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DescriptionThe BA in Marketing and Management Communication is an international programme combining communication and business studies. Students are provided with the basic scientific, methodological, theoretical and practical tools needed to plan, coordinate and carry out marketing- and management-relevant communication activities in global organisations.
Career OpportunitiesGraduates of the BA in Marketing and Management are well placed to apply for jobs in organisations with English as corporate language, and to join international management, marketing, public relations or branding teams.
About the DegreeThe programme places its main emphasis on communication, and is designed so that the courses complement each other and integrate elements across the various subject areas. Below are some examples of the central courses offered in the study programme.
In Communication in a Marketing Perspective, students are introduced to the basic principles of integrated marketing communication, public relations and branding. In Communication in a Management Perspective, students acquire insights into management and organisational communication and learn how to work with communication activities at the corporate level, for instance designing communication flows and planning organisational seminars and events. In Communication in a Global Perspective, students become familiar with central aspects of globalisation and acquire skills that enable them to handle communication activities from a cross-national perspective.
Economics provides insights into basic economic principles and their applications and developments in a corporate, national and global context. Marketing and Consumer Behaviour initiates students in the core steps of the marketing management process, from segmentation of consumers to distribution of products and services, working within both traditional and new areas.
Aarhus BSS (School of Business and Social Sciences) is one of Aarhus University's four faculties. With approximately 13,000 full-time students, several thousand part-time students, more than 230 PhD students and more than 590 faculty members, Aarhus BSS ranks among the largest business schools in Europe and is Denmark's biggest business and social sciences unit at university level. Building on its broad academic base, it encompasses both traditional business and social science disciplines.
AdmissionTo find out more about admission to the BA in Marketing and Management Communication please visit the programme's website.
In addition, documentation may be required verifying that your proficiency in English is at a specified level.
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To find out whether the level of your foreign certificate or diploma satisfies the general entry requirements, you should contact Aarhus University directly. A list of the most commonly recognized exams and diplomas can be found at the Danish Agency for Higher Education → http://en.fivu.dk/recognition
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"Tough Guy"
Rodeo Bull
This bull was loosely based on a rodeo bull waiting in a holding pen. I was attracted by his vivid markings and colorations. However the most important thing that I wanted to convey was a distinctive personality. I wanted "Tough Guy" in a relaxed posture but alert. His expression being an interesting combination of docility, fierceness and a certain serious dignity.
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Despite his "tough-guy swagger," California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is pursuing a permissive parole policy, freeing convicted murderers in numbers that dwarf those of his two predecessors, says the Los Angeles Times. In less than a year, Schwarzenegger has approved parole for 48 people serving life terms for murder. Former Gov. Gray Davis released eight in five years. The 48, plus 10 inmates serving life terms for other offenses, is as many as were released in a six-year span in the 1990s covering most of Republican Gov. Pete Wilson's tenure. Schwarzenegger spokeswoman Terri Carbaugh said he "believes that people can reform and be reformed…. When he sits down with his attorneys to review parole matters, he's not thinking about the political consequences. He's thinking about public safety and the individual at hand." The state Board of Prison Terms, led by a Schwarzenegger appointee, is paroling inmates at seven times the rate under Wilson.
Keith Wattley of the Prison Law Office near San Quentin State Prison cautioned that "these are still really low numbers. It's really the cream of the cream of the crop who ever get to the governor's office. While there's some hope, it's still a bad situation for them." "Compared to Gray Davis, Attila the Hun would look moderate," said law Prof. Franklin Zimring of the University of California at Berkeley. Schwarzenegger may have less to fear, he added. With a public image from movie roles of heroic cops – battling drug dealers, criminals, and even Satan – "The Terminator" may have more space than his predecessors to free prisoners without appearing soft on crime.
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A study from the National Institutes of Health indicated that a candidate treatment for the Ebola virus has shown efficacy against the Lassa virus in animal models, it announced on Tuesday.
In the study, subject guinea pigs were exposed to lethal amounts of the Lassa virus and were treated in separate groups with a low dose of favipiravir, an Ebola treatment candidate; a high dose of
favipiravir; or ribavarin, a treatment for hepatitis C that has seen limited success in treating Lassa fever cases.
The group that received the high dosage fared better against the disease and were fully protected against it. Those that had received ribavarin appeared normal until treatment stopped after a two-week period, at which time the group members became seriously ill.
The group that received a low dose of favipiravir showed mild symptoms that resolved after approximately one week of treatment.
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Pet Memorial – Zeke the Boxer Dog
A Pet Memorial for Zeke – a Boxer
There are many ways to create a Pet Memorial for a lost four-legged family member. Some involve stones, urns, jewelry or planting a tree. None of those things "spoke to me." So I'll simply tell the story of Zeke – a wonderful Boxer.
"Where's the rope, Dope?"
Sometimes all it takes is one dog to make a permanent spot in your heart for an entire breed. Zeke did that for our family. Like most boxers, he was more silly than a barrel of monkeys, he bounced and wiggled his way into our hearts. If you whispered "where's the rope, dope?" he was off like a shot looking for a tug-of-war toy and "It Was On!"
I know he is waiting and romping in the meadows at the base of the Rainbow Bridge. Our family won't have to look for him, he'll come-a-running, doing the kidney bean dance and looking for something to put into his mouth.
I don't need a pet memorial to remember slobbery kisses, bouncing energy, and a love of tug-of-war. These are the things that will always stay with me from Zeke. A born counter surfer, he never found a plastic bag he didn't like. Every few years we'd have to leave him a surprise, just to remind him it's not polite to take other;'s things.
Wherever he went, Zeke had a game. In the back yard, it was chase the human. In the house, it was pull the rope. At dinner it was dance off! Never was there a dull moment for this dog. Every one of those moments were met with jumping enthusiasm. Not that he jumped on people, he just JUMPED!
You're HOME!
It didn't matter if you went on vacation or to the mailbox, Zeke gave you the same "Hallelujah! You're HOME!" butt wiggle, kidney bean dance and "I LOVE YOU!" message. If he didn't have something in his mouth, he would run and find something and then come charging back. I have had many dogs who seemed to say 'You are home to play with ME!" Zeke always said: "I'm happy for YOU!"
The Staple Gun
If my dad made a stone pet memorial for Zeke it would look like a staple gun. Here is why. Zeke loved to sleep beside dad. He would lay his head on Dad's chest and contentedly snooze the night away. There was no wiggling or hogging the bed. It was all peaceful cuddles – unless Dad decided to get up. Zeke's head would get heavier and heavier and he tried to staple Dad to the bed. It never worked, but it wasn't for lack of trying.
The Protector
While multiple rambunctious boys in the house and parents who liked to hug, Zeke had a problem. "My people are holding each other and someone might get hurt!" He would nudge, whine, bounce and do his best to get everyone separated. He didn't want to be part of the problem, but that hugging and tickling as "GOT TO STOP!"
The Kitty
We had a part German Shepard/ Part Chou at the same time we had Zeke. The two were inseparable. It was almost like they were one dog with eight legs. On the other hand, Zeke's best friend was a cat. Zeke and Odyssey played, rubbed, stroked and cuddled.
Boxer Tails
Zeke likely once had a tail. I'm told it was cropped. But given how often he spent curled up like a bean, bouncing in happiness, I think he just ate it.
Either way, I'm sure he's keeping things lively on the Rainbow Bridge, waiting to give us that Dance!
I hope you enjoyed our Pet Memorial. (BTW Zeke inspired the Facebook Page Boxers – Children Forever. You can visit us here.)
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The paper "Decentralized Multi-Agent Navigation Planning with Braids", by Christoforos Mavrogiannis and Ross Knepper, was presented at WAFR 2016.
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We present a novel planning framework for navigation in dynamic, multi-agent environments with no explicit communication among agents, such as pedestrian scenes. Inspired by the collaborative nature of human navigation, our approach treats the problem as a coordination game, in which players coordinate to avoid each other as they move towards their destinations. We explicitly encode the concept of coordination into the agents' decision making process through a novel inference mechanism about future joint strategies of avoidance. We represent joint strategies as equivalence classes of topological trajectory patterns using the formalism of braids. This topological representation naturally generalizes to any number of agents and provides the advantage of adaptability to different environments, in contrast to the majority of existing approaches. At every round, the agents simultaneously decide on their next action that contributes collision-free progress towards their destination but also towards a global joint strategy that appears to be in compliance with all agents' preferences, as inferred from their past behaviors. This policy leads to a smooth and rapid uncertainty decrease regarding the emerging joint strategy that is promising for real world scenarios. Simulation results highlight the importance of reasoning about joint strategies and demonstrate the efficacy of our approach.


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There is a global opportunity to reappraise the nature, potential and application of human, and all other, resources. Quite simply, the 'recycling' of creative, collaborative opportunities can initiate and support a new market in Well-Being. In effect, our common values and aspirations can be employed as drivers to initiate and sustain the balanced growth of human potential. In tandem, the reduction of stress and debt will become the fuel to generate sustainable growth in the new market.
As members of the tgl platform, people and corporate bodies can generate L-ocal currency simply by choosing personal and mutual well-being as their motivation and goal. The approach engenders a recognition of and commitment to 'real education' in the sense of self-enquiry and self-nurture, founded on balanced values. While, the quest for well-being secures personal motivation as the engine to sustain and evolve the new market
For sure, a model able to reduce debt, stress and unhealthy living in inverse proportion to the growth of well-being is a worthy investment for us all. Indeed, growth in the new market will evolve with the well-being of the members. Further, by tracking supply-and-demand chains, we can aggregate purchasing power and integrate L-ocal currency to strengthen support, while reducing costs and risk.
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Human Flower Project
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Do Flowers Say 'Help Yourself'?
A team of English psychologists finds flowers make poor police.
Want to keep people in line? Don't expect much help from flowers.
Melissa Bateson, a scholar at the University of Newcastle, led an intriguing experiment by diddling with a custom in the psychology department. As in many offices, there's a box for on-your-honor donations at the tea, coffee, and milk station, with a notice of suggested prices. At the communal beverage stand, the scientists posted changing images close to the coin catcher, alternating photos of human eyes with pictures of daisies, lilies, and roses.
"People put nearly three times as much money into an 'honesty box' when they were being watched by a pair of eyes on a poster, compared with a poster that featured an image of flowers." With a picture of blossoms nearby, beverage drinkers paid lots less than on days when they were pouring out a glass of milk or cup of coffee with a sense of somebody looking on. The findings were published last year in Biology Letters.
Dr. Bateson concludes: "Our brains are programmed to respond to eyes and faces whether we are consciously aware of it or not." Even she was surprised at the power of a 2-dimensional gaze to curb petty theft (or discourage freebies, depending on how you see it). It seems that we're all working fairly consistently, consciously and subconsciously, to protect our reputations—also known as CYA—and that a human gaze, even in an inanimate one, serves as a cue that our public image may on the line.
Money paid/milk consumed:
low on flower weeks, high on eyes weeks
Image: M. Bateson et al.
We were curious that Dr. Bateson chose flowers as the experiment's control. Why not just have eyes one week and nothing the next? "I wanted something eyecatching," she wrote, "and I also liked the idea that flowers have evolved as a signal to another species (insects rather than humans admittedly) to attract their attention."
But we think it's possible that the image of flowers, rather than being neutral, might actually have reduced the amount of donations in the kitty. Might not flowers suggest, both consciously and subliminally, "be our guest"? A picture of roses or daisies, we believe, might actually have altered the visual message at the coffee station, making the posted price a "free will donation" rather than a fixed charge. Flowers, in other words, may not put people on their honor but at their ease.
"I hadn't considered the possibility that flowers may actually make people less likely to pay! " Dr. Bateson writes. We hope that she or others will repeat this fascinating experiment, incorporating this possibility. The team might rotate photos of eyes, flowers, nothing, and some other arresting image, and thus examine our subconscious associations not only with the human gaze but with the "floral gaze," too.
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At the tender age of 15 months Shane Weston received his first car. A battery operated Jeep. With a little help from Mum (Elaine) & Dad (Richard) he drove it everywhere.
Shane's Dad then put his spare time into building a 1934 Junior Ford Hot Rod. This was the start to Shane's obsession with cars and racing. He attended many shows including Motorvation & the Hot Rod & Street Machine Spectacular winning quite a few trophies. Over many years he was able to drive his hot rod in the Channel 7 Christmas Pageant. The hot rod was Shane's pride and joy he even showed it to Victor Bray at Motorvation one year. Victor told him to never paint it, leave it black, which he did.
In Shane's spare time he would tinker in his little garden shed spending hours pulling apart then rebuilding Briggs & Stratton and Honda engines. We would be inside watching TV and would hear another engine start up and would often laugh at the mess he would make. But every time he would get the engine back together and running. Over many years all he wanted for birthdays & Christmas was new tools.
For Motorvation one year Shane and his Dad built a motorised bar stool. It had 3 seats and a Honda motor in it that Shane had built. This bar stool got changed over the years. At one stage we were driving around with Neil Anderson's front end off the Ford Customline. We won many trophies for crazy cruiser award. We even had Richey Howlet on the back while we were driving down the strip, he was doing his commentating for Motorvation. We even got in Street Machine with the bar stool.
In 1999 Shane was 7 years old he wanted to race. We inquired with ANDRA about purchasing a miniature Funny Car but were told quite sternly, "no way it will never be allowed". We tried to convince Shane to trying other sports footy, cricket, motor cross, even golf (which he was very good at). But all he wanted was to race a drag car.
So at the 2000 Westernats we were down in the junior pits looking at dragsters. When we got home we made a decision to purchase one but the funds were tight. So Elaine & Richard decided to give up smoking. With a lot of saving and determination we did it. By October 2000 we had purchased a dragster from Townsville. It needed a little TLC so Richard put his polishing skills into action and turned it into quite a nice car. This was what we called Shane's learner car, we kept it for a couple of years and when we thought he was confident driving we decided to sell it and purchase a dragster from Motivational Tubing USA.
Well what a car it was. At the time it was considered one of the best junior dragster in the country.
Shane did really well with this car he won numerous awards – Westside Drag Racing Association's Best New Vehicle, first time ever a Junior Dragster had won this award. Motorvation – best competition vehicle, best engine bay, best interior the list goes on. He also won the top qualifying medallion at the Westernationals. Throughout his JD career he won many local meetings and travelled every year to Sydney and the Winternationals in Queensland.
The last season Shane raced his JD he was 15. A family decision was made to sell his car a year early because at the time we knew there were a number of other junior dragster racers who would be finishing their careers in junior racing and their cars would be up for sale.
After selling the JD Elaine was made redundant from her job of 20 years. She found another job straight away so she put her redundancy into purchasing our current car, a Top Alcohol Dragster. We purchased the car from Adam Croker as just a roller. Richard's idea was to save up and put a blown small block chev into it.
Well that didn't happen within a couple of days of purchasing the dragster his Nanny & Grandad Davies came around home. His Nanny had decided that she wanted to see Shane race, so she was going to sell her house and give him the money to purchase the dragster outright. We were so shocked, his Nanny had just been diagnosed with breast cancer and her dream was to see Shane race this car. Shane is her only grandson – he is her life.
We tried to talk her out of this huge decision but that was not an option she wanted to see that black dragster go down the track with him behind the wheel. So for the next year while Shane was waiting to get his driver's license he crewed on the dragster while Adam drove it for the season.
Shane learnt everything from Adam and his wonderful crew. He also helped Adam out when Daniel Gregorini got his new doorslammer. Shane did the clutch for Daniel. Shane now does all his own engine work, gearbox, everything is all done in-house, at home. Our thanks to Adam, for teaching him so well.
October 12 came, Shane turned 17 and he was straight to the Traffic office to get his street license. The following Saturday TnT was the first time he got in the dragster. First pass out on the track he stalled, so we pushed him back for a restart. He had never done a burnout before, so back out on the track he went more determined, he had heard a few people laughing at him, he was not going to give them the satisfaction. Perfect burn out and staging, the first part of his licence all signed off. Next he had to stage and do a half track pass, the second part signed off. Unfortunately time ran out that day so he would have to complete his licence at a later date.
Due to work commitments we were unable to attend any more TnT so we entered the Boxing Day meeting hoping that he would be able to complete licensing.
At the 3pm qualifying round we were allowed to tag on the end of the field.
Out he went, burn out perfect, staged no problem, and off, he stopped the clock at 6.05, not bad for a licensing pass and his licence was now all signed off.
Well back to the pits to strip everything down to get ready for racing and compulsory qualifying at 6pm.
Well who should we pull up alongside, John Zappia. Shane's first ever side by side pass was against the legend himself. Shane wasn't at all nervous just eager to beat his opponent. Unfortunately it was a red light for Shane but he beat him to the finish line with a 5.90. The crowd roared and cheered for Shane. It was a moment that we will never forget. From a mothers point of view it was a sigh of relief that the chutes came out. For quite some time Richard and Elaine had terrible butterflies every time Shane went out to race. Now it is just second nature, we know he is very confident and able to handle it.
Over the next couple of season's Shane was named Australia's Fastest Teenager. He had the Motorplex record for AA/D at 5.68 and quite a few wins under his belt. He also obtained his Group 1 license which at the moment makes him the youngest Group 1 racer in the country.
The plan now is to concentrate on getting a major sponsor and some spare parts for the engine. We would also like a spare engine and a PSI Supercharger, this will then enable Shane to race competitively in Top Alcohol.
Shane would like to sincerely thank his sponsors: Compressor Valve Services, Darling Downs Drilling, Stewarts Pest Control, The Boat Business and Pirtek Blackwater, and his crew: Mark Shorto, Roy Scott, Brad Anesty, Aidan Duncan, Richard & Elaine Weston & Nanny & Grandad, Kayla Vogel and Karen Hildebrandt. They have helped him achieve what he has so far.


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Hi, I'm new to Cassandra, so I wonder what would be the most efficient(*) schema for specific operations on the following dataset: - basically the task is to create a distributed file system with only few allowed operations - it should handle split brain conditions well (two or three DCs, it's possible to get user requests while the intra-DC connections are down) - each data file is blob (pretty often, but not always 8 bit text, sometimes without the encoding known), ranging from a few 100 bytes to around 20-30 MB. Average size is 350 kB. - it's well compressible (gzip -1 gives 1.63x compress ratio on plain files) - files are mostly immutable - for the few, which are not, they are append-only - each file has a unique file name (size in the range of 70-100 bytes) and it's preserved during its lifetime (if it changes, a rewrite is OK). - the files have metadata attached (various, 1.2's sets and maps are a good fit here, but even simple columns should do) - the files are organized into directories (multi level, and sometimes there can be up to some millions of files in a dir, but more likely are the range of 0-some hundred, thousands (up to 10k)) - directories also have metadata (most notably an mtime, which changes when directory contents are changed, that can be used to cache directory lists) - each directory (and the files therein) belongs to a user(name) - Cassandra 1.2 is fine Given that designing schema for Cassandra begins with listing the operations, here they are: 1. get the contents of a directory (input: directory (owner) name, output:file names) 2. get a file (in: file (dir) name, out:file metadata and contents) 3. put a file (in: file (dir, owner) name, metadata, data) 4. append to a file, chunk size maximum is 4-8 kB (in: file (dir, owner) name, data) 5. move a file to a different directory (in: file, dir (owner) name, target dir) 6. remove a file (in: file (dir, owner) name) 7. remove all stuff for a user (input: user name), but it's "rare" (compared to the above), so walking through the dirlist on the client side is OK, it's not performance critical All (minus the last) should be close to ACID. I've tried to do the homework (taken a look at Cassandra in the 0.6-7 times, so now I'm le-learning the new (1.2, CQL 3) way) and still couldn't find the best way. I thought the best would be to start with the docs, without any preliminary performance testing. This brought me the following schema: CREATE TABLE file ( name varchar PRIMARY KEY, owner varchar, dir varchar, flags set<ascii>, fstat map<ascii, int>, data list<blob> ); CREATE INDEX file_dir ON file (dir); CREATE INDEX file_owner ON file (owner); Which gives me for the operations: 1. something like SELECT name(,etc) FROM file WHERE dir="dirname"; Which can be LIMIT-ed. Problems: SLOOOW (and maybe despite the LIMIT, it materializes in the coordinator's memory, I don't know), also, doesn't scale, because all nodes must inspect their index CFs. 2. a simple SELECT data(,etc) FROM file WHERE name="filename"; Problems: Cassandra is said not to good at storing such amounts of data, it has to read all in memory (on the coordinator and the replica node), also the client will have to hold it in memory. But it seems to be acceptible to some levels, because all data is needed, so fetching it once is an optimization. The limiting factor here seems to be the network speed (nodes pass the data as a hot potato, the slower the network, the longer it has to be kept in memory), and CPU speed. 3. a simple INSERT INTO or UPDATE 4. 1.2's lists make appends easy 5. most important. It's a manner of UPDATE file SET dir VALUES("newdir") WHERE name="filename"; This either happens, or not, there is no situation where the file is in multiple directories, or nowhere. Even if a site (node) doesn't get it, it still sees the file on the old location, and if there is a move there, eventually everything will get into the right shape, without worrying needed on the client side. 6. a simple DELETE 7. SELECT and DELETEs For most operations, it seems fine (but your insightful recommendations are welcome :), the biggest pain seems to be listing directories. It takes seconds from minutes (or timeouts). I could add more CF(s) for example with composite columns (each directory being a row), but that would destroy the benefit of the above schema for moving files in one (atomic and idempotent) operation. Is there a schema, which can do best for all operations and still maintain ACID-like properties? Thanks, *: in terms of query efficiency, closeness to ACID
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Did You Spot The Touching Tribute On Katy Perry's Dress At One Love Manchester?
5 June 2017, 14:31
Eagle-eyed viewers noticed that the Roar singer's outfit was customised.
A peak audience of 14.6 million people watched coverage of last night's moving One Love Manchester tribute concert. But one subtle tribute may have been missed by many of those watching the emotional occasion. Katy Perry's dress featured a collage of photos of the 22 people who lost their lives when a bomb was detonated outside Manchester Arena on May 22, shortly after Ariana Grande's Dangerous Woman concert had ended.
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Perry looked dramatic in a short white dress and a feathered white cape, but eagle-eyed fans also noticed that the singer had photos on the dress which ran across her collar, cuffs and her back into the shape of a heart. It was an understated and touching nod to those who died two weeks ago, and it only became visible when Perry dropped her cape to the ground as she performed her hits Roar and Part Of Me.
Katy's look was dramatic and striking. Picture: Getty
Some fans took to Twitter to say how touched they were with Perry's gesture.
Katy Perry had pictures of the victims on the back of her dress and it formed a heart shape #OneLoveManchester pic.twitter.com/WGaCV2D89U— Ariana Grande Update (@GrandeAware) June 4, 2017
Katy Perry herself tweeted her respect for the audience and people of Manchester yesterday:
you are so beautiful and brave #OneLoveManchester— KATY PERRY (@katyperry) June 4, 2017
Other stars who took to the Old Trafford stage included Miley Cyrus, Liam Gallagher, The Black Eyed Peas, Take That, Robbie Williams, Little Mix, Niall Horan and Justin Bieber.
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Choosing to address the crowd, Perry – who is currently rocking a short, spiky peroxide blond haircut - spoke from the heart. She said: ""Thank you Ariana [Grande] for your incredible courage and strength, and for inviting me to participate. It's not easy to always choose love, is it? Especially in moments like these. It can be the most difficult thing to do. But love conquers fear and love conquers hate, and this love you chose will give you strength and it's our greatest power."
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EUGENE, Ore. – The City of Eugene has unveiled a 30-year plan for the parks and recreation system, along with two proposals to ask voters to help pay for park maintenance and expansion.
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The City Council will consider two funding measures related to parks next Monday, according to the statement.
"One is a levy that would fund improved park and natural area maintenance activities such as increased garbage collection, trail maintenance, and response to illicit activities, as well as improved restroom access and weekend maintenance," according to the City website.
Documents related to those projects show a budget of just under $2.4 million.
"The second is a bond measure to fund new and improved parks and recreation services and facilities," according to the website.
Documents related to that measure show a budget of over $63 million, including over $39 million in bond funding.
The City provided this look at the options on the table, which place the combined cost of the levy and bond at between $7.30 and $8.30 per month for the typical homeowner.
The City said the 250 projects identified in the plan following four "guiding principles":
Care for and make the most of what we have: Provide safe, clean and fun parks and recreation facilities, and enhance their value for the community to enjoy.
Serve the entire community: Provide equitable and welcoming access to parks and recreation facilities, regardless of neighborhood, race, ability or income.
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Most of this quarter will be spent on reviewing color theory and mixing.
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The 7th grade also completed a perspective project, a one point room. It was finished in color
pencil shading techniques.
The second part of the quarter, they are studying and sketching individual facial features. They will be learning how to create a well-proportioned, finished portrait. At the conclusion of the quarter, they will be creating a Split Face Self Portrait.
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3-hectare image of St. John Paul II in Inwałd near Wadowice
In the town of Inwałd near Wadowice there is a remarkable garden that stretches on three hectare ground. The garden made from plants depicts the image of St. John Paul II.
The image – beside the image of the Polish Pope – depicts the basilica of St. Peter in the Vatican and the Virgin Mary basilica in Wadowice.
To create this remarkable image approximately 20 thousand carefully selected trees, shrubs and flowers were used and play the major role in creating a live image of the Polish Pope.
This was created for all who wish to learn about the life and the path to holiness of Pope John Paul II.
The garden is a living museum of the John Paul II's life. Alleys, whose length is approximately 8 km, create individual elements of the whole picture. Those who wonder through them can see photographs from the Polish Pope's path to the holiness and read various stories from His life.
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'Faith' is not believing something despite the facts - on the contrary - Biblical faith is a matter of believing the facts.
"It's not that Christianity has been tried and found wanting, it's that it's been tried and found difficult!" - G.K. Chesterton
June 11th 2018
Professors Gordon Fee and Douglas Stuart state that the entire framework of the New Testament is eschatological (How To Read The Bible For All Its Worth, 2003:145). "Eschatology", they write, "has to do with the end, when God brings this age to its close." Hence my double entendre heading – Understanding what the Bible teaches about "finally" (Eschatology) is necessary in order to understand what the New Testament teaches.
"Most Jews in Jesus' day were eschatological in the their thinking. That is, they thought they lived at the very brink of time, when God would step into history and bring an end to this age and usher in the age to come. The Greek word for the end they were looking for is eschaton", they write. To this, most scholars would give a hearty 'Amen!' This explains why even Christ's disciples asked the resurrected Christ, "Will You at this time restore the Kingdom to Israel?" (Acts 1:6) And Christ's response to their question is very telling: "He said to them, 'It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority.'" In other words, Your expectations of what the Messiah was to do, are wrong. The Father has a plan and He has determined when it will be fulfilled. Bear this in mind when you're reading through the New Testament. Note the eschatological expressions in the New Testament such as "last days" (Acts 2:17; 2Tim. 3:1; Heb. 1:2), "end of the age/s" (Matt. 13:49; 1Cor. 10:11; Heb. 9:26), refer not to the Jewish expectation of the Messiah bringing about the end of the Roman Occupation, but to the end of the Old Covenant because the Messiah had established a New Covenant at Calvary. This is why Hebrews 8:13 declares that the Old Covenant had been 'made obsolete' and was 'about to be done away with' – that is, the end of the Old Covenant was about to be completed.
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The Beer Run isn't about who's the fastest or fittest, it's quite the opposite actually! It's all about good people, good beer, self-love, and self-expression. The route consists of a 5km run, there are 5 beer stops or as we like to call them "Dehydration Stations" on the route. Each beer stop is stocked up with a different craft beer and will provide a bush bar, music and chill area where you can relax your weary body before heading on to the next point.
Once you have completed the roughly 5km course you will face your final challenge, and inflatable obstacle course before you slide across the finish line of glory, we'll welcome you back into the Ultimate After-Party with an ice cold beer at your final beer stop and a full afternoon of festivities – music, games, beer pong, bucking bronco, giveaways, food trucks and more beer!
For the first time VIP Hospitality tickets will be available for groups and corporates. VIP tickets will be limited so get yours soon. VIP tickets will include a golden band to allow you to start in any batch, as well as VIP access, gourmet burger buffet and 2 extra tickets for beer stop of your choice.
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For sale maisonette of 185 sq. meters in Kassandra, Chalkidiki. The maisonette is located on 3 levels, The semi-basement consists of one bedroom, 2 storerooms. The ground floor consists of living room with kitchen, one shower WC. The first floor consists of 3 bedrooms, one bathroom. Maisonette has double-frontage layout has a wonderfull sea view, mountain view, forest view, also contains furniture, security doors, fireplace, air-conditioner, tents, parking, garden, grass, barbecue, alarm system, storeroom.
Terraced house – Kassandreia, Administration of Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
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Beth is the Program Manager of Stay Work Play. As the Program Manager, Beth will continue to grow and strengthen the organization's presence throughout the state of New Hampshire, building relationships with higher educational institutions, college students, and other young people in the state. She will work to expand programs and services that fit with the overall strategy of the organization and align with the long-term goals, strategic plan, and expectations of the board.
Beth is a co-owner of Niche Boutique fashion truck, a women's clothing boutique housed on wheels. An entrepreneur with one of the few mobile boutiques in New Hampshire, she is a driving example of the upcoming mobile retail industry in New Hampshire.
As the prior Administrator of Stay Work Play, she provided office and administrative help, as well as executive-level support to the President & CEO. Beth has prior experience in the nonprofit sector with her time at the Belknap Mill Society in Laconia, an organization established to preserve and maintain the oldest, unaltered textile brick mill in the United States, as the organization's Managing Director. With her background, Beth has experience in development, operations, and creating internal structure with non-profits and corporations.
Beth currently serves on the Board of Directors as President and a member of the Publicity Committee for Celebrate Laconia – a nonprofit dedicated to promoting vitality, cultural and economic growth in the city. She has served as a past President to Fusion, the Lakes Region's young professionals network, and Director for the Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce. As someone who likes to give back to her local community, she has volunteered for several non-profits, including the Greater Lakes Region Children's Auction, at Laconia Multicultural Day, and served as a judge to the NH Miss Amazing pageant. Beth was named 'Young Professional of the Year' in 2014 for the Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce's Community HERO Awards, is a graduate of Leadership Lakes Region Class of 2015 and honored as a member of the Union Leader's "40 Under Forty" Class of 2018.
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You can record audio to an audio file project in the File Editor project view. When you record audio in the File Editor, you replace (overwrite) any existing audio in the audio file or selection you record to.
You can select part of the file in the File Editor to record to. When you record to a selection, recording starts at the beginning of the selection and ends at the end of the selection. The part of the file after the end of the selection is unchanged.
If no part of the file is selected, recording starts at the playhead position and lasts until you stop recording. If your recording extends past the end of the audio file, the file is lengthened to include the recording.
Open an audio file project in the File Editor project view.
Select the part of the project you want to record to.
If no part of the audio file is selected, recording starts at the current playhead position and proceeds until you stop recording.
Click the Record button in the transport controls (or press Command–R).
As you record, the recorded area appears red in the waveform display. The level meters in the Recording tab show the levels of the input signal being recorded. If the input signal clips (rises above 0 dB), the peak indicator lights red.


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This painting and its companion piece, An Autumn Pastoral, were commissioned by the financier Trudaine for his new chateau at Montigny-Lencoup.
Francois Boucher (1703-1770) was a extremely popular French painter of the rococo age. He began his artistic career working as an engraver and at the age of 17. He was greatly impressed by the delicate style of his contemporary Antoine Watteau. In 1723 Boucher won the Prix de Rome and studied in Rome from 1727 to 1731. He turned what he studied into a uniquely personal style, suitable for large-scale decorations as well as small intimate, so-called cabinet pictures.
He was enormously successful, and well patronized, so his output was prodigious. He designed stage sets, provided models for the porcelain factory, and designs for the tapestry factories. He held a near monopoly in producing the imagery of the mid-century. In 1755, he became director of the Gobelins tapestries and in 1765 he was made first painter to the king, director of the Royal Academy, and designer for the Royal Porcelain Works. His success was greatly facilitated by his patron, the Marquise de Pompadour, mistress to Louis XV. Boucher was her favorite, and he painted her portrait several times.
His lovely paintings and decorations, usually portray an idyllic and pastoral world, with little attempt to confront reality. His delicate, lighthearted depictions of classical divinities and unusually well-dressed French shepherdesses delighted the public, who made him the most fashionable painter of mid-century Europe. By the early 1770's, his sentimental and, some said, facile style was too widely imitated and fell out of favor during the rise of neoclassicism. He died in Paris on 30 May 1770.
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Swine Flu 2009
Life has been quite a ride around here recently, thanks to a few dirty pigs, maybe a romantic pig farmer, or who knows what...but our beloved Mexico has been the host and creator of the now famous Swine Flu '09. If you have been living in a hole the last few weeks, Swine flu is a new strain of Influenza, that started as being contagious only via Swine to Human infection, and then took the important and scary mutated step of being contagious between Human to Human. Not good. Everyone who calls and writes to see how we are (thank you!) wants to know what is the deal down here, in pandemic-central. Well, we have a few day to day changes due to the flu - for the last few weeks all schools have been closed (more kids in the street and in the surf - awesome), for 6 days all restaurants, malls, theatres, etc were closed, and remain in some parts of the country, and no one wants to shake hands, naturally. Since there have been little to no cases in our area, its easy to not worry much, as we try not to. We had a few stressful days at the start, but having a baby makes things different than Andrea and I toughing it through a sickness. For the time being, things are safe and (in)sane in Sayulita, and we are happy and healthy. There is a bad case of the Dog Flu in our house, but we really just made that up to keep Dulce in line.
With Mexico city being the epicenter of this chaos, here is a great article about not only the Mexican love of masks (for health reasons or otherwise), but their view on this epidemic, and on published "facts" in general.
Here is another great article for those of us who believe in conspiracy theories that are not conspiracies, but hidden truths.
Mothering Article here
the 3Vs - dressed up and hanging out, prime Swine time '09
Mothering Article here
the 3Vs - dressed up and hanging out, prime Swine time '09


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Muslim Brotherhood Wins Egypt Election, But Does It Matter?
Completing its sweep of post-revolution politics in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood and its candidate Muhammad Mursi declared themselves the victors of this weekend's presidential elections. With a reported 52 percent of the vote, Mursi beat former Air Force commander (and link to deposed president Hosni Mubarak) Ahmed Shafiq to become Egypt's first democratically elected civilian ruler in 60 years.
However, a deft political move by the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, or SCAF, led by Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, has all but annulled the significance of the elections.
Last week, the SCAF dissolved the lower house of parliament and the constitutional draft committee, meaning that the powers of the new president wouldn't be established until after the elections. The military seemingly completed its soft coup on Sunday when it gave itself wide ranging powers through a constitutional declaration. The military still says that it will hand over power to the new president on July 1, but its latest move assures that it will maintain control over the judiciary and the composition of Egypt's eventual constitution.
Mursi will be a president with only limited, temporary constitutional powers, facing off against a military who's quite capable of vetoing whatever he does by means administrative, judicial and now legislative, according to the Arabist's Steve Negus.
He will have very little of either moral or institutional power to shape the drafting of the constitution, and he will live under the Sword of Damocles of another court ruling.
One of the most important new amendments is Article 53/2, which gives the military the same anti-opposition privileges that Mubarak once enjoyed. Should Egyptians take to the streets to protest, which will surely happen, or try to start a new revolution, which they've threatened to do, the SCAF will be allowed to maintain security and defend public properties and permit the army to use force [to] arrest or detain protesters.
The supplementary constitutional declaration really does complete the coup in many obvious ways -- basically returning martial law, making the military unaccountable and grabbing back oversight of the political system for the military just weeks before the scheduled end of military rule, explained Nathan Brown, a political science professor at George Washington's Elliot School of International Affairs.
The SCAF, as dictated in Article 60B, can also dissolve and then reform the constitutional draft committee at any time. Later articles do give the president and prime minister the ability to challenge any future constitutional amendments that conflict with the revolution's goals and its main principles, but the final decision on a law's constitutionality will be left to the military-backed High Constitutional Court.
For the most part, Egyptians were unenthusiastic about the choice between an Islamist and a former Mubarak confidant, especially now that the choice doesn't matter much anyway. Overall, less than half of Egypt's eligible voters turned out over the weekend. Notably, voter turnout was higher in rural areas this weekend than during the first round, while it decreased in the more politically engaged cites of Cairo and Alexandria.
Shafiq has yet to concede that Mursi won the election, claiming that the Brotherhood engaged in fraud and vote-rigging. While not all the votes had been tallied in Cairo by Monday morning, Shafiq was still trailing Mursi by more than a million votes and Brotherhood supporters celebrated their win in Tahrir Square.
The official results will be announced by the SCAF on Thursday.


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I read in English, Spanish and Finnish. I do not like chick-lit or whodunnits. My wishlist and the bookrings/rays I've participated should be a good indicator of my likes! I love to discover new authors and have already made acquaintance with the likes
of Kazuo Ishiguro and Haruki Murakami since joining.
My all time favourites are Margaret Atwood, Mario Vargas Llosa and Hilary Mantel.
Other than books I like continental chocolate, scented candles, ground coffee and liquorice. And my cat loves toys for cats :)
Bookrings and -rays I've participated in:
The War in the Land of Egypt by Yusuf al-Qa'id
The Last Days of New Paris by China Mieville
Acceptance by Jeff Vandermeer
Authority by Jeff Vandermeer
My Antonia by Willa Cather
The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson
Summertime by Vanessa Lafaye
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
Dear Death by Sasenarine Persaud
Silence Once Begun by Jesse Ball
The Testament of Mary by Colm Toibin
The Fahrenheit Twins by Michel Faber
Thy Mystic Masseur by V.S. Naipaul
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
Black Wine by Candas Jane Dorsey
Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twang Eng
Dark Heart of the Night by Léonora Miano
Memory of Water by Emmi Itaranta
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
The Courage Consort by Michael Faber
We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
The Son by Philipp Meyer
The Tuner of Silences by Mia Couto
The Dinner by Herman Koch
The Collector by John Fowles
Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro
Harvest by Jim Grace
Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King
Under the Skin by Michel Faber
The Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi
The Beach by Alex Garland
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches by Gaetan Soucy
The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Egyptologist by Arthur Phillips
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
My Dear, I Wanted To Tell You by Louisa Young
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
Never Let Me Go by Kazhuo Ishiguro
Finn Family Moomintroll by Tove Jansson
White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
What the Day Owes the Night by Yasmina Khadra
A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks
Woman at Point Zero by Nawal el Saadawi
Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Sandalwood Tree by Elle Newmark


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This is the fastest four-seat coupe in the world. A revolutionary Grand Tourer that will take you to a different place. A time for pure pleasure. Every mile and every minute a moment of intense exhilaration.
Sleek aerodynamics and a taut predatory form. A supercar with the uplifting sensation of space. A cabin of unrivalled comfort and room. A feeling of complemented by the pillarless design, providing an unbroken expanse of glass from front to rear, creating true light and airiness. Hand finished by the craftsmen and women of Crewe.


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You gotta admit it...
You have reached over the age of 30 (some of you) and the realisation has set in, that you need to look after yourself.
The one to many nights at the bar, the takeaways every Friday and the hangover cure of eating crap on the sunday has taken its toll.
After 3 decades (just over) of making poor choices and having the breaking strain of a soggy kit kat, we have all become aware of our mortality and know that the hangovers are real....recovery is longer and the stinky farts are not funny any more... (yes they are..!)
Like me (in my 20's) i use to say, you only live once, so you gotta go out in style and live a life of sin, beer and fags
But like me, you have probably realised that you don't only live once and that your health is important, not just for you, but for your kids..
So here are a few tips that my help you stay out of the pub and on your way to losing the chunky bits.
Talk soon,
Sean Cole
P.S - if you want any help on what could be best for you and your lifestyle, just reply to this and ill be in touch.
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Tell them to Stand Calm and Watch
During my 27-year career as a Paramedic Firefighter, I worked tragic scenes; sometimes surrounded by terrified and hysterical family members or bystanders. It was imperative for us to calm them, so I could treat the victims. In Exodus 14, Moses found himself surrounded by several million such people overwhelmed in hysteria. After ten plagues had convinced Pharaoh to free Israel from bondage, they fled east into the wilderness. God told Moses, "Encamp at Pi-ha-hiroth, facing the Red Sea…For the people were wandering in the land and the wilderness has shut them in" (Ex. 14:1). Now entrapped, having the Red Sea before them, and with mountains to the north and south, great fear set in. In verse 5 it got worse: "Pharaoh took his army of chariots and he pursued the Israelites" Verse 10 reports that God's people panicked hysterically and wandered in circles. Moses told the people, "Fear not, stand still & behold the salvation of God, which he will work for you to-day! For the Egyptians, you saw to-day, you shall see them no more" (Ex. 14:13). Suddenly, the Red Sea parted.
The time had come for Israel to stop circling aimlessly… and it's time for us also! Three things were needed for Israel (and God's people today), to overcome fearful stagnation: First, God's people needed a new focus (Ex. 14:13). Let's get our eyes off the Egyptian chariots and off the sea of obstacles before us. Just stand calm and watch the salvation of the Lord unfold; the Red Sea is parting! New paths will come into view. Colossians 3:1-3 defines our new focus. Next, God's people need a renewed faith. It is by faith that God's people crossed the Sea on dry land (Heb. 11:29). Whatever, our predicament, God is up to the fight and delivers His people even today. However, victories are only realized by living, active faith (Col. 2:12-13; James 2:17). As the Psalmist declares: "Some men trust in Chariots and in horses, but we will trust in the name of the Lord our God" (Ps. 20:7).
To read more of this story, pick up a copy of Thursday's edition of The Groesbeck Journal! You can also subscribe online or call 254-729-5103.


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MILFORD ADKINS b. February 1883
Just starting on my family tree.Looking for information on this family.
Descendants of Milford Adkins
Generation No. 1
1.MILFORD11 ADKINSwas born February 1883 in North Fork, Morgan Co., KY.He married CLEO HULETT December 21, 1933 in Olive Hill, Carter Co., KY, daughter of JOHN HULETT and ETTER HULETT.She was born May 07, 1907 in Benson, Franklin Co., KY.
More About MILFORD ADKINS:
Census 1.: 1900, Morgan Co., KY.
Census 2.: 1920, Morgan Co., KY.
Notes for CLEO HULETT:
My grandmother Cleo Hulett married my grandfather on January 9, 1924 in Olive Hill, Carter County, KY.She was only 16 years old and my grandfather was 21 years old.She was carrying my mother when she married my mother being born in April 30, 1924.Both set of parents are listed on Marriage Bond.The witness to this marriage were Flossie Walk and G. W. Stephens.This marriage Bond was in the County of Bulter.
My grandfather died of October 13, 1927 of Tuberculosis.When my grandfather died my grandmother had three young children of the ages 3, 2, 1.My mother Flossie Evelyn being the oldest.
My mother and Aunt Etter Alice told us that their mother gave them away right after their father died.My mother and Uncle Dorsey, Jr. went to live with their father's parents, David Henry Hurley and Minnie Alice Crosthwait.My mother talked of this with many happy times in her life.She loved her grandparents very much.She talked of how she would follow her grandfather around and how he would put her on this big horse and they would work in the fields all day.
My Aunt Etter Alice was given to the family of Mr. and Mrs. Roberts who owned a general store in Olive Hill in the 1920's.My aunt was only about a year old.
At some point my grandmother gets two of her children back.I don't know when, but I do know that my mother and uncle did not want to live with her or have anything to do with her.My Aunt did not know she had a sister and brother until she was thirteen years old.She did not come back.She was raised by the Roberts, but they did not give her their name.About six years after grandfather died my grandmother re-marries.
My grandmother married again on December21, 1933, to Milford Adkins. My grandmother was 26 years old and Milford was 53 years old, both being widowed.Witness at this marriage were Luella Hall and Douglas Hall.And they were married by Lewis C. Hall, Minister of the Missionary Baptist Church in Grayson, KY.Milford list his parents as Lindsey Adkins and Jane Howard.
More About MILFORD ADKINS and CLEO HULETT:
Marriage: December 21, 1933, Olive Hill, Carter Co., KY
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10.08.2018The School of Russian and Asian Studies to Change Names, Launch Fully Updated Website
03.04.2018Summer Study Abroad: Update on Recent Diplomatic Events
28.02.2018SRAS Announces Special Moscow-St.Petersburg Summer RSL Program for 2018
08.02.2018Summer Study Abroad: Important Updates
06.02.2018The State of Study Abroad in Russia
03.02.2018Russian Studies Abroad (RSA) Splits Into Two Programs
29.01.2018Join SRAS at NAFSA and Forum
27.01.2018SRAS and SPBGIKIT Language Partnership: The Year in Review
26.01.2018SRAS Site Visit to Irkutsk
30.12.2017Summer Programs Abroad - 2018
04.12.2017Travel Alert for Russian Cities: May 25 - July 25, 2018
13.08.2017Scholarships Available!
07.04.2017Stetson University and SRAS Announce New Partnership
31.05.2016Call for Papers: Vestnik!
Excursions offered by The London School and SRAS take students away from their regular class environment in ways that make full educational use of the student's new surroundings. These excursions are meant to help students learn about local life, augment what they have learned in London School classrooms, and to provide opportunities for students to practice their language in real-life situations.
The London School teachers prepare their students for the excursions through readings, video, and photography, and through worksheet activities. By the time the students reach the site, they should have absorbed the background knowledge and already have questions to investigate. The school also provides handouts to guide students in making notes and finding answers to their questions.
Texts about these sites will be connected to language learning materials. Students are also given charts in which they will list questions they have, expectations for their visit as well as keep notes about the event and new language structures and unfamiliar expressions that they hear in conversation with guides and locals while on the excursions.
Students will be given related language assignments to complete after the excursions. They will be strongly encouraged to use their cameras, video or audio recorders, and notebooks to record specific information. All of these materials can be used when they return to the classroom to discuss and make presentations about the excursions.
1. Included Events*
Kyrgyz VillageThis weekend trip to a Kyrgyz village includes home stay. Jump into the everyday life of a typical village, the handicrafts made, help build a yurt, meet with folk musicians, and watch other traditional ceremonies. Up to this day people in Kyrgyz villages observe ancient Kyrgyz traditions. In the south of Issik Kul region nearly one of every three families has their own yurt and makes local crafts. On the way back students will visit Monument Yrkyn which was built to memorialize the victims of the Russian-Kyrgyz conflict in 1917. The first part of this excursion is spent at the place on the south coast of Issyk-Kul, where this historical event is took place. Students will be see monuments dedicated to people of 1917 and listen to an expert on the subject. The second part of the session will take place with a village family, where students and experts interact over dinner.
Seminars in Understanding Central AsiaExplore the cultures and modern life of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Afghanistan through guest speakers and practicums. Attention is given to the media, civil society, gender, and religious environment in these countries. Excursions are held to Bishkek media outlets, an NGO, universities, embassies and other locations. Students will also learn about local music, handicrafts, and cooking in hands-on, language-based classes. Fall and spring semesters look deeper into each country's economic and political environment as well. These seminars are held in conjunction with CA-371 and CA-372 from our Central Asian Studies program.
Ata – Beiit Ata Beiit (The Cemetery of Fathers) is a museum honoring the victims of the Stalinist repressions of the 1930s. Founded as a burial place for 137 people who had been shot in the purges, including the founders of the original Kyrgyz Soviet state, the memorial complex now honors all victims of the Stalinist repressions. The Museum of Ata Beiit houses personal belongings of the killed and archive documents as well as a memorial plaque along the right side of the museum with names of all victims of the repressions from 1937-1938.
Burana TowerVisit a ghost town in the Chuy Valley in northern Kyrgyzstan. The Burana Tower, along with grave markers, some earthworks and the remnants of a castle and three mausoleums, is all that remains of the ancient city of Balasagun, which was established by the Karakhanids at the end of the tenth century. The Burana Tower is a large minaret (an architectural feature of Islamic mosques) located 80 km east of Bishkek. An external staircase and steep, winding stairway inside the tower enables visitors to climb to the top. The entire site, including the mausoleums, castle foundations and grave markers, now functions as a museum and there is a small building containing historical information as well as artifacts found at the site and in the surrounding region.
Manas OrdoManas Ordo is a park built around Manas's Kümböz, a mausoleum most likely erected around 1334 and thought to be the final resting place of the Kyrgyz epic national hero Manas. The monumental epic poem Manas is considered to be the most treasured expression of the national heritage of the Kyrgyz people. The poem is twenty times longer than the Iliad and Odyssey combined. Manas is treasured in the national imagination as the most ideal of heroes, a man who courageously fought against external foes and reunited his scattered people. The site includes a horse track, a museum, a rose garden surrounded by 40 statues of Manas' soldiers, an offerings site, and a yurt where fortunes can be told. The complex was built in 1995 for the 1000 Years of Manas celebration, the first - and to date the largest – national celebration that has taken place in Kyrgyzstan since its independence. Manas Ordo is situated in Talas region, in the central part of the country to which one can get only having crossed the Tuashu Passage (3200 m high).
Barskoon WaterfallLocated approximately 20km south of the village of Barskoon (pronounced bars-kone) on the southern shore of Kyrgyzstan's Lake Issyk Kul is the Barskoon Waterfall. We sit by a place where two of the three falls are visible and have a picnic in this beautiful spot. You will find two monuments to Yuri Gagarin here. Legend has it that as he was hurtling into space on the first-ever manned space flight, he looked down and saw this waterfall. After his return from space, he made a point of coming to visit the waterfall, where he left an inscription on one of the rocks. From this point, a steep trail leads up the mountain to the three falls.
Historical MuseumStudents will visit the Historical Museum, formerly known as the "Lenin Museum," a must-see in Bishkek for those with an interest in the culture and history of Central Asia. The diverse collection of objects includes such treasures as stones with rock paintings from the petroglyph site Saimaluu-Tash, Talas stones with inscriptions in the runic alphabet, ancient coins, nomadic decorations from the first to the fifth centuries (AD), armor and everyday objects dating from the Bronze Age, and a Turkic stone tools collection. The museum also houses a rich ethnographic collection of objects from the late 19th and early 20th centuries including items designed by Kyrgyz artisans: jewelry, embroidery, weavings, national dress, and highly artistic equestrian supplies.
Frunze Museum The museum was built in honor of Mikhail Frunze, a Bolshevik leader during and just prior to the Russian Revolution of 1917. Frunze, born in Bishkek, played a major role in defeating the Tsarist White Army on the eastern front, where he had been given complete command by Trotsky. In 1926, Bishkek was renamed in his honor (and changed back in 1991), and to this day Frunze is known throughout Kyrgyzstan and Russia, where many streets are named after him, as well as a Moscow metro station and one of most respected military academies. The museum tells the story of his life and career, and contains the actual house where he was born and raised.
Museum of Fine ArtsBishkek's Museum of Fine Arts is mainly dedicated to Kyrgyz folk and applied art and Russian and Soviet art. The museum was built in 1974 as part of the grand scheme to improve the capital. Among its more than 17,500 works, it features a yurt, permanent shyrdaks, and a collection of linocuts based on the Manas epic by Hertzen.
Ala-Archa National ParkBishkek is located in a hiker's paradise, and one must-see for all lovers of beauty is Ala-Archa National Park, located in the Tian Shan mountains. In Kyrgyz Ala-Archa means "bright juniper" – named for the abundance of junipers in the area. The Alamedin River flows along the gorge, which can be wild and dangerous at the beginning of spring and in early summer. The region has many climbing routes of varying degrees of intensity, which makes it a beloved place for tourists, climbers, and citizens of Bishkek alike – to be used as a recreational area for relaxation, or a training ground for climbing.
2. Also Included in Central Asian Studies (Optional for RSL Students)
Weekend TripStudents will go on a weekend trip to another city to gain a wider view of Kyrgyzstan and/or Central Asia. Locations may differ from semester to semester. This weekend is an affordable extra cost for RSL students. It is included (no extra charge) for students on our Central Asian Studies program.
Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, TurkemistanVisit two of Central Asia's largest economies and one of the world's oldest civilizations. Visit the major cities and experience the countrysides of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan. Tour major sites, meeting locals, and learning the culture through hands-on activities. This is included (no extra charge) for students on our Central Asian Studies program. Travel occurs within the semester, meaning that RSL students that elect to participate in this travel option may need to adjust their language study schedule. Contact us for details.
Other EventsYour Bishkek coordinator will keep a close eye on events and let you know of other unique tours or cultural events that you should take in while in Bishkek. These events are often available at little or no cost.
* Please note that this schedule is designed for a full-semester program and not all excursions may be included with programs shorter than six weeks. "Optional for RSL Students" means that additional costs are involved for those on RSL programs who elect to participate.
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Yet another review in Germany!
I am currently working on my second album to be released next year. Again I write the music to Icelandic poems but those poems are from within my family. They are love poems that my grandfather, Ólafur Björn Guðmundsson wrote to my grandmother Elín Maríusdóttir.
Here is a preview from my new album. It took me 2 and 1/2 years to dare to make this video public, but the album will soon be out… so here it is!


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The Blue Virgin: A Nora Tierney Mystery #1
by M. K. Graff
Series: The Nora Tierney English Mysteries (#1)
Published: 01 Apr 2010
The mysterious death of Bryn Wallace keeps American Nora Tierney in Oxford to clear her best friend, Val Rogan, who has ben wrongfully accused of Bryn's murder. Or has she? Nora quickly becomes embroiled in the investigation, much to the dismay of DI Declan Barnes, senior detective on the case, and the illustrator of Nora's children's books, Simon Ramsey.
Simon's efforts to save Nora from herself become increasingly frantic as Nora is forced to use her wiles and her wits to prove Val's innocence. This first in a series of Nora Tierney English Mysteries proves that THE BLUE VIRGIN is a compelling story of love and intrigue. Nothing, Nora learns, is what it seems, and even the most innocent of choices can lead to murder and revenge. With a Cast of Characters, written in traditional English mystery style but a contemporary setting, this book and the second in the series, THE GREEN REMAINS, have won awards as BEST BRITISH CLASSICAL COZY from Chanticleer Media. The third, THE SCARLET WENCH, is currently shortlisted for the same award.