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Viral WATCH: 2-Year-Old Cheerleader, Dad Perform on Fox & Friends
A two-year-old girl has quickly become a web sensation after a video of her cheer routine on the beach went viral. Emerson Decker and her dad Andrew, a cheerleading coach, came to Fox and Friends this morning to give us a glimpse of their amazing skills.
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Decker said he's been coaching cheerleading since age seven. When his daughter was just three months old, he started practicing standing her up in his hand.
Their routine started to go viral after Decker's cousin, supermodel Brooklyn Decker, tweeted one of the Instagram videos.
What a stud! My cousin andrewdecker3 and his little gal little_flyer_1 (who's 2 by the way) are going… http://t.co/h8bxAsl8ZP
— Brooklyn Decker (@BrooklynDecker) May 29, 2014
Some people have criticized Decker, but he says he'd never let his daughter fall and points out that she's been doing this longer than she's been walking.
To see more stunts from little Emerson, check out her Instagram page and watch this morning's performance above.

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On the Sunday of the long weekend, YY, Mel and I piled into my car for a road trip down south. There's nothing like driving fast on a sunny day with your friends, listening to the albums which defined your emo youth - namely From Under The Cork Tree, Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, and Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Body Count.
Stopped over at a lookout over Wollongong.
YY had wanted to see Bombo Quarry, so that was the aim of the day.
It's an old quarry, now disused, by the seaside.
Made for an interesting photographic subject.
We then had lunch there. Simple stuff like bread and cheese tastes so good when you've been spending time outside.
We had more time left in the day, so we kept driving south, to Hyams Beach on Jervis Bay, which I visited in the rain two years ago.
It's famous for its white sands.
We hung about for a short while until the sun started to go down.
We then drove home with a few mishaps (accidentially taking the scenic route and a desperate search for toilets).
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Africa's Hall of Shame in Addis Ababa
By Fikade Shewakena / February 24, 2012
First of all, the building is a metaphor for the way most African countries are run. The Chinese handout in Addis Ababa that is going to house the AU is more than a symbol that perpetuates the beggar image that has defined most African countries for a better part of their modern history. Most African countries have decided to achieve development and modernization by substituting working hands and innovative minds with hands stretched toward foreign aid and largess. This Chinese handout symbolizes Africa's failure and speaks about a leadership that has completely failed to understand that you can't have your pride and dignity, and a respectable place in the community of nations while living on the handouts of others. Indeed, it is a testament and stark reminder to an increasingly frustrating reality that the leaders of African have given up on any attempt at self reliance.
Just ask why it should be so difficult for 54 African countries to contribute no more than four million dollars each and build this building on their own? Is it the addiction to handouts? You may even ask why any African in position of power and with minimal self respect and knowledge of history could not have wanted the building designed by African architects. You may even wonder why there was no one among these leaders to think such a structure should have an architectural design that is made of a touch of African architecture and culture, say for example, something like a combination of the pyramids of Egypt, the obelisks of Axum, Lalibella, the magnificent libraries of ancient Mali and the numerous beautiful tukuls that dot the African landscape to mention just the few we know well. Imagine how such a product owned and built by Africans could be one huge source of pride and something to show for African ingenuity. For a continent that looses tens of billions of dollars in elicit capital flight and outright theft every year, isn't two hundred million dollars just peanuts? And don't this honorable guys ruling Africa read history? Haven't they read that Africa has been there before and done that? How can you forget that the first things that European colonialists brought to Africa before they began looting the land and enslaving Africans were glittering gifts to local tribal chiefs? This building is not only a case of what we in Ethiopia call "??? ??? ?????" – which roughly translates as, "you cannot look beautiful by wearing gold jewelry that belongs to other people". As the history of Africa itself attests, these so called gifts are often down payments for the merciless exploitation of the continent's natural and human resources. How do we Africans overcome the stereotype that we are incapable of changing our reality while we keep doing this crazy thing of repeating the same thing over and over again even after we have confirmed that it is not working to our advantage?
I hope there is no any idiot out there who thinks the Chinese gave this building to Africa out of compassion for Africans or out of plain generosity or reasons charity. We all know that there are more destitute people inside China than all the destitute people in sub Sahara Africa combined. It is clear that the Chinese leaders are making an investment with sacrifice to help their long term plan, their future. It is now an open secret that the Chinese think of Africa as a solution to their overpopulation and pollution problem and have already gone a long way on that line. In the last decade alone nearly eight hundred thousand Chinese have settled in Africa and China towns are proliferating in many cities in Africa. There are reports that Chinese experts are planning and working to settle some 300 million Chinese in Africa as a solution to their overpopulation related problems. It appears that the Chinese are applying the advice of a certain racist British named sir Francis Galton who a little more than a hundred years ago, sometime in 1873, wrote that the continent of Africa which he defined as "occupied by lazy, palavering savage people" be taken over and tenanted by what he said were "industrious and order-loving Chinese". Trends of the last decade or two shows that the Chinese seem to have taken this once despised racist advice to heart. They are working hard to make this a reality and to some extent succeeding. They are working hard and sacrificing to solve their demographic and pollution problems on the backs of Africa. Unless Africans are aware of this fast creeping Chinese takeover now, it would be too late when we wake-up tomorrow. The leaders of Africa who are blinded by their desire to preserve their power and material benefits never seem to care. The new AU building is only one in a series of bribery to Africa's ruling elite. The Chinese know they will get back their two hundred million dollars in one or two transactions of their cheap toys to Africa and the minerals and lumber they plunder cheaply. At the end of the day it is poor Africans who will stand there holding the bag.
There is also another ugly side to look at when seeing this shameful hall of shame in Addis Ababa. If you uncover the veils and secrecy inside Chinese capitalism, you will see that it is an extremely criminal enterprise. The "gift" standing in Addis Ababa is tainted with blood, tears and sweat of other unfortunate human beings being mercilessly ruled and exploited. It is an open secret that Chinese workers are subjected to slave type labor where in many cases, protest by workers in a factory and demands of workers to be heard takes the form of committing group suicide. To see what kind of blood money the AU building may be tainted by, read this recent New York Times exclusive investigative report about the horrible life of the workers who supply products to the manufacturers of our iPads. After reading the report I could not believe that the ipad I am using is tainted with that horror. Shouldn't Africans that have suffered merciless exploitation themselves of the kind Chinese workers suffer today be the first to reject any Chinese offer out rightly on grounds that it is a reminder of their own painful history?
I am also disappointed by the muted response of the African elite regarding this shameful "gift" and creepy Chinese takeover of Africa. It appears that we all have given up on Africa, I mean, ourselves. How many cases do we have to be ashamed of about being African? The brutal and savage killings of one another, being ruled by cruel tyrants for decades on end, our poverty in the midst of plenty and perennial beggary for food handout, are killing us already. Should accepting a down payment wrapped as a "gift" while being set up in plain sight for a new round of slavery and plunder be another one?
The leaders of Ethiopia, particularly Ato Meles Zenawi, did us a favor inadvertently by not lobbying to have Hailesilassie statue erected there along with that of Nkrumah. Ethiopians should be happy that Hailesilassie's statue and through that Ethiopia's contribution was not erected anywhere near this hall of shame. If the Ethiopian leaders just whispered Hailesilassie's name, I am sure there will be a unanimous vote by African leaders to honor Hailsilassie and through him Ethiopia by building his statue there. Yes, we can debate the good and bad he did to his own country. But no one, except men with little minds and little sense of history question that he, Hailesilassie, and through him Ethiopia, stood the tallest among the tall when it comes to fighting for the independence of Africa and bringing Africans together. It is one of Ethiopia's epic images that history will not forget and one that never needs a statue as a reminder. I am happy this image is not tainted with Hailesilassie's statue in that hall of shame. Now the debate should not be whether Hailesilassie's statue and though him Ethiopia's should have been built along with Nkrumah in front of this hall of shame, it should be weather even that of Nkrumah's should be standing there to adore a symbol of Africa's shame.


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Prior to joining private practice, Jennifer was an Appellate Court attorney with the New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Fourth Department, where she handled both civil and criminal appeals. Jennifer was also a judicial intern for the Honorable Elizabeth W. Pine, former Associate Justice for the New York State Supreme Court Appellate Division, Fourth Department.
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We are a ministry serving our Lord and Savior in Sanford, NC. We are a member of the National Association of Free Will Baptist. Together it is our desire and goal to reach the world with the message that Jesus Saves. We are a church where the Bible is believed and preached. Where people are friendly and sincerely glad to have you. A church where you are treated as a person not a number. Let me invite you to worship with us, I believe that you will enjoy your visit.
Welcome, and thank you for visiting us online today. Our goal, through our online ministry, is to supply needed information and resources to our church family and to introduce our community to the ministries here at Kendale Acres Church. Please take a few moments to look around and if you do not find the information you are looking for, feel free to contact us and we will do all we can to help assist you.
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Archchancellors for Germany
¹Constitutionally the entity dealt
here is the Reich ruled by the
king elected by the electors (Kurfürsten)
and crowned king. (It is a matter of dispute whether the
king acquires his ruling authority with the election or
only with the coronation; both dates are given in the
following record.) In theory, his title is just King (König)
without territorial appendage. By the time period of the
16th century, it was understood that the king had
acquired the dignity and notional authority of a Roman
emperor (see below), and the scope of his authority as
such was styled the Holy Roman Empire (Heiliges
Römisches Reich - Sacrum
Romanum Imperium); the addition "of the
German Nation" (deutscher Nation
- nationis germanicae) comes
into official use in the 15th century (e.g., Act of the
Imperial Diet [Reichsschluss]
of 1486); its meaning has been the subject of
considerable dispute since the 17th century. In the time
period covered, the imperial authority extended de facto
(except for some vestigial remnants, such as the
chartering of notaries-public throughout Western Europe)
only to the (German) Reich,
and official use made no distinctions.
The Confederation of the Rhine
25 Jul
Confederation of the Rhine founded.
Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine
Prince-Primate (also Chairman of the Diet and
the College of Kings)
Transitional Central Administration 1813-1815
Note: After the dissolution of the Rhine Confederation, there was no central authority in Germany until the creation of the German Confederation. An attempt to administer former French satellites and occupied territories in Germany was, however, made, and it was headed by a body called the Central Administration Council (Zentralverwaltungsrat).
21 Oct 1813 - 20 Jun 1815 Attempted central coordination.
President of the Central Administration Council
German Reich
1 Jul 1867 North German Confederation
1 Jan 1871 German Empire (Deutsches Reich)
10 Nov 1918 Germany a republic (but style Deutsches Reich not abandoned).
Presidents of the German Confederation
Presidents of the National Constituent Assembly
(in Frankfurt am Main)
³According to the Constitution of the North German Confederation, "The Crown of Prussia is entitled to the Presidency of the Confederation" (Präsidium des Bundes). The office does not confer a specific style on the King of Prussia; when exercising it, the style used is "King of Prussia in the name of the North German Confederation."
4Full official style of the ruler: Deutscher Kaiser und König von Preussen, Markgraf zu Brandenburg, Burggraf zu Nürnberg, Graf zu Hohenzollern, souveräner und oberster Herzog von Schlesien wie auch der Grafschaft Glatz, Grossherzog vom Niederrhein und Posen, Herzog zu Sachsen, Westfalen und Engern, zu Pommern, Lüneburg, Holstein und Schleswig, zu Magdeburg, Bremen, Geldern, Cleve, Jülich und Berg, sowie auch der Wenden und Kaschuben, zu Krossen, Lauenburg, Mecklenburg, Landgraf zu Hessen und Thüringen, Markgraf der Ober- und Niederlausitz, Prinz von Oranien, Fürst zu Rügen, zu Ostfriesland, zu Paderborn und Pyrmont, zu Halberstadt, Münster, Minden, Osnabrück, Hildesheim, zu Verden, Kammin, Fulda, Nassau und Moers, gefürsteter Graf zu Henneberg, Graf der Mark und zu Ravensberg, zu Hohnstein, Tecklenburg und Lingen, zu Mansfeld, Sigmaringen und Veringen, Herr zu Frankfurt ("German Emperor and King of Prussia; Margrave of Brandenburg; burgrave of Nürnberg, count of Hohenzollern; sovereign and highest Duke of Silesia as of the county of Glatz; Grand duke of the Lower Rhine and of Posen; Duke of Saxony, Wesphalia, and Angaria, of Pomerania, Lüneburg, Holstein and Schleswig, of Magdeburg, Bremen, Gelders, Cleves, Jülich and Berg, as well as of the Wendes and Kaschubs, of Krossen, Lauenburg, Mecklenburg; Landgrave of Hesse and Thuringia, Margrave of Upper and Lower Lusatia, Prince of Orange, Prince of Rügen, of East Frisia, of Paderborn and Pyrmont, of Halberstadt, Münster, Minden, Osnabrück, Hildesheim, of Verden, Kammin, Fulda, Nassau and Moers; Princely count of Henneberg; Count of the Mark and of Ravensberg, of Hohnstein, Tecklenburg and Lingen, of Mansfeld, Sigmaringen and Veringen, Lord of Frankfurt").
Party abbreviations (from 1
Dec 1933, all political parties except NSDAP were
Allied Military Occupation
2 May
Soviet forces begin the Allied occupation of Berlin.
Military Governors
British Zone
Military Governors
Head of the Central Office for Economic Affairs in
the British Zone
French Zone
Military Commander
Soviet Zone
Military Commanders
Chairman of the German Economic Commission
German areas temporarily annexed by Belgium
23 Apr
Belgian administration begins in the frontier areas of ("West")
German area temporarily annexed by Luxembourg
23 Apr
Luxembourg administration
begins in the frontier areas of ("West")
Note: No separate administration was
established. The nearest unit of the Luxembourg
Nature and Forestry Agency became responsible for the
German areas temporarily annexed by The Netherlands
Tudderen], Wehr, parts of Höngen, Gangelt, Schümm, Saeffelen as
and Elten and Hoch-Elten).
Landdrosten of Elten (subordinated to the Netherlands government, from 26 Sep 1951
to the Queen's Commissioners for Gelderland)
23 Apr 1949 - 28 Oct 1961 Adriaan Blaauboer (b. 1906 - d. 1961) PvdA
5 Nov 1961 - 1 Aug 1963 Hans Georg Inundat baron van Tuyll (b. 1917 - d. 1988) VVD
van Serooskerken
Landdrost of Tudderen (subordinated to the Netherlands government, from 26 Sep 1951
to the Queen's Commissioners for Limburg)
23 Apr 1949 - 1 Aug 1963 Hubert "Huub" Michiel Jozef Dassen (b. 1909 - d. 1978) KVP
Party abbreviations: KVP = Katholieke Volkspartij (Catholic People's Party, confessionalist [catholic], conservative, 22 Dec 1945-10 Oct 1980, merged into Christen-Democratisch Appèl [Christian-Democratic Appeal]); PvdA = Partij van de Arbeid (Labour Party, social-democratic, center-left, est.9 Feb 1946); VVD = Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie (People's Party for Freedom and Democracy, conservative liberal, center-right, est.24 Jan 1948)
Bizonal Economic Council
1 Jan
Economic union of the American and British Zones ("Bizone"
Chairmen of the Economic Council of the Bizone
Director of the Administration of Economic Affairs
of the United Economic Area
Director-General of the Economic Council
Federal Republic of Germany
23 May
Basic Law enters into force.
Party abbreviations: CDU
= Christlich Demokratische Union
Deutschlands (Christian Democratic Union of Germany,
christian-democratic, liberal
conservative, center-right, est.26 Jun 1945); CSU
= Christlich-Soziale Union in Bayern (Christian
Social Union in Bavaria, christian
democratic, christian democratic,
conservative, center-right, Bavaria
regionalist, est.13 Oct 1945); FDP = Freie
Demokratische Partei (Free Democratic Party, liberal,
centrist, est.12 Dec 1948); SPD = Sozialdemokratische
Partei Deutschlands (Social Democratic
Party of Germany, social-democratic, Marxist to
1925, 27 May 1875-22 Jun 1933, re-est.Oct 1945)
German Democratic Republic (East Germany)
7 Oct
German Democratic Republic (Deutsche Demokratische
General Secretaries (28 Jul 1953 - 22 May 1976,
First Secretaries) of the
Co-Chairmen of the Presidium
of the German People's Council
Territorial Disputes: It was U.S.
policy that the final borders of Germany had not been
Party abbreviations: SED
= Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands (Socialist
Unity Party of Germany, Marxist-Leninist communist,
1949-89 government party, 21 Apr 1946-4 Feb 1990, named
SED-PDS Sozialistische Einheitspartei
Deutschlands-Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus
[Socialist Unity Party of Germany-Party of Democratic
Socialism] 16 Dec 1989 - 4 Feb 1990);
Heligoland (Helgoland)
Part of the Duchy of Schleswig-Holstein.
Lieutenant governors
Saarland (Saargebiet, Saarbecken)
French rule.
Administrators-superior (Supreme Administrators)
Presidents of the Landesrat
Party abbreviations: CDU
= Christlich Demokratische Union
Deutschlands (Christian Democratic Union of Germany,
christian-democratic, liberal
conservative, center-right, est.26 Jun 1945);
CVP = Christliche Volkspartei des
Saarlandes (Saarland Christian People's Party,
christian democratic, Saarland regionalist, 10 Jan
1946-19 Apr 1959, merged into CDU); NSDAP
= Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei
(National Socialist German Workers' Party, German
nationalist, national socialist, Nazi
fascist, xenophobic, 14 Jul 1933-31 May
1945 only legal party, 24 Nov 1920-10
Oct 1945); ZP =
Zentrumspartei des Saargebietes (Center
Party of Saarland, catholic centrist,
Saarland regionalist, 1920-1935);
Mil = Military
Allied Occupation of the Rhineland
1 Dec
Allied occupation of territories in western Germany
President and French Representative of the
Permanent Inter-Allied Armistice Commission
German Imperial Ministers for the Occupied
Ruhr Occupation Area 1923-24
Commander of the French occupation forces
(32nd Army Corps)
Commander of the Belgian occupation forces
Presidents of the Inter-Allied Mission for the
Control of Factories and Mines
Party abbreviations: DNVP
= Deutschnationale Volkspartei (German National Party,
conservative, nationalist, monarchist, split from DKP,
24 Nov 1918-27 Jun 1933, merged into NSDAP);
KVP = Konservative
Volkspartei (Conservative People's Party, republican
conservative, split from DNVP, Jul
1930-14 Jul 1933); SPD =
Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (Social
Democratic Party of Germany, social-democratic, Marxist
to 1925, 27 May 1875-22 Jun 1933, re-est.Oct 1945);
Z = Deutsche
Zentrumspartei "Zentrum" (German
Center Party "Center", catholic, centrist, christian
democratic, 13 Dec 1870-5 Jul 1933)
American Zone
Commander of the American Expeditionary Force
American Commissioners
to the Inter-Allied Rhineland High
Commanders-in-chief of the Belgian Army of
Belgian High Commissioners to the
Inter-Allied High Rhineland Commission
British Zone
British High Commissioners to the
Inter-Allied High Rhineland Commission
Commander of the French 10th Army (Xe
General Controller of the Administration of the
Occupied Territories
'Rhineland Republics'
(failed French attempt to back a separatist Rhineland state
as a buffer between Germany and France).
21 Oct 1923 - 27 Feb 1924 Rhineland Republic proclaimed as a confederation of three
states: North (Lower Rhine), South (Upper & Middle Rhine)
and Rhur, with its capital at Cologne; supported by French
and Belgian occupation forces.
12 Nov 1923 - 17 Feb 1924 Palatinate Republic federated with the Rhenanian Republic proclaimed
at Speyer.
Chairman of the Government of the Rhenish Republic
Autonomous Palatinate
Chairmen of the Palatinate Republic
French Departments in Germany 1797-1814
2 Oct
French invasion of the Rhineland begins (Aachen on 6 Oct
Commanders of the Army of the Sambre and Meuse
(northern zone)
13 Dec
French département of Bouches-de-l'Elbe formed
13 Dec
French département of Bouches-du-Weser formed
Principality of East Frisa (Ostfriesland), Barony of
1 Jan 1811
French département of Ems-Supérieur formed from
27 Apr 1811
French département of Lippe formed from
9 Mar
French département of Mont-Tonnerre (German:
9 Mar
French département of Rhin-et-Moselle (Rhine and
9 Mar
French département of Roer formed from duchies
of Jülich,
9 Mar
French département of Sarre formed from parts of
Neu-Schwabenland (New Swabia)
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The Texans will take to the field against the Chicago Bears this Sunday night in prime time. Do you know the team's history? Have you been a fan since the beginning in 2002? Read up on their inaugural year in these books:
Opening Night : The Houston Texans' Inaugural Game (September 8, 2002, Reliant Stadium: Houston Texans 19, Dallas Cowboys 10) by Carter Toole
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Raspberry Ketones – Truth Or Dare?
From Dr. Mehmet Oz to Lynn from LynFit Nutrition, from diet drops to capsules, raspberry ketones could be found almost on every shelf and diet website. But are raspberry ketones here to stay for good or… are they of any good?
The hype around raspberry ketones started when Dr. Oz stated that they are the "miracle fat burners in a bottle". I am sure you've already heard that before, maybe at goji berry, acai berry or african mango. Endorsed by the "creme de la creme" in weight loss environment, raspberry ketones seem to be the new "miracle" compound in diets and supplements.
Initially, raspberry ketones where used as food additives, in perfumery and cosmetics. This natural phenolic compound is extracted from red raspberries and it is one of the most expensive compounds on the market. In 1965, Food and Drug Administration placed raspberry ketones on the safe part, highlighted it with the GRAS status. But this doesn't mean it will help us loose unwanted pounds.
For weight loss purposes, raspberry ketones where tested only on mice. With a very high dosage, up to 2% of their body weight, mice showed a significant weight loss drop. Besides this fact, raspberry ketones were never tested on human subjects and no clinical evidence exists to prove that raspberry ketones really work on humans. Moreover, dr. Robert H. Lustig, one of the top experts in US obesity epidemic stated that mice testing is not sufficient to conclude that raspberry ketones are up to any good.
Even if officially, no pharmaceutical company concluded that raspberry ketones may help an individual in weight loss problems, people are reporting significant results each day. Some of the testimonials are hyped but some are undeniable true. It seems that raspberry ketones really work for some people, results being stated for both man and women.
Truth or Dare?
This is not one of the questions where we can answer the classical: ' You decide!' So, our point of view is this: raspberry ketones are more a provocation than a truth, there is simply not enough information, after balancing marketing from facts to state that it is really a miracle compound.


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Not your usual boring run of the mill greatest hits albums.
(4 out of 5 stars)
"A Wonderful retrospective from one of the most talented and clever bands. Great selections from those classic albums of theirs but there is one question. Why are the tracks from their biggest seller Breakfast in America much shorter whereas the others aren't? "Goodbye Stranger", "The Logical Song" and "Take the Long Way Home" aren't the same unless they are heard in their entirety. If you buy this album, I highly suggest you go out and pick up the Breakfast In America album where you can experience the uncut versions of those wonderful songs."
Excellent, but some throw-away tracks
Ben Frey | Nashville, TN | 02/10/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I have read several reviews on here complaining about this particular supertramp collection. As someone with quite a lot of appreciation for this band's "middle ages" I can say that this album, with a couple of qualifications, doesn't dissappoint. A couple of the songs are the "radio" versions, which are slightly shorter, but if you're like most people, this is the version you actually recognize.
I would like to address the statement by one person that the audio quality wasn't up to par. I have to completely disagree. I'm listening to this album right now (the reason I'm writing the review), and the packaging states that the album is mastered "aad" which means they went from the original analog masters up until the final conversion to CD. This is appropriate for a band like Supertramp, who spent so much effort on their audio fidelity back in the 70s. I've got several thousand dollars of audio equipment and well over 1000 CDs copied to my computer in lossless format to preserve the complete fidelity of the recording, and let me tell you that short of a DVD-A or SACD (Please!) version, it's not going to get better than this. There is absolutely no dynamic compression being applied on this disc, which means you get all the subtle and dramatic changes in volume that should be there but are missing from many of the other Supertramp "greatest hits" collections. Modern engineers are compressing the heck out of audio to make it more "loud" because market research shows that loud music gets more attention on the radio. I could care less. Listen to "Rudy" or "Hide in Your Shell" or "Give a Little Bit" on this compilation and then put the popular "Autobiography" version in the drive and it will sound like someone turned up the volume. That's bad. Common today, but bad. Part of what made supertramp so great was the recording quality. Despite the lack of special packaging treatment, this version is the closest I've heard to the original LP versions, which is the highest compliment I can think to give.
The only weaknesses on this album are the couple of later, dud songs that were included...Nobody wants to listen to "Cannonball." It's not good.
If you're going to buy a greatest hits album, supertramp is the band to buy, because they were a "singles" band more than an album band. Aside from Crime of the Century, which is excellent, most of the albums are filler songs wrapped around the singles. Really big fans know this already and don't care. Or maybe they like the obscure album tracks. That's fine. Those people don't want a compilation anyway. A Bob Dylan greatest hits, or a Pink Floyd greatest hits, not really the way to go. Supertramp? Greatest hits is almost the only way to go."


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This season, it's all about letting loose. There's just something so appealingly louche about a slouchy, wide-leg pant: it's all very Katharine Hepburn, very Lauren Hutton, very "I don't have to try, I was born this chic." (It's also more flattering than you might think.) So stash your skinnies and put a pair of proper trousers (or two) in regular rotation: We've got the five best pairs to take you through spring in style.


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Some answers to our most common questions are answered right here. Not finding what you want? Reach out directly through our Contact Us page.
How can I register for the upcoming event?
Volunteer registration for this MobilePack typically commences three weeks prior to the event date itself. All Volunteer registration takes place via the Feed the Need MobilePack website here.
How did Feed The Need!™ Illinois begin?
In 2012, four Naperville, Illinois congregations worked together to plan and successfully hold a Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) MobilePack event. By pooling the resources of all four congregations, 1,144 volunteers packed a total of 178,848 meals to feed 500 children every day for a year. After this positive experience, the planning team invited other congregations to become co-sponsors for the following year. In 2013, 2,073 volunteers from ten partner congregations packed 453,600 meals, enough to feed 1,242 children for an entire year. Feed The Need!™ Illinois envisions building this growing multi-congregation MobilePack into an annual community-wide event involving Illinois-area congregations from every faith tradition.
Is Feed The Need!™ Illinois affiliated with a religious organization?
Feed The Need!™ is not affiliated with any one religious organization, but it is a faith-based organization. Feed The Need!™ works to bring diverse communities – such as businesses, organizations, schools, churches, individuals, and families – together in an effort to provide food to the hungry around the world. FMSC food is distributed to starving children regardless of faith affiliation or non-affiliation.
Is Feed The Need!™ Illinois a 501(c)3 non-profit organization?
Currently, Feed The Need!™ is an informal collaboration of local congregations, without nonprofit tax status. Feed The Need!™ partners with Feed My Starving Children, a respected 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Feed The Need!™ Illinois's collaborating partner congregations are non-profit religious organizations. Contributions made to Feed My Starving Children and to these partner congregations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
What is in the Feed The Need!™ Illinois food package? How can it feed 6 people?
The food packages contain rice, soy protein, dried vegetables, and vegetarian flavoring with a vitamin and mineral blend. The meals were formulated by a nutritionist to be accepted by most cultures around the world and to be restorative for those who are malnourished. When cooked in boiling water, the rice expands, the soy adds protein, and the dried vegetables and vitamin powder provide additional important micronutrients. Each meal package cooks up into 6 servings.
Who determines where the food packaged at Feed The Need!™ Illinois events goes?
Feed My Starving Children provides life-saving meals to people who need them the most in nearly 70 countries. As a nonprofit organization, FMSC is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors that approves the distribution of food based upon committee recommendations and partnerships with its distribution partners – orphanages, schools, clinics, refugee camps, and malnourishment centers. Factors considered in making this decision include the number of meals available, the need/request received, and the ability of partner organizations to assure that food can be safely transported and distributed to people in need as intended.
How much of my donation towards a Feed The Need!™ Illinois FMSC MobilePack goes to the cause of feeding hungry people vs. administrative expenses?
Feed The Need!™ collaborating congregations pass on 100% of MobilePack donations to FMSC. More than 90% of all donations to FMSC go directly toward the food program. FMSC is largely a volunteer organization that works to feed starving people around the world as efficiently as possible. Its volunteer support and partners of in-kind services help limit overhead expenses.
What other in-kind donations would Feed The Need!™ Illinois consider or be interested in from my business?
Feed The Need!™ seeks and accepts in-kind support through marketing, promotion, printing, catering, gift certificates, items for raffle, use of fork lifts, and more. For more information, please contact us.
How do I learn more about Feed The Need!™ Illinois?
To learn more about Feed The Need!™ Illinois, 1) read more within this site, 2) request to have a speaker come to your business, congregation, or organization, 3) Visit us on Facebook, or 4) contact us with any questions you may have.
How do I donate to support a Feed The Need!™ Illinois FMSC MobilePack?
Donating to a Feed The Need!™ Illinois MobilePack is easy! You may visit our donate page for more information or send a check to one of the participating congregations with the MobilePack number (1802-266AU) written in the memo line.
What is the minimum age for volunteering?
The minimum age for volunteering is 5 years old. Children under 5 are not allowed in packing areas. If your group includes youth, you must follow FMSC's Age Requirements:
May we bring more volunteers than the number of spots we reserved?
We encourage walk-ins. Often, people who registered to pack do not attend. When this occurs, we rely on walk-ins to fill their places. If you have a friend who would like to come with you, we encourage you to bring them along.
How do we cancel a reservation?
Contact the congregation through which you signed up and let its MobilePack organizer know that you wish to cancel your reservation.
Are we supposed to wear any particular clothing?
Are there sit-down jobs for volunteers?
Yes! We reserve one of our most important tasks for sit-down volunteers. Volunteers can sit while labeling bags, which is a vital step to the packing process. This task entails putting our FMSC label on each bag before it is filled with food.
Are there tasks for volunteers who are blind?
Yes! Volunteers who are blind are welcome to label bags, which is a vital step to the packing process. This task entails putting our FMSC label on each bag before it is filled with food.
Can you accommodate special needs groups?
We ask that special needs/transition groups contact Feed The Need!™ Illinois to coordinate arrangements with the FMSC MobilePack supervisor. Please do not register your group without contacting Feed The Need!™ first, in order to ensure that it can be a great experience for all volunteers.
May we purchase merchandise before our packing session begins?
The FMSC MarketPlace is open at Feed The Need!™ Illinois MobilePack sites during packing hours. The ideal time for MarketPlace purchases is before or after volunteer shifts. Each MarketPlace purchase supports artisans around the world and the FMSC food program. There is also a donation table to accept further donations to help cover the cost of the food packed.
If we have already been through volunteer orientation, do we need to go through it again?
Yes. We want to offer the full volunteer experience to all volunteers, both returning and new, and we need to ensure that proper packing procedures are followed. Volunteers must attend both the FMSC orientation and the packing orientation each time they visit.
Are there other ways we can help?
Feed The Need!™ Illinois always welcomes donations towards its MobilePacks. By making a donation through this special page on FMSC's website, your donation will go straight to FMSC and be used specifically to support Feed The Need!™ Illinois's MobilePacks. Each volunteer packs about one box of food, which costs about $50. FMSC does not receive meal ingredients for free. We count on the generosity of our volunteers and donors to help us feed starving children. Make a financial donation.


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My Thoughts About the CIPS Show and the Responsibilities of Manufacturing in China
This was my first time at the CIPS show in Beijing China. This show is quite large and is rivaling the Interzoo show in Germany in terms of size and importance for the pet industry. As I reflect upon last weekend, many differences stand out between shows I have been to in other parts of the world. At other Industry shows, dogs are everywhere. Attendees bring their dogs on leashes and in strollers and many exhibitors have them in their booths. Some people even dress up their dogs in outfits, dye their fur in decorative patterns and paint their nails in bright colors. It seems that most people in other parts of the world are in the pet industry because they have intimate relationships with their dogs. They understand dogs, their behaviors and how they think. They treat them as important parts of their family. At this show I only saw one dog inside the entire time.
While dog ownership in China is dramatically on the rise, it is still very low compared to other countries. Few manufacturers at this show have had the opportunity to own their own dog as a pet. They have never walked a dog on a leash or seen them play or interact with toys. They don't understand what kind of food and treats they like to eat or which dog beds they like to sleep in. And most of all, they have never loved a dog! In many restaurants dog meat is on the menu with some restaurants specializing in just serving dog. Because they have never had the opportunity to know, understand and love dogs, many of the pet product manufacturers at the show see this industry purely as a money-making venture to produce products for other companies around the world.
After my visit to this Chinese pet show, I came away with the view that China has a lot of potential in the pet product manufacturing business. However, if you are going to manufacture products in countries like China, then it is your responsibility as a manufacturer to guide and supervise the manufacturing to make sure that the designs and quality are truly what is best for our dogs. It is your responsibility to make sure that products produced are worthy of "man's best friend"!


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ICILS. International Computer and Information Literacy Study
Overview of ICILS
ICILS was designed to respond to a question of critical interest today: How well are students prepared for study, work, and life in the digital age? The study measures international differences in students' computer and information literacy (CIL). This type of literacy refers to students' ability to use computers to investigate, create, and communicate in order to participate effectively at home, at school, in the workplace, and in the community. The study collects a rich array of data from students in the study's target grade in order to enable investigation of the factors that influence this suite of abilities in these students. This information provides education systems and policymakers with an important data source on the contexts and outcomes of CIL-related education programs.
Target population
The ICILS target population comprises students in their eighth year of schooling. In most education systems, the eighth year of schooling is Grade 8, provided that the average age of students in this grade is 13.5 years or above. In education systems where the average age in Grade 8 is below 13.5, Grade 9 is defined as the ICILS target population.
The Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) in Melbourne serves as the international study center for ICILS. ACER is responsible for designing and implementing the study in close cooperation with the IEA, and the national centers of participating countries.
ICILS 2018 is linked directly to ICILS 2013, allowing countries that participated in the previous cycle to monitor changes over time in CIL achievement and its teaching and learning contexts. For first-time participants, ICILS sheds light on the contexts and outcomes of ICT-related education programs, and the role of schools and teachers in supporting students' computer and information literacy achievement.
ICILS 2018 will also report on the computational thinking domain, understood as the process of working out exactly how computers can help us solve problems. This domain includes not only programming but also structuring and manipulating data sets.
2015: Framework revision and instrument development
2016: Establishment of testing platform, finalization of framework and instruments
2017: Field trial
2018: Main survey data collection
2019: Reporting
Participating countries
Chile, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Kazakhstan, Korea, Luxembourg, Portugal, Russian Federation (Moscow), Uruguay, and the United States.
To enquire about current and future projects, please contact the secretariat [at] iea.nl (subject: The%20International%20Computer%20and%20Information%20Literacy%20Study) (IEA).
For more information, please visit the ICILS 2018 website.
Assessment Framework
ICILS 2023 will be linked directly to ICILS 2013 and 2018. Please see the ICILS 2023 flyer for further details.


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I am by no means a parenting guru. There are people in this area far wiser than I. So do what you will with what I say.
My husband and I want our children to trust our voices because in doing so our hope is that they will not just learn to respect their authority, but also with our help train their ears to hear, understand and ultimately trust the Lord's voice.
It's just a baseline of parenting for us. May it be of help to you.


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George Lucas To Have No Involvement With 'Indiana Jones 5'
When Disney purchases Lucasfilm a few years ago it was expected they'd continue on with the Indiana Jones franchise at some point. We've heard various reports on the fifth movie's progress, most recently learning David Koepp, writer of the maligned Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, had been hired to pen the screenplay, which would be a continuation of sorts. But what about George Lucas? Would he be involved like he's been since the beginning? According to Koepp, the answer is "no".
Speaking with Collider, who apparently couldn't find enough things about Inferno to keep the interview going, Koepp said he's had "no contact" with Lucas and that to the best of his knowledge he isn't involved at all. We heard a few months ago that Lucas would be listed as an exec-producer, but this is likely a ceremonial title with little creative influence. As for what the story will entail, Koepp gives a brilliantly tongue-in-cheek answer...
"All I can say is that there's lots of aliens and Indy dies at the end (laughs). Lots of hiding in lead-lined refrigerators, aliens, and he dies. Should go over very well."
Y'know, if only he could have worked in a Shia LaBeouf reference it would have been perfect. This isn't at all surprising. Lucas was shoved aside for Star Wars: The Force Awakens and things went just fine. Since fans don't really care for Lucas anyway, there's really no value in having his input.


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Thursday, June 28, 2012
Vacuum - I Loved You
Finally it's here!!! Brand new Vacuum's single "I Loved You" is presented in a form of a new video directed by Katarina Di Leva.
Our expectations wasn't wrong, the song has got a massive influences from "My Whole Life is Leading Up To This" dark synthpop-era. At the same time in common track is very light though being utterly sad and thoughtful and even if the video tries to make it desparately dark. Vacuum can go acoustic, can go electronic, can go any experimental way but the final result will always stay truly beautiful and artistic.
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- Денис Иванов said...
The song is very inspiring and thought-provoking about our lives. I am happy!!! Stay holy. D. (NEOV//)
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Continuing on, feeling a little better about posting art that I'm not very happy with. Motivated by glimpses of improvement. Frustrated that I still have so far to go before getting to where I want to be. C'est la vie…
One of those decisions to keep "Run" manageable was to color everyone in a flat wash to separate figures. However, friends who spoke to me about this drawing ALL perceived this as a statement on race, seeing a black man in front of an angry white crowd. I wanted to keep the situation vague but I never intended that specifically.
Those who know me well know I'm not scared to make such a statement. In essence, I failed at representing the theme since this is all about deliberate practice. Yet it's fascinating how a seemingly unrelated design decision to manage scope defined the apparent theme of the piece. Good reminder that images are powerful and every choice needs to be weighed thoroughly.
Decided that I'll draw the line (heh) concerning anatomy studies at the face. Faces are really damn hard and it seems too far away from my specialty to be worthy in a translated-knowledge-to-effort ratio. Have to stay mindful of what I'm really trying to do here. In the future, of course, but I won't be working faces this Inktober.


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Mitsubishi's legendary Pajero has once again taken out top honours in the 2013 Awards by online publication, OzRoamer.
The Mitsubishi Pajero Exceed DiD was awarded best seven-seat 4WD over $60,000 for the second year in a row.
OzRoamer Editor Rob Fraser said the Mitsubishi Pajero continued to edge out its competitors, praising its strong 4WD capabilities.
"Off road the Mitsubishi Pajero is an excellent performer - it remains one of the better handling 4WDs in its class," he said.
"As a standard 4WD, without any modifications, the Mitsubishi Pajero will provide endless kilometres of comfortable outback touring."
Mitsubishi Motors Australia Executive Director of Marketing Tony Principe said the award highlights the Pajero's superior performance and overall value in a competitive market.
"The Pajero is packed full of features and offers the ultimate in comfortable four-wheel driving and exceptional power and performance with no compromise on value.
"The Exceed comes standard with luxury specifications and superior safety features including six airbags, Active Stability and Traction Control and reverse parking sensors."
The Mitsubishi Pajero Exceed DiD, featuring Mitsubishi's 3.2 litre diesel powertrain with five-speed automatic, has a drive away price of $69,990 with premium paint and is available at over 200 dealerships across Australia.
A full list of winners can be found in the OzRoamer Award Special Edition E-Magazine.
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Please don't spam – it's bad for business
Spam is the electronic equivalent of junk mail and now exceeds 70% of all e-mail traffic. Perhaps even more worrying is a recent US study that found that four out of every five children aged 7 to 18 regularly receive spam e-mail offering gambling, money lending, scams and pornographic material.
With no penalty for the shameless waste of consumer's time and internet bandwidth, spam has spread like wildfire. The negatives are all with the consumer, and none with the spammer! In fact, companies make a good living selling your email address to 3rd parties.
Thanks to the spammers, instead of communicating better and more effectively with targeted prospects via email, consumers are unwilling to respond to surveys, to register a product or to subscribe to a newsletter. Overuse by a few unscrupulous bulk email companies is fast ruining this vital communication channel for us all.
Technical solutions continue to evolve, but they accommodate the problem rather than solve it. Most Internet Service Providers have blacklists of regular spammers and there are many software vendors offering individual paid-for solutions.
Perhaps more encouraging in this country - South Africa's new Electronic Communication and Transactions (ECT) Act of 2002 includes legislation against unsolicited bulk emails.
You would think that marketers would avoid doing things that specifically annoy their potential customers? Unfortunately, every time someone responds, and especially buys from one of these emails, the marketer is rewarded for his bad behaviour. Even a rude email telling them to stop sending you junk mail is considered a positive response – it proves that the email address is valid.
The companies that sell the lists and make the profits from spam are seldom the companies selling the product. Commercial companies are lured into buying a "qualified list".
No-one thinks of themselves as a spammer, but many companies send out marketing emails, and often to people who have not specifically requested them. If you are even thinking about an email newsletter, you are in breach of the law if you don't put your full details, including a working email address to allow people to remove themselves from the list.
Spam is not always about selling. Chain letters are spam. They were nonsense when they were on paper, and they are even more nonsense on email.
Jokes are spam. That cute puppy picture you've forwarded to all your friends has been blocking email servers internationally for the past 6 months. Most text jokes are ancient. If you are in the habit of forwarding jokes and goodwill messages, please check every few months that your friends want to receive them! They might not want to admit that its been driving them crazy for years!
Sadly, no-one is going to send you money for forwarding an email to 100 friends, not even Microsoft (especially not Microsoft!). The crippled, mentally retarded 5-year old victim of the latest Bosnian/Turkish/Tokyo/San Francisco earthquake doesn't exist. And most of the petitions will never reach their destination.
- Don't be an unwitting spammer; if you're sending the same item to more than 10 people, you probably shouldn't be sending it at all.
- Stay off mailing lists unless you really trust the source. And watch out for small checkboxes that say "Send me your newsletter".
- Have a disposable email address. Register for a free email address with www.gmail.com and tell your friends to use your public address when 3rd parties are involved, or when you are required to register with a working email address.
- Don't reply in any way to a spam email – not to have your name removed from the list, and never to complain. You are unlikely to be removed from the list and now that your email address is validated as "occupied", it will be included on dozens of other spam mail lists.
- Use your Junk Mail option in Outlook.
- Delete any chain letters you receive. Perpetrating the spam exposes your own email address as well as those of your friends.
- Don't buy email lists from companies – it just encourages them.


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A two-day event for print and marketing services providers is taking place in Düsseldorf on 18/19 May. It will look at the opportunities, trends and potential for "digital transformation" in marketing and media production. The event workshops and the conference, Tage der Medienproduktion, the PRINT digital! convention and the "Düsseldorfer Print Cocktail" exhibition.
It is being organised by PODi Associate member in Germany, Fachverband Medienproduktion (f:mp). The vision of f:mp is to think outside the box and develop new ways of thinking for marketing and media production.
For this event f:mp wants to encourage new ways of thinking and understanding what "digital transformation" really means. The conference will focus on all aspects of new processes and business models using digital technology – new market opportunities, sales strategies, business and production processes. f:mp believes that decision-makers must first develop a vision of what new business models will look like, gain an overview of all available technologies and solutions and then develop a future-oriented strategy. This is why Tage der Medienproduktion and the PRINT digital! convention will be well worth attending.
There is a wide range of speakers at Tage der Medienproduktion and the PRINT digital! convention from leading print and marketing services providers, well-known media technology vendors and influential experts, including:
- Adobe
- Eversfrank
- Forteam Communication
- Limego
- locr
- Obility
- Printdata
- RGF-Consulting
- Sovato
- Transmatico
Running in parallel to the workshops and conferences sessions of Tage der Medienproduktion, the PRINT digital! convention will demonstrate live applications in various production environments encompassing design, crossmedia and production. Also, throughout the event, the "Düsseldorfer Print Cocktail" is an exhibition of digital equipment and applications.


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Outreach by Williams to Prospective Students
I just received an e-mail from the College and Career Center at my son's high school (he is a freshman this year). He attends the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, which is public high school in Alexandria, Virginia which draws students from around Northern Virginia through a competitive admissions process each year. TJ is well known regionally and nationally for the extreme rigor of its curriculum, and in particular for its science, math, and technology offerings. Demographically, TJ is about 65% Asian-American, 25% non-Latino whites, and 10% everything else.
Among the items in the e-mail was the following tidbit which caught my eye:
Juniors, Want to Know More about Williams College, a highly selective Liberal Arts college in rural Massachusetts with a fantastic math department and Oxford-style tutorials? Consider visiting Williams in the fall through the Windows on Williams program. This is an all-expense-paid 3-day visit to Williams, with priority given to low-income students. To apply, go to: https://myadmission.williams.edu/register/WOWApplication2017 Deadline: August 1.
I thought this was very interesting. Traditionally, despite its academic strength, TJ is not a big feeder to Williams or other highly selective liberal arts colleges, as many of its graduates are focused on engineering. Among the popular college destinations for TJ grads are MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Georgia Tech, and others. Nevertheless, Williams is obviously making an effort to reach out to the school in hopes of attracting more of its students (note the pitch for the great math department at Williams, since TJ students are selected based on the mathematical abilities more than anything else). TJ does not have very many low-income students, however, so I'm not sure how well the WOW program will work there. I hope this outreach effort is successful however, as I think more TJ students at Williams would benefit both places.
Advice on Applying to Windows on Williams
Did you read Eph '20's excellent four part series on Windows on Williams (WoW)? You should! Part I, II, III and IV. Here (pdf) is the application, which is due August 1. My advice for those who want to get in (and who recognize the morally suspect nature of the college admissions process):
1) Make your family as poor as possible. (Nothing here is meant to encourage you to "lie," per se, but you should understand what Williams is looking for and adjust your application accordingly.)
Whatever you think your family income is, chop that estimate in half. After all, you don't really know, do you? Also, if there is any reason to think that income is variable, tell Williams the story. Also, keep in mind that Williams cares a lot about whether or not you will be eligible for a Pell Grant.
The maximum award for the 2015-2016 academic year is $5,775. Your eligibility is decided by the FAFSA. Students whose total family income is $50,000 a year or less qualify, but most Pell grant money goes to students with a total family income below $20,000
Williams doesn't care about that $5,775, and it doesn't really care about exactly how poor you are. But it loves to brag about how many students qualify for Pell Grants. And Williams is also rated by other elites (here and here) on this criteria. So, I bet that applicants who report family incomes below $50,000 are much more likely to be accepted at WoW.
2) Make yourself as diverse as possible. URM admissions at Williams is a fascinating topic. The two most relevant posts are probably here and here. Slightly modifying what I wrote 10 (!) years ago:
Note that the WoW application form gives you almost complete latitude in what boxes you check. It asks you to "indicate how you identify yourself." In other words, there is no requirement that you "look" African-American or that other people identify you as African-America, you just have to "identify yourself" as African-American, just as, when she applied for a faculty position at Harvard, Elizabeth Warren identified herself as Native American.
Now, one hopes, that there isn't too much truth-stretching going on currently. The Admissions Department only wants to give preferences to students who really are African-American, who add to the diversity of Williams because their experiences provide them with a very different outlook than their non-African-American peers. But those experiences can only come from some identification — by society toward you and/or by you to yourself — over the course of, at least, your high school years. How can you bring any meaningful diversity if you never thought of yourself as African-American (or were so thought of by others) until the fall of senior year?
The point here is not that the current admissions policy for WoW is bad or good. It is what it is. The point is that there are significant preferences given to those who check certain boxes and that cheap genetic testing will provide many people with a plausible excuse to check boxes that, a few years ago, they did not have.
Checking one of those boxes (other than white or Asian, of course!) will dramatically increase your odds of acceptance to WoW. Similar reasoning applies to the other diversity-lite questions, like first language spoken and language spoken at home.
3) Make your parents as uneducated as possible. (Relevant discussion here and here.) Back in the day, Williams measured socio-economic diversity on the basis of whether or not either parent had a four year college degree. I suspect that this matters much less now, but there is certainly no reason to exaggerate their educational credentials or, for that matter, socioeconomic status.
Good luck to all the applicants!
Windows on Williams IV
As someone who attended Windows on Williams and loved every moment of it, I'm still more than a little skeptical of its efficacy. A lot of the people I met at the program, point blank, told me they weren't that interested in the school; for others, it was a better-than-average safety now that they pretty much knew they'd get admitted.
Ephblog has covered this question before, but, as a new author with a bit of personal experience, I'd like to take a crack at the topic myself. I shamelessly quote from the same Williams Magazine feature that lead our WOW post back in April:
The program is competitive; we get about 1,200 applicants. The students we select are very strong candidates for admission, and getting them here on campus dramatically increases the chances that they apply and will choose to enroll here if we admit them.
I agree with the first bit, I can nod along to the second, the third leaves me in want of proof. Sadly, there's almost nothing public about WOW beyond what little the college deigns to publish, so, I leave you with my thoughts and more than a little anecdote:
1) The yield rate for WOW students might not be higher than our general yield. Again, we proceed w/o especially good data, but, the numbers I were quoted went thus: 70% of two hundred WOW students apply to the college, 85% of that number are admitted, and roughly 40% of those students matriculate at the college. That's not a "dramatic" increase in the chances that a student will enroll; 40% is maintenance on our general yield rate.
Now, perhaps, a 40% yield is good considering that WOW students are alleged to be more talented, diverse, or otherwise just more valuable to admissions than your garden variety Eph. Perhaps that sort of student is more likely go elsewhere, and thus we have to work extra, extra hard to make sure they matriculate.
But none of that seems clear from the quoted block of text! The reasonable inference to make is that a "dramatic" increase in yield rate would mean one that at least exceeds our general yield. You can wax poetic about how a relative increase in the yield rate technically satisfies the quoted statement, but, that answer leaves me a little discomfited; it seems a deceptive way to represent the data. Of course, this wouldn't be a point of contention if the college were to release its actual figures on WOW and not speak in generalities. I eagerly await the day.
2) Is WOW even competitive with similar programs? All of our immediate peers — Amherst, Swarthmore, Pomona — run their own fly-in programs. Further, because the total pool of students who attend fly-ins is pretty small, we can assume that out of the 200 students that attend WOW, at least a few will go to a program at one of our peer schools.
We could easily enough, and due credit here to regular commentator simplicio, send a survey out to students who attended WOW and ask them to check off what fly-in programs they've attended, as well as what school they plan to matriculate at in the fall.
If, out of students that attend both WOW and Amherst's fly-in, we only get 20%-30% of them to matriculate here, then we know that WOW isn't keeping pace. Of course, we'd be working with a fairly small sample size (likely no more than about ten students) but rough indicators would beat flying blind.
Windows on Williams III
Half of this year's entering class is comprised of students who applied Early Decision. How many of those students, might you ask, went to WOW too? 13:
Thirteen students admitted through Early Decision participated in Windows on Williams, a Williams-sponsored program that provides talented, high-achieving high schools seniors from low-income backgrounds the opportunity to visit campus during the fall of their senior year.
We bring nearly two hundred students to campus for WOW and of those students that apply, we admit 85-90% of them. So how do we only have 13 students, about a 20th of the students we fly out here, applying ED? My best guesses:
1) They have no good incentive to apply ED. That 85-90% number, while not promulgated, isn't secret either; everyone who goes to WOW, by the end of it, has heard that number and knows that they stand a very very good chance at getting admitted to the college. Nothing stops these students from treating Williams as a safety. Those that hold the purple-and-gold dear would blanch at the thought, but, like it or not, there's more than a few students on campus today who might have preferred an acceptance letter from Yale or Stanford to one from Williams.
2) They don't think that they can afford to apply ED. If this is the case, then that's something we ought to change. Perhaps WOW students, if interested in applying early, could have a "tentative" aid offer prepared by someone in the financial aid office?
Considering that we're admitting 90% of them already, and we've already brought them to campus at some expense, it doesn't seem unreasonable to close that last inch of distance and get them to apply ED. I'm sure many poorer WOW students, although not all, would jump at the chance to apply ED if they could be reasonably confident that Williams would give them enough aid.
3) They just don't like the school that much. Decently common! You would presume that students who go out of their way to apply to WOW would be above-average in their love for the school, but, you wouldn't be all that correct. I met more than a few people at WOW that didn't plan to apply to the college at all; some liked other schools more, some were just in it for the free trip.
Perhaps, there's some way we could get a slightly more enthused student body to WOW? The prompt for WOW, as it stands, is very general; perhaps we would be better off with something that's more specific to Williams? Or, maybe, it's just a matter of doing a better job at knocking some school spirit into our guests while they're here.
My suggestion: teach visiting students to sing The Mountains. It's never too early, or late, to learn.
Windows on Williams II
Welcome! We're spending the week covering Windows on Williams. Today, I'll be bringing you through the parts of WOW that stuck out to me as memorable:
Welcome Dinner and Introductions
Quite interesting! At the other fly-ins I went to, for the first night, you were handed a meal ticket and pretty much left to shift for yourself at one of the cafeterias. Williams, however, has a whole separate banquet type thing, with catered food and huge tanks of iced apple cider, where student interns in the admissions office mull around and answer any questions that visiting students might have.
I like this quite a bit. It gives the student hosts a break, it gives our visiting students more time in front of admissions office staff, and, it makes for a good venue to conduct introductions from.
Jamboree: Student Performance Showcase
Wretched. Awful. Needs to die, both at Williams and as a convention of the fly-in generally. For one, they almost always schedule the student performances on the first night — when everyone is jet-lagged, and cranky, and really not in the mood to watch a step routine. (And, might I add that attendance is usually mandatory.)
Any charms of the format wear thin by one's second fly-in, usually. Mostly because there's no variety between colleges. I visited three schools, hundreds of miles apart, in different athletic conferences and with radically different alleged styles of education; all of them subjected me to three acapela groups, two dance troupes, and some really maudlin, weirdly metered poetry.
Jamboree: Bad, Bad Trivia
What gave me the most hope for student showcase at Williams — the promise of trivia — ended up being the most disappointing. Here are the three of the questions they asked at my WOW: "What war did Col. Ephraim Williams fight in?" ; "Who is the director of admissions at Williams?" and "Williams is the second oldest college in the state of Massachusetts, what school is the oldest?"
Seriously? We, purport to, and in fact have, a very rich trivial tradition at Williams. And this is the best we can do? I don't want to put too fine a point on this (because WOW as a whole is great and my specific critiques should be read as footnotes to mountains of praise) but how fun is it to ask students to recall the name of an admissions director they've just met? And why the last question? Why are we bothering, even indirectly like this, to compare Williams to Harvard? It seems a slimy way to rub some of the Harvard prestige off on Williams. Why not ask a question about Pres. Garfield, or Leehom Wang? It might teach the youth something.
Mountain Day
My WOW, the October session, ended up falling on Mountain Day. I couldn't imagine a better time to be on campus; the idyllic, sexed-up Williams that we ought to be showing prefrosh comes out on Mountain Day. Can we bring future WOW classes to campus during Mountain Day without spoiling the surprise? It's my hope we can.
Sample Classes
Very good! Surprisingly good, actually. I was worried that, at fifty students apiece, the sample classes would be overcrowded, but, evidently there exist members of the Williams faculty that can teach fifty student seminars. Prof. Leyla Rouhi, in particular, had a sort of rockstar quality; there was a line of people waiting to speak to her after she finished teaching.
Divisions Dinner
I won't say much about it, because unqualified praise doesn't need the space. Interestingly, two Ephblog favorites, Prof. Joe Cruz '91 and Prof. Steven Miller, were both in attendance at the October WOW. Prof. Miller even gave the whole room a neat little demonstration of Benford's Law.
That concludes our post today! Tomorrow, we return to the usual Ephblog listicle format as well as to reasonable standards of length.
Windows on Williams I
We're spending a few days covering Windows on Williams, the college's biggest little program that no one seems to know a thing about. If you, dear reader, are one of those people, best to consult our two other articles on it first before proceeding below. Today is day one, and we begin with the college's own scanty description of the program:
WOW [Windows on Williams] gives high school seniors the opportunity to spend three all-expenses-paid days at Williams. WOW is a selective program open to high school students in the U.S. and Puerto Rico; preference is given to high-achieving students who couldn't otherwise afford to visit Williams.
WOW participants stay in dorms with current students, attend classes, meet with professors, and learn about our admission process and our extraordinary financial aid program.
Where to start? General context first:
1) Williams is not unique, or particularly virtuous, in offering to fly students to campus. All of our peer schools — Amherst, Swarthmore, Pomona (even Bowdoin) — have similar programs. Why? Easy: because it's one of the few ways elite liberal arts schools can counter punch when they, inevitably, scrap with larger universities for students. We can't out-spend, out-market, or out-brand a financially massive institution like, say, Harvard. What we can do is target a few excellent students, bring them to campus, and make the case that a choice between Williams and Harvard is an easy decision.
1.1) Further, we can expect most of our fly-in students will know that. Personally, I went to three fly-ins. Talking to people, I got the sense that was pretty average. About half of the people I talked to attended less than that (usually two, rarely just one) and the other half attended more. (One girl I met planned to go to twelve fly-ins; she had applied to more.)
2) Williams is, however, not not virtuous. Williams, as it should, makes its application public and welcomes all sorts of folk to apply. Some schools either put their application on a part of their website that isn't public facing, or, even better, require that you be "invited" to apply. The amount of sleaze required, to limit access to a program designed to provide access to the poor and disadvantaged, is staggering, yet, unsurprisingly, not uncommon among the admissions staff of fancy-pants schools.
3) But, Williams does run a good fly-in! There's a few things that spell a good, or at least prestigious, fly-in: funded travel for all admits, relatively small size, selectivity and two-night length. Windows on Williams hits pretty much all of those benchmarks: everyone gets their travel paid for, each session of WOW is around 100 students, only 16% of WOW applicants get in, and, most importantly, the program is a luxuriant three days — two whole overnights.
Tufts, on the other hand, crams 250 students into one fly-in, that accepts roughly 50% of applicants, and only lasts two days (one overnight). That sort of program, at least to students who've attended better ones, are treated as minimally desirable (e.g, if you had a better fly-in to go to, you'd bump the Tufts one off your schedule.) Or, if you didn't have anything to do that weekend, you might attend as a sort of blow-off trip because it was easy to get in and the application was short.
It's important that our fly-in students have a good time here, but, because recruiting students is a zero-sum game, it is arguably more important that they have a better time here than they have anywhere else. Is that something the administration keeps in mind? I would expect so, but I'm really just guessing. Perhaps admissions officers are less savage than I imagine them to be.
Guesses, educated or otherwise, on that topic are more than welcome in the comments.
WOW Details
As usual, the best material at EphBlog is often in the comments. Example from a member of the class of 2020:
I was a WOW attendee last year, and while I was on campus I had the opportunity to listen to a few presentations given by admissions staff that provided us w/ fairly specific statistics about the program.
Because the college itself isn't all that forthcoming about providing this numbers, I think it might be of (some) use for me to catalog them here. First, total admittance and the sort of people admitted to WOW:
Out of 1200 applicants, Williams admits roughly 200 to WOW. That provides for an admit rate of around 1/6, which is, coincidentally, also the admit rate of the college as a whole.
Those 200 students pick between a WOW session in October and one in September, and they usually do attend. The number I was quoted by admissions staff is that only a few admitted students don't attend the program at all. (I believe the number was 5-10, but, I can't recall with any real certainty.)
Of the students that actually attend WOW, which is of course a touch less than the 200 admitted, 70% actually end up applying to the college. So if we're being generous, we now have 140 WOW attendees who have actually applied to the school. Out of those applicants, 85-90% will be admitted. (I can recall this figure fairly precisely, because, as a WOW attendee desperate to get admitted to the college, it seemed important to remember)
The next piece of information is a touch discontinuous from the first several in form, but, it's what I was told so it's what I'll repeat: out of all WOW attendees, 50 matriculate the succeeding fall.
So, how might we calculate a yield rate out of that number? If we do it out of total attendees 50/200, then we're left with a yield of 25% — fairly dismal; however, if we grind through the numbers and calculate the actual yield of WOW attendees who apply to the program and then are admitted, we're left with an imprecise yield rate of 40%
That's not startlingly different from the college's overall yield rate. And, while it may be so that attending WOW did increase those students' chance of attending Williams (perhaps they would have otherwise gone to HYPS) there's no doubt that at least some in the broader college community would be miffed to learn that the college spends a pretty penny on flying students out only to yield one in four of them.
I have some other anecdotes about the program and fly-ins I could probably share, but, as none of them are really material to what we're discussing here, I think I'll end this post before it gets much longer.
Thanks for the details! And, please, tell us more anecdotes. EphBlog readers are always eager to learn more about how Williams operates.
Dudley '89 on Financial Aid III
Provost Will Dudley's discussion (pdf) of financial aid at Williams is equal parts useful and misleading. Let's spend five days discussing it. Today is Day 3.
We run a program in the fall called WOW—Windows On Williams. We've nearly doubled the size of this program in the last couple of years because it's so effective. We fly in, at our expense, about 200 low-income and first-generation students to spend a couple days on campus, meet each other, meet other Williams students and attend classes. The program is competitive; we get about 1,200 applicants. The students we select are very strong candidates for admission, and getting them here on campus dramatically increases the chances that they apply and will choose to enroll here if we admit them.
We have a similar previews program in the spring for admitted students who haven't already participated in WOW and can't afford to come here on their own. We want to make sure they get a chance to experience this place in person before they decide where to go to college. Our admission office travels to high schools where low-income and first-generation students are likely to be found. … That's what need-seeking is: doing everything we can in a very active way to admit as many talented, low-income students as we can.
Interesting stuff. Comments:
1) There is a great senior thesis to be written about how "effective" (or not) WOW is. Recall Peter Nurnberg's '09 excellent thesis about predicting which accepted students will choose Williams. This is an important topic, of interest to Williams and to elite colleges more broadly.
2) Has anyone at Williams — including the dozens of capable folks who report to Dudley — actually studied this? I have my doubts. But tell us about it if you have! Note that obvious selection bias inherit in Will's claim that "getting them here on campus dramatically increases the chances" such students apply and enroll. The problem is that comparing students who do WOW with students who don't do WOW is, potentially, useless because, almost by definition, students who do WOW are much more interested in Williams than students who don't do WOW. They would be much more likely to apply/enroll than other students even if WOW did not exist. In fact, for all Will knows, WOW might actually decrease the percentages of such students who apply/enroll. (My bet, of course, is that Will is right and that WOW works.)
The right way to test WOW would be a standard A/B approach. Randomly select 10% (or whatever) of the students who met the criteria for WOW and then don't invite them. If those students apply/enroll at the same rates as the WOW students, then WOW doesn't do anything.
The College, like most modern bureaucracies, ought to do much more randomized testing to find out what works and what does not.
3) Even without a proper randomized controlled trial (RCT), you can still try to estimate the causal effect of WOW using various statistical approaches. A statistics major ought to jump on this opportunity.
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This blog is about a journey through adult braces, Orthognathic Surgery - Bimaxillary surgery (double jaw surgery), having an under-bite and being a wimp!
Wednesday, 19 March 2014
Almost time to say bye to my braces
This has flown by! Mainly because I have been running round like a mad woman, but It really has come round quick! I feel a bit sad they are going really, end of an era. a good end though, but they have just become a part of me.
However, as there final parting gift, my braces have bestowed to me the mother of all ulcers/cuts on the inside of my lip. Thanks braces, I love you too.
I will do a proper update at the weekend with pics etc , but here is one of me and my man on a recent weekend break in London.
Much bracey love xxxx
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A week!! Woohoo for you Natasha. It's exciting hey (I'm seven weeks out from de-bracing).ReplyDelete
Loving that gorgeous megawatt smile of yours, can't wait to see it metal free.
Ellie xx
Hey love, That is great! how does it feel to be 7 weeks out?ReplyDelete
I'm excited to see it too, its going to be weird! no more metal mouth for me hahahaha! xxx
Your smile is gorgeous Natasha! With or without braces! It will be strange to be without them no doubt, but I'm sure you'll get used to it, lol. ;)ReplyDelete
You look so happy in this picture Natasha!ReplyDelete
Just took a peek at your brace-free piccys and I must say you look stunning! You ooze confidence which is just lovely to see :)
Enjoy your new smile xxxxx


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