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text: London theatre reviews London Theatre Reviews are done for all the shows in the west end. It is great to read reviews, to see how successful the show is. When a show is new and is about to open, there are normally pre-view weeks, whereby members of the press come and see the show and write a review. Prices are normally cheaper in this week due to the show not yet having its 'official' review. Members of the public also use this week to see a show at a reduced price!Reviews can be found in local newspapers, theatre industry magazines, and of course the internet. What can you expect from a review? Well the review should contain a brief summary of the plot, and ideally a little bit of history about the playwright and the period in which the play was written. This will really get you setting the scene in your mind!The directors should normally be included, and it's likely you would read a discussion about not only the direction of the performance, but also the directors approach. For example, maybe the director tried a new approach, or was the staging more traditional?You should expect to read about the actors approach to the roles, for example if it was done in a traditional way or in a new way. There might be details summarizing their acting skills, if they were believable, false, and of course their names should be quoted along with some of their past performances, so you can compare your favorite actors.There should be details about the stage set, the costumes and lighting, these details can give you an idea how good a play it is, if there has been a lot of effort into these categories, then perhaps there is attention to detail throughout the performance. Of course, it might be a stage set with 1 or 2 actors, and minimal does not necessarily mean, poor. The review will give guidance!It might be nice to read if the 'reviewer' would go again to see the performance himself, then you know it can be worth seeing..Good reviews will then lead on to details of the performance, like the times and days it is on, the running time. Some of the London theatre reviews might also provide you with recommendations of what to see next, where to buy good value tickets, any contact information about the venue. All these little details to help you decide if it is something you want to consider viewing! Please note: Opinions expressed on the londontheatredirect.com blog are those of the relevant contributors, not of London Theatre Direct Ltd, its owners or staff. London Theatre Direct Ltd is not responsible for the accuracy of any of the information supplied by contributors.


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BOISE, ID--(Marketwire - April 1, 2010) - PCS Edventures!.com, Inc. (OTCBB: PCSV), a leading provider of K-12 programs that focus on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), today announced that Robert O. Grover, the company's COO, President and Chief Technology Officer, has adopted a prearranged trading plan in accordance with guidelines specified by Rule 10b5-1 under the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 and the company's policies related to sales by insiders.
Rule 10b5-1 permits public company officers, directors and other insiders to adopt written, pre-arranged stock trading plans when they are not in possession of material nonpublic information. Using these plans, insiders may gradually diversify investment portfolios and spread stock sales over a period of time, regardless of any material nonpublic information they may receive after adopting the plan.
Under his 10b5-1 plan, Mr. Grover intends to sell, each month for twelve months beginning in April 2010, that number of shares of PCS common stock necessary to generate $5,000 plus brokerage commissions. In accordance with Rule 10b5-1, Mr. Grover will not have any discretion over timing or amount of sales of PCS stock under his plan. Prior to the effective date of the plan, Mr. Grover sold 24,738 shares of PCS common stock to help meet personal financial planning goals. This 10b5-1 plan will facilitate the orderly sale of common stock for personal financial planning purposes with the goal of minimizing any market impact and avoiding any concerns about the timing of the transactions. Mr. Grover's sales of PCS stock under this plan will be publicly reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission in accordance with applicable securities laws, rules and regulations.
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Love, money, clipboards, and YOU all combine to make a tactical, dialogue-driven game of persuasion!
Love, money, clipboards, and YOU all combine to make a tactical, dialogue-driven game of persuasion!
7/6/12 EDIT: Thank you thank you thank you to everyone who contributed! Alas, it looks like the game won't receive funding, but I'm going to continue to develop it anyway! It won't be as ambitious, but the game will still be an awesome canvassing experience, and you can follow updates at http://www.jacksonlango.com! Thanks again!
Hi, I'm Jackson Lango and I'm working on a new game! It's called Canvasser. It's a quick and tactical game of persuasioninspired by my own canvassing experiences!
A big, corporate retail chain has decided to clearcut your town's beautiful forest and move in! The only way you can stop them is by asking people on the streets for money. This strange behavior is also known as canvassing.
As a street canvasser, you have to make the people you talk to care about the forest and trust you to save it. You have to make them want to give you money. Every moment you'll be thinking, "What topics will make this gal care?" or "How much money should I ask for?" or "Does this guy even have any money?" Each decision matters, because if you don't raise enough money in time, your neighboring, mystical forest could be gone the next day.
Canvasser translates real-life canvassing action into a tactical, menu-based game of persuasion. It takes gameplay and dialogue, and combines them into a really unique set of mechanics! At the moment, Canvasser is in pre-alpha, and exists in a arcade-y, one-round state. The base game is complete, but the scope is small. The potential however, is big, and I'm determined to explore it.
I'm going to do that by adding tons of civilian responses to keep the player on their toes, and by fleshing out the town with unique locations that each have their own strategic value. I'll add tons of facial features and clothing items to make the civilians and character creator as varied and encompassing as possible. I'll make the player's interactions with co-workers and other NPCs actually depend on how much they trust you, opening up a bunch of branching paths through the campaign. Finally, I want to add a strong narrative backbone to the entire experience, with hard-won fights, lovable characters, and everything else that makes a story great. I am determined to explore Canvasser's potential.
To pull off this vision as a full-time student, I'm going to need to hire a programmer and an artist to help me, as well as pay my musician who's already on board. And that's gonna cost money. That's where you come in. Together, we can rock the world with the most balls-to-the-wall, fantastic canvassing game our planet Earth has ever seen. Together we can move beyond the awkward half-dialogue, half-action games of the past, with mechanics that combine both as a unique whole. So grab your clipboard, uncap your pen, and together let's become Canvassers.
Who's making the game?
With the funds from Kickstarter, a few trusted partners and I will bring the world of Canvasser to life. I am Jackson Lango and I've been developing games independently for six years. I also spent my last summer canvassing! I've been working on the game Canvasser for the past five months, and recently submitted an alpha build to the GameSIG Intercollegiate Game Showcase where it won the Penguin award! If you'd like to know more about me and the game, check out the blurb to the bottom-right, or visit my website where I blog about development!
How much will the game cost?
Zero! Zilch! This game will be absolutely free! That means no DRM or paid DLC either! Pretty good deal, huh?
When will the game be released?
I'm expecting this game to be done in January 2013, provided we survive our Mayan apocalypse. However, I should be able to start Beta tests in the last months of 2012, and continue them right up to release.
What systems will Canvasser support?
Canvasser will support PC and Mac. If the Kickstarter funds really start pouring in, we might be able to add more formats as well ;).
What will the system requirements be?
Canvasser should run smoothly on most low-end computers. The game's system requirements will be equal to the requirements of the latest version of Adobe Flash Player at the time of release, which is viewable at the following link: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/tech-specs.html
What is SOW and why does it keep getting mentioned in the recorded gameplay?
SOW is the fictional canvassing organization that you work for in Canvasser. It stands for Saviors of Wildlife.
Questions about this project? Check out the FAQ
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Are you considering enrolling in audio engineering courses in Dallas, TX? Below you will find a brief summary of what you can expect to gain from doing so. First, let's examine just what an audio engineer is. Audio engineers do much more than record music–they are artists in their own right, and often producers, collaborating with musicians to sculpt the sound of each song. Too, they are experts in a wide variety of technologies, techniques, and recording equipment. Now, here is an overview of the kinds of equipment you can expect to become familiar with. In summary, you will be Read more


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Oscar Auction Nets $3 Million for Statuettes
The best-screenplay trophy awarded to Herman Mankiewicz for "Citizen Kane" fetched $588,455 in the Los Angeles sale.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Fifteen Academy Awards statuettes from the 1930s and '40s, including the Best Screenplay Oscar given to Herman Mankiewicz for Citizen Kane, have been sold at a Los Angeles auction.
Auction house Nate D. Sanders said Tuesday that the sales totaled more than $3 million.
Mankiewicz's 1941 award sold for $588,455, more than double its auction price from 1999.
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The 1941 Best Picture award, for How Green Was My Valley, went for $274,520. It was last sold in 2004 for $95,600.
A statuette for Cavalcade, 1933's Best Picture, brought in $332,165.
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Bob is a industry recognized figure with 32+ years of experience in Automatic Identification including 15 years of experience in deploying RFID systems around the world.
Before founding Star Systems International, Bob managed APAC RFID marketing acitivities of Sirit and then, through acquisition, Federal Signal Technologies. In prior years Bob worked for over 20 years years in the Auto ID Industry while at Sato America Inc and Avery Dennison in senior executive marketing positions.
Bob has been a pioneer and industry leader in working with ISO 18000-6C standards for AVI (Automatic Vehicle Identification) applications such as E-Tolling, Electronic Vehicle Registration and Parking & Access Control Systems. With his entrepreneurial spirit, he was the innovator of early designs of online - automatic commerce, web based prospect tracking systems and various web based interactive marketing tools such as interactive label pricing inquiries, reseller/credit application, most of which are still in use presently.
Bob has Served as Chairman of Telecom Industry Forum's (TCIF) Barcode Committee and was a member of TCIF's executive board. He was a founding executive board member of AIM North America.
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Stephen has 16+ years of experience as a software developer, including 11 years of worldwide experience working with UHF readers, tags and applications. Previsiously he served in senior positions with Sirit, Federal Signal Technologies and 3M. At SSI, Stephen leads the development and management of products and systems. Stephen also manages STAR Systems' Application and Solutions Engineering and Product Management teams.
Stephen continues to be a world figure in the development of readers, tags and systems, along with the deployment and implementation for RFID projects using ISO 18000 6C / EPC Class 1 Gen 2 in Tolling, Access Control, Logistics and Retail.
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Ava has over 15 years of business development experience within the Intelligent Transportation industry plus 7 years of experience in the Passive RFID Industry. She is one of the original founders of STAR Systems International and is responsible for the business development and operations of Star Systems International. Before working for Star, Ava worked for various global corporations promoting Intelligent Transportation Systems including a pioneering role in ISO 18000-6C technology in vehicle identifications systems such as Electronic Toll Collection, Electronic Vehicle Registration, Congestion Pricing etc.
Ava holds a Master of Science in Information and Technology Management from Chinese University of Hong Kong and a Bachelor degree of Business Administration from The University of Hong Kong. Ava also holds professional qualifications as a Member of Project Management Institute (PMP) and a Member of Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM).
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Jet is an original founder and the Senior Manager of R&D for Star Systems International (SSI). Jet has over 7 years of experience as an application engineer working with passive UHF RFID technologies. In previous professional positions, Jet worked as an application engineer, serving customers with deployment of RFID projects (readers, tags and systems) using the ISO 18000-6C /EPC global Class 1 Generation 2 communications protocol in vehicle tolling, parking, control, logistics and retail systems.
In his role as Senior Manager of R&D at SSI, Jet is responsible for surveying the latest innovative technologies and ensuring that SSI provides robust products for its customers. Jet also directs new product testing and SSI's value add services to its customer base. Jet also is a world-class expert on designing and implementing E-Tolling Lane Systems utilizing passive RFID technology. Jet has had key roles in developing and deploying 6-C passive tolling systems in Taiwan, Turkey, India, Hong Kong and the Philippines.
Jet holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Cardiff University along with a Bachelor of Science degree from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
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Chris Cheung is STAR Systems International's Senior Manager of Technical Marketing. Chris has over 6 years of experience as a RFID application engineer working with tags and applications all over the world. In previous professional positions with Sirit and Federal Signal Technologies, Chris played key roles in various deployments of RFID projects in vehicle tolling, access control, logistic and retail applications. Chris has been personally involved in providing technical on-the-ground support, testing and deployment of ISO 18000-6C RFID products and applications (vehicle and non-vehicle) in over 15 countries world wide.
In his role as Senior Manager of Technical Marketing at SSI, Chris is responsible for providing pre/post-sales technical support and managing SSI's value-add services to customers. He is also responsible for providing marketing support on technical material for STAR's commercial team.
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Thousands of migrant farm workers who arrived in Palm Beach County in recent weeks are living in homes inadequate to withstand a major late-season storm such as Hurricane Kate, officials said Monday.
Of particular concern are about 5,000 migrant farm workers who arrived here in mid-October for the beginning of the tomato and bell pepper harvest, officials said. Many live in mobile homes that can be demolished instantly in a major storm.
Also of concern are about 9,000 Jamaican sugar-cane cutters who are housed in barracks-style concrete-block homes in the Belle Glade area. They showed up when the cane harvest began in early October.
The hurricane season lasts from June 1 to Nov. 30, but storms this late in the year are rare.
``My primary concern is, because it`s late in the (hurricane) season, we have a lot of farm workers here now,`` said B.T. Kennedy, director of the county`s Office of Emergency Management. ``Anytime you have a late-season storm, this becomes a serious concern to us.``
``If a dangerous hurricane hits us, there could be real devastation,`` said Donna Goray, chairwoman of the South County Migrant Coordinating Council.
Belle Glade Police Chief Michael Miller and Ernesto Gonzalez, coordinator of the Boynton Beach-based migrant coordinating council, both reported potential problems in their areas should Hurricane Kate turn northward and strike Palm Beach County with its full force.
Miller said a recent survey showed there were 2,700 mobile homes in western Palm Beach County, many occupied by agricultural workers. About 7,000 people live in the trailers, he said.
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The Cleveland Browns will face the Baltimore Ravens tonight and no replacement referees will be used. The National Football League's (NFL) lockout of referees represented by the NFL Referees Association (NFLRA) has come to a conclusion upon both sides agreeing on terms for a new eight-year collective bargaining agreement. NFLRA referees must still ratify the new agreement before it is completely enforceable, but at least for the meantime, the old referees that we have come to love and desire (at least temporarily) will be back on the gridiron.
It was early June when the NFL and the NFLRA first broke off talks, but not until after negotiations commenced regarding the structure of a potential new agreement between the league and the referees' union. Almost a full four months later, after many blown calls by replacement referees (including a missed pass interference call against Golden Tate and a wrongfully called touchdown, which led to a win for the Seattle Seahawks against the Green Bay Packers in this past week's Monday Night Football match-up), and the reluctance by both NFL owners and NFLRA leadership to make any concessions, the parties have reached an agreement. The referees represented by the NFLRA will be returning to the field and the replacement refs will be a relic of the past. The tipping point that led to a new agreement was most likely the aforementioned blown call in the Seahawks vs. Packers game and the ensuing discourse on social media outlets and in more traditional publications. In June, NFL spokesman Greg Aiello wrote,
"The officials we are hiring are professionals who officiate games at a high level and have backgrounds similar to current NFL officials. We have every confidence that the officials who we bring on will do a fully credible job, and will manage our games efficiently and effectively enforce the playing rules."
Try reconciling Aiello's statement with the revelation that the NFL used a replacement referee who, according to the commissioner of the Lingerie Football League (LFL), had previously been fired by the LFL because of incompetence.
Since replacement referees first hit the field, people clamored that the use of said referees put the NFL players' health and safety in jeopardy. More recently, the chief concern by pundits has been that the NFL risked permanently tarnishing the integrity of the game through the use of replacement refs.
While the tipping point may have been the Seahawks vs. Packers game, the sticking point in negotiations had been the Game Officials Pension Plan. The NFL wanted to freeze and phase out the Plan, which was established by the NFL in 1974 to provide benefits to retired referees. On one hand, the NFL is bringing in revenues in excess of $9 billion per year and should be able and willing to provide unionized referees benefits under the Plan. The NFLRA even offered to limit benefits under the Plan to current referees through the use of a "grandfather clause." On the other hand, the NFL had already put major increases in average salary for unionized referees (who are part-time workers) on the table. The new collective bargaining agreement will mandate that the Plan remains in effect for five years, with increases in benefits, before turning into a 401k style plan.
In the end, the NFL and NFLRA have reached an agreement (pending approval by NFLRA members) and it will be back to business as usual. And just like the days of old, consumers of the NFL will criticize the calls made on the field.
Darren Heitner is an attorney at Wolfe Law Miami, P.A. in Miami, Florida, Founder of Sports Agent Blog, and Professor of Sport Agency Management at Indiana University. Follow him at @DarrenHeitner and learn more about him at http://www.darrenheitner.com.


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Hey, it's been a while. Let's just jump right into things. Last year I tried to cut back on unnecessary spending (aka makeup and fun things – but perhaps the only positive in this list), moved into a room that was windowless and uninspiring (I now realize I feed a lot of my energy through my environment), and generally stressed myself out over work, projects, and stupidly impossible attempts at getting rid of a slight muffin top in four days or less (there is no miracle cure). All of these things pushed my personal creativity out the window. And I one-hundred percent forgot I have a blog.
Now, I never have been and likely never will be an extremely committed, dedicated blogger. However, I do need to tap back into writing, photos, anything to whir my creativity up again to keep myself accountable for living a life that celebrates the small, from a new lipstick to rediscovering a platform for sappy self-reflection.
This is all a long, rambling intro into my 2017 goals. I have one word that sums it up: mindful.
I want to be more mindful in all that I do. I want to take care of my body, so have started incorporating different exercises hoping that I can stick to some activity and still put off joining a gym (because I really never want to have to do that). I want to take care of my relationships, so am going to try to train the social anxiety out of my system and commit to spending more quality time with friends. I've discovered that I'm inspired by certain bloggers and their journey helps my journey. Like purchasing cookbooks to help guide me in diversifying my diet, cutting out more pasta (my ultimate go-to lazy meal) and being more conscious about trying new foods. I bought and cooked fennel last week. I'd never even noticed fennel in the grocery store before then!
So instead of making a long list of goals that my mundane lifestyle would not support ("get six-pack abs," "make new friends out of the blue," etc.), I am hoping that consciously being more mindful will allow these things to occur naturally. It's a lifestyle change that I'm seeing results from already, and I hope will truly encompass the upcoming year.
And, hey, maybe this will even get me off my butt and take some pictures of the ungodly Sephora haul I indulged myself in last month... We'll see (;


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Terrence Howard is dragging his soon to be ex-wife, Michelle, through the mud in divorce proceedings as being a racist that hates black people using insults such as the N-Word and monkey on the regular, on top of threatening to have Russians take him out!
According to court documents fished up by TMZ, Howard claims that Michelle even threatened to have him killed, I assume Training Day style, by some dog on Russians because allegedly she told Howard that she would have him "clipped".
Terrence Howard, who is starring as Macbett in the upcoming Shakespeare Macbeth remake Caribbean style with Sanaa Lathan, is basically stating that Michelle went coo-coo for clipping in threats of killing him and didn't even want to be step parent to a bunch of black kids either.
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Titus logged on to the ABC7 Facebook page to tell us about her friend, Ester "Martha" Lazo.
Lazo is a single parent of two and is currently out of work. Her car recently died, she struggles to pay the rent and has been forced to move several times.
Titus says through it all, Lazo has managed to keep a smile on her face, which is why Titus was grateful to pay it forward.
When Titus handed her friend the money, Lazo's surprised face said it all.
"I'm just totally surprised," Lazo said. "I'm just so shy and I would never be thinking people would be doing something like that, it's just amazing."
Lazo said the money will go to her kids She introduced us to her daughter, and also told us about her son.
"I have another son, he's 8 years old and goes to school, and having just to get him his clothes is hard," she said.
In the end, Titus seemed to be just as grateful as Lazo to be a part of Pay it Forward.
"From the bottom of my heart, it feels so good to me to be able to give to the people that I love so much," Titus said.
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Don't hassle with the Geeks
A random meeting in early 2009 between myself and Saadia Zahid, the director of Dubai's funky art/workspace The Shelter, led to The Shelter being the venue for the first GeekFest, an event intended as an experiment – an offline social for online socialisers.
A date was set and then everyone just forgot about it. This happened again before a commitment was made and GeekFest finally took place.
It was the subject of huge speculation. Would these 'geek' people stand around and simply fail to communicate? Would they sit buried in their smartphones and refuse to talk to each other? The reality couldn't have been more different – over a hundred excited people gathered, chatting animatedly, meeting up physically for the first time with people they'd met online. The atmosphere was electric and the consensus within what would become a community of sorts was undoubtedly 'let's do it again'.
The original GeekFest concept was built solidly around the anarchy of the Internet, without a formal start or end. When GeekFest 2.0 came along, short talks were added to give the event some sort of focal point. Four fifteen minute 'GeekTalks' were the result, with each speaker being responsible for timekeeping. Over time, this and other 'anarchic pillars' of the GeekFest concept were to fall. Idealism is all very well, but expecting human beings to have enough respect for each other to limit their own time in the limelight was a step too far. The talks overran horribly, but to the audience packed in The Shelter's small private screening room, it didn't matter.
The talkers weren't corporate bots trotting out tried and tested platitudes but end users talking about their enthusiasms and achievements, their plans and aspirations. From Mosque 2.0 (a design for the future of Islamic worship) to the future of publishing and HDR Photography through to Islamic Pampers, fashion blogging and online radio, the talks seemed somehow more like something you'd find in Prague or Berlin rather than Dubai. The idea expanded with technology showcases, allowing companies to attend GeekFest for a fee but limiting their behaviour to respectfully joining a conversation rather than blatantly promoting and disrupting attendees – the ethos was still strongly anti-brand, anti-corporate and anti-organisation, so much in fact that companies had to sign a contract promising not to 'hassle the geeks'.
This whole approach to GeekFest came to be dubbed UN-organising – the idea being that an event where nobody is told what to do or where to go isn't so much organised or disorganised but wilfully un-organised.
Taking place every two months at a time when the Middle East was first starting to leap into social media, GeekFest grew. Soon there was a GeekFest Beirut, which changed the rules to suit that city's unique environment. While GeekFest Dubai was so scrupulously inclusive as to be a 'dry' event, GeekFest Beirut had a bar – but the idea was the same, a meeting of digitally-minded people with talks put together by 'the community'. With a clear demand for the idea to be exported, a GeekFest Manifesto was put together – the 'GeekiFesto' and other GeekFests joined in. GeekFest Amman, GeekFest Cairo, GeekFest Abu Dhabi, GeekFest Sharjah, GeekFest Damascus and GeekFest Jeddah were to follow. Some of these became regular events (Beirut has settled down to an annual cycle, the last one including fashion shows and rock gigs), others (Damascus, obviously) were destined to be one-offs.
Probably GeekFest Dubai's finest moment came when Sara Refai gave a GeekTalk about working as a teacher in Ramallah over Skype. Sara brought us the story of Ola Abu Jarmous, a little Palestinian girl with a life threatening tumor and the GeekFest community reacted with remarkable compassion and decisiveness, collaborating to raise the $18,000 that saved Ola's life. The Tedx talk by the director of the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, Steve Sosebee, says it all. It showed that communities brought together by digital technologies could truly come together and drive remarkable social activism.
Saadia moved to New York in 2011 and The Shelter moved to a new venue in 2012 – GeekFest never really recovered from the loss and faltered. There hasn't been a GeekFest Dubai in over six months. Now the team behind popular online magazine T-Break have joined together with Dubai's hot-desking café/workspace Make Business Hub to bring GeekFest alive again – the 28th March will see GeekFest – The YouTube Edition taking place from 7pm in the Al Fattan Tower at Jumeirah Beach Residences. With a new team behind it and a mandate to boldly go where no GeekFest has gone before, it looks as if it's set to become a regular event on the Dubai digital community's calendar yet again.
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Cyril Parks (Cy)
This character is the Electric Michelangelo of the novel's title who is a master tattoo artist on two continents.
Reeda Parks
This character is Cy's mother and the owner of the Bayview Hotel, a seaside resort catering to consumptives.
Eliot Riley
This character is the foul-mouthed, binge-drinking master tattoo artist in Morecambe to whom Cy apprentices.
Cy's downstairs neighbor, a bareback rider and tightrope walker on Coney Island, this character keeps her horse, Maximus, in her Brooklyn apartment.
Charles Henry (Henry) Beausang III
This character is a Georgia-born drunkard who becomes friends with Cy in Brooklyn.
Malcolm Sedak
This character is a Brooklyn chess player and religious fanatic who conceives the plan to restore Grace's tattooed body to God's original purity.
Mrs. Baxter
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INDIANAPOLIS — Shortly before he left home for Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Marco Andretti watched a documentary that showed his grandfather Mario at the famed track.
"It was him and (radio announcer) Paul Page, they were walking down the start-finish line and (Mario) said, 'You know, I always said I hated this place,' " Andretti recalled. "And then he paused for a while and said, 'I lied.' That pretty much tells it all. We've been through a lot here, but we live for it."
Five drivers from the famed Andretti clan have combined to make 67 starts in the Indianapolis 500. Mario's 1969 victory remains the lone win, and the family has been answering questions about the "Andretti Curse" for decades.
Michael Andretti might have had it worst, never getting a chance to drink the celebratory milk despite leading 431 laps in 16 career starts — by far the most at Indy for a nonwinner.
But it has not been any easier for Marco, the third-generation driver who has suffered his own share of heartache at Indy. He was passed by Sam Hornish on the final straightaway in 2006, when he raced as a 19-year-old rookie with his father in the field. Hornish won, and Marco and Michael finished second and third.
Marco believes he gave away the 2008 race, which was won by Scott Dixon while Andretti finished third. There was another third-place finish in 2010, then he went into last year's race convinced it was "mine to lose."
"And we lost it," he said Thursday with a shrug.
Upset with his car all day, even as he led a race-high 59 laps, an ill-timed caution shuffled Andretti back into the field after a pit stop. He struggled with his car's handling and crashed out 13 laps from the finish.
Andretti, 26, has another shot today when he starts third, on the front row for the first time. Funny thing is, he wasn't even focused on qualifying, and the best starting spot of his career was something of a surprise.
All five of the Andretti Autosport entries — the team Michael owns — have been fast this month, and teammates James Hinchcliffe and Ryan Hunter-Reay combined to win three of the first four races this year.
Andretti, meanwhile, is off to the best start of his career after a focused offseason of figuring out what he needed to do to be better. The results are two podium this year including in St. Petersburg, and he is second in the IndyCar standings.
"Marco sort of woke up halfway through last year and decided that he needed to be better for himself," said Hinchcliffe, this year's winner in St. Petersburg. "The effort we saw over the offseason was a big change. He is a different guy. He was at the shop a lot more, he contacted his engineer a lot more, he was really focusing on himself a lot more. And it shows.
"I think he's going to have a breakout year, and I hate to admit it, but this one might be his. This guy gets Indy better than most."
His grandfather sees it, too.
"He just loves this joint," Mario Andretti said. "He knows his way around here, and he has excellent race craft here."
Andretti doesn't harp on the offseason work, which came at the end of a season in which Hunter-Reay won his first championship and Hinchcliffe had a breakout year in his first season with Andretti Autosport. The namesake, meanwhile, finished a career-worst 15th in the standings.
So he worked with a driving coach, studied his weaknesses and recommitted himself to his career. It's no coincidence he now admits racing simply wasn't fun for him last year.
All that work has helped him recapture his love of racing.
But four-time IndyCar champion Dario Franchitti, who has known Andretti since he was a kid and was his teammate in 2006-07, said the joy everyone sees now comes from running well on the track — something Andretti has worked hard for.
"Marco has really calmed down. He just seems a lot more focused, but I don't want to use that word because that would be a disservice to what he's done before," Franchitti said. "But I think he's got his priorities straight."
And Franchitti notes that Andretti races with a pressure no one else in IndyCar can understand.
"Marco has something that none of us have — he's got to live up to his name," Franchitti said. "He's not his grandfather, and he's not his father, and a lot of fans will never forgive him for that. They are savage about him, and they were the same with Michael because Michael wasn't Mario. And so even when Marco does something well, Marco can never do anything right. And that's not his fault."
Andretti's birthright can be a burden, but it also gave him a magical childhood of hanging around the old speedway motel, listening to announcer Tom Carnegie, and figuring out ways to sneak into the garage at the Brickyard.
So it's difficult to keep from dreaming about kissing the yard of bricks.
"I have to stop myself from thinking what it would be like," Andretti said. "I think it would be so emotional for the family. That one victory is going to make up for a lot of things. God willing, that would be awesome."


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Home > WSU Press > Human Biology > Vol. 82 (2010) > Iss. 4
Volume 82, Issue 4 (2010)
Ancient Local Evolution of African mtDNA Haplogroups in Tunisian Berber Populations
Sabeh Frigi, Lotfi Cherni, Karima Fadhlaoui-zid, and Amel Benammar-Elgaaied
Biocultural Emergence of the Amazigh (Berbers) in Africa: Comment on Frigi et al. (2010)
S. O. Y. Keita
Association of D16S515 Microsatellite with Specific Language Impairment on Robinson Crusoe Island, an Isolated Chilean Population: A Possible Key to Understanding Language Development
Pia Villanueva, Lilian Jara, and Hernan Palomino
Genetic Characterization of Indigenous Peoples from Oaxaca, Mexico, and Its Relation to Linguistic and Geographic Isolation
Consuelo D. Quinto-Cortés, Luis A. Arriola, Gianella García-Hughes, Rodrigo García-López, Diana P. Molina, Margarita Flores, Rafael Palacios, and Daniel Piñero
Genetic Analysis of Six Communities of Mbyá-Guaraní Inhabiting Northeastern Argentina by Means of Nuclear and Mitochondrial Polymorphic Markers
Andrea Sala, Carina F. Argüelles, Miguel E. Marino, Cecilia Bobillo, Alberto Fenocchio, and Daniel Corach
Autochthony and HLA Frequencies in the Netherlands: When Surnames Are Useless Markers
Franz Manni and Bruno Toupance
Letter to the Editor: Response to Cavalli-Sforza Interview [Human Biology 82(3):245–266 (June 2010)]
John Novembre and Matthew Stephens


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Office for People With Developmental Disabilities
Use of Employees and Employees' Relatives as Vendors (Follow-Up)
Issued: September 28, 2012
Link to full audit report 2012-F-4
To determine the extent of implementation of the seven recommendations included in our original report, Use of Employees and Employees' Relatives as Vendors (2007-S-90).
Our initial report, issued December 20, 2007, reviewed payments to vendors or individuals for home maintenance and repair services and for respite care/sitter services between January 1, 2005 and November 30, 2006. Our objective was to determine whether the Central New York Developmental Disabilities Services Office (Central NY DDSO) was complying with State law when it used employees or employees' relatives as vendors.
Our initial audit found that some of the vendors hired by the Central NY DDSO to provide maintenance and repair services at the group homes were relatives of employees at the DDSO. We examined 113 of these transactions and found that, in most all instances, there was no indication other vendors were given an opportunity to provide the services and no assurance a reasonable price was paid for the services. Also, documentation in our sample of home maintenance transactions often lacked important details making it difficult to determine what kind of maintenance or repair work was supposed to have been done by the relative-vendors. Also, we found some of the sitters hired by Central NY DDSO were also full-time Central NY DDSO employees. One of these employees was fraudulently paid on numerous occasions for providing sitter services at the same time that she was being paid to perform her regular duties.
Key Findings
- Office officials have made significant progress correcting problems identified in our initial report. Five of the seven recommendations have been fully implemented. One recommendation is no longer applicable and one other has been partially implemented.
- Officials made considerable progress ensuring transactions comply with NYS Guidelines, especially when vendors are related to agency employees. However, we found one instance where a vendor, who is related to several Central NY DDSO employees, was hired and paid over $12,000 over three years. The procurement of these services were split over several different purchase orders to avoid competition.
Key Recommendations
- Officials are given 30 days after the issuance of the follow-up review to provide information on any actions that are planned to address the unresolved issues discussed in this review.
Other Related Audits/Reports of Interest
Physical Plant Procurement Practices at Central New York Developmental Disabilities Services Office Report 2007-S-136
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ANA HOLDINGS Announces New CEO and Chairman
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ANA HOLDINGS announced changes to its board. Shinya Katanozaka, Senior Executive Vice President, will succeed Shinichiro Ito as President and CEO from 1 April while Mr. Ito will take over from Yoji Ohashi as Chairman of ANA HD on the same date.
Mr. Katanozaka joined ANA in 1979, after graduating from Tokyo University's Faculty of Law. He has held a wide range of senior positions within the group, and was one of the key architects of ANA's new holding company structure put in place two years ago. He is aged 59.
In his 36 years at ANA, Mr. Katanozaka has led a number of the company's major divisions, including corporate planning, marketing & sales, products & services strategy, Customer Satisfaction promotion and personnel.
Mr. Ito was appointed President and CEO of ANA in April 2009 and became President and CEO of ANA HD in 2013. During his leadership of the group, ANA has become Japan's biggest airline by passenger numbers and revenues and has embarked on a major expansion of its international network.
Mr. Ohashi, who became Chairman of ANA in April 2005 after previously serving as the company's President and CEO, will continue to act as a Corporate Counselor of ANA HD.
Mr. Katanozaka joined the board of ANA in 2009 when he was named Senior Vice President, Marketing & Sales, Customer Satisfaction Promotion, Products & Services Strategy. Under his leadership, ANA introduced the 'Inspiration of JAPAN' brand and its fully-flat seat in Business Class. The achievement led ANA to be awarded Japan's first '5-Star airline' by SKYTRAX in 2013.
Prior to taking up this position, Mr. Katanozaka was Senior Vice President for Personnel, during which time he contributed to the strengthening of training and human resource development in the group. In April 2012, he was appointed as Senior Executive Vice President, Corporate Planning. He played an important role in executing the strategic transition to a new holding company structure. In April 2013, ANA Group moved to a holding company structure and Mr. Katanozaka was appointed Senior Executive Vice President of ANA HD.


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Neverland is a scary place!
Good afternoon fellow Horror Buffs! I find that I'm getting really lucky with all the horror novels I've read lately. Every title I pick up seems to be a winner!
Today's pick is Neverland by Douglas Clegg. Neverland takes us off the coast of Georgia to Gull Island where our family summers. On this particular summer, Beau Jackson finds his cousin Sumter playing around in a torn down shack. Sumter explains that the shack is really Neverland where his god Lucy lives. Bored and wanting to get away from the arguing adults, Beau and his cousins escape to Neverland. Things turn dark when Sumter starts asking the cousins to do various bad deeds which include killing and sacrificing animals. These activities make Beau second guess his participation with Neverland and starts a mental battle between good vs evil.
Neverland is a deeply disturbing yet fascinating read. The fact that the kids are the ones participating in such acts made me very nervous but I could not put the book down. I needed to see what happened between Sumter and Beau and Neverland. I hope that you get a chance to pick up Neverland and read it for yourself.


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Why I love Wes Anderson
David from Liverpool band The Ragamuffin's discusses the history of his Wes Anderson obsession and why everybody loves a good failure
21 February 2014
"My first encounter with Wes Anderson wasn't actually through his cinematic work at all. In order to milk the internet for all its worth before the piracy laws were changed a few years ago, one of my University housemates was intent on hoovering up as much of the critically acclaimed listening and viewing content that he could while he could, in order to, presumably, expand his cultural horizons for years to come. It was whilst perusing some of the latest acquisitions to his expanding mp3 library that I came across some collections of songs in his "film soundtracks" folder and thus, through my curiosity to discover what sort of film could possibly encompass the eclectic yet brilliant mix of music on these soundtracks that my love of the Wes Anderson universe was born.
To alleviate any fears of F.A.C.T (the copyright theft folks, not the Liverpool gallery and cinema prompting me to write this article) I must stress that I now own proper copies of all of Mr Anderson's back catalogue. I also own a pair of white Adidas Rom trainers with blue stripes and yellow laces. I own a bright red beanie hat. Oh, and I bought a Femmes de Paris compilation record almost immediately after being bewitched by Francoise Hardy's musical contribution to Moonrise Kingdom. Furthermore, you might recognise the font that The Ragamuffins have used on the artwork for our last two EPs….
So why exactly do Wes Anderson's films resonate with me so strongly? Well, to start with, the environments his characters inhabit, at once anachronistic but still truly believable, display such attention to detail in the wardrobe and set layouts that they have you coming back time and again to pick up on something you missed on first, second or third viewing (I only noticed recently that in using Search And Destroy on the soundtrack to The Life Aquatic, the David Bowie theme was beautifully continued as Iggy's Raw Power album was produced by the thin white Duke himself!).
It feels like you can reach out and touch the realms that his characters play out their tragedies in, to the sound of Mark Mothersburgh's wonderfully eccentric and charming scores. But all of these aspects, wrapped up in such gorgeous cinematography and awash with lush palettes of amber and gold can only get you so far.
No, what truly drives his films into my heart is the gibbering, useless wrecks that most of his characters are. From the illicit love harbouring, post meltdown Richie Tenenbaum to Peter Whitman hiding from his imminent fatherhood through to Dignan's desperate pipe dream of running an Ocean's Eleven style heist, Anderson's protagonists are flawed, crisis-riddled individuals and frequently have an inherent reluctance to grow up. Failure in films shouldn't just be the mid-feature, montage-strewn snapshot where Tom Cruise's hero has a crisis of confidence and temporarily questions his ability as a fighter-pilot, racing car driver or cocktail waiter before resuming his awesomeness.
In reality, our fleeting successes stand out as the marked contrast to the relative mundanity of our everyday lives, no matter how hard our Twitter accounts try to suggest otherwise. This is true of so many of Anderson's characters and films, and witnessing the attempts to manage their respective falls from relative grace is far more entertaining and engaging than an inevitable and predictable march to a climactic triumph. The old cliche reads that you learn more from failure than success, but similarly you discover more and warm to the characters more in Anderson's world through witnessing, even enjoying, their often spectacular failures. From a brief viewing of the The Grand Budapest Hotel trailer this theme looks set to be wonderfully continued through Ralph Fiennes' role as an octogenarian-bedding hotel owner schooling his young disciple in the ways of his trade. I imagine that given the frankly glorious cast lists that continually turn up to work on his projects I'm far from alone in my admiration of our Wes."
The We <3 Wes Anderson Season continues every Monday throughout February and March. Up next, on Monday 24 February is The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.
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Just a quick post today to show you the nailtastophe that I experienced last night. See, we were having a few people over to watch the Superbowl so I opened (or, at least I tried to open) our coat closet to get a couple of extra chairs out. Sadly, the door was caught on something and I broke my nail on the knob.
The break was too bad to do any damage control so I had no other choice but to cut it, and thus the rest of my nails, down. And of course, it was my photo hand that experienced the break. So now I'm rockin' shorties. I actually don't mind them so much except for my index nail (which is the one I broke off).
I took a couple of quick photos (with my phone so excuse the quality) of the damage so I'll post them below. Excuse the yellowing of my nails though! I've been meaning to have a whitening session but most times I don't even see the point in it since I'm always wearing polish.
Anyways, take a look at my nailtastrophe and the aftermath:
And here's the culprit:
I usually paint my nails on Sunday evenings but after this, I didn't feel like doing any nail art so I just painted on a nude creme shade. I used Zoya Kennedy from the Feel Collection so I'll show you that in a separate post.
Have you had any recent nailtastrophes? What did you do?


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By Amanda Orr
HOUSTON (Reuters) - A 14-year-old Texas boy was discovered living for nearly three days at a Walmart store by carving out hiding places in shelves stacked with products while foraging for food in other aisles, police and news reports said on Wednesday.
The boy slept in two makeshift shelters hidden from public view at a store in Corsicana, one in the baby gear aisle behind boxes of strollers and the other behind bulk paper towels and toilet paper, according to CBS Dallas.
After he was discovered on July 30, "the juvenile was transported to the police department and later that night to the care of licensed professionals for follow-up care," police in Corsicana, 50 miles (80 km) southeast of Dallas, said on Wednesday.
Child protective services said they have been looking into the case.
Police said they were notified that the boy had run away from his aunt's home, where he was visiting while his parents were out of town.
The boy's mother told police he has a history of running away and hiding in businesses and abandoned houses and near creeks, police said.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc did not respond to a request for comment.
Store employees discovered the boy, who has not been identified, after a trash trail led to one of his lairs, CBS Dallas said, citing store employees.
The boy is thought to have worn diapers instead of using the store restroom and changed outfits to avoid being detected by store employees, it said.
Still photographs of the boy's stockpile released by the broadcaster showed an opened Pop-Tart box and empty chocolate-milk bottle.
(Writing by Jon Herskovitz; Editing by Mohammad Zargham)


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Reviewing Georgia Tech's win over Virginia Tech on Saturday in Blacksburg, Va:
The game in 100 words or more
It still doesn't make sense, and colleague Jeff Schultz agrees. Georgia Tech, starting its backup quarterback, center, B-back, an A-back and three freshmen on the offensive line, defeated Virginia Tech, which needed a win to clinch a spot in the ACC championship game, 30-20, in Blacksburg, where the Hokies were unbeaten this season.
"I was really proud of our football team," coach Paul Johnson said. "We came in with a few people out and down. We needed our defense to step up and play big, and they did. We got some turnovers, and then we got off the field. Offensively, we were able to find ways to make some big plays and found a way to get it done. We always joke about the offense, that you want to be good up the middle, and we were missing all three – the center, the quarterback and the b-back. Those guys filled in. Since I've been coaching football, I don't know if I ever started three true freshmen on the offensive line, especially on the road. Someone forgot to tell them they were freshmen, they just went out there and played. I am really proud of the team. There is a lot that we can take out of this game and grow from."
Six things that worked well
Matthew Jordan. He started because Justin Thomas couldn't and Jordan looked sharp, very, very sharp in his first start. He rushed for 121 yards and two touchdowns as the offense rushed for 309 yards.
Special teams. Tech blocked its third field goal this season, this time helped by a bad hold in the second quarter. The block preserved the Yellow Jackets' 6-0 lead. Harrison Butker (see below) also had a fine game.
Marcus Marshall. Starting in place of the suspended Dedrick Mills, Marshall had a game-high 143 yards on 19 carries, including one for a 56-yard touchdown.
"Marcus showed up and played well," Johnson said. "I don't know what he ended up with. He only had a 143 yards, so he played really well. Of course, he had a couple of long runs. He hung in there, and he was tough. I always get on Marcus about his blocking. Running is not a problem with Marcus. It never has been. He can run the football."
Lawrence Austin. He had two interceptions, including one in the end zone, and forced a fumble. They were three impact plays for a defense starving for something positive. It was the first time a Tech player picked off two passes in one game since 2011. The fumble he forced was recovered by his brother Lance.
The defense. Fricasseed by Duke and North Carolina for more than 80 points and almost 1,200 yards, the Yellow Jackets gave up 437 yards to the Hokies, but a good chunk of those yards came when the lead was at least two scores big. Additionally, the nation's worst third-down defense held the Hokies, best in the ACC coming into the game, to 6-of-14 conversions.
"I think our defensive players were probably tired of hearing how bad they were," Johnson said. "I think that we played our best defense, especially early in the game. The kids played fast and got lined up. They just kind of played."
Additionally, the Yellow Jackets had five sacks, which is more than half of their season total coming into the game. They were helped because the Jackets were able to play from ahead the whole game. Playing with a lead, and dominating the time of possession, created a psychological vise on the Hokies that contributed to mistakes and poor play.
Tech's coaching staff. For the criticism they have received, including speculation about Johnson's future, they deserve credit for not only motivating the players, but coming up with a game plan that worked on offense and defense. The Yellow Jackets' offense was efficient enough to hold the ball for at least 10 minutes more than the Hokies.
It was the first time that the Yellow Jackets reached 30 points against Virginia Tech under Johnson.
"I'll say this, I think Paul Johnson did a really great job tonight," Virginia Tech defensive coordinator Bud Foster said. "He was one step ahead of me."
One thing that didn't work well
Fumbles. The Yellow Jackets put the ball on the ground many times, including a bizarre pitch by Jordan on a busted play that sailed out of bounds and led to a lengthy review.
Rating the position groups
Borrowing from something that is done with soccer, I'll rate the different position groups game by game using a 1-to-10 system. Ten represents exceptional and one represents a total meltdown. This is just for fun and mostly for conversation, so please don't take it too seriously. Feel free to post your own ratings in the comments section.
Quarterbacks 8. Jordan started well, with Tech owning an 8-minute advantage in time of possession in the first quarter and taking a 6-0 lead. Two fumbles in the first half. He bounced back from that with a 53-yard touchdown run in the second quarter to give the Yellow Jackets a 13-0 lead with 8:06 left. He added a 3-yard touchdown run near the end of the first half.
B-backs 8. The B-backs surpassed 150 yards for the second time in three games.
A-backs 7. All those long runs were the result of great blocks downfield by the A-backs and wide receiver. Isiah Willis was singled out a few times for how he sacrificed his body.
Wide receivers 6. Ricky Jeune had one massive catch for 24 yards and Stewart another for 10 yards.
Offensive line 9. Three freshmen started. There were two false-start penalties on Will Bryan in the first quarter. Still, three freshmen and more than 300 yards rushing….
"It was a tough game, just because of the crowd noise," Cooper said. "It was hard to hear the quarterback and hear the plays and all that, but I think I did fairly decent in this environment."
Defensive line 9. The group had all five sacks and a few hurries. The group had five sacks coming into the game.
Because I banged on them last week with the key stats in the loss to North Carolina, it's only fair I turn it around and do the same this week.
Twenty points (most in garbage time), 437 yards (most in garbage time), five sacks, two hurries, eight tackles for loss, two interceptions.
Linebackers 9. Twenty points (most in garbage time), 437 yards (most in garbage time), five sacks, two hurries, eight tackles for loss, two interceptions.
Cornerbacks 9. Twenty points (most in garbage time), 437 yards (most in garbage time), five sacks, two hurries, eight tackles for loss, two interceptions.
Safeties 9. Twenty points (most in garbage time), 437 yards (most in garbage time), five sacks, two hurries, eight tackles for loss, two interceptions.
Special teams 9. Butker kicked three field goals and was a machine on special teams.
What did next week's opponent do?
Virginia lost to Miami 34-14 in Charlottesville. The Cavs have lost five consecutive games under first-year coach Bronco Mendenhall.
What does this mean for Georgia Tech?
The Yellow Jackets should be fired up because it will be Senior Day. They should be confident after defeating Virginia Tech.
This will be a chance to show that the win in Blacksburg wasn't a fluke.


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On May 23, nine international NYU students hailing from Palestine, Senegal, Jamaica, India, Iran, the Dominican Republic, and Israel departed New York for Santo Domingo. There, they joined twenty-one other students from Haiti, the U.S., and the Dominican Republic to participate in a media based conflict resolution program run in conjunction with New York University's Opportunities Programs and One Race Foundation.
After spending an intensive week absorbing lectures on the sociological and colonial histories dividing the island of Hispaniola, training and learning new technologies and media, meeting President Fernandez, and getting to know one another, the students discussed and reflected on their motivations and impressions of the program so far.
Ayed Fadel, a visiting NYU student from Palestine, enthused over the opportunity this unique program provided to "express himself without limits, with full support for his creative ideas." He was similarly thankful for the opportunity to learn about the Haitian-Dominican conflict- a topic of interest for him since they share the same island, which allows him to reflect more broadly on conflict he personally experiences.
Erez Yosef, a visiting NYU student from Israel, was thankful for the opportunity to engage his interest in communications. Looking back at the first week, he noted that the variety within the group, especially linguistically, highlighted their diversity, while also presenting challenges which they worked to overcome. He observed that the diversity in the group was reminiscent of that in his own society.
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Our summer of 2016 Sixth Form results results proved a record year at St Mary Magdalene. Consequently, our students headed off to a fantastic range of universities including LSE, UCL, Kings, Durham, Warwick, Leeds, St Andrew's, Exeter, Surrey, Bath, Queen Mary and overseas including Texas A&M and Trinity College Dublin.
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Leah Olasehinde gained high grades, which means that she will have reduced tuition fees for the duration of her degree course at King's College London, where she will be reading Law and French.
The IB Diploma students achieved an average point score 34 set against a world average of 30. 10% of those results were a point score of 40 or more out of a possible 45 and for those who are less familiar with the IB, those results are across six subjects!
At A Level it was a similar story of high achievement with 36% of all results at A* or A grade; 60% at A*-B and 90% at A*-C.
Welcoming these results, Victoria Linsley, Headteacher, said: 'Both the A Level and IB results have improved on last year. That's incredible given that we were ranked number five in the country by the Telegraph in the top comprehensives at Sixth Form last year. We're looking forward to this year's 'league tables' with bated breath! I am very proud of the students whose hard work and dedication have led to these results, and of the staff who nurtured them.'
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The rally comes after reports that the school was facing an uncertain future and that Father Michael Pfleger had been asked to take over.
Leo officials told the crowd that enrollment and test scores are up, and they report that a number of seniors have been accepted at some of the best schools in the Midwest.
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As for Pfleger, he says he does not have experience heading a school and wants to remain at St. Sabina where he has been since 1981.


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