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The EU's controversial refugee relocation scheme won't be renewed when it runs out at the end of this month — but Brussels will keep on helping member countries that take in refugees, according to senior diplomats.
On September 26, the scheme, which aimed to take 160,000 refugees who had arrived in Italy and Greece and move them across the bloc, will come to an end. However, the scheme fell well short of expectations. As of September 4, just 27,695 refugees had been relocated and some EU members, notably Hungary and Poland, refused to take part even though participation was supposed to be mandatory.
"Relocation doesn't stop on September 26, we should keep working on the same path, it's a continuous scheme," said European Commissioner for Migration Dimitris Avramopoulos.
The problem for the Commission is how to deal with the refugees who arrive after September 26. A new, permanent mechanism for relocating refugees is being discussed as part of an update to the Dublin rules — which state that the EU country in which asylum seekers first set foot must deal with their applications. But those talks are stalled and the Commission must figure out how to fill the gap.
The plan is to keep on supporting member countries that are willing to relocate but without launching a new relocation scheme.
"The Commission has announced the possibility to continue to provide financial support for relocation after September 26," said a diplomat, who didn't want to be named.
Officials said the Commission informed EU ambassadors and interior ministers of its intentions ahead of the release of a package of measures on migration on September 27. None of the interior ministers challenged the Commission proposal, said another diplomat who was in the room.
Mandatory relocation inflamed an already tense relationship between the EU and some countries in Central and Eastern Europe. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker sought to ease those tensions in his State of the Union speech last Wednesday by saying "Europe must breathe with both lungs" — a reference to its East and West.
The scheme, designed to last for two years, was introduced as an emergency measure during the migration crisis of 2015. But the mandatory aspect of the program was contested in court by Hungary and Slovakia, which earlier this month lost their case. The Commission also started legal action against Hungary and Poland, neither of which has taken in a single refugee under the scheme, and against the Czech Republic, which has not pledged to take part in the scheme for over a year.
Warsaw is studying every move Brussels makes on migration and seems likely to challenge in court any measure that would extend relocation or make Poland take in refugees, said one of the diplomats.


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AMHERST, N.Y. (AP) _ Allied Motion Technologies Inc. (AMOT) on Wednesday reported fourth-quarter earnings of $1.6 million.
The Amherst, New York-based company said it had profit of 11 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, came to 20 cents per share.
The motion control product maker posted revenue of $96.8 million in the period.
For the year, the company reported profit of $24.1 million, or $1.66 per share. Revenue was reported as $403.5 million.
Allied Motion shares have declined 4% since the beginning of the year. In the final minutes of trading on Wednesday, shares hit $35.02, a climb of 10% in the last 12 months.
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The announcement earlier this week that Microsoft has acquired ZeniMax sent literal shockwaves through the Earth's core. It was as if everyone on the planet flushed their toilets simultaneously. Schumann Resonances shot off the charts from the absurd number of brain explosions, and I wouldn't be surprised if we're now inhabiting a tangent pocket universe because of it.
The news was that unexpected.
Being a huge Elder Scrolls fan, you can imagine how I felt. With Microsoft, I figure this can go one of two ways: Minecraft, or Rare. I just don't know.
Last year around this time, I posted a rambling on my worries about Elder Scrolls 6, and what Bethesda's recent moves could mean for the series. The truth is, with or without Microsoft, the studio is on shaky ground. What happens next might determine whether we get a Minecraft Bedrock or a Grabbed By The Ghoulies (not to bash GBtG, honestly. I never played it).
I think it's still fully up to Bethesda Softworks. But other than that, I can't speculate. Besides, we're only just now getting potential leaks of Starfield. The next Elder Scrolls is light-years away.
What I will do is share this video here of the folks in charge discussing the acquisition and the future of ZeniMax properties — which, don't forget, include Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Doom, Dishonored, Prey, Quake, Wolfenstein…
Holy balls, I'm freaking out again. Let's roll the tape:
My best case fantasyland scenario: Microsoft has a pretty hands-off approach, but encourages Bethesda with absolute truckloads of money. They do a massive engine overhaul, and create a fully realized Valenwood with walking tree cities and everything.
We get to experience the Wild Hunt in all its cannibalistic glory, and violators of the Green Pact melt into goo in terrifying 4K, 60 FPS agony. No paid mods, no microtransactions, and the game brings peace to the galaxy.
Oh, and id Software makes a new Quake, which revitalizes the arena shooter genre, forcing Epic to shut down their games store and focus all their energy on an Unreal Tournament reboot. For real this time.


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Briqpay raises 2 million euros
Briqpay, a Swedish company that offers solutions for B2B payments, has just closed a seed round of 2 million euros. The funding round was led by Swedish private equity firm eEquity. With the help of this money, Briqpay wants to become the leading B2B payment supplier.
Almost a year ago, Briqpay announced the launch of its checkout solution B2B Payment System, together with the closing of a pre-seed round in which it raised over 600,000 euros. And today, it's announcing the closing of a round co-led by eEquity, Mantle Advise, 31 Atlantic with participation from others.
Briqpay was founded by former Klarna employees
Briqpay was founded by by Mats Andersson, Sara Johansson and Björn Widerström in 2020. They all come from a background of working in ecommerce in fintech, with all three of them having previously worked for Klarna.
It makes B2B ecommerce sales more accessible.
The company from Sweden provides solutions to enable and make B2B ecommerce sales more accessible. Currently, it offers two solutions: B2B Payment System and B2B Registration Form. With this offer, Briqpay want to give merchants full control of the entire customer journey, from creating an account to the checkout and analyzing the data in the back office.
"We are driven by seamlessness and scalability in digital disruption for new verticals, looking at the B2B market that is more than double the size of the B2C market. That is why we see a huge potential in Briqpay, their solution gives online retailers a lot of new possibilities", says Patrik Hedelin, Managing Partner at eEquity.


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Charities for Beefy's Bash Say Thanks
(ZIZ)– The three local charities set to benefit from Tuesday's All-Star Charity T20 Cricket Match have expressed thanks to the organizers.
In an interview with ZIZ News at Monday's CPL Press Conference, President of the St. Kitts-Nevis Association for Persons with Disabilities, Anthony Mills said the donation will help the group with its current activities.
"As a non profit, we depend on donations to do the work that we do and currently we have a computer training programme going on so it would help us a lot in carrying out all the services that we try to provide," he said.
Clarice Cotton, Chairperson of the St. Kitts Special Olympics Board, said the donations will help to improve Special Olympics in the federation.
She noted, "This donation will also help us to improve Special Olympics on the island because as I said there are year round sports training, so we need equipment to train our athletes, we need to provide training for coaches, we need to provide capacity building for the board members so that we always have people who are there to speak up for Special Olympics and be advocates for our athletes."
Meanwhile, Lauston Percival, President of Operation Future, said the funds will be used to purchase equipment for the schools and the communities.
"One of the things that I know definitely these funds will assist us in doing is purchasing some of the equipment we will need to continue our work in the schools and the communities," he said. "I felt real great knowing that persons who don't even live here, who don't even know what Operation Future is about readily came onboard and they're going to do their match and some of the proceeds will be going to Operation Future. It's real great for me and I must express big thanks to the CPL group and also the celebrities who will be facing off tomorrow."
Piers Morgan, CNN Television Personality and captain of a team for the All-Star match said that the match will help to promote St. Kitts on the international scene.
"I think we all feel it's a great chance to have fun and be part of this amazing week with the T20 tournament which has been, and it's the first time I've seen it and I've spent the last two days in the VIP area with that great guy Arthur…watching batsmen and fielding and bowling that I haven't seen in a long time. It's been an incredible tournament but to do that and raise a lot of money for charity in St. Kitts and to promote St. Kitts around the world we all feel it's a great thing to do; it's a good thing to be here; it's just fun; it's the best place in the world to watch and play cricket."
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Equation of behavior B = f(P,E) Personality – A relatively stable set of characteristics that influence an individual's behavior Core Self Evaluation – a broad set of traits describing one's self concept Locus of control Self-efficacy: beliefs and expectations about one's ability to accomplish a specific task effectively Prior experiences and prior success Behavior models (observing success) Persuasion Assessment of current physical & emotional capabilities Self-esteem: feelings of self-worth Self-motivation: the extent to which someone is calm, cool and self-confident (as opposed to (anxious, depressed or insecure) Positive affect: an individual's tendency to accentuate the positive aspects of oneself, other people, and the world in general Negative affect: an individual's tendency to accentuate the negative aspects of oneself, other people, and the world in general Self-Report Questionnaire – assessment involving an individual's responses to questions.
Example: Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI@) Extroversion / Introversion Thinking / Feeling Preference Judging / Perceiving Preference Most American managers exhibit Myers-Briggs Sensing / Intuition behavior or that of others Internal attribution – attributing success to ability or effort External attribution – attributing success to sources beyond your control Impression Management – process by which individuals try to control the impression others have of them Name dropping Appearance Self-description Flattery Favors Agreement with opinion Social Perception Perceiver Characteristics Familiarity with target Attitudes/Mood Self-concept Cognitive structure Barriers Selective perception Stereotyping First-impression error Projection Self-fulfilling prophecies Target Characteristics Physical appearance Verbal communication Nonverbal cues and Intentions Situational Characteristics Interaction context Strength of situational cues Fundamental Attribution Error – tendency to make attributions to internal causes when focusing on someone else's behavior Self-serving Bias – tendency to attribute one's own successes to internal causes and one's failures to external causes


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HOUSTON — The Texas-based wife of an Army officer serving in Afghanistan witnessed her husband's death as the two video-chatted via Skype, his family said yesterday.
The circumstances of Capt. Bruce Kevin Clark's death Monday were not immediately available.
"We are entrusting the military with investigating and with finding out what happened to Capt. Clark," Bradley Taber-Thomas, Clark's brother-in-law, said.
The Pentagon said the 43-year-old officer was formerly from upstate Spencerport, and that his death is under investigation.
"Bruce's wife tragically witnessed her husband's death during one of their regular Skype video-chats on Monday," Taber-Thomas said. "At the time of the incident, the family was hoping for a rescue and miracle, but later learned that it was not to be."


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Last week, search juggernaut Google revealed that it would start offering checking accounts with the help of high-profile backers in the likes of Citigroup. The new product, which is reportedly dubbed "Cache," is slated to be launched in 2020.
As expected, some outlets had a knee-jerk reaction to paint Google's foray into baking as an existential threat to Bitcoin, the top cryptocurrency that rivals the traditional financial sector. Forbes, for example, wrote about how Google is going to kill Bitcoin. The main argument appears to be that Bitcoin will not survive the advent of Google's "smart" checking accounts.
Multiple cryptocurrency enthusiasts have taken to Twitter to ridicule such a take on Bitcoin. Cryptocurrency investor Stephen Cole says that Google poses the same threat to Bitcoin as a new post office to e-mail, highlighting how out-of-touch these comparisons are.
A Google checking account threatens Bitcoin about as much as a new post office threatens email. https://t.co/4wAyaSknI5— Stephen Cole (@sthenc) November 18, 2019
The reason why people choose to embrace Bitcoin is because they do not want checking accounts that are offered by large corporations such as Google and Apple.
Even corporate-backed coins like troubled Facebook's Libra still can't threaten Bitcoin. As reported by U.Today, CNBC's long-time host Joe Kernen rippled Facebook's Libra to shreds since it wasn't decentralized and could impinge on the users' privacy.


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This Montreal Condo For Rent Has A Rock Climbing Wall That You Can See From The Kitchen
There are so many fabulous places to live throughout the island of Montreal and so many sought out neighbourhoods to call home that it's hard to decide where you want to live. Rosemont La Petite Patrie is one of my personal favourite areas in the city. And, there's so much good Montreal real estate hiding there, including an incredible condo with a rock-climbing wall built inside that's currently available for rent.
Yes, that's right, this condo on the market thanks to Redding-Rouleau, located on rue de Bordeaux in Rosemont, is by far one of the coolest spots for rent in the city.
I'd say it's totally worth the steep $3,200 per month price tag.
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From the outside, this space looks fairly "normal." The three-bedroom space is split up on two floors and is a paradise for any sports lover in the city.
And, since stairs are so last summer, you can get your exercise in on your way to the kitchen by using the rock-climbing wall, which is probably the most badass feature in any home on the market right now.
The rock-climbing wall is not the only impressive thing about this space either.
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The large wood kitchen that overlooks the wall is taken straight off a Pinterest board. Same for the exposed brick wall and the bathroom.
If I'm being honest, the entire place screams "dream condo" and I'm sure I'm not the only one thinking that.
From the superb location to the unique decor and jaw-dropping rock-climbing wall, there's no denying that this condo is worth the high rent.
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Especially since you won't need to pay for a gym membership anymore.
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This condo is a perfect example of how you should never judge a book by its cover, as you would never be able to tell what truly lives inside this MTL home.
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EXCLUSIVE: The issue will feature an interview with the star-spangled Reb Brown — and much more…
Editor Michael Eury's RetroFan #9 continues its run celebrating the kitsch of the Silver and Bronze Ages and there were few things kitschier than the Captain America TV movies of the 1970s.
So check out the cover — and official description for the issue, due out in the spring:
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NOW BI-MONTHLY! RetroFan #9 features interviews with two TV superheroes, Seventies' Captain America Reb Brown… and Captain Nice (and Knight Rider's KITT) William Daniels with wife Bonnie Bartlett! Plus: remembering the Captain Nice TV series, the Wonderful World of Coloring Books, star-studded Fall Previews for Saturday morning cartoons, an eyewitness account of The Cyclops movie, the actors behind your favorite TV commercial characters, Benny Hill's invasion of America, a trip to the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention, 8-track tapes, and more fun, fab features! Featuring columns by Ernest Farino, Andy Mangels, Scott Saavedra, and Scott Shaw! Edited by Michael Eury.
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— The issue is due to ship May 20, 2020, but that's subject to change a week or so either way. It will be available at comics shops, of course, but you can already pre-order it directly from TwoMorrows. Click here.
— In case you were wondering, RetroFan is going bi-monthly in March, with Issue #8. (Click here for more info.)
— Here at 13th Dimension, we often reveal new pubs from the likes of Marvel, DC and IDW, among others. Now, we're doing the same with TwoMorrows. (We've been providing you EXCLUSIVE EXCERPTS from their mags and books for years now.) Dig it.
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Because at its heart is our Centre's brilliant library and archive.
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Because classes are small (the average class size is 12) giving you individual attention and making sure that you soon feel part of the Centre's family.
If you wish to enhance your understanding of the social, cultural, political and economic history and current condition of South Asia to prepare yourself for a variety of careers, or if you want to go on to pursue further research, this is the course for you.
This interdisciplinary course covers South Asia from the early modern period to the present. The geographic areas studied are the modern states of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. It provides a structured introduction to key debates in South Asian history, development economics, politics and sociology through a variety of intensive courses.
The MPhil in Modern South Asian Studies is a postgraduate course with a substantial research component, which runs for nine months covering the three terms (Michaelmas, Lent and Easter) of the Cambridge Academical Year.
This is an inter-disciplinary course. Teaching and learning take place in the Centre of South Asian Studies. Teaching is provided by scholars from various faculties and departments of humanities and social science across Cambridge. The degree is conferred by the Faculty of Human, Social and Political Sciences.
The MPhil aims to introduce you to the latest research topics, methods and debates in South Asian studies at an advanced level. It provides training in the use of print, manuscript and other sources relevant to South Asian studies.
South Asian languages and literature are an essential component of this course. You will be expected to study at least one South Asian language. Training in Hindi and Urdu are offered in preparation for the three-hour written examination and the oral examination.
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Fairy Tales!
One of my favorite things in the whole world is a good fairy tale. Seriously. If you want to win me over, tell me a fairy tale. Sweep me away with an adventure full of dragons and magic and sword fights and castles. I fall in love with a good fractured fairy tale every single time. Now, I know this might be disappointing to some of my more "purist" fairy tale fans, but really many of my favorite fairy tale takes are the Disney versions. They're so full of magic, music, and romance. And their protagonists are kind, compassionate, and courageous (among a whole bunch of other really great qualities).
So, when the idea of writing a series of my own versions of fairy tales first came to mind, it was definitely influenced by the Disney perspective. Here's the twist, though, and really my only big critique of Disney fairy tales: yes, the heroines of these stories are kind and brave and creative... but looming over all of that as the most obvious trait is the fact that they are wonderfully, unrealistically, perfectly attractive. These princesses have the perfect glossy hair, flawless complexion, and bright smiles. Even Anna, as she wakes up with her mess of bedhead, is perfectly disheveled, still portrayed just right to be relatable... yet still unattainable.
Because I appreciate authenticity, let's break down my perspective. I have glasses, for starters, which ticks off one box of something I've never seen in a Disney princess. Like most normal people, I don't have a consistently flawless complexion. My body shape is closer to a rectangle than the slim-but-curvy (how does that even work?) ideal. Thankfully, I've had people close to me, like my parents, who have always reinforced that my worth and value isn't dependent on what I look like. But what about the young people who don't have that? What about those who can't hear that narrative over everything else that tells them otherwise?
That's where I'm coming from as I embark on the adventure of writing my own versions of fairy tales. I want to challenge this focus on being physically attractive, while also emphasizing all those wonderful personality traits even further. Really, this whole thing started with a simple question (which maybe I should have mentioned before the very end of my blog post): What if Cinderella wasn't pretty? More to come on that soon...
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A couple weeks ago, I attended a special event sponsored by the Water Environment Federation (WEF) at Stonehill College in Massachusetts, focused on the future of wastewater treatment. The event title: "Activated Sludge on its 100th Birthday: Challenges and Opportunities."
Upon returning, several non-technical colleagues laughed at my excitement about "the birthday of activated sludge." The hilarity at my expense made me realize that to the non-technical, it's a quirky phrase.
Why am I excited about such a milestone? The British Medical Journal recently reported sewage treatment is mankind's single greatest contribution to protecting human health. The ability to 'flush and forget' is a luxury we take for granted ‒ and something many lack in other parts of the world. In my role at InSinkErator, I never forget that modern plumbing and sewage treatment make it possible to use disposers.
The practice of diverting raw sewage away from civilization dates back to the Roman's Cloaca Maxima, followed in the 19th century with London's sewage being sent down the Thames to avert cholera, but actual treatment of sewage didn't begin until recently. The WEF Stonehill event was held a few short miles from the origins of the activated sludge process that now helps to not only protect human health, but also the environment.
Wastewater technologies on the horizon
Wastewater treatment protects the environment by removing nutrients in addition to pathogens (disease-causing bacteria); much of the Stonehill event focused on the use of Anammox bacteria to remove one such nutrient, nitrogen. Anammox is slightly heavier than typical microorganisms and can therefore be sifted out using cyclones for return back to the system. Other interesting technologies discussed during the forum included "granular" activated sludge such as the NEREDA process where stabilization of wastewater occurs aerobically, anaerobically and anoxically at the same time to enhance nutrient removal, with a smaller footprint and much lower energy requirements. Integrated Fixed Film Activated Sludge (IFAS) is another technology that shows promise in accomplishing more efficient wastewater treatment through the use of special media to increase surface area.
Photo Courtesy of UNM
The event's final panel featured six prominent people who dedicated their lives to the wastewater treatment profession, and it was an honor to hear their perspective on where the industry is headed. George Tchobanoglous and David Stensel both acknowledged the need for getting more carbon to wastewater treatment plants (plants are carbon deficient and nutrient rich) and Tchobanoglous exhorted the role of food waste disposers in providing carbon, making the event all the more memorable for me. So here's to activated sludge and the next one hundred years!
James Barnard, David Jenkins, Les Grady, George Tchobanoglous, Cliff Randall and David Stensel (left to right) Discuss Optimum Utilization of Carbon at Stonehill College


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This kitchen brings back into view everything that one normally hides away these days. It thus contrasts a lot with the usual modern-design kitchen which, in its radical abstraction, making it a pure from of its essential functions; preparing, cooking, washing, hanging, preserving, cleaning and time-management, it has even done away with cupboard handles.
Herb pots, racks for kitchen utensils, a cook-book support, a drainer, even a mortar – all are part and parcel of the tile work, bringing the kitchen back down to earth.
A minimum of materials and sizes; only white tiles in 12 basic shapes. Four structural, including 3 with different angles and one to hold water. The remaining eight are functiona; herb container, magnet, mortar, utensil holder, book stand, dish rack, alarm clock and towel holder. All in plain view.
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Disaster recovery refers to restoring your systems and data in the event of partial or complete failure of computers due to natural or technical causes.
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Important Of the preceding options, adding a secondary DPM server provides the greatest amount of protection. At a minimum, it is strongly recommended that you back up the DPM databases regularly, either using DPM or third-party software.
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기업가정신 세계일주 G20 Young Entrepreneur Summit의 공식 프로그램으로서
각 국가의 담당자들의 지원을 받으며 일주를 시작할 것이다.
2011년, 우리는 G20 in France 로 간다.
기업가정신 세계일주 중간발표를 할 예정이다.
아래는 캐나다 Financial Post의 기사
Read more: http://business.financialpost.com/2010/06/23/g20-youth-entrepreneur-summit-wraps-up-in-toronto/#ixzz0voDcNX8v
G20 Young Entrepreneur Summit wraps up in Toronto
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Industry Minister Tony Clement (far right), joins John Manley and the G20 delegation in signing a communiqué to be presented at the B20 Business Summit.
John Shmuel June 23, 2010 – 12:03 pm
Bureaucracy continues to hamper Indian entrepreneurs. Japanese start ups face stiff competition from some of the world's biggest corporations. Education in Canada isn't fostering a culture of entrepreneurship. These were just some of the issues that over 200 delegates sat down to tackle during the G20 Young Entrepreneur Summit the past two days.
Tuesday saw the delegates, joined by Canadian Industry Minister Tony Clement, sign a communiqué of suggested improvements that will help entrepreneurs in G20 countries. The communiqué will be passed on to the business leaders attending the B20 Business Summit, to be held on June 25-26. Delegates, as the picture above shows, celebrated its signing as a significant milestone for the two-day summit.
Besides the communiqué, an agreement was reached to create a "Young Entrepreneur Alliance", a movement that will advocate for entrepreneurs around the world. The movement's goal is to tackle issues like access to credit, education and support, in order to promote a global entrepreneurial culture.
It still remains to be seen what tangible results will actually come out of the summit. The G20 kicks off later this week, and entrepreneur grievances will certainly take a back seat to issues like the global economic recovery and nuclear proliferation.
The next youmg entrepreneur summit will be held in Nice, France in 2011. And we'll certainly have a better idea of some of the positives that came out of this summit then.
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Every director and stage manager knows only too well how many things can go wrong with any given performance. Hopefully, though, no stage manager has ever experienced a production as utterly catastrophic as The Play That Goes Wrong. This new Broadway play (previously on the West End) takes every director's nightmare and amplifies it by 100%. The result is an uproarious theatrical experience unlike any other – and one that will have you laughing until your sides ache.
Written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields, and directed by Mark Bell, The Play That Goes Wrong follows the Cornley University Drama Society as they struggle to perform a classic whodunnit called "The Murder at Haversham Manor." As the play progresses, every possible thing that could go wrong does, in fact, go wrong. Relatively small mistakes like actors forgetting lines and props being in the wrong places gradually give way to more drastic problems like a rapidly deteriorating set and several minor concussions. "Dead" characters refuse to stay dead, the lighting and sound operator misses his cue, doors jam, and the major plot twist at the end is accidentally revealed about two acts too soon.
In short, it's a complete disaster; but somehow the cast and crew soldier on despite incredible odds, carrying the play through to its bitter – or perhaps fortuitous – end.
The Play That Goes Wrong will have you laughing nonstop from the first moment to the last Click To Tweet
Of course, it's all a pretense: the show you're really here to watch is not in fact "The Murder at Havisham Manor," but The Play That Goes Wrong. Despite that, the cast keeps up the illusion offstage as well as on, getting into character well before the performance starts and continuing the pretense during intermission, which means, inevitably, that more things go wrong.
As the clueless yet determined members of the Cornley University Drama Society, each cast member performs with unique comic flair. Dave Hearn comes across as both woefully inexperienced and adorable, and Charlie Russell's character takes melodrama to a whole new level. Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields are equally adept at playing inadept actors, and Rob Falconer and Nancy Zamit are hilarious as the backstage crew who eventually get pulled into the play itself – with tragic results. As the dead body that won't stay dead, Greg Tannahill is equally hysterical, and his moment of slowly dawning horror when he realizes he's given away the ending two hours early is comic perfection.
We might speculate on what it means that there's now a Broadway play about a Broadway play going wrong, and that it's so popular with theater-goers. Does this, perhaps, say something about how saturated our culture has become with entertainment? Or does it merely prove that we like watching people fail?
The answer is anyone's guess, but one thing is certain: The Play That Goes Wrong will have you laughing nonstop from the first moment to the last. "The Murder at Haversham Manor" may be a disaster, but The Play That Goes Wrong is a brilliant success.


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A Guide on Getting Your Dog Through This Spooky Holiday Season
Halloween is upon us, and while many of us are picking out costumes, planning parties, and buying boat-loads of candy, our four-legged friends are gearing up to totally lose their cool. Here's the thing— dogs and humans aren't all that different when it comes to fears and phobias. Many dogs, like many humans, are creatures of habit, and it's super easy for them to develop anxieties.
Holidays, in particular, are major triggers for dog anxiety.
But don't worry.
If Fido hides under the bed, pees on the carpet, tears up your new stilettos, or flat-out refuses to stop barking every time Halloween rolls around, My Dog Spot is here to help.
Keep reading to learn more about anxiety in dogs and how you can help get your anxious pup through Halloween.
Symptoms of Anxiety in Dogs – Understanding Fido's Anxious Behaviors
Before we cover how you can help reduce your dog's Halloween-induced anxiety, let's first talk about the symptoms. Many dog owners unknowingly make their dog's anxiety worse simply by misunderstanding which behaviors are anxious behaviors and which behaviors are ornery behaviors.
Some common symptoms of dog anxiety include:
• Potty Accidents: Like humans, many dogs can suffer an upset stomach due to stress or anxiety. If your dog is usually good about being accident-free but suddenly has an accident, he may be anxious or scared.
• Changes in Appetite: An anxious dog may lose his appetite and can forgo meals altogether. Sometimes even treats won't be enough to bribe your anxious pooch to eat.
• Isolation or Avoidance: My dog likes to hide under the bed when she knows it's bath time. This is a clear indication to me that she's anxious and scared. If you suddenly find your dog hiding in the back of the closet or under the kitchen table, he may be trying to tell you he's nervous.
• Excessive Yawning, Licking, Or Preening: Some people confuse yawning, excessive licking, and preening in their dogs to be random annoying habits, but these behaviors can really be symptoms of anxiety in dogs. Just as humans may bite their nails out of anxiety, a dog may develop obsessive behaviors to try and soothe himself or keep himself busy during anxious situations.
• Aggressive or Destructive Behaviors: Fearful dogs can turn to aggressive behaviors if they feel cornered or if they feel they are in danger.
Remember, it is always best to give your dog space if you can tell he is experiencing anxiety. Unless he comes to you for comfort, we suggest you take it slow with him. Anxious dogs can also be prone to nervous chewing and other destructive behaviors. For this reason, many owners opt to put their dogs in a safe place like a crate during times like Halloween so that they cannot harm themselves or their surroundings.
Why Does Halloween Trigger My Dog's Anxiety?
Halloween is a crazy fun holiday for many people, but not everyone is a fan. Dogs can be especially sensitive to sensory overload, and many dogs already suffer from doorbell anxieties, stranger phobias, and noise fears. Holidays like Halloween seem to amplify these things, which can really turn your pet's world upside down. For the dog who is prone to anxiety, and even the confident dog who isn't, holidays like Halloween can be a lot to handle. So, how can My Dog Spot help you to get your dog through this Halloween in Pasadena?
Let's find out!
My Dog Spot's Tips and Tricks to Getting Your Anxious Dog Through Halloween
One of the best tricks to calming your dog's anxiety is to make sure he doesn't have tons of excess energy to burn before going into Halloween night. A nice long walk a few hours before the fun is set to begin could help to reduce your dog's anxiety ten-fold. Don't have time to walk your dog? Don't worry. You can easily book professional and insured dog walkers in your area now through My Dog Spot. But what else can you do to help your dog stay calm, especially in the midst of all the action? Along with some good exercise a few hours before the big event, you may want to consider counter conditioning. Counter conditioning is a term that simply means training your dog to get used to the things that set him off.
For example, if Fido goes crazy each time he hears the doorbell ring, you can try using clickers and treats to condition him. A week or so before Halloween night, begin training your dog so that when he hears the doorbell, he gets a treat. Eventually, he will begin to associate the sound with something positive, meaning peace and quiet for the both of you! It is important to always make any training session as positive of an experience as you possibly can for your dog.
Don't Scold Them
Avoid scolding him or punishing him when he makes mistakes, and instead reward him with praise and treats when he does something correctly. On the night of Halloween, you may decide to put your dog in a back room away from all the chaos. This is an excellent idea. If you have a dog who is prone to destructive behaviors such as chewing or potty accidents when he is anxious, it may be a good idea to also put him in his crate. Many dogs find their crates to be a soothing, safe place anyway, so this could also help to lower his anxiety levels. You can also play soothing music for your dog to help drown out any noise from the Halloween fun.
Studies show that dogs respond best to classical music like Bach or Beethoven. We absolutely love this playlist of relaxing music for dogs.
Other Products to Help to Sooth Your Anxious Dog Year-Round
Along with relaxing remedies like crating in a back room, counter conditioning, and relaxing music, you may also want to try some amazing dog-calming products. Some of our favorite products for keeping our doggy clients relaxed at My Dog Spot are calming collars, Thundershirts, diffuser Kits, Anti-Stress tablets, and anxiety relief dog beds. Also, this is the perfect season to let you in on a little secret—if your dog has an upset stomach due to anxiety and stress, feel free to offer him a few teaspoons of canned pumpkin! Pumpkin is full of fiber and beta-carotene, which can help relieve diarrhea in dogs. However, you should never give your dog raw pumpkin or more cooked pumpkin than the suggested amount for his weight and size.
You will also want to make sure that the pumpkin is dog-friendly and free of added sugars, dies, and seasonings. Luckily, most pet stores carry canned pumpkin, making access to the right kind easy and safe.
For more great products and to spoil your pet rotten right here in Pasadena, visit our favorite local pet store, My Pet Garden!
The Influence of Auditory Stimulation on the Behaviour of Dogs Housed in a Rescue Shelter, Wells, D.L., Graham, L., Hepper, P.G.
The Effect of a Pressure Wrap (ThunderShirt) on Heart Rate and Behavior in Canines Diagnosed with Anxiety Disorder, Journal of Veterinary Behavior, Volume 9, Issue 5, Camille King, Laurie Buggington, Thomas J. Smith, Temple Grandin
The Influence of Olfactory Stimulation on the Behaviour of Dogs Housed in a Rescue Shelter, Applied Animal Behaviour Science, Lynne Graham, Deborah L. Wells, Peter G Hepper
Efficacy of a Remote-Controlled, Positive-Reinforcement, Dog-Training System for Modifying Problem Behaviors Exhibited When People Arrive at the Door, Applied Animal Behaviour Science, Sophia Yin, Eduardo J. Fernandez, Sabrina Paga, Sarah L. Richardson, Greg Snyder


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Hello my crafty friends! It's Raquel Mason here today. I was inspired by Karen's April Designer Challenge where she converted a pop stand into a box pop up. I wanted to incorporate a few new items from Karen's latest release too into my Pop Stand conversion "Welcome little one" baby card. Let me show you how easy it is to convert a pop stand into a box card that's cute as a button!
- Cut Soft Finish Cardstock – Celadon Green card base at 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 then score at 4 1/4.
- Cut pattern paper at 5 1/4 x 7 score at 3 1/3.
- Place the alignment nubs of the Bathtub Pop Stand on the score line and die cut. See photo below.
- Cut 2 pieces of pattern paper at 3/8 x 1 and fold strips in half. See photo below.
5. Die cut the pieces shown below:
(2) poles from Soft Finish Cardstock -Celadon Green
(3) banners from Soft Finish Cardstock -Celadon Green. Place Baby Pajamas Stage It Stencil over the banner and color in a heart using a red marker.
(1) long banner from Soft Finish Cardstock – White. Stamp "Pitter Patter" and feet using black ink.
(1) bathtub from Soft Finish Cardstock – White and (1) from pattern paper. Stamp "Welcome little one" on the front of the white bathtub. Cut away the top portion of the pattern paper bathtub and adhere to the white bathtub. See photo for placement.
(2) bathtub feet from pattern paper. Adhere to bathtub.
(1) duck from Soft Finish Cardstock – Sunflower. Adhere duck to a banner.
(1) Soft Finish Cardstock -Sunflower and (1) Soft Finish Cardstock -Bluebell pacifier. Cut the top portion of the Sunflower pacifier off and adhere to the Bluebell pacifier.
(1) Soft Finish Cardstock -Bluebell onsie, leave paper in the die and color a heart through the heart area with red ink. Cut off charm loop.
To assemble the front of the card:
6. Cut Soft Finish Cardstock -Bluebell at 4 x 5 1/4, then emboss with the Baby Pajamas stencil by running it through your die cutting machine using an embossing sandwich. Adhere (3) banners cut in step 7 to orange ribbon. Wrap orange ribbon around top left corner and adhere to card base. Fold (2) small lengths of orange ribbon in a loop and adhere to the corners of the ribbon. Adhere bathtub to card front.
To assemble the inside of the card:
7. Wrap orange ribbon around the top and bottom portion of the pattern paper from step 3. Adhere pattern paper to card base taking care to avoid adhering the open tabs to the base.
8. Adhere both strips of pattern paper cut in step 4 to the tabs by placing a small amount of glue on the tabs. Upon closing the card, the tabs will look like a box. Adhere the (2) posts cut in step 5 to the tabs.
9. Using twine, hang the onsie cut in step 5 between the posts.
10. Adhere stamped banner and pacifier to the bottom of the card.
I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial and feel inspired to try it out yourself.
Happy Crafting,
Elizabeth Craft Designs:
Karen Burniston Pop it Ups – Bathtub Pop Stand
Karen Burniston Pop it Ups – Lots of Pops
Karen Burniston Pop it Ups -Baby Charms
Karen Burniston Pop it Ups – Baby Pajamas Stage it Stencil
Karen Burniston Pop it Ups – Clear Stamp – Baby
Soft Finish Cardstock – Celadon Green
Soft Finish Cardstock -Bluebell
Soft Finish Cardstock – Sunflower
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Bakers Twine
Orange Ribbon
Glue Dots
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We all have that one sheet pan that has the last 30 meals still clinging to it…it's supposed to add more flavor, right? Well, maybe it's time to make dirty sheet pans a thing of the past. Bon Appetit gives us the easiest way to clean the infamous sheet pan.
1. Mix ½ cup baking soda and ½ cup white vinegar with hot water in the sink. (We prefer Heinz white vinegar and Arm and Hammer baking soda, but this will work with any brands really.) It will bubble up like a school science project, but that reaction is what helps loosen the residue.
2. Make sure your sink is plugged so they stay submerged, and let it soak for 30 minutes to an hour before scrubbing away with a scouring pad, the scrubby side of your sponge, or steel wool. Although steel wool is most likely to scratch your pans, it's okay. You want them to look well-worn and used, but scrub in even circular motions to make the lines less noticeable.
3. After the scrub-down, wash with regular soap and water to finishing cleaning, and then dry immediately to prevent rust. This process is also a twofer: it helps clean out your drain—which you definitely don't clean enough—with the combo of baking soda and vinegar. It's all very easy, but remember to rock dishwashing gloves during this process to save your hands from getting all scratched up by the rough scrubber.
4. Once you get 'em clean and looking (almost) as good as new, you'll want to maintain that shiny surface. To help prevent that gunky brown residue from building up again, use parchment paper or aluminum foil to cover your sheet pan whenever you're going to use it.
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This is a great distressed brown naked cowhide leather motorcycle jacket with concealed carry pockets. Long list of features are:
- Brown top-grade naked cowhide leather
- 2 interior gun pockets
- 2 elastic straps for pistol and clips each
- 2 zippered air vents on the back
- 2 zippered air vents on front
- Full, zip-out lining through the sleeves
- 2 breast pockets
- 2 waist pockets
- Elastic sides for fit
- Zippered, snap button cuffs
- Padded elbow leather
- Padded shoulders
- Double shoulders for ease of movement
- Classic round collar
- Unique distressed brown color
- Reflective trim
You will love this top quality brown motorcycle jacket, plus it ships free inside the USA!
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This jewel-toned corridor-length carpet comes from the Caucasian Kazak region. Throughout the entire mountain range, a multitude of weaving peoples existed, many lost to today's scholars. A more specific attribution of Shasavan for this piece is suggested by its weave and modified star symbol within the latticework's "panes" associated with this tribe's lexicon. This rug's wool fiber is strong and glistening, acting as a prism for its rich color palette of russet, cobalt, spruce green, saffron yellow, aubergine, and mocha. Spontaneity is expressed often. Rows within the latticework never repeat the same pattern; sporadically improvised abrash and splashes of color are used throughout to riveting effect. Intriguingly, the turning of the main border design reveals very casual reconciliation, a feature of tribal rugs. The greatly overscale depiction of the sunburst or crab border motif is a distinctively Kazak feature.
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AWS Foundation Awards $420K in Grants
The AWS Foundation in Fort Wayne has awarded more than $420,000 in grants to 12 area nonprofits. The foundation says the funding supports organizations that benefit individuals with intellectual, developmental, and physical disabilities in northeast Indiana.
The foundation says the recipients will use the funding to help reach its goal of "working to develop a community in which people with enduring intellectual, developmental, and physical disabilities are engaged fully and meaningfully in all aspects of community life."
The grant recipients include:
- Arts United: $49,000 to support the Arts & Culture Nonprofit Resiliency Fund.
- Crossroad Child & Family Services: $85,000 for the transition of Crossroad Academy to project-based learning through New Tech Network support.
- Daniel's Place: $25,000 to hire a consultant to expand respite programs.
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Hiroshi Bando1 , Tomohiro Yokoyama
1Tokushima University and Medical Research, Tokushima, Japan.
2Department of Advanced Technology and Science, Tokushima University, Tokushima, Japan.
Corresponding Author: Hiroshi Bando, Tokushima University /Medical Research, Tokushima, Japan, Tel: +81-90-3187-2485; E Mail: [email protected]
Received Date: 06 Oct 2018 Accepted Date: 16 Oct 2018 Published Date: 19 Oct 2018
Copyright © 2018 Bando H
Citation: Bando H and Yokoyama T. (2018). Various Strokes for Development of Ego in the Transactional Analysis. Mathews J Psychiatry Ment Health. 3(1): 020.
KEYWORDS Stroke; Egogram; Tokyo University Egogram (TEG); Transactional Analysis (TA).
Transactional Analysis (TA) is the theory of personality, communication and treatment system, which was founded by Berne in the 1950s [1]. In the background, there is a group psychotherapy developed from psychoanalysis, based on a behavioral science and a philosophy that respects the existential encounter between humans.
One of the purposes of TA is to control emotions, thoughts, and actions by noticing the ego state at any time. Illustrating the amount of mental energy releasing from each ego, Dusey drafted the egogram graphically so that everyone can understand easily [2]. By investigating the communication in interpersonal relationship and analyzing transaction in detail, we can make it possible to improve ourselves with the interchange patterns with some problems.
We have continued practice and research using Tokyo University Egogram (TEG) based on TA [3,4]. After lecture of TA, the daily lives of the subjects have improved and the long-term life has changed to better direction [5,6]. These phenomena suggest actual clinical usefulness of the egogram [7]. In this article, the topic of psychological stroke from the egogram will be described.
People always have certain relationship with others. In the transactional analysis, its behavior has been called a "stroke" [8]. People are growing up with various process and situation since they were born. In other words, relationship with parents in infancy, and interaction with people during child could make the foundation of communication ability. After that, important relationship would be formed during adolescence for school classmates and various people in extra-curriculum social activities.
People can grow up through various experience and acquire strokes in any opportunity. Among them, there are positive strokes, such as love, praise, evaluation, reward and so on [9]. Through these experiences children grow up with much affection and care from their parents. Furthermore, many adults can live everyday associated with evaluation and remuneration from the people around them.
On the other hand, there are negative strokes, such as anger, rebuke, accusation and so on. Some people live on negative strokes as if food nourishments [9]. For example, there are cases as follows: a child is scolded because of mischief, a young person is accused of doing bad affairs, an adult is despised by intentional tampering. Such a person has continued such a negative stroke with accumulation of various strokes since childhood [10].
Furthermore, people are continuing daily social life, while maintaining adequate relationship with others. No one can live alone in a remote island or jungle. There is no way to live by alone, living everyday with positive or negative strokes.
Berne thought about recognition as a basic, biological need with deep motivational implications [8]. He calls a unit of interpersonal recognition a "stroke". Recognition and contact with others has been an indispensable part of human relationships. Young children need actual physical strokes to survive, because early development of the human brain is greatly affected by various contact that the child receives [11]. On the other hand, adult people also need adequate various contacts. Mutual exchange of stroke has been involved in the crucial activity where adult can live and engage in the daily life [12].
In the transactional analysis, the word "stroke" means and includes several key words, such as attachment, intimacy, warmth, tender loving care, need to belong, contact, closeness, relationships, social support, and love [9]. Berne proposed that not only positive stimulation but also negative painful stimulation might be instrumental in maintaining health [8].
People are performing various strokes with many people in their lives. What kind of communication do they use during the day? This is called "time structuring" in TA [9]. This content varies from person to person. Several factors are involved in time structuring, such as environment, education, character, and how to acquire strokes so far. Burne divided it into six categories, which are i) withdrawal, ii) Ceremony, iii) Activity, iv) Chat, v) game, vi) friendship. Among them, vi) is an ideal one for communication for mutual relationship [10].
The details of six categories were described and structured in the following [13]. i) Withdrawal: Fancying alone, drinking alone, not having any relationship with others. In other words, it intercepts strokes with other people. Although it is not psychologically hurt by strokes from others, there may be behavior problems and/or physical symptoms. ii) Ceremony: Simple form of engagement, such as regular greetings with others. It is an easy and safe way to get a stroke from outside without deep relationship from other people. However, the degrees of the stroke are low. iii) Activity: Involvement with superiors and subordinates for those who work outside. Housekeeping charge includes information exchange with local people. Each activity has a specific purpose associated with exchanges stroke. iv) Chat: Light conversation without purpose or productivity for workplace and community. It has a distraction and stress relief effect, low risk, superficial and light stroke exchange. v) Psychological Game : Exchange of words repeated under certain conditions. In addition to superficial language interactions, negative emotions always exist in "backward exchanges". With repeated psychological conflicts, unpleasant feelings and endings are characteristic. vi) Friendship: Ideal exchange pattern in TA. It is mutual affirmation with trust and respect each other. There are various patterns of love, such as love emotions with young couple, affection between married couple, compassion of parents to children [13].
As mentioned above, various strokes are found [14]. Our daily lives include positive and negative strokes, which are classified into eight groups in Table 1. Considering the strokes of TA would bring us better human relations and contribute to feeling happiness in each person.
Table 1: some kinds of strokes and its example.
|physical direct
|mental indirect
|conditional behavior/attitude
|behavior/attitude unconditional presence/character
|Positive stroke
|pat the head, hold hands,hold shoulders
|listen to the talk, praise prize
|good job, brave behavior, thank for work
|nice guy, I love you, happy with you
|Negative stroke
|Clap, pinch, thrust away
|Scold depise frown
|You must study, you broke again, bad attitude
|let's divorce, leave the company, let him disappear


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The woman in the car and the man on foot must exercise patience when held up at certain hours of the morning and evening by the over-rush of automobiles or of people hurrying to work or to their homes.
Almost every location in New York is either "Up-town" or "Downtown." Occasionally you hear "Cross-town" but not often. There is no actual dividing line between up and downtown. If you go South you are going downtown; if North, uptown. Between East and West the e9se is different. Broadway to 23rd Street and from 23rd Street up Fifth Avenue, is the popular dividing line. To be technically exact, Broadway to 7th Street and Fifth Avenue up from 8th Street, is the map division. All streets are East or West, as they hap-pen to lie on the right or left of this line. It is against the law to cross a street in the middle of a block. Use regular crossings only.
No city excels us in the frequency or rapidity of our local transportation. We have surface cars on almost every thoroughfare; a Subway and Elevated System on the West Side and the same on the East. At 42nd Street there is a short line on which passengers may change from the East Side to the West, or vice versa, and continue their journey without extra fare. There is also a Subway line on Broadway to which you can also transfer from the same connecting line. Other Subway trains, using these same tunnels, take you to Brooklyn, Long Island City and all the little towns in Brooklyn, as far as Coney Island. The fare to the latter point is only 10 cents and the time about 40 minutes. On each Elevated and Subway station there is a colored map showing the different stations on the route you are going to take.
Consult those maps for the station you wish to get off at or ask the guard on the train. He always calls out the name of the next station as the ear approaches. Stations are about six blocks apart in local trains and a mile and a half on Expresses. All subway entrances on the street are plainly marked "Up-town" or "Downtown."
There are separate tracks for Express and Local trains on the Subways, so look for the sign which points to the different tracks. Except on the Sixth Avenue Elevated, the same system applies to the Third and Ninth Avenues. Avoid travel between 7.00 and 9.30 A. M. and between 4.30 and 6.30 P. M. These are the rush hours when the trains are packed to the limit.
In all probability the average visitor who does not intend to go outside of New York will use one of the two main Subway lines—the East or the West. They practically cover every foot of the entire island and will get you anywhere. Assuming therefore that you are staying in the hotel section, you will find the West Side Subway the most convenient if you are located West of Fifth Avenue; and the East Side Subway if you are East of the Avenue. The group of hotels adjoining the Grand Central Terminal are directly in touch with both systems, as the connecting railway runs past their entrance on 42nd Street. Trains run on about a two minute schedule.
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To do that, they've started sharing a weekly read aloud on Facebook.
One teacher each week will be volunteering to read a book of their choice in their favorite reading space.
The story will be shared on the school's Facebook page for the students to watch.
Jennifer Biggers came up with the idea and said it not only allows teachers to connect with their kids over the break, but listening to stories is also beneficial to the child's overall learning and reading comprehension.
"They have a higher listening comprehension than reading ability, which means that they can listen to more difficult text and understand it than they can access that themselves, so it's exposing them to vocabulary and language patterns that otherwise they might not acquire," said Biggers.
Keeping students interesting in reading is a key part in the school's RISE initiative.
The Reading Initiative for Student Excellence aims to make reading an important part of both home and school life.
Biggers said they'll be posting a new story every week, and since the teachers are picking the books, there will be a wide variety of book types.
The school's Facebook page is also public, so your kids can watch the read alongs even if they don't attend Walnut Ridge Elementary.
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Specifications for the Toyota 22RE Engineby Andrew Tennyson
The Toyota 22RE was the successor of the 22R, one of the most popular and longest running engines in Toyota's history. The 22RW was available in several different configurations and used in vehicles ranging from half-ton pickups to sport utility vehicles.
The Toyota 22RE was first introduced in 1982. It was essentially a fuel-injected version of Toyota's 22R four-cylinder engine. In its original incarnation in 1982, it ran at 105 horsepower at 4,800 rpm. In 1985, the engine was upgraded slightly and a few other minor upgrades were made over the following 10 years.
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From 1985 through 1988, the 22RE was manufactured with a maximum of 105 horsepower at 4,800 RPM. It achieved a maximum torque of 137 at 2,800 RPM. It had a displacement of 2,366 cc. The compression of the engine was 9.3 to 1, with a bore of 92 mm and a stroke of 89 mm.
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From 1989 through 1995, Toyota made the engine slightly more powerful. Maximum horsepower was increased to 112 at 4,600 rpm. Maximum torque was raised to 142 at 3,400 rpm. Displacement remained at 2,366 cc, as did compression at 9.3 to 1, bore at 92 mm and stroke at 89 mm.
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One of the more interesting facets of the recent Vicente Eduardo Garcia Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) criminal enforcement action was the involvement in the investigation of the Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation.
Garcia was the former SAP executive who admitted paying bribes in Panama.
An FBI press release stated, "The investigation is being conducted by FBI and the IRS-CI. The Criminal Division's Office of International Affairs and the Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Enforcement, which separately announced civil charges against Garcia, provided assistance."
As noted in a recent Morrison & Foerster White Paper on the case entitled 5 Takeaways From Former SAP Exec's FCPA Case" by Chuck Duross, Stacy Sprenekel, and Ian Bausback, while the FBI is usually the Deparment of Justice's investigative arm, so to is the IRS-CI.
The authors said, "Many people do not realize the role played by the IRS-CI in FCPA cases, but IRS-CI agents have played major roles in many of the prominent FCPA cases in the past few years."
This led me to consider what does the IRS-CI bring to a FCPA investigation? First, the IRS-CI has skills and experience in looking at financial patterns and tracing money. Since usually FCPA violations are tied to other legal violations, for example money-laundering or fraud, the IRS-CI is well-suited to comb through financial records to find patterns in payments.
Further, the IRS-CI has significant experience in investigating corporate shell structures which can be part of an ongoing criminal attempt to obtain bribes and then conceal the location of the money.
It is always clear that the IRS could be looking into financial statements for mis-characterization of bribe payments, specifically focusing on tax returns. Similarly, the IRS would also investigate to determine if companies were amending their financial statement filings, including tax returns, to correct such mis-characterizations after disclosure of any such payments. This same type of analysis would be applied to any monies which were initially mis-characterized on a company's books and records, such as gifts, travel, entertainment or charitable contributions.
The addition of the IRS-CI to any FCPA investigation brings additional specialization and sophistication to the government's effort. Agent Balmaseda's remarks provide a company with clear guidance on the types of analysis that the IRS can, and will, perform. Companies should use this information and begin to perform these types of investigations internally before the government comes knocking. Lastly, a corporate tax return may provide fertile grounds for an investigation.
My conclusion: Companies which now perform an internal investigation but do not self-report may find themselves in deeper trouble.
Thomas Fox is a contributing editor of the FCPA Blog and a Compliance Week columnist. He's the founder of the Houston-based boutique law firm tomfoxlaw.com. A popular speaker on compliance and risk-management topics, Fox is also the creator and writer of the widely followed FCPA Compliance Report. His book Lessons Learned on Compliance and Ethics topped Amazon's bestseller list for international law. He can be contacted here.


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A Taste of Rolla: The Chancellor's Table
John and I have the unique opportunity to live in this wonderful memory-filled home built in 1889 called the Chancellor's Residence. We want to thank FOR and those who purchase this book as well as those who contributed the recipes to make this book possible. We hope you enjoy it. The proceeds from our first The Chancellor's Table enabled us to purchase a beautiful solid cherry dining table that will expand to seat 22, a lovely matching china cabinet to display some of the beautiful heirloom gifts that friends and alumni have given to the Residence, a matching expanding serving cabinet, and matching chairs. We use them very often and thank you for helping us with this beautiful purchase that will be in the Residence for years to come. The proceeds from this Vol. II of The Chancellor's Table will be used to provide needed furnishings for the Residence without taking funds from the University budget. This frees University funds to be used for student support and academic programs. We believe so strongly that the University is actively moving forward in developing tomorrow's leaders and want to make the best use of our funds. Thank you for your help .... and happy cooking! - Dorcas Park
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