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Earl Russell: Before the Minister replies, may I ask him whether he has ever heard of what is known in the London Borough of Brent as "Stonebridge syndrome"? Stonebridge is the most undesirable council estate in Brent. If Brent does not want to house somebody it offers him a place in Stonebridge and can then say that he has refused it. That has been known to happen with training places.
I also wanted to say that occasionally one finds something happening in the past which could have happened yesterday. In 1610, in another place, a Member was discussing a case at the court of King Cambyses in Persia. His Ministers were asked, "What law have you got for what you are doing?" They replied, "None at all, but we have a law that the King may do whatever he likes". Our complaint is that that law is still in force.
Lord Mackay of Ardbrecknish: I shall attempt to answer those two points. If the noble Earl has any evidence that there is the equivalent in the training system of the kind of council estate he mentioned that there are a number of training places so awful that no one in his right mind will accept themI hope he will let me know, because that is in no way within the meaning of the Bill or the desires of Ministers. So I hope that his example is not true. However, if there are such examples, I need to know.
I am not sure that the noble Baroness, Lady Seear, used a good example because for me the proof of the pudding would be on the operating table. The mistake that had been made would be quickly realised, and the youngster could make the point.
Baroness Seear: He may have a grumbling appendix.
Lord Mackay of Ardbrecknish: It was quite a long time ago, I grant, but I remember what it was like to have a grumbling appendix. It seemed to object, in particular, to bananas. It put me off bananas for life. I understand the points being made, although I am not sure that I understand what significance adding those words, or the clever intervention of the noble Baroness with regard to some other words, would have to the point made by the noble Baroness, Lady Williams, about the matter reaching the Minister.
I do not expect that the Committee will divide on this matter. I am prepared, without any commitment, to say that I shall reflect on the points made in the debateas I reflect on all points, of coursewith special interest, and consider what has been said.
Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde: My noble friend has just said to me that that is a victory. I shall believe that when it happens. I listened to the appendix case, and I suppose a reality is better than an assumption. I can remember as a trade union officer being called into a factory on behalf of someone who had lost his job. The manager had asked him to go to a printing machine and he said that he could not because he had a rupture. I negotiated for him and got back his job on condition that he had a medical examination. He said, "I had better come clean. I haven't really. I just didn't want to go on that machine". I told him that he had a week to get one.
I have listened to the debate with great interest. I thank noble Lords who have been so generous in their support of the amendment. I heard what the Minister said. I noted carefully many statements that I would have challenged, but I take a great deal of comfort from his last point. I was concerned when he said that he would not go to the stake over this matter. To go along while being dragged screaming is never a satisfactory conclusion. He said that he would like to think about the matter, and I grasp that offer with both hands. I am happy to discuss it with him before we return to the issue on Report. On the basis of the Minister giving an undertaking that he will consider the matteran offer which I should like to accept in the spirit in which I am sure it is intendedI beg leave to withdraw the amendment.
Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.
[Amendments Nos. 129 and 130 not moved.]
Lord Inglewood: I beg to move that the House do now resume. I suggest that the Committee stage begin again not before 8 p.m.
Moved accordingly, and, on Question, Motion agreed to.
The Earl of Longford rose to ask Her Majesty's Government why the Home Secretary has informed certain prisoners that they are to remain in prison for the rest of their lives.
The noble Earl said: My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who are to take part in the debate, especially the right reverend Prelate, because I am sure that he will underline the fine message in favour of penal reform delivered recently by the right reverend Primate the Archbishop of Canterbury. I have my usual sympathy for the Minister, whose sensitive soul is tortured by the moral dilemma of defending something
The idea of life meaning life was first propounded publicly by the Home Secretary last December. It was of course unprecedented, despite some contradictory answers on that point given to me later by the Minister, and it was understood to mean that these unfortunate prisoners would remain in prison until they died. That was the public's impression, and it was the impression created on the prisoners, one of whom had to be placed under 24-hour guard lest she commit suicide. There is no doubt that the intention was to create that impression.
The decision was criticised sharply later by, for example, the noble and learned Lord Donaldson, the former Master of the Rolls, in a radio talk early in the New Year, when he pointed out that no Home Secretary had the right to bind his successors. He said that it was cruel to say to Myra Hindleyhe mentioned Myra Hindley in particularthat she had no hope of ever coming out. I know that the noble and learned Lord, Lord Donaldson, would have liked to be with us tonight. No doubt he would have spoken along the same lines.
That was how the matter was left until it was debated here. The noble Lord, Lord Campbell of Alloway, extracted from the Government the admissionabout three months after the original announcementthat Mr. Howard could not bind his successors. That point was cleared up. In the meantime it had caused a great deal of unnecessary painpain which was no doubt unwelcome to the Minister, but it was pain all right.
Having disposed of the disingenuous tactics used in making the announcement, we come to the issue. There are a number of people serving life imprisonment. My noble friend Lord McIntosh has obtained details, but I know one of them very wellMyra Hindley. I first visited her in prison in 1968. I know another prisoner in this category also. Those are not the only prisoners serving a life sentence for murder whom I know well. I am in touch with about 10, I suppose, out of the 2,400 at present serving life sentences.
Let us take the case of Myra Hindley. We all remember that she was involved in horrible crimes. She was a girl infatuated with her accomplice, a man who has been in a special hospital for many years. She has always agreed that it is only right and proper that she should serve many years in prison. She has now been in prison for nearly 29 years.
When Myra Hindley was first sentenced, the Lord Chief Justice recommended 25 years, but later, Ministers secretly, or without conveying the decision to the public, decided that she should serve 30 years. Later still, the noble Lord, Lord Waddington, who was Home Secretary at the time, decided that life should mean life. That decision was not conveyed to the public. For whatever reason, it was kept dark. At any rate, that was the infamous decision reached at that time. Now, Mr. Howard, whether willingly or because he was forced as a result of various judicial decisions, announced that life would mean life.
We can consider the matter on its merits. If I take that particular casemy noble friend Lord McIntosh may tell us about othersthere is someone who, by no conceivable stretch of the imagination is a danger to the public. It is years since the then chairman of the Parole Board told me that she was no danger. Since then, she has been twice recommended for parole by the local review committee, so there is no question of danger, but Mr. Howard has insisted that, however virtuous she becomes, she should stay in prison for the rest of her life. I can only describe that as an evil decision.
We may ask what is the explanation for that. I am afraid that there is only one possible explanation. Mr. Howard is a very intelligent man and for all I know, he may be an excellent man in his private life. This Government are the most unpopular government in history. We all know that they are many, many points behind the Labour Party in the polls and they are about to receive a crushing defeat in the local elections. This immensely unpopular Government are making frantic endeavours to endear themselves to the cruder elements of the public.
One must admit that they have been assisted by the tabloid press. I take the Sun as an example. I should say that Myra Hindley has recently broken her hip and is now in prison hospital, having had an operation. The Sun, which is undoubtedly close to Mr. Howard in its thinking, pointed out that, although I would probably be sympathetic, everyone else would wish that she had broken her neck. That is the kind of tabloid expression of opinion which has built up hatred towards that person over the years. The Sun calls her a monster and is begging her to write an article for it. That is the tabloid support for Mr. Howard's policies.
Therefore, we have that policy. The noble and learned Lord, Lord Donaldson, says it is cruel to remove all hope from prisoners. That has never been done before. It is totally anti-Christian, which should shock the noble Baroness, who is a good Christian. It takes us half-way back to capital punishment.
To be fair for once to Mr. Howard, I believe that he is now against capital punishment. Earlier he was in favour of it but he is now against it. That is in his favour. But his policy takes us back to the debates in this House in 1957, when I heard the Lord Chief Justice of the time say about one man who had been convicted of murder that such a man should be destroyed. That is the attitude of those who say that some prisoners should remain in prison for life. Some people believe that some sins cannot be forgiven and that such a person should be destroyed. I shall not ask the noble Baroness again whether she can reconcile that with her conscience because I believe that that is unfair. She has a tender conscience and that would be an occasion of mortal sin. But I put on record that I believe that that policy is fiendish. I hope that, when a Labour Government take power or even when a different Home Secretary takes over, that policy will be forgotten and repudiated as far as it ever can be.
The Lord Bishop of Lichfield: My Lords, I understand that it has always been possible to keep a person in prison for the rest of his or her life within our system. I, for one, accept that there is a need for society to
On the other hand, there is the profoundly important consideration underlined by the noble Earl, Lord Longford, that nobody is irredeemably evil. People can and do change. That can be for a wide range of reasons which may include remorse, maturity, growth in insight, ageing, the influence of other people, and personal and spiritual change. The mystery of personality of whatever kind is that it can change. Therefore, it is surely a near-fatal blow to any person, however heinous his crime, to be told that however deeply and seriously he repents, and whatever real and lasting transformation is achieved, there can never be any hope of a fresh life outside prison.
However severely society needs to repudiate a terrible crime, as the noble Earl has already pinpointed, should there not always be some hope of eventual rehabilitation following both just punishment and true repentance? To lose hope is to lose a key part of our humanity.
One of the prison chaplains with whom I have contact reminded me recently that a declared purpose of the prison system is not only to punish crime but also to nurture that precious virtue of hope which can be a catalyst both to personal change and future rehabilitation.
My most serious anxiety is that the disclosure of a sentence lasting for the rest of a natural human life could eradicate hope. It is no wonder that, as the noble Earl told us, one lady needed a 24-hour guard to prevent her from committing suicide.
At another time the noble Earl, Lord Longford, has quoted a well-known saying of Augustine that we hate the sin but love the sinner. I want to argue that in a civilised society, we must not only hate the sin but also maintain hope for the sinner.
Finally, although I am a layman in these matters, I understand that for all prisoners serving life sentences the Home Secretary has an important ministerial power; that is, the power to review each case when the prisoner in question has been in custody for 25 years. Indeed, I understand that the Home Secretary has further powers to review the case every five years after that first 25-year review. May we be assured that the Home Secretary will exercise those powers for the 17 people about whom we are concerned? Further, when the Home Secretary undertakes his review, will he take account not only of considerations of retribution and deterrence but also of evidence of contrition, change, and, therefore, the hope of rehabilitation?
Let us hate the sin but let us not give up all hope or, importantly, allow the prisoners to give up hope for the sinners themselves.
Lord Monson: My Lords, I agree with a great deal of what the right reverend Prelate said. But the first objection to informing people that they are to be kept in prison literally to the end of their lives, even if they are by that
The second objectionwhich refers back to what both the noble Earl and the right reverend Prelate saidis a moral one, if that does not sound too pompous. To rule that prisoners, however well they behave and however much they repent and try to atone for their dreadful crimes, can never be released under any circumstances is actually more cruel than inflicting the death penalty. At least the death penalty fulfils one of the main criteria for a just punishment; namely, that it should follow as quickly as possible upon the crime. I refer, of course, to the relatively speedy and efficient former English procedure and not what we have recently seen in the United States of America.
In contrast, by continuing to punish people possibly 50 or 60 years after the event you are in effect punishing a totally different individual, physically, mentally and emotionally, from the one who originally perpetrated the crime. After all, that was one of the objectionsalthough by no means the only oneto instigating war crimes trials 50, 51 or 52 years after the events in question.
When the whole issue of the death penalty was being debated in the 1960s, liberal-minded friends and acquaintances used to say that, even for those guilty of the most heinous murders, they opposed the death penalty. Instead, they favoured locking up those individuals for life and "throwing away the key", to use a phrase that was greatly in vogue at the time. They imagined that they were being humane but actually they were being squeamish which is a very different kettle of fish: humane they were not.
I return to the main issue. The Government will undoubtedly argue that there are two categories of prisoner who can never be released in any circumstances, even after perhaps 50 or 60 years. The first category consists of those deemed to be chronically homicidal and hence perpetually dangerous. What? Even if they have become bedridden, three-quarters blind or so crippled with arthritis that they can scarcely move? I suggest that the words "never released" in that case should be replaced with "not released until they are physically harmless." Further, once those prisoners have served the term of years which a trial judge originally deemed necessary to satisfy the requirements of retribution and deterrence, their status should revert from that of prisoner to one of what one might call "preventive detainee", rather like someone compulsorily detained in a mental hospital, with correspondingly improved conditions and amenities subject, of course, to the requirement of security. After all, the period of years which they have served as pure punishment has elapsed by that time.
The second category of prisoner and the one, I believe, upon which the noble Earl was mainly concentratingthe non-dangerous types, by which I mean people who were once dangerous but who are no longer soconsists of those the Government dare not release for fear of public opinion and consequent adverse electoral consequences, even though they have served fully the period recommended by a trial judge as being sufficient to satisfy the requirements of retribution and deterrence.
The Government have only themselves to blame in that respect. It is their absurd insistence on retaining so called "life" as the only sentence for murder that is responsible for their dilemma. Far from reassuring members of the public, so called "life" arouses their suspicions. First, the general public are firmly of the impression that life equals, in practice, nine years. I believe that it was true at one time that that was the average period of imprisonment served by life prisoners when capital punishment was in operation and only those reprieved were, by definition, serving life imprisonment. That is no longer the case.
Then, and more importantly, there is the quite understandable confusion between what might be termed gross and net sentences. On one day people read in the newspapers that a judge has sentenced a bank robber who has shot and wounded, for example, two security guards and a police officer to 22 years' imprisonment. The very next day they may read in the newspapers that the same judge has sentenced a murderer to life with a recommendation that he serve not less than 20 years. The public is understandably outraged, imagining that the murderer got off more lightly than the bank robber. Of course, he did not. The murderer's sentence is tantamount to 40 years gross; but the public can hardly be expected to grasp that fact.
If, instead, the law were altered so that judges could impose gross sentences ranging from, let us say, three or four yearsor possibly even lessfor a mercy killing; five to 12 years, but possibly more in the worst cases, for domestic murders; 25 to 45 years for ruthless, professional criminals who prefer to shoot their way out of a robbery; and the really dramatic, headline grabbing sentences of 50, 60 or 70 years' imprisonment for ultra-heinous crimes, happily perpetrated on average no more than once every 10 yearsfor example, deliberate child murders, or for murderers who blow up a passenger aircraftmembers of the public would be largely satisfied, though not wholly, I grant. Those who are rightly sentenced to very long, determinate terms, unless they happen already to be middle-aged (and not many fall into that category) will be able to see a light, however faint, at the end of the tunnel, and will improve their behaviour accordingly.
Lord Rodgers of Quarry Bank: My Lords, I was tempted to remain seated and, therefore, to allow the Minister rather longer to reply. That is because I believe the issues behind the Question have been very well expressed in the course of tonight's short debate. The noble Earl, Lord Longford, said that what we needed was clarification as to whether the words really did mean what they said, or whether it has now been very plainly
The right reverend Prelate talked about justice, repentance and reparation. He said that no one is irredeemably evil. I believe that that is a sentiment which many of us who may not be as close to the Church as is the right reverend Prelate would indeed share. I do not believe that anyone in this House today, or on other occasions, could deny that the idea of redemption must have its place in our penal system. If prisoners are to remain in prison for the rest of their lives, the opportunity for redemption is totally excluded.
The noble Lord, Lord Monson, was most thoughtful and persuasive. I listened to him with the greatest of care. We should be immensely grateful, as always, to the noble Earl, Lord Longford, for probing so acutely into a dark corner of government penal policy. Over very many years, the noble Earl has defied popular criticismand, if I may say so, some ridiculein the causes that he has espoused. However, he has always been brave and nine times out of tenif I am allowed to make that slight amendmenthe has been right. I certainly believe that he is right on the issue under discussion.
In his usual sincere but subtle way, the noble Earl said, in effect, although I must not put words into his mouth, that the Minister should not be held responsible for the sins of the Home Secretary. Indeed, some of those, if you like, "sins of report", were committed during that famous speech at the Conservative Conference in 1993 before the noble Baroness was a Minister in the department. Therefore, one cannot hold the noble Baroness responsible for them. However, some of those sentences were expressed in a more austere way (I recall that "austere" is one of the Home Secretary's favourite words for applying to prisons to which he wants to condemn some people forever), in the Home Secretary's speech during the Debate on the Address on 18th November last in another place.
As the noble Earl, Lord Longford, said, it is impossibleand one has to make that point nowto separate the issue, its presentation and the sentiments behind it from the whole thrust of the policies of the present Home Secretary. The noble Earl, Lord Longford, referred to those policies as appealing to cruder elements. That was a restrained way of saying what I would say; namely, that there has been a great deal of saloon bar populism in much of what the Home Secretary has said. Of course a Home Secretary who is a member of a Cabinet in a government which is responsible to an elected Parliament must take account of public opinion on this, as on other issues. But it is the role of Ministers to lead and not follow. I am afraid that in so many respects the present Home Secretary has chosen to follow and not to make a case for policies which substantially address the issues
He did not refer to the most effective system of criminal justice, or the morally right system of criminal justice, but the system of criminal justice "for which it yearns".
In a different context I was interested to see the recent consultation document on strengthening punishment in the community, which stated at paragraph 2.6,
The usual way of dealing with a misconceived perception is to confront and to change it. However, I am afraid that is not the case with this Home Secretary in penal matters. His rule appears to me to be a case of, "Give me a misconceived perception and I will yield to it". That is, in my view, the background to the matters which we are discussing this evening.
The Minister missed the debate on training for the probation service that was held in this House a short time ago. However, I think she will know that the whole House, across all parties, was deeply distressed by the Home Secretary's proposals. No doubt the popular press would applaud ex-military policemen strutting their stuff with men on probation. However, that would not be a policy but an emotional spasm and that would be no way of dealing with the situation which this House fully recognised in the debate which was held only a short time ago.
As I say, I believe these issues form a background to the matter we are discussing this evening. However, there is another matter which it would perhaps be satisfactory to examine on a different occasion, and that is to consider what is the role of the Home Secretary on matters which otherwise might be thought to be appropriate to the judges and the courts. The Home Secretary has made a feature of the separation of the day-to-day responsibility of the Prison Service from the responsibility of the Home Secretary. In the debate on the matter Members of this House had doubts about whether that separation was effective. However, it is part of the Home Secretary's view and let us take it on its meritsthat there are strategic responsibilities which are his and day-to-day responsibilities which can be hived off to the director of the Prison Service.
If that is indeed the case, surely the Home Secretary should be drawing a clear line between the strategic issues of policy governing our penal policy, and leaving it to the judges and the courts to make these decisions. If the Home Secretary is afraid of what the popular newspapers will say about him if he fails to act in the way that he has been doing, the easiest route would be to say, "These are not matters appropriate to a Minister in a Government who is bound to be subject to strong day-to-day pressures. In some way they should be removed from ministerial responsibility altogether".
The Home Secretary has set his own performance targets and has boasted about them. He believes that to have more and more people in prison is a measure of success. If the Minister doubts that, I refer her to paragraph 3 of page 12 of the Central Office press release of 6th October 1993, in which the Home Secretary said very plainly that more people in prison could be a measure of the success of his policies.
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Baptism for Children 0-6 Years of Age
(Children over the age of 6, contact the parish office)
Call the Parish Office and inquire about the baptism process AT LEAST 6 MONTHS PRIOR to the date you would like to have your child baptized.
What is the Sacrament of Baptism?
Baptism is a rite of initation into the Catholic Church, a welcoming of your child into the Christian family. Through Baptism we receive the grace of God and become initiated in the Church's Mission.
When are children baptized here at St. Francis Parish?
In order that we, as a community, can properly welcome your child into the Christian family, it is customary at St. Francis to baptize children during the 10:30 am Mass on the second Sunday of the month. (Choices outside of Mass are; 3:00pm Saturday, 9:30am Sunday & 4:00pm Sunday)
4. Completion of Pre-Baptismal Classes.
Both parents and godparents must attend these classes. The purpose of these classes is to gain a fuller appreciation of the sacrament of Baptism and what it means to raise a child in the Catholic faith.
5. Meet with priest to schedule date for Sacrament of Baptism.
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One Expert Educator's Creative Leap Brings LiveBinders Organizational Features to One of the World's Most Popular Education Tools
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - October 19, 2016) - Blackboard Inc.'s learning management system (LMS) is used by over 17,000 schools in 100 countries, including by *75% of American colleges and universities and over half of K-12 districts in the United States. The LMS allows teachers to create a Cohesive learning experience that integrates assignment details, rubrics, documents, web tools, and other multimedia.
LiveBinders (livebinders.com -- also a very popular online tool among educators that can be used in Blackboard -- offers the ability to organize a wide range of resources in the format of a digital three-ring binder. Using the links and embed codes provided by LiveBinder, Dr. Torria Davis, Instructional Designer at California Baptist University for the Division of Online and Professional Studies, creatively embeds an open binder on the Blackboard content page. The displayed tabular organization helps students efficiently locate assignment directions and resources.
Facilitate Learning by Making Information Navigable
According to Dr. Davis, LiveBinders' tabular organizational structure and capacity for embedding a variety of media minimizes distractions and provides access to content at the point of need through transparent navigation, which reduces student frustration when working online.
As an instructional designer mentoring faculty who teach online, Dr. Davis encourages "instructors to use web tools that support their learning objectives by presenting content in manageable segments, with easy navigation and accessibility. The LiveBinder interface supports these ideas. Reducing the list of items in a table of contents minimizes feelings of being overwhelmed. Tabs allow sequential organization of content, which can be helpful for teaching skills that build upon one another or for allowing students to demonstrate growth overtime."
Dr. Mitch Hovey, Professor of Education at California Baptist University Online and Professional Studies, used LiveBinder to create an end of program portfolio for his graduate students that illustrated student's attainment of program learning outcomes for the Master of Science in Education degree. Dr. Hovey created a LiveBinder with the required tabs and subtabs that he used as a template to provide students with the organizational structure needed to successfully complete the assignment. For students, quickly finding the right resources for an assignment may mean the difference between completing the assignment successfully and feeling overwhelmed and frustrated.
In preparing for a fully online course, Dr. Davis chose to integrate a LiveBinder in an open book format on the Blackboard page. Students could then navigate LiveBinders' tabs of content without leaving Blackboard, further minimizing distractions caused by links that would direct students to resources away from the LMS. Dr. Davis suggests that, "Presenting students with an 'open notebook,' like a LiveBinder embedded in a Blackboard page reduces clicks needed to access content -- and any reduction of clicks and links to outside pages will help reduce distractions."
Taking Access and Updating Seriously
Along with Dr. Davis' recommendation to minimize distractions for students, it's important to make course materials easy to find. "Because students have varying bandwidth limitations with internet access, reducing the number of clicks to access content is an important consideration," suggests Dr. Davis.
And the ease with which instructors can access and modify content is just as important. Davis found that the cloud-based LiveBinders system offers a seamless experience, no matter where its binders are embedded or shared. "When I discovered that I could update the LiveBinder on the website and it was automatically updated in Blackboard, that was a 'whoo-rah' time-saving-moment," she said.
While embedding LiveBinders in other platforms like Blackboard allows course material to be easily organized and accessible, the platform's tab and subtab organizational hierarchy lies at the core of its value. Davis believes, "Tabs and subtabs are the most useful organizational feature of LiveBinders. The display of all tabs at once makes the organizational hierarchy visible to the student, and whether the tabs correspond with topics or training steps, the organizational structure is clear."
To hear more about what Dr. Davis is doing in instructional design check out her book Visual Design for Online Learning or visit her blog at www.TorriaDavis.Com.
For more information, visit www.livebinders.com.
*Empson, R. (2014, January 16). Education Giant Blackboard Buys MyEdu To Help Refresh Its Brand And Reanimate Its User Experience. Retrieved from https://techcrunch.com/2014/01/16/education-giant-blackboard-buys-myedu-to-help-refresh-its-brand-and-reanimate-its-user-experience/
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Where the boundaries of insurance enterprise data are clearly demarcated, data consumers can get a good sense of what is pertinent and worthy of analytics. In the world of big data, this comfort zone no longer exists. For starters, the sheer number of data elements is not manageable by traditional means. Assigning enterprise value to every big data element is a nearly impossible task.
Consider telematics devices that interface directly with onboard vehicle control systems and can record a tremendous number of variables from temperature, pressure, velocity and volumetric sensors. It is, thus, not uncommon to find hundreds of variables in these "raw" data sources at a very fine level of granularity. Determining what is pertinent requires careful aggregation of the data without obscuring any real gems in terms of data relationships.
Another question is longevity — how long does the enterprise need to retain the data? With traditional insurance data, five years of premium and 15 years of claims is the rule of thumb for many applications. But who knows how many tweets, posts, audio and video streams should be kept, and for how long?
Perhaps big data should support answers to questions about what is happening right now. Some platform vendors already offer capabilities for automated sentiment analysis by scrubbing blogs, websites and other sources in an attempt to generate scalar values relating to how an organization is perceived. Given that perceptions can change dramatically in a very short time, we really need to examine the value of big data over the long-term.
Also see Views from the Front Lines of the Data-Analytics Revolution
Predictive analytics can suffer from model degradation if data changes too rapidly. What is the "lift" provided by models using data that is too old (or changing so rapidly) that strong predictions become questionable? Big data sources have a greater dynamic range and volatility than legacy insurance data sources — presenting exactly these challenges for modeling.
Big data longevity also presents issues of data storage and structure, and architectural concerns. Can traditional data warehousing support the unstructured, free-formatted, volatile and modally unstable big data elements? What about the actual databases? Because insurance analytics requires strong consistency models from its underlying databases, No, SQL databases are only part of the answer.
Despite the questionable paradigm of "store it now, structure it later" approach touted by some vendors, Apache Hadoop provides an interesting architectural model for long-term storage and processing of big data sources. It has the potential to tackle issues of volume and lack of structure head-on. Hadoop may offer a solution to the problem of potentially "missing a conversation".
In the legacy world where data was created internally as a byproduct of a business process, such as underwriting or claims servicing, ensuring privacy and confidentiality was under the direct control of the carrier. In this world, insurance companies do an exemplary job of keeping personal information private.
But in the world where an increasing amount of decision-making data originates from big data sources, the carrier may not be able to guarantee the privacy and confidentiality of the data as it flows into the carrier's walls. Nevertheless, carriers will continue to be reminded that privacy and confidentiality should remain the norm, irrespective of where the decision-making data comes from.
It is clear that the advent of the data deluge in the form of new, nimble, but massive big data sources cannot be ignored by the insurance industry. At the same time, it can be seen that carriers often have bigger fish to fry — certainly when they are in the midst of implementing processes and applications with a more sharply defined return on investment (ROI). User analytics, policy administration system replacement and underwriting platforms come to mind as good examples of areas where the ROI is clear.
In the final analysis, investing in, harvesting and processing big data sources must yield a significant ROI, given the size of investments in business processes, change management and infrastructure in a post-data deluge world. Clearly, big data means big changes. It is noteworthy that as big data enters into its growth stage for the insurance industry, it has yet to cause any major disruptions. Consequently —and even as the industry still searches for its first big data "killer app"— the opportunities for positive ROI in big data abound.
This blog was exclusively written for Insurance Networking News. Published with permission
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Your adverts and their messaging are integral to your PPC success. Like the campaign itself, they need constant optimisation, revision and testing.
Planning is probably the most important part of ad text testing. Without a solid plan you are simply going to stick a load of messages out there and see what comes back.
This can lead to unfair testing practices and ultimately, worse results.
Find out what you should be considering when it comes to ad text testing...
How to know which messaging to use?
Planning is probably the most important part of ad text testing. Without a solid plan you are simply going to stick a load of messages out there and see what comes back. This can lead to unfair testing practices and ultimately, worse results.
Start by identifying the best features, benefits and USPs. These should always follow the advice of the client, preferably someone on their sales team.
No matter how integrated you get within a company whilst managing their PPC, they are ultimately going to be the experts at selling the service. Write some solid calls-to-action and think about any other messaging you might want to include.
Understand the potential customer and the tone that you should use. Can you use a light-hearted, humorous message or should it be strictly business?
Remember, you don't need to test everything from day one. Think about what is a suitable test at this stage. You will need additional messages to come back to in the future so make sure not to exhaust your testing strategy just yet.
How to test messaging across ad groups
Now that you have your messaging laid out on a plate, think about how this can be tested across multiple ad groups. Let me start by advising on exactly what you shouldn't do...
Imagine a small section of an AdWords account: you have two ad groups and you want to test two different messages. One of your messages is focused on 'Great Deals', the other focuses on 'Luxury'.
Seems like a sensible test, you are looking to see whether price or quality is more important to your customers.
However, now consider the fact that Ad Group one contains keywords related to 'Quality' and Ad Group two contains keywords focused on 'Cheap'. This suddenly makes the test wickedly unfair.
The 'Great Deals' ads are bound to do better in the 'Cheap' group, likewise the 'Luxury' ads will perform better in the 'Quality' group. The outcome of the test is therefore skewed.
If you are aggregating the results of both ad groups it may well come down to whichever ad group has more volume in determining the ultimate winner.
The only way to properly analyse these results would be by treating each ad group individually.
The point that is being made here is that you need to ensure that the user intent is very similar across all ad groups where you will be testing the same set of ads. And a separate test should be conducted for every variance of audience profile.
Which metrics should I measure?
This is something else that is regularly overlooked. It is easy to focus on CTR as always being the most important metric, but this is not always the case.
The correct answer is that it completely depends on the nature of your account. If you are currently over-performing on conversions and want to drive more volume then CTR could be best.
If your CPA is struggling then conversion rate may be the best. However, don't forget to look at other typical KPIs such as time on site, average order value or bounce rate.
How to test with constant sales and promotions
One apparent spanner-in-the-works with ad testing can be when a client decides to have a sale. You suddenly have to ditch all your old ads and introduce new ones for the purposes of promoting their offers.
However, your ads may require a revamp but your testing policy should not. You can still learn what works in this sale period and use that to influence the following sale.
Even if a client has regular intermittent sale and non-sale periods you can still make some great findings from these to influence your ads.
How Quality Scores impact a test
Something to be aware of is that new ads will often suffer from a slightly lower quality score than existing ones.
This makes sense when you think of it from a Google point of view: a new ad may be poor, therefore Google doesn't want to really give it any major exposure until we have some proof that it is going to work – e.g. it has established a decent CTR.
Therefore your quality scores may be below average for a few days before settling down in-line with the rest of the account. Here is an example of that happening:
The new ads were introduced at the start of this graph, and we can see it takes approximately 10 days before they start to perform similarly to the existing ones.
With a lower quality score, your ads are likely to show in slightly worse positions and may not be eligible to show all of the ad extensions that they would with a better quality score. The main thing to bear in mind is that you should do some analysis similar to the above.
This will allow you to work out when you have more steady quality scores in a test. Then you should only test the data from this date onwards.
So now I have perfect ads, right?
Hopefully nobody has ever actually asked that, but I just want to make the point that you will never have a perfect ad. There is always something that can beat it.
And even if it is (through some miraculous occurrence) the perfect ad, it won't be for long. As other advertisers change their ads, Google changes its natural listings, and the layouts of the SERPs are altered, users will respond in different ways.
I find the best way to continuously test ads is by starting off with wildly diverse ads and work out what will perform best from these. Once you are happy that you have tried a wide variety of different concepts for the ads, it is then time to start refining them.
Try changing your sentences and the order of words, tweak some of the wording, alter the capitalisation and experiment with punctuation. There are always new things to test!
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The quest for the perfect AdWords ad...
This blog raised an interesting question. Can you have the perfect AdWords ad? The blogger decided no, saying that you can never have a perfect ad because there is always the chance that another ad will beat it. This got me thinking about the definition of "perfect".
There are many factors that influence an AdWords ad's performance and they can all be measured by analytics. But what about all those other factors that lie beyond the scope of analytics. Things like does the AdWords ad integrate with other brand building activity creatively? Is it written with the brand's tone-of-voice? Is it more effective because it communicates with emotion? Does it harness the learning of behavioural economics nudges? And the list goes on… Perhaps Google Analytics have algorithms measuring all these things, and more, and they're just not telling us about them. If so, I for one would love to see them. After all, these things have been making communications and advertising work harder since the first day a caveman picked up a burning ember from the fire and started scribbling on the wall of his home.
Just because Google can't measure these things, does that mean they don't exist? Google, being scientific bods, may do well to recall Albert Einstein's words, "Not everything that counts can be counted". Me, I prefer to fall back on that hoary old chestnut - if a tree falls over in the forest and there's nobody to hear it, does it make a sound? Of course it does, and a bloody loud one at that. It's the same on a search page, only the sound in this case is a "click".


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Chargers | Travis Benjamin cracks century mark
Sun, 24 Sep 2017 18:29:26 -0700
Los Angeles Chargers WR Travis Benjamin posted five receptions for 105 yards on eight targets in the Week 3 game against the Kansas City Chiefs.
Benjamin is a speed burner, and his 44-yard catch was just one yard short of a career best. Temper expectations heading into Week 4 against the Philadelphia Eagles, however, as he entered the game with just four grabs for 54 yards and a score. He needs more games like this before he becomes someone to consider regularly in fantasy.
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Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT screen blinks/flickers
I've installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 Professional 32-bit on my Acer Aspire 5920G.
Before I've installed my Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT drivers everything was just fine.
This blinking sometimes happens in period of few seconds, sometimes it can pass a couple of minutes and I think that while I'm in a game or watching a movie, there's no blinking. It happens so fast, so it doesn't affects on anything I do, but it's so annoying.
So I've reinstalled my drivers, this time I've tried those from Acer website (version 220.127.116.1164), but still my screen was blinking. I've even tried drivers for Vista (Acer website) and the newest beta drivers from Nvidia website (195.55) but blinking is still here.
So can anyone help me with this?
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When you say blinking, is it like the screen just goes black for a couple of seconds, and then it comes back like nothing happened?
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Exactly, but not for a few seconds, a few milliseconds
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Strange.... Sorry I am going to be no help to you at all, but I am getting exactly the same thing at the moment. I wonder if it's an issue with the latest Geforce Drivers
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Here is a response I got on another forum but no solution.
To everyone with nVidia GeForce 8600M GT video card blinking/black screen/sudden death problem:
There is a REPORTED HARDWARE ISSUE related to 8600M GT (MXMII card) with nVidia MCP67MV chipset used on the motherboard. The PROBLEM is with one of the CIRCUITs on the MOTHERBOARD, NOT THE GRAPHICS CARD itself.
The problems may or may not occur.
If it does occur, it may be in a form of a blinking, "distorted or "striped" video and sometimes no video at all" or black screen (while a notebook is powered on) etc.
There is no known published way how to test it.
So, if you have this MCP67MV chipset
(see Brand new orignal MCP67MV-A2 BGA Chip, integrated circuit products, buy Brand new orignal MCP67MV-A2 BGA Chip, integrated circuit products from alibaba.com
Brand new orignal MCP67MV-A2 G86-770-A2 G86-730-A2 G86-630-A2 NF-G6150-N-A2, , GO7600-N-B1 BGA Chip
The part numbers:
G86-630-A1, G86-630-A2, G86-730-A2, G86-750-A2, G86-770-A2, etc.) this applies to you:
Replacing the old 8600M GT with a new 8600M GT does NOT solve the problem.
Replacing the old 8600M GT with a different nVidia graphics card model or even with ATi does NOT solve the problem.
Playing with Windows 7, various ATi, nVidia or third party control SW or different types of drivers does NOT solve the problem for the HARDWARE problem may occur anytime in the future, without any warning.
Solution: Preventive (? if the vendor grants that in case you are in the possibly-affected group) circuit replacement/mending.
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2. Report by Apple - Some MacBook Pros have this NVidia issues too:
MacBook Pro: Distorted video or no video issues
Apple Confirms Failing Nvidia Graphics Cards in MacBook Pros, Offers Free Repairs and Refunds
Apple: NVIDIA chips to blame for MacBook Pro video problems
"Apple will repair any of these computers free of charge up to TWO YEARS from the date of manufacture, and include MacBook Pros with the 8600M GT graphics chip made roughly between MAY 2007 and SEPTEMBER 2008. If you experienced this problem and already paid for a repair, Apple will also refund your repair cost. Apple notes that if you aren't experiencing problems, then there is no need to have your computer repaired.(?!)"
I originally intended to buy this Aspire 5920G, even older, for great specs, but this issue and to my opinion a very fragile opening handle mechanism (I was worried about breaking the wabcam handle) discouraged me from doing that.
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By the way 195* arent the latest Forceware drivers. you want the 257* ones you cang et them by selecting your graphics card from below.
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The president is the democratically elected leader of the United Republic of Nations. As the nation's head of state, the president exercises control over a large majority of the United Republic's sectors, including law enforcement. He also serves as the commander-in-chief of the United Forces.[1] The president is elected for a four-year term but may run for reelection.[2]
The presidency was founded in 171 AG shortly after the end of the Anti-bending Revolution to replace the United Republic Council, which had been deemed incapable of effectively representing the public's interests.[3] During the first election, Raiko won against a single opponent and became the United Republic's first president.[1]
In 174 AG, another presidential election was organized, and Raiko enlisted Wenyan as his campaign manager in hopes to be reelected for a second term. Despite his unpopularity, he was convinced he would win as he was running unopposed. His growing conflict with Avatar Korra, however, spurred Zhu Li Moon to consider running against him.[4]
Position and powers
The president has a large amount of power over the United Republic, serving as commander-in-chief of the entire military and the overseer of the Republic City Police Department, allowing them to prioritize certain police efforts.[1] They can also grant presidential pardons to individuals accused or convicted of crimes against the state.[5]
The president is voted to office by the people of Republic City during an open election. In the first election of 171 AG, there were two candidates, both of whom rallied financial support from businesses and other benefactors in order to fund their campaign.[1]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Hedrick, Tim (writer) & Heck, Colin (director). (October 4, 2013). "Peacekeepers". The Legend of Korra. Season 1. Episode 17. Nickelodeon.
- ↑ DiMartino, Michael Dante (writer), Koh, Irene (artist), Nate Piekos; Blambot (letterer), Heather Campbell, Jane Bak (cover). Turf Wars Part One (July 26, 2016), Dark Horse Comics.
- ↑ Hedrick, Tim (writer) & Heck, Colin (director). (September 13, 2013). "Rebel Spirit". The Legend of Korra. Season 1. Episode 13. Nickelodeon.
- ↑ DiMartino, Michael Dante (writer), Koh, Irene (artist), Nate Piekos; Blambot (letterer), Heather Campbell, Vivian Ng (cover). Turf Wars Part Two (January 17, 2018), Dark Horse Comics.
- ↑ Hedrick, Tim (writer) & Zwyer, Melchior (director). (October 17, 2014). "The Coronation". The Legend of Korra. Season 2. Episode 16. Nick.com.


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The final 100 days of the First World War — from 8 August to 11 November 1918 — came to be known as the Hundred Days Offensive. But the Canadian Corps' significant contributions along the Western Front generated the name "Canada's Hundred Days." During this time, Canadian and allied forces pushed the German Army from Amiens, France, west to Mons, Belgium, in a series of battles — a drive that ended in German surrender and the end of the war.
Canadians are not normally accustomed to outward displays of patriotic pride over their fallen warriors. Since 1948, more than 100 Canadians have lost their lives nobly in peacekeeping missions around the world, their passing hardly noted beyond their immediate families and regiments.
The two Huey helicopters carrying Maj. Alain Gauthier and platoon commanders from Canada's Royal 22nd Regiment drifted low over the coastal flats of southern East Timor. Below, the giant leaves of banana trees swayed gently in what passes for breeze in the torpid tropical heat.
GARTH WEBB recounts his fundraising odyssey with bemused fascination, as if luck had everything to do with it. But the story of how the D-Day vet generated $10 million to create a memorial and education centre celebrating Canada's contribution to the SECOND WORLD WAR belies his manner.


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Mountain Dews and don'ts
Here's the start of a New York Times article by Anemona Hartocollis about the latest idea in social engineering:
"Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg sought federal permission on Wednesday to bar New York City's 1.7 million recipients of food stamps from using them to buy soda or other sugared drinks.
"The request, made to the United States Department of Agriculture, which finances and sets the rules for the food-stamp program, is part of an aggressive anti-obesity push by the mayor that has also included advertisements, stricter rules on food sold in schools and an unsuccessful attempt to have the state impose a tax on the sugared drinks.
"Public health experts greeted Mr. Bloomberg's proposal cautiously. George Hacker, senior policy adviser for the health promotion project of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, said a more equitable approach might be to use educational campaigns to dissuade food-stamp users from buying sugared drinks.
" 'The world would be better, I think, if people limited their purchases of sugared beverages,' Mr. Hacker said. 'However, there are a great many ethical reasons to consider why one would not want to stigmatize people on food stamps.' "
Well, there sure are. The "obesity epidemic" has a whole lot of causes, and sugared flavored water is just one of them, and not even the most important. It's an epidemic linked to poverty, despair and malign advertising campaigns, and the idea of the government picking just one cause and banning it seems a little too paternalistic even for me.
Fortunately, this probably won't get off the ground. The Department of Agriculture already has pretty specific rules for what can and cannot be bought with food stamps. Some of them seem sensible - no booze, for instance - and some of them less so, like no hot food. So a person can buy a 20-ounce bottle of Orange Crush but not a rotisserie chicken, which seems odd.
(I suspect the reason is more bang for the food-stamp buck - a cooked chicken costs a lot more than a fresh chicken, purchased, taken home and cooked.)
But we have already proved that America will not eat its vegetables no matter what the incentives, from rebates to fancy ad campaigns. By the time they are adults, people eat what people eat, and children do not control what the food stamps get spent for - even assuming they have had and accepted good nutrition advice at home.
I myself drink a lot of sodas, but not the kind with sugar. There are very few snack-drink choices available to diabetics. Probably I shouldn't be drinking any sodas at all, but I am anyway. At least it doesn't spike my sugars.
And, this just in, people on food stamps don't go to Whole Foods a lot for the same reason I don't go to Whole Foods a lot: too darned expensive. Whole Paycheck is a nickname with some truth behind it. In fact, a lot of people on food stamps go to corner stores without a butcher shop, which means it's bologna for dinner tonight. Bologna is probably marginally better for you than Mountain Dew, but not much.
And what about sugared cereals? They may have particles of actual grain in them, but basically they're Pepsi in solid form. Why should they be excluded from the great sugar prohibition? And why just sugar? What about those gigantic bags of potato chips? Why should food stamps pay for them? How about those sugar-free energy drinks, the kind that drive people mad on caffeine?
I'm with Hacker. The gap between rich and poor is more than just a money thing; self-respect and opportunity and despair and a lot of things are included. As the money gap grows, so do all the other components. If we stigmatize the underclass further by allowing people who get their money from, I dunno, interest on bonds to buy sodas while people who get food stamps can't, we pretend we're solving a problem while really just exacerbating one.
How about this? Suppose everyone who got a bank bailout, or who profited from a bank bailout, had as a condition of accepting their money the stipulation that they could not buy sugary soft drinks. Hey, there are a lot of fat fat cats out there; we might help the obesity epidemic. But of course everyone would say that was ridiculous, because measures like that are only for poor people.
Leave the sodas alone and fund education, is my thought. That's the only way out of this mess, as I am hardly the first to mention.


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A few minutes ago I received a message from Transgaming that Cedega 6.0 will be released next week. Phoronix will be receiving an advanced media preview package of this new major Cedega release. I look forward to the preview package to see what changes make up this new release. Transgaming's Cedega (formerly called WineX) is a software package based upon WINE that is specifically designed to allow...
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I loved the teal + aqua + green colors I chose for this week's Viva la Verve sketch + color challenge, so I just continued on with the same palette for this card. It's a pretty straight forward sketch that makes it easy to put the focus on a larger sentiment or image. Here I embossed the 2 Corinthians 12:9 verse in Early Espresso directly onto the patterned paper. I then cut my layers, sponging every little piece with a bit of walnut stain distress ink. The mats and base are done in crumb cake and I used a fun SU! border porch for the scallop border. Liked it so much, I added one to my square panel as well. Found a bitty rose from my stash that was the perfect color and added a few Sprightly Sprigs cut from lucky limeade. I finished off with some liquid pearls to accent in between the scallops.
Well, that's all for today! I hope you have a wonderfully fantastic week and come on back tomorrow for the first of our four days of new release Spotlight Hops! Hooray for new Verve!
|Mojo Monday 353
Stamps: 2 Corinthians 12:9 (releasing from Verve 7/11/14)
Paper: Lost & Found Two (My Mind's Eye), crumb cake, lucky limeade (SU!)
Ink: Early Espresso (SU!), walnut stain (Ranger Distress)
Accessories: Sprightly Sprigs Die Set (A Cut Above by VERVE), clear embossing powder (Judikins), rose (Recollections), square lattice textured impressions, scallop border punch (SU!), chocolate liquid pearls (Ranger)


text: Dolores Mary Eileen O'Riordan (; 6 September 1971 – 15 January 2018) was an Irish musician, singer and songwriter. She led the rock band The Cranberries from 1990 until their break-up in 2003; they reunited in 2009.O'Riordan's first solo album, Are You Listening?, was released in May 2007 and was followed up by No Baggage in 2009. O'Riordan was known for her lilting mezzo-soprano voice, her emphasised use of yodelling, and her strong Limerick accent. She appeared as a judge on RTÉ's The Voice of Ireland during the 2013–14 season. In April 2014, O'Riordan joined and began recording new material with the trio D.A.R.K.


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Tips and Ideas
Recent Events
LGMA SA State Conference - "Talkin' about your generation" February 24, 2012 The theme for this conference was certainly found to be highly relevant for the 170+ attendees on Friday, February 24.
The Event was held in a superb venue, the National Wine Centre.
A wide variety of speakers uncorked a range of new ideas and insights and poured light on the challenges facing local government brought about by our changing population profile.
The conference provided great value and the delegates all went away with their minds full of new tools and approaches.
The networking opportunities were also very valuable and most people stayed for the final drinks session to compare notes about what they had learned on the day.
Heard on the grapevine during the drinks session - "I don't know if this is a rosé coloured view, but I think everyone in Local Government should attend the LGMA conference, even if they have to put themselves in hock to do it."
Leadership Excellence Awards Dinner
Adelaide Convention Centre, 20 April 2012
Local Government's night of nights! Don't miss out on the fun!
Dress to impress - it's a black tie affair
Registrations are still open for tables of 10 or individual tickets.
Register here..
Membership Matters
LGMA's footy tipping competition - don't be left holding the ball!
Finally - a tipping competition with intrigue, excitement, entertainment - and most importantly, your chance to show up your colleagues in other councils for their lack of footy tipping skills!
New Members
Not yet a member? Join now!
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The current Australian Government is conducting an enquiry at the moment into sham contracting – but what is it? This episode looks at what sham contracting actually is, discusses how it relates to virtual assistants and solopreneurs and also looks at PSI legislation and the often misunderstood 80/20 rule.
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Volunteering is a great way to get involved in the community, increase and empower your social network, and gain valuable experience that will provide you with great opportunities in the future. Also, you can complete your 40 hours of community service in a worthwhile and fun environment! All volunteers must be 15 years of age or older.
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If you intend to travel to Denmark as a tourist with a purpose of a family/friend visit, business trip or tourism, you need to apply for Schengen visa. Denmark is part of the Schengen Region in Europe. A Schengen visa then may be granted to applicants who are going to Denmark for a short stay visit. This visa can also be used to visit other Schengen states and is only valid for a maximum of 90 days in the period of 180 days. The Schengen visa is strictly a visitor's visa and it does NOT give the holder right to reside or work in Denmark. Checklists of documents to be submitted for short stay visa application may be found and downloaded from the links provided on the right side panel of this page.
Individuals applying for a Schengen Visa must submit applications personally at the Visa Application Center (VAC).
Information regarding submitting your application may be found in the Visa Application Center website, click here.
Types of Short Stay Visa:
◾Business Schengen Visa:
Applicants who are going on a business trip, attending a conference, or participating in cultural and in sports events in Denmark must apply for a business visa. As a general rule you must be able to substantiate the business or prove commercial relationships by invitations and other supporting documentation.
◾Private Visit Schengen Visa (Visit Family, Visit Distant Relatives/Friends):
Applicants visiting family or friends in Denmark must apply for a private Schengen visa. As a general rule you must be able to substantiate proof of the family or friend relation.
◾Tourism Schengen Visa:
Applicants going for organized group tours or planning their own tourist trip to Denmark must apply for a tourist visa.
How to apply?
Step 1 - Download and print the application form and relevant checklist for your purpose of travel found on the upper right side panel of this page.
The checklist will give you a complete overview of all documents you need to submit when applying for a visa.
Step 2 - Collect the required documentation
Fill out the application form and complete the documentation mentioned in the relevant checklist.
Step 3 - Submit the application
Carefully check that you have collected all supporting documentation. Arrange the documents in order according to the appropriate checklist. Submit your file personally and have your biometrics collected at the Visa Application Center (VAC).
Visa applications may be submitted at the Visa Application Center without prior appointment Monday-Friday, from 07.00 - 09.00 only. Otherwise, you may schedule an appointment with the VAC. Appointments are from 09.00-14.00 Monday-Friday. Please check the VAC's website for further information. Click here.
The visa procedure can normally take up to 15 calendar days. However in some cases, the Embassy may ask for additional documentation and further verifications that may extend the processing time to 30-60 calendar days.
Processing time may vary for every visa application file. For more information, please click here.
Please be aware that you cannot submit an application earlier than three months before planned entry to Schengen.
Step 4 - Decision is reached
The Visa Application Centre or the Embassy will contact you when a decision is reached. We will contact you in case something is missing in your application or if further information is required.
When you pick up your visa and/or passport, please bring the application receipt issued by the Visa Application Center when you lodge your application. If you cannot come personally to pick up your documents, you may send a representative in your behalf with your authorization letter and a valid ID with picture of your representative. You may also opt to have your documents sent back to you through courier for an extra fee to be settled with the Danish Visa Application Center upon submission of your application. However,, sending passports via courier is at the applicant's own risk. The Embassy assumes no resposibility for this.
Grace Period
According to the 2010 visa regulations for all Schengen countries, The Embassy will always add a "grace period" to the validity period of your visa. This means that we will add 15 days to your visa's validity beyond what is mentioned on your invitation and/or dispatch letter.
Please note, that validity period and duration of stay is not the same.
To exemplify, if you in your application form applied for a 10 day visa, The Embassy will always give you 15 days of grace, in total the validity period of your visa would be 25 days. However, you can only stay in the Schengen territory for 10 days within the 25 day period.
For more information on how to understand your visa sticker, please click here.
Travel Medical Insurance
On the 5 April 2010, the New Visa Code was implemented. Travel Medical Insurance must now be submitted with the application and is subject to a new validity requirement. Moreover, the Insurance must be bought from an Insurance Company that is accredited by the Schengen Group in Manila.
The applicant must ensure that the payment for the insurance will be reimbursed if a Visa is not granted.
Another requirement following the new Visa Code is that the Embassy is required to issue Visas with a 15-days grace period. This means that approved Visas will be issued with the requested (and approved) amount of days, plus 15 days.
This means that the Travel Medical Insurance must be valid for the duration of the actual travel period, plus 15 days. For example, if the travel is for 10 days, the insurance must be valid for 10 days during a period of 25 days, i.e. if the travel is from 1 May to 10 May, the Travel Medical Insurance must be valid for 10 days in the period from 1 May to 25 May.
In cases where the insurance may not be purchased with the given requirement, the applicants may purchase an insurance valid for the duration of the whole period, i.e. in this example, valid for 25 days from 1 May to 25 May.
The Insurance must be bought from an Insurance Company that is accredited by the Schengen Group in Manila. You may find the list of accredited insurance companies here.
Travel medical insurance must meet the following criteria:
◾It is valid throughout the Schengen area or worldwide.
◾It is valid during the entire period of your stay in Schengen area following the above mentioned requirements
◾The coverage is at least EURO 30,000 or PHP 2.5M.
◾The coverage includes medical repatriation and evacuation, urgent medical care and/or emergency treatment in a hospital and assistance in case of death.
Fill out the form to send a mail with a link to the current page:
Schengen Visa Application Form
VU1 (Invitation Form - Business)
VU2 (Invitation Form - Visit)
VU3 (Invitation Form - Cultural/Sports Events, etc.)
Checklist - Business Trip
Checklist - Tourism
Checklist - Visit Family
Checklist - Visit Friends or Distant Relatives
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Whether eaten in a chocolate cup, a trifle, a buche de noel or a charlotte, you cannot go wrong with white chocolate peppermint mousse. It is the perfect filling for any dessert around the holidays. Get creative - fill pies, cakes, cream puffs, doughnuts or any vessel you can find and enjoy!
- 8 Ounces White Chocolate Chopped
- 4 Tablespoons Butter
- 2 Cups Heavy Cream Very cold
- 1/2 Teaspoon Peppermint Extract
- 1/2 Cup Peppermint Candy or Candy Canes, chopped
Recipe Details
- Yield: 4-1/4 cups (14.24 ounces) (8-10 Servings)
- Course: Dessert
- In a small microwaveable bowl, combine the chocolate and butter. Melt in the microwave, 40 seconds at a time until the chocolate and butter are melted and smooth. Be careful when doing this as chocolate can burn quickly, particularly white chocolate.
- Add about 1/2 cup of the cream to the white chocolate mixture and the peppermint extract and stir to combine.
- In a larger cold mixing bowl, pour the remaining cream along with the white chocolate cream mixture. Using a whisk or handheld mixer, whip the mixture to smooth but firm peaks. Be careful not to over whip as the mousse can break and have a grainy appearance.
- Fold in the chopped peppermint candy.
- Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and set the mousse in the refrigerator to chill until ready to use in the dessert of your choice.
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I'm going to try this one on a choco&mint birthday cake. Let you know how went. Tere's choco bakes and cakes. Teresa


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Keesling, who has been teaching at UF for 46 years, taught a private college math class to 12 students who are members of the Buchholz High School math team this past fall.
When James "Jed" Keesling, University of Florida mathematics department chair, volunteered to teach a group of Buchholz High School students, he was not prepared for their prowess.
"I would get a few minutes into the topic and I would realize, they know this," he said. "They were excellent."
Keesling, who has been teaching at UF for 46 years, taught a private college math class to 12 students who are members of the Buchholz High School math team this past fall.
For the first time, Keesling will be with the team as they compete at the American Regions Mathematics League competition on Saturday at the University of Georgia.
At the competition, Buchholz will go up against state all-star math teams from across the South.
"I feel like they're really prepared for what they are going to face," Keesling said.
Buchholz senior Alex Song, 17, said he's looking forward to seeing Keesling at the competition.
"I'm kind of nervous because we want to impress him," Song said.
Song was one of nine seniors who took Keesling's class. Song said the class was unlike any math class he had taken because there was no set curriculum.
Before each class began, students who arrived early met with Keesling in his office to talk about college and drink apple cider.
"He had the best cider, and he was always there to help us," said Buchholz senior Jennifer Li, 17.
Li will be attending MIT for biomedical engineering, and some of her math teammates will be attending Stanford and the University of Chicago.
Will Frazer, founder of the Buchholz math team and its coach, said numerous students on the team will be majoring in computer science, math, physics and engineering at elite universities.
"A vast majority of our kids are following the STEM route," he said. "The high schools that do the best getting their kids into the elite colleges are famous for math and science."
Mary Jane Tappen, Florida Department of Education deputy chancellor for curriculum instruction and student services, said it's important that students studying STEM stay in Florida.
"We value their talent, and we want to keep it here," she said.
Gov. Rick Scott is calling for more students to study STEM fields like the students on the Buchholz math team. As part of the STEM plan, all high schools are now required to have an accelerated emphasis on STEM.
An extra emphasis is being placed on rewarding students choosing to study STEM fields. The Sunshine State Scholars program shows college and work opportunities in Florida to the top Florida students studying STEM.
Frazer said STEM is the right idea.
"Part of the problem is that kids are going to college and they're majoring in things they can't get jobs in," he said.
To encourage Florida teachers to improve their knowledge of STEM fields, teachers can obtain tuition fee waivers for college classes in STEM.
One of the problems with teaching students STEM fields, Keesling said, is that teachers are often not prepared.
"I think math is a big obstacle, and it can be a very unpleasant experience unless the teachers are properly prepared, and there needs to be more support for that," he said.
While math is not an obstacle for the Buchholz math team, there was one obstacle standing in the way of their competition. The Buchholz math team seniors had to choose between attending this weekend's competition in Athens or attending tonight's graduation ceremonies at the O'Connell Center.
Senior Steve Han, 17, will not be walking across the graduation stage with his peers. He said he is perfectly fine missing graduation and he's excited about having Keesling watch the competition.
"I know were going to make him proud," he said. "He has never seen us in a setting where we're doing competitive math."
Keesling plans on teaching the Buchholz math team again. He said watching the upcoming competition will improve his teaching for next year's class.
"I will be a little more careful to get an inventory of what they know beforehand," he said.


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NC city employee charged with theft
NC city employee charged with theft
A Gastonia city employee who worked as a conductor on a train at a city park has been accused of keeping some of the fares.
Forty-four-year-old Stacey Malker-Duff was arrested Monday and charged with felony larceny by an employee. Malker-Duff is accused of taking $813 from the Gastonia Parks and Recreation Department.
Police said Malker-Duff worked weekends as a train conductor of a children's ride at Lineberger Park.
The theft occurred between March and May.
Police say Malker-Duff no longer works for the city. She said she needed to talk with an attorney before commenting on the accusation.
Malker-Duff also is an alderman in Dallas.


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Financier – Finance, Consulting, Broker, Business, Multipurpose WordPress Theme (Business)
Financier – Finance, Consulting, Broker WordPress Theme
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Research In Motion is a Canadian company most well known for creating the BlackBerry range of smartphones. Research In Motion also creates a range of business software, and is responsible for the operating system used by the BlackBerry smartphones.
Research In Motion was founded in 1984, and its headquarters is located Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. It employs around 14,000 employees, and in 2008 was named one of Canada's Top 100 Employers.
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May 4, 2013
Are you Watching the Kentucky Derby in Style?
Today is Derby Day! I probably won't be wearing an outlandish hat but you best believe that I'll be snacking on some baked chicken and enjoying a mint julep. Read on to hear more of my favorite recipes from The Bluegrass State. Read the rest of this entry »


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Thomas Vetterlein
- Diploma in mathematics, Ruprecht Karls University in Heidelberg (1998).
- Dissertation at the Mathematical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava (1999 - 2003).
- Employed with the Collaborative Research Center "Computational Intelligence" (SFB 531) at the University of Dortmund (2003 - 2006).
- PostDoc Fellowship at the European Centre for Soft Computing in Mieres (2006 - 2007).
- Scientific assistent at the Institute for Medical Expert and Knowledge-Based Systems at the Medical University of Vienna (2007 - 2010)
- Scientific assistant at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz (2010 - 2016). Habilitation on 21 July 2015.
- Assoc.Prof. at the Johannes Kepler University (2016 -).
Studentische Sprechstunde: dienstags 15:30 im Science-Park 2, Raum 0603; ohne Voranmeldung
Research interests:
Logics for reasoning under uncertainty and vagueness
- similarity-based reasoning
- logics handling uncertainty
Many-valued logics and related algebras
- fuzzy logics, residuated lattices
- proof theory of fuzzy logics
Expert systems, in particular in medicine
- formal frameworks for representing and infering medical knowledge
- biomedical ontologies, "realism-based" ontology
Foundational issues
- foundations of logic and mathematics
- classification and representation of natural-language statements
List of publications >>
List of given lectures and courses >>
- Participance in the project Mathematical Foundations of Fuzzy If-Then Rule Bases, part of the Collaborative Research Center "Computational Intelligence" (SFB 531), which was supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
- Participance in the project Analytic Systems and Dialogue Games as Semantics of Fuzzy Logics at the Institute of Computer Languages (Theory and Logic Group) at the Vienna University of Technology
- Participance in the project Fuzzy Logic: from Mathematics to Medical Applications, a cooperation of the Vienna University of Technology and the Medical University of Vienna
Participance in LoMoReVI (Logical Models of Reasoning with Vague Information), a Collaborative Research Project within the EUROCORES programme LogICCC of the European
Science Foundation (ESF)
Head (on the Austrian side) of the project New Perspective on Residuated Posets, an Austrian-Czech cooperative research project, funded by the FWF and GAČR