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The Bloom© coaching programme is aimed at advanced professional coaches and managers who want to coach executives and future-proof leaders in the VUCA world (Volatile, Uncertain, Chaotic and Ambiguous). This is a revolutionary and pioneering programme, unique on the market, that can be continuously and flexibly adapted to the challenges that characterise our changing world. BLOOM focuses on your growth as a person and as a coach. 'Becoming who you are' is the guiding thread: from static being to dynamically evolving - even if you already know a great deal.
For professional coaches or manager-coaches passionate about overcoming 'barriers' and ensuring that both life and work are meaningful. For those who are ambitious and coaches and/or managers and want to be seen as professional and credible. For those who want to lend shape tot heir first or second career at every level of development: being - thinking - doing - feeling - having. For professional coaches and/or managers who would like to be able to coach with comfort at identity level in both a professional and a personal context.
- Coaches who have successfully completed the GROW programme will be welcome without an intake session.
- Coaches who have not been through the ROOT-GROW programme are also welcome. They are invited for a competency screening based on the 11 ICF competencies at PCC level, followed by personal feedback. By going through this competency screening, you will allow yourself to make a reflective start and set out your developmental objectives for this two-year growth journey. The intake session should be paid for separately.
After BLOOM, you feel comfortable with 'not knowing' - you can cope with the unforeseeable entanglements of these changing times. You have a rich store of methods, insights, procedures, research moments and topics, explorations and confrontations, feedback, intervisions and life coaching experience. You will be able to coach with greater comfort in the following areas:
You will be able to coach with confidence in areas such as:
- I don't like my life as it is now
- Why do I keep on running into the same pitfalls all my life?
- What is the sense of my life? How can I make the best of things?
- I want to be more in balance in my life.
- It feels like I'm heading for burn-out, CVS, depression, etc.
- What is my mission in life?
- I want to restore my self confidence
- I want to live in line with my values
- I don't know how to change things that have dominated my life until now
- I want to take control of my life!
- I want to survive this identity crisis …
- I want to know what drives me, what makes me do things as I do, etc.
To make sure you can guide your clients working from your comfort zone, it is important for you to be aware of your own strengths, pitfalls, survival strategies, drivers and mission. During this course, we will work together on your image of self-realisation, supporting you as you become the professional coach you want to be.
We support you in your efforts to become a challenging coach who intends to enable a 'shift', an unprecedented effect coach without restrictions. This programme gives you:
- A high professional standard as coach
- More successful coaching results, including at senior and executive management level
- Greater impact and sustainable, long-term results
- The latest modern theoretical background and insights that will allow you to better understand the effects of transition processes and influence the process more consciously together with the client
- A deep awareness of your own drivers, your mission, your patterns and your identity beliefs as a coach
- Greater self-regulation and self-leadership
- The ability to recognise therapeutic questions and psychopathological issues and to refer to other professionals with confidence.
- The ability to coach from a role model position
- More enjoyment of your coaching as you are in a co-creative 'flow' together with your client
- Self-confidence and the wish to be able to help with any coaching questions whatsoever
- A lifelong learning process, actively seeing feedback...
The course consists of 12 group training days, 4 half-day group integration supervisions and 2 integration days, making a total of 16 days. Between the modules participants take up their responsibility to take responsibility for integrating what they have learned and applying it in their own practice. The programme is spread over 18 months in order to encourage continuous learning. The results of the learning process are presented in a personal 'portfolio' file.
This 18-month continuous learning process is supported by:
- 4 half-day group supervisions, overseen by MCC-certified coaches. During these supervisions, you will demonstrate what you have integrated from the previous module and you will receive systematic feedback on your 11 ICF competencies and the level of integration of new methods and knowledge.
- Support: specific questions can be asked by email or by telephone
- Integration tasks: between the modules, we ask participants to try out and apply what has been covered during the previous module, either on the own process and/or on the process with clients. A reflection on the results is included in the portfolio.
- Monitoring progress: between each module, a co-creative evaluation of your progress is carried out by a buddy coach.
- Mentor Coaching: to be able to apply this high level of coaching skills and attitude, it is highly crucial that participants are coached or supervised on their own process. Coaching hours with TCS coaches are optional in this programme. We encourage each participant to choose a coach at the start of the programme who has a minimum of 2,000 hours of practise.(MCC level or similar).
Every topic in the Bloom course can be applied to participant's own process own process as well as with clients.
Each topic needs to be visited from three points of view:
- comprehension and the ability to what has been said in their own words
- methods of exploring, observing and recognising issues during a co-creative partnership with clients
- ways to invite the clients to long-term application and integration.
As the programme developers, we reserve the right to switch programme items between modules, as and when the development progress requires.
SME Portfolio
Extra information about the SME Portfolio:
Please request to start the grant application no later than 5 working days before the start of training.Please pay the remaining amount (accommodation and VAT) immediately after receipt of the invoice, on behalf of The Coaching Square, at least 5 working days before the start of training. The SME portfolio is a subsidy measure of the Flemish government.
For more info, see www.agentschapondernemen.be. For subsidies in the Brussels region, please contact us on email@example.com.
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Recent Defamation Cases and Abuse of Local PowerIn a number of recent cases, local officials have brought defamation or libel charges against citizens who criticized them. In discussing these cases on their blogs and in their writing, Chinese journalists and academics have brought up broader issues of freedom of information and local power. China Media Project translates a blog post by People's University Professor Zhang Ming about the recent cases: After reading about Henan's Wang Shuai (王帅) case and Inner Mongolia�
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Employer: East African Community (EAC)
About Company: The East African Community (EAC) is a regional intergovernmental organisation of 6 Partner States: the Republics of Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, the United Republic of Tanzania, and the Republic of Uganda, with its headquarters in Arusha, Tanzania. The EAC is home to 150 million citizens, of which 22% is urban population. With a land area of 1.82 million square kilometres and a combined Gross Domestic Product of US$ 146 billion (EAC Statistics for 2016), its realisation bears great strategic and geopolitical significance and prospects for the renewed and reinvigorated EAC. The work of the EAC is guided by its Treaty which established the Community. It was signed on 30 November 1999 and entered into force on 7 July 2000 following its ratification by the original three Partner States - Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. The Republic of Rwanda and the Republic of Burundi acceded to the EAC Treaty on 18 June 2007 and became full Members of the Community with effect from 1 July 2007. The Republic of South Sudan acceeded to the Treaty on 15 April 2016 and become a full Member on 15 August 2016.
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Scientists spot small asteroid hours before collision with Earth
- by Darrel Baker
- in Sci-tech
- — Jun 5, 2018
The rock, dubbed 2018 LA, was picked up by the Catalina Sky Survey on Saturday morning, just hours before it piled into our home world at a speed of 10 miles per second, or 0.5368 per cent of the maximum velocity of a sheep in a vacuum in El Reg units.
Initial estimates had the impact zone stretching from southern Africa across the Indian Ocean into New Guinea.
At just two metres across, the asteroid was too small to pose a threat to any cities or towns and was expected to safely disintegrate as it entered Earth's atmosphere.
"This was a much smaller object than we are tasked to detect and warn about", NASA's planetary defence officer Lindley Johnson said in a statement.
Asteroid 2018 LA was almost as far away as the moon (which is typically about 239,000 miles, or 384,600 km, from Earth) when it was first discovered on Saturday, NASA officials said.
This doesn't mean the asteroid touched down on Earth and was spirited away by shadowy men in dark suits.
The Minor Planetary Centre said 'object no longer exists (in its original form), following its entry into the Earth's atmosphere on 2 June 2018.
It can be seen tumbling towards Earth but although it looks as if it has exploded on impact, experts who were monitoring the asteroid said it burned up entering the atmosphere.
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Instead, they'll replace the swimsuit modeling with live interaction between the judges and the state titleholders. Finally, Gretchen Carlson , the advocate and former Fox News host, was Miss America 1989.
NASA says the asteroid was only six feet across - classified as "boulder-sized" - and was only the third asteroid to have been captured on an "impact trajectory". The smaller an asteroid is, the less light it reflects, and thus the dimmer it appears. The asteroid hit Earth's atmosphere over the southern African nation of Botswana at 12:44 p.m. EDT (1644 GMT) while hurtling down at a whopping 38,000 miles per hour (61,155 km/h).
The first in 2008 was detected 19 hours ahead of impact, and the second was detected a few hours ahead in 2014.
But in a nice bit of detective work, two additional observations were obtained by the ATLAS asteroid survey that were used by the Scout system to narrow down the predicted impact points in southern Africa.
The first event of this kind was the impact of asteroid 2008 TC3, which lit up the predawn sky above Northern Sudan on October 7, 2008.
Think again. Humanity has only detected an asteroid on a collision course a handful of times - and only one other of these sightings took place with ample time to spare before it hit us.
Smaller objects are fainter and more hard to spot in a large sky, though efforts like the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey are increasingly able to search a wider field of sky to find these somewhat elusive objects.
He said: "The advantage I had was I saw it in colour and it was not like on the cameras".


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Good Evening Internet Friends!!!
So, seriously, I have NO idea where my week went.
Sunday...spent 2 hours cleaning the house again. Have decided that if I clean one room entirely every Sunday eventually I will be caught up and just have to do maintenance house keeping.
Then kiddo and I made:
Chocolate Chip Cookies. I used the entire bag of Callebaut Milk Chocolate Chips that I had purchased at Duchess on Friday. These cookies were DELICIOUS!
We took dog for a walk in the River Valley:
Since it was a little on the cold side down by the river and kiddo had been complaining of not feeling well I made Chicken, Lentil, Sauerkraut soup for dinner:
What's that you may ask???? Well, its almost everything I could find in the refrigerator; water in the Dutch Oven, frozen turkey broth from the freezer (the Christmas turkey broth that I saved - when frozen the fat rises to the top and is really easy to separate off when ready to use), onion, celery, and carrot that were the last of their kind in the crisper (should go get groceries), 2 handfuls of dried lentils, 1/2 quart jar of sauerkraut, 2 frozen tomatoes defrosted and pureed, and chicken sausage. When cooked through I topped the soup with the last of the multi grain taco chips I had a bag on the cupboard and some grated sharp cheddar! Yummy and warm and hopefully will keep the cold virus away.
Monday was you may have guessed it - Stay Home with Sick Kid Day. Woke up twice at night to kiddo vomiting. By noon he was no longer vomiting but he wanted to sleep on my lap so that is how I spent the afternoon. I love that he still wants to sleep on mommy when he is sick!
Tuesday was back to school and work. Maverick the puppy chewed through his pillow for the absolute last time. There was nothing left to sew together to try and hold it together anymore, "sew" I sewed him a new one and filled it with left over fabric remnants:
It's a HUGE pillow. Here's hoping he leaves this one alone for a while
Wednesday evening, was a bit of knitting, I did 2 rows on my Oroya Shawl so not enough progress to show yet. I am currently 41 rows from being done but the pattern in so intricate that to keep from making mistakes I only do the pattern row and then the purl row and give up for the day ☺
This evening after work I headed out and ran a few errands including groceries at Costco so that I do not have to shop this weekend and am ready for Easter Dinner with the family!
Planning to head down to my craft room now for a bit before sleep creeps in and see what I can get into!
Hope this inspires your own creativity...


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Dear Friends
Welcome to our parish Season of Reflection. If you have been at any of our services during September you will probably have heard about this, but this letter offers me an opportunity to remind you about what we are doing and why, and to invite you to play your part in it, over the next few months and at the Parish Weekend at Home, which this year will be on 13-15 November.
There is a big focus in the Church of England today on what's called Mission Action Planning (known as MAP, of course!). Many of us in the parish have experience of this sort of thing – project plans, SMART objectives, target owners, and deadlines – and it has its place in our church life too, to help us get things done, whether the "thing" in question is a building project or setting up a new group or organizing the Christmas Fair. But how do we decide what are the things we need to do as a parish, as the people of God here in our particular corner of Surrey? The answer to that question must involve trying to find out what God wants us to do. All our decisions, everything we do, as individuals and as the church, need to be shaped by our faith, our experience and our understanding of who God is in our lives, of what Jesus is calling us to be and to do.
The PCC has been talking for some time now about who we are in the parish, looking at statistics and age profiles and discussing what we are good at – and what we are not so good at. It's likely that our new Bishop, Andrew, will be asking all the parishes in the diocese to undertake their own MAP exercise quite soon, and we would like to be able to respond to that request, so that we can play our part in diocesan life and, more importantly, to give ourselves a structure for developing, deepening and widening our shared life and seeing how God is at work here.
And of course, any action plan we make needs to be rooted in our faith, that understanding of who God is for us, and who we are called to be, that I referred to before. At the moment we don't have any words that articulate a distinctive and shared vision. If you ever google a parish on the internet you will almost certainly find that it will have a few words on its home page that declare its vision, or mission. Amongst our neighbours, St Stephen's, Shottermill, has "Honouring God, following the example of Jesus, and sharing his love in our community", whilst St Mary's Chiddingfold has " to know Christ better and to make Christ better known". Holy Trinity Guildford has a statement of intent prefaced by the words: "Faithful, Engaging, Hospitable, Inclusive…" and my previous church has "One in worship, open in faith and outward in community". Each of these reflects important things about the identity of the parishes , forged is an process of prayer and discernment, and I know from experience that the right words can act as a touchstone for planning and decision making .
What should be in our vision statement? The plan is that our season of reflection, using the words of Psalm 139 in worship, study and meditation, and encouraging each other to share aloud (a daunting prospect, I know) what our faith means to us, will culminate at the Parish Weekend at Home in workshops, activities and worship, and that during or after the weekend we will be able to share and agree our own vision statement.
A recurrent question in my preaching and teaching throughout my four years as rector has been "What does it mean to be the people of God in Haslemere?" With the PCC and Ministry Team I invite you now to play your part in giving an answer to that question that will shape our planning and our life together for the next five years. Of course we can't know what will happen in that time here and in the wider world – who could have predicted this year's political upheavals and international pressures? – but if we base our lives on the rock of Jesus' love for us and calling to us we will be able to face it with confidence. Because…..
….if I take the wings of the morning
and settle at the farthest limits of the sea,
even there your hand shall lead me,
and your right hand shall hold me fast.
Psalm 139
With my love and prayers,


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Greetings! Our annual open house is on February 24th, 2019. It will begin at 1:00pm and end at 3:00pm.
We will be accepting applications for the next school year, 2019-2020. The entire school will be open for tours and the staff will be available to answer any questions. Also, please do take a look at our tuition page as it has been updated for the 2019-2020 school year.
Our staff cannot wait to see you there!


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Hi and welcome to Slice of Life Sunday. I started my first blog, Cricket's Hearth, in January of 2008 after much coaxing from a very dear friend, greatfullivin of the Gratitude Journal (who is also the designer of Slice of Life Sunday header -thank you Mo!). Like many who begin a blog, I did not have a clear focus. I just started writing. Within a few weeks of visiting other blogs and leaving comments, and participating in several memes, I soon learned I enjoyed writing about things that happened in my life. And what was even more exciting, readers expressed enjoyment of reading the slices of my life. I also discovered I liked reading short stories about real life experiences that other bloggers posted on their sites. I have laughed and I have cried reading these real slices of life of everyday people like me. I now have a clear vision of what I want to accomplish and have created Slice of Life Sunday.
I am a mid-50's mother of two and grandmother of five who has a lifetime of memories to share. I am devoting this meme to helping myself and others, like you, look at moments in our lifes: the good, the bad and even the ugly. My hope is that while we enjoy remembering the good times, we will be able to gleen what we can from the bad moments and then put them to rest. I believe the slices of our lives are similar to ingredients in a recipe. One ingredient of a recipe rarely makes a tasty dish. It takes a proper balance of ingredients to get the desired result. In the same vein, one slice of our life does not constitute our entire life, unless we allow it to consume our life. If we allow ourself the opportunity to look at all the slices and place them in perspective, we will surely see ". . .all things work together for the good to them that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose." Romans 8:28.
I have both a short term and a long term goal for A Slice of Life Sunday. In the short term, I hope to collect slices of real life experiences from people just like you. As different as each of our lives have been, we also share common threads of events that happen in everyone's life. I will provide three "life events" each Sunday for you to choose from to write a personal experience account. Do not think you have to be "a writer" to participate. All I am searching for is honesty, not fiction, but a real experience from your life . . . a slice of your life.
My long term goal is to take some or all of the Slices of Life Sunday submissions and have them published. I am still playing with the final format of the book, but every writer will be given recognition and payment for their contribution. If one or more of your life experiences are used in the book, you will receive advance notice so you may choose to have your blog name or a real name posted with each of your submissions. You may want to remain somewhat anonymous by using your blog name for some entires and your real name for others (only blog names will be used on the Slice of Life Sunday blog).
Each person submitting a life event entry to Slice of Life Sunday that is selected to be further published in my book, A Slice of Life, will receive payment for their writings. This payment is based upon sharing fifty percent of the contracted price I receive from a publisher with all writers of entires selected to be in my book. Now don't think you are going to get rich and retire from this possible book deal. A very basic example is: Contracted Book Deal is $50,000.00. I will take half or $25,000.00 and divide it between the slices of life entries published in the book. Let's say there are 1000 slices of life entries in the book. Each slice will receive $25.00. If ten of these entries were slices from your life, you would receive $250.00. Knowing human nature, I realize some of my readers may be thinking, "Geez, only $25.00 (although it could be more) for a slice of my life?!?" I just ask that you consider how much you have been paid for participating in other weekly writing meme's. I myself have received only the joy of writing. Obviously any amount I do pay is subject to the total number of entries used in the final book, the amount of the book contract deal, and most importantly, that I get a book contract deal in the first place!
I do feel confident in acquiring a book contract, and to be honest I have put some feelers out. I have done my research and I know publishers are always searching for something with a new twist. I have a couple of twists in mind and I need additional, real-life, truthful accounts of slices of life material to write a book that will make a difference in people lives. I hope you will join in and share a slice of your life. Please read the Terms of Use and Copywrite Information as any entry you submit gives me the right to publish your writing both here at Slice of Life Sunday and in any future publication. You will receive advance notice of any publication of your writing.


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Guest post by Carey Appling
Living as a fiscally responsible American is difficult, but it is especially difficult for homeschooling families. It may, in fact, be the single biggest impediment to Christians who would otherwise homeschool their children.
With all the taxes Americans pay on a daily basis, it really makes me wonder how some people can even afford two cars or a mortgage, let alone both. It's hard. Yes, we are some of the wealthiest people not only in all the world but also within the history of the world, whether it be fiscal wealth or the cheap technology at our disposal. Yet, that doesn't make American life a walk in the park. It's still difficult for most, in fact, just to make ends meet month to month, whether they are dual or single income, single or married, children or no children.
Homeschooling is growing, but it is nowhere close to overtaking the attendance in the state schools.
Homeschooling, in nearly all cases, requires a parent to stay home and feed and educate the children while the other parent, typically the husband, leaves the home to put in the 40 hours, at least, that are needed to pay the bills and feed the family. In a vacuum, this family would be quite successful if all they were was a "test tube" family. If they lived in a biblical society, they would flourish, grow, and establish or continue their legacy.
Today in America, however, the poor and middle class are crushed under regulation and taxation. Last year, for example, I entertained the idea of becoming a barber. We could have used the additional income. But the price of "licensing" required by the state, and the hours required just to become certified, were laughably absurd. Texas requires 1,500 hours to become certified. If we follow the money on these "regulations," I'm sure we would arrive at the doorstep of some Barber Union that long ago lobbied for these laws to be created to prevent competition. Trust me, it works, and nearly all unions of any kind advocate for such regulations. Politicians love campaign funds. The unions and lobbies are ready to provide that funding. Regulation never benefits the small guy; it almost always attempts to lock him out of the market. See, for example, the taxi unions using local city councils to pass regulatory laws against Uber. That was also something I had considered, but the City of Houston is in the pocket of the taxi union, so loopholes and "licensing" are required now—all in order to stem the tide of competition. Of course, this is played up as something for our "safety". "The mercies of the wicked," in Proverbs 12:10 comes to mind.
So many times when the lower and middle classes attempt to create another form of small income that may even grow into a small business, the state shuts the door by requiring them to pay money they don't have for a venture that may or may not even pay off. That's without even considering the investment required after the licensing and regulation fees. Let's not kid ourselves: "regulation" and "licensing" are merely additional taxation on entrepreneurship, just under a different name.
Then we have taxation as well. The state usually burdens the citizen with property tax. Everyone pays property taxes, even renters. Property tax is just tacked onto your monthly rent, which inflates the price of the actual value of rental properties. This makes renting and home buying more expensive. In a suburb outside of Houston, if your home is valued at $170,000, you can anticipate paying $3,273 a year in property tax. That's $272 extra per month, in addition to your mortgage. That doesn't count 8 percent sales tax (in Texas). Now, add federal income tax. For a family that brings home $50,000, we are looking at $9,075 going back to the federal government. Add to this state income tax as well as Social Security, which will deduct about 170 dollars every two weeks. This ponzi scheme will collapse if our economy itself doesn't by the time I'm old enough to draw—if they don't raise the qualifying age to 92 by that time.
The state-imposed financial burden that currently exists in our nation on families is simply inexcusable, and this kind of system can only wait for God's ultimate judgement to bring it crashing down. I have to work an extra side business on Saturdays just to offset what the government confiscates on a monthly basis. Some call this, "The price we pay to live in a civilized society;" but it's more like a monthly shakedown from the mafia who threatens me with enslavement if I refuse. In order to "avoid offense" as our Savior says, though "the sons are free," I'll pay my taxes (Matthew 17:24-27).
In this environment, anyone contemplating homeschooling may feel like the path is impossible. I wrote this article to encourage you that it is possible. We are doing it, and many many other faithful Christians are doing it, too, despite what seems like impossible strains. Even when we are shaken down to pay for the education of others, we go on to fund ourselves on 1/8th the cost, and with no help at all. Yes, you will have to give up a few things. You will have to downsize, and you will have to make sacrifices; but it's better than burying your talent in the sand. At times you will even wonder how this is even possible. With God, it is not only possible, it is positively rewarding.
Single income, homeschooling families are, therefore, rare for a reason. It's hard to begin with, and the state makes it even harder. Furthermore, I believe this is purposeful. But it's a wonderful thing to be sustained by God in what seems like impossible situations. It is nothing short of pure faith in God's sustaining hand to take this route. For those already doing this, God bless you. You know the hardship, the sacrifice and also the blessing. We may lose a lot of our wealth to the hungry state, but we know the riches Christ has stored up for us, and we experience those riches on a daily basis as we see the fruit of our labors growing in the lives of our children and even our marriages.
Press on brothers and sisters. Run the race. When your children come of age, encourage them to run the race likewise. Legacy is at stake. We are in Covenant with God, and what could be better than living according to Deuteronomy 6, teaching our children constantly about the ways of God? Whatever the State steals, God will restore a million fold. He is faithful, and we can look forward to a day when God will rule over us and the current tyranny under which we suffer will be table talk among the glorified saints. We will reminisce about what it was like to live under evil men billions of years ago and think what an odd and foreign thing that is to remember. Until then, we press on in the Kingdom. Forward, Christian Soldier!
Carey Appling is a native Houstonian and an Abolitionist. He and his wife of 12 years homeschool their three lovely children.


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PERSPECTIVE: Government Algorithms and the Public's Right to Know/
by Mitchell W. Pearlman In many respects, computers have made life easier. But they have also made life quite a bit more complicated. For example, before the computer age most government documents were on paper. Today, people not only need access to government information on computer media and in computer-readable formats, they need access to the computer programs and systems government uses to make policy and other important decisions. Yale Law Professor Jack Balkin calls this "algorithmic transparency."
An algorithm is the step-by-step procedure by which a task is performed. People use simple algorithms in their lives every day, such as for adding numbers or sorting books. On the other hand, algorithms used in computers are often highly complex. They require sophisticated logic and advanced mathematical modeling in the design and functionality of the applications in which they are embedded. Because of this, algorithms are considered intellectual property and deemed trade secrets by most private enterprises and many government agencies that create and use them.
Governments now gather almost incomprehensible amounts of information, organize them into vast databases, and make and implement important decisions using the algorithms they create or purchase. Governments use computer algorithms in making tax policy and budget decisions; they use them in forecasting various transportation and infrastructure needs; and they use them in analyzing public health and environmental issues and formulating policy based on these analyses. Of course, if the data used are less than complete or accurate, or if the algorithms themselves are based on flawed reasoning or assumptions, then government policies and decisions based on them will likewise be flawed. Such errors can lead not only to unsound decisions, but they also can lead to an enormous waste of public resources and even to a significant loss of life.
In Connecticut, as elsewhere, various government agencies forecast income and expenditures to help guide lawmakers in constructing state budgets. Each of these offices has access to the same data sets. But the assumptions programmed into their algorithms can differ significantly, leading to different outcomes in determining whether a budget will or will not be in balance. The 2018 state budget was out-of-balance by several hundred million dollars just weeks after it was enacted. How did this happen? Was it because the data was faulty? Or was it because the algorithms, and the assumptions built into them, were wrong?
The first shots in the battle for algorithmic transparency have already been fired. Recently the New York City Council passed an algorithmic accountability bill, which establishes a task force to study, and within 18 months of passage report, how city agencies use algorithms to make decisions. The bill was enacted in the wake of a racially biased algorithm used to assess risk factors of criminal defendants. The algorithm's source code was confidential until a federal judge ordered it to be disclosed and the bias subsequently identified.
Trade secrets and confidential commercial information – which are exempt from public disclosure under current Freedom of Information laws – often represent a significant financial investment by those enterprises and organizations that create or own them. On the other hand, computer algorithms are now – and increasingly will be – vital components in government policy and other decision making. To prevent significant errors or miscalculations in the future, many government algorithms need to be transparent so they can be publicly vetted before policy decisions are made or legislation becomes law.
Thus, proprietary rights face an important competing value when they would prevent the disclosure of information about which there is a legitimate and important public interest. The notion of an informed and knowledgeable electorate is one of the cornerstones of our country's democratic tradition. To paraphrase the Connecticut Supreme Court in another context, trade secrets and confidential commercial information must give way when balanced against the publication of matters of public interest, in order to ensure the "uninhibited, robust and wide-open discussion of legitimate public issues."
So in this case, as in others before it, the balance of competing interests must be resolved in favor of algorithmic transparency to the greatest extent possible. This is not to say that government need not provide some measure of just compensation if it discloses secret or confidential proprietary information. But the bottom line is that algorithmic transparency is essential to the continuance of our democratic system of governance.
Mitchell Pearlman is the former executive director of the Connecticut Freedom of Information Commission. He currently teaches law in the Journalism Department of the University of Connecticut at Storrs. Rogers Epstein, MIT class of 2019, also contributed to this article. The article is abstracted from a "White Paper" published by the Connecticut Foundation for Open Government (CFOG), which can be found in its entirety at www.ctfog.org.
PERSPECTIVE columns from contributing writers appear each weekend on Connecticut by the Numbers.


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From the early 1700's to about 1750, the town of New Providence was known as "Turkey." Residents re-christened the settlement following the intervention of "God's Divine Providence."
During a church service, a second floor balcony collapsed, yet no one in the congregation either in the gallery or seated on the floor below was seriously injured. The grateful parishioners adopted the name "New Providence" to replace its original name of "Turkey."
In the late 1800's and early 1900's, New Providence was famous for its large greenhouses specializing in roses and gardenias. Coal was used to heat the enormous greenhouses, and the trains brought many coal cars to the area near Murray Hill station to supply the greenhouses.
The Borough of New Providence was incorporated on March 14, 1899. A portion of the municipality split off in 1952 to become the township of Berkeley Heights.
The Fire Department was formed in 1902. In 1914, the first mechanized fire truck was purchased by the Borough.
While valuing its past, with the landmark Presbyterian Church and cemetery anchoring the heart of downtown, the borough is moving towards the future. A downtown committee developed a master plan to revitalize the look and efficiency of the business core area, including a redesign of traffic lights and crosswalks in the Springfield Avenue and South Street area which have recently been implemented.
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Support Iran nuclear agreement; it's now or never
I implore Rep. Jim Costa, and area Congress people, to find the courage and take the chance to support the nuclear agreement of (the U.N. Security Council's permanent member nations) with Iran. The only way to prevent/reduce such threats to the Earth is one-by-deadly-one. This is far from "mission accomplished" but mission barely begun.
I implore us all to pay rapt and grave, but active attention to events between now and the end of the year. Let us embrace this chance of a Global Lifetime. The agreement with Iran is scheduled for Sept. 17. Pace e Bene's Campaign Nonviolence offers a week of global/local actions, Sept. 22-27, flowing from the United Nations' International Day of Peace, Sept. 21.
Pope Francis, embodying crucial connections among economies, ecologies, and ecumenicities, visits the U.S.Sept. 22-27, speaking before both Congress and the United Nations. Oct. 24, the U.N., still our last, best, and urgent hope for space enough and time to dream together a saner, more durable world, celebrates its 70th birthday.
Finally, perhaps most challengingly, the U.N.'s Climate Change Conference gathers in Paris, Nov. 30-Dec. 11.
There is no other planet. We get no other chance. Now or never leaves little time.
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A state contractor was expected to remove about 60 cubic yards of contaminated soil from a former gas station today, paving the way for a new downtown park.
Working for the state Department of Environmental Protection, Coler & Colantonio, a Norwell environmental engineering company, has been evaluating the former Gulf station site on Ocean Street for several months. The company�s services are being paid for with a $50,000 state grant from the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Release Prevention Program.
Also, voters at a special town meeting in the fall authorized spending $50,000 to investigate contamination on the property, which is between the Rite Aid and CVS stores on Route 139.
The Molly Fitzgerald Memorial Fund hopes to build a park called Dandelion Park on the spot. The park would memorialize 14-year-old Molly Fitzgerald, who died in June 2006.
Coler & Colantonio engineer Lauren Konetzny said the contaminated soil being removed by Clean Harbors, a hazardous waste disposal company, was beneath former gasoline pumps.
The groundwater is also contaminated, according to drinking-water standards, she said. The water must meet drinking-water standards because a well is nearby, even though it has not been used in several decades.
�It�s a fair amount,� Konetzny said of the soil being removed. �That�ll reduce the contamination at the property. The groundwater that�s contaminated should clean up a lot quicker.�
Next week, Coler & Colantonio plans to drill six wells to check the groundwater, Konetzny said. Also, large chunks of concrete will be broken up and removed from the site.
The town gained control of the property in 2005, after the former owner failed to pay taxes. The gas station closed in the late 1990s and was later torn down.
Konetzny said Coler & Colantonio did not find evidence of contamination in the rear section of the property, where there was a septic tank and where waste and fuel oil was previously removed.
Coler & Colantonio will check the water again in several months to see if the soil removal has made a difference. Additional remediation may be required, Konetzny said.
However, she also said the remaining groundwater contamination will not affect the planned Dandelion Park. Work on the park can begin at any time, she said.
�They could actually start building it pretty much right away,� Konetzny said. �Any sort of treatment that we would do wouldn�t really disrupt a park.�
Town Administrator Rocco Longo said the town can now begin to plan the next steps.
�What�s left now is for us to initiate a planning process for us to turn it into some kind of park or green space for the downtown,� he said. �It might not be bad to have a little green space.�
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I've known Dylan for a few years now, but I had the pleasure of meeting Anna yesterday as well and it was so wonderful! Warm, sunny, fall evenings in Athens are one of my very favorite things, and the love Dylan and Anna share just made it so much more perfect yesterday. I'm so glad I got to spend time documenting their love yesterday!


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We dine on a curry dish at LEAST once a week. It's just a good and reliable dinner on days you don't have a ton of time, especially if you have some sauce already made. (This freezes very well). Making a large batch to freeze is a good idea.
I always say that I am going to pre-mix my own blend and I swear that I will soon but find that a good store bought mix does just fine. You can experiment with different blends. I found some at a local grocer that has tons of herbs and spices in bulk.
This mix contains: Turmuric, paprika, coriander, black pepper, cumin, ginger, celery seed, cloves, caraway, cayenne pepper. About $11.00 a pound so you can pick up a small package for $3-$4. Pretty good deal because it will make several meals.
Knowing what to do with the curry mix can be a whole new challenge if you're not used to using this spice. Below is my every day quick sauce that can be modified pretty easily.
In addition to the curry powder mix you need:
2 small white onions, diced
2 stalks celery diced
1 red bell pepper, diced
1 TBSP garlic
1 can crushed tomatoes
2 cups water
Saute the onions, peppers, garlic, and celery until it starts to brown. Add 2 TBSP curry powder and mix to coat onion mixture. Mix for 1 more minute.
Add the can of tomatoes and 2 Cups of water and stir well. Bring to a boil, then lower heat to a simmer for 15 minutes.
Transfer 80% of the mixture to a food processor or blender and puree until smooth. Return to pan and stir with the rest of the sauce. The part you did not blend will add some great texture to the sauce. Simmer this for another 5 minutes.
To make a Vegetable curry, add the following to the sauce and simmer until vegetables are soft.
2 medium potatoes peeled and cubed
2 Summer Squash, cubed
6 oz. chopped green beans
This is a basic recipe. Basically any vegetable goes well here, as well as garbanzo beans, Tofu, etc... It's a great sauce to use up whatever vegetables are on hand. I have yet to find a bad match. Serve over some cooked rice and you have a great entree.
Sauce Variations:
When warm, stir with Plain Yogurt or Coconut milk to create a fusion sauce.


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The Amsterdam Light Festival is running from the 30th of November 2017 up to and including the 21st of January 2018
During this period, there is no 1 hr canal cruise leaving after 16.30 hr. We only operate the Watercolor cruise in this period after 17.00 hr
The center of Amsterdam has many interesting buildings, canal-side houses and other places worth seeing.
The evening cruise is one of the big attractions of the "Venice of the North"!
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Sep 13, 2018
Chris Stanley is the founder of IA Path, a company dedicated to providing independent insurance adjusters with the best online training, support, and networking opportunities to begin and excel as an insurance adjuster. He has over a decade of experience as an insurance adjuster and appraiser, working primarily with automotive catastrophe claims. In addition to transforming lives and impacting careers, he is the author of the Amazon bestseller, Hail Adjuster's Playbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Being and Becoming a Catastrophic Independent Auto Hail Adjuster.
Chris rejoins me this week to discuss his upcoming book and how it aims to help more adjusters get started in the industry on the right foot. He shares some of the initial steps adjusters need to take to succeed in this industry as well as mistakes many new adjusters make as they begin their career. He also explains the three key phases of an insurance adjuster's journey.
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It occurred to us that we are all living much more in a global way. Our ideas are constantly being exchanged through social media internet connections as well as through the instant supply of news through television, Twitter and magazines, journals and even blogs such as this one. So we are developing a global style in our interior design and home decorating and renovating, constantly on the lookout for that one piece which will add a point of difference to make our house our unique home. We want our visitors to be in awe of the way we live, and our homes to reflect our lifestyle, even if our lifestyle is not the global traveller of our dreams...who can afford to be constantly travelling?
This is where we come in..we have sources in places few people go in their lifetime, and we have workshops which can create the pieces of your dreams. On a daily basis we are quoting clients on individual one off items which they would like to add to their decor, or larger architectural pieces to drive their new home renovation. In some ways it is easier and cheaper to change the appearance of your current house, than to sell out and buy a new one..and you get the home of your dreams that way too. A global design style may incorporate various aspects of different cultures and still be very viable in the context of interior designing. An old Indian doorway and doors leading into a house with a Balinese style bathroom, Moroccan lamps, African masks, stone carved or brass statues , rustic furniture combined with modern sofas, armchairs, old Balouchi donkey bags as cushions, Persian carpets, Afghan kilims and tribal rugs on the floor. This is what we define as the Global Style of home decorating, and it doesn't stop at home...it can easily be used in retail stores, restaurants, galleries etc..the world is shrinking, cultures are merging beautifully: and we are loving being part of your journey in making your living space one which reflects today's global lifestyle.


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DC's daytime population is over a million
According to a US Census report, the District of Columbia's daytime population, including commuters, swells to over 1,000,000. The difference between DC's day and night populations is second greatest in the US.
The report dates from 2010 so the numbers are surely a bit different today. With DC's (then) nighttime residential population of 584,400, its 1,046,036 daytime population represents a 79% increase. Among US counties, only New York County (Manhattan) has a larger percentage increase.
Arlington looks much the same. Its 26% increase in daytime population is 13th largest nationally. That's higher than San Francisco on the list.
At the other end of the spectrum, two DC suburbs top the list of places with decreased daytime population. Dale City and Centreville in Northern Virginia both drop by over 40%, making them America's ultimate bedroom communities.
Montgomery County's Germantown is Maryland's top entrant on that list; it clocks in at #20, with a decrease of 31%.
Part of the explanation for this is simply where boundaries are drawn. For example, even though Houston has a large downtown with many commuters, it doesn't appear on the increased daytime population list because the City of Houston annexed so many of its suburbs that more of its commuters still technically live within the city limits. Likewise, Houston's Harris County is gigantic and more or less envelopes the entire metropolis, so there's little difference at the county level either.
Geographically smaller jurisdictions in large metropolitan areas are disproportionately more likely to show up in this data. So it's not a great comparison of commuting patterns across different metropolitan regions. But it's nonetheless interesting to know.
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Things to Remember When Purchasing a Welding Machine
8 February 2019 / Leave a comment
Like every other product that you buy for your household, spend some time in selecting the right welding machine too. A poorly made and cheap product may do badly, leading to wastage of money.
Purchasing a welding machine might seem simple, but the assortment of merchandise offered on the market concerning the brand, create, electricity and cost may easily confuse an individual purchaser. Most frequently is discovered that home users fall to the cost play. You can also browse on http://www.ogis.com.au/services-capabilities/welding-service/ if you want to know more about welding services.
There's a propensity to buy less strong, inexpensive and local-made machines. In a brief course of time, they wind up losing it believing it isn't their cup-of-tea. On the other hand, the issue lies with the item, which is inferior in functionality and isn't user-friendly.
The first step in picking the ideal product for you will be to check a few versions for their functionality, power delivery, endurance and endurance cycle. If needed, employ or purchase a secondhand MIG welder to verify its suitability for the own purpose.
When buying welding equipment, it's almost always better to choose something that's acceptable for the working requirements of the own country or location. This is vital since the power supply might differ from nation to nation.
Earth Cable and Hose Gun
If it comes to welding, it's always great to have a machine with a very long ground cable and cable hose. The neighborhood, cheap products often don't have this benefit. Here, it will become wise to obtain a branded top quality used TIG or MIG welder in case you cannot afford a new one.
All About The Art of Welding
4 January 2019 / Leave a comment
Welding is an art wherein two or more metal or alloy workpieces are joined together with the help of a molten solution which solidifies as a bond between them on cooling.
Welding is a theory that's predominantly utilized in each heavy manufacturing business that relies on iron, steel, and other metals for the creation of their services or products. You can also visit http://www.ogis.com.au/services-capabilities/welding-service/ to get welding services.
Since the concept suggests it's quite understandable that enormous amount and warmth and light energy is included in the procedure to combine a few metal bits.
Obviously, to generate these strength of light and heat energy, you will need a power supply that provides power or electricity. This is really where generators come in the image in welding. Generators are devices which behave like the power source device for various manufacturing procedures. It's pretty much mandatory in the idea of welding, as, without it, it's totally not possible to combine metal bits together and at precisely the exact same time creating quality metal goods.
These generators rely upon a fuel source to make the electrical supply for the welding procedure. Predominantly petrol generators are utilized on a daily basis by each heavy production sector as they provide adequate energy source and in precisely the exact same time take advantage of a fuel that's rather affordable.
Usage of diesel generators inside your mill is quite beneficial for you while you'd have the ability to perform your production jobs fairly well and at precisely the exact same time save some funds out of your funding since the expense of petrol is rather affordable.
Welding on Mild Steel
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Mild steel is defined as any steel that has low carbon in it and about 85% of welding is done using this type of steel. Usually, these steels have an AISI series of C-1008 through C-1025.
They are the steels that are most often used in construction or industrial fabrication. They are welded through the use of gas, arc or resistance welding. Are you looking for quality metal fabrication in Sydney, then you can navigate to original websites online.
Mild steels are springy and they may be bent or twisted or transferred to other shapes since they're welded. You may use mild steel sheets or cable to perform this kind of welding. You might even use it to weld pipes.
You might even use steel cable or steel sheets to perform welding on mild steel. Mild steel May Be Used from the following Kinds of welding:
Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW)– this is a kind of welding which employs a good electrode cable that's always employed as a filler alloy.
Flux-Cored Arc-Welding — this kind of welding employs a cord that's coated with regular so it will automatically supply you with the gas. This is the preferred method of performing welding mild steels in an outside atmosphere.
MIG welding — that is one of the simpler kinds of welding and can be also a fantastic idea for welding on mild steel in an indoor environment.


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A daughter of former President John Jerry Rawlings has filed her nomination papers to contest the Korle Klottey NDC parliamentary primaries.
Amidst excited chant from supporters, Dr Zanetor Rawlings filed her nomination forms just to beat the Thursday deadline.
She would be coming up against incumbent Korley Klottey MP, Nii Armah Ashitey and grandson of national hero, Tetteh Quarshie, Leeford Kpakpo Quarshie.
"When your popularity is not based on ego but your connection with the community then you know where you stand. I think the crowd here speaks for itself," a confident Zanetor told JOYNEWS' Kwakye Afreh-Nuamah.
Despite the keen contest expected in the Korle Klottey parliamentary race, the daughter of the NDC party founder says she believes she has the upper hand.
"I have no doubt about that but I think at the end of the day the most important thing is that we work together and empower the community to rebuild their lives." she intimated.
Zanetor has no experience in politics and has in the past denied having any political ambition.
"At the time my denial was actually exactly what it was. I had no political ambitions. As the cleaning campaign and the environmental activism gained ground, the support on the ground was increased and more people started calling for political involvement. So that is how we found ourselves here.
"At the end of the day it is really a question of conviction and I believe that this is one way to achieve the objectives," she said.
When asked how long she had harboured this ambition, Zanetor said, "My decision was very recent. Up until now all I wanted to do was to contribute to the community."
She would however not be drawn into the conversation about her mother, Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings who broke away from the governing party to form her own party, the National Democratic Party
"I would like to focus on the issues now which would have to do with the development of the community," the medical doctor maintained.
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Well some of you might be surprised if you know me (or even if you know just my writing) and saw the title of this post. You would be justified in your surprise because the title is not mine, it is the title of an article I read in the sub parr journalistic endeavor that is the Washington Post. (I promise compared to my opinions for other "news" sources that was a compliment.)
Anyway, I personally don't recommend reading the article because the attitudes expressed are so stereotypically predictable they are assininely dull by the time you're through. I barely made it myself. (But here's the link if you insist you radical free- thinker.)
Nonetheless, since the attitudes she expresses are so common, I still feel they are worth addressing. And I confidently assert that my rebuttal to her article will be not only ever so slightly briefer, but significantly more interesting (because of the discussion content, not in terms of talent- I wouldn't judge a writer based on one article.)
So to begin the rebuttal I'm just going to summarize her reasoning. Ultimately, her desire is to have a relationship that is established and perpetuated based on feelings of love. A desire that does not seem unreasonable on a surface level. However, this single sentence also perfectly explains why she does not want to marry her boyfriend in a civil or religious ceremony of any kind. She does not want to marry him, because the admitted basis of her relationship is loving feelings alone, and she is not sure that she will always have those feelings for him. She hopes she will, but she is not sure, and therefore does not want the permanence of a marriage that would bind her to this man until death (or now as is more common divorce) do they part.
Regrettably, some of her reluctance probably also stems from the fact that not only is her boyfriend previously divorced, but to use her own words "my parents got divorced when I was 2 years old, and several of my relatives have divorced as well: grandparents, aunts, uncles, great-aunts and uncles, cousins. So I didn't grow up thinking of marriage as the only way to ensure the longevity of a relationship." In the culture she grew up in, the security of lasting love was not sealed by marriage, as I admit it was and still is in mine (my parents are going on 31 years and they still only have eyes for each other- and a few celebrities that neither expect to have an actual shot with). So because in her experience, love has never been taught or modeled as anything other than feelings, it can be terminated when those feelings no longer remain. She might even unconsciously, yet mistakenly, associate the unchangeable nature of love with the changeable nature of feelings.
Because as much as our culture worships feelings, and uses them to justify many actions (both noble and ignoble) the problem with associating the nature of love with the nature of feelings is that they are not exactly the same thing. Love can and should be the ultimate pillar of a healthy marriage, but love encompasses so much more than mere feelings. Because, while feelings can be a source of stimulation, inspiration, and affirmation, they can also be capricious, unreliable, and especially selfish- because the first feelings I'm aware of in every circumstance without fail are my own. While being able to process emotions in a healthy way is important, selfishness is the antithesis of love. True and authentic marriage is not about you being perpetually satisfied with your partner (although here's hoping!). True and authentic marriage, true and authentic love, is about surrender. Learning to transcend your own will and your own feelings and instead placing the will and feelings of your spouse above your own. That's hard to do. That's why Catholic marriage is a Sacrament, because the grace of God is required to overcome your human nature (i.e. putting yourself first.) Love is not a cultural construct meant to be figured out by each individual couple and then shown off to the world as a trophy (which I constantly see advertised as the purpose of modern marriage.) It is instead a journey that two people take together, standing on the shoulders of those who have walked the path before them, because while the journey will look different for each couple the trail's end has a common destiny that binds its travellers together: heaven.
Now, as a woman, does this view automatically qualify me as the ultimate sub-servient anti-feminist who lives to serve her man without any thought to herself at all, as outlined in the "offensive" virtuous woman propaganda of old? It shouldn't. Because if both the husband and wife are trying to place the will of their spouse above their own who wins? They both do. Because ultimately they are each learning to love unselfishly and be loved by each other unconditionally, the way God loves them and desires to be loved by them. (Mind boggling isn't it?)
So when this girl says "I love my boyfriend, but I never want to get married" I question whether or not she knows the essence of true love in the first place.
And I can only hope she finds out because in my mind love is the reason we're alive.


text: MEPs highlight serious concerns about Pilatus Bank's continued operation to EU Banking Authority Wednesday, 14 February 2018, 11:15 Last update: about 3 years ago Twenty-two MEPs from across political groups have expressed serious concerns over the fact that Pilatus Bank continues to operate in the EU, an EPP statement read. "The letter to Eurpean Banking Authority (EBA) Chairperson Andrea Enria was co-signed by MEPs from the EPP (of which the PN forms part), S&D (of which the PL forms part), ECR, ALDE, GUE and the Greens-EFA." The MEPs that formed part of the PANA Committee of Inquiry as well as the ad-hoc delegation to Malta tasked with investigating the rule of law, said: "There is a growing body of leaked evidence from Maltese authorities and first-hand testimony that place Pilatus Bank at the centre of illicit financial flows from Malta's citizenship-by-investment scheme, the sale of state assets, and unexplained inflows from high-risk jurisdictions like Azerbaijan to Maltese politically exposed figures". ADVERTISEMENT The MEPs indicated that Pilatus Bank is a fully-licensed eurozone bank, which now operates a branch in London in addition to its headquarters in Malta, "and that any proceeds of criminal activity laundered through it contaminate European financial and real estate markets and can have a potentially harmful effect on regulatory and political institutions at both a national and a European level," the EPP statement read. They further stated: "In the context of accumulating evidence of Pilatus Bank's role in money-laundering and corruption scandals at the highest levels of Malta's government, we have observed with deepening concern the apparent impunity with which the bank continues to operate in Malta. We view the reluctance of the competent Maltese authorities to act as further evidence of regulatory capture, where the close personal and financial links between Pilatus Bank, the national supervisory authority and the executive branch of government, have worked to suppress any effective national checks on the bank's operations." The MEPs said that in the absence of effective regulatory scrutiny at the national level, Pilatus Bank has meanwhile been free to pursue investigative journalists and whistleblowers with the full force of the law. "The bank's impact on press freedom in Malta has been significant: all independent news outlets in Malta, including the assassinated journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia who was one of its most strident public critics, received threats of vexatious and potentially crippling lawsuits in the US and UK from the bank's lawyers. That what began as a money-laundering and terrorism financing issue has now grown to become a threat to freedom of expression in Malta, illustrates the depth and harmful impact of allowing even a small private bank to operate unchecked in a Member State." The statement read that "the conduct of the Maltese authorities in licensing the bank and allowing its continued operation, despite mounting public evidence of serious anti-money laundering violations, cannot be viewed in isolation, but should be viewed in the context of the bank's close political links to the current national administration. Pilatus Bank's short client list features politically exposed persons from Azerbaijan, Angola, and Malta, and includes Keith Schembri, the Maltese Prime Minister's Chief of Staff, as he himself admitted in the statement he read out to the PANA/LIBE ad hoc mission to Malta during a scheduled meeting with Prime Minister Joseph Muscat. Considering that Pilatus Bank has succeeded to an unprecedented degree in curtailing negative press coverage of its operations, in light of the compelling evidence of regulatory capture in this case, and in view of the clear implications for Europe as a whole of the bank's continued operation without adequate scrutiny, it is of crucial importance that the European Banking Authority's inquiry into the bank is in-depth, effective, and independent of Malta's national authorities". The MEPs asked to be kept informed of any developments in the inquiry. The inquiry by the European Banking Authority was launched following a formal request by the European Commission's DG Justice. The full letter can be read here.


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8th ANIE Annual Conference 2017
Dates: 5th-6th October 2017
Venue : HillTop Hotel, Kigali, Rwanda
In collaboration with The University of Tourism, Technology and Business Studies (UTB) Kigali, Rwanda
Theme: Higher Education in Africa: New Regional and Global Dynamics
Dr. Marie-Christine Gasingirwa, Director General for Science, Technology and Research in the Ministry of Education was the guest of honour and opened officially 8th ANIE Conference.
"For a long time, developing countries have had a problem, when there has been lack of resources, we have always depended on development partners, but the emphasis was in basic education until we realized that higher education is paramount," she said calling for more research.
"We need to support research because it will lead to evidence based policies, better use of resources and good governance and good development , thus sharpen the brains, challenges so that we are building the foundation for sustainability" she said
She added that due to the shortage of resources, laziness and lack of skills there was a vice of copying researches from other countries which affects the way African issues are addressed. "We have to first assess our countries' priorities and see if they match with the research we carry out," she said. She said that in 2014, it was agreed to make African centers of excellence a priority in Africa. "Development needs TVET skills and innovation as long as high education is supported in such centres of excellence. Rwanda has four centres of excellence among the top 24 centres in Africa," she said Rwanda hosts centres for energy development, business, innovative teaching in mathematics and science. "If we talk about home-grown solutions, we have to consider research and make use of these centres of excellence," she said calling for more funding for better research that delivers better results.
Guest of Honour, Dr. Marie-Christine Gasingirwa, Director General for Science, Technology and Research in the Ministry of Education
The Vice Chancellor of UTB, Dr Callixte Kabera said the conference is an avenue for disseminating different research findings from about nine research papers. He said the network helped exchange skills, mobility of students and doctoral lecturers among African universities instead of only depending on America, Europe and others. "We need to build research capacity for quality research which is not copy and paste but the one that analyses African problems and addresses them. At the conference there are various research papers such as learning about mobility of students and experts in academia, exchanging programs, exploiting centres of excellence. We are facing many challenges but challenges come with opportunity, he said.
According to Dr Charles Ong'ondo, the Executive Director of ANIE, Other challenges in African higher education include financial capacity that impedes transition of students from secondary schools to university courses.
"Only 10 per cent or less of African students transit from basic education to higher education due to problems of financing. We also need to build PhD capacity because five per cent of African lecturers have doctoral qualification and this affects the need to boost research for solving community's problems," he said.
Experts understand that there have been regional developments within Africa with implications for the future of higher education and its international dimensions including continental programs to support higher education based on African union's agenda 2063, regional frameworks for research, quality assurance and more production of more PhDs.
The 8th ANIE conference discussed the impacts that these global and regional developments are having of Africa's higher education. It analyzed, discussed and critiqued how African universities perceive these developments and their preparedness to respond to them and also benefit from the opportunities and remain relevant in the 21st Century.
The African Network for Internationalization of Education (ANIE) is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental pan-African network and think tank committed to the advancement of high quality research, capacity building, information sharing and exchange, transnational networking and cooperation, and policy advocacy on the internationalization of higher education. Established in 2008, ANIE took the pioneering mandate to enhance the understanding and further development of the international dimension of higher education in Africa so that African universities and development stakeholders can take full advantage of the opportunities presented by internationalization and globalization.
In line with its mandate to promote the understanding and further development of internationalization of education in Africa, ANIE has been organizing annual conferences through which it achieves its goal of creating opportunities for African scholars to deliberate on issues concerning the international dimension of higher education and how they manifest themselves in African universities and contexts.
ABOUT THE 8th ANIE ANNUAL CONFERENCE
In recent years, higher education in Africa has undergone several transformations including the rapid expansion of the sector mainly with regard to increase in enrolments and diversity of providers, new developments and reforms in areas such as quality, leadership and governance, research productivity, growth in new modes of learning and social engagement and responsiveness to societal demands. Recent global developments such as BREXIT and the emerging discourse of deglobalization in several parts of the world could also herald new realities for higher education in Africa. In addition to these, there have also been regional developments within Africa with implications for the future of higher education and its international dimension in Africa. These include continental programmes to support higher education in Africa especially based on the African Union's Agenda 2063, regional frameworks for research, quality assurance and production of more PhDs. There has also been an increase in the number of regional networks for research and capacity building within and between African universities. These developments present unprecedented opportunities and challenges to African universities.
The 8th ANIE conference discussed the impacts that these global and regional developments are having of Africa's higher education. It analyzed, discussed and critiqued how African universities perceive these developments and their preparedness to respond to them and also benefit from the opportunities and remain relevant in the 21st Century.
Sub – Themes
- The impacts of regionalization of Africa's higher education
• Intra- Africa mobility programs and centres of excellence
• Role of research networks in knowledge generation in Africa.
• Successful models in North-South partnerships
• Building capacities for doctoral training and research in African universities
• Deglobalization and the future of Africa's higher education and research
• Online and other innovative modes of teaching and learning
• Internationalization, language and culture
The 8th ANIE Conference presented four workshops:
(i) Developing and Sustaining Institutional Strategies for Internationalization
(ii) Building institutional research capacities through partnerships
(iii) Internationalizing the campus: What are the best options for African Universities
(iv) Students mobility in Africa: Emerging trends and implications
Keynote Speakers
Professor Juma Shabani
Prof. Juma Shabani worked for 17 years at UNESCO as : Senior Specialist for higher education in Africa ; Director of the UNESCO Harare and Bamako Cluster Offices ; UNESCO Representative to several countries and Regional Economic Communities ; and Responsible for development and coordination of UNESCO's programmes in higher education at Headquarters.Before joining UNESCO, he held several senior positions including: Deputy Secretary General of the Association of African Universities; Vice-Rector of the University of Burundi and Professor of mathematical physics at the University of Burundi and several other universities and research centers in Africa and beyond. Prof. Shabani also served as Vice President of the African Academy of Science and Director of the Virtual Institute for Higher Education in Africa. He is currently President of the International Conferences on Quality assurance in Higher Education in Africa, President of the Burundi Academy of Science and Technology, Director of the Doctoral School of the University of Burundi, and Member of the High Level Panel of the Pan African University He holds a PhD in mathematical physics from the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium. He has produced over 80 publications in international journals.
Prof. laban Ayiro
Professor Laban Ayiro is currently the Ag. Vice-Chancellor of Moi University. He has over 30 years' experience as high school teacher, principal of several schools, Provincial Director of Education, Deputy and Senior Deputy Director of Education, Professor and Director-Quality Assurance. He has been awarded the Senior Fulbright Fellowship for research and teaching at Texas A&M University by the American Government in 2011. In this career path he has engaged in Educational Leadership at school and provincial level, Policy Development and Implementation at the ministry headquarters, Curriculum Development at the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development, teaching Research Methods and Statistics and superintending over Quality Issues at the university.
Dr. KABERA Callixte
Dr. KABERA Callixte is the Vice Chancellor of University of Tourism, Technology and Business Studies since its start in 2007. For the last 29 years, Callixte KABERA has got a wealth of experience by working at senior positions in private, semi-public and public institutions. His experience includes teaching, Management and executive tasks. Under his leadership, UTB got accreditation and degree awarding powers. The University has grown up in scope and got so many academic programs accredited by Rwandan Higher Education Council. The University has an extensive network of more than a dozen of sister universities and professional bodies across the world.
Dr. Darla K. Deardof
Darla K. Deardorff is the Executive Director of the Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA), based at Duke University. In addition, she is a research scholar in Education at Duke University. Editor of The Sage Handbook of Intercultural Competence (Sage, 2009), she has published widely on international education and cross-cultural issues. She is also lead editor of the Sage Handbook of International Higher Education, (Sage, 2012) along with co-editors Hans de Wit, John Heyl and Tony Adams. Other books include Building Cultural Competence (Stylus, 2012), Demystifying Outcome Assessment for International Educators (Stylus 2015), and Intercultural Competence in Higher Education: International Approaches, Assessment and Application (Routledge, 2017), co-edited with Lily A. Arasaratnam-Smith. With nearly 20 years of experience in the field of intercultural education, she is affiliated faculty of Harvard University's Future of Learning Institute, The Summer Institute of Intercultural Communication in Portland, OR, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (S. Africa), Meiji University (Japan), Shanghai International Studies University (China) and Middlebury Institute for International Studies. She has given invited talks, trainings and workshops around the world on intercultural competence, international education assessment and global leadership and serves as a consultant and trainer on these topics. Founder of ICC Global, she is the recipient of numerous awards. She received her master's and doctorate degrees from North Carolina State University.
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During Presentations
Dr. Marie-Christine Gasingirwa, Director General for Science, Technology and Research in the Ministry of Education and UTB Vice Chancellor , Dr. Kabera Callixte
DVC Academics/ UTB , Prof. Dr. Tombola M. Gustave presenting
ANIE Participants networking
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At the end of the conference UTB and ANIE signed a Memorandum of Understanding
UTB presenters during the break time


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Urban Composting On The Streets Of New York
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Rooftop gardening, urban chickens, seed-sharing stations: we've seen a plethora of initiatives in which our cities serve as sites for agricultural activities.
Increasingly, our urban surroundings enable us to fulfill a much desired rural aspect of life and to bring out our inner-farmer. We can be self-sufficient in food as if we are living on the countryside, while still enjoying a vibrant city life.
Graphic designer Debbie Ullman found that in times of continuing digitalization, newspapers are on their decline. As a consequence, she turned her attention to empty newspapers boxes. Ullman turned a number of these now useless boxes into public composting bins. The result? New York Compost (see what she did there?) was born.


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Hermès Carré H Got A Major SIHH 2019 Update
The Carré H has been a part of Hermès' watch collection since 2010 and it has been given a sporty update in time for the Geneva SIHH Watch Fair, which started today.
Originally conceived in collaboration with French designer Marc Berthier, last year's re-edition of the Carré H featured an upsized stainless-steel case, guilloché dial and subtly balanced Arabic numerals. Well now, as well as these features, you can add a supple leather strap into the mix, thanks to a fresh 2019 update.
You can choose from a black or natural Barenia calf strap, which has been crafted in the workshops of La Montre Hermès in Brügg and features red or yellow detailing to match the hands of the watch, in turn adding a sportier touch to one of the chicest watches out there.
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Omega Is Bringing Back A Watch Part That Walked On The Moon
The Luxury Watchmaker With A Purpose
The Man Who Went From Professional Golfer To Luxury Watch Brand CEO


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Adam Khoo @ Financial Growth Summit
I have been reading his books for quite some times, and this is my first time seeing Adam Khoo in real person giving a 3 hours free preview on Share Investment. Most of the things he shared, actually you can read it from the book. But seeing him in LIVE and explaining those theories is better than reading the book. He is a really a good speaker, he can speak well, expressing well with the right body language. His upcoming Wealth Academy 2014 in Kuala Lumpur from 15th to 17th August, but unfortunately it clashes with my trip. Then the next ones in Kuala Lumpur are on 3rd to 5th October, but again it crashes with a wedding dinner. I so wish to attend Wealth Academy this year. hmmm.


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Pic of The Day: Bake and Shark
There is an uproar over eating shark, but from West Indians, when we eat shark, we eat it all. Unlike other cultures we don't kill the shark for the fin, oh no, we intend to cook up that shark in a variety of ways.
Shark is a fleshy fish, and very tasty especially once paired with with curry and or in between two soft pieces of fry bake. OMG, writing this and my mouth is tingling.
When next you are In Trinidad and you venture to Maracas, drop in on the bake & shark hotspot called. RICHARD'S BAKE & SHARK, and watch them make your tasty treat, then be sure to dress it to your tastes. I'm a simple gal, I like pineapple, garlic sauce cilantro, and mango chutney.


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Bolter Design were tasked with launching the Smith Dorrien Building, Aldershot, for Grainger to use as offices for the Wellesley project, a major residential development.
Our Approach
Bolter Design matched Grainger's corporate brand assets with custom designed merchandise to create a personal Wellesley experience for events held at the centre.
We share the brand's story and building plans through beautifully designed building hoarding and marketing material - making the development story clear and engaging to all.


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"I expected to get something out of it spiritually. I don't think I expected to get something out of it emotionally," said Patrick Rascoe of his first mission trip. But after spending a week in Mzamomhle, South Africa, Pat said the relationships he built led to emotional attachments that he won't soon forget.
When Pat heard the initial announcement for the South Africa trip, he thought, "that's a great idea… for somebody else." He had a family, businesses to run, things to do. But then God began working on his heart.
"The moment I stopped thinking about making a living and shifted my focus to making a difference, I felt like that's where God put my heart in His pocket and told me, I'm going to take you to South Africa and you're going to do something great," said Rascoe.
The team, made up of Pat and nine others, served with our global mission partner, Living Hope. This year, they worked alongside the Living Hope staff doing home visits throughout the township. They brought food parcels to the homes of those without jobs or steady incomes. They also spent time praying with the people they visited.
"You see the people and look in their eyes, they're needing something. They need more than just food and clothes. They needed hope" said Pat. Not just hope for now but hope for their future.
Pat told the story of a 92-year-old gogo (grandmother) they met during one of their home visits. She couldn't see very well but she had joy in her soul. Although there wasn't much in her home, she kept saying how much God had blessed her. A plaque hung on her wall that said, "A home is a home even if there's nothing in it." Pat said it was something he'd never forget.
The team spent time hanging out with kids at after school kids club and they also spent time in the township school. They went from classroom to classroom sharing the story of Noah. They told the kids that "Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God." When they asked the kids if they knew anyone who was like Noah, their response was always the Living Hope staff.
That resonated with Pat. In just the short time he was there he saw a staff dedicated to increasing the population of heaven through the love of God. Mzamomhle is not an easy place to stand up for something, but Pat says the staff stands for Jesus and people notice it. They are known in the community for their bold faith and their desire to see the children of Mzamomhle live for Christ.
As they were leaving the school one afternoon, Pat noticed a teacher pointing at their team and the Living Hope staff and overheard them say, "those people, those are Christians." To be recognized as a Christian because of what he was doing and what he was sharing was a feeling Pat didn't want to lose when he came back to the states.
Being in South Africa "clearly opened my eyes to the verse for God so loved the world… It was a reminder that that's who God died for," said Pat. He died for everyone and it's his job to share that good news. After this trip, Pat isn't ok with people knowing him as just being a nice guy. He wants people to look at Him and say "I can tell he's a Christ follower."