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Todd Levos from Pictura and Jim Buffo and the MN Timberwolves created an amazing night for our family last Wed. night. We had courtside tickets to the basketball game, free food, valet parking, basketballs that were signed by the players and a tour of the lockeroom area. It was one of those nights the kids will remember for the rest of their lives. We felt truly blessed. Below I have some of the pictures from the night.
On Thursday my dad, Pat, myself and Dr. Duane reviewed the CT scan and my latest bloodwork. the scan did not show any definitive answers for why I have had more pain recently. We had thought that the cancer may have spread to other areas or organs, but that was not seen. So to handle the pain, we just stepped up the dosages a little bit. I know take the pain pills even before the pain starts. The scan did show that the 6 tumors in the liver are all growing at a decent rate. The tumors in the lungs are growing, but not by a lot. We then looked at the blood work and my liver numbers showed some improvement. The bilirubin was the most surprising. Tat number dropped to 1.6. A normal liver functions around 1.2 That number was the best my liver number has been in 4 months. all of my other numbers were pretty good too. My platelets were at 73-again not a bad score, they have been as low as 40. After reviewing all the numbers and the results, we were left uncertain how to go forward. I am still eligible to take chemo, and I have two options. The hesitancy with chemo is due to the pain that I have been having. We just don't know what chemo will do to that pain. also, even though my blood numbers are good, there is still concern that the side effects of the chemo could make me feel really, really sick or put me in the hospital or both. We just don't know. The last option is of course, stopping all treatments. The treatments are pretty terrible and steal away quality time. When I left the hospital we just decided I need to get my rest and monitor the pain over the next 3-4 days and then I would make a decision on what to do. It is a tough decision, but one I know that God will lead me through. I have been praying about it as I know others of you have been as well. I will make that decision Mon or Tuesday and then we will move forward. Monday I am supposed to have more fluid drained, although I don't feel that I am too bloated yet. The last 3 nights I have slept more and more and the pain has been less-Praise God! I actually have spent more than a few hours in a bed at night vs. sleeping in a recliner, like I have for the past 2-3 weeks.
With all of this going on, it only made sense that I end my tenure at Pictura. Paul, my boss, has been more than gracious through this whole process. Karen and I cannot thank him enough. I know that will not end now. The employees of Pictura too, have been amazing. I wish that I could do more, but know that physically it is not very feasible. Taking 4-8 pain med.'s every 24 hours does not make for a very good work schedule.
I would ask tat you pray for wisdom in the decisions I need to make going forward. I will also ask for you to pray for peace for Karen and I. We have an amazing amount of support, but as you can imagine, this is very challenging.
Thank you to all who came to pray with me today at church. It was an amazing turn out. It was neat to see my mom, dad, sister, brother, best friends, work friends, nephew, niece, people who pray for me, people who I pray for, in-laws etc… all around the circle. Thank you for taking the time out of your schedules and lives to come gather around me and lift me up.
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24 hours in Taipei
Taipei is a bustling city, full of history, modern art and architecture. With many influences from different cultures, here are the highlights of Taiwan's capital.
1. Take to new heights
Taipei 101 is an iconic skyscraper in Taiwan and was the tallest in the world between 2004 and 2010. It has 101 floors above the ground and 5 underneath. Travel to the top to get panoramic views of the city below.
2. Discover some history
The National Palace Museum is a top attraction for visitors and contains the largest collections of Chinese artwork and artefacts in the world. It is believed that the museum's collection spans a history of 8,000 years. This is a great place to get acquainted with Taiwanese history and culture.
3. Explore the shops
Shopping is a must in Taipei - it is considered a fashion capital in Asia and visitors won't be disappointed. One of the most famous shopping spots is Shilin Night Market, where tourists can pick up everything from souvenirs to shoes, as well as taste the local food. Shin Kong Mitsukoshi department store is Taipei's version of London's Harrods and is also a great place to explore.
4. Enjoy the cherry blossom trees
Located between Taipei City and New Taipei City, Yangmingshan National Park is a stunning place to visit and is one of eight national parks in Taiwan. Take a picnic or enjoy a hike - if you want to see the cherry blossom trees in their full glory go in March.
5. Visit the pandas
Visit Taipei Zoo, one of the biggest in Asia and home to many different species including the beautiful Giant Pandas. There are also kangaroos, koalas, a variety of birds and many African animals such as giraffes, monkeys and lions.
6. Step into serentity
Longshan temple is a very well known ancient temple for worship as well as being a popular tourist attraction. It is a great place to explore both Taiwan's history and its unique temple architecture.
7. See Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall Park
This grand memorial was built in honour of Chiang Kai-shek, former President of the Republic of China, and it is a big draw for both local people and visitors. Along with the monument is a pretty park and the National Theatre is also found here.

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Brandon Thull scored from the 2 and Simmons connected for a two-point conversion to tie the game at 21-21, but the Panthers (3-3, 2-1) scored three touchdowns in under five minutes to put the game out of reach.
Dunne fired 21 yards to Briley Moore, then hit Nick Fossey from the 25 for a score, and when South Dakota fumbled the ensuing kickoff Brawntae Wells pounced on it in the end zone for a touchdown that made it 42-21.
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- How WA Can Make You Up To $100K Without Your Site!
How WA Can Make You Up To $100K Without Your Site!
So as many of you may know you can earn some great money running your own website promoting trusted affiliate products. Wealthy Affiliate obviously provides all the great training and tools to do so. I've had a bit of success doing exactly what WA trains us to do:
However I've come to realize that not everyone is cut out to be a business owner. In some cases people just need to come up with income while they are building their businesses. And there may be other reasons why the whole business for yourself route is not feasible at the moment. Either way, it doesn't really matter. A lot of us come into Wealthy Affiliate with a one track mind not realizing the peripheral opportunities that WA provides you. So I've decided to help you see some other multiple streams of income you can gain with your WA skills.
You Have The Skills To Pay The Bills!
When you join Wealthy Affiliate and complete the training, you become equipped with some of the most sought after skills that companies are willing to pay up to $100,000 per year for depending on your location and skill set. Let's go through some of these skills you have or will learn.
This is basically learning how to make a website friendly to Google and other search engines so that they send it FREE traffic. Obviously as affiliate marketers this is great for our own blogs. But every company wants to get more free traffic to their site. After all it usually leads to more money for them if you can get targeted traffic. As a result of this fact, companies will usually will hire their own in house SEO people or outsource it to an SEO agency.
Fortunately for me, I've leveraged the SEO skills I learned here at WA to do both. I've had SEO jobs with major fortune 100 companies that pay me over $100,000 per year. And I've also provided SEO consulting where I charged over $100 per hour for my SEO advice.
Although I make a full time income with my blog, I'm a bit greedy and love multiple streams of income. So to this day I still make money working with major companies managing their SEO. I get to work from home part of the time and I have a team of SEO people under me. I earn about 6 figures with this role. And I have my blogs that make me a bit more than that. So you do the math. Clearly your SEO skills can be leveraged to get yourself a high paying job while you build your business. Check out some SEO salaries here.
Freelance Writing
If you haven't already noticed, all websites have content on them. Google can't find websites without it. And guess what? Companies need people like you and I to write the content. But nowadays they prefer hiring people that understand SEO to write their pages. This wasn't always the case. Back in the day the requirement would have been a 4-year degree in Journalism or English. But now you will find many websites and companies that are more focused on writers that have SEO and marketing skills. That's a huge benefit for you. It means there are far more writing opportunities that are available to regular folks like you and I. Companies want content that can drive traffic or conversions for them. Wealthy Affiliate literally teaches you how to do both.
There are no shortage of writing jobs on freelance websites, content mills, big companies, blogs and many other places. If you're a writer that knows SEO and internet marketing, you can literally earn hundreds to thousands of dollars per month. I know firsthand because I've spent thousands of dollars every year hiring writers to write for my blog. There is always work available. And if you're good and can secure a few recurring clients or work with a company that has ongoing writing needs, the money you make can be very consistent. That said you may have to start from the bottom and work your way up to making some decent money. But unlike many other type of work at home jobs, writing gigs are available in great quantity.
And The List Goes on...
I won't go into detail about every other opportunity. But here is a short list of other jobs that you can probably secure once you've successfully completed your WA training:
Virtual Assistant
Blog Manager
Affiliate Manager
Wordpress Assistant
It's The Gift That Keeps Giving!
Ultimately the goal of this article was to give you a different perspective on how to leverage Wealthy Affiliate to make you money other ways. You are not limited to building a business for yourself. Although building your own business should always be your number 1 goal in my humble opinion. However you can leverage your WA skills to help companies with their existing business by working for them as a consultant or an employee.
So a premium membership shouldn't be viewed as a start up cost or a hosting fee for creating a website. It's none of those things. It's a personal investment in yourself just like a college education.
But the big difference here is you won't be putting yourself in thousands of dollars of debt that will take years to pay off. Your premium investment is less than $2 per day, especially if you take advantage of special offers like the Black Friday Sale offered by WA.
WA provides you with layers of ways to make money. And you get to decide how to peel and use those layers to your advantage. Hopefully this gives you food for thought. Yeah I'm on a "roll" with the food puns. lol
No, but seriously, I hope this has article has given you a few ways to look at how WA can help you make money. It may be a useful reference to share with people who may need another way to leverage their WA skills while they get their own business up and running.
Well that's enough yip yapping from me. If you liked the article, feel free to chime in below and share it with others. Thanks for reading!
Eddy with a y
Notice the spelling. And if you forget, reference how it's spelled right near my picture. You can do it! lol
to do SEO for local companies or do we have to specifically
go through local training here in WA?
It will be really helpful if you can list out the local seo trainings
you have used here to build your local SEO empire.
Thank you, Eddy :)
You should still go through all of the OEC training so you understand the SEO concepts and the website elements.
Then you can go through one of jay's live classes on local SEO. If you use the search box at the top of the WA page, you can find any material around this or anything else.
That's how I found this training here: Local SEO 2018: Earning Income from Clients I hope this helps.
As for SEO, obviously with only 3 weeks' experience, I don't think I can market that as a skill yet, and am wondering how long you need to learn SEO before offering it as a service? Also, which live trainings would you recommend most for learning SEO?
Thanks again!
1. Read this post to find writing companies to consider:
2. Your 3 weeks of experience is better than none. If you understand how to do keyword research and incorporate it into writing than you can probably market yourself as a writer with SEO skills.
And if you follow what Jay laid out here: 2018 Blog Post Checklist Jay's SEO Process for 2018 Jays 10 Step Process on Getting Content to Rank You can confidentally replicate this process on articles you write for others. I hope this helps.
Please don't pay anything to join a site or agency, it's not necessary; all this means is that anybody will be accepted regardless of their writing skills.
Typically, when applying to a reputable agency, you will have to pass a spelling and grammar test first, using multiple choice questions within a time limit.
Having passed this test, you will then be asked to write a sample, from between 300 to 500 words. Unfortunately, you can't pre-prepare for this, as they give you the subject matter and again, it's within a time limit.
If accepted, some agencies will give you a grading, and the higher you are marked, the better paid you will be. Others automatically start you at the lowest rate, and you have the opportunity to move up, as clients will be asked to offer feedback on your work.
Some people might disagree with joining agencies, and refer to them as "content mills", but I believe it's the right place to start as a beginner. You can learn valuable skills and you have the option to choose which jobs you wish to do, from a daily job board.
I personally recommend BoostContent, Constant Content, Great Content and Textbroker.
I hope this helps, Diane
WOW, valuable things that you have shared here. It is so easy to focus only on building websites, that we so easily forget about all the other skills that we have learned in the process.
Thank you for opening our eyes to the opportunities around us! ;-)
Wishing you much success!
Sharlee (Chocolate IceCream)
That was actually some pretty amazing information that you had given us, and I thank you so much for it!
That's perhaps one of the neatest, very thorough, post about other job opportunities that we can consider taking after at least gotten to some good progress with our websites.
This, makes me look forward to a brighter future for all of us who will remain persistent in our business endeavors!
Sky's not the limit!
Thanks for this article it is true about leveraging your WA SEO skills to go after job opportunities, WA is a great platform to start your own business or get some training to go and work for those fortune 500 companies. Well you help me see the other side to being here at WA, not only am I learning to start my own online business, but I can go and help other companies on the side with theirs great idea.
I can certainly vouch for what you are saying. Through being a member of WA, being a member and interacting with members here, I managed to land a £1000 job as a freelance writer through my presence on Fiverr. I was totally gobsmacked but I love the magazine I now write for and I can do it in my own time at home, which is perfect for me. The only slight drawback is that it has left me with less time to work on my WA sites and less time to interact here, but the extra money has been very welcome!
Using the SEO and doing reviews skills learned here at WA have been a huge part of my success with my Youtube channel related to my blog. Which is the primary reason why I'm rarely chatting here at WA...LOL
The only limitations I experience are those I impose on myself.. Time to scale it up.
WA is truly awesome!
And so are you Eddy!
Thank you!
Thank you again :)
I have approached smaller local companies. Whereas many major companies tend to hire in-house SEO personnel, smaller companies seem to embrace freelancers more.
EVERYONE with a website for their company large or small needs SEO work. Approaching local businesses with websites is a great way to start before moving up to the big guys.
I came here as a place to publish some of my writings, and photos, but keep running into roadblocks and major life issues. But I keep plugging away and hopefully one of these days I will start to see some dollars rolling in. Till then I will keep following the program and pray it all works out.
You are exactly right, it is not only through building our own websites that we could earn, but also with other information and trainings that we get from WA. Amazing input here.
These ideas will help make 2019 a good start.
Cheers to success!
This post is a real eye opener in terms of helping people realize that what they are learning is so valuable. This has encouraged me to finish the training that is provided and I now realize that I can be creative in how to make streams of income.
When I also realized how much one could earn as a Social Media Manager, I must admit that I've been paying very close attention to how I run all my social media accounts, and since then, the majority of my traffic has been coming from there. Not much yet, but far greater than the one that comes from Google. And this is only the beginning.
Not only will it be beneficial for my website, but I will also be able to increase my sources of income as well.
There are tons of other jobs one could really apply for using only the training here, the opportunities are endless, and I become so excited each time I discover a new job which fits the credentials I already have thanks to Wealthy Affiliate.
OMG the resources available here are just awesome.
Excellent post, thanks for sharing.
I thought a scammer has entered here and now works on deception of WA community. However, the clarifications came through the article itself. The $100K is earned in one year and with all the ways how it is earned. Besides, the writer shared his experience and that makes it authentic.
Yes, the reference of this article are those who are seasoned marketers, writers and are becoming experts in the online business, like the writer.
I now see even without a website you can earn that.
Maybe it's easier to earn by doing SEO.
But like I said there are many skills taught here that can be leveraged in other ways to make money. It's all falls on you.
Thanks for sharing with the WA community!
Thank you so much as it opens my mind to so much potential as I learn more and more
your rock Eddy with a y
Here's a tip, look at their website to see if it's mobile friendly or if there are other areas of improvements like SEO that you can offer. As wa members we have a better eye for how to improve websites now. So definitely use it to help other businesses you may use regularly.
you are so helpful, thank you so much
Have a fantastic day Eddy.
It went from what are you doing, to can you show me. Or I always knew you would do big things. Yeah yeah. lol
I'm so pleased that your hard work paid off Eddy and that your friends can see what you are doing is working, fantastic stuff! It is always so good to hear about people's success, especially online as it takes time and effort to get to that tipping point.
Thank you for being an inspiration on Wealthy Affiliate Eddy.
Yeah I have a few stories in my blogs:
Feel free to read them. I'm sure you'll find them inspiring.
Have a great weekend Eddy,


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April 15, 2019: Mike King gives an exclusive update on Gumboot Friday's 1 million dollar milestone, and Hamish Coleman-Ross and psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald ask listeners where they go and what they do when they need help with their mental health. With thanks to NZ on Air.


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Abigail Manor, located in Stone Mountain, Georgia provides the following services: Micro-Community: Personal Care Home and Assisted Living. Abigail Manor has a very good hospital, Dekalb Medical Center At Hillandale, located nearby, which scored a 87 out of 100 in its most recent Medicare review. The Abigail Manor's nearest hospital is 5 miles away. The zipcode (30088) in Georgia, where Abigail Manor is located, has an average safety rating based on recent crime statistics.
Abigail Manor is an assisted living facility. Assisted living facilities are an apartment-style habitat designed to focus on providing assistance with daily living activities. They provide a higher level of service for the elderly which can include preparing meals, housekeeping, medication assistance, laundry, and also do regular check-in's on the residents. Basically, they are designed to bridge the gap between independent living and nursing home facilities. When thinking about how to pay for care, assisted living facilities are generally less expensive than nursing homes, if assisted living is a viable option for your loved one.
Also, Abigail Manor is a Micro community, which means it is a smaller senior community. It is a Personal Care Home. Some people prefer it for its smaller less institutional setting.
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Eckerd Corporation319 North Stone Mountain Lithonia Road
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Publix Super Markets Inc5158 Memorial Dr
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Nearby Churches
Corpus Christi Catholic Church600 Mountain View Dr
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Antioch Ame Church765 S Hairston Rd
Stone Mountain, GA
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Ebenezer Baptist Church5486 Stillhouse Rd
Stone Mountain, GA
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Wade-Walker Park5585 Rockbridge Rd
Stone Mountain, GA
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We have a range of rooms available for hire at competitive rates, with capacities from 10 to 200. To book a room please call us on 01252 330040 and we will help you to plan your meeting or event. All rooms are subject to availability.
Dance Studio
This room has a wooden floor, full-length mirrors and barrés. Ideal for dance or exercise classes, meetings, classes or non-messy workshops. Capacity up to 77 seated or 100 standing.
Creative Room
Ideal for meetings, we can set this room up with a projector. Capacity: up to 50 seated.
Art Room
Equipped with easels, tables, chairs and a sink this room is perfect for creative classes. Capacity: 20 seated or standing at easels.
Our second live performance space (Gallery Live) is also a great space to hold your own exhibition. Capacity: up to 75 seated or 150 standing.
Our main performance space, out theatre is extremely adaptable with raked or cabaret-style seating options. We can also hire this space for standing events. Subject to availability the theatre and bar can be jointly hired for parties, private events or performances. We have in-house technical staff, our technical specification can be downloaded here. Capacity: 30 seated at tables, raked seating 106, cabaret style seating 136, 200 standing.
Our bar can be also be hired (as a separate space) for parties of events. Capacity: 100 standing
Optional extras
Basic room hire can include tables and chairs, hot water flasks or jugs of cold water free of charge. Tea and coffee can be provided for all daytime room bookings, this charged at £1.00 per cup, please confirm numbers for this at the time of booking. We can provide the additional charged items if required including: projector screen, projector, flipchart and paper. Please confirm your exact requirements at the time of booking.
No VAT is charged on the basic room hire, use of additional items means that VAT at 20% would need to be added to the entire hire charge.
Tech specs
FOH: 3 KW Court Acoustic System
3 QSC RMX 2450 amps
40 ch Midas Verona Desk
Klark Technic DN360
Monitors: 4 sends controlled from FOH desk
3 front wedges (Martin LE400) and 1 drum fill
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2 Klark Technic DN360
Outboard: 1 Drawmer DL441 Quad Compressor
1 Drawmer DS404 Quad Gate
1 Lexicon 250
1 Roland SDE2000 delay
Mics: 6 SM58, 6 SM57, 1 SM91b
3 D.I. boxes
Lighting Control
48 15A circuits on internally wired barrel rig
4 Zero88 Beta Packs (24 x 2KW channels)
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Just when you think you have seen it all with print ads, you find one that completely blows your mind.
This is the case with Ikea, and it's just January.
Ikea is no stranger to generating buzz with their ads, their new ad is a pregnancy test you pee on… literally.
In their new print ad developed by the agency, Akestam Holst, women are urged to pee right on the paper. Sounds strange? Hold on, there's a cool twist. If you're pregnant, peeing on the ad reveals a 50% discount price on cribs.
The agency behind this, Akestam Holst, worked with Mercene Labs to create this clever ad/pregnancy-test kits. Here's how it works;
On seeing the ad, we had so many questions and concerns… We imagined cashiers having to handle the pee-soaked coupons, the stench (ugh), would there be latex gloves involved?
However, our questions were answered as the Creative Chief, Magnus Jakobsson, explained that the ad is not a coupon. "You don't have to bring an ad soaked in urine to Ikea to get a discount" Jakobsson says.
Was this stated in the ad? Or, are we missing something?
Moving on, we had a new set of questions; why are dads left out of this offer? How do they get to join in the fun?
Jakobsson explained that the discount is available to all members of the Ikea Family program. The Ikea Family is a loyalty program designed for everyone, they offer exclusive product discounts, special offers, and ideas. The pee ad has its target- pregnant women.
The ad simply functions as a free pregnancy test, encouraging readers who are pregnant to join the Ikea Family program and enjoy the benefits.
There is definitely a number of unusual things people would do for a good discount, but this is new. The ad has gotten so much attention, as most people think it's very clever, others think it's totally gross. What are your thoughts?


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With two weeks left until the 2018 Mobile World Congress Americas, the GSMA announced further details on the event, including recently confirmed speakers, exhibitors and sponsors, as well as updates on programs and activities at the show. Mobile World Congress Americas will take place September 12-14, 2018 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles.
"In just a few weeks, global leaders from the mobile technology and content, media and entertainment industries will converge in Los Angeles," said Michael O'Hara, Chief Marketing Officer, GSMA. "Over three days, the spotlight will be on the exciting new opportunities delivered through mobile technology, not just in media and entertainment, but in many other areas that touch citizens' everyday lives. Attendees will truly have the opportunity to imagine a better future."
"Los Angeles is a global capital for media, entertainment and innovation — and the perfect home for Mobile World Congress Americas," said Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. "We are excited to partner with GSMA to give pathbreaking startups and established players an opportunity to exchange ideas, explore new inventions and showcase the future of mobile technology."


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"As a long standing member, Barclays values the fantastic support Working Families offer in equipping organisations in understanding the needs of parents and carers, support and resources they offer and their efforts in embedding workplace flexibility. I also see their contribution in driving the conversation on changing family roles in a society as invaluable."
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'Through our partnership with Working Families we have been able to access valuable resources to inform our policies and practices. They have also delivered valuable training to our HR Business Partners so they can advocate the flexible working mindset across the business."
"Working Families continue to be alert and responsive to the challenges and opportunities for business at whatever stage of their journey towards embedding flexible working practices. The support DWF receive is undoubtedly accelerating our progress, enabling us to engage and inspire our people to perform at their best as a result of building and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture and enlightened workplace design."
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"The University of Manchester is passionate about enabling our employees to find a positive balance between their home and work lives. We believe that it is key to attracting, engaging and retaining our talent. We are a member of Working Families as their resources and benchmarking services allow us to ensure that we are implementing the best possible practice and continuously improving the support and initiatives provided to all of our working families and parents."
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"Working Families thought leadership has been critical to the evolution of both our practice and our strategy and they understand the commercial world and the challenges and opportunities it can bring in achieving these goals."
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"Membership of Working Families has proven to be one of the best diversity budget spends to date. Not only do they provide a wealth of experience and solid evidence based support for our internal diversity programmes of work, Working Families also provide our employees with expert advice on all aspects of being a working parent and carer"
"At Centrica we want to attract, recruit, develop and retain the very best people and Working Families helps us to do this."
"Working Families provides inspirational thought-leadership on all aspects of how organisations and working families can thrive."
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About MagNet: Canada's Magazine Conference
MagNet is Canada's premier public policy, professional development and networking conference for magazine professionals.
MagNet is the destination to network and learn, and to celebrate Canada's dynamic magazine industry.
Discover Your Formula for Success
Success in publishing relies on experimentation, innovation and a dedication to maintaining that specific mix of knowledge in editorial, print, digital, sales, audience engagement, revenue models, design, storytelling and leadership that will keep your magazine thriving far into the future.
In an industry as diverse and variable as magazine media, no publishing formula will be alike, and no one formula will stay the same. That's why Canada's largest magazine media superconference presents more than 50 timely and topical sessions and over 150 speakers from across the continent, so you can mix, match, branch out and build a customized event plan that brings the best of MagNet to your unique enterprise.
Join this industry's most innovative, creative and fascinating people in the MagNet lab, and develop your own winning formula for publishing success.
Working Together
MagNet represents a collaborative effort from the Canadian Society of Magazine Editors, Circulation Management Association of Canada, Magazines Canada and the Professional Writers Association of Canada. Together, we have worked closely to deliver a stellar line-up of sessions, workshops and keynote speakers featuring North America's top magazine publishing leaders, thinkers and visionaries.
Over 50 Targeted Sessions
MagNet's sessions are specifically designed to help you stay on top and ahead of the game. The curriculum focuses on the challenges and opportunities of what's ahead in:
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MagNet attendees includes publishers, editors, digital media managers, printers, circulators, designers, art directors, managing editors, government funders, regional magazine associations, bloggers, advertising salespeople, advertising agency executives, civil servants, students, freelancers, photographers, people interested in starting a magazine, circulation auditors, environmental paper advocates, suppliers, big magazines, medium-sized magazines, trade magazines, small magazines and many others.
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As we struggle to deal with the horrific synagogue shooting this past Shabbat, we look to our leaders for words of caring and hope. Our President again disappointed us. In a scripted statement, the President's first words attempted to be reassuring but they were measured and political. His statement felt inadequate to quell our pain. And then his later, unscripted words were inappropriate and offensive. I'll examine those in a bit.
As I read Torah for next week and with the President's ill-thought out statements in mind, I noticed an instance in the Torah of an incongruous and unsuitable greeting. Rebecca is about to leave her father's home to meet her new husband, Isaac. As she prepares to go, we are told that her family: "blessed Rebekah and said to her, "O sister! May you grow into thousands of myriads; May your offspring seize the gates of their foes."
There is a tradition to greet a bride with the hope that her children grow into thousands of myriads. But looking at the complete sentence in Torah we notice that the second phrase has a different focus. Rebekah's family also wishes that her descendants should be aggressive enough to overtake their enemies. The family could have offered many other wishes to the new bride: health, happiness, or longevity. Instead, her family hopes that her children will be warriors who commandeer their enemies' towns. How odd and inappropriate! And this message of bellicosity is coming from a family who appears to be motivated by greed and who later act duplicitously.
And what of the comments to the nation regarding the massacre in Pittsburgh? Our President's response to a synagogue shooting was to admonish the community for their failure to have armed guards. Whatever the sympathy expressed in his earlier statement, his later words display his lack of morality. Rather than acting truly supportive, our nation's leader offered a message designed to deploy even more guns. This statement was as absurd as wishing a bride that her grandchildren become warriors.
Even more offensive was the real meaning of that message to the Jewish community. As Rabbi Joshua Stanton offered on CNN, the President blamed the victims.
At times of violence, real leadership is compassionate without qualification and resolute in complete condemnation. Good people respond with wholehearted kindness and calls for justice. I pray that our current President learns this lesson . . . but my thoughts and prayers might not be realized.
Rabbi Evan J. Krame


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Center-of-influence networks, which can serve as a source of referrals, remain primarily the domain of men
As our members know, the Financial Services Institute has been highly engaged for many years in the crucial mission of helping women begin and develop successful careers in the financial advice industry, both as advisers and home office executives. According to our ongoing dialog with members, it's clear that awareness of this critical challenge is growing, with more firms establishing mentoring networks and dedicated educational resources to help female professionals advance in their careers.
What is also clear, however, is that much work remains to be done — especially as women come to make up a greater proportion of the American investor population.
As more organizations become engaged in addressing this issue, new insights are emerging about various elements of the problem, and about best practices that can help female advisers successfully adapt.
One hurdle that is coming into clearer focus is that it's not only the adviser population that still skews predominantly male. Broader "center of influence" networks — those strong but informal interlocking connections that develop among business leaders in communities across the country, which often center around key tax and accounting professionals, attorneys and risk management specialists — remain primarily the domain of men as well.
As experienced members of our industry know, advisers' long-term success often depends on their ability to integrate themselves into these networks, which frequently serve as a source of strong referral business — the lifeblood of any thriving adviser's practice.
Networking organization The W Source, which helps female professionals establish and strengthen powerful connections with other women business leaders in their communities, is helping female advisers tackle this challenge by empowering them to proactively build their own COI networks.
The W Source will be one of the featured presenters at our Advancing Women in Leadership Workshop just prior to the commencement of our FSI Forum event for advisers and firm executives in September.
According to W Source co-founder Hannah Buschbom, women in our industry often do not realize the power of the connections they already have — or how to parlay those connections into a more robust network.
"Within every female adviser's existing book of business — even if the adviser is relatively new to the industry — there are opportunities to find that one person who can connect you to a hundred more," she said. "It's simply a matter of helping women understand this dynamic and how to take actionable steps to make it work for them."
Ms. Buschbom suggests female advisers keep a close eye on resources that can help them "mine" their existing business to identify and establish relationships with these key connectors, including trust documents, wills and insurance policies, among others. Each of these documents contain the names of attorneys, risk management professionals and others who share a focus on extending their networks — and who play influential roles in their clients' lives.
Ms. Buschbom also emphasizes that it's critical for men in our industry to realize that they have an important role to play as allies of female professionals. (This is actually one of The W Source's fundamental tenets, as Ms. Buschbom's co-founder in starting the organization is independent adviser Tom Goodson.)
Among other key contributions, Ms. Buschbom notes that established male advisers can utilize their own networks to help rising female advisers connect with up-and-coming women attorneys, CPAs and other professionals in their local communities.
For veteran advisers, facilitating such connections can be a vital way to extend and deepen relationships with important law firms, accounting firms and others by encouraging younger professionals at these companies to continue to work with the practice's rising generation of female advisers.
Of course, none of these networking best practices will help if our industry takes its eye off the ball when it comes to recruiting female professionals in the first place.
As another presenter at our Advancing Women in Leadership Workshop, Amy Philbrook, head of diversity and inclusion at Fidelity Investments, puts it, "Firms should strive to think beyond traditional strategies to connect earlier and in new places with prospective female recruits, which in turn will help drive awareness of career paths in financial services. With women making up more than half the total workforce, but less than 20% of financial advisers, there is clearly significant work to be done and tremendous opportunity."
We are certainly seeing signs of progress on the crucial issue of bringing more women into our industry and helping them succeed, as mentoring programs, dedicated training curricula for female advisers and innovative recruiting practices take root in firms across the country.
As we have also seen, though, these excellent programs are only part of the solution. In the coming years, we must not only continue to drive progress in recruiting, but in providing female advisers with the tools to succeed over the long term by building effective center of influence networks in their own communities.
By Dale Brown
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Focusing on more than wins and losses. Developing friendships, mentorship, and great memories with teammates. Those have been the biggest successes for our Girls Varsity Soccer team this season. This year's squad has experienced a handful of ups and downs, but according to Head Coach Todd Manske, one thing has remained consistent – leadership. "It's been a tough year record wise, but we've had great senior and junior leadership," said Manske.
That leadership has been visible both on and off the field. According to Coach Manske, Lauren Steffen, Erin Bredemus and Sidney Manske have been fantastic senior leaders. "Sidney is a great defender and team leader, and Lauren has been impactful on the offensive end of the field," said Coach Manske. "Erin Bredemus has been solid in the net averaging 15+ saves per game." Juniors Megan Domeyer and Maddie Urness have brought leadership to the midfield providing excellent passing and communication.
This year's team has done much more than play the game of soccer. One of the most notable things they have done took place at the end of September. Prior to their non-conference match-up against Zimmerman, the Lions and the Thunder served at Feed My Starving Children together where they packed meals for those in need. The Lady Lions have shown that their purpose is so much higher than the game of soccer.
"The girls have been improving every game, so I'm excited to see the ball go into the net more," commented Manske. As this team continues to get better, we are excited to see the noise that they can make in section play!
With a young team, comes a huge opportunity for growth. When asked to describe the first part of the 2017 season, Head Coach Jake Traen said, "New, fresh, eye-opening and challenging. Many of our players are getting their first varsity experience this year. Each day has been a new experience for them to learn from."
Although this year's squad is young, they have come away with some impressive wins this season – their 5-0 victory over PACT being one of them. "PACT is the local rival, so beating them was a highlight and the way we did it was impressive," recalled Coach Traen.
Jarvey Hill '18, Jimmy Anderson '19, and Daniel Gerber '21 have made a significant impact so far this season. "Jarvey is our lone senior captain and a key piece of our backline," said Traen. "He is a great athlete who covers a lot of ground in the back." Anderson leads the team in points and assists. According to Traen, "He is a key feature in our attack as our best playmaker and has scored some of our biggest goals this year." As a freshman, Gerber is tied for the lead in goals this year. "Daniel has significant responsibility in both attacking and defending for us. I believe the future is very bright for both him and the program," said Traen.
According to Coach Traen, the boys have been maturing both as players and as men this season. They hope that the growth they have made will carry them far into the postseason. "We are getting better and have a chance to host a section game," said Traen. "We have the players and ability to make games tough on anyone we play, and we have always been a tough team come playoff time. I don't expect anything different from this group."
Steady improvement. That is what Head Coach Rolly Rudzitis said has been the team's biggest success so far. When asked to describe the first part of the season, Coach Rudzitis said, "The first part of the season has been very productive. Our team had a big learning curve to start, but we're seeing huge improvements."
Senior Gracie Zieroth has been a key leader for this year's team. "Gracie has matured as a leader. Being the only senior, she has had a lot of responsibility getting the team to where it is at. She has shown dedication to the school and her team," said Rudzitis.
According to Coach Rudzitis, a highlight for this year's team has been the friendships that have developed. Team dinners, a bonfire, an overnight tournament, bowling and lazer tag, a car wash, The Mane Event, devotions, and prayer have been the keys to developing such deep relationships.
As the Lions prepare for postseason play, Coach Rudzitis is excited to see how far the team will go. "I believe with our steady improvement and increase in consistency, we will surprise some teams in the playoffs. Our record will not reflect how good the girls will be at the end," said Rudzitis.


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Once-a-month cooking is a great way to save time and money preparing healthy meals for your family.
And it can really save your sanity during those busy holidays. Mimi Wilson and Mary Beth Lagerborg, authors of Once-A-Month Cooking Family Favorites, want to help you make that hectic time of year easier.
They're giving away a free downloadable copy of a Once-A-Month Cooking Holiday Menu Sampler. This has all the information you need to prepare a week's worth of tasty meals in advance. Recipes include French Stew, Sledders Soup, Tortilla Lime Chicken, Apple-Sausage Brunch Bake and more.
The Once-A-Month Cooking website has some great information for how to get started on marathon cooking sessions. Be sure to sign-up for their newsletter to get regular tips and updates from them.


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13 Last-Minute Father's Day Gifts You Can Get by the Weekend
Father's Day is THIS weekend! But there's no need to panic if you haven't gotten a gift. Amazon Prime is here to save us procrastinators once again. Not only will the e-retailer make it a breeze to find thoughtful gifts for the world's number-one dad, but you can wait until the last minute and still nab a fab present in the nick of time! Finding the perf gift for your coffee-obsessed or golf-pro pops is just a click away with these 13 faves below.
1. 1byone Belt-Drive 3-Speed Stereo Turntable With Built-in Speakers ($70): Does the guy that taught you everything still love to pick up a classic vinyl record? He can listen in style with a turntable that looks as slick as it sounds.
2. AMANCY Cedar Wood Lined Portable Travel Leather Cigar Humidor With Humidifier ($24): The next time Dad has a cigar with the guys, he'll not only have the freshest goods, but a swanky case to match.
3. The Complete Beer Course: Boot Camp for Beer Geeks: From Novice to Expert in Twelve Tasting Classes ($17): The beer geek in your life may think he knows it all, but you never stop learning about something you love! After reading this book, he just might be able to teach an expert brewmaster a thing or two.
4. Putt-A-Bout Grassroots Par Three Putting Green ($32): Dad won't have to make a trip to the golf course to practice his swing! He'll be ruling the greens in no time with this office-ready practice pad.
5. Amazon Echo ($180): Whether your dad wants to rock out to his fave tunes, order new socks, or get the score of the game, an Echo will become his very own personal assistant.
6. Wilson Men's 2015 Ultra Complete Package Golf Set ($184): No golfing pops can master his game without a great set of clubs. Upgrade his secret weapons, and we're sure his game will go from good to great!
7. Fire TV Stick With Alexa Voice Remote ($40): Does Dad love to catch live sports games? Or just binge watch his fave Netflix drama? The Fire TV Stick will let him do it all from the comfort of the couch.
8. Cuisinart Tabletop Gas Grill ($146): If grilling is his most beloved pastime, an indoor gas version will really light his fire.
9. The Little Flower Soap Co Beard Care Gift Set Kit ($25): Help the bearded dads in your life keep their wild manes so fresh and so clean with essential oils, a nifty comb, and some taming balm.
10. Invicta Men's Analog Swiss Chronograph Black Polyurethane Watch ($98): Every guy needs a great watch to rock on the daily or for fancy occasions. The black base and gold details of this number make for some irresistible wrist candy.
11. Cuisinart 14-Cup Glass Carafe With Stainless Steel Handle Coffeemaker ($82): Your fave coffee guru will be looking forward to skipping the line at his go-to coffee shop with this new at-home brewer.
12. Dad's Playbook: Wisdom for Fathers from the Greatest Coaches of All Time ($10): Sports fan dads will adore a few words of wisdom from coaches whose legacies have stood the test of time.
13. YETI Rambler 20-Ounce Stainless Steel Vacuum Insulated Tumbler With Lid ($30): Does dad love a good cold brew in the summer and a piping hot cup of chai in the winter? Well, this tumbler will give him the best of both worlds.
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September 26, 2018
The Gordon A. McKay Awards
The McKay Award honors the memory of Gordon A. McKay and is supported by the McKay Fund, established in 2008 as a part of The Meteoritical Society's endowment. The award is given each year to the student who gives the best oral presentation at the Annual Meeting of The Society. The McKay Award for the 81st Annual Meeting in Moscow is given to Timothy Gregory (University of Bristol) for the presentation " Using refractory forsterite grains to test models of 26Al/27Al heterogeniety".
The Wiley Awards
Sponsored by the publisher of Meteoritics and Planetary Science, five Wiley Awards are given for outstanding oral presentations by students at the Annual Meeting. For this year's meeting in Moscow the awardees are:
Jan Hellman (Universität Münster) for the presentation "Thermal and impact history of ordinary chondrite parent bodies inferred from Hf-W chronometry".
Jane L. MacArthur (University of Leicester) for the presentation "Constraining the thermal history of Martian breccia Northwest Africa 8114".
Doreen Schmidt (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität) for the presentation " Laser simulated hypervelocity micrometeoroid impacts: orientation dependent shock effects in enstatite single crystals".
Malgorzata Sliz (University of Bern) for the presentation "Terrestrial ages of meteorites using in situ 14C and 10Be measurements".
Brendan Haas (Washington University, St. Louis) for the presentation "FIB-TEM study of 6 submicron craters from Stardust foil C2113N-A".


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Category: Vintage Classics
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RICHARD FLANAGAN. In this fascinating journey Claudio Magris, whose knowledge is encyclopaedic and whose curiosity limitless, guides his reader from the source of the Danube in the Bavarian hills through Austro-Hungary and the Balkans to the Black Sea. Along the way he raises the ...Show more
Category: Travel
A revised, reissued fortieth anniversary edition of this prize-winning, bestselling account of one woman's solo journey across 1,700 miles of Australian Outback 'I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.' S ...Show more
Category: Travel
In 1960, before his skyscrapers and teapots made him a household name, Michael Graves set out on a journey once considered obligatory for a young architect: a grand tour of the great monuments of Europe. Recipient of the prestigious Prix de Rome, Graves traveled through Italy, Greece, Turkey, Spain, Eng ...Show more
Category: Travel
A city of tropical heat, sweat, ramshackle beauty, and its very own cadence--a city that always surprises--Havana is brought to pulsing life by New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky. Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky presents an insider's view of Havana: the elegant, tattered city he has co ...Show more
Category: Food and Cookery
France remains the greatest country for bread, cheese and wine, and its culinary techniques are the foundation of the training of nearly every serious Western cook and some beyond. In The Food and Wine of France, acclaimed food writer Edward Behr talks with chefs and goes to see top artisanal producers ...Show more
Category: Travel Narratives
"Seven Pillars of Wisdom is an unusual and rich work. It encompasses an account of the Arab Revolt against the Turks during the First World War alongside general Middle Eastern and military history, politics, adventure and drama. It is also a memoir of the soldier known as Lawrence of Arabia .Lawrence i ...Show more
Category: Travel
Jack Kerouac's On the Road helped to define freedom for a generation. But when a young recovering alcoholic turned to the Beat classic for inspiration, he saw more warning signs and wreckages than enlightenment and self-discovery. Was that really freedom? Setting off from Australia, Lennox Nicholson re ...Show more
Category: Travel
Steve Hely, writer for The Office and American Dad , and recipient of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, presents a travel book about his journey through Central and South America. Part travel book, part pop history, part comic memoir, Hely's writing will make readers want to reach for their backpack ...Show more
Category: History, Politics and Society
In his first major prose work since 2002's Broken Song, Barry Hill has written an epic - a travel book, a history book, a peace book. His odyssey begins with a pilgrimage to Bodhi Gaya in India, where the Buddha received enlightenment and ends after he reaches Nagasaki, Japan, in the aftermath of its at ...Show more
Category: Travel
What does it mean to be out walking in the world, whether in a landscape or a metropolis, on a pilgrimage or a protest march? In this first general history of walking, Rebecca Solnit draws together many histories to create a range of possibilities for this most basic act. Arguing that walking as history ...Show more
Category: Travel
'A couple of quiet weeks sailing the River Severn was the intention. Somehow things got out of hand - a year later I had reached Romania and was still going . . . ' Truly hilarious books are rare. Even rarer are those based on real events. Join A.J. Mackinnon, your charming and eccentric guide, on an am ...Show more
Category: Travel
Selected to be read on Radio Four's Book of the Week. 'One of the best books I've read in the last five or ten years... Wild is angry, brave, sad, self-knowing, redemptive, raw, compelling, and brilliantly written, and I think it's destined to be loved by a lot of people, men and women, for a very long ...Show more


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Did something funny happen on the way to the Forum?
What made the ancient Greeks and Romans laugh? What entertainments made them cry? Who did they boo and hiss and barrack for? It wasn't all bread and circuses in the ancient entertainment world...
Hear six distinguished speakers give their views on:
Entertainment in the Ancient World at the 16th Ancient History Day
Dedicated to the memory of Adjunct Professor Adrian Heyworth-Smith. Presented by Friends of Antiquity in conjunction with the University of Queensland and Classics and Ancient History at UQ (in the school of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics).
The speakers:
To make a booking:
Print theAncient History Day program, fill in BOTH sides of the flyer and mail, by 30 July, to -
"Ancient History Day"
c/- The Alumni Centre (Building 91C)
50 Walcott Street
The University of Queensland, Q. 4072
Contact for interview and further information:
Photo Opportunity:
The R.D.Milns Antiquities Museum, 3rd floor Michie Building, The University of Queensland, contains a wealth of valuable and highly photogenic artefacts from the ancient world.


text: Now live: https://www.dashcentral.org/p/Adaptive-Proposal-Fees Introduction As many of you know, there has been much discussion regarding the current 5 dash proposal fee. Although 1DPF (1 Dash Proposal Fees) was rejected, the debate clearly divided opinion. The original 5 dash proposal fee was introduced as a mechanism to reduce spam. To date, this has worked relatively successfully. However, the current US dollar price of dash is leading some people to question if the high fee is stifling progress. OTOH, some MNOs believe the high fee acts as a filter; attracting larger and more professional projects. Personally, although I favour a lower fee, I fully appreciate both sides of this argument. With this in mind, I am proposing what I believe to be a fair and sustainable solution. Please keep in mind, over time, this proposal would produce some very valuable historic data regarding MNO sentiment and perhaps substantiate (or disprove) any correlation between proposals and their fees. Note: To help those unfamiliar, this proposal also includes a brief explanation of how median averages work and why it's well suited for this particular problem. (This solution is using the median average, not the mean average! See explanation below) Feasibility As you know, we can not force core devs to enact this proposal, but your yes votes will send them a clear message. Official dash developer @UdjinM6 has indicated that this proposal looks, on the face of it, technically possible. In the short term this could be implemented as a traditional spork. However, a longer term solution might be to develop a "masternode spork", which would be useful for many other applications / parameters. Keep It Simple Stupid Alternative solutions have been discussed, such as criteria based refunds and USD pegs. However, those discussions further fragmented opinion. By denominating in dash, we show no favour to one fiat currency over another. Each MNO understands the price of dash in their local currency, and they are free to adapt their vote accordingly. By denominating in dash, we are all on the same page. This is the solution of least resistance. MNOs are being paid to make decisions and this is a very simple procedure for an MNO to voluntarily carry out each month, with the potential to be even easier through a web interface such as Dash Central et al. Solution Once a month, MNOs can voluntarily submit their preferred proposal fee. At the time of the Superblock, the median average will be used for the new month. A console command would be linked to a spork and look something like this: gobject vote-many proposal-fee 5 As a voting command, MNOs would be free to change their vote within the usual constraints. As a safety measure, at least 2% of all masternodes would need to vote, thus ensuring a good pool of diversity (2% of 4400 MNs = 88 MNs). In the extreme case of not meeting this minimum, the fee would continue as the previous month. (no one voting on a proposal fee would be symptomatic of a much bigger problem) How to calculate the median average All votes are placed in ascending order. For example, here are 9 votes: 1 1 3 4 5 5 5 9 10 The middle of this set is the median average. In the above example, 5 is the median average. If there is an even set of numbers, the two middle numbers are averaged in the traditional way. That is to say, the two middle numbers are added together and divided by two. In the following example, 4 and 5 are the two middle numbers: 1 1 1 3 4 5 5 5 9 10 The average is therefore (4 + 5) / 2 = 4.5 For an alternative explanation, please see http://www.mathsisfun.com/median.html The median average is especially good at filtering out extreme values. Let's say, for example, there are 100 votes with 40 rogue values (extremely high or low), yet those values would still not reach the middle of the set.


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Getting Started
If you attend a New American Colleges and Universities institution, please send an email to your institution's study abroad coordinator or your advisor. Tell them you're interested in our Study Abroad program, and they'll get you started! For in-depth information about a particular program, including application deadlines, click on the program links below.
China – Hangzhou:
Located only two hours from Shanghai by train, Hangzhou is a former dynastic capital known for its industry and agriculture, silk and tea products, and tourism. Study Chinese language, culture, and civilization (taught in English) while at Zhejiang University, and even embark on tours of China, including the Great Wall. Additional courses are available, and internships and English teaching assignments may be possible. No language requirement. Offered in the Fall by Valparaiso University.
China and Japan:
Expand your knowledge of East Asia by studying in both China and Japan in one semester. Your first eight weeks of the fall semester will be in Beijing, PRC (at Beijing Foreign Studies University), followed by seven weeks in Kameoka (at Kyoto Gakuen University), just outside Kyoto, Japan. Intensive Chinese and Japanese language study, culture courses, and field trips included. One week free for travel in October. No prior knowledge of Chinese or Japanese language required for this program. Offered in even numbered years in the Fall by North Central College.
Costa Rica:
Spend fall semester studying, living with a host family, and working in Costa Rica–first on the Pacific coast and later in the capital city of San José. Study intensive Spanish for the first eight weeks in Manuel Antonio, followed by a mid-term excursion to Nicaragua. The final six weeks include more Spanish instruction, internships, and volunteer community work in San José. No prior knowledge of Spanish required. Offered in the Fall by North Central College.
Costa Rica:
This program offers a wide variety of course offerings and internship placements in addition to Spanish language courses, and a Costa Rican history and culture course. Students will take two courses (Spanish and history) for the first half of the semester and then take an elective and perform an optional internship for the second half. Offered both semesters and the summer by Valparaiso University.
England – Cambridge:
Study at Valparaiso's own study center in Cambridge (not affiliated with Cambridge University). Courses include British Life & Culture, Art Appreciation, English History & Culture, Theology—Early Christian Centuries, and America & Americans Through British Eyes. Offered in the Fall and Spring by Valparaiso University.
Germany – Berlin:
"Nazareth-in-Berlin" is a full-time fall semester undergraduate program. Students are encouraged to go in their sophomore or junior year, although some seniors can still fit the program into their major. The program includes humanities courses, a professional internship and language learning.
Program Highlights:
- This Program allows students from any academic major and with little or no experience in the language to become exposed to a European capital city environment and international culture.
- Students live with English-speaking families and experience European life in the heart of the European Union. The Program offers each student three courses in liberal studies taught in English, one course in German language at the student's own level (including elementary level), and one credit-bearing internship.
- Internships in Berlin are available in several professional areas such as: telecommunications; informational technology; media; banking; non-profits; international service organizations; education; molecular and micro-biology research; museums; software development companies; mathematics. Internships are unpaid. Berlin is one of the few places on the European continent where students with limited knowledge of the foreign language can effectively perform in a credit-bearing internship while using the English language.
- Students take German language courses together with other international students at the Neue Schule and are placed in courses from elementary to advanced, according to their present skills. Further language development takes place in a two-language environment with the host families.
Offered in the Fall by Nazareth College.
Germany – Cologne:
The Hamline University/CBS partnership is a semester-long program, offered by the Hamline University in partnership with the Cologne Business School. Students who participate in the program during Fall Semester will enroll in a 4-credit course "The European Political Framework," which will consist of two parts: "EU Law and Institutions" and "EU Policies." Students who participate in the program during Spring Semester will enroll in a 4-credit course "Introduction to European Business," Consisting of the two parts "Economic Geography of Europe" and "European Economic History." Additionally, students will enroll in two 4-credit elective courses at the Cologne Business School and one 6-credit course in German Language. Summer internship option is available. No previous German language experience required. Offered in the Fall by Hamline University.
Germany – Reutlingen:
Study on campus at the Hochschule Reutlingen/ Reutlingen University. Reutlingen is a town of about 95,000 located in the southwestern part of Germany, near the major city of Stuttgart. It is located between the Black Forest and the Swabian Jura, both areas of geographical interest and beauty. Course offerings include German Life & Culture, Beginning German, Conversation/Composition, European Art & Architecture, International Trade, and Luther & Bach. No previous study of German is required. Offered in the Fall and Spring by Valparaiso University.
Germany – Trier:
Trier, the oldest city in Germany, hosts one of the country's best universities. The liberal arts and social sciences are predominant at Trier University, with particularly strong offerings in business administration, economics, geography/geosciences, history, international relations, languages, linguistics, applied mathematics, political science, law and psychology. Interdisciplinary focal points of teaching and research are European studies, East Asian studies, environmental studies, information and communication, women and gender studies, and public health. Students must have already studied German for at least two years. Fall, Spring, Year. Offered in the Fall by Hamline University.
Drury University Center in Aegina, a Greek island near Athens offers a rich educational experience, including participation in everyday life on a fascinating Greek island; an intensive academic program with workshops, seminars and lectures; extensive group travel in Greece as well as one other Mediterranean country are part of the total experience. Aegina is the second largest island in the bay of Athens. It is an artistic, intellectual, and entertainment center. Live and study in studio apartments and Drury's new facility located in the heart of the island. All courses are taught in English. Offered in the Fall and Spring by Drury University.


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Andreas Haberbeck leads the 'highly regarded' team at Hatem Abbas Ghazzawi & Co., which is a popular choice for commercial disputes.
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"I close my eyes and I can see a world that is waiting up for me, that I call my own. Through the dark, through the door, through where no one has been before, but it feels like home. They can say that it all sounds crazy. They can say I've lost my mind. I don't care. Call me crazy. We can live in a world that we design. Cause Every night I lie in bed, the brightest colors fill my head. A million dreams are keeping me awake. I think of what the world could be. A vision of the one that I see. A million dreams is all that it is gonna take. A million dreams for the world that we're gonna make."
LOVE this. Not only do I marvel at the voices and the lyrics from the Greatest Showman soundtrack, but I appreciate the messages conveyed. By building your truth and integrity muscle, and cultivating your unique gifts and fine tuning your own voice, the world takes notice and benefits. After all, this is why we are here, isn't it? To become who we were meant to be? To shine and share our gifts, and contribute to the greater whole. Unfolding into this truth takes courage, and it requires an inner compass to guide you, especially in the face of a world that is often preaching otherwise.
Create your world, the belief systems and mindset that accompany it and feed you, and then learn how to navigate the inevitable hard in all of its various forms, and know that it will show up at least 50% of the time. By accepting that life is hard, you are able to choose your hard; don't let the hard choose you. It's the difference between making life happen for you versus life happening to you. Are you ready?


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New Stratford DLR platform: June 18
TfL has finally published opening plans for the new DLR platforms at Stratford. The existing platform will close on June 15 and the new one will open on June 18, with no service on the entire Poplar-Stratford branch all weekend. The second platform will open this autumn.
Until recently the dates given for each platform were "April 2007" and "Summer 2007", which themselves were delayed from the original dates of January and June. [via]


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Together, the Kansas Department of Agriculture and the Kansas Department of Commerce were recently awarded a $200,000 State Trade Expansion Program (STEP) Grant award for use in 2019. Since the grant's inception in 2012, more than 100 Kansas small businesses have participated and achieved $23 million in actual export sales. To further broaden Kansas' exporter base and to increase the export value and volume, the two departments have joined forces during the 2019 grant year to focus on three main areas: export training, foreign trade shows and trade missions, and market entry support.
The following KDA STEP Grant trade missions are planned for 2019. All dates are tentative.
Additionally, KDA has planned the following U.S. Livestock Genetics Export trade missions in 2019. The goal of these missions is to provide an opportunity for Kansas' purebred cattle producers and allied industry to develop relationships with livestock producers to increase market opportunities for U.S. and Kansas beef and dairy genetics.
Applications for trade missions are due approximately two months prior to tentative travel date. For additional information about the 2019 international travel opportunities, and to apply for any of the missions, please visit www.agriculture.ks.gov/international or contact Suzanne Ryan-Numrich, KDA international trade director, at 785-564-6704 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Food & Wine Festival Returns to Disney California Adventure/
Disney has announced the return of the Food & Wine Festival in Disney California Adventure park. The festival went on hiatus in 2011 due to the ongoing construction that completely transformed the park.
The festival will take place weekends April 1st through May 1st. Guests will be able to experience the best of California cuisine in their Festival Marketplaces. Culinary demonstrations, informative seminars and even appearances by celebrity chefs will take place over the the festival weekends in April.
Maybe not so coincidentally Disney also announced the closure of the Mad T Party for March 30th, also in California Adventure.


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ROASTED CHILE CHEESE TART an impressive and incredibly easy tart. Loaded with flavor with roasted chiles, tomatoes and cheese; making a great appetizer.
I am proud to collaborate with Sutter Home to bring you ROASTED CHILE CHEESE TART. #SweetOnSpice
I am loving the simplicity of this ROASTED CHILE CHEESE TART from the ingredients to the ease of making it. With little preparation and bold flavors, I am completely swooning over this savory tart recipe.
Incredibly delicious, this is a perfect appetizer for all the spring and summer get-togethers and barbecues. It also makes a beautiful side to a salad main entrée, one of my summer favorites. This ROASTED CHILE CHEESE TART will also make a fantastic treat for girls night!
We all have that one friend we meet and the moment you start chatting, you know you'll be lifelong friends. I'm lucky enough to have that in my neighbor, Jill. I've previously shared a few of her recipes and tips. My favorite thing about her is the way she draws people in. The first month of getting to know her, I quickly realized she was a social butterfly. And while I am friendly, I really don't do girl nights all that often.
Now she hosts girls night… often. And I love that every time, she makes it simple with delicious food and drinks. So naturally, when I paired up with Sutter Home, I knew Jill would be my hostess with the mostess. She was beyond thrilled to be a part of this pairing of food and wine entertaining night with me. And I was thrilled to have her expertise on board.
I of course had the perfect recipe to go with the Pink Moscato, but it was Jill who made this all come together. She describes Sutter Home's Pink Moscato as delicious, sweet and versatile, making it easy to serve with brunch items or desserts like grilled peaches. It's a perfect balance for something with some heat. I prefer a little heat instead of a sweet on sweet combination, so that's why we went with this ROASTED CHILE CHEESE TART for this girls night.
And here in Colorado, Poblanos are my go-to pepper. Poblano peppers aren't too spicy, and they're gorgeous. Several of my favorites dishes have roasted poblanos in them, including chile rellenos, stuffed chiles, and now these tarts.
Jill loved the combination of the cheese and the mild heat from the chiles in the ROASTED CHILE CHEESE TART with the Pink Moscato. Kind of like our friendship, she is the sweet and I am spice – actually, maybe it's the other way around. We had so much fun eating and talking, we took more pictures of the food than of us.
I can't wait until our next barbecue or get-together to feature this ROASTED CHILE CHEESE TART as an appetizer. With all the gooey cheese, heat from the peppers and the flaky crust from the puff pastry, this is really going to make any occasion that much better. My kids even loved this combination! In the future, I can even see us adding some roasted garlic and garnishing it with some fresh greens.
Summer and spring are about baseball games, barbecues and of course, girls nights too! Cheers to good drinks, better eats and amazing friends. XOXO San
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ROASTED CHILE CHEESE TART an impressive and incredibly easy tart. Load with flavor with roasted chiles, tomatoes and cheese; making a great appetizer.
- 1 Puff Pastry sheet
- 2 poblano peppers
- 4 ounces Gruyere cheese shredded
- 1/4 cup roasted tomatoes or red peppers in oil, optional from deli section in store
Heat oven on medium broil. Place the poblano chiles on the top rack and turn every 3 minutes until each side of the peppers have a nice char, this takes about 12-15 minutes.
Remove from the oven and place in a bowl and cover for 10 minutes.
Once the peppers have set, cut top off and remove stem and seeds.
Then gently pull of the skin. Cut the pepper into thin slices.
Preheat oven to 425ºF. Place the puff pastry on a baking sheet that is lined with parchment paper.
Sprinkle 2/3 of the Gruyere cheese over the puff pastry sheet. Making sure to cover it all evenly. Top with peppers and tomatoes.
Place the sheet in the oven and bake for 25 to 35 minutes, or until golden brown puffy.
When you remove the sheet, the pastry will be super puffy. But it will quickly deflate. No worries! It's still delicious. Slice it into squares and serve.
You can add salt and pepper if you feel that you need it, but I think the Gruyere cheese is salty enough. You can also drizzle a balsamic glaze on top if desired, for some tart sweetness.
Pair with a sweet wine like Sutter Home's Moscato or Pink Moscato.


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Health department talk Food Safety
10/31/2018, 10:04 p.m.
On the morning of October 30th, the Environmental Health Division of the Will County Health Department hosted about 100 Will County food operators to talk about the new FDA Food Code that goes into effect January 1st of next year.
Health Department sanitarian Alyssa Shelton explained that those who attended are considered operators of "Level 1 risk" food facilities, meaning that they perform what is considered the highest risk of food operations for the public.
"Level 1 facilities are considered high risk based upon the type of food processing completed, or upon the population served," Shelton explained. "For example, any facility that primarily serves young children, such as schools; or the elderly, such as nursing homes; or facilities that perform food processing such as cooling, smoking, or reheating."
WCHD sanitarian Nicole Garrett says being "Level 1" usually depends on the individual operator. "You could have a coffee shop the reheats soup, or maybe a deli that cooks hot dogs, but then cools the extras for reheating the next day. And if they serve pasta salad, that's something that must be cooked hot, but then properly cooled overnight.
"Each Level 1 facility receives educational training from their inspector once per year to improve education and outcome of inspections related to disease prevention in their facilities," Garrett explained. "As we implement this new food code, we want to consistently prepare Will County operators for these new requirements."
Garrett, who along with Shelton oversaw the educational session, says the plan includes not just educational training sessions away from their food facilities; but also providing handouts, templates, and question and interaction sessions.
Will County Health Department Sanitarians Alyssa Shelton and Nicole Garrett (left) speak about the new FDA FOOD CODE to about 100 assembled local food operators in the Will County Health Department Community Room.
While the State of Illinois is currently inspecting food facilities based upon an adapted FDA Food Code from 1997, the updated code will incorporate the newest information in food safety research, which allows inspectors to obtain long term compliance and specifics on special processes being practiced in grocery and retail food stores.
For more on FDA Food Code going into effect January 1st, go to
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Famous American singer and actress of Armenian origin Cher (Cherilyn Sarkisyan) called the Turkey Government to recognize the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire. «I do not feel anger towards the inhabitants of Turkey for what took place 100 years ago, but I believe that the Turkish government should recognize the Armenian Genocide,» — wrote Cher on his page in Twitter.
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Amidst all the changes nationally to the exam system, Eckington School's 2018 A Level results have shown an improvement from last year. The Principal, Alison Burgess, welcomed the results:
'We are delighted with the exam results of 2018, for the whole range of students, which continue to show improvement year on year. The standard of teaching here at Eckington, with the increased support and challenge of LEAP Academy Trust, is moving towards excellent. Throughout the past two years our sixth form students have demonstrated great commitment and hard work, whilst engaging in a wide range of extra-curricular and social activities.
The major change nationally over the past two years is that almost all subjects taken now at A Level have a new syllabus with only a final examination. This has obviously been a challenge to both staff and students, to which we have been able to respond.
Our A Level average points score per entry is up on last year as are the number of higher grades, and several students have gained places at Russell Group Universities.
As a comprehensive school, our focus is on achieving outstanding results for all our students, and also delivering high value-added progress from GCSE to A Level. We pride ourselves on offering opportunity as widely as possible by keeping restrictions on entry to sixth form courses to a minimum. As a result, a number of students who in many institutions may not have been allowed to begin Level 3 courses have gained very commendable grades, thereby giving them access to university places.
One of the key reasons for our success, which we hope will grow even more with LEAP, is the consistent focus on the interests of the students, developing a broad range of skills and responsibilities. Our excellent tutor team works with the students from day one, identifying any concerns at an early stage and offering constructive support and guidance throughout the two years of study.,
There were several outstanding individual results:
· Daniel Burgess with 4 A* grades at A Level in Chemistry, Further Mathematics, Mathematics and Physics, together with an A* grade in The Extended Project.
(Daniel is going on to Cambridge to study Natural Sciences).
· Olivia Ballington – Film Studies A*, English Literature A, Resistant Materials A.
· Sam Beardshaw – Business Studies A, Resistant Materials A, Extended Project A, Art Photography B.
· Liam Dunn – History A, Mathematics A, Biology B, Physics C.
· Abbie Uprichard – Art Photography A, Business Studied B, Sociology B , Extended Project D.
· Rebecca Young – Art Photography A, Textiles A, History C.
Among our students who followed vocational courses, mention should be made of Jade Straw who scored triple distinction in Level 3 Extended Diploma in Health and Social Care and Reece Mallender who gained a distinction star in Extended Diploma in Creative Media.