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Seattle Public Schools spending targeted in criminal probe
Seattle Public Schools spent up to $1.8 million on contract work that was never done or didn't benefit the district, triggering a secret criminal investigation into allegations of financial fraud. At the same time, the School Board has launched a sweeping review of who should be held accountable, up to and including Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson.
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The state audit's findings
• Seattle Public Schools incurred losses of $280,005 by paying for services it didn't receive and for services that benefited a private company.
• The district paid $1.5 million for services with a "questionable" public purpose, in which documentation lacked sufficient detail to determine the validity of charges; or for services that did not benefit the district directly or could have been performed by district personnel.
• The city of Bellevue lost $39,873 by paying for services it did not receive and for a real-estate broker commission on a lease deal broken by the district's program manager.
Seattle Public Schools spent up to $1.8 million on contract work that was never done or didn't benefit the district, triggering a secret criminal investigation into allegations of financial fraud.
At the same time, the School Board has launched a sweeping review of who should be held accountable, up to and including Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson.
"This is an extraordinarily serious event," School Board President Steve Sundquist said Tuesday. "From my perspective, it is unacceptable and it will be damaging to public confidence."
Details of the alleged fraud only now are emerging, more than seven months after a single suspicious transaction led to multiple, overlapping investigations implicating people inside and outside the district. The district's internal auditor resigned in December as the district prepared to fire him in connection with a special state audit, and another district manager reportedly has disappeared as investigators have sought to question him.
The irregularities center on a school-district program that helped small businesses, primarily female- and minority-owned companies, compete for contracts with the district and other government agencies, according to the state audit obtained Tuesday by The Seattle Times.
The program, which started several years ago and operated until it was shut down last fall, became a loosely run operation where outside contractors were paid for services that weren't provided and where, as the district scaled back the program, its manager allegedly diverted district funds into a privately run organization offering similar services, the recently completed audit found.
The audit singled out former executive facilities director Fred Stephens, now working at the U.S. Department of Commerce, for failing to properly supervise program manager Silas Potter. Potter was one of the people who set up the private organization where funds allegedly were diverted, according to the audit.
The audit mainly concentrated on the district's losses. To determine who should be held accountable, the School Board has hired a private attorney to report what Goodloe-Johnson or other top administrators knew about the problem, or if they should have been aware of it.
Sundquist would not comment on what actions the board might take.
Goodloe-Johnson issued a written statement Tuesday night, saying the district requested the investigation by the state auditor "as soon as we were alerted that fraudulent financial activity may have occurred."
She said the loss also was reported to the Seattle Police Department.
"Their investigation is ongoing, and they have our full cooperation," Goodloe-Johnson said.
Goodloe-Johnson said she was outraged by what has been found and that a number of corrective measures have been taken.
Sundquist said the district agrees with the auditor's findings and will carry out all his recommendations to improve its oversight, recover lost money and take steps to bolster its whistle-blower program.
Board to meet Tuesday
The board plans to meet Tuesday in private executive session to review the private attorney's report and the auditor's findings before considering its next step. The board has held a number of executive sessions on the matter, including a lengthy session last week, Sundquist said.
The district went to state Auditor Brian Sonntag in June to investigate why a $35,000 check from the Tacoma School District that was meant for Seattle Public Schools ended up in the bank account of the private organization that Potter helped establish.
Potter returned the money after the Seattle district filed a police report, the auditor said.
Auditors ultimately found a series of suspicious payments that were serious enough that the School Board hired Seattle attorney Patricia Eakes in December to conduct the internal review.
According to the audit, some of the vendors may have knowingly participated in wrongdoing while others thought they were involved with legitimate dealings with the district.
At the same time, Sundquist said he, board member Michael DeBell and the district general counsel went on behalf of the board to the King County Prosecutor's Office to report possible criminal conduct.
The Prosecutor's Office since has opened a secret investigation into the payments, using a special-inquiry judge to obtain information, according to a source familiar with the investigation.
Senior Deputy Prosecutor Scott Peterson declined to comment Tuesday on the grand-jurylike investigation.
Sonntag said he had provided a copy of his audit to the Prosecutor's Office.
Final report coming
Eakes said Tuesday that she expects to submit her final report to the board by the end of this week.
"I think the facts will speak for themselves, as to who had knowledge and who should have known," she said, declining to discuss specific findings.
Eakes said she has interviewed Goodloe-Johnson, other district employees and Stephens, who left his job as the district's executive director of facilities in July to join the Obama administration as deputy assistant for Commerce Secretary Gary Locke.
Stephens, who couldn't be reached for comment Tuesday, served as deputy chief of staff under Locke during his time as Washington's governor.
Stephens told state auditors that Potter "should have been providing the oversight" of the small-business program and that he managed Potter "just like everybody else" who reported to him.
Eakes said she has not been able to find Potter, who resigned from the district in June and then worked for a short time under a contract with the district. Sonntag said his office also had not been able to locate Potter.
Staffers who worked in the small-business program, Regional Small Business Development Program, told state auditors that Potter awarded work to vendors, some of whom provided little work, in part because he "wanted support from prominent members of the community" who received contracts, according to the audit.
The auditor concluded the district lost at least $280,000 for services it didn't receive and that provided no public benefit.
Included was $163,000 paid to an organization to teach small-business classes that never were held.
As the school district was scaling back the program, Potter started his own private organization, which he named the Regional Small Business Development Program, the same name as the district's program. Potter's program diverted district funds into that new organization and charged the district for services provided to the private group, the audit stated.
Other organizations were partners in the district's program and some of them, including the city of Bellevue, also were allegedly misled by Potter into thinking they were working with the district, when they really were giving money to his group. The audit says Bellevue paid $39,000 to support Potter's group, including a $25,000 membership fee.
The auditor also questioned an additional $1.5 million in a variety of payments to outside organizations and individuals for services that included $75,000 in training materials copied from other sources and a $25,000 database that didn't work.
This special audit follows two others over the past year that also have been critical of how well the district oversees public funds.
In its formal response to the audit, Sundquist and Noel Treat, the district's general counsel, wrote that they agreed the district management "failed on several fronts, including lack of employee oversight, failure of internal controls, failure of the internal audit function, and lack of an adequate means for employees to raise their concerns."
Internal auditor gone
The district already has forced out internal auditor Kariuki Nderu, who resigned in December as the district was preparing to fire him over what the special state audit uncovered.
The auditors found, among other things, that Nderu allegedly played a role in the $35,000 deposit into Potter's private organization.
Nderu told The Seattle Times in December that he didn't know where the check was supposed to be deposited, and that he was being targeted by administrators to hide the fact that his supervisor ignored his warnings about financial problems that the auditor raised in July.
The auditors say they believe Nderu was going to be hired by Potter's organization as a certified public accountant.
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Lightly raced four year old Spieth will be facing his toughest test to date when he steps up to Group 1 company for the first time in the $1m Darley Classic (1200m) at Flemington on Saturday.
Spieth is the winner of five of his eight starts, the last four on the trot and Warwick Farm trainer Bryce Heys has given the four year old one Spring Carnival run in the lead up to the Darley Classic for a win in the Listed $150,000 City Tattersalls Lightning (1100m) at Randwick on October 15.
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Last week I gave advice to politics and economics PhDs going on the market. previous advice here and here.
Others have had the same idea.
Nate Jensen did a slightly more thorough investigation of poli sci CVs and search committee opinions. His takeaway:
Most schools had their long short lists of about a dozen candidates mostly with pubs. Many other candidates with pubs were left off the long short lists. I stress that this was the story from broad range of institutions (R1, liberal arts colleges, etc).
The advice I got on how to make it to the short list varied. Some committee members stressed fit with the department, other stressed the quality of the publication (top journal, solo authored if possible), others stressed grad program reputations, letters of rec, etc.
What is my take away point? I really don't know. I had the feeling that the magic formula for getting an interview was a decent publication. I think that was probably the case when I was on the market as an ABD (2001). Not so much anymore.
Tom Pepinsky blogged his thoughts as well. My favorite comment:
it is bad news when a recommendation letter summarizes the dissertation's argument or contribution better than that applicant's own cover letter does. I see this frequently, and it is hard to fix because the applicant never sees the letter! A cover letter is (ideally) vetted multiple times by multiple letter writers, so perhaps one useful exercise would be for the letter writer to summarize for the applicant what s/he believes the applicant's main argument and contribution to be.
What's interesting is that the economics job market seems to have a completely different equilibrium. Publications, especially those in second or third tier outlets, are actively discouraged. They seem to take very seriously the idea that everything you give after your best piece of work lowers the average quality of your application. Quantity gets little value. Am I incorrect?
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Just stumbled on this report from 1981:
"Billy Joel, the singing star, testified in Federal District Court in Brooklyn in the trial of the Sam Goody record-store chain and two of its executives on charges of dealing in counterfeit cassette and eight-track tapes of popular music.
"About 4,000 allegedly bogus tapes of a Joel album, ''The Stranger,'' are among the 100,000 counterfeit tapes that the prosecution says are involved in the case. Mr. Joel testified that, generally speaking, purchasers of counterfeit tapes got less for their money because "you lose a certain amount of original fidelity and volume and a certain amount of quality."
"The courtroom was packed during Mr. Joel's one-hour appearance. At one point he was asked by Judge Thomas C. Platt to stop chewing gum while on the witness stand."


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This is Reed during a "rest". All his animals are taking a nap.
Actually being sweet to each other.
These are Gaines' first day of school pictures. You can tell he was really excited for school. In case I haven't mentioned it, he goes to a mothers' day out one half day a week. Doctor approved.
I think this face is hilarious.
These next two make me laugh. Beau and Reed were working on something and had to wear their safety gear. Safety first!
My mom is going to kill me for this one but it makes me laugh so hard. This is her and Gaines having a parade. That stick in his hand is the Irish walking whistle that she brought him back from Ireland. Of all the things to bring back...
These skates are from about 20 years ago or more. Each of my cousins had a pair and we'd skate our little hearts out at my grandmama's house. She's been saving them all this time and the boys had so much fun with them.
Spaghetti-Os for lunch.
This was at a pumpkin patch birthday party. Beau and Gaines didn't get to go because Gaines ended up pretty sick after last year's pumpkin patch adventure and we didn't want to risk it. We think its the hay.
Reed and his buddies at the pumpkin patch.


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(Reuters) - West Ham United's delayed return to their former Olympic Stadium home cannot come soon enough after a third successive away defeat left them bottom of the Premier League on Saturday.
Slaven Bilic's side have been forced to play their opening three fixtures away because of the world athletics championships being staged at the stadium they moved into last season.
After a 4-0 defeat at Manchester United and 3-2 loss at Southampton, a Newcastle United side low on confidence after an equally poor start offered a chance for West Ham to kickstart their season. Instead they were outplayed.
Bilic, who came under pressure last season when West Ham flirted with relegation, strengthened his squad over the summer with the signings of Manchester City full back Pablo Zabaleta and former Manchester United striker Javier Hernandez.
But so far there is no evidence of any improvement and they have suffered their worst start to a season since 2010-11 when they went on to be relegated.
Bilic was scathing of his side's collapse at Newcastle for whom Joselu, Ciaran Clark and Aleksandar Mitrovic scored past England keeper Joe Hart, another new signing.
"We didn't play good, we have to admit it, they were the better side," the Croatian said. "...They were better in everything, especially in determination and wanting to win second balls and making a transition when doing that.
"We didn't deserve anything. Disappointing and frustrating the way we played... Simply, it wasn't good enough."
When the Premier League resumes next month after the international break, West Ham will host promoted Huddersfield Town who have taken seven points from three games.
Worryingly for West Ham the cavernous London Stadium hardly proved a fortress last year as they struggled to adapt after vacating their tight and atmospheric Upton Park ground, winning only seven of their 19 games there.
"We can talk about the away games but I expected a lot, lot more," Bilic said.
"We can talk about excuses but after this kind of defeat and performance, we are in a bad position and only we can get ourselves out of it."
Reporting by Martyn Herman; editing by John Stonestreet


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No. 3 Texas salvages split with OU
Longhorns rebound from first conference loss of season
AUSTIN, Texas -- Third-ranked Texas rallied back from its series-opening loss to knock off No. 14 Oklahoma, 5-3, Sunday afternoon to split the season series. The victory improved the Longhorns to 44-5 on the year and 13-1 in the Big 12, while the Sooners fell to 35-16 and 8-8 in league play.
Sophomore All-America righthander Blaire Luna (26-3) fired her 25th complete game of the season in the win, allowing three runs (two earned) on six hits, while walking six and fanning two. Oklahoma starter Keilani Ricketts (22-12) took the loss after surrendering four runs on six hits, walking two and striking out five in 3.1 innings of work.
Sophomore rightfielder Taylor Hoagland ripped her 13th home run of the season in the third to tie the Texas single-season record set by junior leftfielder Courtney Craig in 2010. Craig shined in the win as well, hitting a solo homer, walking and scoring a pair of runs. Freshman centerfielder Brejae Washington bolstered the offense with a team-best two hits and one run scored.
Oklahoma got on the board in the first, taking advantage of a one-out walk by first baseman Chana'e Jones to start the rally and an RBI single by designated player Jessica Shults to grab a 1-0 edge.
Texas answered in the second, using a one-out walk by Craig and a single through the right side by freshman shortstop Taylor Thom to set the table. A double steal moved both runners into scoring position and a Ricketts wild pitch allowed Craig to race home and even the game at one.
The Sooners reclaimed the lead in the third after a leadoff single by centerfielder Destinee Martinez and two walks loaded the bases for third baseman Dani Dobbs, who singled to put OU in front 2-1.
Hoagland and the Horns responded in the home half of the third, with the sophomore hammering a leadoff homer to centerfield to start the frame. Washington and Thom followed with a pair of infield singles and on senior catcher Amy Hooks' sacrifice bunt Washington scored from second and Thom moved to third. Another wild pitch by Ricketts allowed Thom to scamper home and give the Horns a 4-2 lead.
In the fourth, Oklahoma used a leadoff single by Javen Henson to start the inning and took advantage of a UT error on Jones' single to narrow the lead to one.
Craig capped the scoring in the fifth for Texas, stepping to the plate and smashing the 24th home run of her career onto 21st Street to push the UT advantage to 5-3.


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Since September 2010 the Wexford Wildfowl Reserve has been part of the Discover Primary Science and Maths Network. If your school is part of this programme, please inform us of this when making a booking.
Watch the DPM&S video for the reserve here.
Our education programme is divided into summer and winter schedules.
Spring/Summer/Autumn Schedule: April, May, June, September, early October.
The summer schedule involves two outdoor activity based courses: Wetland Field Studies and the Living Sandcastle. Both involve exploring the wildlife associated with habitats especially important to Wexford.
Wetland Field Studies; Snipe Field, Wexford Wildfowl Reserve
The Wetland Field Study is based in the Snipe Field, an outdoor education area close to the visitor centre. Team-based activities include pond dipping, wildlife trail, mini-beast hunts and much more. Discover the wonder of wetlands in our outdoor education area.
The Living Sandcastle; Raven Wood Nature Reserve
Discover the wildlife of sand dunes. A look at plants, insects, birds, and mammals through team based activities. The Living Sandcastle takes place in the Raven Wood Nature Reserve close to Curracloe, and looks at plants, insects, birds and mammals through team based activities. (Note: the nearest toilet facilities are in the Curracloe beach car park).
The duration of both of these programmes is approximately 2.5 to 3 hours (usually from 10am to 1pm but times can be flexible). The outdoor activities are most suited for 1st to 6th class students.
Winter Schedule: March and October
The winter schedule is mostly indoor based as appropriate for this time of year.
The Wetland and Wildfowl Workshop is an activity-based exploration. Team activities include bird studies and exploration of the Greenland White-fronted Geese.
The Wildlife Discovery Workshop looks at wildlife in general and some of the methods used to learn about our native wildlife.
Both of these Discovery sessions are suitable for all primary school class groups.
Our Wild Science programme is suitable for older age groups, 4th, 5th and 6th classes. This session involves a greater study of bird life.
All of our winter programmes are 2.5 to 3 hours long (usually 10am to 1pm).


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The Board's mission is to build the coin of Rainbow Currency, the Twinkle, into an internationally recognized form of exchange and monetary system that will become a household name and a leading component in the Crypto-currency world.
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During your stay in a club room, enjoy exclusive access to our Club Lounge, which serves daily full hot American breakfast buffet and hors d'oeuvres in the evening.
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Brisbane SMSF Workshop - in conjunction with Investors Direct
All the basics you need to know about SMSFs and if it's the right strategy for you.
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What will you learn at this event?
- Do I need a SMSF?
- How to avoid making mistakes.
- SMSF Investment Strategy.
- Real life SMSF Case study
- The why, what and how
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- Bare trust set up
- Loan requirements
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- Risk profiling group exercise
- Asset Allocation study
- Contribution strategies
- Liquidity and cash flow strategies
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- LRBA Pitfalls
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- The current state of the Australian property market.
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- How to apply our PROPERTY VALUE criteria to determine WHAT YOUR PORTFOLIO IS WORTH and the potential upside it contains.
- Why understanding FINANCE & LENDING CRITERIA is crucial to LEVERAGE this potential upside.
- Where and WHAT PROPERTIES you should put your money into.
- What impact retirees will have on FUTURE PROPERTY PRICES.
- How millions of new MIGRANTS WILL RESHAPE our cities over the next 30 years.
- Why MOST property investors DON'T MAKE IT on their own.
- How to achieve the PASSIVE NET INCOME you need by a set date.
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Investors Direct have been running educational events and providing education content to investment magazines since 2002.
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The event is an educational workshop, designed to inform you, not a sales event.
There are no property sales on the night and no high-pressure sales techniques employed.
Food and light refreshments will be served at the event


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1 Rescue me, Lord, from evildoers;
protect me from the violent,
2 who devise evil plans in their hearts
and stir up war every day.
3 They make their tongues as sharp as a serpent's;
the poison of vipers is on their lips.[b]
4 Keep me safe, Lord, from the hands of the wicked;
protect me from the violent,
who devise ways to trip my feet.
5 The arrogant have hidden a snare for me;
they have spread out the cords of their net
and have set traps for me along my path.
6 I say to the Lord, "You are my God."
Hear, Lord, my cry for mercy.
7 Sovereign Lord, my strong deliverer,
you shield my head in the day of battle.
8 Do not grant the wicked their desires, Lord;
do not let their plans succeed.
9 Those who surround me proudly rear their heads;
may the mischief of their lips engulf them.
10 May burning coals fall on them;
may they be thrown into the fire,
into miry pits, never to rise.
11 May slanderers not be established in the land;
may disaster hunt down the violent.
12 I know that the Lord secures justice for the poor
and upholds the cause of the needy.
13 Surely the righteous will praise your name,
and the upright will live in your presence.
1 I cry aloud to the Lord;
I lift up my voice to the Lord for mercy.
2 I pour out before him my complaint;
before him I tell my trouble.
3 When my spirit grows faint within me,
it is you who watch over my way.
In the path where I walk
people have hidden a snare for me.
4 Look and see, there is no one at my right hand;
no one is concerned for me.
I have no refuge;
no one cares for my life.
5 I cry to you, Lord;
I say, "You are my refuge,
my portion in the land of the living."
6 Listen to my cry,
for I am in desperate need;
rescue me from those who pursue me,
for they are too strong for me.
7 Set me free from my prison,
that I may praise your name.
Then the righteous will gather about me
because of your goodness to me.
1 I call to you, Lord, come quickly to me;
hear me when I call to you.
2 May my prayer be set before you like incense;
may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice.
3 Set a guard over my mouth, Lord;
keep watch over the door of my lips.
4 Do not let my heart be drawn to what is evil
so that I take part in wicked deeds
along with those who are evildoers;
do not let me eat their delicacies.
5 Let a righteous man strike me—that is a kindness;
let him rebuke me—that is oil on my head.
My head will not refuse it,
for my prayer will still be against the deeds of evildoers.
6 Their rulers will be thrown down from the cliffs,
and the wicked will learn that my words were well spoken.
7 They will say, "As one plows and breaks up the earth,
so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of the grave."
8 But my eyes are fixed on you, Sovereign Lord;
in you I take refuge—do not give me over to death.
9 Keep me safe from the traps set by evildoers,
from the snares they have laid for me.
10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets,
while I pass by in safety.
1 Lord, hear my prayer,
listen to my cry for mercy;
in your faithfulness and righteousness
come to my relief.
2 Do not bring your servant into judgment,
for no one living is righteous before you.
3 The enemy pursues me,
he crushes me to the ground;
he makes me dwell in the darkness
like those long dead.
4 So my spirit grows faint within me;
my heart within me is dismayed.
5 I remember the days of long ago;
I meditate on all your works
and consider what your hands have done.
6 I spread out my hands to you;
I thirst for you like a parched land.[a]
7 Answer me quickly, Lord;
my spirit fails.
Do not hide your face from me
or I will be like those who go down to the pit.
8 Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love,
for I have put my trust in you.
Show me the way I should go,
for to you I entrust my life.
9 Rescue me from my enemies, Lord,
for I hide myself in you.
10 Teach me to do your will,
for you are my God;
may your good Spirit
lead me on level ground.
11 For your name's sake, Lord, preserve my life;
in your righteousness, bring me out of trouble.
12 In your unfailing love, silence my enemies;
destroy all my foes,
for I am your servant.
8 Does not wisdom call out?
Does not understanding raise her voice?
2 At the highest point along the way,
where the paths meet, she takes her stand;
3 beside the gate leading into the city,
at the entrance, she cries aloud:
4 "To you, O people, I call out;
I raise my voice to all mankind.
5 You who are simple, gain prudence;
you who are foolish, set your hearts on it.[a]
6 Listen, for I have trustworthy things to say;
I open my lips to speak what is right.
7 My mouth speaks what is true,
for my lips detest wickedness.
8 All the words of my mouth are just;
none of them is crooked or perverse.
9 To the discerning all of them are right;
they are upright to those who have found knowledge.
10 Choose my instruction instead of silver,
knowledge rather than choice gold,
11 for wisdom is more precious than rubies,
and nothing you desire can compare with her.
12 "I, wisdom, dwell together with prudence;
I possess knowledge and discretion.
13 To fear the Lord is to hate evil;
I hate pride and arrogance,
evil behavior and perverse speech.
14 Counsel and sound judgment are mine;
I have insight, I have power.
15 By me kings reign
and rulers issue decrees that are just;
16 by me princes govern,
and nobles—all who rule on earth.[b]
17 I love those who love me,
and those who seek me find me.
18 With me are riches and honor,
enduring wealth and prosperity.
19 My fruit is better than fine gold;
what I yield surpasses choice silver.
20 I walk in the way of righteousness,
along the paths of justice,
21 bestowing a rich inheritance on those who love me
and making their treasuries full.
1 Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother,
To Philemon our dear friend and fellow worker— 2 also to Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier—and to the church that meets in your home:
3 Grace and peace to you[a] from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
4 I always thank my God as I remember you in my prayers, 5 because I hear about your love for all his holy people and your faith in the Lord Jesus. 6 I pray that your partnership with us in the faith may be effective in deepening your understanding of every good thing we share for the sake of Christ. 7 Your love has given me great joy and encouragement, because you, brother, have refreshed the hearts of the Lord's people.
8 Therefore, although in Christ I could be bold and order you to do what you ought to do, 9 yet I prefer to appeal to you on the basis of love. It is as none other than Paul—an old man and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus— 10 that I appeal to you for my son Onesimus,[b] who became my son while I was in chains. 11 Formerly he was useless to you, but now he has become useful both to you and to me.
12 I am sending him—who is my very heart—back to you. 13 I would have liked to keep him with me so that he could take your place in helping me while I am in chains for the gospel. 14 But I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that any favor you do would not seem forced but would be voluntary. 15 Perhaps the reason he was separated from you for a little while was that you might have him back forever— 16 no longer as a slave, but better than a slave, as a dear brother. He is very dear to me but even dearer to you, both as a fellow man and as a brother in the Lord.
17 So if you consider me a partner, welcome him as you would welcome me. 18 If he has done you any wrong or owes you anything, charge it to me. 19 I, Paul, am writing this with my own hand. I will pay it back—not to mention that you owe me your very self. 20 I do wish, brother, that I may have some benefit from you in the Lord; refresh my heart in Christ. 21 Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I ask.
22 And one thing more: Prepare a guest room for me, because I hope to be restored to you in answer to your prayers.
23 Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends you greetings. 24 And so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas and Luke, my fellow workers.
25 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.
9 Meanwhile a large crowd of Jews found out that Jesus was there and came, not only because of him but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. 10 So the chief priests made plans to kill Lazarus as well, 11 for on account of him many of the Jews were going over to Jesus and believing in him.
12 The next day the great crowd that had come for the festival heard that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem. 13 They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting,
"Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!"[b]
"Blessed is the king of Israel!"
14 Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, as it is written:
15 "Do not be afraid, Daughter Zion;
see, your king is coming,
seated on a donkey's colt."[c]
16 At first his disciples did not understand all this. Only after Jesus was glorified did they realize that these things had been written about him and that these things had been done to him.
17 Now the crowd that was with him when he called Lazarus from the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to spread the word. 18 Many people, because they had heard that he had performed this sign, went out to meet him. 19 So the Pharisees said to one another, "See, this is getting us nowhere. Look how the whole world has gone after him!"
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Introducing Ming Hsieh
Ming Hsieh was born and raised in northern China and worked his way to USC, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering in 1983 and a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering in 1984. In 1987, he founded AMAX Technology and in 1990 founded the Pasadena-based Cogent Inc., which revolutionized automated fingerprint identification. Hsieh is also a trustee of the University of Southern California.
In 2006, Hsieh donated $35 million to the USC Viterbi School of Engineering to endow the USC Department of Electrical Engineering, which was named in his honor. At the time, it was the largest gift ever for an engineering department. In 2010 Hsieh donated an additional $50 million to establish the Ming Hsieh Institute for Engineering Medicine for Cancer.
Hsieh's Arrival in the United States
Hsieh is a self-made entrepreneur from China. His life in this country began with a dream, planted long before he ever left his mainland China hometown of Shenyang, in the northeastern province of Liaoning, to seek a better education and make a difference in the world. In 1966, at the age of 10 and the beginning of China's Cultural Revolution, Hsieh and his family were forced to leave the city and go to a small village near Panjing. His father, a well-educated man, was considered part of China's upper middle class, as were other intellectuals, all of whom were sent to the countryside to be re-educated.
In the countryside, and after school, Ming would join his father, Baoyan, who was an electrical engineer, as the senior Hsieh constructed a crude power system to bring electricity to the village. Hsieh was quick to learn electrical engineering and his parents noticed his keen interest in technology, so they gave him a transistor radio to tear apart and reassemble. It wasn't long before he was repairing TV sets, radios and anything else electronic he could get his hands on.
His uncle, P.Y. Hsieh, had left China and earned an M.S. in mechanical engineering at USC in 1952, fueling Ming's aspirations to follow. In 1980, after two years of college at the South China Institute of Technology, now known as the South China University of Technology, in Guangzhou, Ming Hsieh used the inheritance that his grandparents in Taiwan had left him to emigrate and enroll in USC's engineering program. He was a 24-year-old transfer student.
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Between 100 to 200 educators, community leaders and policy makers are expected to attend Thursday's (June 12) Bridging the Gap for Underserved Students Symposium at the Jones Center.
The symposium will be from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and participants can register at the event. Registration costs $50 and $15 for students.
The keynote speakers are former NFL athlete Keith Jackson and Gary Ritter, UA director of the Office for Education Policy.
Jackson will address how his program has helped underserved students in Central Arkansas, according to the news release. As for Ritter, he will discuss his office's new report, "Performance of All Student Subgroups in Arkansas: Moving Beyond Achievement Gaps."
The conference wants to make sure every student is up to speed and gets the resources they need to be successful in school.
Mirna Ordoñez, member of the organizing committee, said, educators will be able to share their programs and issues in their school district.
"It takes a village to educate a child, like the saying says," Ordoñez said. "It's important that all of us get involved in order to see how experienced as leaders, as educators, as business people, and every sector gets involved in this."
"We are addressing this problem, trying to create awareness about it, but also provide solutions," she said.
There will also be panelists at the symposium including Senator Joyce Elliot, Bentonville Superintendent Michael Poore and Javier Reyes, UA vice provost for distance education.
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Sam Etheridge, voted "Best Chef" in this year's Best of Burque Restaurants poll, is passionate about putting his own cheeky spin on comfort foods at Ambrozia.
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Yashoda Naidoo, whose Annapurna Ayurvedic Cuisine and Chai House won "Best Vegetarian Menu" and "Best Vegan Baked Goods" in the Best of Burque poll, thinks Tofurky is a waste of space on your dinner table.
The chefs at Joy Junction and the Albuquerque Rescue Mission are experts at creating splendid meals on a shoestring budget.
What do all these expert chefs have in common? They want you have the best Thanksgiving ever.
The holidays come earlier every year, and in Thanksgiving's case, that's actually a good thing. Crafting a successful, low-stress Thanksgiving all boils down to planning. And guess what? We've done it all for you. Just pick one of our chef-tested, doldrum-busting Thanksgiving themes—Etheridge's Nontraditional, Sadie's New Mexican, Naidoo's Vegetarian or Joy Juntion/Albuquerque Rescue Mission's Inexpensive—hit the food market and follow the good-sense guidelines we compiled below. Come Nov. 22, you'll be thankful you did.


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Technical Mission in the Netherlands: Sustainable Energy and Bioeconomy in the Circular Economy
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The aim of the ELAN Network Technical Mission is to promote international networking between Latin American and Dutch entities and to share best practices, showcase technology developments and to identify potential technology-based business opportunities (TBBOs) in circular economy, with a special focus on renewable energy, bio-economy and environmental technologies.
The ELAN Network Technical Mission will bring together Dutch, European and Latin American actors (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Peru) to share pioneer experiences, business models and best practices of public-private partnerships and to identify technology-based business opportunities in the areas related to circular economy, including examples from renewable energy, bio-economy and environmental technologies.
TNO has established a strategic collaboration with MVO Nederlands (ELAN Network partner) and Circle Economy to create a synergy between the ELAN Network technical mission and the Circular Economy trade mission Netherlands 2016 to showcase the Dutch leadership in this topic for the establishment of public private partnerships and the realisation of business initiatives in circular economy.
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- The identification of technology-based business opportunities between Europe and Latin America and,
- Annalise the state of development of the ELAN Network innovation systems in each country related to the prioritised sectors (renewable energy, environmental technologies, biotechnology and bio-economy, nanotechnology, advanced materials, ICT and health).
- Visits to innovative companies, pilot projects and research initiatives in renewable energy, bio-economy and environmental technologies.
- Join the Circular Economy mission in order to participate in networking activities and to learn from successful experiences of public-private partnerships for and about circular economy. Among others:
- Visit of CE Expo Valley and Park 20.
- Lunch with Prince Carlos de Bourbon de Parme and Circular Initiatives at Parkcafé Groen.
- Guided tours to Dutch best practice examples of circular economy: Regional Circular Cooperation; Production and Manufacturing; Re-Use & Recycling; and Custom Made.
- Participation in the event: Innovation Expo Netherlands 2016.
- Visit by boat through the harbours of Amsterdam and cycling tour through Amsterdam infrastructure for circular economy.
- A joint ELAN Network - Circular mission trade fair where Latin American entities will have the opportunity to share experiences, identify business opportunities and to discuss possible avenues for collaboration with European companies and research centres.
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The Shard office block in Central London, soon to be one of Europe's tallest towers, is now under construction and is slowly creeping up month after month.
Due for completion in 2012, The Shard will tower above the other office blocks in London at 310 metres. It will have 80 floors, 600,000 square feet of office space and a 5* hotel. It marks a major commitment to the London commercial property market at a time when many developers chose to freeze existing developments at the height of the recession. About a third of the office space has been pre-let to Transport For London but Irvine Sellars, of Sellar Property Group, now has a challenge ahead.
He promised his Qatari investors he would be able to achieve rents of around £70 per square foot – the highest rent amount since the 1980's and a staggering 60% more than the best offices in the nearby financial district. Rents previously reached this height back in the 1980's during the famous property boom – a far cry from the dishevelled state of the capital's property market today.
Despite nearly two thirds of the building remaining un-let, Irvine Sellars remains positive that he can fulfil his promise.
In an interview last week he said; "We won't be pushing the market — the market will come to us. Office rents reached £70 probably 25 years ago in the City of London, so we've been there before."
Although office rents in Central London rose in the last quarter for the first time in 3 years, many believe Sellars will struggle to secure tenants at this elevated price.


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Editor's Note: This is part of an ongoing series of interviews with digital marketing thought leaders. This week, we sit down with Joe Lucas, Director of Demand Generation & Marketing Operations at InsideView®, which provides CRM Intelligence™ to drive marketing, sales and account management results. InsideView provides the data, insights and connections that make every prospect and customer conversation more relevant, valuable and productive. InsideView is used by more than 350,000 sales and marketing professionals, and in over 13,000 market-leading companies.
Hi Joe, thank you for taking the time to talk with us today. Tell us about your digital marketing operations – what is your overall lead generation strategy, and how many leads do you bring in each month?
We have a fairly standard inbound marketing approach. We invest in content marketing, have a strong social presence, and back all of that up with a supporting paid media and retargeting strategy. Obviously, we also use our own technology to enable our sales teams, create more effective outbound campaigns, and make our lead nurturing programs more relevant and timely. This year we're also going to add a strong field-marketing program, which is pretty exciting to me. Technology has really impacted more traditional forms of marketing in ways that make certain activities that were once out of reach for small companies effective again.
Right now we are averaging about 7,500 leads per month from all of our efforts combined.
What precipitated the need for tag management? What problems were you experiencing?
At the time, we needed a solution to make doing things like deploying vendor tags much simpler. In addition, we were using a significant amount of tags on our website and we were starting to notice some performance issues, and so was Google. So, the combination of both these needs made tag management a no-brainer for us.
We also do a lot of experimentation with new online advertising channels, and each one has its own type of tracking technology. This gets to be pretty hairy from both a page load and a maintenance standpoint. Tealium iQ helps us test and evaluate much quicker.
How has Tealium helped you solve some of your challenges – can you share any ROI results?
Of course! There are two areas that Tealium has really impacted for us outside of normal time savings. The first is in page load speed. Pushing all of our tags through Tealium resulted in about a 25 percent improvement in our page load speeds. Google definitely took notice and we saw a 2X increase in organic search referrals. Lots of things go into this and this has been a focus for us, but page load speed and general site performance play a big part. We've been seeing aggressive growth in search over the last year, and each month is about double when comparing to the same month year over year. Our timing with Tealium has worked out where we've now been happy users for 13 months.
The second area that has shown a positive impact is in the area of being able to test and evaluate new programs. Prior to our use of Tealium, deploying code would be a challenge for us, especially if we wanted to only test out certain sections of our site. Remember, I'm the one actually doing that type of work, along with running demand gen, which is a full-time job in itself. Our use of Bizo is a great example of how a simplified approach saved us money.
Can you talk about how Tealium helped you save time and money implementing Bizo?
Sure. We wanted to test out Bizo to see if we could improve the performance of our banner and retargeting efforts. We were already using Tealium at the time, so deploying the code in a targeted fashion on the site took me about five minutes. We were able to run a quick two-week test, evaluate the results and make a decision on switching platforms. The whole process took about three weeks. If we didn't have Tealium, that process likely would have taken a lot longer, which would have pushed us into a longer engagement with our former provider. Tealium allowed us to make a quick decision and move to a more effective platform, which not only saved us money, but also drove pipeline and revenue for our sales team.
You've mentioned previously that you rely on four key solutions to power your digital marketing – what are they?
InsideView, Marketo, Tealium, and Optimizely. These are our essential technologies. I look at them this way: InsideView tells us who we should be talking to and what we should be saying; Marketo powers our communication to that audience; Optimizely lets us dial in the message and content for the audience; and Tealium holds all of that together.
How will you use Tealium in the future? Can you talk about how Tealium will help you with your data strategy?
I can share some I have two big initiatives planned for this year and Tealium is at the core of something really cool I'm building. I'm planning on leveraging the data layer capability of Tealium in a big way. There is a big gap in the market right now in making different systems talk to each other and Tealium really has a really nice solution for that. I'm going to have some fun with it over the next few months.
What do you see as the three most important trends for digital marketers in 2014?
I think the first big trend is CRM Intelligence. This is something that people are really struggling with. As marketers, we have some really powerful tools and tons of data at our disposal, but don't have the ability to sort through the noise in order to capitalize on it. Marketing automation has been both a blessing and a curse in this regard. I get inundated with spray and pray campaigns now because they're easy to do. I think you'll see a big push towards helping MA become more intelligent. I know InsideView is developing some cool integrations to make things like event-based marketing easy to do. Every company has a CRM and the market needs to respond to make it more intelligent. As we like to say at InsideView, CRM Intelligence is here.
The second trend I see happening this year is in the area of sales enablement. This is particularly interesting for me. I'm sure most of your audience is like me and that some of their compensation is tied to revenue. I have a big incentive for making sure that my leads turn into deals. I think most enablement solutions out there suck and most companies don't really do it right. I've seen some really cool things coming to market in the last few months that are really aimed at making sure your sales team is fully prepared to capitalize on the demand their marketing orgs are creating. One of these days I'll start a "bad sales" tumblr blog or something and share all the bad voicemails and cold emails I get sent. It's not their fault though – marketing needs to do a better job of setting them up for success.
The third trend for me is customer success automation. This is an area where a lot of venture capital is going. Sales and marketing each have tools for automating processes and trying to scale up what their teams can do. Customer success management (CSM) doesn't have that. Most organizations can't scale up, so what you see are really bad customer experiences or really high people costs for ensuring success. There are a lot of really good companies trying to solve this problem. We've developed a solution for CSMs to help them keep on top of growing account lists and you have other really great technologies like Gainsight and Evergage, which allow a CSM team to become proactive within their accounts rather than reacting to their accounts. The trick is taking what has traditionally been a one-to-one process, and turning it into a one-to-many process without the customer realizing there's been a shift.


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Fundy huh? okay.
Good luck with that.
What is there to follow and what goal? These are instructions and experiences that happen along the way, when "you/ego/mind" get out of the way and Truth itself shines. There are multitude of ways "there".
The teachings are there for a reason. If they were not necessary, the Buddha and Jesus would have stayed quiet.
How do you know? I know plenty of people who remember past lives, nde's, and I myself remember pre-existing as a Unit of COnsciousness/Awareness.
Jesus & Buddha inspired so many people, that around them both were built massive archetypal dogmatic religious structures, which exoterically has done more to divide than to unite.
However, minority esoteric structures were also built in the form of monasteries (monks, hermits, mystics), and it is through this minority that graduates into Enlightenment in the form of Saints have occurred.
Enlightenment is the next logical step for mankind in its evolution. I forsee a future where technology becomes interlinked with consciousness and everything can be downloaded, including the state of a monk in Enlightenment.
We all come from the One, to the One we all return.
That's all due to 3 things' Ignorance, Ego, Animalism (the primal passions)
We see less and less of violent brutality in the countries where the majority is educated and where the "religious type" is the minority. With the Internet, all that is changing as well, in that, as the old die, the younger generation comes into its own. This younger generation is one which does its research on the internet, is sophisticated, and intelligent. I of course speak of 1st world countries and specific demographical regions within them.
Just like each individual evolves, so to is each country, and the world as a whole.
Yes that's rather obvious isn't it. The whole purpose of this post, is an invitation to see for yourself, experientially, if all of this is true. Sure some will simply skim through it and move along, however the Truth filters out who may approach it and who may not.
If this even reaches One soul to experiences the Absolute, then the post is worth it.
On the other end, if we are to take the approach that the truth is an actual experience (which it is) and not words or descriptions, then the trap is to take the stance that nothing more can be said or done about it, and that's a mistake. Buddha too initially remained quiet with the realization that no words can apprehend the ineffable, however later concluded its better to at least try and point to it and discuss a way to realization, than to remain quiet.
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Quick question re: your new avatar. Do you know that centered at the top appears to be a two horned luciferian figure?
Don't get me wrong I love your stuff but seeing that has left me a little perplexed and I just wanted to clarify if you were aware that it could be viewed that way. Thanks.
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Christians follow the teachings of the bible, buddhists follow the teachings of buddha, muslims follow the teachings of the quran and so forth. Instructions are there to follow, how to be, how to live, how to become. Their goal obviously is to go to heaven (religion) or to become enlightened (buddha)
Now see it in practice in this modern time. A hierarchy from top to bottom with leaders, teachers and their followers and students, pure indoctrination, power and position. What they bring is old and dead, it is not our path, but we chose or are forced to follow it. Therefore i said, see what it has done, it has made followers out of people, sheep.
Nothing will survive the physical death, all there is, is just the content of our consciousness, our knowledge stored as memories, all that which has formed us to who we are today.
But never had i contact with a person that had passed away, the energy came from them who lost their loved ones, their memories and their feelings.
So in the end it is your word against mine, which is ok, whoever is right, we will find out when the time comes.
This is why i reject the suggestion that it can be taught, that we somehow eventually reach a state of enlightenment through knowledge. When one sees with a clear mind, without any background, my education, my belief or nonbelief, who i am, what i am and so forth, than it is revealed.
So as the mind itself is formless and empty, there is nothing to download, there is no knowledge of how to be enlightened.
I don't agree with you about less and less of violent brutality, look up the history of Iran for example, ones a great country, now it is a prison to its own people.
The younger generation is more violent and extreme than the people of the first generation who came here.
Apparently not, because everyone is searching for descriptions.
There is not 'the truth', we abide in truth, life itself, we only have to recognize it.
When truth is described, poured in words, it has been abstracted, it is no longer living truth, but a description, old and dead.
If that is understood as a 'how to', it is not meant to be, i gave my opinion on how i see it, nothing more.
My solution to all the pain and suffering was simply 'don't be' that was the trigger, but this is my life path which is different from the path of you and others.
To write a little more about it, at first there was only silence and an understanding of why i was able to be hurt, also seeing their action in a whole new light was quite revealing. There is no anger or grudge towards them, they acted out of frustration and pain themselves. I'm still here, all the memories are there, but they have no place in the present, the past is dead and dies every moment. It was after that, that i started to learn, seeing with different eyes, observing the world around me.
I did not even thought about truth, just did my duties and observed everything, as days weeks and months went by.
Before i was struggling with everything, my life, the misery, what to do, thinking of death, mutilating, but afterwards, non of that, just silence. Maybe i am just a freak, who knows, but now i am happy for all that suffering because it brought me where i am now.
Would this be enlightenment? it sure gave me peace and space, moreover lots of energy that is not wasted anymore through suffering.
We are human, human earthlings, among other earthlings which we call animals. There is one humanity, although we are divided through labels as nationality and race, we are one, but knowledge divides us, not only in nationality and race, but also in politics, religion and social economical state.
It is because of this that we have the two sides of the coin, war and peace which is the time between two wars, in an insecure world. So there is a me, we, you and them, all with their own interests, Buddhist(s), Christians, Muslims, American, Dutch, German, businessman, politician.
Our duty is to work on our self, to bring about change in the core of our being. If we don't change, nothing changes and we go on living a horrible life.
So to come back to that moment of transcending oneself, that we should really explore because it is the key which unlocks all doors.
One must have the will to let go, not a desire to obtain enlightenment. Which means giving up everything and trust in whatever will be, that is what sets us free. My apology for this late answer, i'm sick at the moment.
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There is no path to here.
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I don't believe in the I Am...concept!..I understand Unity...but the whole forced I Am...is beyond my sensibilities.