said, but it's important that the target of a copyright infringement suit not panic.
"Just because someone infringes, doesn't make it criminal and just because there has been an infringement doesn't mean there was a significant amount of damages," he said. "Some of these infringements are probably worth $50 or $100."
Stoltz recommends that anyone who receives a letter alleging copyright infringement should contact an attorney.
"Many of them do this work pro bono or for a reduced fee."
However, not everyone hastens to contact an attorney when they are served with copyright infringement paperwork, said Stoltz.
"Some people choose to ignore it and wait until they are contacted by the troll or sued. Sometimes the trolls just go away. It's a bit risky, but trolls don't always have the resources to pursue everyone."
Stoltz said that just in the past three years, more than 200,000 people have been targeted by copyright trolls. He said if a website doesn't openly assert that a picture is free for use, you should consider it copyrighted and not use it for your own purposes.
A copyright doesn't have to be registered to be legally binding, he said. But if it is, the law calls for damages that can be awarded by a judge or jury between $750 and $150,000 per work without the plaintiff having to prove any kind of harm.
"It's a bullying tactic. Juries don't tend to award $150,000, but because the amount is so high, they can use it as a scare tactic."
Stoltz said Congress is considering ways to rein in copyright trolls, but the legislation is not as advanced as proposed legislation to deal with patent trolls.
"And judges have banned various abusive practices of the copyright trolling business model," said Stoltz.
In the end of May, the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., ruled copyright holders may not abuse the legal process to obtain the identities of thousands of Internet users. In this case, AF Holdings was seeking the identities of more than 1,000 Internet users who it claims illegally downloaded pornographic videos.
The court ruled that it is unfair to sue thousands of people at once in a court far from home based on nothing more than an allegation, according to EFF.
The EFF urges people who are being sued to contact their senators, congresspeople and attorney general and ask for their help.
In her blog post, Farabaugh wrote that it appears Tylor's lawsuit will only be settled one way.
"Unfortunately I guess we're going to court -- the last thing on earth any small business can afford to do," she wrote.
Chan said it may not get that far, but Vermont Woods Studios needs to be patient.
"They're going to have to play chicken with him," he said.
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Teucrium's Gilbertie, Bloomberg's McGlone: Time To Buy Corn
July 11, 2017
SHOW: Bloomberg Markets AM with Pimm Fox and Lisa Abramowicz.
GUEST: Sal Gilbertie, President and Founder of Teucrium Trading LLC, and Mike McGlone, Commodity Strategist for Bloomberg Intelligence, on agricultural commodities.
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Investing in a Fund subjects an investor to the risks of the applicable commodity market, which investment could result in substantial fluctuations in the price of Fund shares. Unlike mutual funds, the Funds generally will not distribute dividends to shareholders. The Sponsor has limited experience operating commodity pools; a commodity pool is defined as an enterprise in which several individuals contribute funds in order to trade futures or futures options collectively. Investors may choose to use a Fund as a vehicle to hedge against the risk of loss, and there are risks involved in hedging activities. Commodities and futures generally are volatile and are not suitable for all investors. The Funds are not mutual funds or any other type of Investment Company within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and are not subject to regulation thereunder. For a complete description of the risks associated with the Funds, please refer to the applicable prospectus.
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A copy of the prospectus for each Teucrium Fund may be accessed at the links below:
- CANE: cane-prospectus.pdf
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- SOYB: soyb-prospectus.pdf
- TAGS: tags-prospectus.pdf
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10 reasons to be grateful for sharks (even though you're scared of them)
Sharks have roamed the great blue sea for 450 million years. Though most of their time is spent swimming in the depths and searching for ocean prey, stories and movies that feature circling fins and pounding music have instilled fear in even the bravest of human adventurers.
Because we focus on the scary side of these fish, it's easy to forget that sharks actually do a lot of good. Without sharks, the planet itself would be less healthy - and humans would miss out on the cultural and technological innovations sharks have inspired. Here are some of the ways sharks contribute to human survival and happiness.istockphoto.com
Sharks fill a huge role in the food chain
Sharks are apex predators. That means that they are at the top of the ocean's food chain and have a taste for many different aquatic animals, ranging from smaller fish to sea lions. These kings and queens of the sea, however, often go after slow and sick fish. Because of this, the healthiest fish often survive to breed and contribute to a stronger population in the long run, according to Shark Savers.istockphoto.com
Sharks help Earth's carbon cycle
Not to get too deep into the science of things, but sharks also keep Earth's carbon cycle balanced by contributing to the absorption of carbon dioxide. Sharks are large animals, which means they store large amounts of carbon in their bodies. If the total number of sharks in the ocean was reduced, more carbon could be released into the atmosphere, according to Mystic Aquarium.istockphoto.com
Sharks keep the shellfish industry alive
Fun fact: Sharks play an important part in keeping the shellfish industry alive and well. Sharks feast on cow-nose rays. Those rays are a major predator of scallops. Without sharks in our oceans, cow-nose rays would overpopulate and feast on scallops and shellfish - eliminating the two options from our dinner tables.istockphoto.com
Sharks take out a more common enemy
Despite their ominous appearance, sharks rarely pose a threat to humans. In 2018, sharks were responsible for five fatal attacks, according to Forbes. In comparison, box jellyfish are responsible for more deaths than sharks, sea snakes and stingrays combined. There are 20 to 40 jellyfish sting deaths annually in the Philippines alone, Science Magazine reports. Sharks eat box jellyfish and help limit the population of the lethal creature.istockphoto.com
Sharks keep tourist economies thriving
When sharks are promoted as the main attraction of tourism, businesses thrive. Divers are interested in seeing and swimming with live, healthy sharks, and the experience rarely comes cheap. In 2017, the Australian government noted that sharks played a part in $25.5 million (in Australian dollars) worth of activity in the country's regional economies. And that's just in one country - sharks actually play a key role in drawing tourists to countries around the world.istockphoto.com
Sharks are the future of medicine
Sharks have amazing immune systems, heal quickly from damaging wounds and are resistant to infections. Perhaps the greatest find, though, was that great white sharks have "mutations," according to the BBC, that protect against cancer by repairing damaged genes. Researchers are now studying sharks' unique healing abilities in hopes of finding cures for diseases that humans often battle.istockphoto.com
Sharks create future leaders
Pop culture phenomena like "Shark Week," along with more informative exhibits at museums and aquariums, are increasingly inspiring new generations to pursue careers in fields like marine biology. Sharks have been around for millions of years, making their history and the evolutionary path of their existence a vast field of study with much to discover.istockphoto.com
Sharks help Olympic swimmers
Sharks have pretty cool skin made up of numerous overlapping scales called denticles. The grooves on the denticles align with water flow and contribute to sharks' speedy movements through the ocean water. Thanks to biomimicry, or the design of materials modeled on biological entities, shark skin has been replicated and used for swim trunk designs, USC Illumin noted. In the 2008 Summer Olympics, Michael Phelps wore a sharkskin-inspired swimsuit and won eight gold medals. We're not saying that's the reason Phelps made history, but we're not saying it's not, either.istockphoto.com
Sharks = cinematic gold
Films like "Jaws" and "Sharknado" may not give the aquatic creature a great reputation, but the films wouldn't even exist without sharks. The famous line "You're gonna need a bigger boat" wouldn't be engraved in our memories if it weren't for sharks and LL Cool J might never have graced the big screen as a hero with a pet parrot if not for "Deep Blue Sea."istockphoto.com
Sharks are just cool
To put it simply, sharks are some of the coolest creatures on this planet. They've been around for 450 million years, remember? That's more than 200 million years before the first dinosaur ever existed. Sharks are a key part of the history of this planet, and the longevity of their existence speaks wonders to the importance of their role in the ocean. If you're looking for some more recent history, you can check out one of these 50 American destinations.
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Studies on Regulatory and Procedural Barriers to Trade
UNECE studies on regulatory and procedural barriers to trade are demand-driven, conducted upon the request of member States, to support economic diversification and pro-poor growth in the region. The studies are based on a comprehensive evaluation methodology. The methodology, available in English and Russian, is geared to assist countries establish the required instuitional and legislative framework for ensuring successful integration into regional and global supply chains; promotes information exchange among countries on policies and experiences; promotes greater accountability and transparency; and informs donors as to where assistance might be required.
The studies are undertaken within the context of a participatory approach, which brings together public and private sector stakeholders to ensure policy responsiveness and bring about consensus. Read more...
Studies in the global context
The studies are conducted within the context of a participatory approach, whereby public and private sector stakeholders are brought together under national review mechanisms as called for by the outcome document by the UN Summit to adopt the Post-2015 Development Agenda, in order to act as the UNECE counterpart throughout the assessment process. The recommendations emerging from the studies serve as a basis for monitoring, evaluation and reporting on progress made in achieving trade-related sustainable development targets. Most notable among these targets are correcting and preventing restrictions and distortions in global agricultural markets, listed as a means of implementation (MoI) target for SDG 2 on ending hunger and achieving food security; and, improving market access for least developed countries, listed under SDG 17 on a global partnership for sustainable development. The Studies are available here.
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Coursework in the Aviation Management Degree will prepare students for a variety of administrative and management positions in the aviation community including maintenance management positions. Management career options related to aviation activities, such as airport manager, general operations manager, and air carrier management exist in the industry.
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This fully online program is designed to allow students entering with a Washington State Business DTA to complete a Business Administration degree in a timely manner. Currently, there are two specializations offered in this program: General Business and Supply Chain Management. This program can accommodate a variety of preferred course loads, from part-time students to full-time students. Full-time students could finish in as little as 5- 6 quarters.
Students enrolled in the Business Administration: General Business specialization program will take classes from a wide range of business focused areas such as finance, leadership & management, marketing, supply chain management, and human resource management. This variety of courses helps to produce a well-rounded business professional.
Students enrolled in the Business Administration: Supply Chain Management specialization program will take specialization courses that focus on Supply Chain Management. The principles you learn will support your career growth in most any position from managing operations in a bustling warehouse for a local distributor to leading business development for an international company
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We live in an increasingly technological world that is ever more dependent on evolving and expanding forms of communication. Our writing program is designed to prepare students for success in this environment. It combines the rigor of creative writing in poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, playwriting, and screenwriting with the practical elements of professional and technical writing and editing. The major's interdisciplinary range allows students to shape their major with courses that best suit their interests and goals using classes offered by English, Communication, and other programs.
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An exciting career working with computers to design and maintain websites, build databases of information for meaningful reports, build sales in retail operations with e-commerce, or managing people and projects awaits thegraduates of the BS-ITAM Online program. These high-demand IT skills are complemented with management and soft-skills classes to help you find meaningful work in any industry and job satisfaction in your career. Admission to the BS-ITAM Online program requires a competed transferable associate degree (AA-DTA) or a prior bachelor degree in any field.
With specializations offered as completely online programs, you can target your education to the precise field of your aspirations.
Administrative Management Specialization
With this specialization, you will become a qualified business professional prepared to pursue careers that apply a blend of management, administrative and information technology skills in contemporary business environments. The administrative manager supervises office employees, designs office work systems, maintains internal and external communication systems, and compiles meaningful reports from information processing. Your knowledge of IT tools complemented by the soft skills of communication and leadership will qualify you to seek employment in positions requiring the management of data, projects, people, and organizational change. All types of business from agriculture and finance, to manufacturing and health care are seeking graduates with these skills.
IT professionals will gain knowledge specific to the detection, protection, and recovery from attacks to an organization's information assets. You will gain skills in this high-demand field of network security that, when combined with the management/soft-skills classes, will give you the competitive edge in the IT marketplace. Public utility companies, national security agencies, food and water suppliers, financial services, and companies with intellectual property to protect are now hiring experts in this area. Because of the technical IT skills classes involved in this specialization, a computer-related associate degree is suggested for admission.
FlexIT Competency Based- Retail Management &Technology Specialization OR Administrative Management
Traditional academic models only measure a student's completed credit hours or "seat time." FlexIT measures what you know. Because the program is fully online and self-paced, it gives you an unprecedented level of flexibility. The program allows you to save time and money through accelerated progress, while working closely with a mentor to help guide the student's progress. The cost of the program ($3,000) includes tuition, books, and fees and allows 3 month access to complete as many courses as you can--an "all you can learn model," until you earn your Bachelor of Science and jump start your career. For more information, or to apply, visit: http://www.cwu.edu/it-management/flexit-pace
Project Management
Following the proven standard practices set forth by the Project Management Institute, our project management specialization will prepare students to initiate, plan, manage, control, report, and close projects across a variety of industries. Students will gain experience in preparing project management plan documents; managing project budgets and resources; identifying and controlling project uncertainty in risk, quality, and procurement; prepare various project status reports while demonstrating earned value management analysis techniques; and identify and apply project management best practices with the goal of leading organizations to greater project management maturity.
Retail Management & Technology Specialization
Picture yourself as a qualified business professional in a retail environment prepared to pursue a career that infuses information technology into areas like e-commerce, management, selling, purchasing, operations, and merchandising. These qualifications are complemented by business communications and human-centered skills. Graduates of this 100% online program secure careers in store operations, store management, retail IT, e-commerce, sales, distribution and logistics, merchandise buying, and entrepreneurship.
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Your two-year "non-transferable" associate degree becomes transferable with the BAS-ITAM Online major! This program accepts ANY applied/technical degree and complements the skills learned in the associate degree with the management/soft skills classes to help you become a leader in your knowledge area. Professional programs like accounting, medical assistance, network security, criminal justice, welding & fabrication (to name a few) will benefit in the form of career opportunities by learning how to manage people, projects, and information. With three targeted specializations, you receive the management skills most appropriate to your career path.
Administrative Management Specialization
With classes in Project Management, Customer Relationship Management, Financial Analysis, and Advanced Spreadsheet Applications, you will have the skills to manage in any administrative capacity. Industries like healthcare, manufacturing, education, and even non-profit organizations are asking for employees with this educational background. Any completed professional/technical associate degree will satisfy the admission requirement.
IT professionals will gain knowledge specific to the detection, protection, and recovery from attacks to an organization's information assets. You will gain skills in this high-demand field of network security that, when combined with the management/soft-skills classes, will give you the competitive edge in the IT marketplace. Public utility companies, national security agencies, food and water suppliers, financial services, and companies with intellectual property to protect are now hiring experts in this area. Because of the technical IT skills classes involved in this specialization, a computer-related associate degree is suggested for admission.
Information Technology Specialization
This specialization targets the soft-skills/management classes specifically to the management of IT projects and departments. A computer-related associate degree is required for admission to this specialization where IT professionals receive relevant coursework in management leading to a baccalaureate degree in a timely fashion - without duplicating the prior technical education you have already received!
Project Management
Following the proven standard practices set forth by the Project Management Institute, our project management specialization will prepare students to initiate, plan, manage, control, report, and close projects across a variety of industries. Students will gain experience in preparing project management plan documents; managing project budgets and resources; identifying and controlling project uncertainty in risk, quality, and procurement; prepare various project status reports while demonstrating earned value management analysis techniques; and identify and apply project management best practices with the goal of leading organizations to greater project management maturity.
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The Bachelor of Science degree in Interdisciplinary Studies Social Sciences is for students who are interested in broader options in course selection than are possible within a traditional departmental major and who want to specialize their course of study according to individual interests and professional/educational aspirations. Persons holding this degree will find employment in a variety of occupations, ranging from corporate to social services, depending upon their primary emphasis among the various disciplines within the social science category. This degree also provides excellent preparation for graduate studies in psychology, sociology, social work, and political science.
Contact: Nicole Dunn; 509-859-4930; email@example.com
The Bachelor of Arts major in Law and Justice Law and Justice Best Online Bachelor's in Criminal Justice(LAJ) is designed to prepare students for professional employment in the criminal justice system and/or entry into graduate or law school. It retains the humanistic emphasis of the liberal arts while assisting students to prepare for graduate school, careers in law enforcement, corrections, paralegal professions and the practice of law following law school.
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Bachelor of Arts - Liberal Studies
The College of Arts and Humanities' BA, Liberal Studies is attractive in a variety of situations and academic needs. The program is designed for students whose primary career pathway lies in a variety of areas within the arts and humanities and requires interdepartmental course selections, which are not possible within single academic programs or established curricula. The program offers students an opportunity to devise an approved, coherent program of study from across the institution, fulfilling academic and/or career goals and includes prerequisites consistent with the 300/400-level major coursework within the approved courses.
Program Elective credits must be taken from courses approved for the Liberal Studies major. CWU offers over 800 courses online each year. Students in the interdisciplinary Liberal Studies major must take courses in at least three disciplines within the major. Because of the humanistic focus of the program, courses used in the program "Course of Study" from disciplines outside of the College of Arts and Humanities require the approval of the BA, Liberal Studies program director.
Programs offered:
• Liberal Studies Major - Large Plan (65 cr)
• Liberal Studies Major - Small Plan (45 cr)
• Liberal Studies Minor (30 cr)
Contact: College of Arts and Humanities – Scott Robinson, Program Director; 509-963-1858; firstname.lastname@example.com
The online component of the EMS Paramedicine Major is designed for students who already possess a current and valid certification as a paramedic from an authorized training institution and want to complete their Bachelor Degree in Paramedicine at Central Washington University. This accredited program meets all of the national and Washington State standards in paramedic education. For currently certified paramedics, advanced standing in the paramedicine major can be obtained with submission of application, evidence of certification and paramedic program completion from an approved institution, and a transferable Associate's Degree or its equivalent.
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The Psychology department provides students with an understanding of the perspectives, content, and methods of science and the practice of psychology. This 45-credit major is intended for students who are interested in careers that would combine a background in psychology with work in fields such as social work, family studies, business, forensics, primate behavior, and other fields for which training in behavioral science would be useful. Students in the 45-credit major are required to complete either a minor or a double major.
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The online Population Health Specialization provides a solid background in the field of public health and offers a broad range of courses that can be tailored to a student's interest in health. Population health represents the area of study and practice focusing on the determinants and distribution of health across different groups of individuals. Understanding issues and situations that harm people's potential for health, wellbeing, and quality of life enables public health professionals to develop effective strategies to improve outcomes. Through diverse course offerings, the Population Health Specialization prepares students for graduate study or career work with a variety of populations and health issues. This specialization requires 66 core credits and 24 electives in which students can explore their specific areas of interest (mental health, drugs and health, sexual health, policy, advocacy, child and maternal health, environmental health, health administration, and more).
Contact: Casey Mace; 509-963-2492; firstname.lastname@example.com
The social service major is designed for students interested in working in the human services delivery systems. Students are required to have a strong grounding in sociology as well as the applied field of social services. The coursework introduces students to critical issues in the field and offers students the opportunity to work within agencies in the community.
Contact: Kelly Zakel-Larson; 509-963-1305; email@example.com
The Sociology Department provides opportunities for students to understand the conceptual and methodological tools used by sociologists to understand society. Students in this 45-credit major are required to complete either a minor or a second major in another discipline. Students seeking a B.A. degree must complete one year college/university study or two years high school study of a single world language.
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Bachelor of Applied Science - Supply Chain Management
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CWU's BAS Supply Chain Management prepares students for dynamic careers in purchasing, manufacturing, distribution, transportation, demand management and many other areas. Demand for graduates is growing across industries, at organizations ranging from large multinationals to regional and local firms.
Contact: College of Business Advising Center; 509-963-2930; email@example.com
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Endless activities, including a bicycle tour through the biggest forest in Western Europe and views over the sparkling Eemmeer lake, close to Amsterdam and Utrecht.
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