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Middlesex Community College signs transfer agreement with Post University
MIDDLETOWN >> Middlesex Community College and Post University administrators gathered on campus recently to announce a formal transfer articulation agreement between the two colleges. The schools agreed to partner in the correlation of academic programs and facilitate the transfer of MxCC students to Post University for those pursuing a number of baccalaureate degrees.
MxCC President Anna Wasescha and Post Academic Provost Elizabeth Johnson signed the agreement during a ceremony and luncheon, according to a press release. Several Post academic deans and program directors also attended along with many MxCC faculty and staff.
"Articulation agreements are by definition partnerships. Post University has worked hand in hand with our faculty to create a comprehensive agreement that includes 11 Middlesex programs, with more agreements in the works. We are grateful to Post for being such engaged partners," Wasescha said in a prepared statement.
The MxCC associate degree programs eligible for transfer to the Post programs are accounting, biology studies, biotechnology, business administration, communication studies, computer information technology, environmental science, human services, management information systems, marketing and psychology. Included in the agreement is a list of the 23 corresponding baccalaureate degree programs available at Post.
Articulation is a term used to describe the process that facilitates and simplifies the transition of a student from one educational institution to another, the release continues. To be eligible, students must complete coursework and graduate from MxCC with an associate degree from one of these programs. For more information, contact Nancy Kelly at firstname.lastname@example.com.
While MxCC also has articulation agreements with the state universities and other four-year colleges such as the University of St. Joseph and the University of Hartford, the transfer of MxCC credits does not depend on a formal articulation agreement, according to the college.
For more information about Middlesex Community College, visit mxcc.edu. For more about Post University Waterbury, visit post.edu.


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The software giant has announced its first revenue decline in 23 years.
Wired PR News – Microsoft has reported its first revenue decline in 23 years. As reported by the Associated Press (AP), the software giant has stated that its revenue from the fiscal third quarter is lower than last year's and its profit fell by 32 percent.
As noted by the AP, Microsoft has continued to remain profitable despite the recession; however, the economic circumstances have had a significant impact on the company's operations. Microsoft CFO Chris Liddell is quoted in the report as stating, "I didn't see any improvement at the end of the quarter that gives me encouragement that we're at the bottom and coming out of it."
Taunya Sell, a Ragen MacKenzie analyst is quoted as stating of the company's performance, "I think it was a good quarter in a tough environment… the two things you can do in a tough environment — try to keep costs down, and make sure customers still want to buy your products."

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The implications of Krishnamacharya's and Desikachar's teachings are threefold:
Firstly –
we need to develop the twin aspects of learning Yoga practice techniques and Yoga practice theory through engaging in learning how to practice, rather than just learning what to practice.
This means learning to engage with the process of what it means to have a personal Yoga practice alongside engaging learning to study the theory of the component principles that underpin what constitutes creating and sustaining a personalised Yoga practice.
"Yoga must be adapted to an individuals needs, expectations and possibilities,
rather than adapting an individuals needs, expectations and possibilities to Yoga."
These twin aspects of the arts of Yoga practice techniques and Yoga practice theory support our being able to independently and intelligently choose, adapt and ultimately self-develop and self-refine our personal Yoga Sādhana.
"Yoga Practice is an essential part of Yoga Study.
Rather than Yoga Study being an essential part of Yoga Practice."
This can be compared to learning to embrace and cultivate a relationship with any Art, such as learning the piano. Here our relationship with the art also depends on both cultivating the skill of making time on the mat, or in this case stool, alongside making time for learning the theory of how to play the piano and learning the theory of music itself.
"The target of Yoga is 'svatantra' which means to discover our own technique.
'Sva' means itself and 'tantra' means technique.
The techniques are in oneself and we must discover them;
if not we will depend on others.
I am sick and I go to the doctor;
but finally I must become my own therapist.
This is 'svatantra'."
– TKV Desikachar
With a commitment to a relationship with both aspects of Yoga practice and theory our personal skill and practice independence can truly bloom. Also as our personal practice evolves it impacts on our self-esteem and self confidence within other areas of our being with its many layers ranging over food, energy, mind and emotions.
Secondly –
this means that we need to establish a consistent, personalised and developmental home Yoga practice rather than just relying on attending a weekly type generalised, multi-level, teacher led, often palliative, group Yoga class experience.
"Yoga Practice turns and prepares the soil.
Yoga Study offers a range of seeds for planting.
We may need advice on how to integrate the two."
For this process to become grounded and bloom the support of a personal teacher is invaluable. Here time can be given to exploring your needs and develop a practice appropriate to your personal interests, current lifestyle, future potentials and ongoing and changing commitments.
Thirdly –
this means we need to engage with the issues that could get in the way of making time to actually put into practice what we have learnt. Otherwise it would be like having piano lessons and then not doing any practice between lessons, where eventually every meeting becomes as if week one with slight variations.
"Our Yoga practice needs to become smarter than our lifestyle habits."
Inevitably, as with learning the piano, our interest and development could become stymied, if not stagnant, if we do not engage with the processes that inhibit us from realising what we had wanted from taking up the practice of Yoga. This is the true meaning of Sādhana or finding the means to succeed whatever the obstacles.
"The viniyoga of Yoga describes a process rather than just a collection of techniques."
I feel personally these are factors which can often drive students to look for stimulus from a new variety of class, or style, or even teacher, rather than engage which the issues which can drive us to search without rather than look within for resolution of the issues, or perhaps life anxieties that can underpin the issues that brought us to Yoga in the first place.
"Yoga is about looking inwards at what we fear most,
rather than looking outwards at what we desire most."
The Art of the Application of Yoga Personal Sādhana Study Modules are offered in this spirit of Yoga as a personalised practice, integrated study and individual journey towards the embracing the mystery of life itself, alongside helping to maintain physical health, psychological vitality and spiritual purpose within the commitment and challenges of life, work and relationships.


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Marianne Thormählen
Cambridge University Press
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The Brontës and Education
All the seven Brontë novels (published from 1847 to 1853) are concerned with education in both senses, that of upbringing as well as that of learning. The Brontë sisters all worked as teachers before they became published novelists. In spite of the prevalence of education in the sisters' lives and fiction, however, this is the first full-length book on the subject. Marianne Thormählen explores how their representations of fictional teachers and schools engage with the intense debates on education in the nineteenth century, drawing on a wealth of documentary evidence about educational theory and practice in the lifetime of the Brontës. This book offers much new information both about the Brontës and their books and about the most urgent issue in early-nineteenth-century British social politics: the education of the people, of all classes and both sexes.
The Brontës and Education was commissioned by the Cambridge University Press as a companion volume to the same author's The Brontës and Religion, which was first published in hard cover in 1999; a paperback edition has since appeared.
The Brontës and Education. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-521-83289-2.


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Since his father's incarceration, Brice Agostini, otherwise known as "Brice from Nice," has been living on the beach in a hut made of planks. One day, the "adulescent" surfer finds a bottle in the sea with a message inside from his old friend Marius, who begs him — without giving any details – to come to his rescue. Brice ignores the message, but changes his mind when the authorities tear down his house and drive him out of Nice.
Jumping – literally — in the first plane he sees, Brice lands in Bordeaux, where of course, Marius is nowhere to be found. His journey then leads him to Hossegor, where he finds former adversary Igor. Together they decode Marius' message and fly to Hawaii, where other adventures await them.
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Navigate to a space with an active room display. Manage > offices > building > select space. From the space details page, select manage on the left panel.
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For an overview of all of your devices and their status, navigate to Manage > Devices from the web dashboard. See which devices are online and healthy, and which devices are no longer reporting.
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Christmas Trees to Silverado Patients and Personal Care Homes
10 Trees donated for Silverado Patients
Several years ago a wonderful hospice Chaplain named Linda Vogel began a project which she now calls "Hope in the Forest" in Kingwood, Texas. She motivated friends, fellow employees of a small hospice, and church members to purchase small artificial Christmas trees. The trees decorated, donated, & displayed in the hospice office. She then coordinated a Memorial Service for those persons who had died under the care of the hospice during the past year & invited their grieving families & friends. Upon departing from the service, each family was invited to choose from any of the trees displayed & take it home with them to be a comfort for the holiday season. Trees not chosen that night were taken out by members of the hospice team to families with loved ones still under hospice care.
The project grew tremendously for the next year. News of the project reached to Atascocita, Humble, Cleveland, and Crosby & throughout many of the northeastern suburbs of Houston. Trees were decorated by elementary school classes, businesses, Sunday school classes, assisted living facilities, community groups and many individual families. Tremendous creativity was tapped and the trees all had different personalities - one was decorated with fishing lures, another with toy soldiers, some had butterflies and some with dog biscuits!
For this year the project took a different turn and the decision was made to give the trees to families who had lost all their possessions from the Harvey flood. Linda was no longer an employee of this hospice but living in Kingwood, she was painfully aware of the destruction all around her.
Lee Ann Hyatt, RN, BSN, Silverado North Houston's Clinical Educator is also a member of a nationwide sorority called PEO that has been in existence since the 1890's. She serve as the Chaplain of Chapter GQ in Atascocita. PEO has participated in this project every year. As it was discussed it in their meeting, the ladies were happy with the trees going to flood victims but still felt very strongly that they wanted some of their trees to go to hospice families.
Ten trees were donated to Silverado North Houston! They, in turn, found homes for the ten trees that were so lovingly decorated by the sorority women. Also, today, the vote was that this project will continue from here forward.....so plan on trees next year and perhaps Silverado staff can join in to create & donate trees, as well!
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IW-115 SR (1 Pair)
A perfect companion for small to medium sized theater installations, the IW-115 SR is a high-performance in-wall/in-ceiling surround speaker that delivers spacious, enveloping surround effects for top-grade home theater systems. It features an innovative dual-concentric driver design capable of filling the listening area with three-dimensional lifelike theater sound, whether the system is based on non-directional ambient sound or object-based positional audio.
The IW-115 SR features dual 4.5" woofers with concentric 1" silk dome tweeters mounted in a non-resonant medium density fiberboard (MDF) baffle. Using MDF for the baffle instead of the thin, vibration-prone plastic used in ordinary in-wall speakers gives the 155 SR's drivers a far more solid "acoustic footing" from which to launch their sound, resulting in cleaner output and greater resolution of low-level details.
The speaker features switchable dipole/bipole mode. Use dipole mode for diffuse-field surround sound, such as 5.1 Dolby True HD and bipole mode for precise object-based surround formats such as Dolby Atmos. Either mode will fill a large home listening area with lifelike, dramatic surround effects.
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Dipole or bipole: That is the question.
If you are planning to use the IW-115SR in a 5.1, 7.1 or 9.1 Dolby True HD or DTS Master Audio-based home theater, we recommend setting the switch to Dipole mode. Dipole puts the two driver arrays out of acoustic and electric phase with each other, so in the near field, their outputs cancel, resulting in a very non-localizable sound field. This is ideal for reproducing non-directional effects like rustling leaves or the general hustle-and-bustle of a crowded city street.
If you are setting up a Dolby Atmos or DTS-X home theater, set the IW-115SR to Bipole mode (the speaker arrays in phase with each other). The positional audio in Dolby Atmos and other object-based systems requires precise sound localization from the surround speaker. Bipole speakers deliver very definitive imaging and outperform Dipole speakers in these instances.
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The Dorothy Clive Garden is to host an open-air production of 'Romeo and Juliet' by William Shakespeare, performed by the Folksy Theatre Company, this Friday 16th and Saturday 17th August 2013 at 6.30pm.
The performance will take place outdoors at the top of the garden by the Belvedere Pavilion commencing at 6.30pm. Visitors are encouraged to bring picnics, blankets, folding chairs to enjoy the open air production.
Gates are open from 5.00pm. Drinks can be purchased on the evening.
Event Organiser, Julia Roberts, said, 'The Dorothy Clive Garden lends itself perfectly to an open-air Shakespeare performance. After the incredible success of the last two productions, we are thrilled to be inviting the Folksy Theatre back for a third season. The Folksy Theatre Company promise to delight and inspire their audiences with clever direction, talented actors and enormous amounts of energy and humour. '
Tickets are available and priced at £12.00 for an adult, £8.00 for pensioners and students, £6.00 for a child and £30.00 for a family ticket (2 adults and 2 children).
To be order pre-booked tickets do so via Folksy Theatre: www.folksytheatre.co.uk.
On the gate at the Dorothy Clive Garden: Adults £15 Child/concession £10.
Visitors can also delight in the intimate and informal gardens set amidst glorious countryside with seasonal plant delights such as crocosmia, daylilies and heliopsis and various other herbaceous plants.


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The Mountain Council of Governments is a voluntary organization of local governments fostering an intergovernmental cooperative atmosphere for the discussion of common problems and the formulation of plans to bring about their successful resolution.
Currently the Mountain Council of Governments consists of 3 cities, 9 townships, 8 boroughs, 2 school districts, and 3 authorities and two other adjunct organizations (The Greater Hazleton Civic Partnership and the Chamber of Commerce.) MCOG remains financially operable by virtue of a yearly Community Revitalization Grant from DCED, a stipend from Luzerne County and generous assistance from the Greater Hazleton Chamber of Commerce. its day-to-day activities are conducted by a part-time Executive Director.
The organization participates in joint projects for the benefit of their members and their members' constituents. Some of our projects include: a Gateway sign and beautification project which placed welcome signage at the entrance to participating municipalities free of charge (financed through a state grant), a Rails to Trails project undertaken with Civic Partnership to convert 16 miles of unused rail bed to hiking and biking trai|s(financed through a variety of grant sources), the joint purchase of a sewer camera worth $80,000(half of which was covered by a DCED grant), joint purchase of a tar kettle/crack sealer worth $50,000(ha|f of which was covered by a DCED grant),a joint abandoned vehicle and junk car project, a joint UCC code enforcement project, joint salt bidding(8-10 participants annually), an ongoing regional police study(4 of the larger members), joint rental of a multi-purpose street sweeper, a compost facility study; to name just a few of the more recent endeavors.
Our monthly forum has also led to joint participation by member organizations in a number of different public works projects. In these projects the participating municipalities lend equipment and manpower to a COG member to help in the completion of a public works endeavor. Members have saved p to 50% of the cost compared to using an outside contractor. Of course the members reciprocate when others need their help. Equipment sharing has also become very common among the membership.
MCOG also invites speakers to address the group on areas of common interest. Some of the more recent speakers have dealt with grant writing, energy savings(members were able to save $125,000 annually by joining an energy pool organized through the Chamber of Commerce and MCOG), wholesale purchasing of supplies, GIS mapping, municipal insurance options, municipal equipment purchase and rental options, to name a few.
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Under the big top (we're in a giant air-conditioned tent), Intel released Core 2 Duo, its latest line of processors. Core 2 Duo marks the first time Intel has used the same architecture across its entire line of server, desktop, and notebook processors. The company is billing the Core architecture as the biggest launch since the Pentium processor first went on sale 13 years ago. And rightfully so. By abandoning NetBurst, which was the architecture introduced with the Pentium 4, Intel-based desktops now enjoy some of the same performance and power savings that Intel notebooks have known since the introduction of the first Pentium M. According to Intel spokespeople onsite, Core 2 Duo Extreme Edition desktops are both 40 percent faster and 40 percent more efficient than prior-generation Pentium 4s.
Demonstrations showcased both the multitasking performance and the raw speed of these new CPUs. One machine equipped with a 2.93GHz Extreme Edition managed to keep Quake 4 pumping out 139.7 frames per second (fps) while running a virus scan. Another similarly equipped rig managed a maximum frame rate on F.E.A.R. that topped out at more than 500fps and averaged 169fps. A demo during the keynote used a new gaming engine under development by Offset to render what Intel chief sales and marketing officer Sean Maloney called "Shrek-like" character animation in real time. An incredible streaming video of the demo is available.
If you're not a gamer and the Extreme Edition (along with its extreme price of more than $900 for the processor alone) sounds like a bit much for you, fear not. Intel's other Core 2 Duo desktop configurations should make their way into home and office desktops, with performance increases as well. The first batch of systems to pass through CNET Labs has been impressive, with prices ranging from $999 to nearly $6,000.
Though Intel PR had little in the way of hard numbers to share, it ran a Microsoft Office demo that recalculated an Excel spreadsheet while simultaneously conducting a virus scan. The recalculation took about 20 seconds on a 2.66GHz Core 2 Duo-powered machine and about a minute on a 3.8GHz Pentium 4. Non-Extreme Edition configurations include 1.86GHz and 2.13GHz chips with 2MB of cache in addition to 2.4GHz and 2.66GHz chips with a whopping 4MB of cache. Extreme Edition chips are in stores today, while other Core 2 Duo desktops will start shipping throughout August.
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The Holiday Inn Express, Burnley is a modern hotel which is ideally situated for access to the town centre. Situated alongside the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, the hotel is an ideal place to stay for those searching for an opportunity to appreciate the idyllic landscapes of the Lancashire countryside. The hotel's close proximity to the M65, Junction 10 also offers effective connections to the economic hubs of Manchester, Preston, and Leeds, while being situated less than an hour from the coastal resorts of Blackpool and Lytham St Annes.
Burnley now provides both business and leisure guests with particularly efficient transport links to Manchester following National Rail's reinstatement of the Todmorden Curve. This affords patrons greater access to Manchester Airport, via connecting services at Manchester stations, and various other destinations across the UK.
Lancashire offers captivating scenery, historic landmarks and a diverse assortment of leisure activities. Our hotel provides a perfect base for anyone looking for a great day out. Corporate travellers will also enjoy the efficient business connections and facilities that we offer. We are ideally located for the Innovation Park, The Bridge, The University of Central Lancashire Burnley Campus and The Weavers Triangle. We are also situated in close proximity to a number of popular wedding venues in the region.
The Holiday Inn Express Burnley has 102 modern rooms with fibre optic wifi, keeping guests connected around the clock. Breakfast is also included.
Our hotel offers you clean and comfortable accommodation for the duration of your stay.
The Holiday Inn Express, Burnley has been awarded numerous accolades, including the Lancashire Tourism Award for Best Large Hotel and Caterer's 'Best Small Group Hotel Employer in Hospitality' Award in 2013. The hotel was subsequently awarded an International Hotel Group (IHG) award for Developing People in November 2014.
Smart facilities. Spot on service. Check in and relax.
Should your Sat Nav not recognise our post code, an alternative code is BB12 0PA.
On the Eastbound M65 take exit junction 10, at the roundabout take 3rd exit onto Pendle Way. The hotel is located on right hand side. If you need help finding us, call 01282 855955.
Station Name: BURNLEY BARRACKS OR MANCHESTER ROAD
Distance: 1.0 MI/1.61 KM NORTH EAST to Hotel
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Depart station and head down Trafalgar Street past Texaco garage, at the traffic lights continue up dual carriageway in the right hand lane. At the roundabout take the third exit, keeping in the right hand lane, enter the next roundabout and take the third exit onto Pendle Way.
You can also walk from the train station to our hotel. Walk east on Manchester Rd/A682 towards Halstead St. At the roundabout, take the 1st exit onto Trafalgar St/A971. Turn right onto Westway. Continue onto Westgate. sharp left towards Pendle Way. Turn right onto Pendle Way.
Airport: Leeds Bradford International Airport
Distance: 35.0 miles North West of Hotel
Taxi Charge (one way): £35.00
Travel time by taxi: 45 minutes
Follow signs to the M56, continue along M56 and join M60 motorway W and N. Leave M60 at jct 18, join M66 signed Burnley and continue onto A56 roundabout. Take the 2nd exit A56, next roundabout take the 3rd exit onto M65 jct 10. At the roundabout take the 3rd exit onto Pendleway and you will find the hotel on right. You reached your destination.


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Charity Committees
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Bao Dai
Bao Dai, the Khai-Dinh, the Emperor of Vietnam, was born in Hue on October 22, 1913. Educated in France, Bao Dai succeed his father as emperor on November 6, 1925. He reigned under the Regency of Ton-Thai Han until he came of age in September 1932.
In September 1940, the Japanese army invaded Indochina. With Paris already occupied by Germany, the French troops decided it was not worth putting up a fight and they surrendered to the Japanese.
When the Japanese surrendered to the Allies after the dropping of atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, the Vietminh was in a good position to take over the control of the country. The following month, Ho Chi Minh announced the formation of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. Unknown to the Vietminh, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin had already decided what would happen to post-war Vietnam at a summit-meeting at Potsdam. They had agreed that the country would be divided into two, the northern half under the control of the Chinese and the southern half under the British.
Bao Dai went into exile in Hong Kong in March 1946. After signing an accord recognizing Vietnamese national unity within the French Union, he was allowed to return in June 1948. The following year, the French installed Bao Dai as Head of State.
The French were defeated at Dien Bien Phu in May 1954. French casualties totaled over 7,000 and a further 11,000 soldiers were taken prisoner. The following day, the French government announced that it intended to withdraw from Vietnam. The following month, the foreign ministers of the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain, and France decided to meet in Geneva to see if they could bring about a peaceful solution to the conflicts in Korea and Vietnam.
After much negotiation the following was agreed: (1) Vietnam would be divided at the 17th parallel; (2) North Vietnam would be ruled by Ho Chi Minh; (3) South Vietnam would be ruled by Ngo Dinh Diem, a strong opponent of communism; (4) French troops would withdraw from Vietnam; (5) the Vietminh would withdraw from South Vietnam; (6) the Vietnamese could freely choose to live in the North or the South; and (7) a General Election for the whole of Vietnam would be held before July 1956, under the supervision of an international commission.
People in Vietnam were unhappy with Ngo Dinh Diem. In October 1955, the South Vietnamese people were asked to choose between Bao Dai and Ngo Dinh Diem for the leadership of the country. Colonel Edward Lansdale suggested that Diem should provide two ballot papers, red for Diem and green for Bao Dai. Lansdale hoped that the Vietnamese belief that red signified good luck, while green indicated bad fortune, would help influence the result.
When the voters arrived at the polling stations they found Diem's supporters in attendance. One voter complained afterwards: "They told us to put the red ballot into envelopes and to throw the green ones into the wastebasket. A few people, faithful to Bao Dai, disobeyed. As soon as they left, the agents went after them, and roughed them up... They beat one of my relatives to pulp."
After his defeat Bao Dai went into exile and lived for the next forty years in France. Bao Dai died in Paris on July 31, 1997.