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Last night was my first sighting of the holiday. I was driving around the beautiful neighborhoods of Hollywood and saw a huge christmas light display on a gorgeous home. I went home immidiately and played some christmas music. It gave me the chills. I love all of the smells of this time of year, the fall just makes me so happy. It's truly the beginning of the holiday season. Even the Starbucks has the pumpkin lattes on special.
I am spending this holiday week in Palm Springs, CA with clark's family. It will be my first holiday with the Koelch's. His mom, grandma and sister are so much fun and I cant wait to cook with the family. I will be bringing one of my favorite recipe's from the FAT FREE VEGAN blog. The double-layer pumpkin cheesecake is out of this world. Everytime I make it, its gone in 5.3 seconds. I am so excited to celebrate, my vegan way!
HAPPY HOLIDAYS! re
Double-Layer Pumpkin Cheesecake
(printer-friendly version)
8 ounces Tofutti Better Than Cream Cheese (look for the non-hydrogenated version in the yellow container)
12 ounces light firm silken tofu (or extra-firm)
1/2 cup agave nectar (or sugar)
2 tablespoons cornstarch
1 1/2 tablespoons lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup pumpkin puree (canned, not pumpkin pie mix)
2 teaspoons rum (optional)
3 tablespoons brown sugar or natural sugar
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ginger
1/4 teaspoon grated fresh nutmeg (please!)
1 pre-made 8-inch graham cracker crust (or oatmeal cookie crust)
Preheat the oven to 350F.
Put the first set of ingredients (toffuti through vanilla) in a food processor and puree until completely smooth. It should be silky smooth--not chalky or lumpy.
Remove a cup of this mixture from the processor and spread it in the bottom of the crust.
Add the next set of ingredients (pumpkin through nutmeg) to the ingredients remaining in the food processor and process until well blended. Smooth it carefully over the white layer in the crust, heaping it slightly in the middle. Bake until the center is almost set, about 50-60 minutes. (Insert a toothpick. If it comes out liquidy and cold, give it more time, until the center is firm.) Remove from the oven and allow to cool. Refrigerate until completely chilled, at least 3 hours. Serve to delighted guests. (Don't tell them it's vegan, and they won't know!)
Serves 8. Per serving (not including the crust): 218 Calories (kcal); 7g Total Fat; (28% calories from fat); 4g Protein; 35g Carbohydrate; 0mg Cholesterol; 179mg Sodium.


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Cuyana Pop Up Shop Furniture
Space planning, furniture design and fabrication for Friends x Family for Cuyana's Holiday Pop up Shop.
Brass and oak shelving units and racks are made up of architectural brass handrail components. A solid marble slab weighs entire shelf down.
Dressing rooms are flat packable, and are designed to be reused in future pop up shops.
Materials: Brass, Oak, Various
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Long time readers (and former patients) will be familiar with my aspirin mantra but now Medscape has published a CME course by Dr. Desiree Lie for health care providers in primary practice, general surgery (and other areas that may not be familiar with post-cardiac patient recommendations.) As I may have mentioned before, in cardiac surgery – we routinely start aspirin in our patients prior to bypass surgery.
Don't stop Aspirin before surgery
I've converted the CME course, Don't stop Aspirin before surgery into a pdf – but if you want credit – you will have to go to Medscape and log in. (For everyone else – it's a nice read – and explains the importance of continuing aspirin in patients who are taking it for "secondary prevention" or are at high risk of cardiovascular events.
That's because the complications of discontinuing aspirin therapy in these patients are WORSE than the minor risk of bleeding. (Bleeding issues for most patients taking aspirin are fairly minor.. Now, clopidogrel (Plavix) and prasugrel (Effient) are another story!)
Wait a second… What's secondary prevention?
They way to think about secondary prevention is "closing the barn after the cows are loose," as one of my colleagues explains it. This means that Aspirin has been prescribed to these patients after something has already happened – like a stroke, a heart attack, stents or cardiac surgery. So in these patients – secondary prevention can be thought of as preventing a second event or further complications from a disease process we already know about.
Now, patients that are at high risk for cardiovascular events like diabetics or people with other kinds of blockages (peripheral vascular disease, renal artery stenosis) haven't had a heart attack yet – but we think that they are at a high risk of this happening – so they take aspirin to prevent this (primary prevention).
In people who are at low or moderate risk – low cholesterol, nonobese, normal glucose, nonsmokers: these people may take aspirin, but (probably not prescribed) and it is safe for them to discontinue aspirin before surgery.
But in the first two classes of patients (secondary prevention group/ high risk group) – stopping aspirin may actually INCREASE the risk of having a heart attack, stroke or other thrombotic event during surgery. But if you are having surgery – be sure to check with your cardiologist or cardiac surgeon before. Don't rely on your PCP or general surgeon (it's not their area of expertise) and they may not be up-to-date on the latest recommendations [hence the continuing education course].
A new chapter at Cartagena Surgery: the DNP program
Back in Mexicali, MX after spending a week in Nashville, Tennessee for the start of my doctoral program in nursing. It felt weird to be back in Nashville after so long (I lived there while attending Vanderbilt for my masters degree). It was surprising how much had changed – the medical center and the university campus just continue to grow and grow!
But then again – with 70 people in the Fall 2012 DNP class, I guess it's no surprise that the campus is growing. About 15 of us are full-time students. I'll be heading off to Bogotá in a week to start some specialized study there – so between the DNP program and Bogotá – I might be posting a bit less often.
The DNP is a new degree that takes the place of the DNSc (doctorate of nursing science) or the ND (nursing doctorate) – depending on who you ask. I know that sounds like alphabet soup to many people, so I'll post some more information about the degree soon. But the main thing to think about when thinking about doctoral degrees – is the focus behind the degree.
PhD – or a doctorate in Philosophy are Research degrees. (research with a capital 'R') Think about labs, nursing theories and hard-core research..so think 'nurse-scientists'.. I tell people to picture a nurse with a beaker and a bunsen burner.. Not entirely accurate but a good mental picture.
DNP – is a clinical doctorate – used to translate much of this research into improved clinical practice. Clinical, clinical, clinical.. This is the degree for people who are still planning on working in the clinical (hospital-based or clinic-based) setting, seeing patients. The courses in this program are designed to promote evidence-based practice – or using all of that research that our nurse-scientists (and other researchers) are publishing.
So the hope is that the DNP will be able to improve the care of patients by creating protocols and such. As it is still a fairly new degree – there is currently a lot of cross-over among PhD trained nurses, and I suspect there always will be – it's more a matter of preference in what a nurse wants to focus on during her doctorate education. (So don't be surprised if your nurse practitioner has a PhD.)
There are still plenty of doctorates in education and other fields as well like administration because it takes all types of nurses to serve as faculty, deans of educational programs, and hospital administrators.
There are even a few doctorate of nursing science programs left – in Louisiana and Puerto Rico..
Now I apologize because this is a simplistic explanation that leaves out a lot of nuance but I'll provide more information soon. But now, I better get back to the books!


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By Marcia Thorsell
I used to hear the term "You've been set free" in Christian circles and it always produced a question in my heart. Free from what? The answer was always…free from sin, free from the devil or some such answer. Still, that didn't calm the confusion in my heart. If that is true, then why do I see so many wounded, hurting, sinning, addicted, powerless Christians around me? I don't know about you, but I am really sick of powerless Christianity!!
A few years ago, my eyes were opened as I dealt with a complete failure in my own life. I didn't expect to fall, and actually, couldn't believe I did! If, because of the cross, we have been saved from sin, death, and the grave…not to mention the power of the devil… then why in the world do I and everyone around me keep sinning…keep failing? Now, I know that Jesus did it and, just like salvation, we have to choose it for ourselves, but why, oh why, do we keep on choosing the wrong thing? Why does the world, the flesh, and the past have such a strong pull on us?
Here's what I've come to know and why I am so excited about our KAIROS Weekends at Resound. The cross provided salvation for our spirit, soul, and body. It was complete and enough for anything we could possibly face. However, it was only our spirit that was awakened and "born again" when we got saved. Healing was provided for our body by His stripes, but we have to appropriate it for ourselves…or take hold of it (let's face it….sometimes easier said than done!). Our soul (our mind, will, and emotions) was delivered from the devil's power on the cross as well, but again, we have to lay hold of it. Our soul and our body are here on this earth facing the effects of this earth and the effects of our past (sickness, emotional turmoil, fear, depression, wounds…and on and on) and will continue to do so until we learn how to lay hold of what Jesus did on the cross. Only then can we be FREE from those things! Too often we are satisfied with a partial salvation!
Most of us are messed up in one way or another. Sometimes we know it….and sometimes we don't. Were you wounded in your life? We would all have to answer yes, even if in the first grade. It is amazing the negative effect childhood experiences can have in our lives. Was there something traumatic that happened to you at some point? … Death of a loved one, divorce, abuse, rejection, etc. Are you sick? Depressed? In fear? Anxious? Have you ever dabbled in the occult? Is there someone you just can't forgive? Do you dislike yourself or feel you're not as good as everyone else? Or…..do you just feel stuck in your relationship with the Lord? You want it to be something it is not. You see others doing great….why not you?
KAIROS (meaning an appointed time in the purpose of God) is simply a weekend away where you allow God to open your eyes and expose any area that could hold you back….and set you free from it! You will leave refreshed, renewed, and filled with the power of the Holy Spirit in a new way! This is not to bring up old wounds and cause you pain…it is to forever close the door on those wounds and anything else you are not aware of. This is not scary….it is liberating!
I am excited for you to experience what I have experienced. I forgave people that hurt me, I broke patterns that would have destroyed my life eventually, I was set free from wrong thinking, and I found a new joy and power in the Holy Spirit! You will never be the same!


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Opening up the last figure, Hatsune Miku from Nendoroid Petit Racing Miku Set 2011 Ver. to conclude the review series on this cute Nendoroid Petit set. ^^
The figure, her designated option part, and the display base parts.
Miku is the only one from the set with option parts included for the figure herself, which allows her display to be altered via part-swapping. This posting will focus on her default form while the option parts will be covered in the next posting.
The standard display base.
Miku's stand shown on the right has a longer connector, as compared to the short type used by Rin and Luka.
More images of this Nendoroid Petit figure:
Closeups on the details:
Miku has the same default smiling expression design as Rin and Luka, but the tears of joy painted at the corner of her eyes does give Miku a slight difference as compared to the same parts on her two friends. ^^
The main figure of Miku has the same set of simple articulation points as Rin and Luka as well as other figures from the same product series:
Not surprisingly, the straight pegs connecting Miku's pigtails to her head also allow the hair parts to be swivelled forward/backward.
So, technically speaking, Miku is more articulated than Rin and Luka. ^^
A gathering of the three figures from this Nendoroid Petit set:
As mentioned at the beginning, the option parts included for Miku and her alternate form will be shown in the next posting. ^^ Since Miku is the last figure from the set to be introduced, the next posting is going to feature a gathering of everyone (and everything XD) from this Nendoroid Petit set as well. ^^


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Code to Live: Rich Weston, Morty Nivers and Tom Messbauer on Sharepoint Skinning in Silverlight
Play Code to Live: Rich Weston, Morty Nivers and Tom Messbauer on Sharepoint Skinning in Silverlight
Josh Holmes had the pleasure of catching up with Rich Weston, Morty Nivers and Tom Messbauer of Neudesic. They are doing some interesting things with Silverlight on top of Sharepoint. They have two different paths that they are persuing - a complete reskin and integration.
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Josh...this is a great presentation of how there is so much latent capability in both SharePoint 2007 and Silverlight. The media library presentation was clever. Microsoft should make that a built-in feature of MOSS. Nice...remote screencasting too.
Very cool Josh... This session definitely gets the ideas flowing with possibilities.
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AARP Opens Nominations for Highest Utah Volunteer Honors
AARP's commitment to volunteer services emanates from the life and vision of our founder, Ethel Percy Andrus, who said, "The challenge is to live up to our better selves, to believe well of our fellow men [and women], and perhaps by doing so to help create the good, to experiment, to explore, to change, and to grow."
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Your nomination can also be submitted to Jill Duke via email at firstname.lastname@example.com, or by fax to Jill at 801-561-2209. Nominations by mail should be sent to AARP Utah, 6975 Union Park Center, Suite 320, Midvale, UT 84047.
Award recipients will be honored at a reception at the Fort Douglas Officers' Club at the University of Utah on the evening of Oct. 11, 2011.
Please share this information with your community. Nominees need not be an AARP member; however, their body of work should be consistent with AARP's mission and vision.
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Washington, D.C., 8/4/2010 - Based on the Commerce Department's most recent Steel Import Monitoring and Analysis (SIMA) data, the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported today that steel import permit applications for the month of July totaled 2,323,000 net tons (NT). This was a 15% increase from the 2,023,000 permit tons recorded in June and a 17% increase from the June preliminary imports total of 1,981,000 NT. Import permit tonnage for finished steel in July was 1,753,000 NT, up 14% from the preliminary imports total of 1,543,000 NT in June. July total and finished steel import permit tons would annualize at 23,960,000 NT and 18,722,000 NT, up 48% and 32%, respectively, from the 16,215,000 NT and 14,179,000 NT imported in 2009.
In July, the largest finished steel import permit applications for offshore countries were for Korea (198,000 NT, up 30% from June), India (146,000 NT, up 182%), Japan (127,000 NT, up 79%), China (96,000 NT, up 22%) and Germany (85,000 NT, up 41%). Finished steel import market share in July and year-to-date is at 21 and 20%, respectively.
Finished steel import permits for major product categories that registered significant increases in July vs. the June preliminary include standard rails (up 816%), line pipe (up 62%), plates in coils (up 46%), oil country goods (up 24%) and cut length plates (up 23%).
In commenting on the July SIMA data, Thomas J. Gibson, AISI president and CEO, stated that, "Our main concerns about the July numbers are the continuing high import market share overall and the spike in imports from China. With domestic steel capacity utilization year-to-date still at only 70% and with a slowing and uncertain economic recovery, the focus must remain on full and strict trade law enforcement against dumped and subsidized imports. "
AISI serves as the voice of the North American steel industry in the public policy arena and advances the case for steel in the marketplace as the preferred material of choice. AISI also plays a lead role in the development and application of new steels and steelmaking technology. AISI is comprised of 23 member companies, including integrated and electric furnace steelmakers, and 138 associate and affiliate members who are suppliers to or customers of the steel industry. AISI's member companies represent approximately 75 percent of both U.S. and North American steel capacity. For more news about steel and its applications, view AISI's Web site at www.steel.org.
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Nick Batterham is a Melbourne singer songwriter with 25 years experience performing around the country and the world in bands including Blindside, The Earthmen and Cordrazine. As a solo artist, he writes self-effacing ballads and delivers them with his unique dry humour. He recently released his fourth solo album, Self Inflicted, No Sympathy.
- "...finding beauty in our blackest moments; mining the depths of our despair for gold. A celebration of sadness beautifully done" - themusic.com.au
- "...somewhere between Dylan drawl and Go-Betweens' love of pop" - themusic.com.au
- "Self Inflicted, No Sympathy is a triumph" 4 1/2 Stars - Courier Mail
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Ms. Miriam Wegmann
I have been the Rogers PE teacher since 2013. I have my Bachelor of Science degree from Bradley University in Early Childhood Education. I am certified in Physical Education and Special Education. I have my Master's degree in Education from Lindenwood University.
I played softball at Bradley University and was part of the first ever Conference Championship team in 2009. After graduating, I have coached softball at the high school level and gave lessons to ladies of all ages. I have been a speed/agility coach for high school and college athletes. On a personal level, I have competed in a bodybuilding competition, ran a half marathon, completed a Spartan Sprint race, and currently train and compete in Crossfit. In the future, I plan to get a second Masters, become a certified Crossfit coach, and continue to improve myself physically and mentally. I wish to set a great example for your child.
Be sure your child is wearing proper shoes for P.E. class. Boots, sandals, flip flops, slippers, crocs, and other footwear besides tennis shoes, are a safety hazard during physical education class, and your child will be unable to participate if shoes are forgotten. If your daughter wishes to wear a dress to school, please ensure shorts are worn under the dress. If your child is not prepared 3 times in a grading period, their grade will be lowered.
Each student receives a daily grade. Through demonstration of "Bear Behaviors" in class, students maintain their grade.
Take Care of Yourself: Wear the proper shoes, follow rules, come in and leave quietly
Take Care of Each Other: Use encouraging words; treat others how you wish to be treated
Take Care of Your School: Respect equipment, help clean up
Take Care of Your World: Recycle, Use sidewalks
Additional Information:
-There will not be any 5th grade teams this year. No cross country or track and field.
-There will be Volleyball Club.
-Field Day will be held at the end of the year… stay tuned if you wish to volunteer again!
-We hold fundraisers for Jump Rope for Heart and Juvenile Diabetes.
-Please follow our Rogers Elementary PE facebook page!
If your child is unable to participate in class due to illness or injury, please send a note. Thank you for your cooperation!


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REVIEW BY Richard Amey
Coffee Concert at The Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts (ACCA), Sussex University, Falmer, on Sunday, December 9, 2018 (11am).
Philip Higham, solo cello. JS Bach (1685-1750), Suites for Unaccompanied Cello (circa 1720) – No 1 in G major BWV 1007; No 3 in C major BWV 1009; No 5 in C minor BWV 1011. Domenico Gabrielli (1651-1690), Ricercare (1689) Nos 7 & 5.
The curtains are open and the stage, lit and ready, containing just a solitary black piano stool. An oddity in any other situation. Apiece of furniture left behind? Forlorn-looking? Or dignified? Is a piano about to join it?
Or have we come on the wrong day? Not a concert at all but a play by Gogol or Samuel Beckett? A modern political or spy drama? Or a stand-up comedian, gloomily sitting down?
Except that the stool evidently means to deliver something businesslike. It's set squarely centre-stage, facing the auditorium. The Coffee Concert audience drifting in are accustomed to cellists commandeering the most sumptuous seating, and their string quartet colleagues making do with regulation chairs. The audience know that only a cello was performing and recognise the link.
Starkly, though, there is no music stand. Therefore the cellist knows all his lines and is challenging his audience to appreciate his absorbing lone task. Gradually the weight of this sight becpmes heavily portentous.
Solo concerts of Bach on cello, violin or solo keyboard (eg. Yo Yo Ma, Alina Ibragimova or Andras Schiff) are the momentous occasions, whether a Royal Albert Hall prom or a Wigmore Hall recital. But they tread rarely and gingerly in Brighton Coffee Concerts history.
Organisers The Dome and Strings Attached Society risked a solo violin Coffee Concert quite a few years back, and the popular, respected Rachel Podger repaid their boldness. But that wasn't a double green light. Finally, this time, came Philip Higham. Not a household name, except to fans of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra where he leads the cellos, and Wigmore Hall mailing list subscribers who notice his London recitals.
How far short of the recent average crowd of around 220 would this Coffee Concert fall, the promoters wondered? Advance ticket sales were 160. Promising. The doors actually closed for Higham to take the stage with exactly 200 people inside the ACCA. Quite a result, but knowing the appetite and enquiring nature of this audience, not a shock.
"He looks like a David Tennant stunt double," observed Coffee Concerts veteran, Graham, sitting next to me. Higham is also a Scot and for a second I imagined an army of bearded hundreds of Higham lookalikes tearing towards me baying for English blood. But from Higham's bow and left-hand fingers, Bach's famous G major Suite Prelude flowed towards me, speaking of peace and creativity.
Higham/Tennant was in a blue-grey suit, with cuflinked, white open-necked shirt – the contemporary sartorial halfway house – with the clashing colour of light tan shoes, standardly anarchical since the English 2003 Rugby World Cup team paraded the trophy their grey designer suits and footware. Higham's shoes matched the brightest colour on stage, the pale orange tan of his cello. Audience eyes were drawn to them equally and their movement or stasis became part of the performing dynamic he transmitted.
Higham's tempi were generally brisker than the traditional Bach Suites pace favoured by classic cellists through the 1970s-90s – which fueled debate among much of the audience thus brought-up. But readers of the free programme notes were superbly prepared by Andrew Polmear, a chamber cellist himself, whose Coffee Concert reviews appear on the Strings Attached website.
Higham gave us energy and movement, which interestingly joined up Bach's sometimes deliberately fragmented secondary musical lines. There was not the customary older presentation of the music's (what I call) mathematical structure in Bach on graph paper, upon which those older cellists tended to enjoy laying out before the listener.
Maybe this stems from Higham's modern chamber orchestra background practice of greater speediness. It wasn't until the last minute of the concert itself that suddenly I heard Higham dwell on a note and give it vibrato, that I realised it had been a morning of restless and searching melodic and harmonic movement, and that the cello was saddled with doing it all, with no accompaniment above which to pause and savour something to sing.
Higham played no encore but spoke to us once, to introduce and explain his choosing of some Baroque spaghetti Bolognese to bring us into the second half. From Bologna, Bach forerunner Domenico Gabrielli, heaped on Higham his own cello virtuosity in two of his Ricercare ('Researches').
It was contrasting but opportunistic programming because Bach a generation later used Domenico's altered viola da Gamba-like string tuning with G on bottom and top, which, Higham hinted, darkens the resonance and sonority, and intensifies the moods in the key for Bach's Suite No 5, which he played next and finally.
That key is C minor – familiar territory for the serious utterances we know in Haydn, Beethoven, Mozart, and Schubert – and Higham showed us how this key similarly attracted Bach, and how practically the string tuning opens up a virtuosic showcase for the cello.
It was Bach who brought in this audience and who sent them away satisfied by a concert inhabiting a rarified sphere. And also – which to many with be compelling – a physical one. Its companions absent, peeled away, one instrument is left on its own. And one player. There is a feeling of complete freedom shared with the player, amid which, in all their detail, are the bare sounds of flesh and bone on a cello's wood and metal – and of its player . . . breathing.
Richard Amey
Next Coffee Concert – Sunday January 27 (11am, same venue): Doric String Quartet with Haydn Opus 33 No 4 in Bb (Opus 33 the set which inspired Mozart on his Vienna arrival), Bartok No 5, Mendelssohn in E minor Opus 44 No 2.
Worthing's Roots & Shoots Folk Christmas 2018 offers a string of festive entertainments
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New rule for F-1 OPT STEM extension has been released/
The much anticipated new rule for F-1 OPT STEM extension has been released for public inspection today. It will be published in Federal Register March 11th with an effective date in May. Here is a quick overview:
The 17-month STEM OPT regulations remain in force through May 9, 2016. This rule is effective beginning on May 10, 2016.
STEM OPT Applications for Employment Authorization Pending on May 10, 2016: DHS will continue to accept and adjudicate applications for 17-month STEM OPT extensions under the 2008 IFR through May 9, 2016.
Beginning on May 10, 2016, USCIS will issue RFEs to students whose applications are still pending on that date. See 8 CFR 214.16(a). The RFEs will allow these students to effectively amend their application to demonstrate eligibility for 24-month extensions without incurring an additional fee or having to refile the Application for Employment Authorization. Specifically, USCIS will issue RFEs requesting documentation that will establish that the student is eligible for a 24-month STEM OPT extension, including a Form I-20 Certificate of Eligibility endorsed on or after May 10, 2016, indicating that the DSO recommends the student for a 24-month STEM OPT extension.
A student may file for a STEM OPT extension only if the student is in a valid period of post-completion OPT at the time of filing.
Any 17-month STEM OPT EAD that is issued before May 10, 2016 will remain valid until the EAD expires or is terminated or revoked. See 8 CFR 214.16(c)(1).125 As a transitional measure, starting on May 10, 2016, certain students with such EADs will have a limited window in which to apply for an additional 7 months of OPT, effectively enabling them to benefit from a 24-month period of STEM OPT. See 8 CFR 214.16(c)(2). To qualify for the 7-month extension, the student must satisfy the following requirements: The STEM OPT student must properly file an Application for Employment Authorization with USCIS, along with applicable fees and supporting documentation, on or before August 8, 2016, and within 60 days of the date the DSO enters the recommendation for the 24-month STEM OPT extension into the student's SEVIS record. See 8 CFR 214.16(c)(2)(i). DHS believes that the 90-day window for filing such applications provides sufficient time for students to submit a required Training Plan, obtain the necessary Form I-20 Certificate of Eligibility and recommendation from the student's DSO, and fulfill other requirements for the 24-month extension.
The student must have at least 150 calendar days remaining prior to the expiration of the 17-month STEM OPT EAD at the time the Application for Employment Authorization is filed. See 8 CFR 214.16(c)(2)(ii). This 150-day period guarantees that a student who obtains an additional 7-month extension will have at least 1 year of practical training under the enhancements introduced in this rule, including site visits, reporting requirements, and statement and evaluation of goals and objectives. For students who choose to seek an additional 7-month extension, the new enhancements apply upon the proper filing of the Application for Employment Authorization requesting the 7-month extension. See 8 CFR 214.16(c)(3).
The student must meet all the requirements for the 24-month STEM OPT extension as described in 8 CFR 214.2(f)(10)(ii)(C), including but not limited to submission of the Training Plan to the DSO. See 8 CFR 214.16(c)(2)(iii). STEM OPT students applying for this additional 7-month extension must be in a valid period of OPT, but are not required to be in a valid period of 12-month post-completion OPT authorized under 8 CFR 274a.12(c)(3)(i)(B) as would normally be required for a STEM OPT extension request.
DHS will begin accepting applications for STEM OPT extensions under this rule on May 10, 2016. Beginning on that date, DHS will process all Applications for Employment Authorization seeking 24-month STEM OPT extensions in accordance with the requirements of this rule. In other words, the final rule's new requirements will apply to all STEM OPT students whose applications are pending or approved on or after the final rule is effective.
Unless and until a student with a 17-month STEM OPT extension properly files the application for the 7-month extension under the transition procedures of 8 CFR 214.16, the student, and the student's employer and DSO, must continue to follow all the terms and conditions that were in effect when the 17-month STEM OPT employment authorization was granted. See 8 CFR 214.16(c)(1). Upon the proper filing of the application for the additional 7- month STEM OPT period, the student, and the student's employer and DSO, will be subject to all requirements of the 24-month STEM OPT extension period. However, under the rule, the 150-day unemployment limit described in 8 CFR 214.2(f)(10)(ii)(E) will apply to a student seeking a 7-month extension only upon approval of that extension.
Lengthened STEM OPT Extension Period. The rule increases the OPT extension period for STEM OPT students from the 2008 IFR's 17 months to 24 months. The final rule also makes F-1 students who subsequently enroll in a new academic program and earn another qualifying STEM degree at a higher educational level eligible for one additional 24-month STEM OPT extension. STEM Definition and CIP Categories for STEM OPT Extension. The rule defines which fields of study (more specifically, which Department of Education Classification of Instructional Program (CIP) categories) may serve as the basis for a STEM OPT extension. The rule also sets forth a process for public notification in the Federal Register when DHS updates the list of eligible STEM fields on the Student and Exchange Visitor Program's (SEVP's) website.
Training Plan for STEM OPT Students. To improve the educational benefit of the STEM OPT extension, the rule requires employers to implement formal training programs to augment students' academic learning through practical experience. This requirement is 9 intended to equip students with a more comprehensive understanding of their selected area of study and broader functionality within that field.
Previously Obtained STEM Degrees. The rule permits an F-1 student participating in a 12-month period of post-completion OPT based on a non-STEM degree to use a prior eligible STEM degree from a U.S. institution of higher education as a basis to apply for a STEM OPT extension, as long as both degrees were received from currently accredited educational institutions. The practical training opportunity must be directly related to the previously obtained STEM degree.
Safeguards for U.S. Workers in Related Fields. To guard against adverse impacts on U.S. workers, the rule requires terms and conditions of a STEM practical training opportunity (including duties, hours, and compensation) to be commensurate with those applicable to similarly situated U.S. workers. As part of completing the Form I-983, Training Plan for STEM OPT Students, an employer must attest that: (1) it has sufficient resources and trained personnel available to provide appropriate training in connection with the specified opportunity; (2) the student will not replace a full- or part-time, temporary or permanent U.S. worker; and (3) the opportunity will help the student attain his or her training objectives.
School Accreditation, Employer Site Visits, and Employer Reporting. To improve the integrity of the STEM OPT extension, the rule: (1) generally limits eligibility for such extensions to students with degrees from schools accredited by an accrediting agency recognized by the Department of Education; (2) clarifies DHS discretion to conduct employer site visits at worksites to verify whether employers are meeting program requirements, including that they possess and maintain the ability and resources to 10 provide structured and guided work-based learning experiences; and (3) institutes new employer reporting requirements.
Compliance Requirements and Unemployment Limitation. In addition to reinstating the 2008 IFR's reporting and compliance requirements, the rule revises the number of days an F-1 student may remain unemployed during the practical training period. The program in effect before this final rule allowed a student to be unemployed up to 90 days during his or her initial period of post-completion OPT, and up to an additional 30 days (for a total of 120 days) for a student who received a 17-month STEM OPT extension. This rule retains the 90-day maximum period of unemployment during the initial period of post-completion OPT but allows an additional 60 days (for a total of 150 days) for a student who obtains a 24-month STEM OPT extension. The rule retains other provisions of the 2008 IFR, as follows:
E-Verify and Reporting Requirements for STEM OPT Employers. The rule requires STEM OPT employers to be enrolled in and remain in good standing with E-Verify, as determined by USCIS, and to report changes in the STEM OPT student's employment to the DSO within five business days. Reporting Requirements for STEM OPT Students. The rule requires STEM OPT students to report to their DSOs any name or address changes, as well as any changes to their employers' names or addresses. Students also must verify the accuracy of this reporting information periodically.
Cap-Gap Extension for F-1 Students with Timely Filed H-1B Petitions and Requests for Change of Status. With a minor revision to improve readability, the rule includes the 2008 IFR's Cap-Gap extension provision, under which DHS temporarily extends an F-1 11 student's duration of status and any current employment authorization if the student is the beneficiary of a timely filed H-1B petition and change-of-status request pending with or approved by USCIS. The Cap-Gap extension extends the OPT period until the beginning of the new fiscal year (i.e., October 1 of the fiscal year for which the H-1B status is being requested). 3. Summary of Changes from the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Following careful consideration of public comments received, DHS also has made several modifications to the regulatory text proposed in the NPRM. Those changes include the following:
Time of Accreditation. For a STEM OPT extension based on a previously obtained STEM degree, the student must have obtained that degree from an educational institution that is accredited at the time of the student's application for the extension.
SEVP Certification Required for Prior Degrees. For a STEM OPT extension based on a previously obtained STEM degree, the degree also must have been issued by an educational institution that is SEVP-certified at the time of application for the extension. Overseas campuses of U.S. educational institutions are not eligible for SEVP certification.
Site Visit Notifications. DHS will provide notice to the employer 48 hours before any site visit unless a complaint or other evidence of noncompliance with the STEM OPT extension regulations triggers the visit, in which case DHS may conduct the visit without notice. 12
Focus on Training. DHS has modified the proposed rule's Mentoring and Training Plan to increase the focus on training. The information collection instrument for this plan is now titled Form I-983, Training Plan for STEM OPT Students.
Existing Employer Training Programs. This rule streamlines and clarifies the regulatory text and Training Plan for STEM OPT Students to clarify that employers may use existing training programs to satisfy certain regulatory requirements for evaluating the progress of STEM OPT students.
Employer Attestation. The rule revises the employer attestation to require that the employer attest that the student will not replace a full- or part-time, temporary or permanent U.S. worker.
Evaluation of Student Progress. The rule revises the evaluation requirement to require that the student and an appropriate individual in the employer's organization sign the evaluation on an annual basis, with a mid-point evaluation during the first 12-month interval and a final evaluation completed prior to the conclusion of the STEM OPT extension.


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Debra Cassens Wiess, "Average Debt of Private Law School Grads Is $125K; It's Highest at These Five Schools" ABA Journal
The average education debt for law grads at private schools last year was nearly $125,000, while the average for grads of public law schools was more than $75,700, according to new figures released by the ABA.
This refers to the numbers found in this ABA document (PDF). No, the law schools don't send 45,000 graduates' debt numbers to the ABA, they take the average of their students' debt loads and send that, which the ABA then averages again. It's a deceptive number, and the ABA never says how many law schools are reporting their average student's debt levels each year. Thus for the average of private law schools' average student's debt to go from $106,246 to $125,000 is completely incredulous. Indeed the average of the average private law school that reported to U.S. News was $116,744 (112/116 reporting). Speaking of which…
Meanwhile, U.S. News & World Report has released its own figures on the "10 law schools that lead to the most debt." At those 10 schools, average student debt was more than $147,000 in 2011.
This has been out since the rankings. I know because I looked at this and dorked it into my spreadsheets before bothering with "Oh my God, Harvard's number three! Wowohwowohwow, &c." Actually, I didn't do that. Point is, this is old news.
Also, take a good look at how many people took on debt at John Marshall (IL): 50%. Bullshit. It didn't have or send all the data.
<editorial mode> Omitting detailed debt figures for each law school from the Official Guide is utterly irresponsible. Why the public gets more accurate numbers from a for-profit magazine before the non-profit accrediting authority is similarly baffling. Maybe people would've flinched at law school if they'd seen how much it cost, but instead, they get the Official Guide we know and love, which shills things like this in its "Types of Employment" section (PDF page 42):
Business and industry jobs may include positions in accounting firms; insurance companies; banking and financial institutions; corporations, companies, and organizations of all sizes, such as private hospitals, retail establishments, and consulting and public relations firms; political campaigns; and trade associations.
TheGuideforgets to mention it may include retail. It gets better:
Law-trained individuals also pursue a wide variety of nonlegal careers outside the practice of law itself. Lawyers also work in the media and public relations; as teachers at colleges, graduate schools, and law schools; and in politics and administration.
Again, this what the ABA says. It does not come out and say, "There aren't enough lawyer jobs for everyone, many of these careers don't need law degrees, and the people who don't report their employment or salaries do so because they were hosed." See for yourself; it's a gold mine. Between U.S. News' "5 Ways to Strengthen Your Law School Application" and the ABA's whitewashing of legal education's value, I wonder why there aren't more scam blogs. Pravda has nothing on contemporary American institutions. </editorial mode>


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Tian Fu Waterways - Shanghai, China
Tian Fu is a agricultural district served by a network of canals, lying generally west of central Shanghai. As a consultant to the Charles Group, LLG prepared cross sectional drawing studies to highlight the pleasurable living and shopping experience potential between both new and restored farm villages and canals. Recommendations for the ecological development of canal edges to sustain living systems adjacent to developed public spaces were also provided.
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Gesture and Complications
We have discussed Gestures in photography before on this blog. If you want to look into it, have a look HERE. Another concept that goes hand in hand with gestures, I call "complications". Just as a mechanical watch has complications, defined as any function a watch can do aside from telling time, so to do gestures.
The photo above was what Jay Maisel would call a gift. A gift my son gave me in that he gave me a wonderful gesture which made the picture. We were walking around the woods near Windsor, following a trail when I saw my son trailing behind us being funny. I turned, and snapped a few pictures and picked this one due to the gesture. He is off in his imaginary world as he stomps down the dirt path. The path is a great compositional element and the full frame, no sky or empty space, is what I really like about this image. But his gesture makes the image a keeper.
So we have a great gesture but no complications. It is the gesture of one person without any other human interaction. No complications but wonderful gesture. Compare it to the image below.
In the image above, you have a gesture with many people in the frame but it is a single gesture. It is the woman on the right looking up and reacting to the coming train. It is her gesture, lost in the sea of the silhouette of other travelers but there is no interaction. So we have a simple gesture without any complications although there are several people in the frame. So to add complications, you need the gesture to be between them.
I have dozens of images with wonderful gesture, but only a handful with a single complication. I have not been able to capture any images with a second complication. Have you been able to capture an image with two or more complications?
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