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Conference Announcements, Employment and Grants
Conference Announcements
Date and Venue of the ASPS 2015 Updated
Dear Colleagues, please note that a number of logistic challenges have led us to change the venue of the forthcoming ASPS 2015 Convention. ASPS is one of the only organizations of its kind that partners with local hosts in the Persianate cultural world for its biennial conventions, and we are proud to have established a distinguished history of collaboration with colleagues and hosts in the Persianate realm. We appreciate your patience as we have made the final arrangements for 2015.
We are delighted to inform you that with the generous sponsorship and collaboration of the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University (Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi) (MSGSÜ), the date and venue of ASPS 2015 are now confirmed: The Seventh Biennial Convention of the ASPS will be held September 8-11, 2015 at the Fındıklı campus of the Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts, in Istanbul, Turkey. The university is housed in a former Ottoman palace located on the banks of the Bosporus.
Given our unique set of circumstances this year, we have extended the deadline for the submission of abstracts to November 15th, 2014. Please check out the preliminary web-page of the Seventh ASPS Biennial Convention (Istanbul 2015), through which you can continue to access our online abstract submission form: http://persianatesocieties.org/index.php/asps-istanbul-2015)
The ASPS Board of Directors and its Organizing Committees look forward to seeing you at the MSGSÜ in Istanbul in September 2015!
IMPAcT Final Year Dissertation Write-up Fellowships in 13th to 16th century Islamicate Intellectual History
IMPAcT Final Year Dissertation Write-up Fellowships in 13th to 16th century Islamicate Intellectual History
Applications are invited for Final Year Dissertation Write-up Fellowships in 13th to 16th century Islamicate Intellectual History as part of the ERC Project IMPAcT, to commence on 1 October 2014 for one year. Three grants are available for scholars who are in the process of completing a dissertation on a topic relevant for 13th to 16th century Islamicate intellectual history (Philosophy, Theology, Sufism, the whole range of the so-called occult sciences, political thought, legal theory, and adjacent areas). The Fellowship provides a stipend that is intended to permit full-time work on the dissertation, without reliance on part-time employment. Fellows will be expected to give a termly presentation on their research in progress at the IMPAcT workshops as part of a research team comprising Professor Judith Pfeiffer, three post-doctoral researchers, and three doctoral students (http://impact.orient.ox.ac.uk/).
Candidates must have, by the time of the appointment, completed all course work (ABD) and must have sufficiently advanced in researching their thesis in a relevant field of study to be able to complete the dissertation during the year of their fellowship. If the thesis is written in a language other than English, the Fellow shall commit to publishing one article in English that is related to his or her dissertation subject.
The Fellow will have a strong command of at least one of the languages Arabic, Persian, or Turkish, and reading knowledge of a second, and should have a reading knowledge of at least one European language other than English; a thorough understanding of Islamic social and political history of the period; sufficient palaeographical skills to work with Islamic manuscripts; good written and oral communication skills; good skills and experience in teamwork; and good planning and time management skills. The criteria for selection are outstanding performance and scholarly promise, and the likelihood that the student will complete his/her dissertation within 12 months of the start date of the fellowship.
Applications are welcome from students both at Oxford University and at any other accredited international institution of higher education. Applicants from other institutions will have recognised student status at Oxford University (http://www.ox.ac.uk/students/new/recognised), but will continue to work with their main supervisor and dissertation committee throughout the fellowship, and will submit their thesis to their home university. As per ERC stipulations, Fellowship holders are required to acknowledge the support of this grant appropriately in their dissertation and ensuing publications.
All candidates are expected to pay student fees at the regular rates. Successful non-Oxford candidates will be required to pay the relevant fees (http://www.ox.ac.uk/feesandfunding/fees/information/universityrates/201415recognisedstudents/), and international students must be able to obtain a student visa, for which they will receive support from Graduate Admissions. These grants cannot be held in conjunction with AHRC or equivalent grants.
Grant value: £23,997 pa.
Start date: 1 October 2014.
Fellows are expected to reside for the most part in Oxford for the duration of the fellowship.
- Curriculum vitae;
- Cover letter with a research outline;
- Title and Table of contents of the thesis;
- 2 letters of reference, one of which must be by the main thesis supervisor. The letter of the main supervisor ought to comment on the current state of the thesis, and the dates by when it is expected to be completed, as well as the date when it is expected to be defended.
Short-listed candidates will be asked to submit a piece of sample writing, which can be a published article, a chapter of the thesis, or another relevant writing sample.
Closing date for applications is 12 noon on Wednesday 20 August 2014.
Pars Inaugural Art and Lecture Series
Piano Concert: Ariana Barkeshli
Lecture: Parvaneh Pourshariati
Converging on the Object: The Courtauld Metal Bag
09.30 – 17.45, Saturday 10 May 2014
Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN
Converging on the Object: The Courtauld Metal Bag symposium is part of the Research Forum programming at The Courtauld Institute of Art and takes place towards the closing of The Courtauld Gallery's exhibition Court and Craft: A Masterpiece from Northern Iraq, 20 February - 18 May 2014.
The Courtauld metal bag directs our attention to its materiality, the way it was made and the manner in which it connects a historical past to a vibrant visual present. It directs our attention to broad cultural geographies asking us to consider it through diverse scholarly and artistic disciplinary fields. The symposium Converging on the Object: The Courtauld Metal Bag brings together speakers who will reflect on their close study of the object itself and who will consider the evidence of transcultural thinking in the time and place of the bag's making: the post-Mongol period of the Il- Khanid court culture in the early 14th-century Iran and Iraq. Papers on trade, material culture, food, fashions, art and social habits, belief systems, cultural and political circumstances of patronage are lenses through which we come to reflect on aspects of the cultural lives of the people of Damascus, Mosul, Baghdad and Tabriz — major urban centres during the reign of the Il-khanids and their neighbours in the Eastern Mediterranean — as well as on the links with their Yuan-Mongol contemporaries in China.
Ticket/Entry Details: £16 (£11 students, Courtauld staff/students, concessions). BOOK ONLINE: http://ci.tesseras.com/internet/shop or send a cheque made payable to 'The Courtauld Institute of Art' to: Research Forum Events Co-ordinator, Research Forum, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN, stating your full name and 'Converging on the Object'.
Organised by Dr Sussan Babaie (The Courtauld Institute of Art).
For more info, please click here.
International Qajar Studies Association (IQSA): 14th Annual Conference
May 30th-31st, 2014
Bamberg, Germany
Call for Papers:
Festival Cinema Invisible
Roshan Institute for Persian Studies Presents…
For more information on tickets and the list of films, please visit the following websites:
Main website: http://cinemainvisible.com/
Roshan Institute Website: http://sllc.umd.edu/events/festival-cinema-invisible
Eastern Iran and Transoxiana 750 - 1150 Conference
Persianate culture and Islamic civilisation
8th & 9th March 2013 @ University of St Andrews
A conference hosted by Institute for Iranian Studies/University of St Andrews in association with Medieval Institute/University of Notre Dame
For more information and the conference program please click here.
ASMEA Travel Grants for Persianate Society Studies
The Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) is pleased to introduce the ASMEA Travel Grant Program for interested Ph.D. students, post-Docs, and junior faculty engaged in the study of Persianate societies or any facet of these regions. Funds provided through this program may be used to cover expenses associated with attending the ASMEA Sixth Annual Conference to be held in Washington, D.C. on November 21 – 23, 2013.
As in years past, our conference will be an excellent opportunity for professors and students to present their research, hear from leading thinkers, and network in our nation's capital. Applications and proposals to present new, unpublished research are being accepted now. The deadline for applications is April 30th.
ASPS Board and Business Meetings and the Reception
Board of Director's Meeting (open only to the Board Members):
Time: Saturday Nov. 17th 2:00-3:00 pm
Venue: Director's Row G, Plaza 1
Business Meeting (open to all-Members)
Time: Saturday Nov. 17th 3:00-4:00 pm
Venue: Sheraton Denver, Governor's Square 9, Plaza-C
Please make a point of coming to the Business Meeting of your Association with queries and suggestions, and to be further informed of the activities of ASPS, or simply to say hello!
Reception: Come celebrate with us!
Time: Sunday Nov. 18th 8:30-10:30
Venue: Sheraton Denver, Governors Square 11
The Sixth Biennial Convention of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies (ASPS)
September 2-6, 2013
Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Call for Papers:
The Association for the Study of Persianate Societies (ASPS) calls for the participation of its members in its Sixth Biennial Convention, to take place in place in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, September 2-6, 2013. The Oriental Institute of Sarajevo (http://www.ois.unsa.ba/) and the Bosniac Institute (http://www.bosnjackiinstitut.ba/home/sadrzaj/191), located a short distance from the old town, will host and help organize our meeting. The deadline for submission of abstracts is February15, 2013. Following tradition, the ASPS will cover accommodation, food and events during the meeting. We will likely have a limited number of fellowships available for participants from Central Asia, Iran, Afghanistan, Armenia and Georgia.
All humanities and social science disciplines related to Persianate Societies are welcome. We encourage pre-organized panels, but individual papers are also welcome. Submissions for pre-organized panels must include a panel abstract of no more than 300 words plus individual abstracts of no more than 300 words for each panelist. Panels must be limited to a minimum of three panelists and a maximum of four. Panels and individual abstracts must contain:
Address E-mail address/fax no./phone no.
Title of paper and abstract with clearly stated thesis
For pre-organized panels, panel abstract with a clearly stated thesis plus individual abstracts
Please send abstracts in Word document format through electronic mail to:
Prof. Rudi Matthee,
History Department, University of Delaware
We are very enthusiastic about holding the Sixth Biennial Congress of the Association in Sarajevo. For more than six centuries, Sarajevo and Bosnia-Herzegovina, as well as the larger region of the Balkans, have boasted strong currents of Persianate culture that have remained unknown to most us. As a part of the ancient Mediterranean, Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Balkans are also rich in monuments related to Mithraic cults that bear testimony to the region's much older ties with the larger Iranian ecumene.
We look forward to an exciting sixth convention in Sarajevo. Past conventions of the ASPS have been held in Dushanbe/Tajikistan (2002); Yerevan/Armenia (2004); Tbilisi/Georgia (2007); Lahore/ Pakistan (2009), and finally, Hyderabad/India (2012). We invite you to peruse through notices of these, as well as their programs, through our web page at http://www.persianatesocieties.org.
The ASPS Congresses have provided a rare and valued opportunity for scholars from West, Central and South Asia, Europe and North America to participate in an interdisciplinary dialogue. The interchange of ideas has also found its place in our publication, Journal of Persianate Societies, published by Brill Academic Publishers. We encourage you to take the opportunity to participate in this unique gathering.
Persianate Societies: Invitation to Middle East Dialogue 2013
The Policy Studies Organization invites your organization to participate in its annual Middle East Dialogue 2013, focused on "New Directions in the Middle East", to be held at the historic Whittmore House in Washington DC on Thursday, February 21, 2013. We hope you and your colleagues will be able to join and contribute to the discussions. The meeting aims to ignite a multi-disciplinary dialogue, and we are very interested in having the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies become a part of it. Your organization's work towards advancing knowledge of Persian societies, would be a valuable contribution to what we see as a necessary dialogue concerning international affairs in that part of the world. Please pass along the invitation to anyone within or affiliated to your organization, who may be interested.
The Middle East Dialogue is a gathering of scholars, civic, and business leaders, with a common interest on policy issues in the Middle East. The event focuses on issues such as education initiatives, social, economic, and political reforms, nuclear proliferation, interfaith dialogue, women's gains and challenges, peace initiatives, civil society and NGOs, and potential areas of conflict. Others will be welcome. The purpose of the conference is to promote a productive and continuous dialogue surrounding current policy concerns, while providing a civil space for discussion across the political and religious spectrum. We encourage you to visit the conference website for information regarding proposal submission, registration, and further details about the Middle East Dialogue 2013. (http://www.ipsonet.org/conferences/middle-east-dialogue)
The Policy Studies Organization publishes 11 journals, which includes the Digest of the Middle East Studies (DOMES), and 3 book series. Our mission is to encourage discussion surrounding policy issues, and promote further research and dissemination of policy scholarship.
The International Conference of Iranian Studies
"Power of Identity. The Persian World in Research"
15-16 April 2013
Warsaw, Poland
Faculty of Oriental Studies
University of Warsaw
Call for Papers
Deadline for submission: November 15, 2012.
For further information please follow the link: http://www.orient.uw.edu.pl/web-iran/conferences
1st Biennial Graduate Conference on Iranian Studies at the University of St Andrews, 13-14 April 2013
Deadline for submissions: October 15, 2012
Call for Papers
Symposia Iranica invites proposals for individual papers, pre-arranged panels, and poster presentations that relate to any aspect of Iranian studies.
These include (but are by no means limited to): literature, political science, philosophy, anthropology, religions and theology, geography, sociology, archaeology, music, history of art, architecture, international relations, education, history, linguistics, Diaspora studies, new media and communication studies, film, and the performing arts. Interdisciplinary papers are also very welcome.
Submissions are welcomed from the following:
- final year undergraduates;
- postgraduates;
- doctoral candidates; and
- post-docs who graduated within three calendar years of the submission deadline.
All abstracts will be peer-reviewed and successful applicants will be notified about acceptance of their proposals by 1st December 2012. We also hope to publish selected conference papers.
Applicants for papers and panels are warmly encouraged to compliment their proposals with a poster presentation.
More Information
For details on the conference, FAQs, news and submissions, please visit http://www.symposia-iranica.com.
Join us on Facebook! http://www.facebook.com/SymposiaIranica.
Symposia Iranica is a large, unthemed international graduate conference. It seeks to challenge, nourish, and encourage current and future generations of scholars in Iranian studies by showcasing the best and latest research undertaken by students across the field.
Seminario de Iranología" of the University of Alicante (Spain)
Russian Orientalism to Soviet Iranology: The Persian-speaking world and its history through Russian eyes Call For Papers
St Antony's College, University of Oxford, Convened by Professor Edmund Herzig and Dr Stephanie Cronin Supported by the Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute
Conference Dates:
November, 30 2012
The Soviet Union possessed a long tradition of Iranian Studies, a tradition which it inherited from imperial Russia but transformed to suit its sense of its own historical mission. This tradition had its origins within the framework of Russian Orientalism as this developed during the nineteenth century age of imperial expansion. After 1921, under the auspices of the new Soviet regime, Iranology grew into an extensive and well-organized field, producing large quantities of books and articles every year. Despite the reputation acquired by individual Russian scholars of Iran such as Vladimir Minorsky, this tradition of scholarship remains largely unknown in the West. Little has been translated and Russian is not conventionally seen as a language necessary for scholars of Iran. This workshop proposes a re-examination of this tradition, taking, as its disciplinary focus, Russian/Soviet historical research on Iran and the Persian-speaking world. It has three objectives. It seeks to acquaint a wider audience in western Europe and the US with the work of Russian/Soviet scholars of the history of Iran and the Persian-speaking world; to initiate a discussion of possible new directions in historical research on this region opened up by the wider availability of Russian source materials, and to begin to integrate an analysis of Russian/Soviet Iranian Studies into the critique of Russian Orientalism, derived from Edward Said, which has emerged since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Deadline for submissions: March 30, 2012
Twelfth International Qajar Studies Association (IQSA) Conference Boston, May 24-25, 2012
St Women in the Qajar Era: A Conference Organized Jointly by IQSA and Boston University, Boston, Mass.
Conference Dates:
May 24-25, 2012
Begin Times: Both days 9:30 am
For further questions regarding the Conference and Call for Papers, please contact directly Conference Chair:
Board and Business Meeting at MESA 2012
Employment Opportunities
Associate/Full Professor – Chair
The Ohio State University
The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (NELC)
Associate/Full Professor – Chair
The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at The Ohio State University invites applications and nominations for the position of tenured Full or Associate Professor and Department Chair, to begin August 2013. The field of specialization is open. Candidates should demonstrate a distinguished record of scholarship and an international reputation, excellence in teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, and a strong commitment to interdisciplinarity. Successful candidates should have considerable administrative experience, the ability to work across disciplines, and the vision to lead a thriving multidisciplinary department at a Research I university. With a faculty of fifteen and over thirty graduate students and lecturers, the department is one of the largest and most successful in the field, offering robust undergraduate as well as M.A. and Ph.D. programs. An extensive curriculum in Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Turkish, Ancient Semitic languages as well as Hindi, Urdu and Uzbek is complemented by offerings in literature, religion and culture from the ancient to contemporary eras. The university is home to a Title VI Middle East Studies Center, which offers financial, institutional and curricular support for research and teaching. In addition, the university has a top-20 research library, which holds one of the largest Middle Eastern and Judaic collections in the country. Applicants should send a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, and three letters of reference to Sebastian Knowles, NELC Chair Search Committee Coordinator, The College of Arts & Sciences, The Ohio State University, 114 University Hall, 230 North Oval Mall, Columbus, OH 43210. Applications will be reviewed beginning October 15, 2012. Website: http://nelc.osu.edu/.
To build a diverse workforce, The Ohio State University encourages applications from individuals with disabilities, minorities, veterans, and women. EEO/AA Employer.
Persian-Farsi Language Instructor Positions in Maryland
Language school seeks Persian-Farsi instructors. Positions are located in Maryland.
Ideal candidates will have:
- Minimum of 5 years teaching Persian-Farsi to adults (1 year of teaching a related subject may be substituted.)
- B.A. in the Persian language; in linguistics or second language study; or in the history, culture, or literature of the area in which Persian is spoken
- Familiarity with educational technology
- Advanced degrees and publications are a plus.
Compensation is very competitive, based on credentials, and may include a relocation stipend. This is a long-term position. Full benefits.
Grant Opportunities
Roshan Institute Scholarship
Starting spring 2015, new Graduate Fellowships, and Undergraduate Scholarships will be available to students in various departments and programs at the University of Maryland whose work in areas related to Persian Studies exhibits exceptional standards of academic excellence. These new and rigorous Fellowships and Scholarships, made available to Roshan Institute by a generous gift from Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute open unprecedented range of Possibilities for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park.
You can receive Fellowships and Scholarships for Excellence in Persian Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. Your work can cover a wide range of disciplinary areas including Comparative Literature, History, Women's Studies, and more. For more information, call Naz Beyranvand at (301) 405-1891 or visit: http://sllc.umd.edu/persian/undergraduate/scholarships
Open Society Foundation: Global Supplementary Grant Program
The GSGP program offers supplementary grants of up to $10,000 to students from select countries in Southeastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Mongolia, the Middle East, and South Asia to pursue full-time doctoral studies in the humanities and social sciences.
Please click on the following link for more information about applying:
Iran Heritage Grant
Eligible Projects
The prime focus of projects seeking support should be the Iranian world. The Foundation will consider making grants to projects that promote the:
Teaching of the Persian language outside of Iran and other aspects of Persian culture to pre-university age groups (Education projects, funding range 500-4000 GBP).
Study of Iranian history, art, architecture, archaeology and cultures (research and publication; conferences and seminars; lectures and lecture series, etc.) (Academic projects, funding range 500-4000 GBP).
Awareness of the public at large about Iranian history and culture (film festivals, exhibitions, etc.) (Public programmes).
For more information on eligibility and requirements and application procedure, visit
Iran Heritage Foundation and submit an online application form.
Houtan Scholarship Foundation
Iran, which was once the birthplace of the Persian Empire – the largest empire in the world – undoubtedly, has one of the richest histories and cultures in the entire world. In an attempt to spread the word of the abundant Iranian culture, the Houtan Foundation offers scholarship to students from all origins, Iranian and non-Iranian, who have high academic performance and proven interest in promoting Iran's great culture, heritage, language and civilization. The candidates for the award must demonstrate leadership ability and the desire to make a difference in the society, where they reside. The Houtan Foundation has a strong interest in each of these students' achievements throughout the scholarship period and beyond, as the foundation's goal is to participate in each student's success.
At the present time, the Houtan Foundation offers the award of $2,500 per semester which will be given toward a graduate school education for the selected applicant. The award will be offered each fall and spring semester. Please submit the application no later than (June 1st) for fall semester and (Oct. 1st) for spring semester.


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Dude, the problem in Minnesota has more to do with subpar higienic conditions and that wrong tests were being carried out.
You're right about the wrong tests being carried out by the docs.
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I can be tested for HIV today, and if the test comes negative, it simply means that for the past 6 months I have had no detectable levels of the HIV virus. HIV takes up to 6 months to set in to levels that can be detected.
I don't think anyone feels that testing is a bulletproof defense against transmittable diseases. Believe it or not you're not the only one who's read those bold print pamphlets on STD's at the walk in clinic.
Negative results in a test simply means that the chances of you being infected are far less.
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Do you do that? Would you? Have any of you ever even thought of this?
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Dunn Center Post Office to close, could be permanent
Due to an inability to fill the postmaster position in the Dunn Center Post Office, services there are suspended indefinitely, according to the U.S. Postal Service.
It's unclear what will become of the post office, said Pete Nowacki, spokesperson for USPS.
"At this point, we're not looking at closing the office permanently," Nowacki said, adding a permanent closure is possible.
There are 74 post office boxes being used in Dunn Center, said Mary Armbrust, Killdeer postmaster.
"The office is on a temporary suspension, meaning there's no window service there," Nowacki said. "Right now, we're still putting the mail the post office boxes."
However, those who have post office boxes will have to use a mailbox or open a post office box in Killdeer by Tuesday, Nowacki said.
"We are working closely with the people affected and there will be service provided for them," Armbrust said.
The existing route in Dunn Center will be altered and mailboxes will be set up along that route, she said. To find out where each person should place their mailbox or for other inquiries, contact Armbrust at 701-764-5367.
USPS hopes to be delivering mail to new mailboxes in Dunn Center by Tuesday, Nowacki said.
"We do understand that there will be circumstances where people aren't able to meet that deadline and we're flexible on that," Nowacki said. "We plan on working with people on that. It's not like people aren't going to get mail service because that box isn't right up, but that's the day that we want to switch over the delivery."
Those affected will have to change their address to a street address or a new post office box number, he added. They will also need to file a mailing forward with USPS, Nowacki said.
USPS will hold a community meeting at the Dunn Center Post Office on Oct. 14 at 1 p.m. to give information and receive feedback.
Ruth Granfor, who has a Dunn Center post office box, wishes she was better informed about what is to become of the post office.
"I'm angry," Granfor said, adding she doesn't know where to put a mailbox.
She wishes the community meeting would be held before the Oct. 12 deadline to have mailboxes up.
"I mean that's just plain ridiculous," Granfor said. "I just hope that when they do have this meeting on Oct. 14 that they can answer some of these questions and we can move forward that way."
The employee who serviced the Dunn Center Post Office, whose name was not released, resigned, which suspended service Oct. 1, Nowacki said.
"On a couple of different occasions we've tried to find a qualified, available and willing employee who lives within commuting distance to take the position and there's no one available," Nowacki said. "We're in a hiring freeze at this point. We can not hire career employees from the outside."
The freeze is due to financial struggle tied to a drop in mail volumes, he added.
There was a 19 percent drop in mail in the Dakota District between 2006 and 2009. That district services North Dakota, South Dakota and northwestern Minnesota.
"That continued to drop this year," Nowacki said. "We don't have final numbers, but it was down about 6 to 7 percent nationwide this year, too."


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If you complained endlessly about the long, cold winter, you're about to get your comeuppance: high temps and humidity will make it feel like 95 to 100 degrees most of the week.
It will be so hot that the National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory for the metro from 1 p.m. Tuesday through 9 p.m. Thursday, meaning there is a heightened risk of heat-related stress and illness — especially for the young and elderly.
And nighttime will offer little relief. Temps are expected to drop only into the mid-70s. But with the humidity it will feel like 80 degrees.
To avoid wilting like a daisy, schedule strenuous outdoor work for the early morning or evenings, wear lightweight and loose-fitting clothing and drink plenty of water, the weather service suggests. Or just stay in air-conditioned environs until the misery passes.
That hot weather all-clear comes over the weekend, when a cold front sweeps in cooler and drier air. Highs will reach only 80 degrees and sleeping weather returns at night, when lows drop to the mid-60s.
John Brewer can be reached at 651-228-2093. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/jbrewerpipress.


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Every year, recent college grads, fresh with diplomas in hand, come to the realization that finding a job right out of college can be rough, leading many to ask the question: what do employers actually want?
Regardless of your major, whether you realize it or not, you've developed unique strengths over the course of your college career that are valuable in the workplace. The Association of American Colleges and Universities surveyed 318 employers with at least 25 employees and found that overall employers want recent college graduates to be broadly educated.
Other findings of this survey include:
- 80% of employers surveyed agreed that regardless of their major, college students should acquire broad knowledge in the liberal arts and sciences.
- 95% prioritize hiring college graduates with skills that will help them contribute to innovation in the workplace.
- Another 95% of those surveyed said it was important that new hires demonstrate ethical judgment, integrity, intercultural skills, and the capacity for continued learning.
- 93% of employers said that a demonstrated capacity to think critically, communicate clearly, and solve problems is more important than a candidate's undergraduate degree.
You've likely obtained and honed several strengths through a combination of academic work, internships, jobs, on-campus activities, and community engagement. In preparation for the job search and interview process, ask yourself , "What experiences separate me from the pack?" In your resume, cover letters, and interviews, transform your experiences into marketable job skills:
Problem Solving
Problem solving skills demonstrate to employers that you can think critically, logically, and creatively. Think of times where you've identified a problem, thought of a solution to this problem, and implemented it. If an example doesn't come to mind right away, it's simpler than you think: you've likely solved a multitude of problems in the classroom, during an internship, a part-time job, or maybe volunteer work.
Teamwork is a vital skill that you'll likely use everyday no matter what your career after graduation. Believe it or not, the ability to work well with others will take you far. Think of a successful group project. What was your role – did you lead? Were you encouraging and supportive? If there was a conflict, how did you compromise? Be prepared to explain why the group project was successful and how your role on the team positively affected the outcome.
Here's where you'll want to discuss contributions you've made to your internship, part-time job, or involvement in a student organization. Whether you've thought of a bright new idea or a great improvement upon an old idea, employers embrace grads with creative thinking skills. To highlight this ability, explain how you came up with an idea or improvement, how you put it into action, and the results (stick with positive examples).
Employers want grads who can not only speak and write clearly, but also listen and engage in conversations effectively. Throughout college you've had presentations, essays, and group projects (maybe even an internship or part-time job). Draw upon these experiences to demonstrate how you've used communication skills to successfully solve a problem, collaborate, and express ideas and information to others.
With this knowledge in mind, you can make yourself a competitive job applicant! If you're having trouble finding a job, don't give up. And remember, keep an open mind as you're searching – having tunnel vision for your dream career could hinder you from finding opportunities that are a great foundation to develop these valuable skills.
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Just North of Chicago, close to the Lake and Northwestern University and Purple Line El and the Metra trains to Downtown Chicago. Beautiful vintage furnished apartment can sleep up to 5. Custom marble bath and Jacuzzi. Laundry in the basement. Fresh Linens/Towels and Toiletries. Continental Breakfast included. WiFi and Cable TV, DVD. Very safe and peaceful neighborhood with plenty of street parking.
We really enjoyed our stay at this apartment! Although it is an older building with dated decor, the apartment is cozy and quiet, and there was plenty of space for two adults and a child. And there were groceries for us when we arrived - eggs, OJ, almond milk, cereal, soup - a nice touch. It is in a great location - close to parks, restaurants, bars, shopping, etc. We really enjoyed walking around the neighborhood. We almost didn't book it because of the negative review from Sept 2016 (a really unfair and mean review), but are so glad that we did. We would stay there again, and would highly recommend it to anyone. Thank you!
This is a review of VRBO #432153, Evanston apartment. The unit was booked for 4 nites. First of all, the photos that are shown of the rental space is NOT the apartment that we were given. It is a completely different place, so the pics are falsely representing the property.
We arrived late on Tuesday nite, so didn't get a good look till Wed. morn. We figured that because we had already paid upfront, we had no recourse but to wait it out, because upon viewing the space in daylight, we were quite disappointed. The space we did get was dark, smelly and really sub standard. The kitchen was dirty and had a very strange odor to it. Would not remotely consider cooking in this kitchen. The bathroom floor was dirty, although the bath fixtures were new. The bath sink drained very slowly and only got worse as the days went on. The liner paper put into the bedroom drawers was dated 1992. There was no way our clothes were going in there. The bedding smelled stale and not fresh.
Bottom line, we were in the unit as little as possible and even vacated it one nite early as the bathroom sink completely clogged and we had just had enough. Lost money for sure, but needed to be out of there. Would not recommend this place TO ANYONE!!!
We couldn't have asked for a better location. The beds were comfortable. It was air conditioned and there was a flat screened TV. It had all the comforts of home and even had goodies waiting for us in the refrigerator! I also loved the space age toilet seat and the light went on automatically when you walked into the bathroom!
The space was large but many rooms did not match pictures. Owners were accommodating and generously provided some basic food items. However, apartment was in disrepair (leaky window, microwave faceplate fell off). Kitchen was missing some items we would have liked to use for cooking. The place was adequate but not exactly 'lovely'
While not for everyone, this two bedroom apartment, centrally located in Evanston, was perfect lodging for a Father, one adult son, and two teenage sons. We were visiting the Chicago area to see family and take in a couple of ballgames (Go Cubs!). It was by far the most reasonable accommodations offered in Evanston, so nothing near House Beautiful standards, but perfect for four men "bacheloring it." We didn't use the kitchen for cooking, preferring to eat out. But we slept comfortably, were able to keep up with politics and sports via a large-screen television, and enjoyed the neighborhood. We were able to walk to the "L" on Main Street, and used it to go to Wrigley Field one day, and the Art Institute on another.
Our host, Mr Khan was thoroughly delightful, and informative.
My husband and I rented this apartment for 2 1/2 weeks. The apartment is better suited for a stay of a couple of days rather than the longer stay we had. The kitchen was very small with little counter space for cooking, had no dishwasher, and lacked some basic kitchen tools for cooking from scratch. There was also little space to store dishes and pots and pans, which made it more difficult to cook.
The other drawbacks were an small bathroom, and an uncomfortable, soft mattress. Also, I expected the apartment to be cleaned more professionally because there is a cleaning fee. Instead, there was dust and cobwebs under the furniture and the bathroom was not scoured as it should have been.
That said, the owner is very nice and did try to supply items requested, and the owner did leave some food and cleaning supplies for us. The apartment is also located on a quiet street and very conveniently located to downtown Evanston, and public transportation. We were able to bike or walk downtown and to nice restaurants and Whole Foods. Being 1/2 mile from the Metra made it easy to get to downtown Chicago for some fun exploration.
Hi, I am an academic who frequently travels for research and study.
Mujeeb Khan purchased this apartment in 2004
I love the vintage feel and location of the property.
Peace and quite in a very convenient location and easy walk to CTA Purple Line subway.
We had a very nice time (even though the Vikings played very poorly).
It was fun spending time with our grandson!!
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Just second building west of Ridge Ave from the Monroe St Intersection (Traffic Light and CTA Bus Stop for Howard Red Line and to the Northwestern University Campus); and only 2 blocks south of Main Street. Walk to the Main Street CTA Purple Line and Metra Train Stations. Walk to the Lake and Restaurants and Coffee Shops.
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BC Nursing Crisis - Five Years LaterMarch 15th, 2011 · stk
Five years ago, we wrote about the nursing crisis that British Columbia anticipated. How did British Columbia respond? How is socialized Health Care working out for residents of British Columbia now? Find out in our "BC Nursing Crisis" update ...
BC Government Cuts Health Care Despite Shortages & Overcrowding
Back in 2005, when Rachel had just over a year to complete her BSN degree, we wrote about the BC nursing crisis facing the Canadian Province of British Columbia. This bode well for job placement and when Rachel graduated from the UofA in 2006, many of the BC Health Authorities were hiring nursing graduates. (She accepted an offer from VIHA and has been gainfully employed there since).
Fast-forward to 2011 and the latest issue of "BCNU Update" (a BC Nurses' Union publication) describes a very different experience for those now graduating with a BSN degree. Despite an acknowledged and continued shortage of nurses, BC Health Authorities are facing government cut-backs and many recent nursing graduates are finding it difficult to find full-time nursing jobs. In an effort to make ends meet, many newly educated nurses are having to accept work outside of health care - namely in the service-sector - serving coffee Tim Horton's doughnut shops or selling paperback books at Chapters. Sadly, it's their only employment option.
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Updated: 28-Apr-2011
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Ollie the OctopusDecember 31st, 2010 · stk
In July, we caught a juvenile North Pacific Giant Octopus in one of our prawn traps. We took it back to the floating cabin for Alex to see. She named him "Ollie" and kept him as her "pet" for the afternoon. Ollie's story, with video, pictures and interesting facts about octopuses.
6-year-old Alex Meets an Octopus
One of the stories worth telling from Alex's summertime fun is the story about an octopus Alex named "Ollie".
The story begins as many of our more interesting stories do - at the floating cabin The Floating Cabin Picture of the floating cabin in the Barkley Sound. Located off the west coast of Vancouver Island and not far from the Broken Group Islands and the West Coast Trail. It's a wild, pristine wilderness area and wildlife abounds. Black bear, killer whales, sea lions, bald eagles, seals, sea otters, mink, cougar are among the inhabitants. There's oodles of sea food here too. Clams, oysters, prawn, crab, salmon, halibut, ling cod and snapper. It's an amazing area and we're lucky to be part-owners of this unique floating cabin. Click to learn more about the floating cabin (map, photos, etc). . The cabin is situated in the Barkley Sound, on the west coast of Vancouver Island, very close to the Pacific Rim National Park. It's a wet and wild place, accessible only by boat and we love sharing it with family and friends. It was late July and Scott's folks were at the cabin. It was their second visit and they too, love the solitude, the wild nature and rugged west coast scenery.
We had taken the boat out to pull up our prawn traps, though Alex elected to remain behind at the cabin, on this particular trip. It's about a 10-minute boat-ride from the cabin to the traps and we usually check them several times a day, when we're prawning.
Pulling up prawn traps from the depths of the ocean sometimes yields sea creatures other than prawns. The most common of these creatures is also the least desirable - the dreaded slime eel About Slime Eels (Hagfish) A slime eel isn't an eel at all, rather a very primitive fish called a Hagfish. They've been around for 550 million years. Because of their unusual feeding habits and slime-producing capabilities, the hagfish is often referred to as the most "disgusting" of all sea creatures. Hagfish have a sluggish metabolism and can survive months between feedings. However, hagfish often enter and eat the bodies of dead, dying or injured sea creatures that are much larger than themselves. Lovely, eh? More of nuisance to us, however, is the slime one of these "eels" can generate if agitated inside of a prawn trap. This slime encases the eel, the trap and the prawn and can take an hour or more to remove. An adult slime eel can secrete enough slime to turn a 20 liter (5 gal) bucket of water into slime in a matter of minutes. Yuck! Click the red-underlined link to learn more about Hagfish (Wikipedia) . This time, however, as Scott manually hauled up two traps from a depth of 250 feet, we noticed a reddish octopus in one of the traps!
Since Alex wasn't with us, we thought it would be fun to show her the octopus, so we carefully lifted it out of the prawn trap, put it into a pail of seawater and took it for a boat ride, back to the cabin. We were curious to see how Alex would react to this soft, eight-armed Cepholapod.
What follows is the story about Alex's encounter with an octopus, along with some interesting facts, video and pictures of these amazing and intelligent sea creatures.
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Family·Our Life·Cycling
Sunshine Coast Cycle TourAugust 23rd, 2010 · stk
The day before yesterday, we returned home from our first cycle tour in which Alex actually pedaled a bicycle (attached to our touring bikes). We cycled from Nanaimo, up-island to Comox, took a ferry to Powell River and then cycled down the coast to Vancouver. This coastline is called "The Sunshine Coast". It's a cycle tour that's been on our list of adventures for some time.
Since we moved to Vancouver Island in 2006, we've been spending our holidays exploring British Columbia. We are lucky to live in such a beautiful Province and - so far - there has been no shortage of wilderness adventuring.
Now that our daughter, Alex, is six and a half years old, she is too big to tow in a bicycle buggy. Some time ago, we bought Alex a 'Trail-a-Bike', which allows her to sit behind our bikes, on a bike seat and contribute to pedaling. The 'Trail-a-Bike' even has a 5-gear shifter, though she hasn't quite gotten the hang of which gear to switch into at any given time.
Because we have been giving some thought to a Cross-Canada bike tour, we thought it would be a good idea to see how Alex does on a long bike trip. The trip we concocted was - "The Sunshine Coast Bike Tour" - which we did as a loop trip from Nanaimo, up to Courtenay/Comox, across Georgia Strait by ferry to Powell River, then down the Sunshine Coast, ending with a ferry ride from Langdale to Vancouver (where we dropped Alex off at her maternal grandparents house).
The trip took us the better part of five days. Along the way we stayed at a First Nations camping area, repaired a flat tire and a broken spoke, visited a salmon channel and sorting facility, swam in the ocean, cycled onto four different BC Ferries, stayed in two Provincial campgrounds ... all the time enjoying sunny weather, beautiful scenery, challenging cycling and a wholesome family vacation.
Join us on our family cycling adventure and see how Alex fared on her Adams 'Trail-a-Bike'. We hope that our journal whets your appetite for adventure and is useful to others who are thinking of a similar cycling trip. (Some time ago, Rachel and I had made a list of adventures we wanted to do and a "Sunshine Coast Bicycle Trip" was on the list. It's always nice to be able to check another adventure off the list, eh?)
Note: I updated this journal entry from our 1991 Subaru Loyale station wagon, whilst hurtling northward to check off yet another adventure off our list - a backpacking trip to Cape Scott, at the northernmost point of Vancouver Island! (Ain't technology grand?) The laptop is connected to the iPhone, the iPhone is connected to the Internet, the Internet is connected to the journal ... anyway ... it's a work in progress (i.e., photos to follow).
Table of Contents
• Start Page
• Ride Map (Overview)
• Day 1 - Nanaimo to Qualicum Bay
• Day 2 - Qualicum Bay to Comox
• Day 3 - Comox to Saltery Bay
• Day 4 - Saltery Bay to Roberts Creek
• Day 5 - Roberts Creek to Vancouver
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What's more fun for a developer than to show up a huge online company like eBay? How about getting PAID to do it! Here's the write-up from my one, fun summertime web project - a pure CSS eBay photo gallery. (Oh and just for grins, it's displayed in another "Arti-zine" web design). I miss having time to write more blog articles!!
This summer, I have concentrated on work around the house and property (living the real life, as opposed to a virtual life). It keeps my wife happy(er), but it means a lot fewer web projects and contributions to this website.
One of the web projects that I did take on, however, was a fun one. A British web developer and programmer, had a client that wanted a photo gallery "like the eBay photo gallery" for his online auction site. The rub? They wanted a pure-CSS version.
Because it's fun to show a well-known online powerhouse how the web should work - and because there was development funding - I dived into the project enthusiastically. (Ahem - only after my daily, real life chores were complete).
The result - A pure CSS photo gallery that looks identical to the eBay gallery and which has significant improvements:
- It's completely accessible,
- doesn't rely on JavaScript,
- is cross-browser compatible and
- contains error-free, web-standard XHTML and CSS code.
In short - it rocks!
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Photoshopped RachelJune 6th, 2010 · stk
In 2008, I entered a photo contest at Alberni Outpost, a Vancouver Island outdoor store. We didn't win, but I recently noticed the photo was used as the background for the new Alberni Outpost web site design. Have a look at the new Alberni Outpost design. Amazing!
Rachel's Photo Backdrop for Local (Alberni Outpost) Website
We are were considering purchasing a used tandem kayak from Alberni Outpost, a Vancouver Island Outdoor Adventure Store, with stores in Port Alberni, Nanaimo, Courtney & Nanoose. The fibreglass kayak has been in the Alberni Outpost rental fleet for some number of years and yesterday, we took it on a "test paddle" around Newcastle Island and to Protection Island (where we had dinner at the Dinghy Dock Pub). It was an excellent afternoon and will be the focus of an upcoming article.
In doing research for the article, I made a surprising discovery. A photo we submitted the Alberni Outpost in 2008, for a photo contest, is currently the background image for every page of the Alberni Outpost website!!
The photo I submitted to their photo contest can be seen in our Bowron Lakes Slide Show. It's also on the Alberni Outpost Photo Contest page (2008) on the Alberni Outpost website (their site depends on JavaScript, so there isn't a direct link to the picture. Just click on "2008 Photos" at the Alberni Outpost photo contest and you'll see it.)
Despite the fact that the photo didn't win, Alberni Outpost chose it - over all the other photos submitted over the years and over all past winning submissions - as the backdrop for the new Alberni Outpost web site design.
We suspect the photo didn't win because it was a canoeing picture and not a kayaking picture. No worries! Just a Photoshop nip here and Photoshop tuck there and suddenly, Rachel is paddling a kayak instead of a canoe! Amazing what can be accomplished with digital photos, eh?
So, do you think the owner of Alberni Outpost, Richard Antonchuk, will give us a discount on the used kayak as consideration for using our photo in the new Alberni Outpost web design? (NOPE and neither a "thanks", nor a mention on the Alberni Outpost web site ... nor any consideration. VERY disappointing).
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Since Blogger has improved itself to the point of uselessness, I have transferred to Theobloggers and moved all my works to www.patrickmead.net. Tentpegs can be found at www.patrickmead.net/tentpegs. I may be adding a third blog about guitars and songs... but that is down the road. Remind me to link to you from my new page if I haven't already. I don't want to drop the ball during this move. See you at my new home!


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The Egyptian army has executed a relatively bloodless coup and Muslim Brotherhood President Mohamed Morsi is out.
The Egyptian military removed President Mohamed Morsi from power Wednesday and suspended the constitution in moves it said were aimed at resolving the country's debilitating political crisis.
In a televised address to the nation after a meeting with a group of civilian political and religious leaders, the head of the powerful armed forces, Gen. Abdel Fatah al-Sissi, said the chief of Egypt's constitutional court "will assume the presidency" on an interim basis until a new presidential election is held. Sissi said the interim president will have the right to declare laws during the transitional period.
That's generally the good news and reflects the army's unease with directly ruling the country (more about that in a moment). Now comes the much knottier problem of what to do. To be blunt, the crisis has just begun.
It would be unseemly for President Obama to cheer the coup, not only because it is the antithesis of democracy but because until this week we were backing Morsi to the hilt. But neither should the administration be pushing for instantaneous elections. Egypt may have escaped complete ruin by a skillfully timed military intervention, and there is no use denying that.
The primary and immediate crisis there is an economic one. As one Middle East observer put it: "They are broke. They can't buy diesel. Without diesel they can't feed their people." This is precisely why the army was hesitant to again take over. Directly ruling the country would mean the economic meltdown becomes the army's problem.
The United States and our Gulf allies should consider some emergency relief and beyond that provide considerable assistance in rebuilding an Egyptian economy, devastated by constant unrest and the evaporation of tourism.
Beyond that immediate concern, it will be critical to see whether the army-backed judge will adhere to the peace treaty with Israel and undertake its security operations in the Sinai. Things are looking more hopeful in that department if only because the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas's parent, is now gone and disgraced. Egypt's military has had good relations with both the United States and Israel so the issue may be more one of limited capability to police the Sinai (the army has to be fed, too) than lack of will.
The bigger political picture is certainly problematic. President Obama said it himself the other day: Democracy is more than elections. So the goal for Egypt and its allies, including the United States, ideally should be to encourage steps toward expanded liberty (in the media, for example) and respect for minorities and women. If we think secular democracy is possible in Egypt, we should get to work with real communication with and assistance to those players who generally favor the rule of (secular) law and greater human rights. If a new constitution is to be drafted, the United States should stress that it enjoys the best, closest relations with nations that listen to their people, respect minority rights and uphold their international obligations. We shouldn't be picking winners or drafting Egyptian law, but we certainly should be candid in stressing what will and won't put Egypt's relationship with the United States at risk.
A statement quickly issued by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (Va.) struck the appropriate tone:
Egypt's stability is tremendously important for America's national security and for the security of our allies in the Middle East. The Egyptian military has long been a key
partner of the United States and a stabilizing force in the region, and is perhaps the only trusted national institution in Egypt today. In the difficult days ahead, it will be important for Egyptian authorities to safeguard the
rights, interests, and security of all of Egypt's citizens. . . . The Egyptian people have made clear that President Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood government has threatened
the pluralistic democracy for which they called two years ago. As President Obama has said, democracy is about more than elections. It is important that
Egypt's leaders listen to their people, whose calls for a transparent and pluralistic democratic process should be respected.
But swapping the Muslim Brotherhood for Salafists in hastily scheduled elections would be no improvement. So again, modest steps and patience should be the order of the day.


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2 men steal officer's DPS truck in NE Harris
Updated 7:37 pm, Friday, November 1, 2013
Police are searching for two men who took an unmarked Texas Department of Public Safety vehicle in northeast Harris County.
The DPS truck was taken about 2:15 p.m. on Friday while a trooper was conducting an investigation near Lockwood and Beltway 8, authorities said.
Troopers said three firearms and other law enforcement equipment were in the truck.
DPS officials notified other law enforcement agencies about the missing vehicle — a silver-colored 2010 Chevrolet Silverado with Texas plates AW0-0120.
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Bill of Student Rights and Responsibilities
The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire is a comprehensive university whose purpose is to foster the intellectual, personal, and social development of its students.(1) The University provides an academic environment designed to encourage faculty-student interaction and promote excellence in teaching, scholarly activity, and public service. The University aims at excellence in intellectual development, conducted in a democratic atmosphere, through a curriculum designed to meet the needs and interests of a changing society. It is devoted to augmenting, organizing, and presenting knowledge. The University is concerned with students as individuals and seeks to bring them into close contact with a faculty who, by its scholarly attainments, devotion to studies, and concern for teaching, is able to instill a love of learning. The University is aware that it must remain sensitive to the educational needs of all of society. While seeking to be true to the best academic traditions of the past, the University acknowledges its duty to reexamine, revise, and extend from time to time its programs in order to keep education a vital dynamic process.(2) Students play an integral and unique role in this common enterprise, and have basic rights, freedoms, and responsibilities to ensure that they obtain the best undergraduate education possible.(3)
At UW-Eau Claire, students and other members of the University have a responsibility to promote and a right to expect the widest possible range of free inquiry and expression along with an opportunity for individuals to listen and be heard. The University supports and will work to provide for mutual respect and the preservation of individual dignity and privacy; consistent enforcement of federal, state and university protections against discriminatory treatment and an environment that is free of harassment or insulting and demeaning comments and epithets based on race, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, or disability.(4)
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Students may expect to receive comprehensive, readily accessible information about academic programs, services and requirements and to have access to timely and accurate advising.(6) Students have the right to access their instructors during regularly scheduled and reasonably followed faculty office hours and should expect reasonable opportunities to access courses required for timely completion of their majors and for graduation or program certification. Students should be prepared to effectively and responsibly utilize advising services, to be knowledgeable about degree and program requirements, and to utilize institutional procedures to provide for the delivery of these services.
Students have the right to expect a clear statement of class attendance policies and should not be penalized arbitrarily for absence from class.(7) Students have the right to be evaluated in a fair and equitable manner according to course objectives. Evaluations shall be based on demonstrated learning of specified course content and meeting other course requirements. Students have the responsibility to participate fully in the learning experience and to complete all course requirements.
Students have the right to reasonable accommodation of their religious beliefs with regard to the scheduling of all examinations and other academic requirements. Students must inform instructors of their accommodation needs within the first three weeks of the beginning of classes (first week of summer session and short courses).(8)
Students should receive, at the first class meeting of each course, a general outline which includes course objectives and requirements, the grading system and a tentative examination schedule. Syllabi for all courses are on file in the office of the Dean of the school in which the course is offered and are available on request.(9)
Students should expect timely and accurate information and feedback about their academic progress and achievements. Students have the right to expect, particularly in freshman and gateway or core courses, timely and accurate feedback prior to the deadline for withdrawing from courses.(10) Students have the responsibility to keep up with class assignments and requirements.
Students have an obligation to respect the integrity of the academic process and to comply with the rules governing academic misconduct such as prohibitions against cheating on examinations, false representation of work submitted for evaluation, and plagiarism.
Students should expect a curriculum that provides opportunities to develop critical thinking, communication and computation skills, ethical and esthetic sensitivities, and a reasonable knowledge base. Students should expect a diversified curriculum that provides opportunities for the consideration of significant social and cultural issues. The curriculum and the specific content of each course, however, remains a matter of faculty prerogative.
Students should expect to participate in the development of student evaluations of courses which will be administered on a regular basis. Academic departments will provide aggregate results of course evaluations to students who may request them.
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Students should expect to exercise a predominant role in initiating and reviewing policies concerning student life services and interests as developed in the University's implementation plan for 36.09 (5) of the Wisconsin Statutes. Student participants in such decision making activities are expected to attend meetings and to be well prepared. Students, through their elected governments, have the right to select student representatives to formal University committees requiring student members.(11)
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Student publications and broadcast media have the right to cover, describe and interpret issues and events without prior interference within the limits of existing law and consistent with the principles of ethical and responsible journalism.
Students have the right to become members of organizations without the threat of hazing or other forms of humiliation.(12)
Student workers have the right to unionize, as provided by law.
Students have the right to expect a safe campus environment and to be informed in a timely fashion about the existence of known, dangerous and/or toxic substances.
Students should be informed about the location and nature of violent crimes committed on campus and have access to accurate aggregate statistics on campus crimes.(13)
Students should expect University assistance in securing quality child care as required by law. Campus facilities, to the maximum feasible extent, shall be made accessible to documented disabled persons in compliance with applicable regulations.
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Where students are not responsible for late disbursements of financial aid, they should be free of any financial or academic penalty imposed solely for that reason.
Students may participate in the development of student evaluations of non-instructional programs and services.
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Students who have been found to have committed academic or conduct infractions have the right to a reasonable, clearly defined and timely appeals process.(14)
Students have the right to accessible and appropriate grievance procedures in academic and nonacademic matters.(15)
Student academic and personal records shall be confidential except where disclosure within the University is based on a legitimate and appropriate need to know, or as required by law.(16)
Students who allege they are victims of a crime within campus jurisdiction should, consistent with the due process and privacy rights of the accused, be informed of any disciplinary procedure conducted by the institution against the alleged offender, or be given an explanation if no action is taken.
The University has the responsibility to insure that these rights and principles are implemented. If the needs and expectations articulated within this document are not met, students may request assistance from the Deans of the Schools in which they are enrolled on curricular and academic matters, and from the Dean of Students Office and the Affirmative Action Office. The enumeration of these rights shall not be construed as exclusive of other rights of students. Students, individually and collectively, have the responsibility to support and comply with these principles. The Dean of Students Office shall periodically review and update this document.
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(2) UW-Eau Claire General Statement of Philosophy
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(4) Affirmative Action Grievance Procedures
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(6) UW-Eau Claire Catalogue and UW-Eau Claire Class Schedule Bulletin
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(8) UWS 22 as implemented by UW-Eau Claire
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(11) Role of Students in Institutional Governance-Faculty and Academic Staff Handbook
(12) Wisconsin State Statutes-941.33 Hazing
(13) Student Right to Know Act, Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act
(14) UWS Chapters 14, 17 & 18
(15) Student Academic Grievance Procedures; UWS Chapters 6 & 13
(16) Faculty and Academic Staff Handbook


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A recent trip to Italy meant my first visit to Florence, home of my youngest daughter's favorite pizza and my oldest daughter's new leather purse. For me it was the discovery of something much different, I think Florence is where innovation was born – and perhaps an inspiration for your business to get unstuck.
The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore, currently known as the Duomo, was completed in 1436 after 140 years of construction. The cathedral's most prominent feature is a dome some 375 feet high and 144 feet across built of brick, marble and sandstone, the impressive achievement weighs 37,000 tons. All much more impressive when you consider that the marble was quarried 106 kilometers away – and had to be delivered by horse and wagon, one stone at a time. Filippo Brunelleschi was the chosen architect (actually a goldsmith) and oversaw the majority of the construction until his death.
While the design, construction and lasting nature of the dome are impressive, what caught my attention, and the attention of a young apprentice named Leonardo da
No one believed the dome would stand – yet some 600 years later it is still a masterpiece of architectural design and engineering innovation. Young Leonardo was so inspired that he immediately began sketching innovations based on an understanding of nature's forces. Early designs for the helicopter, a tank, solar power and the double-hulled ship followed.
As we search for new innovations to keep our business one step ahead of the competition, perhaps we need to look in different directions. I visited a marble and quartz manufacturer whose innovative approach to combining light and solid surfaces have made them a marketplace leader. How can your business combine existing technologies?
Innovation comes from innovative thinking, change your seat, find another view – because today's consumer won't wait 140 years for innovation to happen.


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A Gulag Memoir
Publication Year: 2012
Published by: Slavica Publishers
Series: The Allan K. Wildman Group Historical Series
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Translator's Introduction
This is a unique voice of a vain, flamboyant, irritating, complex, and amazing woman whose life spans most of the Soviet epoch. Agnessa, a small-‐‑town beauty, married a high-‐‑ranking NKVD operator, "Mirosha," who was the great love of her life. Her family referred to Mirosha as an executioner—and he was. Young, restless, and naive when she met him in 1926, she reveled in...
Time Line
Part I. Paradise and Purgatory - Side by Side
My Grandfather
You know, I love Chekhov above all other writers. Only now have I begun to value him. He is also interesting to me because he was on Sakhalin at the very moment that my maternal grandfather was released from penal servitude on the island of Sakhalin. I think Chekhov knew him. I told my grandfather's...
My Father
Greece! It is the homeland of my forebears. My father, Ivan Pavlovich Agripopulo, was an ethnic Greek born in Turkey. The tsarist government had permitted a certain number of Turkish Greeks to settle in Russia to save them from Turkish savagery, so Papa came as a very small child with his parents to Anapa on the Black Sea. When he was a young man, for some reason he...
Mama, My Sister Lena, and My Brother Pavel
Oh, how I want to live until 1986. Can you guess why? Because that's when Haley's comet will appear again. It returns every seventy-five or seventy-six years. I saw it in my childhood. As it came closer and closer to the earth, growing larger and larger in the sky, lots of people believed that the world...
Zarnitsky, My First Husband
The Whites had been in Maikop for several years. When the Reds came in March of 1920, I was seventeen years old, almost eighteen, and I was just finishing gymnasium. The Reds told us that we must now pass an exam in political economy, and they sent a lecturer to our school. He was a small, scraggly man. But he was so passionate about all that stuff—"communism...
His real name was Miron Iosifovich Korol. In those days it was fashionable to
take a pseudonym, and he became Sergei Naumovich Mironov. His family
and close friends called him Mirosha.
I saw him for the first time in Rostov in 1923 or 1924, when Ivan Aleksandrovich was still the chief of staff of border troops in the Northern Caucasus....
Zarnitsky Again
I had left suddenly, without warning. Mama, my brother Pavel, and his daughter remained in Ivan Aleksandrovich's care for some time. I left all my things—excuse me, down to my brassieres—at home where they lay untouched. My underwear, my black gloves, the hat with little plumes that Ivan...
I was in Karaganda twice. The first time was in 1931 when Mirosha and I moved to Alma-‐‑Ata. Mirosha was named deputy to V. A. Karutsky, the plenipotentiary representative of the OGPU in Kazakhstan. (Before Karutsky the head of the OGPU was Danilov, who was removed for engaging in contraband.)...
My Life With Mirosha, 1930-39
When Mirosha and I lived in Alma-Ata from 1930 to 1933 and then in Dnepropetrovsk from 1933 to 1936, every year we took a holiday on the Black Sea and often jumped over to Grozny, Vladikavkaz, or Tbilisi, all places where Mirosha had many friends from previous work....
After Mirosha
My true husband was Mirosha. Not Zarnitsky and not even Mikhail Davydovich, although I bow to his intellect and talent.
But Mirosha was no more. When I heard "ten years without right of correspondence" I understood—this was the end. All sorts of rumors circulated, information from behind the stone walls. Abrashka surfaced again. But my...
Graphic Inserts
Part II. Who Will Repay?
From the Kuibyshev jail they took me—an important state criminal—to Moscow. Three officers of the Ministry of Defense took me to the train station in a Black Maria carrying my dossier. Everywhere you looked there were armed soldiers. Three strapping men standing guard over one woman who was guilty of nothing while a horrible war was on, the enemy already in the Caucasus....
When I got to my sister Lena's I was aghast at how poor they were. Now it was clear to me that my "Mongolian" things had gone to keep them alive. In the camps I couldn't understand why they didn't send me parcels. And other things had been left in Moscow. We had left two trunks with the mother of one of Mikhail Davydovich's colleagues and with Nadya, the wife of...
The Last Party
Agnessa never missed her birthday, not once in her life even in the most difficult prison and camp conditions. She celebrated it always and everywhere in any way she could. Of course she would not miss it here in Moscow. And no matter how small her pension she celebrated it lavishly, even more so now that she had a small inheritance. She baked the traditional Napoleon, she...
Agnessa and Mira met in 1960 as mature adults. Agnessa was fifty-seven and Mira forty-three. Agnessa's adventures were behind her. Mira's fulfillment was still ahead of her. Dramatically different as were their backgrounds and life experience, each had in her own way lived through the same "painful and difficult years—world wars, hunger and devastation, the Stalin years and...
Appendix A
Appendix B
Suggested Reading
Print-ISBN-13: 9780893573942
Print-ISBN-10: 0893573949
Publication Year: 2012
Series Title: The Allan K. Wildman Group Historical Series
Series Editor Byline: Michael Melancon and Alice K. Pate See more Books in this Series
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Results Are In and the iCIMS Excellence Award Winners Are ...
- Leading SaaS provider acknowledges top performing customers for demonstrating innovation and efficiency in their talent acquisition strategies -
Oct 31, 2013, 10:00 ET from iCIMS, Inc.
MATAWAN, N.J., Oct. 31, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The results are in! The competition for the second annual iCIMS Excellence Awards was stiff, with HR professionals leveraging best-in-breed technology to crush their metrics and effectively attract, screen, and hire the best talent for their organizations. After thorough evaluation of all applications, iCIMS, Inc., a leading provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) talent acquisition software solutions for growing businesses, honored the top performing customers for innovation and efficiency in their talent acquisition strategies.
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"All the winners showed such great passion and drive," said iCIMS CEO Colin Day. "Companies like Stratford University, Dish, and Jacobs Technology made the most progressive use of our best-in-breed talent acquisition suite. Their innovative application of the technology helped them not only meet, but exceed their departmental metrics. These best-practice stories demonstrate that our solution set, combined with our customers' and their creative thinking, drives powerful results."
The annual iCIMS Excellence Awards honor organizations that have successfully demonstrated progressive thinking and efficiency in their talent acquisition strategies. This year, the award program acknowledged HR professionals who improved sourcing, recruiting, and/or onboarding within their organization with the assistance of a best-in-breed talent acquisition platform. Winners were named across six categories: Social Networker of the Year, Best Company Expansion, Welcome to the Company, Google it!, Let's Team Up, Trendsetter of the Year, and Rookie of the Year. Here are this year's winners:
Social Networker of the Year
- Healthcare Industry: Healthfirst
Best Company Expansions
- Technology Industry: Intelligent InSites
- Transportation Industry: Hertz
- Education Industry: Stratford University
- Staffing Industry: DataStaff, Inc.
- Consulting Industry: NTT DATA, Inc.
- Non-profit Industry: Faith Employee's Employment Data
Welcome to the Company - Onboarding Success
- Media Industry: DISH
- Healthcare Industry: Hanger, Inc.
- Real Estate Industry: Gables Residential
- Manufacturing Industry: Master Halco
Google It!
- Entertainment Industry: Penn National Gaming
Let's Team Up
- Pharmaceutical Industry: Grifols, Inc.
- Aerospace & Defense Industry: Jacobs Technology
- Transportation Industry: Enterprise Holdings
Trendsetter of the Year
- Business Services Industry: Stantec
Rookie of the Year
- Retail Industry: Bridgestone Retail
Winners were announced at iCIMS' 10th Annual Customer Advisory Council (CAC), which was held in Austin, Texas on September 10th through the 12th. Winners were recognized and received a trophy from iCIMS Chief Operating Officer and iCARE Ambassador, Adam Feigenbaum. To learn more about iCIMS Excellence Awards and other award programs iCIMS hosts, visit http://care.icims.com/Community/Customer-Awards.
About iCIMS, Inc.:
iCIMS, a leading provider of innovative Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) talent acquisition solutions, is an Inc. 500 and Software Satisfaction honoree focused on solving corporate business issues through the implementation of easy-to-use, scalable solutions that are backed by award-winning customer service. iCIMS' Talent Platform, the industry's premier candidate management solution, enables organizations to manage their entire talent acquisition lifecycle from sourcing, to recruiting, to onboarding all within a single web-based application. With more than 1,700 clients worldwide, iCIMS is one of the largest and fastest-growing talent acquisition system providers with offices in North America, UK, and China. To learn more about how iCIMS can help your organization, visit http://www.icims.com or view a free online demo of the iCIMS Talent Platform.
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In this story by the Hartford Courant we see how kids are bullied in school and how unresponsive or ineffective the schools have been to help protect kids.
Here is an excerpt:
In the last two years, Melanie Mantilla says, bullies at Hartford's Kennelly School have choked her son with a slinky, slammed a bathroom stall door on his head and thrown a rock at his head, cutting him.Mantilla, whose son is in fourth grade, and other parents say they've had enough. About 20 Kennelly parents plan to give the school board a list of demands that includes an end to what they said is pervasive violence.
But what if nothing happens? What if these parents do not see results.. what if they decide that homeschooling might be in the best interest of their child?
In the article is says: The group said some parents will not return their children to the school in the fall unless problems are corrected.
Well I have news for those parents.. if you choose to homeschool your child.. be on the lookout for the school to report you to DCF for educational neglect, especially Mantilla, whose younger son entered first grade this year reading below the kindergarten level. She was told that, despite being diagnosed with attention-deficit disorder and borderline obsessive-compulsive disorder by a pediatrician, "he's not severe enough" to get special attention at school.
She's a prime target for the school administrators and DCF if she decides to pull her child out of school to homeschool.. It's like it's deja vu all over again...
Isn't it incredibly ironic that schools say they want to stop the bullying and yet they practice it themselves by bullying parents by calling DCF to force parents into handing over medical records, or signing papers they don't want to sign, or otherwise coercing and harassing them to do other things?
Amazing .... eh?
UPDATE: Read the related post at Corn and Oil .. it features an incredible piece of correspondence from a CT legislator to a constituent that should not be missed.


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SNHU to build new library, dormBy MICHAEL COUSINEAU
New Hampshire Sunday News
February 11. 2012 11:36PM
Southern New Hampshire University plans to spend up to $45 million to build a new library, a new dorm and possibly a parking garage by early 2014, officials said Saturday.
'This is really a function of more demand,' President Paul LeBlanc said. 'We just have more and more students who come, and we keep growing.'
The university, which straddles the Hooksett-Manchester line, expects to borrow the money through a bond and repay the debt from its yearly operating budget, LeBlanc said. It also would need local approvals.
'We'd have to go through all the appropriate permitting just as anyone would with any building project,' he said.
LeBlanc is not sure how much local tax revenue the expansion would provide to Hooksett or Manchester.
The university has seen its undergraduate day student population rise from 1,880 two years ago to 2,358 for the current spring semester, according to Gregg Mazzola, the university's associate vice president of marketing and communications.
The university board of trustees unanimously approved the plans Friday.
Plans call for:
-- Building a Learning Commons to replace the current library. The new building would be constructed south of the main Dining Center in Hooksett, with an estimated completion date by January 2014. The 50,000-square-foot building would include maintaining a working collection of about 100,000 books, installing a cafe and adding group study rooms.
'You'd have a variety of study spaces that goes from reasonably quiet to whisper quiet,' LeBlanc said.
The Learning Commons has been in the design phase for months and will be built by Harvey Construction of Bedford. Its price tag is about $18 million.
-- Constructing a new dorm, most likely in Hooksett.
'We have built four new dorms in Hooksett over the last eight years, and our campus master plan in 2004 called for a fifth dorm in that same cluster,' LeBlanc said. Mazzola said the dorm would provide 300 beds and hopefully open by September 2013
-- Adding more parking and green space by January 2014.
'Students have asked for more green space on campus,' LeBlanc said. 'Parking is already very tight.'
Plans call for removing some of the parking between Robert Frost Hall and the Hospitality Center. The university is exploring building a parking garage. One option would be constructing an 800-space garage, costing $12 million, near the Fieldhouse, built into the sloping topography in Manchester, LeBlanc said.
He said there are savings achieved by doing multiple projects simultaneously.
'It's a fine-tuned set of projects to coordinate,' he said


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Video: Watch Brandy's TWO ELEVEN Tour in...
From Silent from TrueExclusives.com: "Earlier this year, I had the chance to go overseas and document Brandy's Two Eleven Japan Tour. It was an amazing, dream-come-true kind of trip and I decided to share the experience with some commentary and footage. It was a trip that I will never forget!" Check out the experience through Silent's eyes, in the :
Video: Brandy Sings "Do You Know (What You...
Courtesy of Silent from TrueExclusives.com, comes "music-video style" live footage of Brandy singing "Do You Know" live in Japan. "Do You Know' is lifted from the chart-topping album, "Two Eleven" from Brandy. Watch the outstanding clip below via youtube:
Watch Brandy on Tour in Japan [Day 3]
Thanks to Silent for a video of Brandy and her friends on tour in Japan. Watch day 3 of the tour via youtube below.
Video of Day 2 in Japan with Brandy
Thanks to SilentBX for this exclusive video of day 2 of Brandy in Japan last week. Use the Youtube Media player below to watch.
Brandy Performs at Billboard Live in Japan
Brandy hit Japan over the past few days for 3 amazing shows, part of the Billboard Live. Check out video footage from Silent of the historic event.


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That's the number of jobs two Seattle giants — Boeing and Starbucks — have announced, in just one day, that they're going to cut. Ten-thousand people laid off at Boeing. Six-thousand seven-hundred at Starbucks.
On Monday, headlines mourned the loss of 40,000 jobs nationally in a single day. Two days later, it took just two Seattle-area companies to reach half that total.
Of course, the story's not just in the famous companies. This hardly shows the whole picture, but if you type in "job cuts" into our site's search and scan down the articles for a couple of pages, you'll get an idea of just how many stories have been written about layoffs in all sorts of companies nationwide and globally — just since the New Year.
With another day of big bad Seattle business headlines, I'm reminded of a comment a reader left on a post I wrote last week on this topic:
When I remind (my friends) to keep their ears open for jobs for me, they say "yeah, you and the other 10 unemployed people I know". It's ugly out there. Huddle up with a friend.
So, once again, hang in there. Not sure this is going to get better before it gets worse.
I'm posting from Mr. Spots Chai House in Ballard, where eight Seattle residents have gathered for the Big Blog weekly meetup. I'm asking them what question I can end this post with to open up discussion on a grim topic. Six offered suggestions:
- Orin O'Neill: "How has the employment picture changed in your circle of friends?"
- Jimmy Chambers: Referring to the reader's quote, "which of the ten are you?"
- Jason Preston: "How many people are starting their own businesses?"
- Hal Mueller: "How have your job choices changed in the last three months?"
- David Leigh: "How do you see your employment as reflecting your sense of self?"
- Jake Sommer: "How important are personal connections in finding a job in this market?"
Take your pick. Would love to hear your thoughts.


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A 'breath-taking' 600-year-old vase has gone in display as the centrepiece of a new exhibition in Sheffield.
The 15th century blue and white Ming vase – described as one of the world's finest examples of Chinese craftsmanship – is the star of Weston Park Museum's Made in China display.
Standing just more than 50cm tall, the lotus-decorated vase is the largest Ming imperial porcelain of its kind in the British Museum collection.
It comes to Sheffield as part of a national tour exploring the impact the Ming dynasty has had on the arts in China and the world.
Other objects among the Made in China collection include a 13th century stoneware bowl made in China's Zhejiang province, a Chinese porcelain tea caddy dating from the 1700s and an 1875 plate in Willow Pattern, the ubiquitous English design attributed to Thomas Minton and Josiah Spode which appropriated many Chinese decorative motifs.
Alison Morton, Museums Sheffield exhibition and display curator, said: "The craftsmanship in this imperial Ming vase is breath-taking. We're delighted to be working with the British Museum to share it with our visitors."
n Made in China will be on display at the museum until Sunday, October 5.