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It happens to everyone, and it happens all the time. We feel it at work, in our relationships, and even just with ourselves. It's terrifying, it's nerve-wracking, and it's inescapable. I'm talking, of course, of the universal truth known as failure.
We've been conditioned our entire lives to avoid failure. School taught us that failing is the worst possible outcome. Our friends taught us that failure is humiliating and an offense worthy of ridicule. Our minds taught us that failure is a fate worse than death. I'm here to tell you, though, that failure is good.
That's right, failure, the big F, is the single most important thing you'll ever do.
Why do I say failure is so important? Because it's through failure that we learn everything. How did you learn to not touch a hot stove? Probably by touching it as a child and failing to have an enjoyable time doing so. What about learning how to interview for a job? I'm fairly certain that all of you have had at least one job interview that didn't result in a job offer. In those instances, the failure to secure that sought-after job taught you something. It may have been how to present the information on your resume, or even how to better present yourself. Whatever it was, your failure taught you something that you now carry forever.
Failure has a negative connotation, but today I want to introduce you to the positive side of failure. Today I want to tell you why failing is good.
(Quick note: there is failure from trying, and failure from not trying. Today we're focusing on failure from trying.)
Regardless of the effect Blink-182 had on your perception of work, we all want to succeed at our jobs. It's nice to be lauded for our efforts and to be appreciated for the work we've done, which is why when our expectations and our reality don't match, our heart sinks a little bit, and our entire mindset shifts.
Ever have your boss ask you for something, and after putting in a good amount of work and being proud of the outcome, you send it to them only to have them tell you that isn't what they were looking for? It sucks doesn't it? No matter what your boss's intentions are, that swagger you were walking around with that morning is gone and you're now questioning your abilities as a worker. Contrary to popular belief this is good.
It's good for a few of reasons: 1) you tried and regardless of the outcome and trying is better than not trying, 2) you've learned something, and 3) you will internalize this feeling and do whatever you can to avoid having it again.
Trust me, your boss, and your coworkers, would rather you try and fail, than not try at all. It's better for the company and it's better for you. It teaches you that failing isn't going to kill you.
So, what are you waiting for? Take on an unfamiliar task, get yourself out of your comfort zone, and fail. Fail a bunch and learn from it.
Work is a terrifying place to fail, but what about the time you spend outside of work? Failure away from work is more vital because those experiences of failure are what mold you into the person you are and the person you continue to be.
Think about it this way, you're out on the town and come across an incredibly attractive person. You can either walk up to them and strike up a conversation, or you can be afraid of the rejection and avoid the situation altogether. What do you do? Avoid the situation out of fear of rejection (failure from not trying), or walk over there and strike up a convo? Yes, this may end in rejection, but at least you put yourself out there and learned something new (how to strike up a conversation, the type of person you want to be around etc.).
This obviously applies to more than just relationships. Don't be afraid to fail at cooking, or sports, or even writing. You could be the best athlete among your friends but one of these days you're going to step out on the field and strike out, or drop a pass, or miss the game winning shot. It happens…to all of us.
Like the great Wayne Gretzky said, "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
Failure is key to life. It teaches us about who we are and what we want, and it propels us forward. Embrace it.
Until next time – give it your best shot


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Hello Mark, dear XSL WG, We are currently in an editorial meeting working on the Character Model and would greatly appreciate a timely clarification of one of your comments (see below). At 12:54 02/06/28 -0700, Mark Scardina wrote: >Below are XSL WG compiled comments/issues on the I18N Character Model >Working Draft located at http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-charmod-20020430. >6) 3.5 Reference Processing Model >" [S] Specifications MAY allow use of any character encoding which can >be transcoded to Unicode for its text entities. > [S] Specifications MAY choose to disallow or deprecate some encodings >and to make others mandatory. Independent of the actual encoding, the >specified behavior MUST be the same as if the processing happened as >follows: >The encoding of any text entity received by the application implementing >the specification MUST be determined and the text entity MUST be >interpreted as a sequence of Unicode characters - this MUST be >equivalent to transcoding the entity to some Unicode encoding form , >adjusting any character encoding label if necessary, and receiving it in >that Unicode encoding form. All processing MUST take place on this >sequence of Unicode characters. If text is output by the application, >the sequence of Unicode characters MUST be encoded using an encoding >chosen among those allowed by the specification. [S] If a specification >is such that multiple text entities are involved (such as an XML >document referring to external parsed entities), it MAY choose to allow >these entities to be in different character encodings. In all cases, the >Reference Processing Model MUST be applied to all entities." > >[XSL] It may be less confusing to have these requirements separated with >a clarifying sentence, breaking these out under a clarifying context. >Is this intent to forbid entity representation of non-Unicode >characters? Can you please clarify what you mean by 'entity representation of non-Unicode characters' ? (ideally with (an) example(s)) Many thanks for your timely answer, Martin.Received on Tuesday, 23 July 2002 11:16:34 UTC
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What a way to go out.
Next spring, Eric Heins will leave the Northern Arizona University cross country program, which he has directed for the past 10 years, with a national championship. Not just any NCAA title, but the school's first-ever in the sport.
And this championship came with a story-book finish.
The Lumberjacks, who entered yesterday's NCAA National Championships in Indiana as the unanimous selection as the No. 1 cross country team in the country, left a wake of old records in their wake.
Not only was this the first national title in cross country, but also the Division I school's first of its kind in any sport. And it was the first NCAA championship for a Big Sky Conference school outside of football.
The team of seven competing athletes in Terre Haute combined to post a winning score of 125 points on a cold, windy day – not unlike the weather they train in at Flagstaff's 7,000-foot elevation. That total broke the old school mark of 142 points – set 21 years ago.
Thanks to their efforts, NAU also became the first non-Power 5 university to win the cross country title since UTEP accomplished the feat 35 years ago.
Futsum Zienasellassie, a redshirt senior from Indianapolis, was the first NAU runner to cross the finish line, coming in fourth with a time of 29:49.8. Finishing behind him were Matt Baxter, a redshirt junior from New Zealand, in 11th place (30:03.1); Tyler Day in 23rd place (30:13); and Andy Trouard in 37th place (30:23.5).
Day and Trouard are both local recruits. Day is a sophomore who attended Mesquite High School in Gilbert and Tourard is a redshirt junior from Tucson, where he attended Salpointe Catholic.
All four turned in All-America performances. For Zienasellassie, it was his fourth , making him the first NAU cross country runner to become a four-time NCAA All-American. And the group also set another school mark, tying the program record with four top-40 individual finishes at national championships.
Cory Glines finished as the crucial fifth NAU runner, scoring the decisive 66 points needed to move ahead of runner-up Stanford. The redshirt junior claimed 84th place with a time of 30:46.4. The final two Lumberjacks were Nathan Weitz in 95th place and Geordie Beamish right behind in 97th.
Heins, who coaches track & field as well, announced back in April that he would be leaving the program after this season since his wife, Kaci, has taken a job with the NASA Space Center in Houston. His plans are to leave for Texas to join her after the 2o17 outdoor season concludes.
His successor will inherit a program that has established itself as the dominant program in the Big Sky, one that has also made its mark on the national level. The NAU cross country program has consistently been ranked among the nation's top 10 – three times in the top 5 – and has made nine NCAA Championship appearances.
Coming into this season, Heins had already accumulated 27 Big Sky Coach of the Year honors.
In August, Michael Smith was hired to replace Heins as the new Director of Cross Country and Track & Field, coming on board now in order to make a smooth transition when Heins departs next spring. Smith was hired from Georgetown University where he spent four years, including directing the men's and women's cross country and track & field programs during the 2015-16 season.
Heins is familiar with his replacement since Smith lived in Flagstaff for six years, during which time he founded Team Run Flagstaff while working at the NAU Center for High Altitude Training, an Olympic training site for long distance running.


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Busy Short Week
It was a very short but packed week. Monday, I had the pleasure of working with a education professor from the University of Nevada - Las Vegas about video podcasts. We also talked about some other technology challenges for teachers. Tuesday, I did a Tech Tuesday on creating movies with Microsoft Windows Movie Maker. Everyone who participated had a great time. Finally, a group of science teachers wanted their students to explore websites on sound and light. Despite claims to the contrary, a test of the sites was done and they worked. What did not work was the URL to a website that led to the other sites. I had recommended the teachers put together a wiki linking the sites, providing student instructions when they got to the sites, and assessment questions. This fell on deaf ears. Fortunately, myself and tech savvy teacher got together to create a wiki with the desired links. It worked perfectly and now these science teachers are believers.
Sorry I look like I am yawning. Happy Thanksgiving everyone.


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The Sunday Times (UK) featured an intriguing look at the integration of sound and visual art. Tim Cooper writes:
Remember when art appreciation used to be a simple, straightforward affair? You walked into a gallery, looked at some pictures, or maybe a few sculptures, and that was that. Then came photography, followed by film, the emergence of performance art and all that conceptual stuff... Now, thanks to 21st-century technology, sound art – art for the ears, as well as the eyes – is bringing a new dimension to the art world.Actually, 'art for the ears' has been with us a long time. We call it music. More on this in a minute.
Cooper reports some of the imaginative ways aural and visual elements are integrated:
The full article gives fascinating details about these pieces.
You walk into a white room in a fashionable Oxford art gallery. A fractured, fragmented version of the [Beethoven] Moonlight Sonata echoes from an unmanned grand piano at one end. On the opposite wall is a white-on-white neon display of a telephone number. You dial, then listen. Down the line, you hear a whooshing, splooshing sound. You are connected, live and in real time, to a glacier melting in Iceland.
Meanwhile, at the Science Museum, in west London, displayed on a huge futuristic grid, you can see and hear thousands of messages sent by strangers in internet chat rooms all over the world as they are intercepted, live, in a work aptly entitled Listening Post. And soon, in a warehouse in central London, you will find five grand pianos, insides out, playing on their own over the disembodied voices of William S Burroughs, Claude Lévi-Strauss and Malcolm X. This is the splendidly titled Stifter's Dinge, created by a German composer called Heiner Goebbels. It, too, is a work of sound art.
Cooper goes on to consider historical influences:
If sound art has a beginning, it seems to lie with postwar avant-garde composers such as John Cage, the start of a line that follows through to Brian Eno's ambient music, the sound collagists Christian Marclay and John Oswald - forefathers of the "mash-up" - and electronic composers such as the Japanese minimalist Ryoji Ikeda.Edgard Varèse also belongs on any short list of this kind.
Yet most of those are primarily musicians with artistic inclinations.Oops. Gaffe alert.
All musicians have artistic inclinations. This is true by definition. Music is art. Making music is thus making art. The 'artistic inclination' of musicians is thus a given.
It's a tic among visual artists to use the word art as a synonym for only visual art. It is useful enough as a verbal shorthand when talking to other specialists. But it crashes and burns when you step out of the gallery and start discussing aesthetic issues. Here, it doesn't do to let gallery shorthand do your thinking for you. Categories are already understood. Art consists of creations in all sorts of media. Music is a subset of art, just as visual art is.
Here the tic leads to a working definition that is actually irrelevant to the art itself. The text asks us to understand sound art as 'sound structures created by primarily visual artists.' This is in contrast to music, understood here as 'sound structures created by primarily aural artists.' But this focus on the resumes of the individuals cannot be sustained. Where does it leave the work of Abbess Hildegard of Bingen, for example? She a was neither a musician nor a visual artist by profession. Was she making 'sound contemplation' and 'sight contemplation' instead of music and visual art? There is no need to let oneself in for this. Hildegard remains a noteworthy figure in the realm of both music and visual art. But it's not her resume, however we define it, that puts her there. It's the work itself.
Either way, the subject here is sound structures. The arrangement of sound for artistic purpose is music. Music is sound art. Sound art is music.
Rubin, 43, who cites Cage and Marclay as influences, sees sound art as having more distant roots. "In the early 20th century, the Russian futurists were doing orchestras with noise-making machines," he says. "And within experimental music, there is a tradition of composers doing spatial-installation projects that push far outside what you would consider music, towards what we now consider sound art."The assumption is that sound structures sufficiently original to 'push far outside what you would normally consider music' are 'not music' for that reason. But this is another distinction that makes no difference. Music does this all the time. The music makers of the world are forever pushing boundaries 'far outside what you would normally consider music.' I could offer many names, but just one closes the case. John Cage.
Music is the art of sound. Where sound is art, music exists. The two are the same.


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Okay, there's no amateur radio station on board (so far as I know :-), but this site is definitely about a manned spacecraft: http://www.noradsanta.org/ Yes, it's NORAD's annual Santa-tracking endeavor. The real-time tracking won't start until Sunday, of course, but meantime there's lots of other stuff to enjoy, including music by the U.S. Air Force Band of the Rockies. 73 and Merry Christmas, Patty N6BIS ---- Via the sarex mailing list at AMSAT.ORG courtesy of AMSAT-NA. To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe sarex" to firstname.lastname@example.com
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I'm working in a salon now!! If you're in the Louisville area, I'm working at Calssique Nails and Spa. Come see me! I'm not doing everything yet; I'm still in training since I'm freshly out of school (there's a lot that is done differently in salons that isn't done in school). I'm sure it won't be long before I am a full fledged technician though.
Anyways, on to nails! Last week I had some cute daisies on my fingers.
I started with a pink base. OPI something-another, I think (it was from work and I forgot to write down the name). Then I painted on the daisies; starting with black, and then painting white over top to get the outlined look.
I originally didn't have any polka dots in the background. This design evolved oddly; I thought I was only going to paint an accent nail, so the daisies on my ring finger are much closer together than the other nails. Then the next day, I looked at it and it cried out for dots and a matte coat.
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The Deck of Cards
Yes, my paternal grandparents
had 54 grandchildren, a "full deck" of cards.
My name is Cheryl Odell (also known as number 39) and I am the Summerhouse Historian. My father was one of 16 children all born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. My grandparents, of Irish and German decent, had eight boys and eight girls, all of whom were raised in a very religious and patriotic home. All eight boys honored their parent's patriotism by enlisting in the military.
I was born in Los Angeles, California and raised in the San Gabriel Valley where I grew up with many of my first cousins. I went to high school with my cousins, had jobs with my cousins, had my first apartment with my cousins, and most of my friends were my cousins. You can say that family was truly my life.
It was not until 1992, when traveling to a family reunion, that my passion/obsession for genealogy and family history was ignited. As I traveled to cemeteries, schools, and past family homes with my dad, I found myself questioning him about "the summer house". So the story goes, as my dad and I are standing in front of one of his family homes, I ask him, so where is the summer house? He responds, this IS the summer house. I respond with, did you only live here during the summer? He comes back with no, this was our only house. Confused, I ask him, so why was it called the summer house? My dear dad laughs and says, because after every window in the house was broken, it had air conditioning all year-round. Hence, "the summer house".
With a background in medicine, law, corporate business, and genealogy, I find myself as one who is able to think outside the box and find those long lost ancestors and look at their historical significance. I have experience in adoption searches, lineage society applications, DNA, and family tree creations.
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"Cheryl discovered a secret that had been kept in our family for over 60 years. Through research, family stories, and DNA, she was able to find my birth father, half brother and half sister. I thought I was an only child, and now I have two siblings, three nieces, three nephews, four great nieces, and four great great nieces."
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"Cheryl had known about my adoption case for over ten years. As soon as I heard she had become a professional genealogist, I hired her to research my family tree to find the son I gave up for adoption. We just recently tested my DNA, and I look forward to my results and see if we can find my long lost son."
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"Cheryl was able to find the records needed to prove one of our families American Revolutionary War Patriots. She traveled to Nashville, TN and visitied many repositories, met with a university professor who knew this part of history, and never gave up hope of proving his service to his country. She was able to find his service record in a very old book that proved in the town minutes he had served as a 2nd lieutenant."
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It all started in 1920, when Jacob Nickolas Nestler married Catherine Elizabeth Schaeffer, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Jacob of German and Irish decent joined Catherine of German and French decent. These devout Catholics wanted a large family and between 1921 and 1942, they had 16 children. This family photo was taken in 1942.LEARN MORE
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The Black Forest Tiny House Project by Hanspeter Brunner
A friend of ours, Hanspeter Brunner, is building an awesome Tumbleweed tiny house and made the TV news in Germany. Hanspeter is not only an intrepid builder but he's also a great source for baking recipes; we look forward to seeing what comes out of his tiny house kitchen! Congratulations on a project nearly brought to completion, your house looks just fabulous, and you're an inspiration to us all!
You can follow this project at the The Black Forest Tiny House website.


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Over a week ago was tagged by Not My Year Off in a post which was thought up originally by Two Point Four Children.
Ok I'm only 26 now and I could make this a things to do before I'm 30 list but it would be either extremely boring or totally unachieveable.
1: Take the boys to Disneyland Paris.
Ideally I want to do this in 4 years time to celebrate my 30th, my husbands 40th and our 10 year wedding anniversary (we honeymooned at Disneyland.
2: Take the boys on a Mediterranean Cruise.
I'd like to have a wedding blessing on a cruise ship.
3: Go on a boat trip leaving from the North Norfolk coast going out to see the seals.
4: Take the boys to Tenerife and go on a boat trip to see dolphins.
5: Go for a trip on a Hovercraft.
6: Lose weight and be happy with my body.
7: Become a breastfeeding peer supporter or similar.
8: Visit most of/all of the towns on the Norfolk/Suffolk coast.
9: Raise money for charity.
10: Kick anxiety in the bum and overcome it or learn to deal with it.


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Ferrari boss Stefano Domenicali has described this weekend's Chinese Grand Prix as "vital" after a disappointing start to the season for the Scuderia.
The team were a second slower than Sebastian Vettel during qualifying in Malaysia and have scored only 36 points this season, half as many as Red Bull.
Technical director Aldo Costa, his deputy Pat Fry and Domenicali all returned to Maranello after Sunday's race to assess the problems – much like they did two weeks ago after the Australian Grand Prix.
"The main problem we need to deal with is our performance the day before the race in qualifying which is not at the same level as the teams that are currently best," said Domenicali.
"It is vital for us to react immediately, because we have seen how rapidly things can change in Formula 1. In terms of strategy we can say our race in Sepang was a good one, because our choices proved to be the right ones and the fact we were unable to bring home more points was down to other causes."
His comments come just a day after Ferrari President Luca di Montezemelo backed the under-performing outfit.
"I am definitely not satisfied with the way the season has begun, but I have complete faith in the people here who know how to react when the situation is tough," he said.
Domenicali said he was happy with his two drivers, despite the low-scoring returns: "Felipe drove to a very high standard, showing a return to form and Fernando was very aggressive, which is always good for a driver."
"Back at the factory we have to have a big push to understand our lack of performance," said the team principal.
"We need to push a lot to upgrade our aero package because aerodynamics is the key to it all. We will try and bring as quickly as possible the upgrades, maybe already in China, that we require."
A return to form cannot come soon enough for the team who have seen Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel win four consecutive races.


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Diabetes can be defined as a condition which occurs when your body is incapable of using glucose normally. Glucose is the main source of energy for your body cells. The blood glucose level is controlled by a specific hormone called insulin. It helps glucose enter into your body cells.
There are some whole foods which are not processed such as fruits and vegetables and good for diabetes. These foods help you to meet your nutritional requirements and also help to lower the risk of diabetes problems.
Here is a list of some foods that help you to maintain your blood sugar level within a normal range.
- Oatmeal
Oatmeal is a carbohydrate. It is enriched with beta-glucan, a soluble fiber that reduces the speed of digestion and prevents high rises in blood sugar level. It also improves insulin sensitivity that allows your body cells to convert glucose into energy.
Beans are fully loaded with soluble fiber and proteins, which help in preventing big spikes in your blood sugar level. Beans help your body to stabilize the blood sugar level.
- Salmon Fish
Salmon fish is one of the best diabetes care foods which is enriched with protein, vitamin D, omega-3 fatty acids and niacin. It helps to reduce inflammation in the adipose tissues which is associated with insulin resistance.
Broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables such as cauliflower and kale contain sulforaphane compound which triggers so many anti-inflammatory processes and protects your blood vessels from the cardiac damages.
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January 2015 – Rochdale Town Centre demolition completion
January brings to a conclusion a 51 week Rochdale Town Centre demolition project. (See case studies). Site is cleared of the former 14 storey Municipal Building, Multi-Storey car park, Link Bridges and Bus Station, ready for the future development. The works were completed on time and with minimal disruption to members of the public, highways.. read more →
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The Connell Brothers team begin the asbestos removal and demolition of the former multi-storey Market building located in Leicester City Centre, the job is expected to take approximately 31 weeks. read more →
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It's still very hot and very dry! We are hoping that our borehole has enough water left until the rain arrives! Aberglasney Gardens are still looking amazing and the sprinklers are managing to keep everything looking bright and beautiful. Sitting on the terrace drinking in the view …and a cup of coffee is pure delight.
Luckily Friday dawned bright and not too hot so off to Llandeilo where Pam was leading our Walking Well Group around Dinefwr this week…well…actually…it's not Walking Well now…it's just us! The WW funding has been stopped but we will all carry on regardless as we enjoy it so much…..it will all get sorted!
The walk started at the station as usual and we walked down through the town, past the colourful houses and on into the Park.
The rest of these houses aren't buried below ground!
Lots of wild flowers out in bloom and it looks like we are going to have a bumper year of blackberries!
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This year at Dinefwr we are celebrating the life of Lady Cecil Rice, 2nd Baroness Dinefwr, one of the most influential women to ever have lived on the Dinefwr Estate.
Lady Cecil was the only child of the fabulously wealthy William Talbot of Hensol in Glamorganshire.
She married George Rice, MP for Carmarthen, in 1756 and together, they transformed the Dinefwr Landscape into what we know and love today.
Splendidly well connected, Cecil and George spent much of their time in London where they were influenced by new ideas of philosophy and culture, especially the view that nature could be art.
Some of the spectators were too shy to look !
Back home the garden seems to be lasting with lots of spot watering. It's the hanging baskets and window boxes that take such a long time to get wet!
Just looking at those pansies with their pretty faces brings a smile… so do these other faces that appear when I'm bringing them a drink!
The garden wildlife seems to be thriving too! The mouse still appears most days ( sorry Jacqueline!) and the swallows have fledged this week and are enjoying their flying lessons all around the house. The swifts are still screeching around too so it's all go!
My new greenhouse cost a lot of money and took Jim a long time and a lot of effort ( bad back!) to build but I told him and assured him that it would all be worthwhile in the end. Today I proved my point. Tah dah……one brilliant green pepper!! I even shared it with him…now that's called…something!


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Now's a key time to return to the band's 2015 album 'Stereotype'
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It's late 2016 and we're living amidst Trump's election, hysteria over refugees, a call for a ban on Muslims entering the country, and serious discussions of a registry of Muslims. Explaining the severity of the moment, The Kominas' guitarist Shahjehan Khan said in our interview that, "I feel that now more than ever, people need to understand that I don't get to 'turn off the news,' I don't get to 'not be political.' I am scared that someone is going to throw a fucking molotov cocktail into my dad's mosque, or beat up my sisters on the train, or say or do something that upsets my mother."
The Kominas have been fighting such bigotry for years, coming to be known as the foremost bearers of Taqwacore, a punk subgenre centered on Islam and its culture. They are indeed a punk rock band that started up of majority Brown Muslim kids from the USA, though they've since moved away from the Taqwacore label, feeling it often too narrow. In an MTV interview, Khan said, "We have been a band for 10 years. Our first album was a Muslim Punk album, but that is certainly not all we are." Bassist Basim Usmani agrees, saying in our interview that, "In terms of our genre I'd say we play a variety of punked out musical styles. But yeah want to step away from Taqwacore."
Besides feeling the label is limiting, the band also notes that guitarist Karna Ray is not Muslim. While not Muslim, Ray is a Brown man living in the United States, and it is well documented that Brown folks, whether Muslim or not, are affected by Islamophobia. Ray explains in his own words via the same MTV interview: "Even as a non-Muslim I shared some of the most overt characteristics of suspicion, like being dark and wearing a beard. It made me realize how contingent Islam as a religion or a culture was to the gloom of suspicion and distrust that became the pervasive attitude of most of the 2000s. As an American citizen with two academic Indian parents, raised Hindu but with no particular religious affiliations, I am still systematically double-checked at airports."
However you specifically classify them, The Kominas have came together under a collective understanding of each other as Brown punks in America. The band has proven to be a shining example of representation for all punk kids of color who felt there was no one out there they could identify with in their often heavily white local punk scenes.
With such intensifying Islamophobia, it's an important time to revisit the band's 2015 release Stereotype. The record covers themes of Islamophobia, as well as broader American racism and what it's like being a person of color in the United States. "Pigs Are Haram," for instance, tackles the crisis of police brutality against the African American community. The first and only verse in the 52 second track is, "I'll show you where to plant the drugs at, I'll show you all my badge and ass crack. I'll book him in the front and shoot him in the back, You'll tell me that he's wanted, when he's just black." At the end of the song, the band repeats the lines, "Read the Qu'ran, PIGS ARE HARAM," which will make sense to those who know that in Islam pigs are indeed haram (to eat).
On "Banana," the band attacks those who try to pigeonhole their identity. Guitarist Sunny Ali sings, "I'm a believer, in my own way. Rip my t-shirt, give my heart away." With that line, Ali claims the freedom to express himself however he wants while still claiming the religion and culture he was raised in. Growing up Muslim and having immigrant parents myself, I considered myself Muslim and of Somali background, but I was still into punk and hip hop, which are seen as "Western" interests by my family. As with many Kominas tracks, "Banana" tells us that it's not about choosing one or the other. You can be a punk kid and still value culture and religion in your own way.
Growing up Muslim and having immigrant parents myself, I considered myself Muslim and of Somali background, but I was still into punk and hip hop, which are seen as "Western" interest by my family. As with many Kominas tracks, "Banana" tells us that it's not about choosing one or the other. You can be a punk kid and still value culture and religion in your own way.
As society seeks to box in Brown peoples' identities, it maintains the freedom for whites to be multifaceted. "Four White Guys" takes on that flip side of the issues brought up in "Banana." The chorus repeats, "We're just four white guys," expressing a view I think all non-White people in the West have had of how easy going life must be as a white person. You get to live your life and be a full person instead of only being seen as your race. You never have to endure annoying questions such as "Where are you from?" You never have your name mispronounced, or constantly feel like you represent your entire race. You're not going to be placed on a registry because of your religion, or experience everyday hate crimes. When you're white in the West, you get to just represent yourself and be. Don't we all just wanna be four white guys hanging with our buds drinking cheap beer and enjoying $1 a slice pizza? Or even a crew of white friends like on "Friends," which the music video for 4 White Guys mocks.
In our interview, Khan expanded on the obliviousness and hate of white America after Trump's election: "I run in a few circles due to my personal life which puts me in a lot of primarily white spaces – specifically with white men – and while I must acknowledge the immense amount of support I have gotten – in terms of phone calls, check ins, and a real willingness to step up and participate in some sort of direct or indirect action – I am mostly upset by the echo chamber phenomenon that has led people to literally be unaware of just how different my life might be from theirs. One old family friend had the audacity to tell me that he knows these are not the 'real problems' minorities are facing; an older gentlemen said that 'he doesn't think I'm lying but he just cannot believe' that I know firsthand of hate crime incidents right here Massachusetts; and I even heard someone say last night that '[Trump] is probably gonna murder a lot of foreigners' but we'll get through that as long as he doesn't take her rights away as an LGBTQ person."
The track "See Something, Say Something" was penned after the "If You See Something, Say Something" ad campaign was launched by Homeland Security in 2010 to encourage U.S. citizens to combat terrorism by reporting to authority figures when they witness "suspicious" folks. It became more popular in early 2016 with an increase of ads in the States and in Canada. The song has limited lyrics, with the lines, "If you see something, You better say something, or nothing at all," and "So don't make any accidents, You need more evidence," repeated over and over again, driving home how easy it is for people to be racially profiled by your average American. The song's video shows white subway passengers reporting The Kominas for having what they believe to be a bomb, but is in fact a lunch packed for a picnic. It demonstrates how careful you must be as a racialized person who is or "looks" Muslim when navigating white spaces, lest you be treated like a criminal.
Whether it be identity politics, envying white punk slackers freedom, how policy affects those on the margins, or being vocal about police treatment of Black people, it's safe to say that The Kominas are using punk to fight and speak on issues most punk bands won't. In Trump's America, that's what punk needs to be.
I spoke with the band about what it was like touring the U.S. during summer sixteen with the elections going on, what it's like being a DIY band touring, punk band documentaries, and the importance of allowing yourself to give back as well as receive from the community.
HANA JAMA: Who in the group came up with the concept of the "Rock Therapy Tour"?
SHAHJEHAN KHAN: Sunny Ali had first thought up the name after the band had been talking about how our shows were feeling like a kind of group therapy. This isn't our 9-5 but it is very cathartic. Over the course of the tour we prepared a workshop for artists in Olympia where Karna Ray came up with the title "survival as success," which aptly sums up what's rewarding about this band: it's longevity. People who have been listening to us since we were on My Space finally got to see us, and we finally got to meet them. The reasons for doing this band are largely psychological and emotional. From the very first songs written under the moniker it's been about our catharsis. We never really had many "fans" who would come to our shows until very recently.
It is kind of ironic that our summer tour was called "Rock Therapy," and unfortunately this message is more poignant than ever before for our band. Although I had this sort of sinking feeling that Trump was gonna win after I protested his rally near my hometown almost a year ago, I think that I, along with lots of other POCs in America, got one of those impending doom type feelings in my stomach after it all happened.
Is your music gaining significance with the volatile political situation in the US?
Islamophobia and xenophobia are on a new level in the US and with the way we receive information now there is a steady bombardment of bogus shit being shoved in our faces literally every other minute. Whether it's politicians saying nasty things or hate/war crimes becoming a regular story, it's an assault on our mental health while putting us in more physical danger. It's hard to really process it all immediately and you start to compartmentalize it. We don't want to grow numb to these things and creating spaces and activities for healing plays an important role in that not happening.
The only silver lining here in terms of The Kominas is that our last 2 shows were perhaps some of the best in recent memory. Sammus graciously allowed us to join her on her Boston bill along with Lewis M, and they both helped to create a space where it was okay to express ourselves three days after the election. And this past Thursday, Riz MC, Heems, and Redinho's Swet Shop Boys project invited us to open their already sold-out Brooklyn gig at Rough Trade, where I had the chance to relay a story about getting "the special white glove search and humiliation march out of line" on a flight back from Norway this October as Kominas were on our way back from Bergen International Music Festival. In both cases, we had old fans, and many new fans, either in tears or just super grateful for the solidarity from brown and POC artists. I am still on a high from both shows, and we are getting ready to focus this energy on a new EP or album to be recorded immediately after Thanksgiving here in Boston.
I feel privileged to be considered part of a movement with other amazing artists that is creating strength and hopefully some comfort for actual disenfranchised and "forgotten" peoples in America 2016, not the ones who looked to a billionaire to "bring back jobs" while looking past the irreparable social damage he has done and is already doing with his appointments.
But who knows, maybe the new Kominas album will be the soundtrack to the end of the world?
You used a crowdfunding campaign for this summer tour. How has crowdfunding made things accessible to you that might otherwise be out of reach?
Crowdfunding has been a huge help for us considering we don't have a label, manager, PR, or anything like that. Our audience helped us realize this dream and we're grateful, hoping we can live up to their expectations. The crowdfunding ensured we wouldn't lose too much money going on tour. It made a twenty-one date US tour feasible. Otherwise we wouldn't be able to hit the road and share our music.
We're kind of in a strange position where underground scenes maybe think we're too "big" for them maybe because of some of the attention we've received, and the people at the "top" think we're part of some underground cult scene. Neither of which are really true.
You just did a charity gig in Oakland, CA, can you tell us a bit about the cause?
The Oakland gig was set up by the East Bay Rats, an organization of bike aficionados who also manage a few bars in the Oakland area. They are boxing enthusiasts and have a relationship with the Pak Shaheen gym, where many women go to box in Karachi [Pakistan]. They invited us to play their clubhouse benefit for Pak Shaheen gym and it was def one of our fav shows of the tour! Special shoutout to Kim Vallejo for hooking us up with them! We raised about $1200 which will go towards boxing gloves for the gym. It was really quite a thing to see these big white biker dudes and alternative brown and black kids moshing together.
Back in 2009 there was a documentary about you guys and other Muslim center punk bands called Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam. You're filming another documentary about the current tour. How is this one different from the other one, and what do you hope can be made from the filming of this particular tour?
It's hard to know what it'll turn out like! Everything went pretty smooth for the most part, and I think the filmmaker was hoping for more drama. We played with a lot of other rad artists so I am definitely looking forward to highlighting their work and voices. Artists such as Psychaleppo from Syria, riot grrrl reminiscent band Giant Kitty, as well as Lara Americo, Saraswathi Jones, Doctors and Engineers.
How does the official "Rock Therapy Tour" poster relate to themes you've used before, for example breaking down masculinity stereotypes by dressing in feminine traditional Pakistani and Indian clothing in photographs?
The poster is by Ayqa Khan, we had been fans of each other work for a while and put it in her hands to come up with whatever she wanted.
It seems as though earlier works of The Kominas for the poster inspired her as I thought of the photographs when I first saw the poster. How important is it for you to collaborate with artists from similar cultural backgrounds?
It's definitely important for us to try to give paid work and visibility to rad artists of similar background. Our album art for our last release Stereotype was done by Aziza Ahmad out of Karachi, Pakistan, in collaboration with Kylen Ford, and it's one our favorite band art pieces we've ever had done for us.


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911 call: Mom slept as toddler got stuck in hot car, died
BUFORD, S.C. -- A 3-year-old South Carolina boy who died several days after being trapped in a hot car had climbed into the vehicle while his mother slept, according to a relative's call to 911.
Logan Cox died Sunday morning at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, according to officials. His grandmother, Teresa Clevinger, told 911 operators that her daughter had been watching the boy last Wednesday but dozed off while at the family's home in Buford, which is in South Carolina, near the North Carolina line.
"He had figured out how he could unlock the doors," Clevinger said in the recording, which was obtained by WSOC-TV. "He got outside, and we don't know how long he's been out there."
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Sunday night, CBS affiliate WBTV spoke to Logan's mother, who said she believed her son climbed into the car because he always wanted to drive. She told the station that she found Logan in the driver's seat.


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Three female students at a Westchester County, New York, high school have been suspended. Their offense? They said the word "vagina" at a public performance.
The performance, of course, was of Eve Ensler's play "The Vagina Monologues." The play is a collection of stories in which women talk about their privates. It attempts to help women see that this body part should foster no shame. The play is now performed by school groups virtually everywhere, frequently causing controversy.
The principal of the Westchester County school says that the issue wasn't so much that the girls said vagina, but that they disobeyed prior instruction not to say the word. That's an interesting distinction.
Once again, it's not about the transgender surgery, it's about the betrayal of trust.
What this little incident helps to illustrate, though, is a point already driven home in recent days by reaction to Ann Coulter calling John Edwards "a faggot." This is someone who said women whose husbands were killed during 9/11 reveled in their widowhood and took less flak for it than she has about this "joke."
Political correctness these days is not about the ideas you express, but about the words you use.
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Robert Feld (Chair, MVPA Board of Governors)
Maggie Kalnins (Chair, MPA Board of Governors)
Samantha Lloyd (Chair, MRA Board of Governors)
Mark Tufnell (Chair, Finance Committee)
The late Sir Clive Bourne was the sponsor and the inspiration behind Mossbourne and his spirit still imbues the fabric of all the schools within the Federation.
He believed that the children of Hackney were being incorrectly blamed for the failure of schools in the borough to reach good educational standards and that the real reasons lay elsewhere. As a successful business man, who started his working life in Hackney, he believed that the problem lay with the schools and not with the students, that there too low expectations and assumptions about what Hackney children could achieve. "OK was good enough" was not a mantra he was prepared to put up with.
For the past 12 years Mossbourne has continued to demonstrate how right Sir Clive's belief really was. Every year our students achieve extraordinary academic success. The Mossbourne approach is based on the same principles it has always adhered to: outstanding quality of teaching and learning across a broad curriculum, with high expectations of every student.
In 2014 we opened a new secondary school in Hackney, Mossbourne Victoria Park Academy and in 2015 two new primary schools, Mossbourne Riverside Academy (in the Olympic Park) and Mossbourne Parkside Academy.
The Central Governing Body is effectively the board for the Federation of Mossbourne schools and sets priorities and direction for all the schools. At an executive level, Peter Hughes, also the principal of Mossbourne Community Academy, is our chief executive.
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MossPAM Ltd (company no 10248621) is a fully owned subsidiary of the Mossbourne Federation. The Central Governing Body is also responsible for setting the priorities and direction of MossPAM.


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Rockalily Style - BeachEast: Stratford's Own Urban Beach/
Stratford's Olympic Park has a new summer attraction - BeachEast , the UK's largest urban beach. It's a beach version of the Winter Wonderland type affairs, with fun fair rides, stalls, bars and music.
I wore my long line dress from Asda, and my Croc wedges.
The sand is lovely and clean (I hope they manage to keep it that way!) and its a sweet place to sit. Only two little downsides I found were that the bars don't take card payments, and there is no on-site atm. You have to walk back over to WestFields shopping centre. Second is that you can only drink your cash-bought drink in the bar area, not the actual beach. I'm aware of the probable reasons for that, but was a shame.


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Member Benefits!
OACAC is proud to offer grant funding to members ONLY. A $20.00 investment in a membership might be worth a $1000.00 trip to a conference, $350 to cover your bus tour expenses to visit colleges and universities or registration and transportation fees to attend Articulation.
Essentially, attending one OACAC event at a member rate will cover the cost of your membership. While OACAC offers some FREE workshops throughout the year, the larger scale events will pay for themselves when you attend at the member rate.
Professional Interaction with Colleagues
Whether it is through a college fair or conference, workshop or program, OACAC will provides a wide range of opportunities to establish a strong network of colleagues to utilize as you progress in your career. You will find OACAC to be a supportive group and network of friends that on a daily basis provides support in your professional and personal development.
Mentorship Program
Beginning in 2014/15, OACAC will launch a formal mentoring program that pairs experienced professionals in college counseling and admission with aspiring professionals in the field. Members will gain invaluable experience as they enhance their professional and personal network, acquire practical skills and knowledge to use in their career and strive to be a leader in the field.
Membership Directory
Extensive online listing of members within the organization who can be a resource throughout the year as you counsel students on their college search, recruit them to your institution or identify ways for professional development.
OACAC College Fairs and College Fair Calendar
Members have exclusive access to a complete listing of college fairs within the state of Ohio as well as discounted rates for OACAC sponsored College Fairs.
Professional Development through Annual Conference, Articulation and GWI
The cornerstone events of the organization offer insight to recruiting and counseling students in the 21st century. National organizations and panelists from ACT, CollegeBoard, Ohio Board of Regents, NCAA and OASFFA provide information on trends, policy revisions, testing changing, rules updates and federal regulations at a minimal cost for members.
Quarterly newsletter designed to bring professional advice and articles on trends in college counseling and admission. It will also include topics relevant to a variety of constituencies, highlights of conferences and professional development workshops and upcoming events.
Grant Funding for ONLY for members
If your district does not reimburse you for events, workshops, bus tours or even national conferences, then apply for a grant through OACAC. We have been able to provide grant funding to attend local, regional and national events including the NACAC National Conference. A $20.00 investment might be worth a $1000.00 trip to a conference or $350 to cover your bus tour expenses to visit colleges and universities.
Seminars and Workshops
Free seminars and workshops that focus on everything from writing a teacher recommendation or developing a high school profile to conducting essay writing clinics for or application workshops for college bound students.
Vote in Elections
As an OACAC member, you have the ability to voice your opinions and perspectives through elections of our executive members, organizational processes, and other topics of discussion
Job Board
Access to the complete listing of jobs posted on OACAC.org and discounted rates to post positions on the website.
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So, you are tired of all the bad news on the radio, right? Tired of hearing ads for big trucks, the war in Iraq, and pouring bleach on children? Cannot get enough news about being green and eco-friendly? Well, you might want to check out a new online radio service called Good Dirt Radio.
So far this year, they have had stories on Biodiesel From Algae and Green Cemeteries, and they have upcoming stories planned on Carbon Offsets, EarthForce and Fair Trade. You can listen through your radio if you happen to live in some places in Colorado or Utah, or you can listen online at some of the stations or get their podcasts through iTunes.
Since most of the stuff on the radio now is just advertising, I try to listen to my iTunes library or online satellite radio that does not have any commercials. But Good Dirt Radio seems to be another source for green and environmental news. Be sure to check it out, it seems pretty interesting so far!
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Various cases of Cohen Sutherland Line Clippings
Currently, we study how this clipping algorithm works. For the sake of simplicity we will tackle all the cases with the assist of illustration lines line1 to line 5 demonstrated in following figure. All line segments present a case.
Figure: Various cases of Cohen Sutherland Line Clippings
Note, that in above figure of various cases of Cohen Sutherland Line Clippings, line l1 is completely observable, line l2 and line l3 are completely invisible; line l4and line l5 are partially observable. We will determine these out comings as three separate cases.
Case 1: l1 → totally visible, that is, Trival acceptance
∴both points lie inside the window
Case 2: l2 and l3 → unseen that is Trival acceptance rejection
Case 3: l4 and l5→ partially visible


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May 09, 2016
New Delhi, India
JustJobs Network hosted journalists, researchers, policymakers and private sector stakeholders in New Delhi for a roundtable on jobs and the American election, with special guest Michael Werz, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress. The conversation focused on the dissonance between key U.S. labor market indicators – record job growth and low unemployment – and public sentiment around the labor market, which is defined by discontent. The anger about the state of the U.S. economy – which is widely considered to have recovered far better than most major economies – is driving the rise of populist candidates like Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.


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It is rare that one day earned it's own post, imagine the time we would need to do that!, but looking at photos of our visit to this Incan site I found I wouldn't be able to contain them to a paragraph.
To get there were arranged a transfer from Cusco to the hydroelectric station outside Santa Teresa, and then walked two hours along the train tracks to arrive at Aguas Calientes, or Machu Picchu pueblo as it is known. It's not a great pace to spend your time. We had two nights there so we could do the whole trip in three days (journey there, whole day visit, journey back) and it was only bearable for the comfiest beds in Ecopackers hostel and a delicious meal at indio feliz. The prices are also crazy expensive (for Peru, not in general).
We didn't bother to walk up from the town to the site in the end, because egg fell in a hole in the NGO taxi garden and hurt his ankle and you have to do a lot of walking just at the top. We also didn't bother to get there when it opened at six in the morning as we realised we wouldn't really see the sunrise and wanted to have energy to stay until closing time. Early and later are better time to visit as the day trippers arrive mid morning and leave mid afternoon; by four we felt like we had the place to ourselves and just chilled out with the llamas.
Options for visiting include climbing machu Picchu mountain or huayna Picchu mountain, or neither. Huayna Picchu sells out months in advance so with our last minute planning approach that was a no go, but for some reason very few people climb Machu Picchu so that was what we did.
If we had thought about it at all then we both thought it was a casual stroll. It was not. As we started on the trail I asked egg where we were heading and he looked up and guessed the only peak we could see. On reflection we both decided this was waaaay too high and our destination must be hidden. We were wrong. We were some of the first people to reach the top of the unrelenting stair climb and enjoyed pretty peacefully the amazing views from the peak before slugging back down.
(Incidentally, that really high mountain in the background, that's the one we climbed)
The whole place felt really atmospheric. No where near as many tourists crawling all over it as I'd been led to believe, and pretty darn spectacular. We just sat and looked at it from different angles. All the way up in the mountains, why would you ever build up that high!


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A second thing that has me thinking about innovation is John Key's announcement that the partial sale of our energy assets is going to fund more innovative schools in New Zealand. I thought it appropriate to showcase a few of the stunning schools being built at the moment, within the existing Ministry of Education building programme. These are schools that astonish.
Amesbury School in Churton Park, Wellington, NZ
"Amesbury School is a new decile 10, year 1-6 school in Churton Park, Wellington. The school will open on February 1st 2012."
Hingaia School, Auckland, NZ
"We are a state Y0-8 school opening in February 2012 for all year levels."
Stonefields School, Auckland, NZ
"Stonefields School is a learning organisation that designs learning to cause learning for each learner. It is a place that is committed to building the necessary knowledge and competencies for students to thrive and succeed in learning and life. The School, opened on 3rd February 2011, and is located at the centre of the Stonefields development. The School has a supportive and encouraging community."
Albany Senior High School, Auckland, NZ
This is our school. While this video focuses on the school in general, there is quite a bit of time dedicated to the learning spaces:
Ormiston Senior College
"Ormiston Senior College is one of New Zealand's newest and most forward-thinking senior high schools. We cater for Year 11-13 students (generally aged 15-18 years old). The students are firmly at the heart of our school. We are focused on preparing and inspiring them to achieve their very best in a global society. Although academic excellence is our key focus, we are also striving to develop and hone their skills socially, culturally (through sports, art, culture) and globally so that they are able to reach their full potential across a wide range of subjects and interests."


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If Only Singaporeans Stopped To Think
Housed by the iconic MCG, the National Sports Museum celebrates Australia's rich sporting history by boasting the biggest sporting collection in the nation. Target Audience – Sports venue and occasion operators, managers, safety and safety staff, initial responders, law enforcement. Group signed baseballs are a single of the most intriguing regions of the sports memorabilia hobby and do not take up significantly area either! The current value of facilities and land at the National Sports Center stands at about $50 million.
You are obligated to compete in that if your score qualifies for it. Nevertheless, you can sign up for the Sports History Bee or Entertainment History Bee and then get a refund if you then are unable to compete since you sophisticated to the USGO Quiz Bowl Playoffs. Headed by Tan Wearn Haw, a former national sailor and chief executive officer of Singapore Sailing, the NYSI will form a bridge in between the higher-performing student-athletes and the Singapore Sports Institute (SSI).
After the heartbreak of narrowly missing out on competing at the SEA Games on residence soil this year, Singapore Sports College (SSP) student Ong Yong Qing has set his sights on the next 1 in 2017. A new website focused on baseball and other sports autographs has launched, supplying novice and veteran collectors the opportunity learn about autograph authenticity and shop for signed sports memorabilia.
Each and every year on National Sports Day our President provides the sports awards or national sports awards to deserving players. Funding can be an uphill battle when attempting to progress as a club, and the Government has been a great aid to applicants of the Sports Capital Grants in current years. To take pleasure in a day that is devoted to physical fitness, playing a game, understanding a new sport, and becoming outdoors, is to integrate a far more healthful life style. In truth, I see moose in Taylor Fork fairly often and have by no means seen them in Yellowstone National Park.
National Sports Day is primarily celebrated in educational institutes and sports academies all over the country. The Hose need to Never be higher than six fingers below the knee cap…. the convention becoming that if wet, the legs ought to be free of charge and in a position to dry off. Therefore, what most residents do not comprehend is that apart from getting the day for health motivation, it is also supposed to motivate more cultural ways to participate in the community. Inside the spot is huge and impressive, the first issue I noticed when I walked in was the large tree in the center of the room and the colourful artwork on the walls.


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How to Plan Ahead for Study Abroad with CIMBA Italy on this week's #CampusChat
Is your student considering study abroad next year? Do you wonder how she should prepare and what she should take (or not take)?
This week's guest on #CampusChat is Sophie Switzer of CIMBA Italy. She will be giving tips to parents about how to plan ahead for study abroad.
CIMBA Italy offers insight on the importance of study abroad, with accreditation from Tipple College of Business at the University of Iowa. Their program offers english language coursework for American students on their campus in Paderno del Grappa, Italy. The courses focus on business, leadership, communications, and engineering with an emphasis on personal development. During the study abroad program, CIMBA Italy offers extended travel weekends and weeks for all students, encouraging students to travel whenever possible.
What: How to Plan Ahead for Study Abroad
When: Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Where: Twitter, using hashtag #CampusChat
Who: Follow @collegevisit, @zkellyq and @CIMBAItaly
CampusChat is a weekly discussion held on Twitter Wednesdays, from 9 – 10 p.m., Eastern time.
To participate, please include the hashtag "#campuschat" with your tweets. Our goal is to engage, entertain and inform our followers on college-related topics.
If you miss any of our chats, we always publish a transcript and, if the original Q & A with the expert guest, we will publish that as well on the Smart College Visit blog.
If you'd like to be guest on #CampusChat, just fill out our inquiry form below and we'll follow up to learn more about your area of expertise. Guests who tweet often and have an established Twitter following are more likely to have a successful, comfortable chat.Click here to inquire about becoming a guest on #CampusChat


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It would be difficult to find someone who will speak on the topic of Warhammer with more impassioned fervor than Mythic's Paul Barnett. The man seems to channel the spirits of the orcs, dwarves, and Chaos Marauders that populate the brutal world that he's helping to bring to life. As such, we could not think of anyone better to talk with us about the latest in-game faction for Warhammer: Age of Reckoning that Mythic has decided to unveil: the Empire. As you'd expect from the Warhammer universe, this human nation, to paraphrase Mr. Barnett, is teetering on the edge of annihilation at the hands of a multitude of assailants, not the least of which is humanity's own tendency to take the violent measures necessary for survival to wild extremes.
Barnett on Bright Wizards:
In the main city of Altdorf, there is the Bright College of Magic, this enormous school where all the Bright Wizards go and learn their magic. It's so incredibly dangerous because Bright Wizards are all about fire. In the city, the Bright Magic tower stands on its own, and everywhere around it has been burned to the ground! And that's cause it keeps exploding, cause they won't leave it alone! Bright Wizards are wizards that are into fire, and they go around blowing things up.
Some people said to me, "That's interesting. What sort of magic do they cast?" The answer is: fire magic! What sort of things do they do? They burn things! How much magic can they cast? A lot of it! Think of them as nuclear weapons. They're buckets of instant sunshine. A Bright Wizard is all about taking the strands of magic, and using them in such a way that the magic doesn't make them explode, it makes their enemies explode. Throwing fireballs, lighting strikes, burning everything that -- it's napalm. Napalm, bombs, explosion, fire, flame throwers, matches, they smoke heavily, probably chew tobacco, all their hair is always singed, all their clothing looks like it's probably been on fire, they carry matches everywhere, tinderboxes, they like gasoline, they drink whiskey, they always got pipes stuck in their gobs. They're basically pyromaniacs.
That's what Bright Wizards are all about. They don't do a lot of buffing. They do a lot of burning.


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Formats and tools
- Unit Description
- Reconstruct the unit from the xml and display it as an HTML page.
- Assessment Tool
- an assessor resource that builds a framework for writing an assessment tool
- Assessment Template
- generate a spreadsheet for marking this unit in a classroom environment. Put student names in the top row and check them off as they demonstrate competenece for each of the unit's elements and performance criteria.
- Assessment Matrix
- a slightly different format than the assessment template. A spreadsheet with unit names, elements and performance criteria in separate columns. Put assessment names in column headings to track which performance criteria each one covers. Good for ensuring that you've covered every one of the performance criteria with your assessment instrument (all assessement tools together).
- Wiki Markup
- mark up the unit in a wiki markup codes, ready to copy and paste into a wiki page. The output will work in most wikis but is designed to work particularly well as a Wikiversity learning project.
- Evidence Guide
- create an evidence guide for workplace assessment and RPL applicants
- Competency Mapping Template
- Unit of Competency Mapping – Information for Teachers/Assessors – Information for Learners. A template for developing assessments for a unit, which will help you to create valid, fair and reliable assessments for the unit, ready to give to trainers and students
- Observation Checklist
- create an observation checklist for workplace assessment and RPL applicants. This is similar to the evidence guide above, but a little shorter and friendlier on your printer. You will also need to create a seperate Assessor Marking Guide for guidelines on gathering evidence and a list of key points for each activity observed using the unit's range statement, required skills and evidence required (see the unit's html page for details)
- Self Assessment Survey
- A form for students to assess thier current skill levels against each of the unit's performance criteria. Cut and paste into a web document or print and distribute in hard copy.
- Moodle Outcomes
- Create a csv file of the unit's performance criteria to import into a moodle course as outcomes, ready to associate with each of your assignments. Here's a quick 'how to' for importing these into moodle 2.x
- Registered Training Organisations
- Trying to find someone to train or assess you? This link lists all the RTOs that are currently registered to deliver ICANWK501A, 'Plan, implement and test enterprise communication solutions'.
- Google Links
- links to google searches, with filtering in place to maximise the usefulness of the returned results
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- Reference books for 'Plan, implement and test enterprise communication solutions' on fishpond.com.au. This online store has a huge range of books, pretty reasonable prices, free delivery in Australia *and* they give a small commission to ntisthis.com for every purchase, so go nuts :)
Elements and Performance Criteria
1. Plan, implement and test an enterprise email solution
1.1 Plan implementation to provide mail services to meet business requirements
1.2 Prepare existing network for mail server installation
1.3 Install and configure mail servers
1.4 Configure users, mailboxes, address lists, distribution lists and user constraints
1.5 Configure mail-client access
1.6 Configure message integrity and anti-spam, antivirus and anti-phishing measures
1.7 Configure message transport to deliver mail within and outside enterprise
1.8 Monitor mail-system performance
1.9 Implement measures to provide high availability and data recovery
1.10 Test functionality
2. Plan, implement and test remote access to email
2.1 Plan remote access to mail
2.2 Configure mail system to provide remote access
2.3 Test remote mail access
3. Plan, implement and test an enterprise web portal or content management solution
3.1 Plan namespace and server roles and deploy web portal or content-management software
3.2 Configure access and security
3.3 Configure network infrastructure
3.4 Manage design and customisation of portal and related services
3.5 Monitor performance and logs
3.6 Implement measures to provide high availability and disaster recovery
3.7 Test functionality
4. Plan, implement and test business collaboration tools
4.1 Plan namespace and server roles and deploy business collaboration software
4.2 Configure access and security
4.3 Configure network infrastructure
4.4 Customise to meet business requirements
4.5 Monitor performance and logs
4.6 Implement measures to provide high availability and disaster recovery
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Boycotting the vote in Syria
May 7 - Amateur video shows Syrians protesting against parliamentary elections, with some cities falling silent and others mocking the election. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
Election day in Syria. Amateur video shows a fake voting station with citizens mocking the nationwide parliamentary elections -- casting votes for people who have been killed in the Syrian uprising. In Hama -- video which could not be independently verified by Reuters shows closed shops said to be on strike in protest against the poll. Footage purportedly out of Amouda shows another fake ballot box with more names of those who have died in the revolt. Signs say 'Your vote is your dignity, don't waste your dignity'' More signs of a boycott in the quiet streets of Idlib. Syrians authorities view the parliamentary elections as a milestone of political reform. The opposition has dismissed the vote as a facade. And yet the demonstrations goes on. Violence has continued in Syria since a UN backed ceasefire was declared in mid-April. Unlike autocratic leaders who were toppled by the Arab Spring, President Bashar al Assad has kept enough support among the military to withstand the 14-month-old revolt. The United Nations estimates that more than 9,000 people have been killed in Syria since the uprising began last March. The government blames the violence eon foreign backed insurgent groups. Deborah Lutterbeck, Reuters.