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There is a range of social groups formed for staff to promote and encourage meeting new people. This is a brilliant opportunity to get to know people in a new job, or if you are from out of town, a new city.
You can meet colleagues on a daily basis for a free cup of Fairtrade coffee in the FML staff common room or the Eden Cafe between 10.30 am - 11.15 am.
Foundation hour takes place every Wednesday between 1 pm - 2 pm. Foundation Hour is a unique and celebratory aspect of Liverpool Hope University's life and community. The University takes time and space to pause and reflect on important issues beyond the curriculum. The issues range from cultural, religious, spiritual, also concentrating on major World news events. It is a unique opportunity to discuss relevant issues and maybe even gain a new insight and perspective on the events encompassing all of our lives today. This offers a brilliant opportunity to meet new people, share new ideas and maybe even make new friends in the process.
Keep an eye out for our weekly Hope Bulletin which is emailed every week and has up to date and relevant information concerning the University, upcoming training events, opportunities for development and interesting open lectures.
There is also a Staff Families Association, which is a social group within Liverpool Hope University, it provides a friendly welcome and support to the families of newly appointed staff. Staff Families meets every month for a coffee morning, either at the university, or in the homes of its members. We would like to extend a warm invitation to you to meet other staff families who have also embarked on a new job, and maybe new to the city, from elsewhere in the country, or abroad.
Liverpool Hope prides itself on the work done in the community and the World. You can find out more information about the opportunities for volunteering and charity work within Hope and, if you're interested, find out how to get involved.
There is also the Chaplaincy on site which has details of sacred spaces on campus and local places of worship. The Chaplaincy Base is at the rear of the EDEN building, Hope Park, but the team are to be found around the campuses, as well as in Hope Chapel every day. Come into the chaplaincy for £1 lunch every Monday or drop by for tea and coffee whenever you want! This is an amazing opportunity to meet new people every day, also the staff situated in the Chaplaincy are extremely welcoming and if you need them they are available to talk and listen.
Contact: Lynn Hilditch
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There is activities and cultural activities on our creative campuses The Capstone Theatre and Corner Stone galleries. These provide exhibitions, cultural and artistic events and are a brilliant opportunity to meet a wide variety of characters and personalities.
Staff from all disciplines are invited to participate in the wide range of Musical Activities on offer. There are groups catering for all abilities - if you think you might enjoy performing, why not come along and see how you get on? For further information Mark Poutney (Music Administrator) at Capstone Reception on firstname.lastname@example.com
Contact: Rob Jenkinson (Porters' Lodge)
T: ext.3520 or Mobile: 07873341440
Hope Park Sports Astroturf
Tuesdays 6.00 - 7.00pm
Contact: Neil Ferguson
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Five-a-side football runs by Neil Ferguson
Friday 1.00 - 2.00pm
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Hello, The WCAG WG should ensure that WCAG 2.0 is consistent with and contributes to the goals of other WAI deliverables, including the "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0" [1], the "Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0" [2], the "User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0" [3], the "XML Accessibility Guidelines" [4], and the WAI Glossary [5]. (this is proposed text for our new charter) One of the primary intersections between the documents is conformance. Tomorrow, we will look at some of the issues related to conformance and UAAG. We will start the session with Ian Jacobs summarizing: - How did UAAG 1.0 solve the problem of conformance flexibility? - How did UAAG 1.0 solve the problem of subjective requirements? This will lead into group discussion of the following questions: - What can we learn from UAAG 1.0 and the UAWG's experience? - How can WCAG 2.0 reference UAAG 1.0? - What user agent features does WCAG 2.0 assume are implemented? Required reading: 1. Gregg's conformance proposal [6], 2. UAAG 1.0 Conformance [7], 3. Lee's checkpoint 5.4 proposal [8], 4. Ian's response to Lee's proposal [9], 5. Ian's comments on WCAG 2.0 [10] Conformance is one of the stickiest issues we have to deal with. As we will hear from Ian, the UAWG wrestled with conformance issues for quite a while. Where the WCAG WG wrestles with the "Write clearly and simply..." checkpoint, the UAWG wrestled with "DOM access to HTML/XML content" [11]. They used many strategies to reach consensus one of which is conformance profiles. Recent issues related to WCAG 2.0 conformance: 1. If we have "Level 1+" and "Level 2+" can someone claim Level 2-? 2. How does a developer declare the scope of their claim? 3. What if someone tries to exclude a necessary part of their site? e.g., All of the site except <uri> is included the claim and <uri> is the final step required to purchase something from the site? 4. Can someone exclude 3rd party content in the scope of their conformance claim? 5. How do you claim conformance for an aggregation services that pulls together accessible pieces to create something that increases accessibility for a particular type of user? 6. Claiming conformance is making an assertion that you satisfy a certain level of success criteria. A conformance claim at the Minimum Level is an assertion that claims many things, including that (with the current 4.1 proposal) they have reviewed all content "with these things in mind." What if their site has 1,000,000 pages, will they be able to conform at the minimum level? Expectations of tomorrow's call. Participants should expect to: - leave with a better understanding of the UAAG 1.0 conformance profiles. - learn about some of the hurdles that the UAWG had in moving UAAG 1.0 through the W3C Recommendation process. - discuss the current WCAG 2.0 conformance proposal in relation to the UAWG experience and brainstorm about possible ways to apply that experience. Participants should *not* expect to: - solve the conformance issues related to WCAG 2.0 in 90 minutes. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/ [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/ATAG10/ [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/UAAG10/ [4] http://www.w3.org/TR/xag [5] http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/Glossary/printable.html [6] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2003JanMar/0150.html [7] http://www.w3.org/TR/UAAG10/conformance.html#Conformance [8] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2003JanMar/0114.html [9] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2003JanMar/0144.html [10] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2002OctDec/0020.html [11] http://www.w3.org/TR/UAAG10/guidelines.html#tech-dom-access-api -- wendy a chisholm world wide web consortium web accessibility initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI/ /--Received on Wednesday, 19 February 2003 20:44:44 UTC
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007: How to Predict the Catastrophe of Burnout/
There is a lot of talk about burnout lately. We are moving at breakneck speed and not everyone can hold on. There are way too many people laying injured in the ditches along the side of the road. In this podcast, I discuss the mind-shift that happens before burnout occurs. It is time to intervene before people get burned out.


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Great information for me to enhance my skills in programming language.
Top Answers to R Interview Questions
|R programming Language
|Python programming language
|Model Building is similar to Python
|Model Building is similar to R.
|Model Interpretability is good
|Model Interpretability is not good
|Production is not better than Python.
|Production is good
|R has good community support over Python.
|Community Support is not better than R
|Data Science Libraries are same as Python.
|Data Science Libraries are same as R.
|R has good data visualizations libraries and tools
|Data visualization is not better than R
|R has a steep learning curve.
|Learning Curve in Python is easier than learning R.
R provides to import data in R language. To begin with the R commander GUI, user should type the commands in the command Rcmdr into the console. Data can be imported in R language in 3 ways such as:
- Select the data set in the dialog box or enter the name of the data set as required.
- Data is entered directly using the editor of R Commander via Data->New Data Set. This works good only when the data set is not too large.
- Data can also be imported from a URL or from plain text file (ASCII), or from any statistical package or from the clipboard.
Combine the data, code and analysis results in a single document using knitr for Reproducible research done. Helps to verify the findings, add to them and engage in conversations. Reproducible research makes it easy to redo the experiments by inserting new data values and applying it to different various problems.
|Library () function gives an error message display, if the desired package cannot be loaded.
|Require () function is used inside function and throws a warning messages whenever a particular package is not Found
|It loads the packages whether it is already loaded or not,
|It just checks that it is loaded, or loads it if it isn't (use in functions that rely on a certain package). The documentation explicitly states that neither function will reload an already loaded package.
Consider a related program for the above differentiation.
if(!require(package, character.only=T, quietly=T)) {
install.packages (package)
library(package, character.only=T)
For multiple packages you can use
for(package in c(", ")) {
if(!require(package, character.only=T, quietly=T)) {
install.packages (package)
library(package, character.only=T)
R is a programming language which is used for developing statistical software and data analysis. It is being increasingly deployed for machine learning applications as well.
By using # at the starting of the line of code like #division commands are written.
It is used to determine that the means of two groups are equal or not by using t.test() function.
The disadvantages are:-
- Lack of standard GUI
- Not good for big data.
- Does not provide spreadsheet view of data.
with() function applies an expression to a dataset.
By() function applies a function t each level of a factors.
In R missing values are represented by NA which should be in capital letters.
Subset() is used to select the variables and observations and sample() function is used to generate a random sample of the size n from a dataset.
Transpose is used for reshaping of the data which is used for analysis. Transpose is performed by t() function.
- The advantages are:-
- It is used for managing and manipulating of data.
- No license restrictions
- Free and open source software.
- Graphical capabilities of R are good.
- Runs on many Operating system and different hardware and also run on 32 & 64 bit processors etc.
Now that you are aware of the benefits of R programming, to know more check out R Programming for Data Science training.
For adding two datasets rbind() function is used but the column of two datasets must be same.
Syntax: rbind(x1,x2……) where x1,x2: vector, matrix, data frames.
Cor-relations is produced by cor() and covariances is produced by cov() function.
Dataframe can contain different type of data but matrix can contain only similar type of data.
lapply is used to show the output in the form of list whereas sapply is used to show the output in the form of vector or data frame
Seq(4) means vector from 1 to 4 (c(1,2,3,4)) whereas seq_along(4) means a vector of the length(4) or 1(c(1)).
rcmdr command is used to start the R commander GUI.
There are 5 data structure in R i.e. vector, matrix, array which are of homogenous type and other two are list and data frame which are heterogeneous.
Learn more about data structure in R programming tutorial.
There are two methods that is collapsing data by using one or more BY variable and other is aggregate() function in which BY variable should be in list.
There are 5 types of sorting algorithms are used which are:-
- Bubble Sort
- Selection Sort
- Merge Sort
- Quick Sort
- Bucket Sort
For creating new variable assignment operator '<-' is used
For e.g. mydata$sum <- mydata$x1 + mydata$x2
Packages are the collections of data, R functions and compiled code in a well-defined format and these packages are stored in library. One of the strengths of R is the user-written function in R language.
Workspace is the current R working environment which includes any user defined objects like vector, lists etc.
Merge()function is used to merge two data frames
Eg. Sum<-merge(data frame1,data frame 2,by='ID')
rbind() function is used to merge two data frames vertically.
Sum<- rbind(data frame1,data frame 2)
It is used for experimental design .It is used to determine the effect of given sample size.
Pwr package is used for power analysis in R.
There are many ways to export the data into another formats like SPSS, SAS , Stata , Excel Spreadsheet.
For excel xlsReadWrite package is used and for sas,spss ,stata foreign package is implemented.
In R NaN is used to represent impossible values.
Save command is used for storing R objects into a file.
Syntax: >save(z,file="z.Rdata")
load command is used for storing R objects from a file.
Syntax: >load("z.Rdata")
Coin package is used to achieve the re randomization or permutation based statistical tests.
order() function is used to perform the sorting.
The event will be dispatched to your delegate for processing.
The app specific objects are Data model objects that store app's contents.
UIWindow object coordinates the one or more views presenting on the screen.
UIView Controller class.
Using axes() function custom axes are created.
abline() function is add the reference line to a graph.
abline(h=yvalues, v=xvalues)
vcd package provides different methods for visualizing multivariate categorical data.
GGobi is an open source program for visualization for exploring high dimensional typed data.
It is a package which provide bar plots, mosaic plots, box plots, parallel plots, scatter plots and histograms.
lattice package is to improve on base R graphics by giving better defaults and it have the ability to easily display multivariate relationships.
It is used to provide the maximum likelihood fitting of univariate distributions. It is defined under the MASS package.
Data structures are vectors, arrays, data frames and matrices.
It defines the direction of output.
This function is used to show the packages which are installed.
By this function we see that which packages are currently loaded.
Binary operators are worked on matrices, vectors and scalars.
It is used to define the desired table using function and model formula.
Frequency table is created by table() function.
Loglm() function is used to create log-linear models.
corrgram() function is used to plot correlograms.
Pair() or splom() function is used for create scatterplot matrices.
It is a package which gives nonparametric multiple comparisons.
It is used to check the normality, heteroscedasticity and influential observations.
anova() is used to compare the nested models.
It is defined under the DAAG package which is used for k-fold validation.
It is define under the MASS package which performs stepwise model selection under exact AIC.
It is used to perform the all-subsets regression and it is defined under the leaps package.
It is used to measure the relative importance of each of the predictor in the model.
It provide a variety of regression including scatter plots, variable plots and it also enhanced diagnostic.
It provides a library of robust methods including regression.
It is a package which provides basic robust statistics including model selection methods.
It is define under gplots package which includes confidence intervals and it produces mean plot for single factors.
MANOVA stands for multivariate analysis of variance.
By using MANOVA we can test more than one dependent variable simultaneously.
It is a function which defines in mvnormtest package. It produces the Shapiro-wilk test for multivariate normality.
Barlett.test() is used to provide a parametric k-sample test of the equality of variances.
It is a function which provides a non-parametric k sample test of the equality of variances.
It is define in HH package which provides a graphic test of homogeneity of variance based on brown forsyth.
Numerical variables are represented by lower case letters.
Categorical factors are represented by upper case letters.
Learn more about R in this insightful article on R programming
Logistic regression is used to predict the binary outcome from the given set of continuous predictor variables.
It is used to predict the outcome variable which represents counts from the given set of continuous predictor variable.
It includes number of techniques which is used for modeling the time to an event.
It estimates a survival distribution one or more groups.
It determines the differences in survival distribution between two or more groups.
It is a function which is used to model the hazard function on the set of predictor variable.
Survival analysis is defined under the survival package.
MASS functions include those functions which performs linear and quadratic discriminant function analysis.
qda() prints a quadratic discriminant function.
lda() is used to print the discriminant functions which is based on centered variable.
It provides the functions which are used for automatic selection of ARIMA and exponential models.
It is used to handle the seasonal as well as non-seasonal ARIMA models.
It is define in psych package which is used to rotate and extract the principal components.
It is a package which includes quantitative and qualitative variables. It also includes supplementary variables and observations.
CFA stands for Confirmatory Factor Analysis.
It is used to bootstrap the structural equation model.
SEM stands for Structural Equation Modeling.
cmdscale() function is used to perform classical multidimensional scaling.
This function is defined under the MASS package which performs nonmetric multidimensional scaling.
It is done by indscal() function.
It comes under the pvclust package which provides p-values for hierarchical clustering.
It is define in fpc package which provide a method for comparing the similarity of two clusters solution using different validation criteria.
It is used to provide a non-parametric regression for ordinal, nominal, censored and multivariate responses.
boot package is used which provide bootstrapping.
Matlab package includes those wrapper functions and variable which are used to replicate matlab function calls.
Matrix package includes those function which support sparse and dense matrices like Lapack, BLAS etc.


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Kindergarten Curriculum Overview
Trinity Episcopal Day School's kindergarten curriculum integrates Reading, Language Arts, Social Studies, Math, and Science. Each unit of study is incorporated with letter sounds and sight word recognition. Our program takes into account a child's social, emotional and cognitive needs. With an average class of 15 students, the faculty is able to work closely with each student. The reading and language arts component is a comprehensive research-based program developed by literacy experts. Whole class and differentiated instruction in our language arts program includes letter and sound recognition as well as sight words. Handwriting without Tears is used for handwriting instruction and journaling. Our Math program uses numerous manipulatives to make learning math meaningful. Science and Social Studies are infused in teacher developed units of study. Students visit the Science Lab each week to experience hands on investigations.
Special Events and Activities:
Field Trips
· Corn Maze
· Strawberry Picking
· Sunny Farms
Hot Chocolate and Pajama Day
Stone Soup and Turkey in the Straw Dance Performance
Celebration of the 100th Day of School
End of the Year Kindergarten Musical Review


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Two tiered shades make a great effect along a walkway or driveway with this solid brass landscape path light.More Details >
This tall, tiered path light has a clear glass hood diffuser and a dual-shade design that creates a sophisticated lighting effect. With a Centennial brass finish over cast brass construction, it will look great outside of any home. Can be installed into an existing low voltage landscape lighting system. From Kichler.


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Today is the last day of Egypt's regional elections. The revolution there, with its daring protesters and turbulent course of events, has captured a global audience. However, the aspect of this change that has not been talked about is its impact on Egyptian technological progress, especially in nanotechnology. I sit down with Egypt nanotech expert Dr. Mohammed Abdel-Mottaleb to discuss the importance of nanotechnology, the state of technological progress and public nanotechnology education after the revolution, and Egypt's future role in the global nanotechnology landscape.
Check out the Interview here: http://bit.ly/Aa5K86


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Noise from my digital camera's servo motor when I open and close it (servo motor makes the objective lens pop out after cover is opened and pop back in for closing).Can't remember why I decided to record this sound.Recorded with a cheap webmic
This will work nicely for a story I'm narrating.
Nice. The servo sound makes a good hotel door lock effect.
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Giancarlo Stanton is not in the starting lineup today when the Marlins face Stephen Strasburg at 1:05 p.m.
Emilio Bonifacio makes his first start at second base, moving from his usual center field.
Chris Coghlan will start in center, as the Marlins look to stack left-handed hitters against Strasburg.
Bonifacio said he hasn't taken any grounders or infield drills this year, although he has played plenty of second base in his career.
"I'm not worried about that," manager Ozzie Giullen said. "He's not going to be there every day. Maye today and that's it."
Starting lineups
SS Reyes
2B Bonifacio
3B Ramirez
LF Morrison
1B G. Sanchez
RF Greg Dobbs
C John Buck
CF Chris Coghlan
RHP A. Sanchez
SS Desmond
2B Espinosa
3B Zimmerman
1B Tracy
RF Werth
CF Ankiel
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A Pastoral Letter from the Bishop to the Diocese of New Jersey on Recent Events in Charlottesville
The Feast of Jonathan Myrick Daniels – August 14, 2017
(A Spanish translation of this letter is available here)
Dear People of the Diocese of New Jersey,
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good….Romans 12:21
This past weekend great evil was manifested in Charlottesville, Virginia, as white American nationalist terrorists openly marched and fomented violence, hatred, and murder. Unregulated militia in uniform, carrying long-rifles, used the power of threat in an attempt to intimidate those who oppose them. Imitating other terrorists in other countries, Nazi-sympathizer and White Nationalist, 20-year old James Alex Fields, Jr. allegedly used his car to mow down 19 people, in addition to killing Heather Heyer who was there as a peaceful demonstrator showing her opposition to the injustice and hatred Fields and his companions spouted.
No one should be surprised by what happened in Charlottesville. In our current political climate, so-called white supremacy, white nationalism, neo-Nazism and the overt racism of the KKK have been empowered and emboldened to spew hatred publicly and without shame. Sadly, some counter-protesters allowed themselves to be baited and responded to the violence with violence. There is no moral equivalence, however.
White nationalists and white supremacists holding hateful, racist positions armed themselves and came to Charlottesville to instigate violence and hatred. They succeeded.
I was thankful for the clergy who were present in Charlottesville, including my colleagues in the Diocese of Virginia, The Right Reverend Shannon Johnston, The Right Reverend Susan Goff, and Right Reverend Ted Gulick. They went to Charlottesville to pray, to evidence that authentic Christianity has no place for the kind of hatred peddled by white supremacists and white nationalists. They were resolute, calm and overtly non-violent.
It needs to be stated without equivocation that racism, the tenets of white supremacy, white nationalism, Nazism and similar ideologies cannot be reconciled with the teachings of Jesus or the Christian faith. Those who claim Christian identity while holding these types of views can only be viewed as heretics and in error. As Episcopalians, we are sworn to oppose these. Our baptismal promises allow no room for compromise:
Will you persevere in resisting evil and whenever you sin, repent and return to the Lord?
Will you seek and serve Christ in all persons loving your neighbor as yourself?
Will strive for justice and peace among all people and respect the dignity of every human being?
(BCP pp. 304-305)
All are welcome in the Episcopal Church; hatred and bigotry are not. Being clear with those who hold hateful, bigoted views, or who act in hateful and bigoted ways, that these views and actions are not acceptable and cannot be harmonized with authentic Christian faith and living is an act of love. A wise priest once said to me, "Sometimes 'no' is the language of love."
Sadly, racism and bigotry still infect not only our nation, but also our Church and our diocese. With society, we all still have much work to do. I will be consulting with our Anti-Racism Commission and Team to consider how we might deepen our work and be more effective in the days and weeks ahead.
Today, August 14 on the Church calendar, we remember Jonathan Myrick Daniels, who as a seminarian went to Selma, Alabama in 1965 to confront racism and oppression and who became a martyr protecting a teenage African-American girl when he was killed by a shotgun blast at the hand of a white supremacist.
On Saturday, Heather Heyer joined Jonathan Myrick Daniels, Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King, Jr., and a long list of martyrs – of many races and creeds – who died striving to oppose racial injustice and hatred in this country. The last post on Heather Heyer's Facebook page stated, "If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention."
Needless to say, she was right.
I direct all congregations to pray the following prayer in unison either at the Offertory or after the postcommunion prayer beginning August 20th and for the next four Sundays:
For the Human Family – (BCP p. 815)
O God, you made us in your own image and redeemed us through Jesus your Son: Look with compassion on the whole human family; take away the arrogance and hatred which infect our hearts; break down the walls that separate us; unite us in bonds of love; and work through our struggle and confusion to accomplish your purposes on earth; that, in your good time, all nations and races may serve you in harmony around your heavenly throne; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Blessings and peace.
Faithfully yours in Christ,


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Cod Fishing Tea Towel
Cod Fishing Tea Towel
Lovely handmade tea towel commemorating the Newfoundland and Labrador cod fishery. Features a cod fish with fishermen silhouetted inside. Images are hand carved and block-printed onto hemp and organic cotton tea towels. he tea towels themselves are locally manufactured by a company providing employment for those with mental illness. Measures approximately 25" long by 20" wide. Made in Newfoundland.
Artist Biography
Renee Scott of Brindy Linens specializes in one of a kind hand printed textiles, made from hemp and organic cotton fabric. Images are hand carved in linoleum and block printed onto fabric. Brindy Linens is committed to producing quality handmade items with practical uses in mind. The goal is to create an everyday staple that stands out with its own unique design – which makes for an excellent gift idea. Brindy Linens is based in Brigus, NL.


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There are rumours of a delay of the Samsung ATIV S till next year, but if that is the case T-Mobile Austria has certainly not heard of them, as they are listing the device as in stock and ready to ship.
The handset is available from free on contract and has already had one review, calling it "honestly superâ€.
So if you have been holding out for the slimmest Windows Phone 8 handset with the biggest screen, there is some hope we will see the device on shelves soon all over the world.
See the handset at T-Mobile Austria here.
Via WPArea.de.


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The Master of Education Degree in Secondary Education program consists of a minimum of 30 semester hours. Point Park's secondary education programs are unique because they are a collaborative effort among numerous departments within the University. I believe that an efficient resolution would to be to offer every state an choice on whether to be a part of the NCLB act or not. This is the reason any HR rep flipping by the stack of a hundred or so functions they receive daily will toss those who don't meet minimal education requirements straight within the trash with out a second glance. College students fascinated on this option ought to meet with the Trainer Certification Coordinator to set up a plan. All of the Grasp's packages leading to licensure in secondary education include practicum experiences in addition to course work. In addition, many companies search education graduates due to their abilities to design plans, remedy issues, and talk well.
Rising up and going to high school we are taught that to make alot of cash you must get a superb job, and to get a very good job you have to have a very good education, and to have a great education you have to go to varsity. Secondary education goals to provide college students an excellent stage of widespread data, and to organize them for larger education, for a vocation, for all times and for enterprise in step with their interests, skills and skills. Obtain an info packet and are available to an info session to learn extra about our graduate teacher education packages.
I've learned more by networking with different people in my subject online and through online analysis than I did in my 6 years across two colleges. When combined with the ESL minor, the language arts minor requires 5 programs (3 cr. every) beyond those already required for elementary education and the ESL minor. Which means that you'll have an early discipline experience in schools with the intention to decide whether or not or not you actually need to turn out to be a instructor.
A few of these college students are competent and bright, too, but have been stunted intellectually by the fraud perpetrated on them by the highschool education they obtained. Based in 1993 with a vision of making barrier-free educational alternatives for working adults, Capella combines high-caliber education with flexible online expertise and unsurpassed college support companies.
Necessities for the secondary education (7-12) major include 35 semester hours in required core courses, plus programs specified for various specializations. Nevertheless some years later, R L Morant felt that it was obligatory to improve the standard of lecturers in elementary schools, who had in fact, usually been at the faculty all their life, having received no secondary education or college training. There's a basic trend in Asia to extend trainer workload and slash and burn benefits, however possibly that is not true in Cambodia.


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Laura Arias' illustrations are always a source of inspiration. It just take a few minutes to understand why this talented artist has been featured all around the world. Her drawings are truly eye catching, full of cute animals and playful children. I love the detailing in all her scenes, all those patterns make her work pop up! Do you still want to know more about this wonderful artist? Here is a little interview:
Q: Do you prefer drawing on a sketchbook or digital? Why?
A: I use pencil for my sketches… However, if the illustration is really complex I tend to do tons of small doodles. (I put them all together in Photoshop… I guess I find it difficult to visualize the whole illustration! Using a digital software allows me to place and adjust my sketch at will!)
Q: Where do your find your inspiration?
A: I'm inspired by images, meeting people, learning new styles… I also love to observe a piece and study it! (In order to find out how it was made!) I'm also inspired by books... When I was a little girl, I used to spend hours in the bookstore's children section. (And the best part was… buying tooooons of books!!!) Nowadays, I keep adding books to my personal collection! I also love Instagram! I believe it's really easy to find inspiration there.
Q: What do you do when you feel creatively blocked?
A: Instagram is the answer (Once more!) I usually screen capture everything I love, (I do a research about the artist later!) If I find something rousing on the street, I take pictures of it too! It's truly important to keep yourself curious. Keep your eyes open and let inspiration surprise you!
Q: Apart from drawing you also create beautiful embroidery pieces as well as pottery. Has illustration influenced the development of these crafts?
A: I've started to do embroidered pieces and pottery in order to disconnect myself… There was no particular reason, I just wanted to do it. These crafts helped to conceive my work in a new way. Pottery allows me to create 3d pieces. (I had never sculpted before and it's truly amazing!) When I do embroidery, I immerse myself in the creation of little details…. Sometimes I also try to simplify as well as to create new ways to design colors and patterns!
Q: Any illustration tips you would like to share with us?
A: Sure! I think it's really useful to draw a piece several times… But each time using a different media! This will allow you to discover new techniques! It's also important to keep yourself receptive to ideas and suggestions!
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Certified Body Trust Provider and life coach Meredith Noble comes on the show this week to talk about how intuitive eating becomes intuitive living, the importance of finding a Health at Every Size, fat-positive community for finding body acceptance, the problem with diet culture and how it's embedded within the medical community, giving ourselves space to feel our feelings, and much more! PLUS, Christy answers a listener question about how to get started with this podcast.
Meredith Noble is a Certified Body Trust® Provider and life coach who helps plus-size people find food and body peace. Her practice combines Health at Every Size®, Body Trust® and intuitive eating philosophies with feminism and fat acceptance. With her compassion and expertise, her clients learn how to feel more comfortable in their skin, be at ease around food, and leave toxic diet culture behind. Find her online at GenerousPlan.com.
Grab Christy's free guide, 7 simple strategies for finding peace and freedom with food, to start your intuitive eating journey. You can also text "7STRATEGIES" to the phone number 44222 to get it on the go :)
Get Christy's BRAND NEW online course for fellow health & wellness pros, Master Your Anti-Diet Message, at christyharrison.com/message.
We Discuss:
Meredith's relationship with food growing up, including the limitations put on candy and learning about dieting and food restriction from a young age
Bingeing and overeating in response to the scarcity mentality
Puberty, weight gain, and how Meredith's relationship with her body was integrated into her relationship with food
The social experience of shopping, the struggles of being plus size at a young age, and burgeoning body dissatisfaction
How the endorsement of weight loss efforts and restrictive diets from medical professionals feeds into disordered eating
Meredith's experience with Weight Watchers, including the idea of community and support around dieting
The effect of doctor authority, and remembering that medical professionals are influenced by diet culture as much as the rest of us
Shame and isolation around bingeing and emotional eating
Feeling out of control around food
How effective the victim blaming of the diet industry is
The investments we make into diet culture
How important community is in the Health at Every Size, body acceptance, disordered-eating recovery journey
Meredith's transition into the "clean eating" world
Meredith's stepping stones to the Health at Every Size paradigm
The importance of mental readiness to integrate the Health at Every Size, size acceptance movement
Food insecurity as a risk factor for eating disorders
Acknowledging our privilege and embracing intersectionality
Learning about emotional restriction, giving up on the pursuit of weight loss, and embracing intuitive eating
Finding body acceptance through finding a fat-positive community
The parallels between compassion and body respect
Meredith's experience of being hyperaware of her body, and how being surrounded by other people in larger bodies allowed her to no longer by hyper-vigilant
Creating diet-culture-free spaces, both online and in-person
Balancing being aware of your body in order to heal it with forgetting about your body in order to embody healing
Intuitive eating, how the mental effort required to tap into your inner wisdom decreases over time, rooting out the diet mentality with our food behaviors, and how body image factors into healing our relationship with food
Giving yourself space to feel your feelings and grieve the thin ideal
Somatic experiencing techniques, feeling emotions through the body, and working with a therapist to find healing
Meredith and Christy's professional transitions into Health at Every Size work
How intuitive eating spills into intuitive living
Resources Mentioned
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"Dear Non-Fat People" by Meredith Noble
Intuitive Eating, 3rd ed. by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch
"Body acceptance begins with grieving the thin ideal" by Meredith Noble
Submit your questions for a chance to have them answered on the podcast!
My online course, Intuitive Eating Fundamentals, which includes monthly listener Q&A podcasts and access to my private Facebook support group
Listener Question of the Week
Where does a Food-Psych-Podcast newbie start? Are there some Food Psych episodes that are helpful to return to in order to give us an anti-diet refresher and to remind us how diet culture embodies "The Life Thief" role? How has the podcast evolved since its inception in 2013?
(Resources Mentioned: Food Psych Podcast Episode #127 with Ashley Seruya, Food Psych Podcast Episode #106 with Ijeoma Oluo, Food Psych Podcast Episode #121 with Emily Contois, Food Psych Podcast Episode #99 with Lindy West, Food Psych Podcast Episode #94 with Alan Levinovitz, Isabel Foxen Duke's first Food Psych episode, Katie Dalebout's first Food Psych episode, and gain access to Season One of Food Psych Podcast with a Food Psych Premium Membership here!)
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Sometimes the best defense is a good offense. Hawaiian Islands Land Trust is embarking on a more assertive conservation strategy for the future of our islands: identifying the most significant, threatened areas and actively pursuing their permanent protection.
Take inventory of the benefits that conservation land provides: places for us to connect with nature to surf, fish, hike, soak up the sun; clean air and drinking water; healthy native eco-systems, and so much more. Now think of the pristine places that, if developed, would leave an indelible scar on the heart of your community. We must work together to save these lands before it is too late!
With this in mind, we need to hear from you. Consider making a gift to Hawaiian Islands Land Trust today. Your gift directly equates to the strength with which we can pursue the active land conservation that Hawai'i so desperately needs right now.
Show your support by giving online here. And please, jot down your ideas for the places in Hawai'i that most need protection. Let us know why you value these areas and what their conservation would mean to you and the community at large. We value your opinions.
Yours in conservation,
Anders Lyons Interim Executive Director


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Local Cluster Partnership
- The schools within the Cheadle Heath and Edgeley have created a strong collaboration between the schools. By working together we aim to provide every child within the area with the best opportunities by focussing on:
– Raising attainment and achievement of young people throughout our locality
– Supporting the social and emotional welfare of all our children, especially during transition stages
- Current networks include DHTs, SENCO, EYFS, Year 5 / 3 moderation, NQT and Admin Managers/SBM.
- The SBM network worked together to achieve best value for money through joint purchasing of services and supplies and have worked with determination to streamline the change over to a new school meals provider in advance of the universal free school meal offer commencing.
- We are part of the local eTrio (Edgeley Trio), a group of three schools who work together to share best practice, moderation and learning and teaching policies in order to gain a shared drive towards consistent outstanding teaching.


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If you follow me on social media you have probably seen that I released my new project titled HALAL-HARAM. This is an idea that I have been thinking about for a long time. Duality of culture and thought has always been a part of my identity : Pakistani-American, Muslim-Pakistani etc. For a lot of my life I struggled with this balance of retaining my cultural identity as a Pakistani and absorbing everything New York City culture had to offer. This went on for a long time and eventually I stopped looking at it as a struggle and embraced the richness and beauty within my hyphenated existence. This project is about the spectrum between these two forces of Halal and Haram and how we all fall somewhere on it - to be ok with where that is.
It's a common misconception that Halal is a type of cuisine, mainly perpetuated by street food vendors. In fact Halal, in the context of food, is how an animal is slaughtered with the blessing of God according to Islamic tradition. When you see street food vendors with a Halal sign, it only means that the meat was slaughtered and prepared a certain way.
Halal in a more general sense is about the morality of human action, it's a way of life. Halal is the righteous path. The opposite force of Halal is Haram. Haram quite literally means sinful or forbidden. It's the other end of the spectrum.
The intention of this project is to get people thinking about these words at a higher level - a more conceptual level. To redefine them for ourselves. When these types of words are used as labels it is divisive and polarizing. We all have a little bit of a dichotomy between 'Halal' and 'Haram' and it means something different to everyone. We should accept and embrace that.
The project manifested itself in the form of snapback hats. I've created one labeled HALAL and one HARAM. Both are made in New York City and are available for sale today here or by shopping below.
Thanks you for all the love and support so far. If you have any questions or comments please feel free to reach out on twitter @atifateeq.


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episode guide
Each week players will use a variety of crime scene investigation techniques to meticulously uncover evidence that will ultimately reveal who among them is the killer.
season 1
The guests arrive at the estate and quickly discover one of their own dead in a pool of water.
The 11 remaining guests work to solve a fiery murder.
The 10 remaining guests attempt to solve the latest murder.
The killer uses a mountain lion attack to take down the latest victim.
The eight remaining guests investigate how the killer used a horse.
Following a double murder, the guests come face to face.
The guests must investigate the latest murder in the dark.
The killer strikes in the hot tub.
The four guests go through a game of speed and memory to reveal the winner.


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Ultra-Scalable and Ultra-Efficient Integrated and Visual Big Data Analytics
LeanBigData aims at addressing three open challenges in big data analytics:
LeanBigData will address these challenges by: Architecting and developing three resource-efficient Big Data management systems typically involved in Big Data processing: a novel transactional NoSQL key-value data store, a distributed complex event processing (CEP) system, and a distributed SQL query engine. We will achieve at least one order of magnitude in efficiency by removing overheads at all levels of the big-data analytics stack and we will take into account technology trends in multicore technologies and non-volatile memories. Providing an integrated big data platform with these three main technologies used for big data, NoSQL, SQL, and Streaming/CEP that will improve response time for unified analytics over multiple sources and large amounts of data avoiding the inefficiencies and delays introduced by existing extract-transfer-load approaches.


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Free flu jabs - who should have it and why
For most healthy people, flu is an unpleasant but usually self-limiting virus with recovery generally within a week.
However in certain groups of people flu can be serious. They are at particular risk of severe illness and potentially serious complications, for them vaccination offers the best protection.
Flu can be more severe in certain groups such as:
For more information on who should have the free flu jab, see The Flu Vaccination booklet or visit the NHS website.
You can also speak to your GP surgery or pharmacist.
How effective is the flu jab?
Flu vaccine is the best protection we have against the flu virus which can cause serious illness.
Will it stop everyone from getting the flu?
It may not stop all flu viruses, but you are still advised to get the flu jab. If you do get flu after vaccination, it's likely to be milder and more short-lived than it would otherwise have been.
I have had the flu jab before do I need it again?
The flu virus changes each year, which is why people are strongly advised to have the flu jab every year.
Where to get the free flu jab?
Your GP surgery or some local pharmacies will be offering the service to adults.
A healthy diet and vitamin C will prevent flu.
Flu is a virus and can affect anyone, no matter how good your immune system is.
The vaccine does not work, I still got the flu!
The vaccine provides good protection against flu and it is the best way to fight flu this winter.
I've never had flu so I'm not likely to get it.
The flu virus changes each year, which is why people are strongly advised to have the flu jab every year.


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A declaration/account and short story by The Shorts Show
The year 2014. We have Skype, X-Box One and people STILL cutting off the heads of those they don't agree with, to make a point. It's safe to say the future we dreamed about took a strange left turn right around Y2K. In light of the last decade plus, there has been wide spread debate and speculation of how the next World War will happen. Who's going to push the button first? Dr. Strangelove seems all too relevant now. With world war/extinction sounding inevitable with the latest string of ignorance world wide, the only thing left to do is wait and hope someone out there with the power to actually make a change would step forward and help rather than exploit the power that came under false promises from those who elected, followed or believed them. Until a few days ago I didn't think Superman, Peter Pan and Luke Skywalker could do much to put the brakes on the runaway idiot train that is mankind.... That was until I was abducted by a secret Alien race sitting just outside our solar system, three days ago.
ABDUCTION NIGHT: Rallying post show meeting at a local Brooklyn watering hole Monday night, I had the urge to drown my feeling of hopelessness in the bottom of artisan, handcrafted hipster, Indian Pale Ales. But no matter what I did, the scale of hope never seemed to swing towards something optimistic. I kept having the feeling that someone out there hated my guts and wanted me dead because I was a part of something I have no control over. Although I always considered myself a "People Person", this latest chunk of death and senselessness made it clear, it's OPEN SEASON on anyone! Regardless of race, belief, gender or taste in music, someone out there on Earth hates your fucking guts because you are not the same and will never agree, no matter how many comments you leave on a message board to persuade using your own opinion. The train is running away and Denzel Washington nor Chris Pine can stop it.
So there I was, hopeless, drunk and a full bladder ready to pop. Time to go drain the ol' vein. But alas, the line stretches out the door. As a dozen or so lads do the penguin dance, I decide to go the Bear Grylls route and make my move to nature as my ancestors once did. (take a piss outside)
The first choice is always the easiest. Do I pee pee right outside the front door by the street under the safety of the rear bumper of a 2008 Honda Civic? OR do I take the road less traveled and walk half way down the block in hopes of stumbling upon an unsuspecting dark alley to mark my territory? The walk began. Each step deliberating how I would in fact survive a nuclear holocaust..."Should I tape the doors with duct tape or gaff tape? Well clearly duct tape, it does everything." And then I froze... A light flashes ahead of me and my fingers go numb. My back tightens and my neck jerks back, uncontrollably. I stare straight up into the night sky. A blue beacon shining right down on me. "What the fuck is happening?" I still have to pee.
Although I can't see, I can feel movement all around me. My legs are weightless. I stretch out into the darkness and suddenly feel an overwhelming sense of calm. Then I hear the words.... Booming from above, below and all around me... "HHEEEEEVVVVVV MMUUUU KAAAAA KAAA". I then realize I don't speak whatever this was.
I instantly shit my pants and think "Does pooping in zero gravity make it easier or harder to wipe your ass?"
A face moves towards me through the abyss of time and space.
Turns out Aliens look exactly like we thought they did... More or less exactly like the ones in the hit N64 game Perfect Dark. (still not better than Goldeneye)
The blackness recedes. I now come to rest upon an all white LA Z BOY recliner.
The Alien introduced himself as Captain Morgan Freeman. (Apparently Aliens give themselves names of what they enjoy in foreign worlds. This guy loved spiced rum and voiceovers.)
He hovers above me for a second until realizing how improper it is to talk to your guests while standing over them. He sits down to my level. An exact replica white LA Z BOY appears. He doesn't recline into it. (this disturbs me for some reason. Who doesn't enjoy a full recline, even in space abductions?)
We stare at each other for a minute or two. I was guessing he could read my thoughts so I began to think about something to throw him off my scent.
"Why would you ever prefer to have three green shells to three red shells while on Pipe Plaza? It's clearly a more wide open course than Block City." - he asks.
"I prefer to earn my balloon hits the hard way. Red shells are for kids and now that I know you know what i'm thinking, am I here to get probed?"
He shakes his head in disgust. I immediately feel embarrassed to be so frank with Capt. Freeman but how could I know?
"Do you know why you're here?"
"No clue."
He clears his throat, clearly agitated and looks me in the eye
"We gave you XBOX ONE, we gave you Skype, we gave you the power to connect to your entire civilization and species and you have done nothing with it. I really stuck my neck out for you all this last century and to be honest with ya, you're all a bunch of snotty nosed, greedy, whiny assholes. "
Didn't see that coming. I look for a rebuttal but it's clear Capt. Freeman is not happy with me.
"Well, ya know we've been pretty busy. (I search for redemption) We've been perfecting drinkability in our beers. We've corrected auto-tune in the music industry.. AND maybe you haven't seen but Burger King and Tim Hortons just merged..."
He smacks me across the face.
"What do you expect us to do?" - he asks.
For some reason the first thing I can think of is to build a star bridge, sort of like rainbow road and allow us all to drive into space and colonize new planets and escape the coming darkness. I forget he can read my thoughts.
"You're not going to get a rainbow road."
"Well what the fuck can you do, then?"
"We can invade your stupid planet, enslave all of humanity, take the remaining resources, weapons and Xbox Ones and leave you all to fend for yourselves among a burning pile of ashes considering you're all headed that way anyways. We want to protect our investment and personally I lost big on this planet. You guys really let me down. I mean, seriously, what the fuck are you thinking? Have you seen space? It's fucking huge. Do you REALLY think you're alone? Come on...."
"Well why haven't you made yourselves present? I mean, IF you guys just said hello to the public and had a little curtain unveiling sort of thing, that could be fun, right?"
"NO! You have not earned the right to mingle among the star people (totally sounds like a cool 70s band... just googled it, it's not) We let you in the "club" now and it's totally going to take down the level of prestige. Every species from other planets that made it in as a member was able to move past this stupid hump you idiots just can't seem to understand. It's pretty simple. "
"What about the drinkability?" I demand.
"Fuck Miller lite, it's a gimmick. So is wide mouth cans, blue mountains and vortex bottles. Beer doesn't need a gimmick to taste good. Put it in a can, glass or bottle and stop exploiting the public's weakness for flashy advertisements. The ONE simple rule you humans need to follow to get into the super dope star country club is this...."
I'm on the edge of my Aspen vanilla LA Z BOY. Finally the answers. Finally a solution. FINALLY A RAINBOW ROAD!
"So what is it? What can we do? What can make sense of the beheadings, racial tension, looting, bombings, ignorance, bias, greed, war, jihads, lies and death?"
"Shut the fuck up, work hard and be happy."
..... (crickets)
"What about a revolutionary technology that could just like brainwash us all into agreeing or being the same. I mean, forget about all that "Snowflake being special" business. Like, all those different beliefs and religions, ideologies and racial tensions and class warfare? Car bombings, hangings, stonings, They have to be for something, right? I mean, someone has to be right! Right?! I mean how could we ALL be wrong? Couldn't the left be justified? Couldn't the right feel progress? Change?! We can't ALL BE WRONG! TELL ME!!!! Who's right!?"
He leans forward. Takes a sip out of an instantly appearing Capri Sun, swallows and wipes his space lips.
"There are 500 BILLION TRILLION GAZILLION types of creatures in this universe. Do you think they all have the same opinion? Do you think they ALL look the same? Smell the same? Feel the same? NO. But, the ones who survive and get to enjoy the space country club are the ones who shut the fuck up, work hard and be happy. If you can't play together nicely, you'll die together painfully."
"What about GOD? or Allah or the eight armed elephant or Muhammad or Hosana or Battlefield Earth, Tom Cruise?! Surely they must have an opinion of the cosmos! They must have some weight in there to help shape how we should live! RIGHT?! One of them has to be right? Don't they?
"You can worship whoever the hell you want. I personally believe that a higher power exists inside of a four slot toaster but that doesn't mean you have to. No one will know until it's too late anyways. Believe what you want and shut the fuck up. That's all....
Also, Madden football is a disgrace since 2005. "
I few more drops of pee trickle out. (This is so embarrassing)
Capt. Morgan Freeman smiles oddly back at me before taking a final sip from his fruit punch. He smacks me a final time and BLACKNESS.....
I come to... My penis exposed before me, urine spilling over the darkened alley. The stream drowned out by the passing of police siren. I huddle over and act inconspicuous.
"What the fuck just happened? Did I just get visited by an extraterrestrial? Am I a prophet? Am I special? How can I make money off this? Is there a probe up my ass? Will I have to go through metal detectors multiple times from now on?"
The questions swirled inside of me. If Capt. Morgan was right and humanity is doomed, then we are going to be in some trouble. Space lasers, invasions, extinction... Woe is me.
I finish my pee pee and turn back towards the bar. If I'm going to die from alien ray guns, I may as well be drunk as a skunk. "How am I going to survive this alien war?"
A homeless Man pushing a shopping cart full of bottles and cans, hollering a string of obscenities that would normally cause me to dart the other way from confrontation... BUT this time, everything was different.. This man now had a value to me. He had a purpose and relationship I could identify with. His smell didn't matter. His dirty fingernails and rotten teeth were only badges of the one thing that truly remained. Humanity. He was going to die by the same exact Alien weaponry that was coming to me... There was a comfort and unsaid camaraderie I couldn't ignore.
This man may very well be a future soldier in the Alien war, that may save me from a burning star craft. Or rescuing precious materials needed to fix an abandoned star fighter before Capt. Morgan and his cronies could pick us remaining survivors off, one by one. The group of young ruffians smoking a joint down the street, possibly a band of infantrymen who's final mission could mean the difference between whether or not we can save the space port from an Alien bombing. The bodega sandwich man, a future general who's bravery and self sacrifice would lead to our final survival in the face of insurmountable odds.
The scale tipped. Enlightenment. A possible solution to end the madness. A scenario to band the rival factions of humans together for one common cause.... survival. Goddamn it, it was right in from of our eyes for years. Will Smith, Randy Quaid, Jeff FUCKING GOLDBLUM!
And I came to the final conclusion to save us all. To unite the world....
I'm hereby publicly inviting and encouraging a full scale, massive alien invasion of my home planet Earth. IF YOU ARE AN ALIEN and you are reading this, please please please come and invade us. I know you have internet wherever you are so please get your warships together. Load up your ray guns and death rays. We Earthlings are a bunch of politically correct, naive, greedy, ignorant, self righteous assholes and the only thing we hate more than each other is Aliens.
SO bring it, Mr. Captain Morgan Freeman, you alien bastard!
If we can't play nice together
We're going to die painfully together in the face of cosmic space death rays and inevitable extinction. At least at that point, race, gender, sexual preference nor religion will matter. The left and the right will fall together. The lines in the sand on EVERY issue will fade as the beaches burn under the heat of a cosmic death ray. Earth needs this and we need it now.
Earth, Earth, Humans!
(clap, clap, clap!)
And when the dust settles MAYBE we will still be here and maybe we will be treated to the gift that is Bill Pullman recapping the moment the world was saved.
We can only hope.


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Graphic Design & Print
Graphic design is like 3D immersion into a brand's personality. Once the initial branding process is done, either by us or by others, the stage is set for our designers to be able to create any supplemental items you may need in order to do your business. This is all to coordinate perfectly with your brand.
Emotional Messages + Emotional Design
Consider the cover design of the last book you read. Unless someone you think is seriously awesome suggested the book to you, you likely chose it based off of the cover design. While this is a very literal example of the importance of graphic design, it's also perfectly metaphorical. People choose to patronize companies, or heck, even read their ads or website, based off of the emotions they feel from the imagery. In the marketing world, we spend a ton of time getting the words and messages just right, so it can be a slap in the face when a bad service or product "wins" in the market due to great imagery. But instead of getting all upset about it, we at JCI embrace it, and have a full department of our company dedicated to graphical excellence.


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Assassin's Creed II
Assassin's Creed II - Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PC [$59.99]
Assassin's Creed II
Despite its slow beginning hours, Ubisoft's follow up to Assassin's Creed makes up for its poor early pacing with its commitment to adding more variety and depth to the franchise. Combining the visceral pleasures of free running and precision stealth kills with thought provoking plotting that considers the dichotomy of faith and reason in the Italian Renaissance, Assassin's Creed is audacious in its willingness to tackle topics that few mainstream video games have done more than graze: religion and philosophy. Not many games would charge the protagonist with assassinating the Pope in the heart of the Vatican. Oh, and then follow up that sequence with musings on the mysteries of cosmology.
Ubisoft has taken full advantage of the medium's ability to create worlds from the ground up and taken to recreating historical periods that are often not those focused on in contemporary gaming environments. Does the world need another game set during World War II? Instead, the first game allowed the player a view of Damascus during the time of the Crusades. Now players explore the streets and canals of Venice at the height of the Renaissance. Visually astonishing, both thoughtful in its narrative and brutal in its gameplay, Assassin's Creed II is one of the best games of the year.


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Community radio spreads peace education in Cameroon
The peaceful voice of local radio is reaching the heart of troubled communities in the North and East regions of Cameroon as part of a joint UNESCO project.
Terrorist attacks have led to deteriorating humanitarian and security conditions in these regions of the country with thousands of Cameroonians fleeing their homes.
The radio project aims to improve conflict prevention and inter-community dialogue between refugees and host communities and sensitize young girls and boys who are vulnerable to recruitment for terrorist attacks. UNESCO and partners have mobilized community and four local radios stations in the process of peace building and education, chosen because of their power to reach the remotest area with information and education in local languages.
"A UNESCO study of the situation in these heavily-populated regions reveals one of the major problems faced is misunderstandings among and between different communities," said Cletus Tabe Ojong, Communication and Information Programme Officer in UNESCO's Regional Office in Yaoundé.
The stations, "Echos des montagnes" (Echoes of the Mountains) from Mokolo, Radio Sava from Mora, Radio Kousseri and the regional station based in Maroua, have been trained in locally adapted programmes in peace-building, mediation, conflict prevention and resolution, education for non-violence, intercultural and interfaith dialogue and reconciliation.
Equal access to information
The four stations produce more than 60 programmes on core issues with the aim of linking different communities. On air, members from rural communities discuss issues related to community inclusiveness and non-violent conflict resolution. In Mokolo, an area which is surrounded by villages regularly hit by terrorist attacks, listeners have acknowledged the impact of programmes that address peace and non-violent local conflict resolution. The education for peace programmes not only provide knowledge about a culture of peace, but also impart skills necessary to recognize and defuse potential conflicts, and actively promote and establish a culture of peace.
"The themes highlight the challenges to overcome given the situation we are facing in our region now", said Abdourahman Saidou, member of the Regional Branch of the Cameroon Association for Interreligious Dialogue, engaged in the building of a peaceful environment between Muslims and Christians.
Examples of high-impact programming includes local news, magazines, micro programmes, live debates and discussions in national languages. Some programmes are presented by young ambassadors for peace, identified and trained by UNESCO, in order to educate their peers during school and post-school activities. Furthermore, listening groups will be created by the ambassadors to stimulate mobilization, dialogue and above all action between members of school and extracurricular structures.
Impact in defusing violent conflict
The project, which runs from March 2015 to March 2016, is a joint venture between UNESCO, UNDP and FAO called the Rapid Response for Enhancing Resilience and Conflict Prevention in Far North and East Regions of Cameroon, and funded by Japan. It has benefitted radio broadcasters, schoolchildren reached through schools and extracurricular activities, traditional rulers, religious leaders, administrative and political authorities as well as the population directly affected by the humanitarian emergency.
UNESCO's work in Peace and Human Rights Education is guided by its constitution, the World Programme for Human Rights Education (2005-ongoing) and Target 4.7 of the 2030 Education Agenda. It also works within the framework of the UN Secretary-General's Plan of Action to Prevent Violent Extremism. In October 2015 UNESCO Member States adopted a landmark decision to enhance UNESCO's role in preventing violent extremism through education
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People often ask me for a few of my favorite sources, when they get tired of looking at the same stuff from the run-of-the-mill stores. Here's a round-up of places I found the elements for this master bath remodel:
Tile: Thassos and Ming Green tile from Decorative Materials at the Denver Design Center.
Fixtures: Rohl
Vanity: Aspen Leaf
Sconces: Visual Comfort
Mirror: Horchow
Rug: Dash and Albert
Stool: Wisteria
And the cool poster over the tub of Jacqueline Kennedy's Dresses. Add a frame and ta-da!
After: Vanity
Before: Shower Area (Beautiful, right?)
After: Shower Area


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Read More About Megan
Megan has over 25 years of experience in finance. She began her career with a respected Madison Avenue accounting firm where she served both businesses and high-net-worth individuals. She then joined with a Fortune 100 company in varying finance roles including financial analyst. Later in her career she was CFO of a $40 million company where she helped the firm's partners develop a strategy for their buy/sell agreements; advised on re-vamping employee benefits; hired a new CEO, and obtained many legal contracts necessary to position the company for future accelerated growth.
This is where Megan came into her niche in the insurance industry and decided to put her experience with business and personal finance to work to help others.
Megan is an expert on voluntary benefits and quickly rose to District General Agent with Colonial Life. Having worked for years as a business advisor, she understands how to add to employees' welfare and round out companies' benefits portfolio packages to maximize their impact while maintaining detailed cost constraints. In today's market, it is necessary to not only attract, but retain talent within an organization. In this complex environment, it is important to understand the impact of offering such programs and how it affects everyone's bottom line.
Megan is a graduate of Binghamton University and resides in the NYC suburbs. She is a proud mother of a daughter and two sons.


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Whether it is health problems, a bit of extra weight or emotional turmoil we go through, there is a way to tackle it.
You don't need to be spiritual or gym freak to start with yoga.
More energy, more creativity, more fun, and feeling of peace. Guaranteed.
Everyone can practise yoga and enjoy the benefits regardless of fitness level, age, size or mobility.
You don't need to follow any religion to do yoga.
Everything can be altered to suit any body needs, either with props or modification of the poses… everyone can do it!
What Do I Teach
Combination of Hatha yoga, Vinyasa yoga and Kundalini yoga.
Also some less known kriyas (dynamic) and asananas (static poses) discovered throughout my life.
Mindful stretching, concentrating on each part of your body with breath is rejuvenating and balancing; Visualising helps with practise; Mudras (yoga fingers) guide the energy flow and all of that is harmonising chakras, too!
I tailor my classes for runners, people who want to tackle the weight problems, people who want to just stretch and relax
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The flagship ABC radio current affairs programs PM and The World Today will be halved in length next year and Business PM will be axed, staff have been told.
PM and The World Today will both be reduced from hour-long programs to 30 minutes, radio current affairs employees were told at a meeting on Monday by Tanya Nolan, the managing editor of audio current affairs.
From 22 January The World Today, hosted by Eleanor Hall, will end at 12.30pm instead of 1pm to make way for a new "entertaining" national program on ABC Local Radio hosted by the former Triple J presenter Myf Warhurst.
Warhurst's show, which is designed to attract 30- to 40-year-olds with a "lighter" offering, will run until 2pm.
Staff were told the rationale behind the changes was research showing there were significant increases in audiences consuming on-demand audio and digital content and a drop in the numbers listening to linear broadcasts on the ABC. The under-55 audience was not coming to the ABC as it once did, and something had to be done to reverse the trend.
Nolan, who also oversees RN Breakfast, AM, Background Briefing and RN Drive, told staff the shortened 30-minute PM and The World Today "would leave the audience wanting more".
The head of spoken content, Judith Whelan, told staff the new local radio schedule would be unveiled on Wednesday and most of the time slots were changing.
From next year PM will air at 6.30pm on local radio so Drive can be extended from 6pm to 6.30pm in each state. Afternoons will run from 2pm to 4pm and Drive will run from 4pm to 6.30pm.
The changes mean the output of programmed radio current affairs will be reduced from two and a half hours a day to 90 minutes.
But reporters will be expected to do more live crosses into local radio programs because Nolan said there was "an over-reliance on packages" which can "kill the energy" of a program.
Nolan said she would prefer reporters in the field did more live crosses into Drive than longer reported stories for dedicated programs.
PM, hosted by Mark Colvin from 1997 until his death in 2017, is the sister program to AM, which turned 50 this year. First heard on 7 July 1969, PM is broadcast across the ABC's local radio network after the 6pm news until 7pm. Business PM is a 10-minute dedicated business slot from 6.50pm to 7pm hosted by Elysse Morgan. A shorter version of PM is also broadcast on Radio National after the news at 5pm.
Journalists will also be encouraged to brush up on their conversational and informal talking skills so they can make podcasts and do more live chats.
The changes will fuel fears that Radio National – and linear radio in general – are increasingly under threat as resources are diverted to digital services.
The ABC's managing director, Michelle Guthrie, has unveiled a restructure of content divisions that will see Radio National broken up and responsibility for its programs scattered around the corporation.
The major changes come just days after radio current affairs journalists shone at the Walkley awards for journalism. Jane Bardon's coverage of Indigenous affairs for ABC Radio, Matt Brown's international coverage of Islamic State for AM and ABC Radio's senior business correspondent Peter Ryan's coverage of the Commonwealth Bank scandal for ABC Radio were all honoured on Friday night.
Other ABC news programs to be decommissioned in 2017 include Lateline and Stan Grant's The Link.


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I believe we need work made by disabled artists for the disability community writ large. We need art that explicitly acknowledges the work of disabled artists of colour not just in an inclusory way but in a manner that challenges the uniformity of disability narratives we have thus far promoted to the non-disabled world. My current choreographic and performance preferences lean towards investigations of native disabled movement–that is, movement arising directly from impairment. I mix this with what I know of classical dance vocabulary and the many traditions of black dance; I allow the influence of disability studies and disability arts and culture to register where I can and think consistently about the ways race figures in the reading of my body and the shaping of my work.
I believe that dance should engage the critical questions that define us and that it should enable us to function as sensitive, committed citizens off the stage. My journey towards making my own work has gathered pace over the course of my ten years in the field. I am slowly finding my focus by making work both for disabled artists and for dancers in integrated settings.
I begin with my body, as it is with my wheelchair, as it is without my wheelchair, as it is with crutches, and even with crutches and chair together. My crutches and chair are not tools that compensate for my impairment. Nor are they simply devices that I use for traveling across the studio. I understand all these starting points as embodiments that have different movement possibilities. The lope of a crutch feels to me as elegant as that of a gazelle; the push of a chair creates a glide akin to skating; a roll on the floor creates grounded-ness and a different understanding of the spine. I want to draw out the expressive capacity of disabled bodies and minds by acknowledging and actively drawing on the movement of impairment. I integrate mainstream dance vocabularies into the unique movement of each dancer. As my work develops, I seek roots for each piece in what I know of disability art, culture, and history.
Intertwined in my exploration of how movement can be generated is my awareness of societal understandings of race, gender, and disability. The intersections of these three form a crucible of interpretative potential. I look into the art and aesthetics that shape our understandings of human difference and make work that I hope will be part of a new, more nuanced conversation.
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baby in red
Cameron is all about fashion. My sister sent her this hat and coat and she doesn't want to take them off. She's only sixteen months old but very enthusiastic about choosing her outfits and attempting to dress herself. We had more unseasonably warm weather yesterday. It was fantastic. We played outside for hours and everyone fell asleep nice and early for a change. It was perfect.
I'm linking up this shot taken yesterday at Sweet Shot Tuesday.
Happy Tuesday.


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Adbusters #23 – Blueprint For A Revolution
Adbusters #23
Autumn 1998
Journal of the Mental Environment
Blueprint For A Revolution
Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Adbusters is a not-for-profit, reader-supported, 120,000-circulation magazine concerned about the erosion of our physical and cultural environments by commercial forces. Adbusters culture-jamming work has been embraced by many organizations and has been featured in hundreds of alternative and mainstream newspapers, magazines, and television and radio shows around the world.
This issue focuses on Blueprint for a Revolution, Planetary End Games, and a Tibor Kalman interview.
Magazine does have some shelf wear. Some stress lines along the spine. Overall in good condition. There are total of 80 pages plus full color cover. The interior pages are printed full color on gloss stock.
Please note that we are not professional graders of magazines or other published materials. Take a look at the pics and decide for yourself.
LANGUAGE: English
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Canada
SIZE: 9" x 10-3/4"
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Hello, Angora/
This month's fiber guild meeting was a crash course in spinning angora. The Yarn Marm came by to demo and spread the love of Angora Rabbits. She also brought along a giant, fluffy ambassador named Albert. FYI, angora rabbits are larger than you think.
During the demo, several skeins of Yarn Marm's handspun angora made the rounds around the meeting. Every single one of them was soft, fluffy, and absolutely luxurious. Most of the skeins were a simple 2-ply but a few were plied with thread. Of all the skeins I handled, the thread plied skeins were the most exciting and inspiring.
In the mid-levels of my fiber stash, there are several ounces of angora from two lovely rabbits named Harvey and Roger. It's straight off the bunny with no further processing. Besides from lovingly petting it, I've had no idea what to do with it until last Saturday. Can I spin it as is without turning into roving? Yes. Is there a way to wash/full the yarn to prevent shedding? Yes. Now that I'm armed with a little bit of knowledge, I'm ready to dig the angora out and start spinning. So what that it's probably harder to spin than superwash merino? I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.


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Download 399
Download PDF of Solidarity 399 here.
Download PDF of Solidarity 399 here.
The conference of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) on 25-29 March voted to ballot for discontinuous strikes in response to the Government's Education White Paper published on 17 March.
The first of what should be a series of strikes is to take place in the week beginning 4 July. The objective is to win a national system of pay and conditions for all state-funded schools regardless of status.
Workers at museums across Wales struck over the Easter weekend as part of a two-year dispute over weekend working.
The workers, part of the PCS union, plan to strike every weekend from 9 April-1 May, at Big Pit in Blaenavon, St Fagans and the National Museum in Cardiff, the National Wool Museum in Llandysul, the National Slate Museum in Llanberis, and the Swansea Waterfront Museum.
The conference of the National Union of Teachers over the Easter weekend was a strange beast: a mixture of genuine support for a sustained programme of strike action with a stifling lack of open debate.
Tony Greenstein, a socialist based in Brighton, was unilaterally suspended from holding office or representing the Labour Party on 18 March.
His suspension letter alleged a breach of Labour Party rules, citing "comments you are alleged to have made", which will be investigated internally. The letter does not state what the comments actually were.
Workers Liberty Women's new pamphlet, Why Socialist Feminism?, is a short but dense whistle-stop tour through contemporary Marxist-feminist theory.
On 6-7 April junior doctors will take 48 hours of emergency-care-only action; and on 26-27 April there will be a full walk-out of junior doctors between 8am and 5pm.
So far hospitals have adapted very quickly to junior doctors strikes. They have prioritised elective work over discharges, and kept elective procedures going. The impact has mainly been via bed-blocking and increased pressure in A&E.
At the end of March Tata Steel announced it was pulling out of all or part of its UK operations, threatening nearly 14,000 jobs and many thousands more in related industries.
It said its UK steel operations were losing money despite rising demand due to lower global steel prices. The biggest potential losses, unless buyers can be found for the plants, are in Scunthorpe (3,381 jobs) and Port Talbot (4,104 jobs). And right now the Tories are going to stand back and allow what might be the near destruction of steel making in the UK.
I have been on the far left for over thirty years, and I've seen and heard some pretty strange things.
I have watched women members of a revolutionary socialist group join the back of a segregated Muslim march against Israel. I've argued with left-wing British trade unionists who backed the jailing of independent trade unionists in the old USSR. I've seen socialists carry "We are Hizbollah" placards, and listened to leftists who refused to condemn 9/11.
Michael Chessum from Another Europe is Possible spoke to Solidarity.
Another Europe is Possible (AEIP) was set up to be the radical "In" campaign in the referendum, going public in October last year.
People initially involved were left NGOs, like Global Justice Now, a lot of Green Party support, and a lot of activists who'd been around in social movements in the past few years. We wanted to shift the whole debate to the left as well as persuade the left to go for "in".
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Angelo lives in Trona, a small desert town over the hill from Death Valley and in the shadow of a Borax plant. He plays football on the only dirt football field in America and hates the internet.
Produced and Directed by Corbett Jones
Cinematography by Michael Ragen
Original Score by Aaron Stein-Chester
Color by Ryan Carmody


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Society is often unkind to the overweight, and this can be particularly true in childhood. In the competitive world of football, heavier children are often left till last when teams are picked, and if they are selected, they invariably find themselves placed between the posts. Curiously, it was a vaguely similar set of circumstances that would provide Colombia with a goalkeeper who is currently excelling at the FIFA U-20 World Cup: Cristian Bonilla.
"I was eight years old and playing for Once Caldas as a striker, and I used to have to chase after the bao tll quite a bit," recalled the Boyaca Chico keeper to FIFA.com. Those that witnessed him performing at the time have described a goalscorer with power, promise and a few extra pounds.
"I was very fat, so much so that one day I said to my dad that I wanted to play in a position where I didn't have to run as much, and so I was put in goal. And now here I am, representing my country, which makes me feel prouder than anything else," he explained.
Bonilla's physical appearance these days almost stretches the credibility of this anecdote. Tall and trim, his physique is not dissimilar to that of former Colombia international Oscar Cordoba. "There's no doubt I ate a lot, but I didn't feel that fat. Now though, when I look at photos from back then, it's fair to say that the others were right. I was shaped like a little ball!" he said, laughing.
On the pitch, however, humour is not part of his repertoire. Serious, focused and vocal, he has been instrumental in the success of a team that has raised the hopes of an entire nation. "I've just been working away without that much fuss, but I know that I've performed well," said the fan of Once Caldas keeper Juan Carlos Henao.
There is no disputing Bonilla's record: since France's Gilles Sunu took him by surprise with an impressive long-range effort in Los Cafeteros' opening match, the shot-stopper has gone 249 minutes without conceding a goal.
"If I had to give myself a mark out of ten, I'd probably say eight so far. I feel calm and confident. But I don't like the fact that I'm being referred to as one of our key players – I'd prefer to be seen as just a small cog in a larger wheel," pointed out Bonilla, one of the youngest players in Colombia's squad.
Coming from a family of footballers, he has clearly defined objectives. His initial aim is to win the FIFA U-20 World Cup, although he is very aware that, now that the field has been whittled down to 16 teams, the hard work is just beginning, starting with his nation's upcoming game with Costa Rica. "Whoever we come up against now, we'll be faced with teams who'll not hesitate to attack and show their skills," he said.
If I had to give myself a mark out of ten, I'd probably say eight so far.
The Colombian custodian also knows there is no room for mistakes, and that he will have to stand up and be counted should any matches in the knockout stages go the full distance. "I'm totally ready should there be a shoot-out, because I did pretty well when the recent Toulon Tournament final went to penalties. I saved two of France's spot kicks that day, and we won the trophy," recounted the young South American, who has been known to study video footage of opposing strikers in order to gain the upper hand.
Physically strong and good at dealing with aerial balls, Bonilla has another feature that makes him stand out from the goalkeeping crowd: he plays in long trousers. "I like them and feel good wearing them, but they're more for luck than anything else," he admitted. And while he claims that they would not be swapped for shorts "even in the heat of Barranquilla", he knows that his technical abilities in goal are the real reason fans are talking about him.
"I'm a good all-round goalkeeper, with various qualities. I've been compared to Oscar Cordoba, which is a great source of pride for me, although I believe that I also have some clear stylistic traits of my own," he noted.
Before bringing the interview to a close, Bonilla indulges in a little game. He closes his eyes and imagines his whereabouts on 20 August: "I see myself in bed the night before, calmly awaiting the final. And then I see us lifting the trophy and me receiving the award of best goalkeeper of the tournament. That's my personal goal."
Does he see himself doing anything else that day? "Yes, going out to celebrate with the family that I love so much. They've got a lot to do with me being here right now," he concluded. And that, as he would surely agree, is something that is worth its weight in gold.


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Peace!...with 2 Fingers;).
The name is Darryl Weddington
originally from the Wicked Windy City of Chi-town.
A place I will always call HOME.
dreamed of 20 years ago.
Understanding the occasional need for that
why not make it a bit more interesting with a lil' twist....
River. from The Weddington Adventures. on Vimeo.
One last thing,
I'm available for future
projects if interested...
(just saying')
drop me a note....
or email.
lookin' forward ;)


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Antique Charms
Antique Charms
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Antique Charms
Each charm has a cute illustration, with the symbol and a word about that sign on the back. Small charms are great for backpacks, cellphones, pendents to wear, zippers, keychains and as a charm. Choose a sign's qualities you wish to embodied, or to remember your Sun, Moon and Rising Signs.
On the back, each sign reads:
Aries: Courageous / Leo: Generous
Virgo: Practical / Capricorn: Ambitious
Gemini: Intelligent / Libra: Charming / Aquarius: Friendly
Cancer: Imaginative / Scorpio: Passionate / Pisces: Intuitive
Note: We received misspelled charms for Taurus and Sagittarius as "Taur" and "Sagetator". They are cute and funny and being sold for a discounted price.
Product Details: Zinc alloy metal (lead/nickel free), about the size of a dime.


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Since 1997, communities across the country have come together on November 15 to celebrate America Recycles Day. America Recycles Day is a nationally recognized day dedicated to the promotion of recycling programs in the United States.
Not only does recycling provide environmental benefit such as energy savings, reduced greenhouse gas emissions, preserve our limited resources, and reduce landfill waste, recycling creates more jobs than landfilling. The recycling and remanufacturing industries account for over one million jobs in the United States and over $236 million in annual revenue.
Please join me in making recycling a part of your daily routine.
- See what events are happening near you.
- Read an article: Beauty Salons Get Green Makeover for America Recycles Week


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Wanwani Paper Factory Ltd, a fully integrated pulp and paper mill, was incorporated in 1992. Located in Thailand's central plains in the mill began operating in 1993 and has an annual capacity of 600,000 tons of pulp and 600,000 tons of paper. Strategically situated from Bangkok and Laem Chabang Seaport, the Wanwani Paper Factory Ltd is close to both a sustainable source of wood and a huge rainwater reservoir with a capacity of 36 million cubic meters to sustain its manufacture of pulp and paper.
The company's broad portfolio of products extends from superior quality short fiber large paper sheets to innovative stationery products and premium copy papers all made of sustainable fiber from Wanwani Paper Factory Ltd Tree, which is grown along the rice paddy ridges of more than 1.5 million farmers across Thailand through a uniquely Asian solution to the sustainable sourcing of fiber that we call PFFT - Paper from Farmed Trees.