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The Master of Science in Human Resource Management at Emmanuel College is one of the first degree programs in this discipline. It is an intensive, integrated learning experience that prepares students to address the strategic issues faced by human resource professionals in today's complex organizations. The human resource management curriculum challenges students to develop skills that will allow them to think critically, be an ethical leader and an effective communicator, develop recruitment practices, manage compensation and benefits, and understand employee and labor relations. This program prepares students to function as generalists in the human resources field, to integrate academic theory and practical experience and to play an expanded role in the constantly evolving human resource function.
- A proficiency of knowledge in areas of leadership, ethics and behavioral science interventions, research methods, organizational development and strategic planning
- An understanding of the processes related to managing compensation and benefits, employment and recruitment
- Leadership skills and analytical thinking capacity
- Experience with the application of real-world issues,
- Identifying areas of improvement in organizational practice for an industry or specific organization through self-initiated research, data gathering and literature review
The human resource management degree requires 36 credits (11 courses. A cumulative average of 3.0 or higher is required for a graduate degree. Courses are seven weeks, conducted throughout the calendar year, and offered in face-to-face or 100% online formats.
This course takes the traditional Organizational Behavior topics such as motivation, communication, collaboration, change, culture, and the nature of groups and systems dynamics, and views them from the perspective of leadership. As well as learning how to apply this knowledge to improve organizational effectiveness, students examine the effect their own leadership approach has on organizational change. Primary skills to be gained in this course include organizational analysis and problem solving through class experiential exercises and case discussions.
Internal and external environmental forces driving organizational change face resisting forces that maintain the status quo. The leader's role as a collaborative change agent is examined, and possible individual, group and organization-wide interventions are investigated. Concepts regarding the depth of change and culturally appropriate strategies for entry and change are evaluated. Students assess models of change and plan and execute data-gathering activities. Change scenarios and qualitative research activities are evaluated for use within an organization to begin preparing for the Capstone Seminar.
Students will develop an understanding of the role of finance in the business organization. Topics include ratio analysis, creation of pro forma financial statements, sources of funds for financial operations, managing the cash flow process, the cost of capital and capital budgeting. In addition, the financial impacts of international operations will be explored.
Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) processes and procedures help parties to a business dispute participate in a non- adversarial, collaborative search for mutually beneficial outcomes. Students will review and critically examine significant ethical, public policy, and other considerations that affect an organization's use of ADR processes and their potential impact on its operations. An analytical framework and strategies to effectively examine and address several key considerations will be developed. Students will analyze the dynamics of communication and practice fundamental conflict resolution skills, including effective oral and written communication.
Economic, technological, demographic, and environmental changes mean that today's organizations are becoming progressively more diverse. This course has been designed to allow students to explore issues of individuality and diversity in several contexts, with the goal of providing them with practical insights and tools to navigate this changing environment. During this course, we will examine how differences affect individuals, groups and leaders in contemporary organizations, including effects related to both domestic and global environments. Issues of stereotype, bias and resistance are examined from both personal and organizational viewpoints, supporting a clear insight into managing diversity. Students learn about the ethical and legal responsibilities of organizations, and will link these to culturally appropriate strategies and analytical competencies which will create a capacity to champion ethics and diversity in the workplace and community.
This course provides students with the necessary knowledge and skills to assume leadership roles in information management, including the effective use of information for strategic planning, management control, program evaluation and outcome assessment. In addition, the course addresses oversight of information processes and evaluation of software for practitioners. This course assumes basic computer literacy. Knowledge of specific programs is not required; however, assignments will assume proficiency in word processing, spreadsheet and database applications.
The employer/employee relationship is examined within the context of the National Labor Relations Act. Emphasis is placed on the role of unions, collective bargaining rights and agreements, arbitration and contracts, as well as such topics as antitrust laws, federal and state regulations, concerted activity, and permitted methods of employee participation in management decision making.
This course focuses on the employment function emphasizing strategic recruiting and employee retention through employee performance management. Topics include the employment process, workforce planning, job analysis and job descriptions, creative recruiting strategies, employee coaching and counseling and the employee corrective process.
Theory and practice relating organizational characteristics to compensation-system strategy, design, and administration are covered. Topics include job evaluation, pay surveys, pay structure, and pay administration, as well as individual and group incentives. A comprehensive overview of employee benefit principles and concepts will be presented. The design and administration of benefits such as pension, insurance, medical and other welfare plans as well as employer-provided benefits will be analyzed and reviewed. Additional topics include current trends, the impact of organizational characteristics on benefit strategy/design, and cost-effectiveness. Applicable state and federal regulations will be examined.
Students identify strategic management areas for organizations and evaluate these in terms of changing environments. Skills are developed in strategic planning and scenario building for the alignment of mission, vision, strategies, goals and objectives. The realities of strategic management and ethical leadership are examined through current applications.
The 14-week capstone seminar allows students to integrate the management theories and organizational improvement practices mastered throughout earlier courses in the program. It is designed to synthesize these skills with research methods that are appropriate to organizational improvement in a variety of settings, both for-profit and not-for- profit. Student ability to communicate through a variety of methods, including written (as in the statement of problem and recommendations) and visual communication (choosing the appropriate tools to present data collected), will be emphasized throughout the process. The final deliverable of the capstone seminar is a report detailing the professional leadership project.


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"We take every step possible to apprehend a suspect but really when an individual becomes assaultive, that risks the police officer's life, or someone else's," says Col. Mallard.
Federal Bureau of Investigation statistics show an upward trend in the number of assaults against officers in Alaska, while nationally, the numbers have decreased. In Alaska, from 2007 to 2010 (the most recent statistics available):
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The Anchorage Police department has had three officer-involved shootings this year and two were deadly. In June, an officer shot and killed 26 year-old Shane Tasi after Tasi approached the officer swinging a broken broom handle. A few weeks later, Harry Smith, 59, was shot and killed by two officers who believed the BB gun he was pointing at police to be real. After the incidents, APD spokesman Lt. Dave Parker detailed the priorities that officers take into consideration when they are in a dangerous situation.
"Our first priority is the preservation of innocent life. Second priority would be the preservation of officers' lives and the third priority would be the preservation even of the subject's lives that we're dealing with, who are acting out and creating the problem," says Parker.
The Office of Special Prosecutions and Appeals is investigating Friday's deadly shooting and the actions taken by the trooper involved.


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posted 19 Jan 2006 in Volume 9 Issue 5
Banking on collaboration
In a bid to encourage knowledge sharing in the legal department, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development developed an online tool to collect and disseminate legal information.
By Paul Byfield, legal information specialist, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Knowledge management (KM) can be a difficult concept to implement at the best of times. It depends on a combination of people, culture, management, budgets, technology and, most important of all, the willingness of teams and individuals to share their knowledge. If you can overcome all of these challenges, then implementing a KM project is easy
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is an international financial institution of more than 1,200 staff based in the City of London and 32 offices in 27 countries across Central and Eastern Europe and into Central Asia. It was established in May 1990 with a mandate to help build market economies and democracies in those countries.
The banks shareholders are the 60 member countries, which are not limited to Europe the US, Japan and Canada are major shareholders as well. The staff profile is also unique, with employees drawn from different member countries. This makes for a very culturally diverse organisation that is rich in both knowledge and expertise.
The background
The Office of the General Counsel (OGC) at the EBRD is the banks in-house legal department. It has the unenviable task of ensuring that the bank minimises its legal risks when making institutional or commercial decisions. This means that the lawyers 55 in total have to have full access to legal information in all 27 countries in which the EBRD operates; this is a huge task that cannot be undertaken without significant effort.
When I joined in 2000 it was obvious that the department, while keen to improve its KM infrastructure and processes, did not have all the necessary resources in place to capture the immense amount of knowledge retained by staff. The department already had a well-used system to manage its in-house documents and forms relating to the administration of operations, but it did not have a comprehensive system to share legal knowledge on different countries.
Nevertheless, these shortcomings were well-understood by senior managers in the department and the knowledge team therefore enjoyed genuine high-level support from the start. This made a real difference. Senior management was involved in shaping the early stages of our strategy, supporting technology implementations and providing feedback on demonstrations. We were also able to get advice from them with regard to internal processes and procedures.
This was valuable as the KM strategy that emerged was multi-faceted, involving consultation with staff, software procurement and, ultimately, the implementation of collaboration software to help various staff at the bank to share their knowledge more efficiently.
However, the high-level support we enjoyed did not necessarily make the KM implementation easy, given the comparative scale and complexity of the task. Lawyers tended to focus on their respective operational work and, while they were keen to improve their own country knowledge and KM environment, they did not feel that they had a lot of time to devote to departmental knowledge-sharing efforts.
This is a common KM problem. Obviously an important factor in the strategy was to convince them that KM was directly relevant to them and beneficial to their everyday work. Another key driver was the managements enthusiasm for publicising and marketing the departments legal knowledge to the rest of the bank and, ultimately, to an external audience.
Early success
The department already had some internal tools that we could use to publicise its new commitment to knowledge sharing and also to encourage the lawyers to play a greater role in shaping the outcome of the overall project. Each lawyer working on banking operations also has responsibility for one of the banks countries of operations; this means, among other things, that they are responsible for maintaining a digest of specific country law information.
These are fairly lengthy documents that provide a detailed overview of the legal environment in each country the EBRD operates. These documents are primarily used within the OGC to provide lawyers with answers to specific questions when working on banking operations.
However, at that time the staff in most other departments within the bank (for example, bankers, economists and environmental specialists) were largely unaware of the existence of these documents.
We thought that we would therefore start by putting them online and promoting them; it would be an ideal way to also publicise and promote the merits of KM in the organisation, without requiring a major up-front investment. The digests could also be used as an initial point of reference for the non-lawyers who wanted to check the legal background of a particular subject for example, the rights of company shareholders in Albania. The user would, therefore, be able to read the relevant section of the digest before consulting the lawyer for a more detailed analysis of the legal status and how it should be applied to the specific project.
The documents were added to the banks intranet (with the necessary caveats, of course) giving the department an almost immediate, but informative and authoritative, presence on the banks intranet a quick and easy win for the KM team and one that clearly demonstrated to all the positive role that KM could play.
This was a relatively straightforward process because we already had a finished product to work with; we did not have any incumbent technical or budgetary difficulties to overcome the intranet, ably managed by the banks web team, is a mature and well used product with a good level of coordination and maintenance. The bigger challenges came later on when we considered developing and implementing a system to enhance departmental knowledge sharing.
The project
The lawyers in the department work on a large number of deals throughout the year and have to be fully aware of the legal requirements of all 27 countries of operations; the banking operations lawyers are not specialists. That is to say, they do not solely work on projects in a given sector or country, but are given a wide portfolio of projects, so there is a lot of information that they need to absorb and use.
One of the main concerns considering this breadth of work is to ensure that lawyers do not have to re-invent the wheel and learn and re-learn information that might already be available in one form or another elsewhere in the organisation.
This was the crux of the departments wider KM initiative. Advice given by a lawyer, the information used and decisions made should be recorded and made quickly and easily available for use again by other lawyers. This process should be automatic (not necessarily in the technical sense) and, indeed, has since been shown to greatly enhance lawyers efficiency and improve the accuracy of their work.
After our early success with the country law digests, we realised that we had to formulate a comprehensive strategy (the KM action plan) to maintain momentum and embed KM more deeply within the department. This 16-point plan listed key tasks that needed to be implemented, the majority of which are ongoing initiatives. This meant that we had to define certain tasks and key messages, which would hopefully help encourage further support for our work, too. The messages had to set out tasks that could provide real benefit to the lawyers in their project and country-law work in order to gain their approval and support without that, the initiative would fail.
The main elements of the KM action plan included:
A review of current information resources;
An analysis of the different types of requests made by lawyers to establish what sources are needed;
Establishment of desktop access to core online-information products for lawyers;
The implementation of procedures to enhance collaboration with other information units in the bank.
In the past, KM has been considered by many non-practitioners and software vendors as a largely technology-based initiative requiring the investment of vast amounts of money to be successful. This belief was obviously very popular with IT directors, who normally took control of such projects, but our experience suggests otherwise. As previously stated, KM depends on a combination of people, culture, management, budgets, technology and most important the willingness of teams and individuals to share their knowledge. It is the people who are the key drivers in any knowledge-sharing exercise.
So, we started by interviewing all the lawyers as part of our KM action plan. This was not established as an isolated exercise, but has been carried out on an annual basis in a bid to gain their regular feedback and, ultimately, their ongoing support.
The lawyers were interviewed so that we could understand exactly how they work and what they needed in order to help them work most efficiently. We used this feedback to write a report to management with our findings and as the basis for the technical centrepiece of our strategy the design, implementation and content of a knowledge-sharing database, called OGCNet. This, we hoped, would act as the catalyst for further analysis and discussion for KM in the department and organisation.
As part of this initiative, we also needed to source the correct software to enhance the departments KM capabilities. This was driven by the need to look at a wide variety of systems (including existing in-house databases). The parameters were fairly narrow as we were restricted by budgetary constraints. However, after a fairly lengthy selection process, we tested and selected Lotus QuickPlace, IBMs collaboration tool, because we felt it fitted all of the criteria below:
A browser-based service;
A system that could be set up without any IT support;
Access via either the local area network (LAN), or over the internet with a username and password;
The ability for all documents on the system to be added to the database in full text or as attachments with an abstract for searching purposes;
The ability to create one central or main QuickPlace database, augmented by several (as many as required) collaboration work spaces;
Easy access at any time for users to the main QuickPlace database and as many work spaces as necessary (subject to security permissions, of course).
A small pilot group was established to participate in a two-month trial. This group included some less confident IT users so that we could test the systems user friendliness. The success of this trial, along with collaboration with other groups outside of the department who were also considering the implementation of knowledge-sharing tools, helped us to make a firm decision.
Once we had decided what software we were going to use, it took us a further six months to design and populate the database with a sufficient range of documents and data before we were able to market the service to users within the bank, and to start conducting training sessions. The database was named OGCNet, simply because we wanted something short and easy to remember.
The interviews with, and feedback from, the lawyers directly influenced the design of the system. What they wanted was something simple and easy to use nothing too flash. This feedback enabled us to implement the basic design with confidence and relative ease. Lotus QuickPlace itself is relatively straightforward to implement, too, although implementing the individual user needs and, in particular, taking care of security, took a little longer.
Naturally, OGCNet is browser-based for ease of use and management, with an underlying architecture that was kept as simple as possible. The simplicity of the system proved to be a popular aspect of it as the lawyers wanted to be able to find and retrieve the relevant information as quickly as possible.
This is the basic structure of OGCNet:
Home page;
Link to 27 countries of operations (then subdivided into five or six further types of information):
- Country-law website reference table;
- Legislation;
- Newsletters and other publications;
- OGC sources of information;
- EBRD/ non OGC sources of information;
- International treaties signed.
Other countries (for example, the UK, the US);
Subjects of interest to the lawyers:
- Arbitration;
- EU accession;
- International law;
- Money laundering;
- Telecommunications.
Regional and general newsletters.
The nature of the lawyers work was reflected in the design of the database; as stated, the lawyers provide legal support relating to banking operations in the banks 27 countries of operation. A section of the database was therefore dedicated to the storage of information for each country. This was further populated with pages representing specific types of information that the lawyers use on a weekly, monthly, quarterly or annual basis. The database was also subdivided into subject types, such as arbitration or European Union accession rules.
A vital knowledge-sharing component of the software is that it enables the user (with editor or manager level access) to notify a specific user or groups of users when they have updated the database with information. This aspect of the database encourages greater collaboration between the lawyers, the other project specialists and the KM team. It also enables the database to be used as a current awareness tool as well as a repository of up to date information.
The launch
The database was finally launched to the whole department in June 2003 by the general counsel of the EBRD, ensuring a high-visibility launch that generated interest not just throughout the department, but across the whole organisation.
To maximise feedback we used classroom-based training with groups of up to six staff members at each session. Each user had access to a PC and were able to follow on-screen training relating to access, navigation, searching, adding new information and notification procedures. By inviting feedback at the same time, we gleaned several suggestions from the lawyers about how we could improve OGCNet. The whole idea of training, in our view, is not just to indoctrinate the user but to gain feedback on how we can improve the system's design. Training in small groups was also a deliberate policy as people are often keener to ask questions and offer suggestions and criticism while working in small groups. We found this feedback invaluable.
As OGCNet is browser-based, we are also able to monitor usage using a tool that allows us to conduct statistical analysis of what users have been accessing and what they have not. In 2005 I was able to use this data to identify users who had not been using the database on a regular basis; this was due to a few reasons, either a lack of confidence when using IT systems or because they preferred to work in other more traditional ways.
As with most IT implementations, there was a flurry of use straight after the launch, followed by a noticeable dip after this initial phase. We wanted to try and minimise this by arranging further refresher training, again in small groups to encourage optimum feedback.
Current status
OGCNet is now a firmly established knowledge-sharing tool, both within the department and by a number of regular users in the rest of the bank. This wider use was the result of further marketing and training to users outside of the department for the purposes of expanding its scope, content and relevance. The usage statistics for 2005 demonstrate that the bank-wide marketing of OGCNet was a success there were 394 visitors to the database, 191 of those visited more than once with an average of 5.5 visits per user.
The project in its most tangible form (the construction and marketing of the database) has now been concluded, but there remains an ongoing KM initiative within the department. This is crucial to the department and should be important to any KM professionals working in complex international environments.
After OGCNet, we started working on a revision to the 27 country-law assessments (CLAs). These documents are concise country-based assessments of the banks five focus areas relating to legal reform (capital markets and corporate governance, concessions, insolvency, secured transactions, and telecommunications). This is an ongoing collaborative exercise involving several units and culminating in the publication of the CLAs on the banks website.
From the start of the KM project, we had to overcome some challenges, but very few of these were technical issues. The main challenges related to encouraging interest and maintaining enthusiasm for the project during implementation, training and the initial period of use. Implementing a KM project is never easy, but when faced with difficulties, the KM professional has to use the resources at his disposal to ensure that focus on the project is maintained and enthusiasm is not wasted. It is never a purely technical exercise and concentrating on the needs of individuals or groups of people who can have the most impact and input is an important and vital component of the task.
Paul Byfield is a legal information specialist at the European bank for Reconstruction and Development. He can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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In Lindsey's discussion about that trying.too.hard.to.be.funny.thus.failing.to.be.funny video promoting Save The Children's math literacy programmes (the discussion + video), Tom Murphy rightly points out that it's part of the 'simple narrative.'
I think that all development and aid marketing I've ever ever ever seen has been 'simple narrative.' I cannot think of an example of development marketing which does not fall into the simple narrative category.
1) if someone knows of an example of development marketing that isn't simple narrative and would be so kind as to paste the link, I'd love to see it.
2) how do we move development/aid marketing past the simple narrative? (and if you say 'we can't/won't because it's what our donors want...', then I'll think uncomplimentary things about you and donors)
Tags: A World Without Math, Aid Marketing, Save the Children, Simple Narrative
A new ODI study points towards people wanting to hear newer stories.From the Guardian today:
[T]he report urged policymakers and campaigners to confront head on the weakening of public support for current aid levels, which reflects growing scepticism about the effectiveness of UK aid programmes. The report found that efforts by the Department for International Development (DfID) to justify aid programmes on grounds of self-interest rather than moral worth did not resonate with the public.
The report yielded other unexpected findings: a strong desire for stories on how developing countries achieve progress and how aid works (or does not work), and a distaste for images depicting only starvation or those in desperate need.
The report said participants at workshops were most engaged when they heard stories about progress and were intrigued to know more about how change had taken place. "Hearing 'good news stories' about the progress of countries like Vietnam and Brazil in addressing hunger sparked a positive interest in many participants, leading to questions about how this had been achieved," the report said.
that feels to me like a simple exchange of one 'simple narrative' for another. the exchange of simplistic explanations of poverty or 'the problem' (that dumb math video, for example), for simplistic explanations of success ('good news stories' of success in Brazil*, for example).
*Brazil? Really?
1) I'm guessing it exists somewhere... (I haven't completely lost hope in all humanity yet)... but you/we likely don't know of it because it's buried or forgotten or or or or or.... What we see/hear/read has to get to us in some way or another. Traditionally, that way is marketing or media in small doses or large. Would be cool if exceptional aid marketing got as much mainstream attention as say... young American entrepreneurs. Also keen to see examples if anyone can recall any.
2) I wouldn't want you thinking uncomplimentary things about me so I'll reserve to keep my comments to myself. But that is to say -- we are at the same party.
1) I, too, want to believe that it exists. But then again, to paraphrase Richard Dawkins out of context, if you say something exists, then the onus of proving that it exists rests with you. Short of that, you can assume that it doesn't exist.
2) I personally think that moving development marketing out of 'simple narrative' mode will require us to intentionally market in ways which do not resonate with donors. Not because we want to not resonate with donors as a matter of general principle, but because if we continue to base development marking on surveys and studies about what donors want, we'll continue to be steered towards 'simple narrative.'
1) If we're going to paraphrase anyone out of context, can't it be Darwin? I recall something about how false facts hinder the progress of science... but false views, when supported with evidence, harm not for all men commend the pleasure of proving their falseness. // One issue I've long had with marketing is there is such a selection of numbers and data that it's not difficult to find some evidence that what is being done is good, even if the majority of evidence proves the opposite. Who decides what data or proof is shared and what isn't? The marketers. (I feel I may have lost my point here except to say that a little proof doesn't make the question answered.)
2) Oh, definitely. I see everyday the ramifications of the past 10 years' simple narrative marketing. Except now we get a fine blend of philanthropic capitalism, celebrity endorsement, and Twitter news bits that were far less visible a decade ago. I fear the world we live in will only continue to evolve in this way... it's easier for me to think of it as the "stretch" narrative... simply stretched. Our breaking point, then, is more like a ripping point -- how long and how far can we be stretched before we rip?
Question: how does aid marketing compare to other marketing in different countries in terms of selling a simple narrative?
For context, I live in a country that has a sophisticated media market where simplistic aid narratives often look silly compared to commercial marketing, which, for example, regularly uses political commentary to sell chicken. For some reason aid marketing people here are still stuck on the simple narrative. Having spent less time in developed countries, I wondered if the same was true?
Claire - that's an interesting question. I'm sure that culture plays a role in how marketing/advertising/salesmanship happens. But in the case of aid and development marketing, I *suspect* that there's not really all that much variation between the USA (where I'm based), and where you are (So. Africa, right?). The reason, I think, goes back to two things:
1) What you said really well in your post about when aid gets personal. Donors want to believe that it's all about them. For whatever reason(s) we (the aid industry) seem unwilling to systematically disabuse them of that perspective.
2) Continued unwillingness on the part of the general population to see aid/development as a profession, preferring, instead, to see it as a hobby that (for example) high school students can have a go at during spring break...
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Way back in the"olden" days,"you know, around 2006, people were often mysteriously let go from their high ranking positions at a company. That is, as opposed to today's more sweeping layoffs and "right-sizing"of businesses. It would frequently be said that the person in the corner office was leaving to "pursue other interests,"or that he or she wanted to "spend more time with their family." Or, as I used to say, "gone fishin'."
The cultural reality of our American lives is that they are designed around achievement. I'm not saying that this is a bad thing, but it can be bad if it is the only thing. We seek to better ourselves and to climb various ladders, be they social, educational, class related, and of course, the most rewarded one, corporate ladders. This doesn't just mean business; you want to see an intensely competitive and cutthroat environment? Try academia.
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Located in the north of Tenerife in lively Puerto de la Cruz, H10 Tenerife Playa hotel has two pools, is opposite the Lago Martiánez swimming complex, and also very close to the sea.
The following optional excursions should be available during your holiday, although the inclusions and availability may change from time to time due to weather, local conditions and demand. Please see your Saga representative for full details of which excursions are available during your stay.
Visit the tropical Butterfly Garden, with almost 100 species of butterflies from every continent. There is also a larva reproduction facility where each stage of development can be seen.
Continue to the ancient town of Orotava, where you visit two botanical gardens. El Jardín de Aclimatación de la Orotava is the oldest botanical garden on the island, established in 1788 by order of King Carlos III. Plants from the Spanish colonies were tried out here first to assess their value before sending elsewhere. Among the economic species acclimatised in the garden are tropical fruit trees. The Little Botanic Garden is a small informal mature green oasis.
Enjoy a drive along the scenic Orotava Valley to the famous Humboldt viewing point. This takes its name from Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), a hugely influential German naturalist who visited the Canary Islands in 1799. His writings were a great influence on Charles Darwin and other later travellers.
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You enjoy a tour of the village, and afterwards have free time for exploring on your own.
Take an exciting ocean cruise to see dolphins in their natural habitat.
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Augustine said, "Thou hast made us for thyself, and the heart of man is restless until it finds rest in Thee." It has always been true that "naught but God can satisfy the soul."
I never forget that preachers are people, too. We are dealing with current events, death, grief, temptations and the grace of God. Our message is the greatest news in the world.
Dorothy Sayers once challenged the clergy by reminding us that "we have the best and greatest good news on earth, and some treat it as if it is good for nothing and cast it aside. Let us never forget that God moves in mysterious ways, His wonders to perform." No matter what we think and believe, God will prevail and the victory will be ours if we are faithful to him.
Micah tells us, "He hath showed thee, O man, what is good, and what the Lord requires of thee, but to do justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God." (Micah 6:8) Let that be our guide. Though most of the news is bad, let us never forget that "with God all things are possible."
The Connecticut school shooting tragedy, that took away innocent children, will be remembered for years to come.
Twelve beautiful girls and eight promising boys were killed, and were taken from the arms of those who loved them. Twenty children died.
Jesus said, "Let the little children come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the Kingdom of God." Let us take comfort in the fact that they are in the presence of God. We cannot bring them back, but we can go to see them when our life is over in this world of trials and tribulations.
Children running, children singing, children learning, children playing is normal, but children dying was never a plan of God. Take comfort in knowing that all their fears and tears will be taken from them, because they will be with God.
Marcus Cornelius wrote: "Not now, but in the coming years; it may be in the better land, we'll read the meaning of our tears, and there, sometime, we'll understand. Then trust in God thro' all thy days, fear not, for He doth hold thy hand; though dark the way, still sing and praise, sometime, sometime, we'll understand. Why what we long for most of all, eludes so oft our eager hand; why hopes are crushed and castles fall, up there, sometime, we'll understand."
Life on earth has been exciting and wonderful, but we know that the best is yet to be. I suspect all of us have questions we would like to ask God. When life on earth is over we will have eternity to ask questions. When we get there and see our Lord, all our crazy questions will melt away! When we see His face all our questions will be answered. God is love. There is nothing greater than love.
There were heroes who saved the lives of children by giving their own lives. I do not know their names, but God knows, and I thank God for them. The Bible tells us, "This is my commandment, that you love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." (John 15:12,13) We thank God for those who gave their lives to save the children. God knows who they were.
The Lord must have said to those brave women who gave their lives to save the children, "Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful ... I will make thee ruler over many things, enter into the joy of thy Lord." (Matthew 25:21) Let us always do our best and we will enter into the joy of the Lord. These women are now in the presence of the King.


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Days on Market | 28 | Last Updated | 5/22/2013 |
Garage Spaces | 2.0 | Status | Active |
Total Parking | 2 | Walk Score ® | 18 |
Property Type(s) | Residential, Single Family |
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Parking Type | Garage - Double |
Property Type | Single Family |
Style | Rancher |
Sub Area | Z2 Crown Isle |
Title | Freehold |
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A new website designed to connect Maryland voters with elected officials in an online town hall will host its public beta launch January 30.
College Park, MD (PRWEB) January 30, 2013
Just as the Maryland General Assembly has begun its latest session, MyMaryland.net is proud to announce the site's public beta launch. The site is in its final stages of development and is ready to be used by the general public. MyMaryland had a successful soft launch last month, inviting stakeholders to preview the site.
MyMaryland.net is designed for voters to engage with Maryland elected officials in the efforts of creating a more open government. When users register for an account and enter their address, MyMaryland scans the Maryland Voter Registration File to verify them as registered voters. They are then linked to information pages for their elected officials.
Users are able to post in forums about their representatives. Elected officials are given the opportunity to engage directly with constituents by creating polls and participating in online discussions.
23-year-old MyMaryland.net Founder, Ben Simon, began designing the site with fellow University of Maryland students after identifying a need for a more transparent government. After months of planning and web development, their vision is a reality.
"It's incredibly exciting to see the site attract its first user," says Simon, "we view MyMaryland as a tool to completely transform the way constituents interact with officials and anticipate that the site launch will facilitate the creation of upcoming legislation."
MyMaryland.net has already met with 55 elected officials and has received extremely positive feedback. MyMaryland is hopeful that both constituents and elected officials use the site as a tool to create a more effective government.
"Lawmakers need to hear more input on more issues more often. Communication between representatives and residents is critical to making government work," says Delegate Tom Hucker (D-Dist. 20), "and sites like MyMaryland.net are a great way to foster better communication."
MyMaryland.net has raised over $65,000 of seed funding to date, as well as $120,000 a year in advertising support from Google.
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poor little guy just freaks out when you get to a certain spot on his back. no blood, he's not chewing the hair off. makai said his little dog is the exact same way when he gets a tick on him.
guess i'll have to immobilize him and have a look
immobilizing tiger is no easy feat!
i think tiger has a tick on him
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well, i actually left the day after the tick incident so i am just getting reports. not sure if it was a tick, forest said that there is just a little black scab now that he can actually investigate with out getting his hand mauled. maybe there was one and he chewed it off
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Unbeknownst to us when we made Jessica Sanders our January 30th Artist of the Week was that Jessica's studio is actually located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn; just a speedy subway ride from GN8 HQ. So after a couple of email exchanges, violà! A studio visit was born. Here's a glimpse into our memorable drop in.
As sunlight seeped through the ceiling windows, illuminating the bare white walls and buttery hints of beeswax, Nate and I realized that Jessica Sanders' studio is much like her work: quiet, airy and honest.
As Jessica walked us through the space, she told us that the main intent of her work is to let her mediums, often wood, canvas, and wax, try to speak for themselves. "I feel that the more my hand is removed, the better the work is," she explained. When asked what inspires her work or process Sanders replied that "In a way I find myself to be a kindred spirit with artists of the 60′s and 70′s such as Eva Hesse because of the sensitivity in their work and the attention to the materials." Some fine examples of that concept are shown below:
As the visit progressed, Nate and I were encouraged to examine and even touch different types of waxes and silicons already applied to various works. We discovered that the beeswax samples were very smooth and solid, while silicon was tacky and resistant to the movement of our fingertips. Sanders, who was originally a ceramics major, said that she "likens these materials to clay because they are malleable and respond to the heat of our hands."
Speaking of heating up, Jessica melts her wax by placing a sealed metal bucket (obviously containing wax) on a freestanding hot-plate – a convenient process which she thought-up. Funnily enough, when the hot-plate is activated, the wax inside the bucket begins to contract/expand, making the metal bucket wobble around quite a bit. To me, it ends up looking like an angry little robot waking up from a long slumber. Check it out:
Jessica told us that she once had about 20 hot-plates on at the same time, "it was like an army of charging buckets," she laughed. Wish we could have seen that! Here are some more studio shots:
As for upcoming events, Jessica will be participating in a group show with fellow artists Jason Mones and Ryan Estep at the Curbs and Stoops Active Space (566 Johnson Ave., 2nd Fl, Brooklyn, NY) this spring/summer. Taking place during Bushwick Open Studios, the show will open with a reception June 1st and run until July 1st.
I should also mention that Jessica is among 36 artists selected by the Bronx Museum of the Arts to participate in their Artist in the Marketplace Program (AIM) this year. Created in 1980, AIM strives to bring exposure and networking opportunities to young artists living and working in NYC. A curated, biannual exhibition of the participating artists will take place early 2013. More info to come as the year progresses.
Jessica Sanders is an artist and MFA graduate from Ohio State University. Originally from Florida, she now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
To see more of Jessica's work, check out her website or GN8PROJECT's Artist of the Week post in January.
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I have a requirement that I need to send a message to a TCP client that connects to the SI server periodically say via tcp inbound gateway. There is no way for the SI server to initiate a connection to the device. I would like to place a message onto a channel via a simple gateway and have this message routed to the device when it connects. Until the device connects to the server the message should remain in the system. Each message will be for a particular device and the device is known by a device ID which the device sends to the server when it connects.
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Eugene L. Strever
GUILDERLAND — Eugene L. Strever was a man who made deep and long-lasting commitments. He was married for 64 years; he worked at General Electric for 44 years; and he was a long-time member of several community organizations.
"He was a very good father. He was always there for you," said his daughter, Betty Strever.
Mr. Strever died on Monday, Dec. 31, 2012, at Ellis Hospital in Schenectady.
Born Jan. 15, 1922 in Johnstown, N.Y., he was the son of the late Leon and Ida Mae Rivenburg Strever.
He served in the United States Army during World War II and was honorably discharged in 1945.
Although Mr. Strever didn't talk much about his war years, his daughter knew he had served on a medical ship. Once, when he was asked if he'd like to go on a cruise, he said, "I spent enough time on a boat," she recalled.
Mr. Strever married his wife, Marion, on Jan. 15, 1942. "He always said he got married on his birthday so he'd never forget it," said his daughter.
She went on to say that her parents were "like two peas in a pod." Ms. Strever said of her mother, "She was always with him."
She gave the example of their work with the Fort Hunter Volunteer Fire Company, of which Mr. Strever was a charter member. "She was in the auxiliary…When I was small," said Ms. Strever, "they'd work on the turkey raffle. They'd go to meetings. They did everything together."
Mr. Strever was known for the clambakes he put on to raise money for the fire company. He was also a member of the Fisher United Methodist Church in Rotterdam, and the Rotterdam Elks, and the GE Quarter Century Club.
Mr. Strever worked as an assembler at General Electric in Schenectady for 44 years, retiring in 1982. "He was in the big-motor department," said his daughter.
At the same time he worked for GE, Mr. Strever ran his own trucking and snowplowing business, Strever's Trucking. He would do trucking and plowing on shifts when he wasn't working at GE, and on the weekends, Ms. Strever said; his wife worked in the business with him.
The couple first raised their family — two girls and two boys — in a farmhouse on West Lydius Street in Guilderland. Mr. Strever then built a modern ranch-style house on the same property.
"He liked to garden," said his daughter. Mrs. Strever would can the produce her husband raised. "He would grind the peppers to make the chili and cut off the corn on the cob so it could be canned," Ms. Strever said, describing the way her parents worked together.
Ms. Strever raised her daughter, Tammy, in the ranch-style West Lydius Street house and Tammy, in turn, raised her sons there.
"They were his joy," Ms. Strever said of how her father loved his great-grandchildren. "They played games and watched TV together," she said.
Ms. Strever concluded of her father, "He cared for you. He would do anything for you."
Eugene L. Strever is survived by his four children, Shirley Van Alstine and her husband, Bill, of Georgia, Eugene Strever Jr. of Rotterdam, Donald Strever of Rotterdam Junction, and Betty Strever and her companion, James Passenger, of Guilderland; four grandchildren, Shelley Onorati and her husband, Mark, Sharyn Eckert and her husband, Michael, Tammy Strever, and Richard Van Alstine and his wife, Kim, and eight great-grandchildren, Anthony Strever, Austin Onorati, Alex Onorati, Derek Strever, Aurora VanAlstine, J.P. Whiting, Crystal Whiting, and Dakota Rose Eckert.
In addition to his parents, his wife of 64 years, Marion Strever, died before him. His grandson Thomas Jubrey died on Aug. 31, 1970 and his great-grandson Dylan Strever died on Dec. 4, 2000.
The family thanks the staff at Ellis Hospital A-5 and also the staff of the Community Hospice for their care and compassion.
No service was held; burial will be in Prospect Hill Cemetery in Guilderland. Arrangements are by the DeMarco-Stone Funeral Home.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Fort Hunter Volunteer Fire Department, 3525 Carman Rd., Schenectady NY 12303.
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Other stores are considering moving into the area but the city will not disclose the names of these stores until an official application has been filed.
Von Maur will be located near the former Menards, in the town of Brookfield.
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David Zucker Reunites with 'Airplane' Star for Wisconsin Tourism Spot
Hollywood movie director David Zucker and actor Robert Hays assured reporters Monday they were serious about a new commercial spot aimed at boosting the state's tourism, and promised comedic hijinks.
When actor Robert Hays, known most notably for his role in the cult classic "Airplane!," was asked to join director and producer David Zucker in Wisconsin for a new commercial spot aimed at driving tourists to the state, he said, "Surely, you can't be serious."
"Thirty-two years since we worked together (in 'Airplane!') and I thought, 'Shoot, why not come out here and push ourselves on Wisconsin,'" Hays said. "Make you guys miserable for a few days."
Hays and Zucker, joined by state Tourism Secretary Stephanie Klett and Gov. Scott Walker, announced the new commercial, cracked jokes and spit quips during a press conference Monday.
Zucker, a Shorewood native who has directed, produced and written some of the most successful comedy films over the past three decades, including the last two installments of "Scary Movie," "The Naked Gun" series, "Ruthless People" and "Airplane!," said he will start filming the commercial Tuesday in Eagle River, WI.
"I'm pretty sure when this commercial shoot is over, it will be another 32 years before we do this again," Zucker joked.
The commercial will be the second state tourism ad that Zucker has directed. Last winter, he directed a TV spot at Milwaukee's Riverside Theater. It featured the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra performing a concert and breaking into a snowball fight.
"David made a symphony orchestra look undignified in our winter TV spot. Just imagine what he's going to do when we let him loose on one of our Northwood's lakes," said Klett.
In the new spot that is expected to air next summer, Zucker said Hays will play a fisherman named Ted on a lake. Hays played a character named Ted Striker, an ex-fighter pilot with a fear of flying, in "Airplane!"
"He's going to get into some trouble with casting his line, and one thing will lead to another," Zucker said of Hays' role in the spot. "The last line of the commercial will be, 'You don't need any special skills to enjoy Wisconsin.'"
Walker said it's a privilege for the state to help reunite Hays and Zucker.
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Genius! I can't wait to see this commercial. I may have to pop in "Airplane!" tonight just for a few laughs!
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