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On the eve of the Conference on Cyprus, we feel compelled to express our views on the Cyprus negotiations on behalf of the Hellenic American Leadership Council (HALC), the International Coordinating Committee Justice for Cyprus (PSEKA), the Federation of Cypriot American Organizations (FCAO), the American Hellenic Institute (AHI), the American Hellenic Council (AHC), the Hellenic Federation of New Jersey, and the Coordinated Effort of Hellenes (CEH). Our community has worked with successive U.S. Administrations on behalf of a workable and lasting solution on Cyprus. In 2004, when we warned that the flawed Annan Plan was headed in the wrong direction, some officials defamed us as "rejectionists", "hard liners", or as "not having a bottom line." Yet history proved us right and the officials predicting a landslide victory in 2004 wrong. At this key moment in Cyprus' history, we have decided that it is time for us to speak out, warn against false steps, and describe an agreement that we may be able to support.
We have not only advocated for an end to the Turkish occupation of Cyprus, but for a new and better Cyprus. We have: invested in Cyprus; led business delegations interested in a reunified Cyprus; pushed for better bilateral relations between Cyprus and the United States. We have prepared for reunification with our Turkish Cypriot brethren by supporting bi-communal programs, by opening lines of communications with Turkish Cypriot business and opinion leaders, by encouraging policies like the issuance of Republic of Cyprus passports to Turkish Cypriots. We are informed by Cyprus' tragic past, but not enslaved by it. Our point of reference is the Cyprus of the future, not the Cyprus of 1974.
When we expressed our support for the February 2014 Joint Declaration that began this round of negotiations, we were full of hope. We dared to believe that the world was finally invested in a reunited and truly independent Cyprus, that the days when Cyprus was sacrificed at the altar of a larger political agenda had passed us. These hopes have been dashed over and over again.
Cypriots are prepared to make difficult, and in many cases painful, compromises on issues like territory, power sharing, and property. We acknowledge that Cypriot led negotiations over these issues have progressed further than ever before. At the same time, we regret that the issue that ultimately damned the 2004 Annan Plan — that of security — has not witnessed tangible progress.
We support the proposition that all Cypriots have the fundamental right to feel secure in their country. Indeed, the security of its citizens is the primary responsibility of any state. Several ideas — including an expanded peace keeping mission, an international police force, and other federal structures — that can provide security to all Cypriots are actively under consideration. With well-developed European institutions providing additional layers of security, we are convinced that a reunified Cyprus can meet the highest standards of protection for all its citizens.
The legalization and continued presence of a Turkish occupation force — of any size — and granting Ankara the right of any kind of intervention is completely inconsistent with the goal of a workable and lasting reunification. We cannot prioritize the international community's desire for a diplomatic victory at the expense of a viable solution. Supporting a reunification with an uncertain future because it is subject to a Turkey with hegemonic aspirations and the ability to wait out every single diplomat involved in today's negotiations is irresponsible.
We have been asked whether we cannot simply support "whatever the Cypriots agree to." We are offended by this question. It assumes that our priorities are at odds with those of the Cypriot people. We are attuned to sentiment in Cyprus, and right now our conclusion is that the almost singular focus on process without addressing certain issues is setting up the Cyprus negotiations for failure.
We are not at the negotiating table, and many of us will not have a vote in a referendum on reunification. But we are being asked to invest in and encourage investment in a reunified Cyprus, and to reassure the citizens of Cyprus that the U.S. will stand firmly behind a Cyprus solution and help ensure that it is workable and lasting.
If Turkey's presence is formalized in a reunified Cyprus — either through guarantees or troop presence — we cannot do any of the above with confidence. Cyprus is in Europe, and just as U.S. policy has prioritized a Europe "whole, free and at peace," we ask the same for Cyprus. Turkish troops and rights of intervention prevent both the "free" and "at peace" from ever being true. We are committed to the security of Turkish Cypriots and ALL Cypriots, and there are several structures which do not involve Turkish troops that can achieve that security. Going into the upcoming Conference on Cyprus, we condition our support of an agreement on it avoiding certain provisions:
1. A reunified Cyprus cannot be subject to foreign guarantees. The demands by Turkey to retain its guarantor status keep Cyprus inherently unsafe. An EU member state is in no need of any guarantees by foreign powers.
2. Turkish troops have no place in a reunified Cyprus. In 2008, former Vice President Biden insisted on the "full withdrawal of Turkey". We have the same demand. Foreign armies are not meant to carry out policing functions and would only serve as a source of instability.
3. The benefits that each community is to realize in a reunified Cyprus cannot be subject to temporary derogations and unclear timelines. If these benefits are not in place on Day 1 of a settlement, a successful referendum is less likely, and what will in any case be a challenging implementation period will be derailed.
4. Any settlement cannot contravene the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. The Convention is binding on Cyprus and Turkey. The Charter is binding on Cyprus. For any settlement to be lawful, and for all Cypriots to have the full protection of the law, both the Convention and the Charter must be incorporated.
We continue to believe that a successful reunification of Cyprus will not only benefit the people of Cyprus, Greece, and Turkey, it will stabilize a volatile Eastern Mediterranean and further the interests of the United States. Focusing more on process and deadlines than on substance will only lead to failure and instability.
Nikos Mouyiaris, Chairman and Founder, HALC
Endy Zemenides, Executive Director, HALC
Philip Christopher, President, PSEKA
Andrew Manatos, President, CEH
Nick Larigakis President, AHI
Kyriakos Papastylianou President, FCAO
Tasos Zambas, Executive Vice President, FCAO
Ioannis Fidanakis Executive Director, AHC
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In There Is No More Social Media — Just Advertising, Mike Proulx (@McProulx) begins,
Fifteen years ago, the provocative musings of Levine, Locke, Searls and Weinberger set the stage for a grand era of social media marketing with the publication of "The Cluetrain Manifesto" and their vigorous declaration of "the end of business as usual."
For a while, it really felt like brands were beginning to embrace online communities as a way to directly connect with people as human beings. But over the years, that idealistic vision of genuine two-way exchange eroded. Brands got lazy by posting irrelevant content and social networks needed to make money.
Let's call it what it is: Social media marketing is now advertising. It's largely a media planning and buying exercise — emphasizing viewed impressions. Brands must pay if they really want their message to be seen. It's the opposite of connecting or listening — it's once again broadcasting.
Twitter's Dick Costello recently said that ads will "make up about one in 20 tweets." It's also no secret that Facebook's organic reach is on life support, at best. And when Snapchat launched Discover, it was quick to point out that "This is not social media."
The idealistic end to business as usual, as "The Cluetrain Manifesto" envisioned, never happened. We didn't reach the finish line. We didn't even come close. After a promising start — a glimmer of hope — we're back to business as usual. Sure, there have been powerful advances in ad tech. Media is more automated, targeted, instant, shareable and optimized than ever before. But is there anything really social about it? Not below its superficial layer.
First, a big thanks to Mike and @AdAge for such a gracious hat tip toward @Cluetrain. It's amazing and gratifying to see the old meme still going strong, sixteen years after the original manifesto went up on the Web. (And it's still there, pretty much unchanged — since 24 March 1999.) If it weren't for marketing and advertising's embrace of #Cluetrain, it might have been forgotten by now. So a hat tip to those disciplines as well.
An irony is that Cluetrain wasn't meant for marketing or advertising. It was meant for everybody, including marketing, advertising and the rest of business. (That's why @DWeinberger and I recently appended #NewClues to the original.) Another irony is that Cluetrain gets some degree of credit for helping social media come along. Even if that were true, it wasn't what we intended. What we were looking for was more independence and agency on the personal side — and for business to adapt.
When that didn't happen fast enough to satisfy me, I started ProjectVRM in 2006, to help the future along. We are now many people and many development projects strong. (VRM stands for Vendor Relationship Management: the customer-side counterpart of Customer Relationship Management — a $20+ billion business on the sellers' side.)
Business is starting to notice. To see how well, check out the @Capgemini videos I unpack here. Also see how some companies (e.g. @Mozilla) are hiring VRM folks to help customers and companies shake hands in more respectful and effective ways online.
Monday, at VRM Day (openings still available), Customer Commons (ProjectVRM's nonprofit spinoff) will be vetting a VRM maturity framework that will help businesses and their advisors (e.g. @Gartner, @Forrester, @idc, @KuppingerCole and @Ctrl-Shift) tune in to the APIs (and other forms of signaling) of customers expressing their intentions through tools and services from VRM developers. (BTW, big thanks to KuppingerCole and Ctrl-Shift for their early and continuing support for VRM and allied work toward customer empowerment.)
The main purpose of VRM Day is prep toward discussions and coding that will follow over the next three days at the XXth Internet Identity Workshop, better known as IIW, organized by @Windley, @IdentityWoman and myself. IIW is an unconference: no panels, no keynotes, no show floor. It's all breakouts, demos and productive conversation and hackery, with topics chosen by participants. There are tickets left for IIW too. Click here. Both VRM Day and IIW are at the amazing and wonderful Computer History Museum in downtown Silicon Valley.
Mike closes his piece by offering five smart things marketers can do to "make the most of this era of #NotReally social media marketing." All good advice.
Here's one more that leverages the competencies of agencies like Mike's own (@HillHolliday): Double down on old-fashioned Madison Avenue-type brand advertising. It's the kind of advertising that carries the strongest brand signal. It's also the most creative, and the least corrupted by tracking and other jive that creeps people out. (That stuff doesn't come from Madison Avenue, by the way. Its direct ancestor is direct marketing, better known as junk mail. I explain the difference here.) For more on why that's good, dig what Don Marti has been saying.
(BTW & FWIW, I was also with an ad agency business, as a founder and partner in Hodskins Simone & Searls, which did kick-ass work from 1978 to 1998. More about that here.)
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sweet potato in a cake before but never in a scone. It's pretty similar to a pumpkin scone, but I definitely prefer the sweeter flavour of this one over one made with pumpkin. Add to that the magic of brown butter...Oh brown butter, how I love thee. The colour, the richness and that slight nuttiness works so very well in this scone. There's also the added convenience of being able to mix melted butter into the scone mixture, rather than having to rub cold butter in to the flour. Avoiding this step is one of the many reasons why I usually prefer cream scones, but this is one butter scone that manages to match the convenience and lightness of a cream scone.
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1/4 tsp salt
1 tbsp baking powder
pinch of nutmeg
1 cup (250 g) cooked, mashed orange sweet potato
60g unsalted butter
1/4 cup (60 ml) milk (I used skim)
1 large egg, lightly beaten
2 tbsp brown sugar
To serve: Clotted cream & fresh strawberries, maybe a drizzle of maple syrup
Prepare your sweet potato first. I boiled mine until very tender, mashed and then set aside to cool. Place butter in a small saucepan on low heat and brown, swirling the mixture regularly so it heats evenly. Set aside. Preheat oven to 210°C (410°C). Sift flour, salt, baking powder and nutmeg into a small bowl. Stir together sweet potato, browned butter, milk, egg and brown sugar in a medium bowl. Cut flour mixture into the wet ingredients using a flat bladed knife until just evenly moistened.


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I hope you write a column or two on your search for private insurance. I was "lucky" enough to only pay $2000 a year for student insurance when I was quoted $700-800/month for private insurance (after years of being spoiled by $10/month premiums), but my sister's employer will no longer be offering that benefit as of July 1st, so she has been on the hunt.


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Bruce C. Nelson, a noted historian of late-19th-century working-classes, died of cancer on August 23, 2011. His passion for life knew few bounds, leaving a legacy of generosity, friendship, and scholarship.
Born October 28, 1951, he earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees at Northern Illinois University where Alfred F. Young served as his dissertation adviser. He also participated in the Newberry Library's summer workshop on quantitative history and regularly attended the Chicago Area Labor Group. Bruce took his love for history, his solid grasp of the craft, and his incredible work ethic wherever he went and applied it to whatever he pursued.
His book, Beyond the Martyrs: A Social History of Chicago's Anarchists, 1870–1900, which grew out of his doctoral dissertation, was a major reinterpretation of the socialist-anarchist movement at the heart of the Haymarket Affair of 1886. It has been frequently cited by historians. Bruce drew heavily on foreign language newspapers and archives both here and abroad to reconstruct Chicago's immigrant working-class culture. He also made major use of quantitative methods to incorporate crucial census data. He published articles that grew out of this innovative research in Chicago History, The Haymarket Scrapbook, and International Labor and Working Class History. He also contributed a chapter to The German-American Radical Press: The Shaping of a Left Political Culture edited by Kenneth Fones-Wolf and James Philip Dansky.
Bruce's research over the past two decades focused on class dimensions of religion in late-19th- and early-20th-century Chicago. He scoured membership records of innumerable congregations, Roman Catholic parishes, and synagogues to track the roles, contributions, and religiosity of individuals. An early glimpse of this promising work appeared as "Revival and Upheaval: Religion, Irreligion, and Chicago's Working Class in 1886" in the Journal of Social History. His untimely death interrupted this important scholarly quest.
Bruce relished his interactions with undergraduate and graduate students, earning a reputation as a rigorous yet nurturing instructor in American history at Northern Illinois University, Central Michigan University, and Columbia College.
He served as managing editor of the History of Education Quarterly for nine years while it was based at Slippery Rock University. He assisted in introducing that journal's digital version, meticulously copyedited all articles and book reviews, oversaw production, and supervised office staff. That journal's authors, graduate assistants, and staff members, as well as university colleagues, found him delightful as an adviser and workmate.
In a broader sense, Bruce served as a mentor to many of his colleagues, students, and other scholars. He unselfishly dedicated much of his time to them, offering incisive insights and criticisms, refining their thinking and clarifying their writing through tireless editing.
As a fervent baseball fan he coached boys' baseball teams for over a decade and remained ever loyal to his beloved Chicago Cubs, attending home and away games every chance he had. No matter where he resided he maintained fond memories of his hometown of Chicago.
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Kirk and Spock may not need a Vulcan mind meld to share cognition: Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists have found that our cold reasoning and hot feelings may be more intimately connected than previously thought.
"We tend to believe we have rational parts, like Spock, and separate emotional parts, like Kirk. But our research suggests that's not true," said Read Montague, director of the Human Neuroimaging Laboratory at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, who led the study. "We're all a combination of logical Spock and intuitive Kirk. Cold computations and feelings are coupled in our brains, and this connection is dynamic: when one changes, so does the other. This work may open the way to computational models of emotional processing."
Montague's group used a simple fairness probe called the ultimatum game in the experiment. In the game, one player is endowed with an amount of money, such as $20, and offers any split of this amount with his or her partner. If the second player accepts the offer, the money is divided according to the proposed split; if not, no one gets anything.
"It's a take-it-or-leave-it game," said Montague. "And humans are exquisitely sensitive to the perceived fairness of the offered split."
In this large neuroimaging study, the 127 subjects played the role of responder to the proposals.
"If responders just want to make money, they should act like cold, rational agents and accept all non-zero offers," Montague said. "Yet feelings can get in the way. If people feel an offer is unfair, they'll reject it against their own best interests. We wanted to know how we might manipulate these feelings in a fashion that we could connect to the computations going on in the brain." Montague leads the Computational Psychiatry Unit, at Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, which uses computational models to understand mental disease
"One key to our experiment was pre-conditioning," said Montague. "One group of subjects adapted to high offers, while another became accustomed to low offers. After this pre-conditioning, the offers for each group shifted suddenly, to identical medium-sized ones, and this opened up the possibility of seeing a connection between feelings and computations."
The researchers discovered that the subjects' feelings about offers tracked a well-defined computation, which they call a norm prediction error. Subjective feelings about offers correlated with these norm prediction errors, and the measured brain responses to feelings and norm prediction errors overlapped substantially.
"In the ultimatum game, you want to show where you stand and what you'll accept," said Montague. "That's Spock. That's the cold, calculating, ledger-balancing function of prospectively encoding the future and controlling people's expectations of you. But a whole host of feelings come along for the ride. You may know you should accept an offer, but you reject it anyway, in a Kirk-like fury, just to send a signal, to punish someone. Our results showed that there's no clean separation between a cold calculation and the hot anger that an unfair offer engenders. Kirk and Spock are joined at the hip."
The study appeared in January in The Journal of Neuroscience. In addition to Montague, a professor of physics in the College of Science at Virginia Tech and a professor at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London, authors include Ting Xiang, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, and Terry Lohrenz, a research assistant professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute.
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Q: A client told me that when he holds his pet bird in his hand and it bites, he corrects the bird by flinging it off his hand and onto the floor. What should I advise this client as far as this method of correcting the bird?
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Q: A client told me that when he holds his pet bird in his hand and it bites, he corrects the bird by flinging it off his hand and onto the floor. What should I advise this client as far as this method of correcting the bird?
A: While this method may be commonly used to deal with a bird's biting behavior, it has several potential pitfalls. What the owner is attempting to do, whether he is aware of it or not, is to punish the bird for biting. By definition, punishment is a stimulus that, when delivered appropriately, decreases the chance a behavior will recur. Appropriate use of punishment (appropriate in this instance meaning there is a good chance of success) requires that the punishing stimulus be delivered within a second of the behavior you wish to decrease and every time the behavior occurs and be strong enough to be effective without causing fear or harm to the animal.1
Since most people can't meet these requirements, in this case it's likely the bird has learned to fear being held. Thus the owner may be inadvertently increasing the chance the bird will bite when held. In fact, punishment has been shown to be associated with four detrimental side effects2:
In this case, the owner is fortunate he has not caused physical harm to the bird as well.
Another potential pitfall of punishment is that the owner is failing to teach the bird what to do, which is easily done by using positive reinforcement-a stimulus that increases the chance a behavior will recur. Teaching the bird what to do instead of punishing it for what you don't want it to do is usually the safer and more effective solution. More sadly, punishment can damage the human-animal bond and lead to a pet that is fearful and anxious around its owner.
Remember, "If the behavior didn't matter to the animal it wouldn't keep doing it."3 Approach all problem behaviors by trying to understand how the behavior is reinforcing to the animal. If a pet's underlying motivation can be found, the owner can look for a more appropriate behavior the animal can learn to do in place of the inappropriate behavior. For example, if this bird bites only when the owner walks by a certain place in the home, such as a window or door, or when the owner raises his voice and talks in an excited manner with someone, then the bird may be biting out of fear. When the owner then throws the bird to the floor, the bird has succeeded in escaping the scary stimulus. So the bird has learned that biting is an effective means of escape, and its behavior has actually been reinforced instead of punished. Determine why an animal does something and how that behavior may be being reinforced, and then identify an appropriate behavior the owner can reinforce.
Continuing with this example, where fear is the root of the problem, the owner should consider using a wooden perch and teaching the bird an "up" and "off" command for stepping up onto and down off the perch. These behaviors should be rewarded with tiny tasty treats, such as small pieces sunflower seeds or pieces of fruit. The perch can then be used to retrieve the bird from the cage, to move the bird from place to place in the home, and to return the bird to its cage. If the bird becomes alarmed, it cannot bite the owner-and a problem behavior will not be reinforced by flinging the bird onto the floor and allowing escape. Eventually, the biting behavior will be extinguished. However, it is critical that the owner observe the bird and learn to recognize the signs of fear and the stimuli that cause it. A program of desensitization and counterconditioning could then be used to decrease the bird's fear of these particular stimuli.
Once an animal learns that one behavior is regularly followed by a positive reinforcement, it will usually choose that behavior more than the behavior that is not being reinforced. Reinforcing appropriate behaviors should always be tried first. Punishment should never be the first choice and can only be recommended after all other safer, more humane methods have been tried. If punishment is to be used, it must be used carefully, according to the rules described above and abandoned when it does not appear to be working, as in the case described here.
Obviously, understanding how animals learn and how to safely change behavior can be a complicated subject. If you feel unprepared to manage a particular behavior problem, refer the case to a veterinary behaviorist (dacvb.org) or other qualified behaviorist.
1. Schwartz B, Wasserman EA, Robbins SJ. Operant conditioning: Basic phenomena. In:
Psychology of learning and behavior
. 5th ed. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2001;132-164.
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3. Friedman SG, Haug L. From parrots to pigs to pythons: Universal principles and procedures of learning. In: Tynes VV, ed.
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National School Lunch Week, 2005
A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America
Since 1946, the National School Lunch Program has contributed to the welfare of our Nation's youth and the academic mission of our schools. Each year during National School Lunch Week, we recognize this valuable program and highlight the continuing importance of providing America's children with access to nutritious meals.
Today, nearly 100,000 public and private schools and residential child care institutions are implementing the National School Lunch Program, providing fresh fruits and vegetables, milk, and other nutritious food choices to an average of 29 million children each school day. The School Breakfast Program and the availability of after-school snacks as part of the School Lunch Program give children additional opportunities to receive a more wholesome diet.
Through the National School Lunch Program, school officials and food service professionals continue to demonstrate their dedication to our Nation's youth. To support these efforts, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Team Nutrition provides important nutrition education programs for children and technical training programs for food service professionals to assist them in preparing healthy school lunches. The National School Lunch Program also supports the HealthierUS School Challenge, an initiative that recognizes schools and local communities for actively promoting healthy lifestyles. By encouraging healthy eating habits and access to nutritious food, we are helping America's young people succeed in school, and we are helping protect them against childhood obesity, diabetes, and the risk of other serious health problems later in life.
In recognition of the contributions of the National School Lunch Program to the health, education, and well-being of America's children, the Congress, by joint resolution of October 9, 1962 (Public Law 87-780), as amended, has designated the week beginning on the second Sunday in October of each year as "National School Lunch Week," and has requested the President to issue a proclamation in observance of this week.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim October 9 through October 15, 2005, as National School Lunch Week. I call upon all Americans to join the dedicated individuals who administer the National School Lunch Program in appropriate activities that support the health and well-being of our Nation's children.
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- Make device_allocate entries
The mkdevalloc command writes to standard out a set of device_allocate(4) entries describing the system's frame buffer, audio, and removable media devices.
The mkdevalloc command is used by the device allocation service:
...to create or update the device_allocate(4) file. The device allocation service is managed by smf(5) and described in device_allocate(1M).
Entries are generated based on the device special files found in /dev. For the different categories of devices, the mkdevalloc command checks for the following files under /dev:
audio /dev/audio, /dev/audioctl, /dev/sound/... tape /dev/rst*, /dev/nrst*, /dev/rmt/... removable disk /dev/sr*, /dev/nsr*, /dev/dsk/c0t?d0s?, /dev/rdsk/c0t?d0s? frame buffer /dev/fb
All entries set the device-minimum and device-maximum fields to the hex representations of ADMIN_LOW and ADMIN_HIGH, respectively. The device-authorization field is set to solaris.device.allocate, except for the framebuffer entry, where it is set to *. The device-name, device-type and device-clean fields are set to the following values:
device-name device-type device-clean audio audio audio audio_clean_wrapper tape mag_tape_0,1,... st st_clean floppy floppy_0,1,... fd disk_clean removable disk cdrom_0,1,... sr disk_clean frame buffer framebuffer fb /bin/true
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To install such a system you will need the following:
- The OpenSUSE 11.4 DVD. You can download it here: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.4/iso/openSUSE-11.4-DVD-x86_64.iso
- A fast Internet connection...
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In this tutorial I use the hostname server1.example.com with the IP address 192.168.0.100 and the gateway 192.168.0.1. These settings might differ for you, so you have to replace them where appropriate.
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Boot from your OpenSUSE 11.4 DVD and select Installation:
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I first recorded this tune on a duo record with a guitarist friend called Each by Side--you can check out the original recording here: https://open.spotify.com/album/7taWw...Su6YXccVSsYHmQ
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On behalf of Mike Masone, Chairman of our Annual Feast of Our Lady of the Assumption Church, Bayonne, the Feast Committee and myself, I want to express our gratitude and thanks to: The Bayonne Police Dept., the Bayonne Fire Dept., the Bayonne Dept. of Public Works, for their leadership, guidance direction and assistance in helping to run our Annual Feast. In addition, we want to thank Anthony Gagliardi and the family staff of Mama Rose's Restaurant, who cooked the food for the feast. We also want to thank San Vito, Chris' Corner, Charlie Benanti and Café Bello, who had provided food for us at Casa Maria. Also , thanks to Azione Cattolica Italiana, the Hispanic Community, Catholic War Veterans Post 1612, St. Ann's Society, The Rosary Society, Janice Machin and Marianne Silvani, all from our parish, Bayonne UNICO, Evergreen Recycling Solutions, Orsini's, Vital Signs, Fr. Dave Baratelli, Louise Acompora and Red Mike Band and Russell George and DJ Express, for the music, and all those who worked and helped out at the Feast, including our Confirmation Candidates, and to the residents of the City of Bayonne and the other towns who patronized our Feast.
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It was a run-of-the-mill antiwar gathering. The speakers: former city councilor Felix D. Arroyo, Boston University professor Howard Zinn, and Gold Star mother Cindy Sheehan. The location: A congregational church in Jamaica Plain.
But the Boston Police Department took careful notes in advance of the gathering, filing an "intelligence report" in March 2007 that labeled the event a "criminal act" involving "extremists."
Internal department documents indicate that between 2007 and 2010, police conducted surveillance on several antiwar groups that have no apparent connections to crime or terrorism — a violation of federal regulations, civil rights groups say.
The documents were obtained by the National Lawyers Guild and the American Civil Liberties Union through a lawsuit filed in August 2011 against Boston Police. Those documents include 13 "intelligence reports" that provide details about antiwar groups — among them, the Stop the Wars Coalition, United for Justice with Peace, and Greater Boston Code Pink — along with information about their scheduled events, beliefs, political leanings, and internal dynamics. Each intelligence report is categorized by "criminal act" — either "extremists," "civil disturbance," or threats to domestic homeland security.
In a letter sent Tuesday to Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis, the Massachusetts chapters of the ACLU and National Lawyers Guild said monitoring these groups infringed on the civil rights of peaceful activists.
"This kind of monitoring of political groups is just the kind of subtle interference that threatens to chill legitimate constitutionally-protected speech," the letter said. "When police surveillance penetrates the internal workings of peaceful organizations, some Bostonians will be less likely to exercise those fundamental rights."
Police said Wednesday that they are reviewing the accusations asserted in that letter, but said that the Boston Regional Intelligence Center – established after Sept. 11 to focus on antiterrorism and overseen by the department – does not conduct surveillance on protest groups without reason to believe they are tied to crime or terrorism.
"The BRIC does not maintain continued surveillance or documentation on peace protest groups," police spokeswoman Cheryl Fiandaca said in a statement. "Boston residents should confidently participate in any lawful, peaceful protest or demonstration knowing the Boston Police Department is not monitoring the events without specific information on suspected criminal activity."
Protesters named in the reports say they are outraged, but not surprised, to learn that police have kept documents outlining their affiliations with protest groups.
"It's appalling," said Susan Barney, 48, of Arlington, a political activist listed in two reports. "Money is being spent to harass, spy on, and surveil the public, instead of being used for education or housing for low-income communities."
"I don't like being considered a homeland security threat," said Ridgely Fuller of Waltham. "I'm like this middle-aged suburban woman who just wants to speak out against injustice and war."
Documents show that the Boston Regional Intelligence Center — established after Sept. 11 to focus on antiterrorism and overseen by the department — does not conduct surveillance on protest groups without reason to believe they are tied to crime or terrorism.
The center failed to delete 11 surveillance reports that the Lawyers Guild and ACLU say proved unrelated to crime or homeland security, a violation of the intelligence center's own privacy policy. That policy states that reports must be purged in 90 days if they are not connected with criminal or terrorist activity.
Last December, in a letter to the ACLU, a lawyer for the Police Department blamed an error in the department's software as the reason intelligence reports from years ago remained in the system, even though they should have been deleted. That computer glitch has since been fixed, according Fiandaca.
"The software system failed to flag the reports to be deleted," Fiandaca said. "The system has since been updated and is under routine scrutiny to ensure it is working properly."
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"These examples they are finding now in Massachusetts are sadly not isolated examples," Sharon Bradford Franklin, senior counsel for The Constitution Project, a bipartisan watchdog group.
"This kind of domestic spying has failed to catch a single terrorist," said Carol Rose, executive director of the ACLU of Massachusetts. "This is a waste of public resources as well as a violation of fundamental civil liberties."
Franklin said the problems associated with fusion centers nationwide are a product of the lack of oversight and accountability in these intelligence-gathering efforts. Fusion centers such as the Regional Intelligence Center need better training to ensure that officers direct time and resources to real national security threats.
"We don't want to abolish all fusion centers," Franklin said. "But let's make sure they're focused."
The Police Department intelligence reports go into great detail about the inner workings of Boston activist groups.
"There has been some infighting within the [United for Justice with Peace] as to whether the group should stop its antiwar actions during the election year in an effort not to harm the Democratic Party," stated one March 2008 intelligence report.
An April 2007 report, filed under the category of domestic homeland security, discussed a protester's political leanings: "[Name redacted] . . . stated that he is now associating more with the [International Socialist Organization] rather than local anarchist groups . . . It should be noted that traditionally the anarchists and socialists do not see eye to eye on most issues."
Some of the reports go into vivid detail about group's views on particular politicians or upcoming elections.
The level of detail in these reports is cause for alarm, said National Lawyers Guild chairman David Kelston. "The Boston Police Department is spending a lot of time and resources conducting surveillance and monitoring public demonstrations that pose no danger to anyone," he said.
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LOS ANGELES | The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has started rolling out one of its most ambitious projects to date, a $25 million push to save tens of thousands of dogs and cats that would be killed in shelters or on the streets of Los Angeles County.
The most high-profile element of the project is a free spay-and-neuter clinic in South Los Angeles, where a ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday kicked off the effort in the poverty-riddled area where strays run in packs. More broadly, the project aims to get all the dogs in the populous region of Southern California spayed or neutered, boost adoptions, help people keep pets if money or behavior becomes a problem, aid animal rescue groups with transportation expenses, and move animals from overcrowded shelters to those where adoptions are more likely.
It's the one of the most expensive projects ever undertaken by the New York-based ASPCA, a 148-year-old nonprofit that's one of the largest humane societies in the world. The $25 million is designed to last about five years, but the campaign will take longer.
"We are going to be in Southern California until the job is done," ASPCA President and CEO Matt Bershadker said.
The group focused on a region where about 173,000 animals a year enter shelters and just over half are adopted. The rest are killed. The target area encompasses all of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County and the cities of Long Beach, Burbank, Pasadena, Upland and parts of Downey.
The most visible part of the program is the spay-and-neuter clinic the ASPCA will run at the Chesterfield Square Animal Care Center in South Los Angeles, an area that stretches over 50 square miles and encompasses about 750,000 people. It is divided into several neighborhoods, including Watts.
Every sterilization surgery, vaccination, microchip implant and flea-control treatment at the clinic will be fully paid if the dog's owner lives in South Los Angeles.
"The ASPCA is schooled at doing high-volume spay and neutering, and it is going to do it in a part of the city with the highest need," said Brenda Barnette, general manager of Los Angeles' animal control department.
The clinic won't officially open to the public for a few more weeks as vets finish sterilizing shelter animals. But when brothers Christian and Ivan Molina showed up Saturday with their pit bull Hercules, workers made an exception.
Hercules was aggressive enough to scare neighbors, wasn't fixed and had a skin condition. The brothers turned him in because they couldn't afford the procedures, Christian Molina said.
The clinic fixed Hercules to help eliminate his aggression and gave the dog a cone to keep him from scratching. The brothers, who were told how to treat his skin condition, said they were glad they still had their dog.
The ASPCA plans to sterilize 4,000 dogs and cats this year and many thousands more each year after that, Bershadker said.
"We went to South Los Angeles because it has one of the lowest income rates in the county," he said.
Neighborhoods are crowded and strays run in packs, often attacking children and their pets and leaving the kids afraid to play outside, said Lori Weise, founder of Downtown Dog Rescue.
"This is about one thing — need," Weise said. "We will work with anybody whose goal is ending suffering and saving lives."
Marcia Mayeda, director of animal care and control for Los Angeles County, said she appreciated the ASPCA's commitment to the area.
"With all the animals that are coming into the Los Angeles area, there is a lot of life that needs to be saved," Mayeda said.
Bershadker said one of the main reasons the society took on the project was the strength of the animal welfare groups already at work in the area. Best Friends Animal Society, a coalition of 60 rescues and other local groups, and the Humane Society run animal-saving efforts in Los Angeles.
The project is on top of other ASPCA efforts in LA. In the last 16 months, the group has awarded $1.1 million in grants to local pet organizations.
The new program took a year to build but can be changed if needed, Bershadker said.
"We are only restricted by our imagination and funding," said Barnette of Los Angeles animal control. "I think it's going to be fun to see where they go in the next few years."
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The U.S. government isn't the only threat to the stock market. Third quarter earnings are expected to underwhelm investors who have pushed up the market to record highs this year.
Many high profile companies have already been downgrading their forecasts for the quarter. According to research from FactSet, 90 S&P 500 companies have lowered expectations for the third quarter. FactSet said that's the most companies to issue earnings warnings for a quarter since the company started tracking these figures in 2006.
Some of the companies to cut their outlooks? Retailers Target (TGT) and Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF), railroad owner Union Pacific (UNP), software developer Autodesk (ADSK) and Chef Boyardee owner ConAgra Foods (CAG).
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Related: Bill Gross: Get used to low rates 'for decades'
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Related: Tesla: A trap for small investors?
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"Last quarter wasn't good but it was good enough for stocks to keep going higher," said Dan Greenhaus, equity strategist at BTIG. "We could have a not great earnings season, and stocks could still go higher."
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Even if third quarter earnings are worse than expected, Suzuki thinks stocks are a buy for the long-term because earnings growth should return by early 2014.
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Children in the Salem-Keizer community have an opportunity to enroll in early childhood education programs to support their foundational learning during the 2022-23 school year. Salem-Keizer Public Schools currently has openings available for enrollment in three early childhood programs to serve children three and four years of age.
Enroll your child today to help them take the first step on their path to high school graduation!
Head Start Program
Head start programs are offered through Community Action Head Start and Salem-Keizer Head Start for the 2022-23 school year. Head Start programs offer preschool education, health, nutrition and family services to low income families.
Eligibility Requirements
Head start programs are open to children three or four years of age as of September 10, 2022. Families who meet federal income guidelines, are homeless, foster children, families who receive Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), or Supplemental Social Security Income (SSI) are eligible.
Families can learn more about schedule options, requirements and how to apply: English PDF | Spanish PDF.
Title 1 Preschool Program
Free preschool programs are available to children who reside within the attendance boundaries of the district's Title 1 elementary schools. Preschool is offered five days a week for half-day programs and transportation will be provided when possible.
Eligibility Requirements
Title 1 preschool programs are open to children four years of age as of September 10, 2022, and reside within the following school attendance boundaries:
- Bush Elementary
- Four Corners Elementary
- Grant Elementary
- Highland Elementary
- Richmond Elementary
- Scott Elementary
- Swegle Elementary
- Washington Elementary
Families can learn more about Title 1 preschool and how to apply: English PDF | Spanish PDF.
Preschool Promise Program
Preschool promise is a free preschool program available to children. The program is held at six locations, each serving 20 children:
- Bethel School
- Clear Lake Elementary
- Myers Elementary
- Richmond Elementary
- Scott Elementary
- Seymour Center
Eligibility Requirements
Preschool promise programs are open to children three or four years of age as of September 10, 2022. Families must also be within the federal income guidelines between 0% – 200%. Preschool Promise is a state funded program. Marion & Polk Early Learning Hub monitors the program and reports to the Early Learning Division
Families can learn more about schedule options, requirements and how to apply online on the Preschool Promise web page.
Have questions about any of the preschool options available for your child? Contact Salem-Keizer Early Childhood programs at 503-399-5510. Office hours are Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.


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WASHINGTON–The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has launched a new website called Reg Stat that will enhance public understanding of its regulatory process and the number, type, and range of regulatory documents developed each year by the agency. This new resource is part of the EPA's continuing efforts to enhance the accessibility and transparency of its regulatory activities.
Reg Stat provides information on EPA documents published in the Federal Register between 2005 and 2009. It also provides in-depth information on rulemakings likely to be of most interest to stakeholders — those rules signed by the EPA administrator that substantively amend the Code of Federal Regulations. Users will be able to determine the number of rules signed by the administrator, how long it took to develop each rule, whether a rule underwent Executive Order 12866 regulatory review by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and the length of OMB review. Both summary graphics and searchable data tables are available.
An analysis of the data featured on Reg Stat shows that EPA publishes 1,700 to 1,900 documents in the Federal Register each year. Notices, which provide general information of public interest such as meeting announcements, make up the majority of these documents. Approximately 7 percent, or about 100, of those documents are rules that amend the Code of Federal Regulations and require the administrator's signature; the average time to publish these rules is 974 days.
Users will be able to download and sort the data based on categories of interest. Information on Reg Stat will be updated annually.
More information on Reg Stat: http://www.epa.gov/regstat


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This continues on from Why do I feel so lonely?
So close and yet so far
I have recently been in New York City for a week. People often say they feel lonelier in the middle of a huge city surrounded by millions of people than in a rural area with hardly anyone around. A friend of mine who used to live in London said he always felt somewhat alone there. Then one weekend he did a Buddhist meditation retreat "in a field with a bunch of hairy men" and "never felt happier or more connected." There was no turning back!
I think this is because, when we are surrounded by others, we are holding even more tightly to our own sense of personal space, trying to protect ourselves from uncomfortable intrusion by strange "others", increasing that gap. It can be useful though — as mentioned in this article, in huge cities like NYC we have microseconds to connect to the waves of humanity walking past us, and if we pull it off it can feel wonderful.
Crammed like sardines on the Path train to New Jersey, trying to assert some sense of control over their environment, everyone was vigorously avoiding eye contact, even as we were forced to bump up against each other around every corner (the sense of powerlessness not helped by being diverted to Holboken where the doors wouldn't open.) I found this a useful opportunity to connect to my fellow suffering commuters in my heart, the only place we can be in control of our experience and, ironically, feel we have enough space to relax.
Story of a broken heart
I am going to give an example now of an ill-fated romantic relationship; but problems, mental pain, and loneliness caused by self-grasping ignorance and attachment can arise in other relationships too, with friends, family, children, pets, etc. And, as I said in the previous article, loneliness is not about whether or not we are in a relationship, or even about whether or not we find someone attractive; it is about whether or not we are controlling our ignorance and attachment. For any partnership, or friendship, to work, we need to reduce these, and increase our love. With a wise motivation and a heart full of love, it is possible to have strong, enjoyable, and helpful relationships.
Have you ever been having fun in a restaurant with friends when someone gorgeous walks in and, before you know it, your happiness dives out of your body, under the floorboards, and into them?! We were having a smooth, harmonious, warm time with our friends, not really fixating on ourselves, finding everyone interesting, feeling connected – and then what happened?! One minute we are enjoying everyone without grasping, the next minute we are clinging onto one person for dear life.
It is now up to them to make us happy and we have to get their name, phone number, lifelong devotion …
At the beginning of this love affair, we set ourselves up in need. We didn't need them before, and they didn't make us need them; that is all on us, or our mind of attachment. We are no longer the whole orange – we are half an orange and we need the other half to feel whole or complete. We give our power away – "There goes my happiness, it just walked out the restaurant door," we give them the key.
If we do manage to get it together with them, we then need to receive approximately 20 texts a day, (perhaps a few less if we're from Mars), or we feel lonely. If happiness depends on a text or seeing them, then it'll never be enough – there's a brief relief if they call, and then the anxious waiting starts again.
We can check out our sense of self when we are thinking, "You make ME happy". There is a strong sense of me, "What about me", which is isolated, and therefore vulnerable to separation anxiety.
These Lifehouse lyrics seem to sum it up quite nicely, as do a million other song lyrics:
Every time I see your face
My heart takes off on a high speed chase.
Don't be scared it's only love
Baby that we're falling in.
I can't wait 'till tomorrow
This feeling has swallowed me whole
And I know that I've lost control…
Won't be easy, have my doubts too,
But it's over without you, I'm just lost, incomplete
Yeah you feel like home, home to me.
Herein follows a few weeks or months of bliss (or days or hours, depending) … there is a lot of attachment but it is seemingly in synch in that neither of us can get enough of the other, though if you check there is already tension in the mind. Sooner or later, one person starts to pull away. And whether that affair flames out or develops into a long-term meaningful relationship depends on genuine love and respect.
Attachment puts our life on hold – if we are not in the other person's physical presence, life is what is happening while we wander around missing them, feeling alienated from our environment, homesick, wanting to be somewhere else. Even when you're with them, the other person can never do enough, can never reassure us enough. Meanwhile, you may notice if you look around — no one else is bored out of their mind watching the clock, waiting on tenterhooks for the weekend, sulking and/or playing emotional games, or tapping feverishly into their smartphone; they are just getting on with their day.
Have you ever been a waiting mode, wanting badly for someone to call you, email you, or return a text? Hours, perhaps days, go by and … nothing?! And you feel increasingly powerless? That is attachment at work. Every day brings new ways in which we can torture ourselves – in the old days, we could at least have some time out with the mental excuse that they might have missed us on the phone while we were shopping (or, even further back, the horse was taking a few weeks with the letter); but now we are glued to our smartphones and there are a hundred ways they could, and yet are NOT, contacting us.
Here's a word of advice:
Never invest your happiness in something you cannot control.
This clearly includes other people's behavior. We can hardly control our own behavior, let alone anyone else's. Attachment, or uncontrolled desire, is based on an hallucination that happiness comes from OUT THERE. So we want power and control over our external environment and other people, but the only power or control we have any hope of gaining is over our own mind.
There's nothing wrong with finding someone attractive, even incredibly attractive — the mistake we make is when we grasp at them as inherently attractive!
With uncontrolled desire, we often defer our happiness, "I'll be happy when they finally get here!"; or else we try and get back to what once was, "We had such a great time then, why can't we be like that now?!" Love is always in the present moment. Attachment ranges over the past and the future, missing out on the real bliss of being fully here, now, connecting to our pure and peaceful nature, real union. We can make plans and even have desired outcomes, but as soon as our happiness depends on those plans, we've lost control of it.
Attachment is conditional and therefore vulnerable – I once heard a song lyric, "For as long as we're together, I'll love you forever." Love is unconditional, we just want them to be happy regardless; and we get to choose who we love, so love can last.
Attachment makes us act oddly, like a bumbling idiot desperately seeking attention. Someone told me the other day: "I was so cool at first as I could tell she loved me. Then she showed interest in other things, her own life and friends, and I felt excluded, and started to act oddly to get her attention. It didn't feel like me, but I couldn't help it." Through his insecurity and loneliness, he said, she felt less and less close to him, and the relationship ended. Who cannot relate to that? Who hasn't either heard or said things like: "I can't give you what you seem to want from me! I feel cornered by you! You seem to expect my undivided attention!"
"Why don't you love me anymore?" soon becomes "You selfish b****." A vicious circle ensues of one person trying to get more attention and the other person feeling claustrophobic, closing off, and pulling away. And as the rose-tinted attachment specs come off and the feelings of aversion and betrayal begin, what was quirky, fascinating, original, or cool in our partner becomes strange, peculiar, weird, and distant.
A friend showed me a joke in the New Yorker, a man talking to a woman:
"When, exactly, did all the stuff you love about me become all the stuff you hate about me?"
There are endless self-help videos on how to get and, even harder, how to keep your man or woman. Some of them are pretty amusing, especially when it comes to the differences between Martians and Venusians; but they don't seem to be addressing the root cause of the difficulty, which is the self-isolation of ignorance and exaggeration of attachment.
Of course, addressing these delusions completely doesn't happen overnight, but as soon as we get started, the better our relationships with others are going to become.
If our love affair ends due to attachment, our heart literally aches. Attachment is "sticky desire", it is like peeling sticking plaster off a hairy arm. We were already lonely when we were in the relationship, and we are still lonely now that it is over. We can't live with someone, but we can't live without them either.
Seeking union and connection is part of our Buddha nature. We are just going the wrong way about it, projecting and externalizing the source of our happiness while holding tightly to a sense of a real self and other. We need to seek union through love and wisdom, bliss and emptiness, not ignorance and attachment.
More next time, in Part 3! Meantime, your insights into this subject are welcome in the comments.


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Knowledge to Lead
UNITAR Online Catalogue
Ethics in Public Finance (2022)
Transparency in public finance is a constant preoccupation of modern administrations and citizenries, as the publicity of public expenditure and borrowing, the uniformisation of national accounts, citizen participation in government decisionmaking, and the introduction of various forms of control of government activity have become the rule rather than the exception in all geographies. In order to respond to mounting demands from the public, key civil servants are required to obtain not only professional qualifications (like university degrees in accounting, law and public administration) but also specific certifications (internal auditing, administrative law, criminal law) and abide by ad hoc codes of conduct. This multiplies the legal and ethical responsibilities of governments and civil servants as well as the implementation of appropriate policy responses.
Objetivos del aprendizaje
The course aims at introducing participants to state-of-the-art standards and practices in ethics relating to public finance and administration. At the end of the course, the participants should be able to:
- Identify key factors for ascertaining integrity in the handling of public finance and administration;
- Recognize the challenges faced by public finance and administration officials and the tools to tackle them;
- Examine the incidence of international standards and practices in nurturing integrity at the national level;
- Propose reforms to the arrangements that prevail in their countries.
Contenido y estructura
The course consists of the following modules:
- Module 1: Principles and best practices of public finance (integrity, objectivity, accountability, publicity, regularity, coherence);
- Module 2: Proper conduct and organs of control in public finance (propriety, accuracy of evidence, responsiveness, timeliness, risk management, organizational learning, knowledge management);
- Module 3: Best practices in preventing fraud and corruption (generally-accepted standards, international conventions, mutual assistance agreements, stakeholder access); and
- Module 4: Ethical guidelines for public accounting, borrowing, lending, procurement, and adjudication by revenue collection authorities.
In order to ensure the best possible outreach, the course will be delivered through e-learning. Resorting to a multiple-instructional setting, the goal is to achieve the learning objectives by means of learning technologies that match personal learning styles and by the inclusion of non-linear learning that aims at the development of just-in-time skills of adult learners. At the same time, in order to allow participants maximum flexibility of scheduling, the learning will be conducted in an asynchronous manner. Using a state-of-the-art training architecture, UNITAR will combine self-learning with assessments and online discussions. The pedagogy - adapted specifically to professionals in full-time work - will help train participants through various experiences: absorb (read); do (activity); interact (socialize); reflect (relate to one's own reality).
Público objetivo
Finance ministry, central bank, ministry of justice and planning and autarchic government agency officials; private sector financial officers engaged in business dealings with national and subnational governments (procurement, tenders, direct purchases).
Información adicional
A certificate of completion will be issued by UNITAR to all participants who complete the course-related assignments and assessments successfully. Course schedule is subject to change. Course fee is non-refundable but transferrable to another course or participant and subject to change as per UNITAR's policy on pricing.
Recommended hardware and software requirements for taking our e-learning courses:
- Platform: Windows XP sp3, Vista sp2, Windows 7 sp1, MacOS X.
- Hardware: 2 GB of RAM and higher for Vista and Windows 7.
- Software: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Powerpoint and Adobe Acrobat Reader (downloadable for free at adobe.com).
- Browser: Internet Explorer 8 or higher; Mozilla Firefox 8 or higher.
- Internet connection: 128kbps and higher.