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As a teen, he liberated a Nazi death camp. Then, he shared the horror so no one would forget.
He was only 18 when he came face to face with the stark horror of the Holocaust, and he spent the last decades of his life sharing the ghastly details so what happened wouldn't be forgotten when his generation faded.
"There were ones too weak to come out even when they heard the Allies were in the camp," Jesse Oxendine recalled of the day in May 1945 when his unit liberated a concentration camp. "One fellow was sitting there. I tapped him on the shoulder, and he fell over. He'd died with his eyes open."
A funeral service will be held in Charlotte on Tuesday for Oxendine, who died Friday at age 90.
Oxendine, a Lumbee Indian, grew up in Pembroke and became the first Native American pharmacist licensed in North Carolina. He opened Kings Drug on Eastway Drive in Charlotte in 1957 and later added a branch on Fairview Drive.
One day Oxendine had to go to a lawyer's office for some legal papers, his son Mark Oxendine recalled Monday, and when he got them, he asked what he owed. No charge, he was told.
"Mr. Oxendine, you don't remember me," the attorney said, "but when I was a kid, you told us to get good grades and then to bring you our report cards. You gave us free milkshakes."
"That story," Mark Oxendine said, "just epitomizes my dad."
Oxendine was drafted into the Army after high school in 1944 and assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division in Europe.
'The world can't forget'
On May 2, 1945, on its way to Berlin, his unit came upon a fenced camp near Ludwigslust, Germany. No one was prepared for what they found there.
"It's amazing how people look alike once they lose flesh on their skulls and bodies," Oxendine told the Observer in an interview. "They had on this pajama-looking clothing with stripes. I thought maybe it was an insane asylum, but then I saw the dead bodies. …
"Then one of the boys said, 'I think these are Jews.' Growing up in Pembroke, the only Jews I knew were the Weinsteins in Lumberton; my family traded with them.
"I didn't know there was such hatred and resentment toward Jews."
At its height, the Wobbelin concentration camp held 5,000 captives. Oxendine found bodies stacked up in a barracks, left behind by the fleeing Germans. An Army general ordered the people of Ludwigslust to come to the camp to view the carnage, then made them bury hundreds of the bodies in the town square.
"He made sure nobody would forget," said Oxendine. "Long after we are gone, the world can't forget that this took place."
Captured German soldiers, the townspeople and Oxendine's unit were ordered to attend a memorial service. Oxendine's chaplain delivered the eulogy, and he directed it to the townspeople, who denied they knew what went on in the camp:
"Within four miles of your comfortable homes, 4,000 men were forced to live like animals, deprived even of the food you would give to your dogs. In three weeks 1,000 of these men were starved to death; 800 of them were buried in pits in the nearby woods," he said.
"These 200 who lie before us in these graves were found piled four and five feet high in one building and lying with the sick and dying in other buildings."
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For the last three decades, Oxendine had joined with his friend Henry Hirschmann, a Holocaust survivor from Charlotte, to lecture to thousands in high schools, civic groups, museums and churches about the Holocaust.
Oxendine continued to attend reunions of the 82nd Airborne, which at one time attracted hundreds. Their last one was in 2010, when Oxendine was one of only 11 healthy enough to still make it.
Oxendine was an Eagle Scout at age 16, a charter member of Providence Baptist Church and served on the board of trustees for his alma mater, Pembroke State University.
A service will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Providence Baptist Church.
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'No 18-year-old should ever see a sight like that'
In 2007 as part of a series on World War II memories, the Observer asked Jesse Oxendine to tell in his own words what he saw when he and his unit liberated a Nazi death camp in Wobbelin, Germany in 1945. Here is his story:
We knew it was a prison, but we didn't know what it was. I had never heard of a concentration camp. We saw these funny-looking people. They came out and wanted to hug us. A lot of them looked as though they'd lost so much weight their skulls were visible.
One of our boys said it might be the Jews. I thought, what? I didn't know about it.
No 18-year-old should ever see a sight like that. In a building, there were ones too weak to come out even when they heard the Allies were in the camp. One fellow was sitting there. I tapped him on the shoulder, and he fell over. He'd died with his eyes open.
Bodies were stacked in the back of the building. There were three furnaces there. It popped into my mind, "What are they going to heat all this water for?" Then I noticed there were no tanks. And the bodies were stacked right there, and it struck me what the furnaces were for.
They brought captured German officers to look at it. There was a French film crew along with us and they asked them to film what we were witnessing there. They knew later people would deny what happened and they wanted evidence.
They gathered up the local populace and made them walk through the camp and be eyewitnesses. Once they went up there, they would never forget what they saw.
Then they made the farmers bring their wagons. They made them load 260 bodies in white sheets and made them dig individual graves in the park in the town, Ludwigslust, in front of the capital building for the province of Mecklenburg. And they made the people of the town come to the burial the next day.
I didn't know what part of history I had witnessed until the Nuremberg Trials. I thought that was the only camp like that in Germany.


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MELBOURNE, Australia -- For all the talk of "party mode" engine settings and Mercedes dominance after Saturday's qualifying, Sunday's Australian Grand Prix was a much closer battle. There's little doubt Lewis Hamilton would have won the race had Mercedes got its sums right around the pivotal Virtual Safety Car period (VSC), but Ferrari was close enough to force an error and, more importantly, take advantage.
The onus is still on Maranello to improve its car to match Mercedes, which still appears to be the class leader, but the Italian team leaves Australia with a victory against the odds and an 18-point advantage in the constructors' championship to boot. If it needed an incentive to knuckle down back at the factory, that will almost certainly be it.
How Mercedes lost the race
Ferrari's strategy on Sunday was clear: it didn't have the pace to beat Mercedes on outright pace so it needed to force an error. With the way Hamilton was driving at Albert Park over the weekend it was unlikely the mistake would come from the cockpit, but with a historic 60 percent chance of a Safety Car in Melbourne there was a chance to force one on the pit wall.
By having two cars in the fight to Mercedes' one, Ferrari had the stronger strategic hand and it used it to great effect. The setup came on lap 18 when Kimi Raikkonen was pulled into the pits from second place -- a few laps earlier than the ideal one-stop strategy dictated -- which forced Mercedes to do the same a lap later. Had Hamilton stayed out, he was in danger of losing time on old ultra-soft tyres relative to Raikkonen on his new set of fresh softs and Mercedes simply couldn't risk that. As a result, Vettel was promoted to the lead where Ferrari would keep him for as long as possible in the knowledge the Haas in fourth was too slow to challenge and in the hope that a Safety Car or VSC would offer a free pit stop. We all know what happened next.
Ferrari had done its part in setting up the scenario that led to Vettel taking the lead, but it still required Mercedes error to pull it off. Ahead of the VSC, Hamilton was not pushing to the limit because the Mercedes pit wall believed he had a safe margin to Vettel should the race get interrupted. Instead he was instructed to look after his tyres and engine in case he had to defend from the Ferrari later in the race. That calculation proved to be wrong, which was all the more galling for Hamilton who is confident he had the pace to win regardless of the sequence of events conspiring against him.
"In the race, I had extra tools to go faster," Hamilton said afterwards. "I could have been further ahead by the first pit stop, I could have been further ahead after. There were so many good things we could have done, but if one thing is telling you one thing and you think you're doing it to the book and within the limits, then there's nothing you can do."
Vettel only emerged 0.648s ahead of Hamilton after making his pit stop under the VSC -- an incredibly small margin given the circumstances. If Hamilton had been just 0.1s faster on each of his laps after his pit-stop, it would have been enough to regain the lead after Vettel's stop. Undoubtedly, Mercedes' software crunched the wrong number as the team would always have planned on a much bigger margin, but it was still incredibly close.
The final stint of the race demonstrated how difficult it is to overtake at Albert Park in a modern F1 car, but also showed that Ferrari has the potential to be competitive this season if it can get its nose ahead of Mercedes. After holding back in the earlier stages of the race, Hamilton gave it everything towards the end and still couldn't find a way past Vettel.
"I had older tyres, he had brand new tyres yet I was able to manoeuvre the car and get relatively close," Hamilton said. "But it was like a magnet [repelling another magnet], you can't get the magnet past a certain region and that was how it was. As soon as I got to a point, I was able to follow, I felt a lot closer than I was able to follow in the past here but I couldn't get any closer than that.
"Then the engine was overheating, I've got to do seven races with this engine, preferably more if I can. So I was on the limit, I was too hot but I was pushing, I was like 'I've got to keep going' so I was nervous of damaging the engine at the same time. I cooled it down and it started coming back, I got relatively close."
Hamilton's charge eventually fell apart when he locked a brake at Turn 9 on lap 47 and ran wide.
"Communication is something we are obviously going to try and work on because I was like 'Can I fight? can I go?' and they [Hamilton's engineers] were taking their time responding. So I was like 'I am going for it' and I gave everything in that moment. I was quite close behind in his tow, just nipped the right front and didn't make the corner. After that I was catching him again but in trying to catch up the temperatures again were on the limit so I was constantly being pushed and pulled.
"I just thought, I couldn't get him in those other laps, my tyres are going to be worse now, I am driving at 110% and I am risking everything just for that seven points so I probably should just sit back, save my engine and use the life of it for the next ones. Now that goes against my spirit of racing because I want to race right down to the last line, but the way the sport is set up with fuel saving and all these different things, three engines, you have to think about them and back off."
Reviewing Hamilton's qualifying pace
The much smaller gap in race pace between Mercedes and Ferrari was in stark contrast to the 0.7s gap between the two teams in qualifying. The easy explanation for that is that the W09's engine has a "party mode" setting for qualifying, but closer analysis of Hamilton's lap suggests this was not the difference in Melbourne.
The term "party mode" was coined by Hamilton during a press conference organised by fuel supplier Petronas two weeks ago and gained momentum in the build-up to Melbourne. The Mercedes engine does have an extra setting reserved for Q2 and Q3 on Saturdays, but many read Hamilton's comments as proof that he has access to a power setting his rivals simply can't match.
A direct comparison between Hamilton's pole position lap and Raikkonen's second place lap (readers in the U.S.A. see video above) shows the Mercedes had little or no advantage on the straights at Albert Park and the vast chunk of Hamilton's advantage was found in the corners. The only straight where the Mercedes was faster was on the run down to Turn 13 but that was because Hamilton carried more momentum through the high-speed chicane at Turns 11 and 12.
"We get a bit of GPS data and stuff like that and I think they did turn it up for Q3 but not by 0.7s," Vettel said on Sunday. "I think probably if you look at qualifying carefully, I tried to do so last night, Lewis' last run in Q3 was the only proper run at the end and he had a clean run and I don't think the gain that he had in time was down to the engine.
"Probably a tenth, maybe a little bit more, but not seven tenths. So, the credit is for his lap that he did and not for the engine power. It's completely fine what they're doing because they didn't do anything special. Not more than they did last year, probably even a bit less by the looks of it. So, it was clear that he just had a very good lap and he drove well."
It seems, therefore, that Mercedes' advantage over Ferrari is not on the straights but in the corners. That would also explain why Hamilton struggled so much behind Vettel in the corners during the race and why he never really got close enough to make a pass in any of the braking zones after the long straights.
What about Red Bull?
Absent from the battle at the front was Red Bull. After Daniel Ricciardo's grid penalty took him out of the running for the front two rows in qualifying, Max Verstappen's hopes of challenging for the podium were lost in the first corner when he fell behind Kevin Magnussen. Stuck in traffic with overheating tyres, neither driver was able to carve an advantage from starting on the super-soft compound and the final result -- fourth for Ricciardo and sixth for Verstappen -- was underwhelming.
However, there are indications in the lap times that Red Bull had good race pace on Sunday but was simply unable to access it while in traffic. After a series of relatively slow laps to allow Raikkonen to build a gap in front of him towards the end of the race, Ricciardo set the fastest lap with a 1:25.945 on lap 54. It may have counted for nothing as he simply closed back into the dirty air of the Ferrari in front, but it was over 0.5s quicker than Vettel's fastest lap while he was pushing in clear air to defend from Hamilton.
"Every lap of the race we were either stuck behind a Renault, a Haas or a Ferrari," Red Bull team boss Christian Horner said. "So we've got one lap of the grand prix to judge our pace on and he set the fastest lap of the race with it. I think the pace is there and we have a quick race car, it's just unfortunate today, and particularly on this track, we were not able to use it."
Ferrari, Mercedes and Red Bull all showed promising signs in Australia and all appear to have different strengths and weaknesses this year. Bahrain in two weeks' time is another power circuit that may well help Ferrari challenge Mercedes again, but keep an eye out for Red Bull the following weekend in China.
The key to success throughout this year's championship is likely to be making the most of opportunities when they present themselves and only Ferrari can fly home from Melbourne satisfied it achieved that. Mercedes will return to Brackley confident it has the fastest overall package but keen to get to understand what went wrong with its strategy software on Sunday. Red Bull, meanwhile, will be lobbying Renault hard to provide a substantial engine upgrade for later in the year in the knowledge that its car's main weakness is still one-lap pace. Australia may have produced the same result at the front as last year, but it's also highlighted the promise of a thrilling season to come.


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Yippee Ki-Yay Merry Christmas: A Die Hard Musical Parody debuted November 29, 2014 at MCL Chicago, a storefront theatre founded in July of the same year by Stephanie McCullough, Michael Shepherd Jordan, and Alex Garday to celebrate the art of music comedy, blending their shared experiences in improv, musical improv, and musical theater. In late September, only having been open three months, the founders realized they needed a show for the Fall/Winter season. Acting volunteer secretary at the time, Alex Richmond, mentioned that her family watched Die Hard every holiday season and the C4 was set, so to speak. The founders quickly went to work parodying the beloved 80s action movie turning it into the hilarious musical audiences know and love today.
Yippee Ki-Yay Merry Christmas Original Cast
Alan Metoskie (BRUCE)
Mark Rudy (HANS)
Alex Richmond (HOLLY)
Dujuan Pritchett (CARL)
Erin Long (KLAUS)
Courtney Fontaine (WILLIS)
Ashley Geron (DWAYNE)
Seth Origitano (FBI JOHNSON)
Alex Garday (Producer)
Michael Shepherd Jordan (Director) - Stephanie McCullough (Music Director)
Holly Gombita (Choreographer) - Zach Stinnett (Tech Director)
Kyle Mantegna (Guitar) - Heather Scholl (u/s Holly)
Jordan took on the major task of writing the script while McCullough began creating the music for the show. Garday served as editor and collaborator for both the book and the score. Once the creative team had the first version of the show, they put together a cast of comedians to breathe life into the characters. It is through these actors that the show was successful the first year and all subsequent years. The collaborative spirit the creators fostered throughout rehearsals and performances allowed the show to be unique each night for the audience while keeping the root of the story. Audiences loved it! The success inspired the creators to extend the run into the middle of January with nearly every show selling out.
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Alex Garday - Director - 2016-2017
Laura Marsh - Choreographer - 2015-2017
Sam Cain - Tech Director - 2016-2017
Jesse Greco - Guitar - 2014-2015
Paul Desman - Guitar - 2015-Present
Aaron Homard - Drums - 2015-Present
Eric Oren - u/s BRUCE - 2015
Ed Selvey IV - u/s CARL - 2015
Mo Phillips-Spotts - CARL - 2016
Damian Jason White - CARL - 2016-2017
Nate Curlott - u/s BRUCE/FBI - 2016-Present
Gary Fields - u/s HANS - 2017-present
The creators knew they had a hit and continued to edit, develop, and update the show each year. Core cast members returned, and more importantly, audiences returned. The show has developed some die hard "Yippee Ki-Yay Merry Christmas" fans, and every year audience members come back to discover what fun new jokes, songs, or bits the creative team has in store. In fact, some audience members have seen the show every year - sometimes multiple times per year - bringing friends and family members to experience our holiday tradition.
Yippee has run every holiday season since 2014 and expanded each year. This holiday season will be the biggest and best to date. The creative team has returned to the source material reinvigorating the book and score with more characters, songs, and plot twists. With the backing of established theater producers Drew DeSantis, Jim Jensen, and Mark Michelson the 2018-2019 run of Yippee will be the best yet! "Yippee Ki-Yay Mother F*#%@&$!"
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Student applicants can receive as much as ₱100,000 for their loan, depending on their application credit scoring, financial need, year in school, and other factors. Once you have passed the screening process, your loan officer will inform you of your approved loan limit.
How long is the application processing time?
Ultimately this will depend on the volume of applications in every cycle. On average, we process and give results within 3-7 working days.
How do I receive my loan funds?
Tuition is directly paid by InvestEd to your school. The remaining loan amount is released on a per need basis or in scheduled disbursements. For school materials, equipment and/or gadgets, we require a canvass report before disbursement and proof of purchase after disbursement, and may require that the disbursement be made directly to the supplier.
Are there any fees associated with my loan?
Yes, InvestEd charges a service fee of 22% of your education loan, or P3000, whichever is higher, that is added to your principal loan amount. For example, if your education need is P30,000, our service fee is P6,600 (22% of P30,000). This fee covers your loan administration over the entirety of your loan period, and InvestEd's operating expenses, ensuring our sustainability for future borrowers like you. This fee is also only required to be paid after you graduate.
How much is the interest?
At InvestEd, your loan will interest at 2.25%-2.93% per month. This is cheaper than most private lenders who have rates of 3% up to 30% per month, and often require payment to start immediately.
How much will my monthly installments be after graduation?
Your monthly installment will depend on your principal loan amount, graduation year, and payment term, among other loan variables. You can check out our sample monthly payments below, which assumes a 2.92% per month interest rate for a student loaning for their final year:
How do I pay my monthly installments?
InvestEd partners with institutions to provide you with several avenues for repayment, including auto-debit from your bank account, online and offline bank payments, bayad centers, pawnshops, convenience stores, and more.
What if I still need to take my board exam or don't have a job immediately after graduation?
Students who plan to take board exams may request an extended grace period, or may request to only pay interest that is accrued on their loan for the period. We recommend that you inform your loan officer at application if you are planning to take the board exams.
InvestEd also gives student borrowers access to our Investee Success Program, as well as personalized coaching throughout the life of your loan, to help you find a job quickly and plan out your career goals. Since interest will continue to accrue on your loan over any additional deferment period, we strongly recommend avoiding delays to repayment, and will work with you to prevent those instances through personal consultations and coaching.
How do I review information about my Student Loan?
Our loan officers are available to answer any questions you may have about your loan. Feel free to message us via our website chat (lower right) or through our facebook page athttp://m.me/investedph.
My degree program is not eligible for a student loan.
We source lending capital for students from institutions and individuals. Our lenders have the option to choose which degree programs to support, so we may not always have available lending capital for certain courses. Rest assured, we are continually raising capital for more and more degree programs, in order to serve more students.
If your degree program is not currently eligible for a loan,contact usand we'll inform you immediately when lending capital for your degree program becomes available.
How secure is my information?
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Does InvestEd have a lending license?
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InvestEd is also compliant with the Truth in Lending Act (R.A. 3765). This means that we give full disclosure to all our student borrowers regarding all costs involved with their loan. This includes (1) the cash price or delivered price of the service to be acquired (2) The amounts, if any, to be credited as down payment and/or trade-in (3) The difference between the amounts set forth under clauses (1) and (2) (4) The charges, individually itemized, which are paid or to be paid by such person in connection with the transaction but which are not incident to the extension of credit (5) The total amount to be financed (6) the finance charges (7) the percentage that the finance bears to the total amount to be financed expressed as a simple annual rate on the outstanding unpaid balance of the obligation.


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Earlier today, I was browsing the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cincinnati's web site, looking for any openings I might could apply for — because you never know — when I came across this on the bottom of the vocations page (under consecrated life):
Hermits: They live a life of prayer and solitude; they pray for the Church and give witness to the life and holiness of the Church. They are under the direct authority of the Bishop.
Hermits? This is still a thing?
So, I looked for articles on hermits in the church, and sure enough, there are hermits. Not quite everywhere, but this is now a thing, apparently. And then a feeling came back to me, one I have not felt for a long, long time — that desire I have had, and have not ever really make sense of, to give myself utterly and completely to God. To devote my life, my breath, my being, my purpose, my living, and my dying, to God.
The last time I had this so intensely, I was Muslim, and I wanted to go to Bosnia. I didn't. But I wanted to.
And while this wasn't quite a driver toward seminary, for a very long time, I thought becoming a pastor would sate this hunger, quench this thirst, satisfy this yearning.
Yeah, right.
Then I read this bit on hermits. And I felt it. Again. That desire. To hand myself over to God. Completely. Utterly.
Allow me to explain something. I have an odd marriage. The best way I can describe it is vaguely "polyamorous." I am married to Jennifer … but God has a claim on me, and takes me, whenever God wants. And every time it happens, frankly, it's both amazing and more than I can really deal with.
One morning, I went to daily mass at the local catholic parish in the McKinley Park neighborhood of Chicago — Saints Peter & Paul is the name of the church, an old Polish church long since abandoned by the Poles and given over to Latin Americans — and I found myself overwhelmed. It was a powerful meeting with God that morning. I cannot adequately describe it. (Look, you deal with God.) These things don't happen often to me, but they happen often enough. I am engulfed, overpowered, overwhelmed, used. It's amazing, but it's also frequently terrifying. Sometimes, writing my Bible songs is like this. I'm not really the author, I'm more like a conduit or a scribe, wondering where the melody and the words comes from. Because they don't feel like they are mine.
Anyway, that morning, I just sat in church for an extra half hour, dealing with what God was doing to me in that time and place. I came home late, and apologized to Jennifer, and tried to explain.
She smiled.
"I wasn't worried. I figured it was a 'you-and-God-thing.'"
I looked at her. I remember that she once was envious, and a little angry, that God had talked to me, and even did stuff to me.
"Does it make you jealous that you have to share me with God?"
"Not any more. It used to. But it's just part of being married to you."
Just part of being married to me. (Be happy, "Anna" and "Lauren," that neither of you had to put up with God having His way with me.) I know what I want in life. I want to give myself over to God. I still want to give myself over to God. Body, soul, mind, breath. All of me. I want to lose myself in God.
I think this is a very real, and very human desire. It dovetails nicely with my previous blog. Some people follow Jesus, and some people are called to follow Jesus. Modernity doesn't understand this. Or rather, it does, but it thinks this desire can be subsumed into something else, something properly "godlike," such as the state, or an ideology which promises a bright, shiny new tomorrow. And those are terrible substitutes for the ineffable.
And Protestantism doesn't understand this, for all the reasons I outline in my book. Which you should read if you haven't. (Go and read it now. This essay isn't going anywhere…)
This yearning is real, and hasn't ever gone away, though it got subsumed in seminary studies and candidacy and internship(s) and, for the last year, in a heady mixture of endless waiting and sporadic despair. And it's probably why I am unemployable. (It's been 18 months since I've had anything remotely resembling a real job, though The Deseret News said they thought really good thoughts about me in their rejection letter!) I once thought an MA from Georgetown University would banish that prospect (ha!), but the truth is I'm probably not really fit for anything with a detailed, professional job description. (And my resume fails to adequately state how I added value at my previous jobs; honestly, I wouldn't even know where to start with that.) Since being tossed from the ELCA's candidacy process, I've discovered that this job market is mostly about who you know, not what you know.
And I … don't know anyone.
I think the sad truth is that I am not fit for modernity. I'm fit for something far more medieval. How Jennifer and I will eat and find a way to put a roof over our heads (we could happily live together in one of these little Slovak ecopods), I have no idea. The book, and whatever response it generates (which is coming), is our entire future.
But if I could become a monk or a hermit…


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Corporate Governance
Tianli's Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of the Board of Directors Charter
The Committee shall be comprised of two or more directors, each of whom shall satisfy the independence requirements established by the rules of The Nasdaq Stock Market ("Nasdaq").
A majority of the members shall constitute a quorum of the Committee, and, if a quorum is present, any action approved by at least a majority of the members present shall represent the valid action of the Committee.
The Committee shall have the authority to obtain advice or assistance from consultants, legal counsel, accounting or other advisors as appropriate to perform its duties hereunder, and to determine the terms, costs and fees for such engagements. Without limitation, the Committee shall have the sole authority to retain or terminate any search firm to be used to identify director candidates and to determine and approve the terms, costs and fees for such engagements. The fees and costs of any consultant or advisor engaged by the Committee to assist the Committee in performing its duties hereunder shall be borne by the Company.
The Committee shall meet as often as it deems necessary to fulfill its responsibilities hereunder, and may meet with management or individual directors at any time it deems appropriate to discuss any matters before the Committee.
To fulfill its responsibilities and duties hereunder, the Committee shall:
- Determine criteria for selecting new directors, including desired board skills and attributes, and, in consultation with the Chief Executive Officer, identify and actively seek individuals qualified to become directors.
- Evaluate and recommend to the Board director nominees for each election of directors. However, if the Company is at any time legally required by contract or otherwise to provide any third party with the ability to nominate a director, the Committee need not evaluate or propose such nomination, unless required by contract or requested by the Board.
- Evaluate and recommend to the Board director nominees to fill any vacancies on the Board.
- Formulate and recommend to the Board procedures to be followed by shareholders of the Company who wish to recommend nominees for director, and consider any recommendations made by shareholders that comply with any such procedures, the Bylaws of the Company and other applicable legal requirements.
- Review and make recommendations to the Board concerning qualifications, appointment and removal of committee members.
- Develop, recommend for Board approval, and review on an ongoing basis the adequacy of the corporate governance principles applicable to the Company. Such principles may include director qualification standards, director responsibilities, committee responsibilities, director access to management and independent advisors, director orientation and continuing education, and annual performance evaluation of the Board and committees.
- Review, as the Committee deems to be appropriate, the Company's compliance with the Nasdaq corporate governance listing requirements, including independence requirements applicable to directors, and report to the Board regarding the same.
- Develop criteria for the evaluation of Board and committee performance and assist the Board in the conduct of such evaluations.
- Review the composition of the Board and the performance of individual directors. The Committee shall consider, in this evaluation, factors that will ensure an effective Board. This may include, but not be limited to peer review, attendance, participation, and personal interest.
- Evaluate the Committee's own performance.
- Review and approve orientation materials for new directors and corporate governance-related continuing education for all Board members.
- Review and reassess, as appropriate, the adequacy of this Charter, the criteria for selecting new directors, and any policy regarding consideration of nominees for director who are recommended by shareholders of the Company, and recommend any proposed changes to the Board for approval.
- Perform any other activities consistent with this Charter, the Company's Bylaws and governing law, as the Committee or the Board deems necessary or appropriate.
- Make regular reports to the Board regarding the foregoing.
- Independence;
- Diversity (including age, skills, background, gender, race and experience);
- Personal integrity and judgment;
- Prominence in their profession;
- Concern for the interest of the Company's shareholders;
- The number of other public companies for which the person serves as a director and the availability of the person's time and commitment to the Company;
- Business experience; and
- Personal skills and expertise in technology, finance, marketing, business, financial reporting and other areas that are expected to contribute to an effective Board.


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When Should You Start Building Your Own Website For Your Etsy Shop?
What is great about Etsy is that it gives you a fast way to build your brand, get customers, and figure out what sells. We have over 22,000 Customers on Etsy for Melinda Wood Designs, and about 6,000 Customers for JPW Design Studio, and about 1,000 Customers for our high-end artwork on Etsy. So we have a place to start and data to work off of to build a website and online marketing for our Etsy Business.
Starting your own website only makes sense if you can calculate the costs ahead of time and ensure that it will be a good use of time and money. Typically, I only recommend that Etsy Sellers start building their brand with a website, email marketing, SEO, blogging & social media only once they have 1,000 to 2,000 customers from Etsy. That's a good indication that your Etsy Shop is successful, and you can take it off Etsy or build elsewhere.
Put together a plan.
Don't start wasting time until you can reasonably estimate that building a bigger business is feasible. You need a way to scale, grow your business, find more customers, perfect your process, and work on a customer service and marketing plan. Put it together all on paper first before you even think about designing a website for yourself.
Setting A Monthly Goal For your Etsy Shop
The best way to grow your Etsy Shop or business is to set a monthly goal, and then dividing that monthly goal into smaller daily goals.
For instance, let's say you currently make $1,000 USD per month on Etsy.
A realistic goal would be to increase your monthly revenue to $1,200 USD, or a 20% increase.
That is definitely feasible for you to achieve, which is great. But now you need to put specific action items together to ensure you reach your goal.
One of the best ways to do that is to focus on top 3 ideas for how you will reach that goal. Don't try 10 or 20 methods - that's just too much to think about or worry about.
Instead, just focus on 2 or 3 or 4 methods to help you reach that 20% increase in sales.
For instance, you could try the following on Etsy:
- Start using Promoted Listings
- Make one new product that is $20 USD that will sell 10 times this month (it's got to be a stellar product!)
- Start email marketing to market to your previous customers on Etsy for return business
- Run a promotional sale to boost traffic, like 25% off.
- Focus on really good customer service, like offering VIP access to customers, or access to early release products. Something creative & interesting.
Once you know your ideas for reaching you 20% increase in sales, you should then break your daily schedule down and write it down.
What is the number 1 thing you need to do today to reach that monthly goal of a 20% increase? Focus on just 1 or 2 things per day, and check that off your list.
You have to have a way to track and record your progress in order to make this happen.
So, I've put together a simple printable sheet to help you reach this goal.
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I hope to hear from you in 1 month to see how you've reached your goals!
Is Etsy Plus Worth It?
Have you considered Etsy Plus?
It's $10 per month, to give you a few extra features.
The feature I was most excited for was the "Out Of Stock" feature, where someone could request an item if you had it out of stock. That seems pretty cool, right?
Here is the problem: Etsy is not your website. It is Etsy's, with millions of other sellers.
So you don't stand out at all among all the other shoppers.
Plus, after trying out the "Out of Stock" option for about 2 weeks. With over 600 out-of-stock items, not a single "Restock request."
Same goes with their new tools for offering discounts for auto-sending coupons for items in someone's Favorite list, or Abandoned Cart discounts. With hundreds of customers per month, we have only had 1 sale from using these auto-emailed discount offers. That leads me to believe Etsy's tool doesn't work, or no one use compelled by it at all. Coupon codes do work, however.
But When you got to Amazon.com to buy something, do you only buy from one shop, and no one else? Not at all. You keep looking around until you find what you need. You aren't going there to be devoted to a single brand. You are going their for Amazon's large selection, free 2-day shipping and not having to drive to a store to pick up basic items.
If you want brand loyalty, if you want people to ask you to re-stock items, if you want customer engagement, you must build your own brand - on email marketing, on your own website, on a blog, on social media.
Etsy is a gateway to find your first bundle of customers. But if you want to build a long-term business you must think outside of Etsy.
Etsy is great to get something started. It is a great way to find new customers, and test out ideas.
But it is not a good way to build a big business. At least, not exclusively. If you look at all the major brands that did well on Etsy, and are now even bigger, they all moved away from Etsy and built their own brand.
https://freshlypicked.com/ - which was on Shark Tank
https://www.hangoutlighting.com/ - which was on The Profit
https://www.threebirdnest.com/ - had millions of sales on Etsy
https://www.herbivorebotanicals.com/ - which went retail and is just about everywhere now
Am I saying to leave Etsy? No way - and not at all. That is how these 4 companies got started! You should build your first 1,000 or 2,000 customers on Etsy, then start building your own brand based off what you have learned.
But what I am saying is to think about doing your own marketing, away from Etsy, and focus on your brand.
Etsy Plus is just a super, super minor way to do marketing. It's only $10 per month. So if you want to try it out, go ahead. But you wont be in control of your marketing. It's still up to Etsy to make things work out on their own.
The Most Important Thing About Small Business I Wish I Learned 8 Years Ago
When you work on your Etsy Shop or Small Business, how does your day go?
Is it chaotic & random - each day being different? Or is it smooth, calculated, thought-out and methodical?
While I am really good at starting up a new idea for a small business, I have been terrible about perfecting each step of the process once I find out what works.
But this is what I wished I learned 8 years ago, when I first started my own business.
The only way to scale a small business is to perfect each and every little detail, step by step, in a standardized and streamlined process which can be replicated over and over.
Think about all the major, large brands in the world, like Starbucks, McDonalds, Coca-Cola or UPS. They each have a very predictable, streamlined process. So no matter where you go or where you live, these businesses have a very consistent approach to their overall process.
While you may not like big brands and companies, in order to be successful and scale and grow your business, you must think like a big company, which standardizes and perfects each step of the process, so that you can eventually replicate and build your business to new heights.
So when you develop new products, create a standardized step-by-step process which you go through every single time.
When you do customer service, create a step-by-step process. Think of it as if you were going to hire someone to do it for you, and give them a step-by-step guide on what to do for every single little detail so they can refer to it every single time and deliver high-quality results.
You don't have to hire someone. The step-by-step process could even just be for yourself. It saves you time, because you really don't have to think about what comes next. You just look at your list and move forward quickly.
If you don't like the idea of doing a rigid, step-by-step process, think about someone like a Dancer or Musician.
I play piano, and in order to write a good song and play it well, I must practice it over and over. Usually, around 200 different times, so that I get so good at playing a certain song, I basically don't have to even think about it. I can just focus on playing a piano song really, really well, and perform it as well as possible.
The same would go for a dancer practicing a ballet performance over 200 times until the performance is flawless and people are impressed with the dance.
Your Etsy Shop process or small business process should be like that. Perfect each and every little step, and then you will become so good and what you do, that you can really get creative in the Details, the Experience, and save so much extra time on your hands that you might even be able to scale larger and focus on new areas of your business.
This is the most important area of small business I wish I learned 8 years ago. But I learned it this year, and it is an extremely powerful business concept you should use as well.
Building A Brand - Starting With Etsy, Then Growing Online
As the owner of your own small business, you have the power to change your direction at any time, into tons of different industries, with the ability to choose how and when you will market yourself.
As an employee, you are at the mercy of your employer, the board of directors, and whether or not the company can keep growing and moving ahead properly.
As an Etsy Seller on Etsy, you are more like an employee. You must work around the rules that Etsy establishes. You are at the mercy of their algorithm changes. And you are at the mercy of however they decide to brand Etsy to the public. The customers that come to you are searching on Etsy, looking at other shops, not just yours. And you have to do what you can to stand out.
Building a brand on Etsy is a great opportunity. It gets you the experience you need, with a simple framework that keeps you focused. But once you hit 1,000 Etsy Sales, you are ready for the next chapter in your small brand's story. It's time to think about bigger opportunities.
One of the biggest failures I had with selling on Etsy was choosing to stay focused solely on Etsy. In 2016, we had over 20,000 Sales and couldn't figure out where to go next. Instead of growing, we kept doing the same things over and over and Etsy. But all Etsy Shops have limitations within the framework Etsy provides.
If you have over 1,000 Etsy Sales, have you considered growing outside of Etsy? Building your own website, creating your own email marketing, and streamlining your business with a clear, focused process so you can grow?
If you want to be a true small business owner, you'll need to head in that direction eventually. Not right away, but start planning on it and thinking about it. Start learning what you need to know ahead of time.
Learn more about Growing An Online Business here with my free online business checklist.


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AED Rent adds SolaFrame 750 to its rental fleet
"We definitely see a specific market demand for this type of bright compact LED profile fixtures." says Steven Mansvelt, MD of AED Rent. "Adding the SolaFrame 750 to our portfolio now makes it perfectly possible for customers who already own a small set of fixtures to rent in more for an on/off larger production.
"Also, as the fixture is very versatile, it's a great way for people to try out this new generation of LED fixtures by just renting them in for a couple of days."
SolaFrame 750 and SolaFrame Theatre are now available at AED Rent, or in Lease or Sales formulas. Please contact your AED Account Manager for more information.


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ULFA leader Anup Chetia will help further North East peace pact
It was a major diplomatic victory for India when ULFA leader Anup Chetia was handed over. Chetia who had spent 17 years in a Bangladesh jail had sought political asylum, but the same was not granted and he was handed over to India instead.
The arrival of Chetia in India comes at a very crucial time when the Indian government is trying to take forward the peace pact signed with several groups in the North Eastern States.
Chetia, according to sources will join the peace process with India and this is a major breakthrough considering that the ULFA has often shied away from talks.
Chetia will join the peace process
Chetia is part of the pro-talks ULFA faction which is headed by Arabinda Rajkhowa. While Rajkhowa has held discussions on peace with India on six different occassions, the arrival of Chetia on the scene will help further the cause.
Chetia is not only a flamboyant leader, but also extremely influential. Indian officials feel that despite being away from India and in a jail for 17 years, he still has a clout which could help further the peace process.
When India and Bangladesh were engaging with each other it was the former which made a request to hand Chetia over. Chetia on the other hand was more than happy to join the peace process and hence his arrival in India gives officials the hope of carrying forward the pact.
The pro-talks faction of the ULFA has already put forth a charter of demands before the Indian government as early as 2011. However there were some nagging differences as a result of which there has been no progress despite six rounds of talks.
However, Indian officials are hopeful that Chetia would help cure those defects as there would more engagement in the future.


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Men's Golf Finishes 11th At ASU Thunderbird Invitational
April 15, 2002
Tempe, Ariz. - Junior David Oh shot two rounds of 69 to tie for 10th individually as the No. 10 USC men's golf team finished 11th at the ASU Thunderbird Invitational held at Karsten Golf Course on April 12-13.
It's the third top 10 finish of the season--and best effort this spring--for Oh, who scored a 54-hole total of 209. Bret Guetz of TCU was the overall winner with a score of 200, followed by John Klauk of Texas (203) and Chris Carnahan of Oregon (205).
The Trojans finished 11th overall with a total of 854, 22 strokes behind tourney champ Texas at 832. Arizona State was second (838), followed by Pepperdine (839) and Oregon (843).
Also for USC, sophomore Scott Oxandaboure tied for 19th (211) while competing as an individual, freshman Ben Hayes tied for 31st (214), junior Chris Botsford tied for 38th (215), senior Kevin Stadler tied for 47th (217) and freshman Nico Bollini tied for 63rd (220).
The Trojans are next in action at the U.S. Intercollegiate in Palo Alto, Calif., on April 20-21.
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If you're single and having a rough go of things in the dating world, there's probably a reason, or multiple reasons, for it. But rest easy, because a group of women has come to the rescue, offering up a list of behaviors they consider to be huge turnoffs.
RELATED: Women share their flirting experiences with painfully clueless guys, and some of these are brutally hilarious
Various discerning ladies took to Reddit and aired out what they found to be undesirable in a potential mate. So get out a pen and paper and let these ladies take you struggling fellas to school.
Those are just a few of our favorites, but there were plenty more. If any of these qualities sound like a description of you, stop being a tool and give the ladies what they want.


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Paul S. Callaghan was recently featured in social media publications produced by ALFA International, the premier global network of independent law firms.
In a wide ranging interview, Paul was asked to address one of the highlights of his successful career as an attorney. He said prevailing in a highly contested jury trial where the plaintiff was seeking a multi-million dollar verdict after he had been forced to cancel a family vacation due to the trial date selected by the presiding justice.
His client was a major national construction company, and the case arose out of an unwitnessed construction site accident with no evidence to the contrary. He found this win particularly appealing because he had been forced to cancel that family vacation, and the plaintiff's attorney, a senior member of the plaintiffs' bar, was especially overconfident throughout the proceedings.
The jury deliberated for more than two days and then came back with a question. The question led the plaintiff's attorney and his partner to believe that they had won the case, to the point where they were literally boasting to colleagues that they had done so even before the jury returned a verdict. Afterwards, Paul was delighted to receive a personal, handwritten letter from the company's chairman and CEO thanking and congratulating me on the victory.
The complete ALFA International interview can be found here.


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That is what I have been told. Time will tell.
As Greg does, I also use the iOS version of this (not owning an Android platform) and I have
not heard from anyone that has an Ice Cream Sandwich install yet - at worst, you'd have to
disable the SSL checks in the SYNCML product.
On 12/15/11 1:39 PM, Helen P. Read wrote:OK, so with my brand new Galaxy Nexus running Ice Cream Sandwich (4.something), it should befine?HPRQuoting Francis Swasey <[log in to unmask]>:The bit that Greg (and Andrew) didn't share with you is that we have an ongoing problem withAndroid phones and the Oracle Calendar server. You can use the SYNCML product, but if yourAndroid OS version is not at least 2.3, you will have to disable SSL error checking to get itto work with the SSL certificate we installed on the Calendar server this fall.FrankOn 12/15/11 12:50 PM, J. Greg Mackinnon wrote:Others may have more detailed answers, but I can tell you that the "Synthesis SyncML" clientused for most other mobile devices is also available for Android:http://store.kagi.com/cgi-bin/store.cgi?storeID=L3U_LIVE&&<http://store.kagi.com/cgi-bin/store.cgi?storeID=L3U_LIVE&&>($22 for Standard, $52 for Pro)More info on the product versions here:http://www.synthesis.ch/dl_client.php?bp=CPDA&pv=ANDROID<http://www.synthesis.ch/dl_client.php?bp=CPDA&pv=ANDROID>Configuration of the product is pretty similar between different devices. The instructionsfor Apple iOS should get you 95% of the way there on Android:http://www.uvm.edu/it/handheld/?Page=apple/amcalendar.html&SM=submenu1.html<http://www.uvm.edu/it/handheld/?Page=apple/amcalendar.html&SM=submenu1.html>-J. Greg Mackinnon | ETS Systems Architecture and Administration | x68251On 12/15/2011 12:35 PM, Helen Read wrote:So I finally dumped my old flip phone and got a shiny new Galaxy Nexus. I got on the UVMwireless OK and have UVM email working.Next up, is there any way to sync with Oracle Calendar and/or get Google Calendar to talk toOracle?This page implies it is possible to sync Oracle to an Android phone:.http://www.uvm.edu/it/handheld/But looking around under Android, one comes to the following rather uninformative page.http://www.uvm.edu/it/handheld/?Page=android/calendar.html&SM=submenu2.html--Frank Swasey | http://www.uvm.edu/~fcsSr Systems Administrator | Always remember: You are UNIQUE,University of Vermont | just like everyone else."I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
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Wedding ideas that were totally unexpected 10 years ago
Modern day weddings are no longer cookie cutter versions of the same thing. For there was a time when all the bridesmaids dressed in cotton candy dresses and couples cut towering cakes! Today, every wedding is unique in it's...
- Posted August 27, 2018
Oops! That's Awkward—Our guide to navigating 7 awkward wedding planning situations
I like to compare wedding planning to a mine that's waiting to explode. The potential for problems is huge! Every couple faces at least a few awkward moments when planning their wedding. Many assumptions may be made...
- Posted February 6, 2017
What should your wedding website contain?
A wedding website is nearly indispensable in today's wedding scene. It is a practical and easy way to share and find all the necessary information pertaining to a wedding, and so is a must-have for every couple...
- Posted December 19, 2016
The top 7 wedding planning apps to help you plan your wedding
Planning a wedding is a time-consuming, detail-oriented and labor-intensive task. It is no wonder that many brides burn out from exhaustion even while they are just half-way through wedding planning. Once you begin the planning process, you...
- Posted January 19, 2016
Easy ways to inform your guests about your wedding registry
Wedding etiquette restricts couples from displaying their wedding registry information on their wedding cards. Since this direct link with your wedding guests is out of question, you need to look at other options to inform your guests...
- Posted October 30, 2015
Making the most of your wedding registry and 9 registry must-haves
Wedding registries help guests to find useful gifts for the to-be-married couple. This is very helpful for them to set up their home, when they begin their new life together. Today, many couples may be living together...
- Posted October 6, 2015
The 5 Do's of wedding registry
There are definite advantages of registering for gifts. It allows your guests to buy you something that you value and appreciate and also saves you the trouble of worrying over what to do with all those wedding...
- Posted July 8, 2015
Start a Wedding Website
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Terror. Stress. Panic.
These are the emotions I used to wake up with every Monday.
I would wake up already stressed out, my entire body DREADING going to work.
I would obsessively check my emails, PANICKING that something had gone wrong in the world while I was asleep.
I would waste an HOUR commuting on a shitty, smelly train…
…and then walk through the entire day in a state of lethargy, waiting until 5pm hit and I could escape.
For me, "escaping" at that time meant working on my health coaching business on the side.
I KNEW I wanted to quit my job and go all-in with my business…
But the ONE THING stopping me?
Money. $$
Would I ACTUALLY make money doing this?
Most coaches I knew were struggling, or going broke.
I had a 6-figure salary in Silicon Valley with ALL the benefits (including tons of amazing free food). No WAY did I want to give that up!
My ONE requirement for doing fitness coaching full – time was this:
>> I will ONLY do this full time if I can MATCH or EXCEED my technology salary. <<
At the time, my salary was around $130K a year.
Most people might think this is impossible for a coach, especially in your first year.
But this is only because most coaches don't know how to market and sell high ticket programs effectively.
They undervalue themselves, offer discounts, struggle to get clients… and have a very hard time financially.
If I was going to do this, I was NOT going to struggle financially.
I was done struggling at my job and DONE settling with my happiness.
I was unavailable for more struggle.
So what did I do?
I took everything I had in my bank account… And invested in my first business coach.
I mastered the art of high ticket sales, and learned how to sell myself effectively.
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I continued putting myself out there with confidence, running boot camps and courses that helped me thrive financially.
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I wake up without my alarm, around 7AM and I don't usually start working until 11 or 12.
I spend the entire morning on myself: Working out, journaling, making an awesome breakfast, checking in with my team…
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By Brandon Absher
As he refers to me by name several times, I thought I might take a moment to evaluate Michael Giallombardo's recent defense of the Columbus statue in the Another Voice column, "Ruthlessness predated the arrival of Columbus," and explain my own argument for why it should be taken down.
According to Giallombardo, like Columbus, the indigenous people of the Western Hemisphere engaged in conquering and enslaving others.
In fact, he tells us, raids of conquest stretch all the way back to the "cave men." At the time of the arrival of Columbus, he suggests, brutal rulers were sacrificing thousands. Giallombardo even explains that the indigenous people ate one another! Finally, he points out that there are many, many monuments, parks, streets, companies, cities and even whole countries named after Columbus. If so many people saw fit to name such things after Christopher Columbus, he can't have been that bad of a guy. (As we all know, the majority is rarely wrong.)
To see what's wrong with Giallombardo's argument, consider this analogous line of reasoning: "Your honor, my client is innocent. People have been stealing from others since time immemorial and there are many other car thieves besides my client. Moreover, the victim in this case is known to have once taken her mother's car without asking. Also, as you may have heard, she is quite the partyer. My client is also well-liked by many people. Clearly, he did not steal the victim's car."
Perhaps it belabors the point to say so, but nothing said here is relevant to the issue of whether the accused stole the car in question. Similarly, nothing written by Giallombardo is relevant to the issue of whether Christopher Columbus initiated the trans-Atlantic slave trade, sought to exterminate and enslave indigenous people in the Caribbean, or himself directly ordered murder, rape, pillage and torture.
Personally, I believe that public statues should honor people who deserve to be remembered for their positive accomplishments. Likewise, parks should be named for people who have earned such an honor. Columbus is not such a person.
While they may differ in the details, historians and scholars are widely agreed that Columbus was an incredibly brutal and rapacious colonizer, who instituted policies of slavery and genocide.
So widely acknowledged is this fact that the slaughter of the Taino people who were raped, murdered and enslaved by Columbus is listed by the Yale Genocide Studies Program as a case study on its website. The lands Columbus "discovered" were already inhabited, and he had no idea where he was.
As for what the majority believes, it's worth mentioning that the Greeks knew the Earth to be spherical and estimated its size with astonishing accuracy as early as the 3rd century BCE.
Brandon Absher is an assistant professor of philosophy and coordinator of the Radical Philosophy Association at D'Youville College.


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Feb 28- May 7
A R E A at The Yard (120 St. James Ave, Boston)
This is A R E A's second group show at The Yard. The exhibition, that includes 14 local and international artists, is part of Construction A R E A, a strategy to promote the work of emerging artists through a series of off-site projects.
The exhibition presents the artist as an observer of reality. Content that is recognizable to our senses becomes an indispensable element in the works presented here. From abstract realism to hyperrealism and through photography, painting, printmaking, augmented and virtual reality, the artists examine the relationship between art and reality.
Although the works included in the show derive from real object or event sources with strong visual references to the real world, the artists do not aim for formal accuracy and truthfulness. In various degrees, and using a wide range of artistic methods, they challenge, manipulate or embrace what we know as real and often consider partial abstraction to explain it.
Participating artists:
Chomz. | Andrew Houle | Mea Duke | Joseph Farbrook | Raquel Fornasaro | Alejandro Gonzalez | Cody Justus | Molly Kaderka | Soojin Kim | Lindsey Kocur | Donis Llago | Michael MacMahon | Malcolm Preston | Cal Rice | Wendy Shapiro


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Matadors take Div. I banner
Sunday November 25, 2018
Tigers win in Div. II
Vedettes are champions
Sunday November 25, 2018
First title since 2005
Redmen and Matadors will play in Div. I final
Sunday November 25, 2018
Game time at 2:00pm at the Avenir Centre
Cavalières and Vedettes will battle for Womens title
Saturday November 24, 2018
Highlanders will meet Tigers in Div II final
Tonights playoff match-ups are set
Saturday November 24, 2018
Games begin at 6:30pm
44th tournaments officially opened
Friday November 23, 2018
Ceremonies held on Thursday evening
24 team to participate in the 44th edition
Sunday November 11, 2018
The tournament will be held from November 22nd to 25th
Royals are Division I champs
Sunday January 7, 2018
Capturing their third tournament title of the season
Flames capture Womens division
Sunday January 7, 2018
Edging the Républicaines in the championship game
Sonics win Division II title
Sunday January 7, 2018
Defeated Voisins in final
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Mentored by Prince, KING brings tour to Durham
So far, 2016 has been both a good and bad year for the musical trio KING.
After making a splash in 2011 with the EP "The Story," they finally released their debut album, "We Are KING" earlier this year. Unfortunately, the man who helped this group get where they are today, Prince Rogers Nelson, passed away two months later.
"It was devastating, I mean, for the whole world," says Paris Strother, who performs in the group with her twin sister Amber, both 30, and Anita Bias, 27. "But, as far as knowing him personally and having him as a mentor, it was a very hard blow."
KING got the best co-sign an up-and-coming group ever got when their EP dropped and Prince publicly said he enjoyed their work. The fact that the Strother sisters hail from the same Minneapolis town as Prince (Bias is from Compton) made him love them all the more. "He didn't know we were from Minneapolis when he heard the music, and found out afterwards," says Paris. "It was a really cool thing to be able to sit with him and talk about, like, the neighborhood high schools and, you know, being from the same part of town."
The women went on to open for Prince, who taught them the ins and outs of the music industry.
"From the time we opened for him in 2011 until his passing, he was very involved behind the scenes with a lot of our business and a lot of our decisions," says Paris. "He really left the artistic direction to us, but he made himself available as an advisor."
Another person the ladies looked up to (and who also unfortunately passed away this year) was Muhammad Ali. They have a song on "KING," titled "The Greatest," that is obviously dedicated to The Greatest. Paris says they don't know if Ali heard the song before his passing, "but just having it out there was enough for us. It quickly became a song that people listened to to celebrate his life and, so, that just meant the world to us, because that's all we ever really wanted."
While Prince's influence can be found all over "KING," you can also hear The Time, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, Andre Cymone and all the other Minneapolis artists and producers who laid down funky, soulful jams all throughout the '80s. But since these women currently call Los Angeles home, you definitely get some West Coast-bred, alt-R & B in their songs. Another influence KING is proud to claim is video-game music.
"One of my favorite songs is 'Sheik's Theme' from '(The Legend of) Zelda,'" says Paris. "It's just this very beautiful, very simple, very short – it's on a loop, but it's just a beautiful, beautiful texture. And a lot of the 'Super Mario' music is really beautiful."
KING is currently on tour. Friday night, they'll be performing in Durham, which will be their first time coming back to the Bull City since their Triangle debut at the first Art of Cool Festival in 2014. Expect them to follow in their footsteps of their late, great, purple mentor and – just as their name suggests – be the rulers of their musical kingdom.
Who: KING, with Nick Hakim
When: 9 p.m. Friday
Where: Motorco Music Hall, 723 Rigsbee Ave., Durham
Cost: $20-$25
Info: 919-901-0875 or motorcomusic.com


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Psyllium seed and citrus pectin fiber to promote intestinal balance
Indigestion Homeopathic Formula is a natural approach for treating symptoms of indigestion. This product was specifically designed for pregnant and lactating women however, it is appropriate for all adults.
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How can we balance climate goals with the need for a healthy and growing economy?
That's the question at the heart of a new advisory council announced by the province recently.
The Climate Solutions and Clean Growth Advisory Council, as it's been coined, will "inform a new climate strategy for B.C. that fights climate pollution and helps families come out ahead," according to a provincial government release, and will be made up of representatives from First Nations, environmental organizations, industry, academics, labour and local government.
Its goal will be to provide advice on policies that will reduce carbon pollution while optimizing opportunities for sustainable economic development and job creation.
In B.C., Whistler is an economical marvel, driving millions in tax revenues — and contributing plenty in terms of emissions itself.
For ski resorts, and the tourism industry in general, emissions caused by arriving guests have long been the "elephant in the room," said Whistler Blackcomb's (WB) environmental resource manager Arthur De Jong.
About one in 10 people make a living in tourism and travel — a $7 trillion industry, De Jong said.
"It represents about five per cent of global emissions, and roughly 40 per cent is from the long-haul travel from aviation," he said.
"I get asked this often... 'What are you doing about the air traffic, or the carbon emissions from the long-haul air travel, and people driving here from YVR?' and I go, 'well, you have to focus on your spheres of influence.'"
For companies like WB (and now with Vail Resorts and its "Epic Promise" to achieve a net zero operating footprint by 2030), it's about managing their own carbon footprint.
"When I look at WB's footprint, it's small, because we have the benefit of hydro electric power pretty much running our entire operation, except for our vehicle fleets, " he said.
"So we only emit about seven to nine tonnes of carbon annually."
For comparison, the Resort Municipality of Whistler estimates the community emits over 100,000 tonnes of carbon annually, De Jong noted, and when you factor in all the guests coming and going, it's well over 1 million.
So what to do about that elephant in the room?
For starters, you can try to expand your spheres of influence — which for WB would mean things like inspiring more responsible travel up and down the highway, rewarding guests who carpool, or driving more housing for resident employees, reducing emissions from daily commuters.
They've also got to stay abreast of the latest technologies and what they'll mean for emissions — things like hybrid groomers and autonomous cars.
Whether you're a massive company or just one person, focusing on the things you can control is key, said Claire Ruddy of the Association of Whistler Area Residents for the Environment.
"Climate change is this big global issue and it can seem overwhelming, but really what it is going to come down to is companies and individuals making changes in the way that we operate currently," Ruddy said.
On a personal level, it can start with behavioural change: choosing to walk or bike rather than drive, turning off the lights when you leave a room, eating less meat.
"I think for individuals the focus can just very simply be put on conservation," Ruddy said.
And while Whistler is indirectly responsible for the emissions of arriving guests, the amount of people coming from out of town presents an opportunity for education.
"I think we actually have a really important obligation to empower our visitors, to educate our visitors on what we can do," Ruddy said.
"There are people coming here who maybe don't have super strong initiatives at their community scale at home, so how do we inspire others to do more? Because climate change isn't just a Whistler issue, it's a global issue."
If you're interested in what's being done on a local level, an update on Whistler's own Community Energy and Climate Action Plan is set to come to council at its Dec. 5 meeting (5:30 p.m. at the Maury Young Arts Centre).
"It would be really great for people to come out," Ruddy said.
"If you're interested in climate change, then come to the meeting on Dec. 5."


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Faculty Position Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center & Harvard Medical School
- Location
- Boston, Massachusetts (US)
- Salary
- Salary is commensurate with experience
- Posted
- December 04 2018
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- Faculty Position
- Discipline
- Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Bioengineering, Bioinformatics, Biology, Biomedical Sciences, Cancer Research, Cell Biology, Computational Biology, Epigenetics, Genetics, Genomics, Immunology, Molecular Biology, Oncology, Proteomics, Health Sciences, Clinical Medicine, Clinical Research, Drug Discovery, Medicine, Pathology, Personalized Medicine, Preclinical Development, Regenerative Medicine, Translational Research
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- Organization Type
- Academia
- Job Type
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Faculty Position
Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and
Harvard Medical School
The Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center is seeking applications for a faculty position at the level of Assistant or Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School. Candidates should have a strong track record of creativity and productivity and the potential to develop an outstanding independent laboratory research program.
Areas of general interest include but are not limited to: cancer biology and genetics, RNA biology, chemical biology, molecular imaging, signal transduction and molecular therapeutics. Candidates with interests in immuno-oncology, chromatin biology, and gene editing technologies are strongly encouraged to apply.
Candidates should have Ph.D. and/or M.D. or equivalent degrees. Applications from women and minority candidates are strongly encouraged.
Candidates should submit a curriculum vitae including a list of publications and a brief statement of research and teaching interest via the online Interfolio position listing. Four letters of reference will also be requested via the search portal.
Applications should be submitted no later than
Tuesday, January 15th, 2019.
Please address your materials to:
Lee Zou, PhD
Chair, Search Committee
Associate Scientific Director, MGH Cancer Center
Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School uphold a commitment to affirmative action and equal opportunity.
Apply at: http://apply.interfolio.com/58442


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Banana Blueberry Spelt Muffins
These Banana Blueberry Spelt Muffins are vegan, but more importantly, they're moist, delicious, and healthy. So everyone, vegan or not, is going to love them. They're vegan, because they don't contain eggs or butter. There's no refined sugar, either. Besides, obviously, bananas and blueberries, these muffins are made with spelt flour, coconut oil, walnuts, andRead more


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This week's readings speak of our need to entrust all that we are and all that we do, to our God who will guide and help us.
The First Reading speaks of our joy in the power of the Lord to overcome war and violence, and bring the peace of his kingdom. We pray for the gentle and humble way of proceeding that is God's way for us.
St Paul (Second Reading) reminds us that the Holy Spirit living within us will give us life and show us the way to live.
Jesus speaks of the need to come to him with a child-like trust: he knows we cannot understand or fulfil all that he asks of us in our own strength (Gospel). We may try, but find our labouring is burdensome. Instead, as we go about our daily tasks this week, we begin by quietly entrusting ourselves to the Lord, asking him to reveal to us all that is required for today. If we allow ourselves to rest in the Lord, trusting him for one step at a time, we will find his way is easy and light, and full of joy.
Excerpt from Gospel Reflection based on Prego by St Bueno's Outreach in Diocese of Wrexham available at australiancatholics.com.au;