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A new London market consortium will offer insurance and crisis management solutions to mitigate reputational risk, with Beazley at the head of the slip
Three Lloyd's insurers have committed to a new London market consortium focused on insuring reputational risk.
The Custodian Consortium will offer substantial limits with additional capacity initially provided by Tokio Marine Kiln and RenaissanceRe as well as Beazley's smart tracker Lloyd's Syndicate 5623.
Led by Beazley, the collaboration will offer "a unique and flexible solution to an issue that has long preoccupied the C-suite".
Cover is aimed at US-domiciled organisations with up to $5bn in revenue, including both public and private companies, and for-profit and not-for-profit enterprises.
With underwriters' consent, an event that threatens major reputational damage could entitle the client to crisis management advice worth up to $1m.
The first $250,000 of this cover is available on a pre-loss basis, regardless of whether a loss of revenue is ultimately recorded.
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Exclusions include cyber and product recall, systemic events or macro-economic impacts, failure of corporate strategy, fraud or criminal acts.
Beazley suggested some potential scenarios for crises, including allegations of sexual harassment or bullying against a senior executive, or the mismanagement of such claims, to faulty or misused medical equipment.
A reputational crisis can affect an organisation in many ways, hitting revenue, the ability to hire and retain talent, and the support of stakeholders, Beazley noted.
In the event of a crisis, clients will be supported by crisis management advisory firms, APCO Worldwide and CrisisRisk.
Tokio Marine Kiln has fielded a reputational harm product since 2011, providing a $25m indemnity for lost profit attributable to an adverse media event.
Rachel Turk, focus group leader of Beazley's London-based directors' and officers' liability (D&O) team, said: "In an era in which news travels faster through social media, risk to hard-earned reputations is greater than ever before.
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Tapering can get a little confusing for those of us without sports science degrees; the general population's idea of tapering is better described as deloading, or taking time off pre-event to feel good. Where-as the real goal of tapering should be to increase performance, which may or may not include a reduced workload.
The only certainty is taking 7 days off training prior to the race is a recipe for disaster!
The general rule is: maintain training intensity, reduce the training volume and slightly reduce training frequency.
BUT There is no prescribed method for tapering and each athlete should work with their coach to determine what would work best.
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Indo Portuguese museum fort kochi, features and accessing details
Indo Portuguese museum, history of kerala by the influence of Portuguese
Indo Portuguese museumis the cultural center of kerala that explain how the culture of portugeese influenced in indian history. it express how their presence in the region and the art.this is the tourist destiantion in kochi in ernakulam district give additional priority for the tourism attractions in ernakulam. the museum was established in 1910. it lies in the bishoop house of cohin which hosts the things that collected from the all other churches in kerala.
Dr. kureethra was a bishop in kochi who take the intial actions to found the museum at kochi that relate Portuguese it was his aim and ambition. it has some collections of posterity.The era of Portuguese was initiated from the beginning of 16th century by the arrival of first Portuguese sailor vas co de gama at the western coast of kerala, it was the beginning of the Portuguese in kerala, they defeat the whole country and initiate their rule in india. by this period the state was greatly influenced the culture of them especially the religion.
The museum is divided into five sections according to the things that preserved in the museum, they are altar, treasure, procession, civil life it also thee and cathedral. there is an art work which donated by the calouste gulbenkian foundation. it also hosts the symbols of animals. The museum is open for the visitors daily 10.00 am to 5.00 pm, which is closed in all Mondays and the holidays. entry fee is must, but entry is free in first thursday of the month. ernakulam is the nearest city to Indo Portuguese museum which is 12 km away from destination having both the rail head and the bus station. kochin international airport is about 44 km away.
for more details – Address: Bishop Kureethara Rd, Fort Kochi, Kochi, Kerala 682001


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Chesapeake-Anne Arundel High's baseball team returned to Ripken Stadium Saturday, determined to exorcised the memories of an epic collapse in the Class 3A state final a year earlier.
By early Sunday morning, the No. 4 Cougars left the Aberdeen field with another bitter disappointment. Montgomery County's Poolesvile defeated Chesapeake, 4-3, in the final. Fallston's bid for a title was revoked by Middletown of Frederick County, 8-0, in the 2A title match.
For the first time since 2012, the Baltimore area didn't win a state title. Howard lost to Northwest from Montgomery County in the 4A finale Friday evening at Ripken. There wasn't an area team in the 1A final, played early Saturday afternoon at Ripken.
Heavy rain in the mid-afternoon left the uncovered infield at Ripken with several puddles, delaying the remainder of Championship Saturday for three hours. It would be the longest of evenings for the locals.
Middletown captured its first state championship behind junior Matt Dillard, who threw a five-hitter and struck out 11. Robbie Houck, Jacob House and Andrew Wenner each had two hits and two RBI for the Knights (21-4 overall).
The Cougars (16-8), who scored 18 runs in Tuesday's state semifinal win over Eastern Tech, were shutout for the first time this season.
"Our batting lineup really came alive for our playoff run and continue to put good at-bats together and just grind teams down," said Fallston coach Grant Morlock. "We couldn't get that done tonight, but that's OK, I don't want this to be a reflection of our season."
Fallston mounted its only threat in the top of third, getting one-out singles from Blake Loewe and Everett Cox. Kyle Hoover's shallow fly ball into leftfield turned into a fielder's choice (Loewe forced out at third) and Noah Hagenston struck out.
Middletown broke through in the bottom half of the third against Cougar starter Bryce Logan, who struck out four through the first two innings. House lined a single past a drawn-in infield, scoring two runs.
Houck had a RBI single, and in the fifth, added a sacrifice fly as Knights led 5-0. Wenner had a two-run in a three-run sixth, putting the game out of reach.
Cox and Brady Logan each finished 2-for-3 for Fallston, which ran off six straight to reach its first state final since 2009.
"Once playoffs started, everything clicked," said Bryce Logan. "We were hitting the ball well, but tonight, we couldn't hit anything."
"I'm just proud of our boys, if you would have told us this, the beginning of April, we'd be standing here a state runner up on May 27th, I'd say you're crazy," said Morlock, "but these guys worked their tails off all year and I'm just proud of all they've accomplished."
After a gut-wrenching come-in-front loss in 2016, Chesapeake-Anne Arundel was unable to complete a stirring comeback against Poolesville in a game that started shortly before 10 p.m. Once down 4-0, the Cougars from Pasadena had the tying run at third base in the bottom of the seventh.
Dillon Oxyer's groundball was cleanly fielded by Poolesville's second basemen Cole Carmack, and the western Montgomery County school celebrated its first state baseball title. Chesapeake (20-4) was denied its first state title since 2014.
Last year, Chesapeake was three outs away with a 3-0 lead against Huntingtown in the 3A final. Final score: Huntingtown 4, Chesapeake 3.
"This game is hard to win," said a somber Cougar coach Kenny King, holding the runner-up trophy.
Poolesville (18-2), courtesy of two-run single from Brady Pearre in the first and Colin Metz's two-run double in the fourth, led 4-0. The Cougars began their rally in the fifth as senior Tommy McNamara singled home Colton Spangler and Blake Rebstock hustled to the plate following an overthrow.
McNamara later cross home plate on a wild pitch, making it an one-run contest. McNamara opened the seventh with a single and his courtesy runner advanced on Bobby Quesenberry's two-out single.
The Cougars weren't able to get redemption, leaving 10 runners in scoring position Saturday. Chesapeake twice had the bases loaded.
"We had a lot of opportunities," said King. "Sometimes that moment just jumps up on you. You don't get to feel it all the time, so it's new and you tighten up a little bit."
Chesapeake will have its top two pitchers among eight returning letterwinners back for another run in 2018. The Cougars lost three close matches to Anne Arundel County champ and 4A state semifinalist Severna Park this spring.
"We were very young and very talented. I'm telling you this team is going to be back here next year and the year after that," said Oxyer, one of five seniors. "They're not leaving here without a ring."
State baseball finals
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Middletown 8, Fallston 0
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Bryce Logan, Moody (5), Pacheco (5) and Hoover; Dillard and Stevens
2B: Fallston – Brady Logan
Poolesville 4, No. 4 Chesapeake-Anne Arundel 3
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Seidler, Young (5) and McNamara; Carmack, Myers (5) and Convers
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Production year: 1968
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Screenplay: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Country: Italy
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Runtime: 105 mins
Pier Paolo Pasolini believes that reality is cinema in nature and that cinema is a reproduction of reality.
"Teorema" is Italian mystery film written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. On release, Teorema was not only widely criticised as controversial, but condemned by the Catholic Church on charges of obscenity, due to its sexual content.
A middle class household is irrevocably changed after a handsome and mysterious young man visits. The Visitor seduces each family member in turn, including their maid. On his sudden departure, the family are left bereft. For better or worse, each member of the family is forever transformed…
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U.S. Sens. Patty Murray (D-WA) and Ron Wyden (D-OR), along with other Democratic senators, unveiled legislation recently to protect Medicare beneficiaries and states from a spike in Part B premiums and deductibles in 2016.
The Protecting Medicare Beneficiaries Act of 2015 would guarantee no Medicare premium or deductible increases in 2016.
"I'm proud to be pushing for legislation that would protect 722,000 Medicare beneficiaries in Washington state, and millions more across the country, from a sharp increase in their health care costs," Murray said. "Our seniors deserve a health care system that works for them and puts their needs first — and that means they shouldn't have to worry about a spike in their health care costs next year."
As it now stands, approximately 30 percent of Medicare beneficiaries, or 15 million Americans, could see a 52 percent hike in their monthly premiums as a result of being excluded from a "hold-harmless" policy that occurs in years when there is a zero percent cost-of-living adjustment, meaning they must pay the entire increase in the Part B premiums.
The legislation would stabilize 2016 premiums for the 30 percent group at the 2015 level of $104.90, as well as hold the deductible for all beneficiaries at $147.
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Voice concatenation for sport pulse technology
Jabra makes life sound better. Every day, their intelligent sound solutions inspire people in ways they never thought possible. Jabra inspires athletes, old and young to push boundaries and be their best, thanks to their innovative sports headphones with real-time voice coaching and intelligent apps helping you stay motivated and in the zone.
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Jabra approached us for complete voice concatenation solution for their new product- Sport Pulse. The Sport Pulse technology included a Sport Life fitness app that paired with earbuds, offering in-ear coaching and real-time feedback.
To bring this idea to life, Jabra required a partner in voice production that understood their needs, with the skills and expertise to deliver exceptional results.
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Well, mods that use patchers usually don't use the mcm for settings. It's just to turn the mod on or off and debug.
STEP Recommended MCM Settings
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Yeah, on reflection a lot of the mods just don't need FISS. @cdcooley posted on his mod page here that it doesn't warrant it for his. Quite likely most don't.
Still it doesn't hurt to ask, at worse I look like an idiot.
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Posted 21 January 2016 - 11:13 PM
Looking at the few mods that do support FISS, it appears to be a relatively easy thing to implement. I'm assuming most mods haven't because it is still much easier to just enter those few entries by hand and once their in, you never think of them again.
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I updated the MCM Recommendations wiki page with my recommendations for many of the mods.
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Awesome! Thanks! Lots of projects going on that have been left for later. This has been one of them. There will be lots to do for the next release. haha!
Posted 12 June 2016 - 11:30 AM
I updated some of my recommendations as well, although I think Nebulous raises a good point that we should consider changing some of the default shortcut keys to avoid conflicts.
Posted 27 June 2016 - 10:07 AM
Usually i follow STEP recmomendations, sometimes i tweak a little:
Auto Unequip Ammo > STEP
BFS Effects > 10%/75% ME and 5%/50% NPCs, steam ON and rest OFF.
Come Together > jump 100, rest default.
Complete Crafting > generic materias for craft, all salvage materials OFF, rename glass/cooper/mithril.
Convenient Horses > just horses for followers ON, rest default.
Deadly Spell Impacts > STEP
Dual Sheath Redux > all ON (followers get double staffs on back sometimes).
Dual Wield Parrying > i don't use, i play with joystick.
DynDOLOD > low settings for my weak pc ^^
Enhanced Blood > max 5, last 5s, blood on weapon/clothes 60s (usually it never disapiers, so i need to remove my clothes to force it)
Factions > doh
Footprints > max 20, 10 for FX.
Immersive HUD > i don't install this junk, it hides the compass permanently...
Lanterns of Skyrim > STEP
Lock Overhaul > I just check to receive exp/report crime, but i open all chests with lockpicks, so smash and magic all OFF.
Minty's Lightning > 30s and hostile on both sides (dunno whats the right side does).
Not So Fast > 2 days.
SkyUI > i just uncheck maps swf errors, 'cause i use atlas map makers.
Thieves Guild Requirements > default (but i dont use this mod anymore)
Timing is Everything > all default, ebony warrior 75 (but i dont use this mod anymore)
Trade and Barter > i turn on and reduce even more the sell prices by 10%, also i set 750g for all blacksmithers.
Wet & Cold > rain and snow with blur, breath and drops ON, all auto clothes changes OFF (weak pc).
Wonders of Weather > Shooting stars 40s, rest default.
My mods:
XPMSE > Just quivers and bolt quivers with frostfall style.
Sexy Move > i don't use anymore because my pc can't handle
FNIS PCEA2 > i don't use anymore because my pc can't handle
UFO > max 6 followers, friendly fire ON for everyone.
SPERG > almost default...
Imperious Races > Harrier 0% chance (got serious issues with this once)
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This amazing lodge is the perfect introduction and final farewell to Northern Kachin State. Perched high above the Nam Lang River with magnificent views of mountains and rice terraces, Malikha Lodge has been designed by world famous architect Jean Michel Gathy of Aman Resorts fame to create a feeling of luxury and seclusion in this wilderness setting.
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The 2019 WIAA spring baseball season is underway. These are our sixth power rankings of the season. The top 15 is ranked regardless of Division. The top five for each Division can be found at the bottom of the page.
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Brookfield East (12-6), De Pere (12-5), Eau Claire North (11-3), Edgewood (14-3), Franklin (12-5), Holmen (13-6), Iola-Scandinavia (15-3), Kenosha Tremper (13-4), Madison West (12-6), Marathon (10-1), Menomonee Falls (12-5), Mineral Point (17-0), Oak Creek (12-5), Oconomowoc (10-3-1), Prairie du Chien (14-1), Random Lake (13-3-1), Reedsburg (11-4), River Falls (12-2), Stevens Point (14-3), St. Mary Catholic (12-2), Sussex Hamilton (12-6), Sun Prairie (14-6), Viroqua (15-4), Wauwatosa East (13-4), Wrightstown (17-3)
The Tigers climb into the top 15 for the first time this spring on the back of a two-game split with No. 4 Waupun. Ripon is the only team to beat the defending Division 2 state champions this season. Unfortunately for the Tigers, they're one game back of the Warriors in the East Central Conference standings with two games left to play. They'll need some help to become conference champions. Ripon takes on Kewaskum and Westby this week.
The Panthers enter the top 15 for the first time this season. It's a good time to be a Panther: They clinched the Woodland West Conference title last week and have won 15 of their 17 games this spring. They outscored their opponents 50-5 across their last three games. They have six contests scheduled for this week, highlighted by a Saturday game against Franklin (honorable mention this week).
It's impossible to have a better week than the Red Devils just did. Three games, three no-hitters. Bradford not only swept three games from Racine Park, it didn't allow a single hit in the series. Jarrett Ramer struck out 11 in the first no-no, Kyle McKinnon did the same in the second, and Nick Cairo fanned 10 in the third one. Things won't be quite so easy this week, with games against Franklin (honorable mention), Kenosha Indian Trail and Westosha Central.
The Blue Dukes carry an 11-game win streak and have not lost since April 15. It took a walk-off double by Owen Jonas to keep that streak alive in a 3-2 win over Cedarburg on Saturday. They also swept West Bend West last week. They can wrap up the North Shore Conference title with a few more wins this week. They take on Grafton and West Bend East in league play, and Waukesha South in nonconference action.
The Broncos won all three of their games last week without much of a test, winning by six or more runs each time. They swept two games against Badger and also beat Racine Park. They are still alive in the Southern Lakes Conference title hunt, although they trail top-ranked Burlington by one game with two left to play. They take on Racine Case, Waterford and Muskego this week to finish off their regular season slate.
The chances of the Tigers finishing the regular season undefeated get better with each passing day. Last year's Division 3 state champions have won all 18 of their games this spring and have hardly been challenged at all in the process. As expected in the preseason, when it comes time for the Division 4 playoffs, Webster will be the team to beat. At No. 10 this week, they have achieved the highest ranking by a Division 4 team in the six-year history of Wisconsin Baseball Central's power rankings.
The Polar Bears got off to a poor start to the week, dropping games to No. 3 Kimberly and Appleton East. They rebounded though, topping Appleton North and Oshkosh North to end the week. They'll look for more consistency this week when they take on Kaukauna and Appleton West.
It was a rough week for the reigning Division 1 state champions. They went 1-3 over the course of four games, dropping contests against Verona, Sauk Prairie and No. 2 Janesville Craig. The only win came against Sauk Prairie to salvage a two-game split. The Warriors will try to get back on track with games against Beaver Dam, Medford and Mount Horeb this week.
Another week has gone by without the Trojans losing a game. They're unbeaten after taking down McFarland and Whitewater (twice) last week. With only four games left on their schedule, Turner has a shot at taking an undefeated record into the playoffs. The Rock Valley Conference champions play Clinton twice this week before facing two tough teams in nonconference play: Lake Country Lutheran and Catholic Memorial.
It's now an eight-game win streak for the Hornets after taking care of business four times last week. Perhaps the best of the bunch was a 1-0 win over a Bay Port team that has been red-hot in May. It's getting down to crunch time in the chase for the Fox River Classic title, and Preble holds a one-game lead over Bay Port and De Pere with five games left to play. The Hornets take on Oshkosh West, Sheboygan North, Ashwaubenon and Notre Dame this week.
The Phantoms have won eight games in a row, and four of their last five have been victories by over five runs. They've got a two-game lead in the Bay Conference standings and four games left to play, and can clinch the title this week. It would be a fifth straight conference title. They take on second-place Menasha on Monday before games against Shawano and Fond du Lac later in the week.
The Warriors saw a 25-game win streak come to an end last week when they fell to No. 15 Ripon. The good news for Waupun is that they split the series with the Tigers, and also bounced back with a win over Markesan, a highly-ranked Division 3 team. The Warriors can clinch the East Central Conference title with two wins over Plymouth this week.
The Papermakers went a long way toward capturing the Fox Valley Association title last week, winning three league games highlighted by an 11-5 victory over No. 9 Hortonville. With six games left on the schedule, they have a two-game cushion atop the standings. They'll look to hold serve this week against Appleton North and Oshkosh North before they take on Hortonville and Appleton West – the other two contenders – in the final week of the regular season.
The Cougars' flawless week saw them win all four of their games, highlighted by a 6-2 victory over No. 8 Waunakee on Saturday. They've won eight in a row since falling to top-ranked Burlington. They can close out the Big Eight Conference title with two games against Madison West this week. They also take on Homestead this Saturday.
The Demons remain the top-ranked team in the state for the third week in a row after going 3-1 last week. They swept two games from Waterford, beat Waukesha West and fell to Jefferson. Two wins over Wilmot this week would make Burlington the Southern Lakes Conference champion. They also face Kenosha Tremper (honorable mention this week) and Muskego on Monday and Friday, respectively.
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2. Janesville Craig (17-1)
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The Bloomingdale Farmer's Market is located at 1st and R Streets NW on Sundays from 10am to 2pm.
For the second year in a row, the Bloomingdale Farmer's Market provided an awesome venue for Les Petits Chanteurs from Haiti. Usually my trips to the Sunday market are quick, but the singers and the accompanying pig roast provided good reason to hang around. This year, in addition to the choir, a group of drummers from Uruguay provided an energetic interlude.
Later in the evening, more roasted pig was consumed in honor of the belated one year anniversary celebration for the Big Bear Café, which is located adjacent to the Farmer's Market.
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Some 165 people attended Santa Fe College's Plus 50 Career Changer Fair Tuesday night to learn about the school's classes, certificate programs and degree programs. (Photo by: Tricia Coyne)
At 56, Evelyn Hobdy is moving quickly to replace the job she lost Monday — with her husband out of work and both needing health insurance.
She is considering a course at Santa Fe College to become a medical coder or surgical technician after she was terminated from her job as a claims examiner after 20 years at AvMed Health Plans.
"I figure I need to refresh the skills that I have," she said.
At 53, Lois Lanteri is looking to resume the education she halted 18 years ago. After 25 years as a medical assistant — "the bottom rung of the health care ladder" — she hopes to move up that ladder as a registered nurse or in the mental health field.
They were among 165 people at Santa Fe College's Plus 50 Career Changer Fair Tuesday night to learn about the school's classes, certificate programs and degree programs.
The event was geared toward people ages 50 and older identified in SFC surveys as having lost their jobs, looking for something new to do in retirement or just trying to stay active and engaged, said Sheila Lucas, director of the Health Sciences Counseling Office.
The fair comes at a time when more older workers nationwide are delaying or coming out of retirement as the value of their retirement accounts and home values have dwindled.
The Florida Institute for Workforce Innovation's older worker program has seen more people looking for work, said program director Jessica Johnson.
"A lot of people told us they're caring now for grandchildren so they need more income," she said.
"Some of their 401(k)s have not been as fruitful as initially planned or they lost money in it. They're looking for employment to supplement that so they can at least live comfortably."
A woman at the fair who asked not to be identified said she will stay in the work force after she eventually retires from the business she owns because "all our retirement accounts are drained."
She was looking into health sciences classes, reflecting her desire decades ago to become a nurse before getting married and having kids.
"Life just went so fast."
The unemployment rate for people age 55 and older was 7.1 percent nationwide in February, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Though below the 9.7 percent jobless rate for all age groups, it is still the highest since the 1940s for that age segment, Johnson said.
The jobless rate doesn't include those who are underemployed — working part time while wanting full-time work — or those who have given up seeking work and left the labor force, Johnson said.
Other workers who are still employed see the writing on the wall about their current jobs coming to an end and are exploring options for a career move.
A man who asked not to be identified said he was exploring his options Tuesday after seeing his sales commissions drop 50 percent during the recession. He said he is entertaining returning to school, but doesn't know if he can afford to take the time away from work.
"I want to better my situation, but if I quit my job, it means I can't pay my bills. It's a Catch-22 is what it is."
Lucas said Santa Fe has seen more older students. To accommodate older "nontraditional" students, Santa Fe offers flexible scheduling such as night classes and online courses, in addition to computer labs and tutoring to help ease the transition back to school.
Long-term unemployment is a greater problem for job seekers 55 and older, according to a 2009 study by AARP.
Johnson said some older job seekers don't have the computer skills for modern Web-based application processes or are frustrated by the impersonal process of applying.
After long careers, older applicants face particular challenges that include the need to update their job skills to meet changing employer needs, including computer skills, while also facing age bias from employers who view them as irrelevant, according to a 2009 study by the Pew Research Center.
That bias will have to change for the nation's work force to grow over the next several years. According to BLS projections, the number of workers age 55 and older will increase 47 percent from 2006 to 2016 as baby boomers age, while the number of workers age 16 to 54 will increase less than 1 percent.
As a result, older workers will have good prospects if they keep their skills up to date, said Mary Sue Vickers, Plus 50 director of the American Association of Community Colleges.
After 53 years of shoeing horses, 69-year-old Chuck Lloyd of Chiefland said he sees new clients who choose youth over experience, favoring his son over him. He admits that he can't do everything physically that he used to, but said older people are not as respected for their experience as they once were.
"They forget we got this gray hair by doing a lot of trial and error," he said.
The Florida Institute for Workforce Innovation offers job training for low-income people ages 55 and older at the FloridaWorks One-Stop Center. Johnson said the library system also offers computer skills training.
In addition to the rising boomer tide, a Pew survey shows that older workers want to remain employed longer, whether due to financial need or to fulfill the need to remain social and feel useful.
J. Mattox said he was looking into business courses to start a photography business after he retires from his job as house manager of the youth shelter at CDS Family and Behavioral Health Services.
The 63-year-old said he tried to retire once and didn't like it after working since age 14.
"I stayed out for seven months and almost went crazy," he said.
Santa Fe offered information about classes and training for available jobs in business, health care, construction, information technology and biotechnology.
The options include single classes for people wanting to brush up on computer skills, certificate programs designed to prepare them quickly for available jobs, and two- and four-year degree programs.
Community colleges design courses to train people for jobs available in their communities.
Though all sectors are down, Lucas said jobs are available in health care for everything from nurses to surgical technicians who manage instruments for surgeons.
"Our students are finding work," she said. "You might have to look a little outside the area you might normally consider. If you're persistent and willing to relocate if necessary, the opportunity is there."
The fair was part of the Plus 50 Initiative, funded by a $40,000, three-year grant through the American Association of Community Colleges. A similar event last fall drew nearly 200 people.


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Victory at the death
Super sub Ricardinho has proved the hero on Monday night, his 90th-minute goal giving Melbourne Victory a remarkable 2-1 win over Newcastle Jets at AAMI Park.
Super sub Ricardinho is the new hero of the Melbourne Victory faithful after his 90th minute strike gave them a remarkable2-1 win over Newcastle Jets at AAMI Park.
The Brazilian, who came on just 14 minutes earlier, scored a memorable tap-in following a wonderful piece of play from strike partner Robbie Kruse who danced through the Jets defence.
The last-gasp goal sparked jubilant scenes from the 16,378 crowd which celebrated a valuable three points that moves Victory up to fifth on the Hyundai A-League ladder ahead of crosstown rivals Melbourne Heart.
It also stretches Melbourne's unbeaten run to six matches and was their third consecutive home win after successes over the Heart and Perth Glory.
Victory coach Ernie Merrick praised his side's hunger as pivotal in the final wash-up.
"The last 10 or 15 minutes I always got the feeling that our players wanted to win the game and they were happy for a draw," Merrick said.
"As it turned out we created two or three chances at the death and fortunately scored with one. That effort right up until the end of the game was crucial for us."
But it proved a cruel blow for the visiting Jets, who were well worth at least a point, having enjoyed the better of general play, not to mention superior possession, leaving coach Branko Culina bitterly disappointed.
"It's very frustrating and probably a lesson for us, you can't switch off for a moment in the game," Culina said.
The Jets fought back from a goal down thanks to a 54th-minute goal from midfielder Ruben Zadkovich after a Carlos Hernandez special put the home side up.
The Costa Rican star stamped his mark on the contest with a wonderful 35-yard effort which beat goalkeeper Ben Kennedy, albeit one that came totally against the run of play in a first-half dictated by the visitors.
Newcastle created a number of opportunities in the opening stanza, but their best came after just six minutes when Jobe Wheelhouse blazed wide from inside the box following a wonderful build-up featuring Ljubo Milicevic and Ahmed Elrich.
Right-back Elrich in particular, was able to find space down Melbourne's left-side and played a hand in presenting opportunities for the likes of former England international Francis Jeffers along with Zadkovich.
But for all their dominance, Newcastle did lack a cutting edge up front, with Marko Jesic isolated for much of the game, while Jeffers worked hard, but his best efforts were long-range attempts which Victory goalkeeper Michael Petkovic comfortably handled.
Victory, who were missing influential midfielder Grant Brebner, were unable to create their usual fluency in attack, and were benefited by the calming presence of an impenetrable back three marshalled by skipper Kevin Muscat.
Muscat and his partners in crime, Rodrigo Vargas and Adrian Leijer were frugal throughout the 90 minutes, continually snuffing an array of Newcastle attacking raids.
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Tree removal scheduled for this weekend
Two of the sequoia trees on the Stockton campus will be removed over the weekend more
Benefits news: Dieting and your teeth
Weight loss diets can have an impact on your health. more
Water shut-downs planned for the Stockton Campus during spring break weeks
Temporary shut-downs will occur at certain locations in order to test back-flow devices. more
Update on public health notification regarding tuberculosis
Following the diagnosis of active tuberculosis in a Sacramento student, no students have been found to be symptomatic more
New north Stockton Campus residence construction gets underway
Ground preparation has begun on a new four-story 381-bed residence hall on north campus more
Pacific to conduct university-wide compensation system review
President Eibeck has directed the university to conduct a comprehensive analysis to understand the role gender and race may play within the university's compensation system more
Pacific appoints Margery L. Grey to lead marketing and communications
Pacific announced the appointment of Margery L. Grey, longtime chief marketing strategist for the California State University system, as associate vice president for marketing and communications. more
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This Australian owned and operated company is based in South Brisbane, leading innovative machinery company supply capital equipment and services across the APAC region, with offices based in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth and Auckland.
The opportunity
This is an exciting opportunity where you will work with an experienced team to provide service and maintenance solutions to a diverse portfolio of clients. You will identify and qualify the client's requirements and provide appropriate support aligned with the technology. This position is located in South Brisbane and would require you to travel to clients sites around QLD.
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- Provide application support for internal and external customers, assist with demonstrations, negotiation and closing sales
- Setup and run exhibitions, trade shows and open houses
- Manage the installation and modifications of new products to ensure efficient machine installation at the clients facility
- Provide technical support, including scheduled maintenance, repairs and troubleshooting onsite at our customers facility
- Work closely with service coordinator to ensure to schedule work and ensure that service reports are produced for all service work
- Communicate with international suppliers to obtain recommended and development of the best solutions for the customers
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- Previous experience in a similar role working on electrical/mechanical equipment
- Demonstrated experience using CNC machines
- Strong communication skills both written and verbal
- Experience working in an unsupervised or autonomous working environment
- Worked in a customer focused position
- Strong mechanical aptitude
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Houston Locals Take the Podcast World by Storm
Kelsey Whittington | 1/19/2018, 10:11 a.m.
In 2017, we saw a steady rise of podcasts and saw as they quickly became a guilty pleasure for everyone who is on the go but wanted a change from the radio. Houstonians alone have grown more keen to podcasts but little did we know we had our very own best kept secret brewing right in our own backyard.
Hafeez Baoku and Chris Below began "The Roommates" podcast early in January 2017 (Yes, as actual roommates!) and have seen much success in a very short period of time by averaging 3,000 downloads per month and gaining a large social media presence. The show is a late-night conversation taking you behind the scenes of becoming an adult with all the people, conversations, and perspectives you'd experience on the way. With covering everything from fitness to relationships, and self-help, "The Roommates" podcast is a show that any and every one can enjoy.
"I like to explain the show as a crossover of being entertained like a talk show, educated like a TED Talk, and enlightened like a sermon. Our show is different because we cover all basis and want to produce content where any and every one can enjoy it," said Hafeez Baoku.
Although many think the podcast market is becoming over saturated that is not the case. There are many podcast out but very few that release quality content with a good quality production. "The Roommates" made a name for themselves by knowing the right direction to take their show so that it is not easily grouped into things that we have already seen before. It is very rare that we not only see young males doing positive things but also making an effort to see a different point of views. In 2017, "The Roommates" has had guests on their show that represent different platforms from the Back Lives Matter Movement to the Young Republicans group and even a gospel recording artist.
"I really enjoy the show, not only are they funny but they are very well rounded when it comes to topics and takes the initiative to be open-minded and learn new things, which is very rare these days," said Olivia Mitchell, a loyal listener.
Like many other entertainment related markets breaking into the podcast, the industry is not easy. It requires a lot of time and dedication and Hafeez and Chris have proven that they are up for the challenge. Even though they both work full-time jobs and balance their personal life they have been dedicated to producing weekly episodes and being interactive with their listeners on social media.
As someone who is an active podcast listener, I quickly grew to like this podcast. It is something about expecting the unexpected. No two shows are alike and they all cover different topics. A lot of times podcasts only cover one topic or show a left side view of things. It's refreshing knowing that you won't get a biased opinion on things when you tune in. Aside from being open to different perspectives you can tell that the duo has also put time and effort into their production. Not only do they have a studio where they shoot the shows they also invested in top market sound equipment which shows how dedicated they are to their craft.
"The Roommates" have accomplished a lot in a very short period of time but they are only just getting started. The duo has declared 2018 as the year of breaking barriers and continuing to grow to reach a larger audience while still staying true to their original vision and foundation.
Make sure to subscribe to the podcast on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-roommates-podcast/id1193460831?mt=2 and follow "The Roommates" on social media @Roommateshtx.


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I haven't tried pumpkin flavored coffee. I'm a bit leery. As a writer, coffee is very important to me and I'm a bit fussy when it comes to taste. I love butter rum cakes but hate butter rum coffee. The best coffee I ever tasted came fresh from Puerto Rico. It's was delicious, mild, and I could drink it forever.
Back to my pumpkin obsession. I think it's all the spices that go with pumpkin that make for such delicious desserts. I love the scent and flavor of cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger. When you cook with these, it just fills up the house and declares that Fall is here.
I do bake ginger cookies for the family. I use a box recipe, but I grate in a lot of fresh ginger to give the cookies a good kick of flavor. I think it's little personalized touches like that which can make a baker out of someone with no natural talent for baking. (me *grin*)
Lastly, there are the roasted pumpkin seeds. Mmmm. These I do with great success. I love how you can roast them with a little butter and salt for a simple snack, or dress them up with spices. They are delicious and always a favorite at my house.
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First Look at the Motorola Triumph for Virgin Mobile from Phandroid
This is a discussion on First Impressions of the Motorola Triumph within the Motorola Triumph forums, part of the Motorola Android Phones category; First Look at the Motorola Triumph for Virgin Mobile from Phandroid...
First Look at the Motorola Triumph for Virgin Mobile from Phandroid
I agree Wicked! I thought blur was the answer to all of Android's problems. :D
Funny, if Blur is so awesome, according to Sanjay, why in the [censored for your sanity] horses! did they not cram it all up in that?
gotta admit this phone is tempting me back to the cheap plans on Virgin... it's like a slightly differently shaped Droid X with a ffc and full HDMI mirroring...
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"...life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it."
There are things I really like about this phone, the screen size, processor speed, internal storage. This is the first phone I have owned with this combination, however the signal antenna could be a dealbreaker. Luckily I am not experiencing some of the other issues my fellow triumph owners are experiencing, such as flickering screen, leaking light, and white screen. Hopefully the smart people on this forum will solve all of these issues.
So far I like the triumph. I had a hard time getting it to tether. I am a serious Droid noob but I learn quick so I hope not to brick my triumph as I just rooted it. Lots of questions though...
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Where shall we buy the bread that these may eat…
Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient….
John: 6:1-14
Over this weekend, my heart was moved by great needs or maybe deep material lack that is torturing God's people. As I ministered to different people I realized that the same struggle is experienced by all, but may be in different areas. One thing in common is that genuine people, those who truly love the Lord are currently experiencing hardship in one area or another. I took it to the Lord with pain in my heart and tears. Then the Word of God in the above scripture made me realize that when God is about to do something good; He starts with a difficulty, when He is about to do something great, He starts with an impossibility. I am saying this while tears are still flowing from my eyes but they are tears of excitement this time! I believe that you and myself are candidates for a miracle today. The disciples were facing an impossibility to feed the 5,000 hungry men with their families, the situation was hopeless. May be you are facing a hopeless situation in your home, your marriage, your job, your friendship maybe it is your health. Ignoring your situation will not change it, confessing that you are well will not change a thing! The first step toward appropriating God's strength is to admit your lack, your weakness and your inadequacy and cry out to God for help. I may be teaching myself, but it's okay I need to read this again and have it on my heart throughout the day. The Word of God tells us time after time that "The children of Israel cried out to God and He heard their cry and….. the Saddest truth I am seeing these days is that not many people are willing to cry out to God for help. So will you join me and cry out to God for help for so much is going on right now and many people prefer to numb the pain, the disappointment, and the lack. You and can do this together:
Father in the mighty name of Jesus we are bringing you all the impossibilities that are faced by your children today that as you take care of it all they may know that you care and are worthy and your Word it true. Thank you for you will prove your adequacy once again, Amen.


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The prospect of flag desecration enrages veterans and infuriates defenders of this, our national symbol. I raise the question: What is the flag a symbol of that these groups so emphatically jump to protect its integrity?
For me, the flag represents the essence of this country: freedom in thought and expression. The extent to which we enjoy this freedom sets us apart from the great majority of our neighbors across the globe. It is the very principle by which we distinguish this nation as unique and exceptional among all others.
Flag burning, as an expression of discontent with our government, is a perfect example of the type of freedom our unique Constitution protects because we, as the founders before us, must strive to prevent the censorship of dissenting opinions. Whereas citizens in other countries may not have the opportunity to express their views without harmful consequences, we enjoy this ability to speak our minds without fear of persecution or attempted indoctrination.
Such censorship in the form of a constitutional amendment would not only infringe on our First Amendment rights; it would also remind us of the totalitarian days of Stalin and Hitler, when only the sanctioned opinion was acceptable.
Are we prepared to resort to such means, which undermine the very essence of the Bill of Rights, to prevent citizens from expressing their opinion? I, for one, am not.
The flag is a symbol of the great patriotism that I strongly feel for our nation, a nation where free men and women freely express their opinions. Do not take away my patriotism by taking away everyone's freedom. Keep flag burning protected under the Constitution.
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Dr. James Foskett is a board certified orthopedic surgeon. As an experienced orthopedic surgeon he treats a wide range of orthopedic conditions, such as:
Dr. Foskett attended Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, where he obtained his Bachelor of Science degree. He received his medical training at Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine in Illinois, and a general surgery residency at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics and an orthopedic surgical residency at Mayo Clinic – St. Mary and the Methodist Hospital in Minnesota.
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The Academy's Lancer Soccer Program focuses on the overall student athlete to help develop the love and passion we need to become successful adults. We focus on teamwork, goal setting and prioritizing as well as teaching the skills needed to be successful on the field. We try to help nurture leadership, accountability, respect and a good work ethic so they can become successful contributors in their communities after graduating. Create a positive environment for the players so they can develop and enjoy the "beautiful" game.
Students are eligible to participate on the Intermediate level beginning in grade seven, and the Varsity level beginning in grade nine.
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Coach Glenn Arakawa is in his first full year as the head coach for the Lancer Soccer program. He has been with the program as a volunteer coach since 2009 and was the Intermediate Head Coach in 2014-2015 when they won the ILH Division II. He has been running the Sacred Hearts Summer League teams since 2015.
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TOLEDO – Listed are local residents recently initiated into the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi: Erin Fowler of Oak Harbor, Rachel Ropke of Port Clinton and Cindy McGinnis of Woodville. All were initiated at The University of Toledo.
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Everyone's favourite ninja, Naruto, made an impact at JUmp Festa with the reveal of the a trailer for his new game, Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution.
Even better, the trailer introduced a new character: Mecha Naruto. This new character has body entirely comprised of weapons and shine metal and looks seriously badass. He also has two different modes for awakening: Mecha-Kurama and Mecha Naruto (Kyubi Mode).
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If you're questioning what wireframes are and how to use them for websites and apps, this is a great starting point! Wireframes are essentially a blueprint which allow you to visually map the layout and functionality of an app or website. They're fantastic tools which we use here at Devika to make sure we have the layout down pat before we start working on a project. When development does begin, we know exactly what the end result should be.
5 Benefits of Wireframes
Here are our 5 favorite things about wireframes for websites and apps.
- We develop what our partners need. We design wireframes according to our partners vision. Once the layout is sketched, we send the design to our partners. Sometimes it's perfect straight away and we're given the green light to start building. Other times our partners request modifications due to a change of mind, a mismatch between ideas and the actual visual appearance and a variety of other reasons. Either way, our partners can make sure what we begin building is what they need.
- Reference Point. Wireframes can be referred back to at any time. If you get lost in the code, you can always refer back to this to stay on track.
- Ideas vs Reality. By visually mapping out a project, you can check that the design you've envisioned is practically possible.
- Sense of Accomplishment. Large projects like an app development can become underwhelming at times, especially when the final result is only revealed after weeks of hard work. Checking your progress according to wireframes is a great way to stay motivated throughout a project by recognizing your achievements along the way.
- Navigation. While a design might look striking, an effective product must also enable the end-user to navigate through the app or website with ease. If the links between pages appear complex to you on the wireframes, imagine how much trouble the end-user will have! Using the visual guide often helps to identify ways that make navigation easier.
7 Steps to Use Wireframes for Websites and Apps
Step 1: Decide on a project. For some, the most exciting part of a project is brainstorming all of the possibilities but we understand that it's not everyone's forte. If you are stuck on an idea a great way to start is to identify a problem or gap in the real world which technology could help to solve. Maybe your family needs an app that schedules chores? If there's a need for a product, you're on the right track.
Step 2: Access a template. The template should be the outline of a mobile phone or a computer screen. You can easily find templates online or even draw one yourself! Your template should include one wireframe for each page you want to build, eg. home page, product page, about us, contact us and blog, meaning you should have at least 6 outlines ready to go.
Step 3: Start Sketching. Sketches can be hand drawn or done using online programs according to your preference. The first outline should represent your homepage and should be eye-catching and clearly labeled because it will make an immediate impression on the user. Think about where the tabs will be displayed and how they will function eg. drop down tabs.
Step 4: Add Pages. When you begin adding more pages, think about how the user will navigate through and between your pages. Everything should be clear and easy to understand from the user's perspective.
Step 5: Add Details. Start thinking out the specific text and images you want to use and make a note of them in the comments sections eg. add photo x here. This will help to clarify the page design and confirm whether or not you will need additional features eg. a scrolling bar.
Step 6: Refine Your Plan. Once your original plan has been mapped out, it's much easier to see if changes need to be made for design or functionality. Redraw or add comments to ensure your wireframes flow well, make sense and is visually appealing and consistent.
Step 7: Start Building. Now that you have a strong concept of your idea and end-goal, with reference to these steps, begin the build!
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Buy Organic and/or local micro beers or locally grown wine, you'll be supporting your local farmers and keeping the earth green at the same time.
Plant something green this month: spinach, broccoli, asparagus. It will be fun and festive.
Wear organically grown fabric, cotton, wool, or knit your own sweater out of recycled yarn – yes, it's out there.
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Tens of thousands of Christians in the UK and around the world have been taking part in a 10 day prayer initiative aimed at encouraging evangelism which comes to an end this Sunday.
The Thy Kingdom Come initiative, which runs between Ascension Day (25th May) and Pentecost Sunday (4th June), has been developed by the Church of England and championed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, and the Archbishop of York, John Sentamu.
Last year more than 100,000 people joined in the initiative which Archbishop Welby said, speaking prior to the initiative, is not a "Church of England thing" or an "Anglican thing" but a "Christian thing".
"Jesus prayed at the Last Supper that we, those who follow Him, might 'be one that the world might believe'," he said. "We are invited to make a lasting difference in our nations and in our world, by responding to his call to find a deep unity of purpose in prayer."
In a further statement made on 25th May, Archbishop Welby said prayer not only moves us closer to God but with each other. "It connects us with those whom we otherwise cannot see," he said. "Prayer breaks down division, in prayer we take each other's hands and find our safe stronghold."
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Tens of thousands of Christians around the world join in prayer for 'Thy Kingdom Come'
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The RSPCA was delighted to reunite a cat with her owner on Tuesday (21 April) – four months after she went missing.
Maxine, a long-haired 15-year-old cat, was seen in Leeson Crescent in Barton Seagrave. Residents had been feeding her occasionally but they became concerned as she was looking thin and her fur was very matted.
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Kriston Capps is a staff writer for CityLab covering housing, architecture, and politics. He previously worked as a senior editor for Architect magazine.
Entrepreneur and presidential hopeful Andrew Yang has a new policy proposal that promises to set him apart in the crowded Democratic field. He hopes to address an issue affecting the economic vitality of communities all across the country. Yang wants to save the malls.
According to his campaign, some 300 malls will fold over the next 4 years, a number in line with an estimate by Credit Suisse that one-quarter of all malls will close by 2022. Many dozens or hundreds more will struggle as anchor stores collapse and retail outlets wither. Yang's American Mall Act would devote $6 billion to finding new purposes for these dying retail complexes.
Yang announced the plan over the weekend in a video from Columbia Place, a shopping hub in suburban Columbia, South Carolina, that today is only a shadow of its former self. "It's a massive challenge to try to keep these structures vital and filled," Yang said in the spot. "No one wants to go to the vast empty parking lot."
It's an apparent pitch to Palmetto State voters who recognize the retail apocalypse as a potential spur for suburban blight. With it, Yang has landed on a niche issue that could benefit from some visionary thinking: greyfields, economically obsolete real-estate assets so named for the asphalt expanses of their vacant parking lots.
While details for the American Mall Act are scant, Yang said in his video that this policy would provide matching grants and property development incentives to "repurpose malls so they don't become sinkholes." Redirecting tax incentives away from big-box retailers and toward more sustainable employers—or even non-commercial uses—is one way to breathe life into dead malls.
But economic incentives alone aren't enough to resuscitate disused malls and shopping centers. Yang zeroed in on the parking-lot factor, a major impediment to rethinking these commercial sites. As Nolan Gray wrote for CityLab in 2017, the zoning for malls often won't allow anything but big-box retail. Elsewhere he explained how the city council in Lexington, Kentucky, changed the city's most auto-oriented retail zoning code by relaxing parking requirements, permitting greater density, and enabling mixed-use multi-family housing by right.
The Congress for the New Urbanism, which coined the term greyfields, has suggested that the best way to reclaim vacant malls is by reformatting them as "mixed-use, mixed-income, pedestrian- oriented" sites. Easier said than done: Nationwide, local communities are bitterly divided over density, affordable housing, zoning, and parking minimums, all issues subject to neighborhood control. Bridging these divides has emerged as a high-priority issue for 2020 presidential candidates looking for a solution to the affordable housing crisis.
Now, Yang hopes to move the needle with a policy that could, potentially, save dying mall parcels by turning them over to developers for housing, studios, or other more-productive, less auto-focused purposes. It will take more than the Yang Gang to make that happen, but it's another way that the race for the White House stands to elevate political issues typically left for local governments to decide.
For black men like Christian Cooper, the threat of a call to police casts a cloud of fear over parks and public spaces that others associate with safety.
After each epidemic and disaster, our social norms and behaviors change. As researchers begin to study coronavirus's impacts, history offers clues.
Two new studies have revived the long-running debate over how police respond to white criminal suspects versus African Americans.
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The big C of Cancer, formerly the great unmentionable, now stands for Cause Célèbre. A global industry has sprung up round the disease, encompassing publishing and lapel pins, internet drugs and alternative therapies. Yet it remains the most terrifying of diagnoses, a sentence handed out in the strip-lit consultation rooms of under-funded hospitals, a coming to terms in the endless corridors of Britain's struggling health service.
It was the shattering experience of cancer and the profound unsuitability of its setting that Maggie Keswick Jencks, who succumbed to the disease 11 years ago, sought to address. Her idea was for an independent cancer centre staffed by sympathetic, knowledgeable professionals, a respite from the sterility of hospital waiting rooms, of hard plastic chairs, dog-eared magazines and views on to car parks.
The latest manifestation of Maggie's vision was opened last week by Gordon Brown, chancellor of the exchequer, in his own Kirkcaldy constituency. It is a serious building and a powerful vision but it also raises deep questions about the reach of architecture, the nature of disease and human response to space, light and form.
The building was designed by Zaha Hadid, an architect who has achieved extraordinary international renown yet has remained unrepresented in the country she has made home. This tiny structure in Scotland is her first UK building: although it is to be followed by the Aquatic Centre for London's Olympics, a small building for the Architecture Foundation and a transport museum in Glasgow, for now it stands alone as representative of one of the most significant architectural imaginations of our time.
Like most other architects who have designed Maggie's Centres, Hadid knew Maggie and her husband Charles Jencks, the critic who virtually defined architectural postmodernism. Frank Gehry (architect of the Bilbao Guggenheim Museum) was one of the couple's oldest friends and was responsible for a centre in Dundee (also his only British building to date); Richard Rogers is currently also building one outside Charing Cross Hospital in London.
These are buildings that have somehow to embody the intimate, the tragic and the practical. They are intended to be domestic in scale, a reaction to the institutional nature of the hospitals on whose doorsteps they sit, and to be accessible and social but also contemplative, a retreat. They attempt to resolve the paradoxes of a range of human responses to illness. It seems an almost insurmountable brief, and one that each architect has approached differently. Hadid has gone for drama.
The building is a remarkable piece of folding and wrapping: it looks as if the asphalt of the Victoria Hospital's grim car park has risen up in reaction to the aesthetic dumbness of the old building and decided to form itself into something better. It is theatrical and intriguing, a futuristic piece of tarmac origami that folds the visitor surprisingly gently into its angular embrace.
There has been criticism of the building as harsh and unsympathetic, as angular and coarse. Certainly it is not a cosy cottage; it is far from any familiar image of contemporary caring, but it is being called upon to address an unsettling new world of uncertainty, a world post-cancer.
Once you are inside, the harsh black envelope gives way to a softer, more fluid setting, to white walls washed with light, to views on to an improbably green sunken garden, to complex shadows cast by triangular windows and canted walls and, as in all the centres, to a kitchen-table intimacy at its heart. It is an unforgettable building – simple yet sophisticated and fascinating, aesthetically radical yet never attention-seeking.
Since it is still new and unpopulated, it is hard to tell how it will work – the gleaming whiteness and relentlessly modernist fittings still impart the whiff of a swish furniture showroom. But perhaps that is as it should be. These buildings are there to create a visible, accessible presence but they need to be able to let go and hand over to the staff and patients. And this perhaps is where the debate around the Maggie's Centres is capable of being skewed.
Many commentators have latched on to the architectural glamour of these places. "Look," they say, "this is what hospitals could be." It isn't. This is an almost dangerous fallacy.
It is true that the UK is in the midst of a huge hospital building programme, run off-balance-sheet under the Private Finance Initiative that will burden our grandchildren with huge debts and rotten buildings. It is also true that new hospital buildings should be better by far – but these Maggie's Centres are not clinical buildings. They can exist without the crushing logistical and bureaucratic burden of even the smallest hospitals; they are purely complementary, with running costs funded entirely by voluntary donations, and there is no question of their taking over general healthcare. They exist to provide services that the National Health Service can never provide. They aim to promote a culture of self-help, whereby those with experience of the illness talk to and help those who come to the centres afresh. They address isolation, frustration and helplessness.
These buildings, remarkable as they are, should not be used as a stick with which to beat the NHS. Endless reports and research papers attest to patients making better and quicker recoveries in pleasant spaces with nice views but none transgresses the most basic common sense. Good architecture should be a foregone conclusion. The hospitals in which we spend our most precious and tragic moments, in which we are born, in which we watch our loved ones die and in which we ourselves will be spending an increasing amount of time as we age as a society, remain a dumb disgrace.
Hadid's Maggie's Centre is an exquisite thing, a new jewel in a string of humane and hugely worthwhile projects. Architecture will never cure us but it can make lives that may have been brutally shortened, or in which we linger in a limbo of unknowing, more pleasant, sharper, more memorable. A verdant view, a beam of sunlight, a minute spent with friends in a building that has enticed you into a moment of relaxation and forgetting you would not have had: an architect could not ask for more reward.
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Thanks to those of you that kept asking when this rauemi would be finished. As some of you know it has taken much longer than anticipated.
"Pai tū pai hinga na wai rā….ka oti" My mantra…..keep going. You will finish…lots of growth mindset self talk being used for the last month, I tell you.
So why do I love this resource?:
- It comes with Achievement Objectives, so you are actually teaching to the requirements of the curriculum (these are a word doc so can be put in planning)
- You can learn while you teach
- The activities are fun (trading cards, I have, who has-kei a wai game etc)
- Whakataukī,Growth Mindset and values are included
- Flashcards-one set with Māori kupu and one set unnamed but with labels
- Modern and engaging
- Compliments any non-māori Olympic resource you may have
- Is easy to follow (eeks, I hope) and if it's not I'm here
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The flashcards are bright and 2 fit on an A4 sheet.
|Flashcards labelled and unlabelled
I really like having the option of labelled and unlabelled cards as you can play lots of games with a few or all of them.
Here is the link for Trade me
This resource is for middle, upper primary and Intermediate. I will be working on a simpler junior rauemi.


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J. Wilfred Lambert Papers
Identifier: UA 6.067
Scope and Contents The collection includes awards and certificates of appreciation from organizations such as the Alumni Society, Circle K, Omicron Delta Kappa; photographs of Lambert with staff and students, as well as many College events such as Commencement, Parents Day, and ROTC Summer Camp; and a copy of a Commencement program from 1927 when Lambert graduated from William and Mary with a Bachelor of Arts degree. The collection also contains a scrapbook including photographs, clippings, and other publications...
Davis Young Paschall Collection
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Scope and Contents This collection is composed of material collected by and about College of William and Mary President Davis Y. Paschall including articles and speeches, biographical material, material related to his inauguration as College President, news clippings, and subject files. The collection documents Paschall's life from his days as a student at the College of William and Mary, his tenure as Superintendent of Public Instruction for the Commonwealth of Virginia (1957-1960) and President of the College...