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|Article Index
|UNRIC Library Newsletter - May 2018
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DESA Divisions
As of 8 May, six of nine DESA's Divisions and Offices have been renamed and the work of the subprogrammes in DESA has been reorganized to better support Member States in implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda. This reorganization will align the work of DESA with these global mandates and improve the efficiency, effectiveness, accountability, and internal coordination of the Department's support to Member States in achieving the ambitious and transformative goals set out in both Agendas. (DESAlert 14-18 May 2018)
Global Compact on Refugees: Second Draft
The second draft of the global compact on refugees (GCR) was prepared on the basis of the second and third formal consultations. Included in the letter is also a summary of the main changes that have been made to the previous version.
Further information – UNHCR website: http://www.unhcr.org/formal-consultations-on-the-global-compact-on-refugees.html
UN Archives Geneva – Research Guide: "Women & Global Diplomacy: From Peace Movements to the UN"
Welcome to the Research Guide on women and global diplomacy. This guide was built to streamline the research process on this particular topic. It combines primary and secondary sources from both the archives and library of the United Nations at Geneva. The guide also includes links to relevant sites outside of the UNOG library and archives. The guide can be used as a tool to jump-start a research process, or just to gain insight on what role women and women's rights played on the international scale at the United Nations, League of Nations, and even before.
UNRIC Library Backgrounder: UN Press & Media Contacts – updated version
English, html: http://un4.me/1KYaAxh
English, pdf: https://un4.me/2KLH4le
French, pdf: https://un4.me/2v20v54
A revised and updated version of our backgrounder - listing the relevant URLs for each UN organization, programme, fund & mission - is now available. Just bookmark it and you can easily access the information you are looking for without having to search the various websites.
"9 out of 10 people worldwide breathe polluted air" (WHO)
Press Release, Key Facts, Infographics, Data and Maps: http://www.who.int/news-room/air-pollution
Summary of results: https://un4.me/2wdvzzY
Press Release in French: https://un4.me/2Icdy9U
Press Release in Spanish: https://un4.me/2rhgJ6i
Air pollution levels remain dangerously high in many parts of the world. New data, released by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 2 May 2018, shows that 9 out of 10 people breathe air containing high levels of pollutants. Updated estimations reveal an alarming death toll of 7 million people every year caused by ambient (outdoor) and household air pollution. WHO estimates that around 7 million people die every year from exposure to fine particles in polluted air that penetrate deep into the lungs and cardiovascular system, causing diseases including stroke, heart disease, lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases and respiratory infections, including pneumonia.
European Union Tourism Trends (EU / UNWTO)
This new report, prepared by the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) in cooperation with the European Commission, underscores tourism's major social and economic benefits for 28 countries comprising the European Union (EU). EU destinations welcomed 538 million international overnight visitors in 2017, 40% of the world total. EU accommodation establishments provide over 3 billion nights a year, half of which to domestic guests (residents) and half to international guests. Tourism accounts for 6% of the EU's overall exports, while the direct contribution of tourism to individual EU economies reaches up to 11% of the GDP.
Evaluation of Data on Thyroid Cancer in Regions Affected by the Chernobyl Accident: A White Paper to guide the Scientific Committee's future programme of work (UNSCEAR)
A quarter of all thyroid cancer cases among patients who were children at the time of the Chernobyl accident 32 years ago, are "probably" due to high doses of radiation received during and after the event, the United Nations body reviewing the effects of atomic radiation on human health and the environment has said. About 20,000 thyroid cancer cases were registered from 1991 to 2015 among people who were under 18 in 1986 and lived in the affected areas of the former Soviet Union, according to the latest study by the UN Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR), which was released ahead of International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day, 26 April. The Committee now estimates that one in four of those cases is attributable to radiation exposure.
Fair Progress? Economic Mobility across Generations Around the World (World Bank)
Report in English, Overview in English, French & Spanish: https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/28428
If you are born into a low-income family, what are the chances that you will rise higher regardless of your background? The ability to move up the income ladder, both in one's lifetime and with respect to one's parents, matters for fighting poverty, reducing inequality, and even for boosting growth. Yet, mobility has stalled in recent years in large parts of the world, with the prospects of too many people across the world still too closely tied to their parents' social status rather than their own potential, according to the findings of a new World Bank report launched today. Mobility is also much lower, on the average, in developing economies than in high-income economies. The developing world accounts for 46 of the bottom 50 economies in terms of mobility in education from the bottom to the top. The report shows that Africa and South Asia, the regions with most of the world's poorest people, have the average lowest mobility. In some low-income or fragile African countries, only 12 percent of today's young adults—those born in the 1980s—have more education than their parents. On the other hand, East Asia, Latin America and Middle East and North Africa have seen their average mobility improve. While mobility tends to improve as economies get richer, the report suggests that there is nothing inevitable about this process. Rather, as economies develop, mobility is likely to increase if opportunities become more equal, which typically requires higher public investments and better policies.
Leveraging the AIDS response for United Nations reform and global health: Report of the Secretary-General (A/72/815, 3 April 2018)
English, French, Spanish: http://undocs.org/en/A/72/815
Summary: "The present report sets out five recommendations: (a) mobilize an HIV testing revolution and achieve the 90–90–90 targets; (b) accelerate efforts to end tuberculosis and other co-infections and co-morbidities; (c) use the HIV prevention road map to accelerate reductions in new infections; (d) safeguard human rights and promote gender equality through people-centred service delivery models and supportive legal and policy frameworks; and (e) leverage the joint programme of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the H6 partnership as global health accelerators and incubators for United Nations reform.
Managing epidemics: Key facts about major deadly diseases (WHO)
Epidemics of infectious diseases are occurring more often, and spreading faster and further than ever, in many different regions of the world. The background factors of this threat are biological, environmental and lifestyle changes, among others. A potentially fatal combination of newly-discovered diseases, and the re-emergence of many long-established ones, demands urgent responses in all countries. Planning and preparation for epidemic prevention and control are essential. The purpose of this "Managing epidemics" manual is to provide expert guidance on those responses. Although this publication is open to a wide readership, it is primarily intended to help the World Health Organization (WHO) country representatives (WRs) to respond effectively and rapidly at the very start of an outbreak. The manual provides concise and basic up-to-date knowledge with which WRs can advise Ministries of Health in all countries. Specifically, it examines and explains in detail a total of 15 different infectious diseases and the necessary responses to each and every one of them.
Start Free Stay Free AIDS Free — 2017 progress report (UNAIDS)
This progress report reflects achievements made during the first year of implementation (through December 2016), as countries have taken actions in line with new or existing national strategies. The most recent data on country progress in 2016 are based on country-reported data and country-developed models using Spectrum software that were reported to UNAIDS in 2017.
Technology and Innovation Report 2018: Harnessing Frontier Technologies for Sustainable Development (UNCTAD)
Technologies on the frontier of what is possible can boost the ambitious agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals and help find global solutions to 21st century economic, social and environmental challenges, says the new UNCTAD report, launched on 15 May 2018. According to the report, frontier technologies are converging through the increasing use of digital platforms to produce new combinatory technologies, accelerating the pace of change across multiple sectors. The report calls for a concerted international effort to build technological capabilities and to support all forms of innovation in developing countries. Least developed countries in particular should receive international support to build their domestic capabilities and create an enabling environment necessary for frontier technologies to deliver.
Tracking SDG7: The Energy Progress Report
English, French, Spanish & Portuguese: http://trackingsdg7.esmap.org/downloads
The world is not on track to meet the global energy targets for 2030 set as part of the Sustainable Development Goals, but real progress is being made in certain areas – particularly expansion of access to electricity in least developed countries, and industrial energy efficiency, according to a new report from five international agencies. Renewable energy is making impressive gains in the electricity sector, although these are not being matched in transportation and heating – which together account for 80% of global energy consumption. While global trends are disappointing, recent national experiences around the world offer encouraging signs. There is mounting evidence that with the right approaches and policies, countries can make substantial progress in clean energy and energy access and improve the lives of millions of people.
UN Climate Change improves Website
Short guide: https://unfccc.int/news/how-to-navigate-the-website
The UN Climate Change secretariat (UNFCCC) has launched a new version of its website to improve public access to information through modern and user-friendly technology.
UN Climate Change Annual Report 2017
UN Climate Change launched its first-ever Annual Report on 30 April 2018, laying out the key 2017 achievements and pointing to the future of the climate change process. The report covers many areas of the 2017 work of UN Climate Change, which includes the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Kyoto Protocol and Paris Agreement, as well as their bodies, institutional arrange-ments, organs and the secretariat.
Women and men in the informal economy: A statistical picture; 3rd edition (ILO)
Two billion people – more than 61 per cent of the world's employed population – make their living in the informal economy, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said in a report released on 30 April 2018, stressing that a transition to the formal economy is a condition to realize decent work for all. The report provides comparable estimates on the size of the informal economy and a statistical profile of informality using criteria from more than 100 countries. When excluding agriculture, half of the employed population are in informal employment, according to the report. In Africa, 85.8 per cent of employment is informal. The proportion is 68.2 per cent in Asia and the Pacific, 68.6 per cent in the Arab States, 40.0 per cent in the Americas and 25.1 per cent in Europe and Central Asia. The report shows that 93 per cent of the world's informal employment is in emerging and developing countries.
World Economic Situation and Prospects as of Mid-2018
Growth in the world economy is surpassing expectations and global GDP is now expected to expand by more than three per cent this year and in 2019, reflecting strong growth in developed countries and broadly favourable investment conditions, this new UN report finds. But rising trade tensions, heightened uncertainty over monetary policy, increasing debt levels and greater geopolitical tensions can potentially thwart progress, according to the report, launched on 17 May 2018 in New York.
World Employment and Social Outlook 2018: Greening with jobs (ILO)
Report in English, Summary in English, French & Spanish: http://www.ilo.org/global/publications/books/WCMS_628654/lang--en/index.htm
Twenty-four million new jobs will be created globally by 2030 if the right policies to promote a greener economy are put in place, a new ILO report says. According to the report, released on 14 May 2018, action to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius will result in sufficient job creation to more than offset job losses of 6 million elsewhere. New jobs will be created by adopting sustainable practices in the energy sector, including changes in the energy mix, promoting the use of electric vehicles and improving the energy efficiency of buildings. Ecosystem services - including air and water purification soil renewal and fertilization, pest control, pollination and protection against extreme weather conditions - sustain, among others, farming, fishing, forestry and tourism activities, which employ 1.2 billion workers. But projected temperature increases will make heat stress, particularly in agriculture, more common. It can lead to several medical conditions, including exhaustion and stroke. The report calculates that heat stress will cause a 2 per cent global loss in hours worked by 2030 due to sickness.
World Urbanization Prospects 2018
By 2050, two out of every three people are likely to be living in cities or other urban centres, according to a new United Nations report, highlighting the need for more sustainable urban planning and public services. Owing to both demographic shifts and overall population growth, that means that around 2.5 billion people could be added to urban areas by the middle of the century, predicts the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA). Most of the increase is expected to be highly-concentrated in just a handful of countries. "Together, India, China and Nigeria will account for 35 per cent of the projected growth of the world's urban population between 2018 and 2050…It is projected that India will have added 416 million urban dwellers, China 255 million and Nigeria 189 million," said DESA, announcing the findings on 16 May 2018.
Concept note for the Security Council open debate on peacebuilding and sustaining peace
English, French & Spanish: https://undocs.org/en/S/2018/325
The Security Council held a high-level briefing on the theme "Peacebuilding and sustaining peace" on 25 April 2018. The Security Council President for April, Peru, had prepared a concept note for this debate.
Concept note for the Security Council open debate on upholding international law within the context of the maintenance of international peace and security
English, French & Spanish: https://undocs.org/en/S/2018/417
The Security Council held an open debate on the subject "Upholding international law within the context of the maintenance of international peace and security" on 17 May 2018. In order to help guide the discussion the Security Council President for May, Poland, has prepared this concept note.
Concept note for the Security Council open debate on the protection of civilians in armed conflict
English, French & Spanish: https://undocs.org/en/S/2018/444
The Security Council held a ministerial open debate on the subject "Protection of civilians in armed conflict" on 22 May 2018. Security Council President for May, Poland, has prepared this concept note.
Further information: UNRIC Library Backgrounder - https://un4.me/2m9QRZH
Kasai: A Children's Crisis – Coping with the impact of conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (UNICEF)
English & French: https://www.unicef.org/publications/index_102863.html
As part of a UNICEF series highlighting the challenges faced by children in current crisis situations, this Child Alert examines the situation of children affected by violent conflict in Kasai region, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The alert outlines what UNICEF and its partners have achieved to date in providing humanitarian assistance to children in Kasai affected by malnutrition and lack of access to health care, safe water and education. It calls upon all parties to the conflict – and the international community – to take urgent action protecting the lives and futures of children at risk, before it is too late.
Audiovisual Library of International Law
A new series of lectures on various subjects of the Council of Europe are now available:
A/CN.4/719 (6 April 2018): Second report on succession of States in respect of State responsibility / by Pavel Šturma, Special Rapporteur
English, French & Spanish: http://undocs.org/A/CN.4/719
"During its sixty-ninth session, in May 2017, the Commission decided to place the topic "Succession of States in respect of State responsibility" on its current programme of work, and appointed Mr. Pavel Šturma as Special Rapporteur. Thereafter, the Special Rapporteur prepared a short, first report (A/CN.4/708), in particular on the scope of the topic and a tentative programme of work, as a basis for an initial debate later in the session. That report was presented and considered by the Commission during the second part of the session between 13 and 25 July 2017. … The present report will address, in addition to certain general rules, mainly the issues of transfer of the obligations arising from the internationally wrongful act of the predecessor State. In other words, succession of States in respect of responsibility "would therefore mean the devolution of the obligation of reparation from the predecessor State to the successor State". The Special Rapporteur's third report (2019) will in turn focus on the transfer of the rights or claims of an injured predecessor State to the successor State."
A/CN.4/720 (30 April 2018): First report on protection of the environment in relation to armed conflicts / by Marja Lehto, Special Rapporteur
English, French & Spanish: http://undocs.org/A/CN.4/720
"The present report has a twofold purpose. Following the list of issues identified by the Working Group as being in need of further consideration in the context of the topic, the report focuses, in the first place, on the protection of the environment in situations of occupation. … In the second place, the report addresses the complementarity of other relevant areas of international law, which was another issue raised in the Working Group — and indeed one that is inherent to the topic."
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academic article
- ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Secoviridae. Journal of General Virology. 98.0:529.0-531.0. 2017
- Secoviridae: a proposed family of plant viruses within the order Picornavirales that combines the families Sequiviridae and Comoviridae, the unassigned genera Cheravirus and Sadwavirus, and the proposed genus Torradovirus. Archives of Virology. 154:899-907. 2009
- Cheravirus and Sadwavirus: two unassigned genera of plant positive-sense single-stranded RNA viruses formerly considered atypical members of the genus Nepovirus (family Comoviridae). Archives of Virology. 152:1767-1774. 2007

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Today - with the massive amount of rain that's been pouring down lately - one would assume I'd be talking about the natural kind of clouds, but the title actually refers to storing data "in the could".
With people having more computers, laptops and smartdevices (not only phones) managing your data becomes increasingly challenging. You know the feeling you get when the one file, image or piece of data you need just isn't on the device you're using? Come on, it's happened to the best of us, hasn't it? I used to carry around a collection of usb sticks, but even so you need to keep those synchronized and updated.
Enter "the cloud". It's fluid, barely visible, yet never far away. Your data becomes sort of omnipresent, if you are hooked up to the internet that is. I've just started by opening a dropbox account which allows me to store up to 2GB in the cloud, for free.
I can access it from my desktop, laptop, even my smartphone. Pretty awesome if you ask me, however... one thing calls from some extra attention : your files are encrypted in the cloud, but the corporation running dropbox allows itself the right to :
"Collect and store the files you upload, download, or access with the Dropbox Service ("Files"). If you add a file to your Dropbox that has been previously uploaded by you or another user, we may associate all or a portion of the previous file with your account rather than storing a duplicate.
Log Data. When you use the Service, we automatically record information from your Device, its software, and your activity using the Services. This may include the Device's Internet Protocol ("IP") address, browser type, the web page visited before you came to our website, information you search for on our website, locale preferences, identification numbers associated with your Devices, your mobile carrier, date and time stamps associated with transactions, system configuration information, metadata concerning your Files, and other interactions with the Service. (full privacy policy here)
I suggest you read it before using it. I'll be looking into independent encryption so even if someone was to access the files on my dropbox account (legally or maliciously) they'd get nothing but garbled data. Not because I plan to store sensitive data in the cloud, but because it's a good precautionary measure to limit access to data that others may be interested in. BoxCryptor looks like a likely candidate to do what I need.
Interested in giving Dropbox a try to? Hit this referral link and instead of just the free 2GB, you'll get 2.5GB for free :)
Update : BoxCryptor proved to be a very easy install and way of encrypting data stored on my dropbox account. It's like I have my personal encrypted vault with me all the time now, yay!


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Doron Gordon
Founder / Chief Executive Officer
Doron is a successful entrepreneur and the Founder and CEO of Samanage. Prior to founding Samanage, Doron was a Co-Founder and VP of Sales and Marketing at Continuity Software, a leading provider of disaster recovery and high availability management solutions. Earlier, Doron was a senior manager at BMC Software, a global leader in IT management software. He was also the Founder and CEO at Always-On Software, an innovative application service provider. Previously, Doron held various technical and sales roles at Crystal Systems and IDF/Mamram. Doron holds a B.Sc from Mercy College and an M.B.A. from Touro University.


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Male bonding is a term that is used in ethology, social science, and in general usage to describe patterns of friendship and/or cooperation in men (or in the case of ethology: males of various species). The exact meaning of the term differs across contexts.
In ethology, a species is said to have male bonding if the males regularly form coalitions in which they mutually support each other, especially if such coalitions are used to attack other groups or individuals. Male bonding is not very common in animals, but it is found in both chimpanzees (e.g. raiding behaviour) and humans (e.g. war). Although females occasionally participate in such groups that kill others, they are normally a minority in a coalition that is composed mostly of males.
In the context of human relationships, male bonding is used to (sometimes jokingly or informally) describe friendship between men, or the way in which men befriend each other. The expression is sometimes used synonymously with the word cameraderie. Friendships among men are often based on shared activities, instead of emotional sharing, which is more typical of women's friendships. Stereotypical common activities of male friends include watching sports on television, drinking beer, or going for a cigarette. First widely-noticed use of the term was in MEN IN GROUPS (1969;2004) by anthropologist Lionel Tiger.
Further readingEdit
- Brehm, S. S., Miller, R. S., Perlman, D. & Campbell, S. M. (1992). Intimate relationships. Third edition, chapter 7: paragraph about "gender differences in same-sex friendships", p. 212-213.
- Fanning, Patrick & McKay, Matthew. (1993). Being a friend: Making and keeping male friends. In "Being a man: A guide to the new masculinity" (pp. 108-125). Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications, Inc.
- Garfinkel, Perry. (1992). "In a man's world: Father, son, brother, friend, and other roles men play." Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press.
- Miller, Stuart. (1986). "Men & friendship." Bath, England: Gateway Books.
- Nardi, Peter. (1992). "Men's friendships" (Research on men and masculinities series). Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.
- Pasick, Robert S. (1990). Friendship between men. In Meth, Richard L., Pasick, Robert S., et al, "Men in therapy: The challenge of change" (pp. 108-127). New York: The Guilford Press.
- Pasick, Robert S. (1992). Staying awake: The importance of friendship. In "Awakening from the deep sleep: A powerful guide for courageous men" (pp. 222-244). San Francisco, CA: HarperSanFrancisco (A division of HarperCollins, Publishers).
- Wrangham, R. & Peterson, D. (1996). Demonic males: Apes and the origins of human violence. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
Lionel Tiger, Men in Groups, Random House 1969; Transaction, 2004
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Fingerprint checks for teaching candidates
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â?¢ Research the fingerprint process in your state.
â?¢ Identify what specific offenses would preclude teacher candidates from receiving fingerprint clearance.
â?¢ Describe different tiers or classes for fingerprint approval based on prior convictions that might exist in your state.
â?¢ Summarize the appeal process if a candidate is denied. Include timelines, fees, and other details of this process.
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Research the fingerprint process in your state.
The state of Georgia does not have a state-centralized fingerprint clearance system for teacher candidates. Each local system, counties usually, but also some city or district school systems, impose their own rules and regulations for investigation of potential teacher candidates' possible criminal records clearance process. Most systems that I know of do have some sort of process in place. Generally, candidates must submit a statement with their applications acknowledging that they will submit to a criminal records check if they are offered a contract, and that the contract is temporary pending the results of that check. So, candidates are aware at the time they submit an application for employment that such a check will be made. Some systems pay for the criminal record check on behalf of the candidate, and some require the candidate to pay for the check. Some reimburse the candidate if the check is negative, some ...
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Discussion of background and criminal record checks, including fingerprinting for teaching candidates in Georgia.


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Watching the watchers
Britain's Department of Education believes that McCarthyism needs revival:
Lecturers and university staff across Britain are to be asked to spy on "Asian-looking" and Muslim students they suspect of involvement in Islamic extremism and supporting terrorist violence, the Guardian has learned.
They will be told to inform on students to special branch because the government believes campuses have become "fertile recruiting grounds" for extremists.
The Department for Education has drawn up a series of proposals which are to be sent to universities and other centres of higher education before the end of the year. The 18-page document acknowledges that universities will be anxious about passing information to special branch, for fear it amounts to "collaborating with the 'secret police'". It says there will be "concerns about police targeting certain sections of the student population (eg Muslims)".
The proposals are likely to cause anxiety among academics, and provoke anger from British Muslim groups at a time when ministers are at the focus of rows over issues such as the wearing of the veil and forcing Islamic schools to accept pupils from other faiths.
Wakkas Khan, president of the Federation of Student Islamic Societies, said: "It sounds to me to be potentially the widest infringement of the rights of Muslim students that there ever has been in this country. It is clearly targeting Muslim students and treating them to a higher level of suspicion and scrutiny. It sounds like you're guilty until you're proven innocent."
Gemma Tumelty, president of the National Union of Students, said: "They are going to treat everyone Muslim with suspicion on the basis of their faith. It's bearing on the side of McCarthyism."
The stupidity, racism and naivity is staggering. Does the government not think that any number of spurious reports will be filled, alleged "terrorist" activity reported (stop reading that Pilger/Chomsky/Said book or I'll tell the government) and new enemies made?
The Blair government – caring for a better, more inclusive future.


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The city of Florence which is the capital city of Tuscany is one of the most beautiful cities all over the world.
Tuscany is itself a magnificent city which houses one of the seven wonders of the world, " The Leaning Tower of Pisa " and Florence, the capital city, is even more beautiful compared to Tuscany. The city is surely known for its architectural structures which are of the Italian Renaissance style.
Apart from architectural structures of the city, there are much more like Art Galleries, the famous Uffizi Art Gallery, for instance, Libraries which act as a center of acquiring knowledge, The Acton Library and The British Institute for example.
More than the architecture and culture of the city of Florence, what is more, beautiful is that, the people of Florence.
The people of the capital city are so sweet and nice to their tourists and visitors that you feel like you are at home.
They won't make you feel even an inch out of place.
The only barrier you might have to face if you are not an Italian is the language problem. But this is actually a petty issue and not of such a pain if you can manage to pull off and learn the Italian language.
The Italian language is not a very tough language to learn if you have the interest and if you put your heart to learn.
Here are some secrets to how you can learn Italian in Florence:
• First and foremost thing to do is indulge yourself with the people of Florence and let the language sync into your head.
There is no better way to learn Italian rather than putting yourself among the Italian speaking people. And doing this is not of much pain because the people of Florence are so nice that they will even help you with understanding if you are facing any difficulty.
• The next thing is that you will have to go and watch Italian movies. The dialogues in the movies are so intense that it will help you learn the difficult part of the language.
In case, you are not able to make it to the movies, at least some good television shows will do. Italian oriented plays, concerts, and lectures help a lot in improving your language as well. It is important that you try to decode the language in your convenient language and understand it rather than leaving a dumb ear to it.
• If understanding the language is one part, being able to read the script written in that particular language is another.
To improve yourself in this are, you must try to read the Italian newspaper, magazines, and books written in Italian. Reading novels and small articles written in Italian will help a lot too.
• Since understanding and reading part is done. the last part is being able to speak that language.
All you have to do is not feel insecure about it and start speaking and opening up slowly.


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Opening the GIOPAGANI Atelier's doors is entering A World Apart, made out of manifold inspirations bursting into unexpected emotions!
GIOPAGANI Couture let's vibe its Capsule Collections in via Montebello 30, inside the evocative Brera Design District, in Milan. Over 600 square meters unveiling memories of past travels staging different environments and moods.


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Protocol Review & Analysis
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Ancillare Supply Plan
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Ancillare's strategic print program ensures your manuals, handouts, and materials are available from the moment of study start-up and site initiation.
Translations are available for all investigator and patient materials, including equipment manuals.
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(Reuters) - American Zach Johnson says he does not need any extra motivation at this month's Ryder Cup in Scotland where the United States will bid to improve on a dismal record of seven losses to Europe in the last nine editions.
The last time the teams met, in what became known as the 'Meltdown at Medinah' in 2012, the Americans threw away a commanding four-point lead going into the last-day singles to lose by 14-1/2 points to 13-1/2.
This year's U.S. captain, Tom Watson, believes memories of that stinging defeat will serve as his team's greatest motivation at Gleneagles, but Johnson says he does not require any extra inspiration for the biennial team competition.
"I don't need any motivation for the Ryder Cup," Johnson told Reuters during last week's Tour Championship in Atlanta, the final event of the PGA Tour's 2013-14 season. "Granted Medinah was sour, or bitter-sweet.
"I mean it was a great week but bitter in the end for us. But regardless of what happened two years prior, motivation for this golf tournament is just not needed.
"It's the best sporting event I have been associated with inside the ropes for sure and, as a result, motivation is not an issue."
Johnson, who is known for his gritty temperament, accuracy off the tee and brilliant short game, expects the atmosphere to be as intense as ever at Gleneagles from Sept. 26-28 when he will represent his country for a fourth time at a Ryder Cup.
"The bottom line is that this is an individual game," said the 38-year-old American, who has won 11 times on the PGA Tour.
"And when you take such an individual game and combine that with team mates, leaders and obviously you are representing your country, you've got your nation's flag on your sleeve, it just adds more to it, there's more weight involved.
"As a result, each shot has more weight. It probably shouldn't, it is still just golf, but you can't help the fact that it just means more. It brings out the best and worst of everybody."
Johnson has compiled a creditable win-loss-half record of 6-4-1 from his first three Ryder Cups, but would dearly love to savor the experience of being on a triumphant team for the first time.
"It's a goal of mine," he said. "I can't deny that. I would certainly give my individual record away for it. I certainly would sit down for the team. I would do anything just to have a 'W' (win).
"How important is it? I don't want to say it's the loftiest of goals, but yet it has kept me up at night at times, put it that way."
The 2014 European team, which contains four of the top-five ranked players in the world, is regarded as one of the strongest ever but Johnson knows full well that the Cup will be decided by the team that performs best over the three days of competition.
"Every two years if the American team players are playing well, then they are the best on paper, and then to reverse that, if the European team is playing well, then they are the best team," he said.
"Frankly what's on paper is irrelevant. Yes, the European team is extremely strong and they are playing great golf, essentially top to bottom, but it really doesn't matter when it comes to that tournament.
"It comes down to (shot) execution, it comes down to making putts and really just pulling off those shots that you have to pull off in certain key situations."
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Sixty years ago, digital computers made information readable. Twenty years ago, the Internet made it reachable. Ten years ago, the first search engine crawlers made it a single database. Now Google and like-minded companies are sifting through the most measured age in history, treating this massive corpus as a laboratory of the human condition. They are the children of the Petabyte Age.
The Petabyte Age is different because more is different. Kilobytes were stored on floppy disks. Megabytes were stored on hard disks. Terabytes were stored in disk arrays. Petabytes are stored in the cloud. As we moved along that progression, we went from the folder analogy to the file cabinet analogy to the library analogy to — well, at petabytes we ran out of organizational analogies.
"At the petabyte scale, information is not a matter of simple three- and four-dimensional taxonomy and order but of dimensionally agnostic statistics. It calls for an entirely different approach, one that requires us to lose the tether of data as something that can be visualized in its totality. It forces us to view data mathematically first and establish a context for it later."
In response to Anderson's essay, Stewart Brand notes that:
The "crossing" that Anderson has named in his essay, has been developing in science for several years and in the Edge community in particular.
For example, during the TED Conference in 2005, before, and during, the annual Edge Dinner, there were illuminating informal conversations involving Craig Venter (who pioneered the use of high volume genome sequencing using vast amounts of computational power), Danny Hillis (designer of the "Connection Machine", the massively parallel supercomputer), and Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google: new and radical DNA sequencing techniques meet computational robots meet server farms in search of a synthetic source of energy.
And in August, 2007, at the Edge event "Life: What A Concept", Venter made the following point:
Andrian Kreye, editor of the Feuilleton of Sueddeutsche Zeitung wrote on his paper's editorial pages that the event was "a crucial moment in history. After all, it's where the dawning of the age of biology was officially announced".
In the July/August Seed Salon with novelist Tom Wolfe, neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga explains how the conversation began to change when neuroscience took off in the '80s and '90s:
Now, thanks to Anderson, the new narrative has a name. "Welcome to the Petabyte Age".
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[Originally published the cover story, "The End of Science", Wired Magazine: Issue 16.07]
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"All models are wrong, but some are useful."
So proclaimed statistician George Box 30 years ago, and he was right. But what choice did we have? Only models, from cosmological equations to theories of human behavior, seemed to be able to consistently, if imperfectly, explain the world around us. Until now. Today companies like Google, which have grown up in an era of massively abundant data, don't have to settle for wrong models. Indeed, they don't have to settle for models at all.
Sixty years ago, digital computers made information readable. Twenty years ago, the Internet made it reachable. Ten years ago, the first search engine crawlers made it a single database. Now Google and like-minded companies are sifting through the most measured age in history, treating this massive corpus as a laboratory of the human condition. They are the children of the Petabyte Age.
The Petabyte Age is different because more is different. Kilobytes were stored on floppy disks. Megabytes were stored on hard disks. Terabytes were stored in disk arrays. Petabytes are stored in the cloud. As we moved along that progression, we went from the folder analogy to the file cabinet analogy to the library analogy to — well, at petabytes we ran out of organizational analogies.
At the petabyte scale, information is not a matter of simple three- and four-dimensional taxonomy and order but of dimensionally agnostic statistics. It calls for an entirely different approach, one that requires us to lose the tether of data as something that can be visualized in its totality. It forces us to view data mathematically first and establish a context for it later. For instance, Google conquered the advertising world with nothing more than applied mathematics. It didn't pretend to know anything about the culture and conventions of advertising — it just assumed that better data, with better analytical tools, would win the day. And Google was right.
Google's founding philosophy is that we don't know why this page is better than that one: If the statistics of incoming links say it is, that's good enough. No semantic or causal analysis is required. That's why Google can translate languages without actually "knowing" them (given equal corpus data, Google can translate Klingon into Farsi as easily as it can translate French into German). And why it can match ads to content without any knowledge or assumptions about the ads or the content.
Speaking at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference this past March, Peter Norvig, Google's research director, offered an update to George Box's maxim: "All models are wrong, and increasingly you can succeed without them."
This is a world where massive amounts of data and applied mathematics replace every other tool that might be brought to bear. Out with every theory of human behavior, from linguistics to sociology. Forget taxonomy, ontology, and psychology. Who knows why people do what they do? The point is they do it, and we can track and measure it with unprecedented fidelity. With enough data, the numbers speak for themselves.
The big target here isn't advertising, though. It's science. The scientific method is built around testable hypotheses. These models, for the most part, are systems visualized in the minds of scientists. The models are then tested, and experiments confirm or falsify theoretical models of how the world works. This is the way science has worked for hundreds of years.
Scientists are trained to recognize that correlation is not causation, that no conclusions should be drawn simply on the basis of correlation between X and Y (it could just be a coincidence). Instead, you must understand the underlying mechanisms that connect the two. Once you have a model, you can connect the data sets with confidence. Data without a model is just noise.
But faced with massive data, this approach to science — hypothesize, model, test — is becoming obsolete. Consider physics: Newtonian models were crude approximations of the truth (wrong at the atomic level, but still useful). A hundred years ago, statistically based quantum mechanics offered a better picture — but quantum mechanics is yet another model, and as such it, too, is flawed, no doubt a caricature of a more complex underlying reality. The reason physics has drifted into theoretical speculation about n-dimensional grand unified models over the past few decades (the "beautiful story" phase of a discipline starved of data) is that we don't know how to run the experiments that would falsify the hypotheses — the energies are too high, the accelerators too expensive, and so on.
Now biology is heading in the same direction. The models we were taught in school about "dominant" and "recessive" genes steering a strictly Mendelian process have turned out to be an even greater simplification of reality than Newton's laws. The discovery of gene-protein interactions and other aspects of epigenetics has challenged the view of DNA as destiny and even introduced evidence that environment can influence inheritable traits, something once considered a genetic impossibility.
In short, the more we learn about biology, the further we find ourselves from a model that can explain it.
There is now a better way. Petabytes allow us to say: "Correlation is enough." We can stop looking for models. We can analyze the data without hypotheses about what it might show. We can throw the numbers into the biggest computing clusters the world has ever seen and let statistical algorithms find patterns where science cannot.
The best practical example of this is the shotgun gene sequencing by J. Craig Venter. Enabled by high-speed sequencers and supercomputers that statistically analyze the data they produce, Venter went from sequencing individual organisms to sequencing entire ecosystems. In 2003, he started sequencing much of the ocean, retracing the voyage of Captain Cook. And in 2005 he started sequencing the air. In the process, he discovered thousands of previously unknown species of bacteria and other life-forms.
If the words "discover a new species" call to mind Darwin and drawings of finches, you may be stuck in the old way of doing science. Venter can tell you almost nothing about the species he found. He doesn't know what they look like, how they live, or much of anything else about their morphology. He doesn't even have their entire genome. All he has is a statistical blip — a unique sequence that, being unlike any other sequence in the database, must represent a new species.
This sequence may correlate with other sequences that resemble those of species we do know more about. In that case, Venter can make some guesses about the animals — that they convert sunlight into energy in a particular way, or that they descended from a common ancestor. But besides that, he has no better model of this species than Google has of your MySpace page. It's just data. By analyzing it with Google-quality computing resources, though, Venter has advanced biology more than anyone else of his generation.
This kind of thinking is poised to go mainstream. In February, the National Science Foundation announced the Cluster Exploratory, a program that funds research designed to run on a large-scale distributed computing platform developed by Google and IBM in conjunction with six pilot universities. The cluster will consist of 1,600 processors, several terabytes of memory, and hundreds of terabytes of storage, along with the software, including IBM's Tivoli and open source versions of Google File System and MapReduce.1 Early CluE projects will include simulations of the brain and the nervous system and other biological research that lies somewhere between wetware and software.
Learning to use a "computer" of this scale may be challenging. But the opportunity is great: The new availability of huge amounts of data, along with the statistical tools to crunch these numbers, offers a whole new way of understanding the world. Correlation supersedes causation, and science can advance even without coherent models, unified theories, or really any mechanistic explanation at all.
There's no reason to cling to our old ways. It's time to ask: What can science learn from Google?
Feeding the Masses: Data In, Crop Predictions Out
Farmer's Almanac is finally obsolete. Last October, agricultural consultancy Lanworth not only correctly projected that the US Department of Agriculture had overestimated the nation's corn crop, it nailed the margin: roughly 200 million bushels. That's just 1.5 percent fewer kernels but still a significant shortfall for tight markets, causing a 13 percent price hike and jitters in the emerging ethanol industry. When the USDA downgraded expectations a month after Lanworth's prediction, the little Illinois-based company was hailed as a new oracle among soft-commodity traders — who now pay the firm more than $100,000 a year for a timely heads-up on fluctuations in wheat, corn, and soybean supplies.
Chasing the Quark: Sometimes You Need to Throw Information Away
The ultimate digital camera will be demo'd at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva later this year. While proton beams race in opposite directions around a 17-mile underground ring, crossing and recrossing the Swiss-French border on each circuit, six particle detectors will snap a billion "photos" per second of the resulting impacts. The ephemeral debris from those collisions may hold answers to some of the most exciting questions in physics.
Winning the Lawsuit: Data Miners Dig for Dirt
Way back in the 20th century, when Ford Motor Company was sued over a faulty ignition switch, its lawyers would gird for the discovery process: a labor-intensive ordeal that involved disgorging thousands of pages of company records. These days, the number of pages commonly involved in commercial litigation discovery has ballooned into the billions. Attorneys on the hunt for a smoking gun now want to see not just the final engineering plans but the emails, drafts, personal data files, and everything else ever produced in the lead-up to the finished product.
Tracking the News: A Smarter Way to Predict Riots and Wars
Small outbreaks of violence, like recent food riots in Haiti, can prefigure a larger crisis.
Spotting the Hot Zones: Now We Can Monitor Epidemics Hour by Hour
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Watching the Skies: Space Is Really Big — But Not Too Big to Map
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Tracking Air Fares: Elaborate Algorithms Predict Ticket Prices
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Predicting the Vote: Pollsters Identify Tiny Voting Blocs
Pricing Terrorism: Insurers Gauge Risks, Costs
In the Aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks, Congress passed a law requiring commercial and casualty insurance companies to offer terrorism coverage. That was reassuring to jittery business owners but a major hassle for insurers, who, after all, are in the business of predicting risk. They might not know when something like a hurricane or earthquake will hit, but decades of data tell them where and how hard such an event is likely to be. But terrorists try to do the unexpected, and the range of what they might attempt is vast. A recent study published by the American Academy of Actuaries estimated that a truck bomb going off in Des Moines, Iowa, could cost insurers $3 billion; a major anthrax attack on New York City could cost $778 billion.
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The primary focus of the post-master's Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program is organizational leadership. The online curriculum is a practice-focused doctoral program to prepare nurse leaders in gaining an understanding of translating nursing knowledge to improve practice and health outcomes. Graduates are prepared to provide expert organizational or clinical leadership in facilitating and creating learning environments where evidence-based principles are implemented. In addition, you will become experts in designing, managing, implementing and evaluating health care outcomes, to serve as practice leaders within healthcare systems.
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Bone Health Promotion for Youth: A Primary Care Intervention, Kay G. Wilson
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The Nurse Manager's Leadership and Nurse Satisfaction, Deborah Bryant
Simulation in Assisting Nurses to Better Recognize Early Signs of Clinical Deterioration of Patients, Loretta Elder
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Today, our Digital Filmmaker Ailsa McCaffery tells us her thoughts on camera assisting.
Having just completed my third shoot for Enterprise Screen, I thought it would be useful to get down some of the things I bear in mind while camera assisting. As with other roles, you need to be a quick learner, a team player, and a creative thinker. You need to be reliable, helpful, and be willing to do whatever that is needed to aid the shoot. More specifically though, a camera assistant needs to:
Whether this is when to sort out and set up equipment, when a lens change is required, what shots will need a light, etc. it's always better to be ready for something than having to be asked. Listen to what the Director or camera operator is saying - if they're thinking about going in tighter, it's a good idea to bring the lenses closer in case you need to swap over, before you need to be asked. This improves the efficiency of the shoot. Things like checking up on battery life and card space is also important to anticipating the needs of the shoot. Having a good knowledge of the kit will be incredibly helpful for this.
Keep track of shots
The shot list will always be kicking around on a shoot, in bags, in notebooks or pockets. It's your job to keep on top of it. Make sure your director gets all the shots they wanted. During the shoot, some ideas for shots might be discussed - write these down as well, and remind the director and camera operator of them when it's appropriate. If you're filming in a specific area, make sure all the shots for this area get done at the same time, to save time later on. Have a look out yourself for interesting areas or objects that have potential for the shoot.
Be everything
Your roles and responsibilities on small shoots will be varied. Assisting the camera operator, speaking with contacts at the location, moving the lighting, recording sound, speaking with the public, marking your subjects, keeping track of equipment, focus pulling, time keeping, etc. The most important thing to do is stay organised. I recommend having a pen and paper at all times, and keeping some rolls of tape attached to your belt. Pockets are a must!
Manage the area
Keep an ear out for radios, air conditioning, or (more likely) heaters making a noise if you're recording audio. Keep an eye on all the gear and equipment, especially in a location with members of the public - obviously in case something goes missing, but also to make sure nothing is in the way or that nothing is a trip-hazard!
And as with anything else, experience is invaluable. Learn from previous mistakes or previous successes, and move forward during your next shoot!


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When students are faced with health issues that have a negative impact on study habits, course attendance, or class preparation, they are urged to consult with their advisors to discuss taking a medical leave of absence from the university. Students who are hospitalized during term time or who miss class for more than two weeks due to health issues are advised to take a medical withdrawal from the term in progress. A student may request a Medical Leave or Withdrawal from the Office of Student Affairs. Doctors at University Health Services (UHS) as well as counselors at the Office of Counseling and Psychological Services (CPS) can also help students evaluate whether a medical leave is advisable. Students must provide medical documentation to support their requests for medical leaves or medical withdrawals. As part of the re-enrollment process, students will also be required to supply current medical documentation, and to be evaluated by the relevant branch of the University's Health Services.
In exceptional cases, when there is sufficient information to suggest that as a result of physical or psychological illness, a student is engaging in or is likely to engage in behavior that could lead to injury to self or other, the Dean of Students, in consultation with UHS, CPS, and the Office of Public Safety, may place a student on an involuntary leave of absence for reasons of personal or community safety.
Students who withdraw from their studies after the eleventh week of the semester or for medical reasons are not allowed to return for at least four months (a minimum of one semester), to allow time to address the situation that led to the withdrawal.
A Medical Leave of Absence is contingent upon the submission of documentation from a health care professional. The student must provide documentation from a health care professional confirming that the student is unable to engage in graduate study; such documentation may include a statement as to when the student may be expected to resume studies. Medical leaves will not be granted retroactively.
Readmission Requirements
The school must allow the student to re-enroll in the next class or classes in the same program, with the same enrollment status, number of points, and academic standing as when he or she was last in attendance at Columbia. The student may also request a later date of admission or, if unusual circumstances require it, the institution may admit the student at a later date. If the school determines that the student is not prepared to resume the program where he or she left off, the school must make reasonable efforts at no extra cost to the student to enable the student to resume and complete the program. Such reasonable efforts include, but are not limited to, providing a refresher course and allowing the student to retake a pretest, as long as they do not place an undue hardship on the school. If reasonable efforts are unsuccessful or the school determines that there are no reasonable efforts that the school can take, the school is not required to readmit the student.
If the program to which the student was admitted is no longer offered, the student must be admitted to the program that is most similar, unless the student requests or agrees to admission to a different program.
Students must apply for re-enrollment through the Office of Student Affairs within three years of the end of their last completed semester at SPS. Students granted re-enrollment must return to Columbia the next semester and complete that term to maintain their academic status at SPS. Students who desire to return after withdrawal are required at the time of re-enrollment to submit a Re-Enrollment Checklist including a personal statement concerning how they have addressed the circumstances that caused them to withdraw. Students must submit this petition to the Office of Student Affairs by the date specified on the form relevant to the term in which they wish to return. All students who take a leave or withdraw for medical reasons must have their physician or other health care provider attest that their health now permits them to resume their studies. Students returning from a medical withdrawal or medical leave will be required to be evaluated by the relevant branch of University Health Services to complete the re-enrollment process.
Completed Re-Enrollment Petitions are due by:
May 1 for summer term courses
August 15 for fall term courses
December 15 for spring term courses
If you are returning from a medical leave or medical withdrawal, please refer to your letter for the exact deadline, which will always be earlier. Normally students who have withdrawn are not allowed to resume their studies with summer session enrollment.
Students who have not petitioned for re-enrollment during the three-year time frame will lose their academic status at SPS and will need to reapply formally to the School of Professional Studies through the Office of Admissions.
Medical Certification of Readiness for Resumption of Studies
In order to return after a medical leave students may be required to provide Student Affairs with written approval of a health care professional who treated the student during the leave, confirming that the student is capable of returning to graduate study and proposing any recommended qualifications (e.g., part-time study).
Student Affairs may also require an assessment interview to be conducted by a member of the Counseling and Psychological Service staff and/or a member of the Primary Care Medical Services staff depending on the health condition which necessitated the Leave.
Refund of Tuition and Fees
All students who withdraw or take a Leave of Absence during a semester in which they are registered are charged a $75 withdrawal fee. Tuition is refunded on a prorated basis. No fees are refunded after the second week of the semester. The Registrar's office publishes a schedule of refunds for tuition and fees based on the week in the semester during which the withdrawal or leave is approved.
Leave for Military Duty
Any student who is a member of the National Guard or other reserve component of the armed forces of the United States or of a state organized militia and is called or ordered to active duty will be granted a military leave of absence for the period of active duty and for one year thereafter. Upon return from military leave of absence, the student will be restored to the educational status attained prior to being called or ordered to such duty without loss of academic credits earned, scholarships or grants awarded, or tuition or other fees paid prior to the commencement of active duty. The University will credit any tuition or fees paid for the period of the military leave of absence to the next enrollment period or will refund the tuition and fees paid to the student, at the student's option. Students in need of a military leave of absence should contact the Dean of Students for their school.
Student Financial Planning
Students who receive financial aid, and who are taking a leave of absence, should immediately notify Student Financial Planning to discuss if/how the leave affects their aid.
International Students
Students on a J1 or F1 visa who intend to take a Leave of Absence must contact the International Students and Scholars Office as soon as possible.


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Our future is in good hands if we look at the work and dedication of many of our young citizens.
Our future is in good hands if we look at the work and dedication of many of our young citizens.
Kelly Corrado, 17, of Greenwood Lake is a high school senior who for the past three years has conducted a campaign for basic back-to-school supplies to help families in need. His appeal was heard by a generous community as well as members of the Church of the Good Shepherd who provided backpacks that were stuffed full. The Mount Saint Mary College athletic department's community service initiative continues to reach out where needed. Recently, the men's tennis team painted a map of the U.S. on the playground at Walden Elementary School, while the men and women's cross country teams stained playground equipment at Chadwick Lake Park in Newburgh.
Acacia Fusco and Scott Ackerman, owners of the new Lovebird Studio on Main Street in Rosendale, will host an open house from noon-8 p.m. Oct. 15.
Meanwhile, they've displayed paintings, sculptures and photographs that can be viewed from noon-8 p.m. Friday-Sunday. For information, call 594-4505.
During the recent annual meeting and community service/volunteer recognition ceremony hosted by the Mental Health Association in Orange County, numerous awards were given. Among them were volunteers of the year in various MHA programs, including Liz Hendrickson for the Autism Move-athon; Jocelyn Figueroa, CAPIS; Vanessa Bernstein, Helpline; Rosemary Willkomm, Rape Crisis Services; and Consuelo Avilan, System of Care. Cindy Wagner was named the overall Volunteer of the Year.
The Community Service Award recipient was Frontier Communications Corp., represented by Linda Shuback. Other awards were presented to J. Ferrara Photography, Price Chopper Supermarkets in Middletown, Lorraine Secor, senior court office assistant in Orange County Surrogate's Court, the Junior League of Orange County, and NAMI-AMICO.
Nadia Allen, MHA executive director, presided over the ceremony. For information, call 342-2400, ext. 257.
The second of six lectures in honor of Louis and Mildred Resnick, titled "The Changing Face(s) of Anti-Semitism," will be at 7:30 p.m. at SUNY New Paltz, Lecture Center 108. It will be given by Dr. Lewis Brownstein, former chairman of the department of political science and international relations, who will speak on "Jews in the Mind of Modern Islam." For information, call 562-7860. The Monticello-Fallsburg Chapter of Jewish Women International will conduct its last meeting of the year at 5:30 p.m. at Nardi's in Hurleyville. Dinner is $17.50, with reservations due by calling Ceil Cohen at 434-4297. The speaker will be Beverly Paige of SUNY Sullivan, who will discuss "Eliminating Clutter From Your Life." Town of Newburgh Friends of Seniors will host two volunteer training sessions from 10 a.m.-noon Wednesday and Oct. 13 at Town Hall, 1496 Route 300 in the Town of Newburgh. For information, call 564-8936 or 341-1173, ext. 304.
Barbara Bedell's column appears daily. Reach her at 346-3125.


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The "plein aire" craze is sweeping the art community. The North Tampa Arts League invites all artists working in pencil, pastel, charcoal, paint, sculpture, photography or other materials to join our monthly outdoor gatherings. Bring your choice of art medium and any other items you might need and enjoy the beauty of creating art outdoors. It is an opportunity to learn from others, develop new skills that can enhance artistic and creative techniques and last but not least, make new friends.
Each event location will offer a different subject or landscape perspective. Some locations, such as parks, may have a modest entrance fee. Some venues will have a limited number of benches or tables but artists should plan accordingly if they require additional items. Attendees are responsible for providing all of their own creative supplies along with bug spray, water, protection from sun, heat or cold, or any other items to assure a safe and comfortable outing. Ride sharing is always a good idea.
Check the Friends of NTAL MeetUp calendar each month for future plein aire gatherings. Generally, we will meet at 9am for approximately 3 hours and we schedule a mix of weekday and weekend activities.
You may arrive and leave any time that is appropriate for you; often the weather dictates our activity. Feel free to arrive earlier to catch the morning light. Your suggestions for new locations are always appreciated. We will attempt to move locations around the Tampa Bay area in order to accommodate artists living in different areas.
These events are a benefit to all artists but we hope that non-members like the community and want to join NTAL. You can learn about all of the benefits of membership here.
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We love a good upcycling project as we like seeing people give items a new lease of life in their home. When we saw this gorgeous upcycling project Sarah from Extraordinary Chaos created for British Ceramic Tile we knew we had to show all your lovely readers…
From the moment we moved into our little country house I knew I wanted to bring a little city chic into our home. I love mixing styles to create my own unique look.
One of my aims was to tile our front porch in pretty patterned tiles. Something modern yet timeless and as soon as I laid eyes on the Laura Ashley Heritage Collection, Mr Jones Charcoal Floor tiles at British Ceramic Tile, I knew they were the ones.
My Hubby was so relieved I had finally made my decision; he didn't understand my procrastination at all. I might have driven him a little mad, constantly looking, as nothing was right. And then I saw Mr Jones and I knew that was it.
But when you are looking for a pretty and stylish floor that is the perfect welcome for visitors. And the right shade for instagramming shoes it has to be right.
However, once we had tiled our beautiful porch we had a little wastage. Mainly due to the fact that we wanted the tiles laid centrally. This meant lots of cutting and edges, so we ordered extra to allow for mistakes and did not have any.
But thankfully we had the inspiration to up-cycle our garden table. I had never been a fan of the glass top of our table. Joe was always knocking his drinks over, as it was so slippy and as the table was light it was always getting knocked.
We decided to put our leftover tiles to use and make a new tabletop. Something stylish that matched the garden furniture yet was hard wearing. By creating a plywood table top and cutting metal edging strips to make and frame we were able to completely transform the table and the weight of the tiles meant that the table is now much sturdier. To see how Sarah achieved this look check out her step by step guide.
This quick and easy project was completed over a couple of evenings; we spend around an hour a day on it but had to wait for cement and glue to dry in-between each stage.
The thing I really love about up-cycling a piece of furniture it that you can do all to your own taste. And using leftover tiles and an unloved table you can create something new and different. We love the look so much we are now thinking we need an outdoor dining table to match!
Check out the entire range of Laura Ashley tiles from British Ceramic Tile here.
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text: Tom Blake writes, >1 Corinthians 12:7-11 (KJV) > But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit >withal. [8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to >another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; [9] To another faith by >the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; [10] >To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another >discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the >interpretation of tongues: [11] But all these worketh that one and the >selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will. > > It seems to me that Paul did not believe the Holy Spirit levels the >playing field in this manner, (giving us all equal ability to interpret >other languages.) > > Some of us are given the gift of interpreting other languages, and >some of us are not. We all benefit from the gift that some of us have >recieved. Tom, I do not consider the gift of interpreting other languages as a spiritual gift. To me, interpreting other languages is an entirely natural process. It requires much time, effort, and education. Anyone on earth, Christian or non-Christian, can interpret other language. A certain talent of language interpretation couldn't hurt, but that talent would be a natural enduement and not supplied by the Holy Spirit. When I asked, "Doesn't the power of the Holy Spirit level the playing field?", I meant to compare those who know the Greek language with those who don't (or even those who don't even know nor care that the New Testament was written in Greek). A person doesn't have to know the original language of the New Testament. A person only needs to know the voice of the Holy Spirit within them to lead them into all the truth of the Old and New Testaments (as the Scripture says). Actually, on second thought, I would not consider a Greek scholar-- without the infilling of the Holy Spirit--with complete knowledge of Greek culture, language, thought, etc. to be on an equal footing with an illiterate man or woman full of the Holy Spirit and completely surrended to Jesus Christ. The scholar would not stand a chance of knowing the Scripture as God intended the Scripture as well as the illiterate. KH Ken Hall Voice: 894-5559 Pager: 655-0362 e-mail: email@example.com Georgia Institute of Technology


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