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Here's my recent letter to American Airlines detailing the issue.
To Whom It May Concern:
I am writing to file a complaint against American Airlines, Inc. (AA) regarding lost baggage.
On February 11th 2017, I took a one way flight from Los Angeles (LAX) to Atlanta (ATL). I checked my snowboard gear bag containing my snowboard, boots, bindings, helmet, goggles, snow pants, and other smaller gear items. My snowboard gear bag did not make it to the destination. I spoke with the person in the baggage office and reported the bag delayed.
On February 15th, I filed a claim on the gear bag itemizing the main items in the bag and their approximate cost. Many of these items were collected over the last 10 years or so, many in very good to new condition. I snowboard maybe 3-4 times a year.
A number of weeks later (March 9th) I received a call from an AA rep stating that they may have found my bag and it may have gotten transferred over to Delta Airlines. He asked me a number of questions about my claim to confirm that what was described in the contents of the bag matched my claim. He confirmed the contents of my bag down to the color of towels that were used to wrap around the sharp edges of the snowboard to keep them from cutting the inside of the gear bag, which I had not even mentioned on the claim. So someone had to actually have opened the bag and reviewed the contents, or else they would not have known about the faded yellow towels. At this point, someone had located the bag. I thought after confirming the information, my bag would be delivered from Delta, to American and I would have my bag soon, and thats what the rep also indicated.
I had a number of conversations with this rep over the next few weeks as he worked with Delta to get the bag back to AA and delivered to me. Everything indicated that Delta had, in-fact, found the bag and would be delivering it to AA to deliver to me.
On April 14th, I received a call from another AA rep, asking if my bag had been delivered. It had not.
I placed a call to Delta Central Baggage and found out that they were waiting on AA to retrieve the bag. I asked if I could just drive down to Central Baggage in Atlanta and retrieve the bag myself. They said I could not and that AA would have to retrieve it. That rep provided me with the delayed file number used by Delta to track lost baggage (ATLAAxxxxx).
The next day I called the original AA rep and AA Central Baggage to let them know that Delta was waiting to deliver the bag, noting that the bag had been with Delta for almost two months and there was likely some time limit to pick up the bag.
During this time I have exchanged a number of emails and phone calls with AA Central Baggage to check on the status of this. Many of the emails/calls were unreturned. During one discussion with a Central Baggage rep, after asking if I could get the name of someone that would be responsible for going over to Delta to get my bag, they responded that someone would be doing it soon, but they could not give me a name.
I feel that due to the delay and lack of accountability, AA left my bag with Delta, and now it is gone.
On April 24th, Central Baggage Rep Carrie Ellis sent me an email reminding me of AAs baggage policy and told me that I would be receiving a check for $355 for my delayed bag. My fair market value claim was for $1555. I responded, thanking her for processing my claim, but letting her know that $355 was not sufficient to cover the time, loss of items, horrible experience, and seeming loss of my bag due to leaving it with Delta for too long (basically, a lack of accountability on the part of AA Central Baggage). I had waited over 3 months and my bag at one point had been found and then lost again. Ive missed out on a number of snowboarding trips and this was basically due to negligence on AA part.
I subsequently asked that this issue be escalated within Central Baggage Claims and AA management. I did not receive a response, so I asked for an update on April 27th. Mrs. Ellis responded on April 30th mentioning that she had reviewed the issue and it stands as is because I could not provide itemized reciepts. She did not mention if the issue had been escalated as requested. She did apologize for the delayed bag. These items were purchase over several years and I likely will not be able to provide itemized reciepts. I dont understand why AA cant look up fair market value of these items as their own proof.
I received a letter and check from AA on May 1 for the amount of $355, which is insulting because this issue has not yet been resolved. I will not be cashing this check.
I am writing this letter as a Gold AA passenger whos spent many thousands of dollars and flown many thousands of miles with AA over the last two years. I have no problem continuing to escalate this issue, as its only fair. I would expect that AA would do the right thing and reimburse me fairly for the compounded loss of access to my equipment, the hardship of spending over 3 months patiently going back and forth with different reps, being told that my bag was found, only to later be told that it was lost again, all the while with the likely case that my equipment was waiting in Atlanta for someone from AA to coordinate pick-up.
Im requesting again that I be reimbursed the full amount indicated in the original claim.
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There is not enough space on the disk.
I D/L files sw4tdccde.7z.001 ~ sw4tdccde.7z.121, ran them through QuickPar (OK), and opened up .001 in HJSplit. Hj runs for a while & spits out 'I/O Error 112', but continues to run, producing file sw4tdccde.7z.rar. WinRar will not open or repair sw4tdccde.7z.rar.Gausselimination wrote:pls explain further.....
is the movie split with hj, or is an rar archive split again with hj? something doesnt seem right here.
This shouldn't be a problem as the file is only about 6Gb, and I have about 50 Gb free on my HD.IanB wrote:One possible reason - from MSDN:ERROR_DISK_FULL = 112
There is not enough space on the disk.
Remember that to join a set of split files, you need as much free space again as the size of the current set of files, as the splits are not normally removed in the process by most tools.
Mr. Plow wrote:This shouldn't be a problem as the file is only about 6Gb
That's a possibility. It craps out at 4,194,304k. Is there another program out there that is comparable to HJSplit that will handle larger files?IanB wrote:Mr. Plow wrote:This shouldn't be a problem as the file is only about 6Gb
Is it possible that HJSplit only works on files under 4Gb in size?
You are Da Man(or woman, I don't know). CPU HD is NTFS, but External drive I hold all my movies & Mp3s on is Fat32. I moved the HJ files to main HD & it worked great. The product is a 7-zip file, but I got it opened just fine. Big thanks to all for your help.grubbymitts wrote:As Gausselimination says:
is a 7 zip file. It is similar to Winrar's .r00, .r01 etc
It has not been split with HJsplit
Are you running XP with NTFS formatted drive? If you are then HJsplit should work fine, but if your drive is formatted FAT32, then a 4.1gb file is the limit that you can store without splitting it.
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Do I have to retake my CTC qualification?
Once you have achieved your CTC qualification, there is no need to retake it at defined intervals, provided you maintain its currency. To do this, you should keep the standard records made as part of activity delivery through, for example a Leader logbook, or maintenance records identifying the work you have undertaken
Where there is an extended period (such as a year or more) of you not being active in utilising your qualification, its validity may be questioned, and you should consider attending a refresher or full course.
How can I use my qualification?
CTC courses and qualifications are primarily vocational, i.e. they are designed around performing a professional role, whether being paid for that role or not.
You can use your qualification in line with its own specification (see the particular course webpage) in a voluntary or a paid role, as part of a club, as an employee or for other organisations such as charities. You can also use it as a self-employed outdoor practitioner.
Where is my qualification accepted?
CTC courses are accepted across the whole of the UK. Courses are delivered by CTC in all devolved nations and under HSE guidance, are accepted there as valid.
Further afield, there are many activity providers in Europe, Egypt, Canada and other areas of the world who see the value in CTC qualifications and either request them for their employees, put their employees through the relevant course, or use them as a base level of training from which they add their own local requirements.
Which first aid certificate do I need?
When leading or instructing groups, you should hold a first aid certificate appropriate to the environment that you are operating in. Exactly what this constitutes is your employer's decision (or yours where you are self-employed), but we generally recommend that all Leaders hold a two day, outdoors based first aid certificate.
See more on the First Aid courses the CTC delivers.
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What happens if I don't pass the course?
Firstly, CTC has an ethos that is all about you attaining the knowledge, skill, experience and insight to become competent, hopefully within the course duration. We aim to enable you to attain with confidence building and superb teaching techniques combined with discreet assessment methods.
Of course, we make sure that you are competent before you are signed off (CTC qualifications are not awards by attendance), but we work really hard to get you there.
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Do Political Donors Win Pension Fund Deals?
More than two dozen firms that have surfaced in a broad corruption investigation of public pension funds gave at least $1.97 million in campaign contributions to officials with potential influence over the funds' investments, a USA TODAY analysis shows.
The givers included private-equity giants such as the Blackstone Group, the Carlyle Group and the Quadrangle Group, the firm founded by Steven Rattner, who in July resigned as the White House point man for the auto industry rescue. The contributions are legal, and the firms haven't been accused of wrongdoing related to the giving.
The analysis of donations since 1998 showed the money flowed in 30 states to incumbents and candidates for governor, treasurer and other posts that influence billions of dollars in pension fund awards.
Several of the firms won pension investment work after they, their executives or hired intermediaries gave contributions. The awards generate lucrative fees and lend prestige that could help lure new clients.
Several states are investigating the awards after charges last spring in New York that a former pension fund official, a political adviser and others got millions of dollars for influencing investments by the state's pension fund. The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed parallel civil charges.
The probes come as pension funds have increasingly invested more of their $2.2 trillion in assets with private-equity firms and hedge funds as they seek returns that outpace the stock market. The interest has been reciprocated, as the private firms vie for the fees involved.
The financial stakes have sometimes bred corruption. Kent Nelson, owner of a California investment business, pleaded guilty to devising a fraud scheme in a 2005 court case that accused him of paying a New Mexico official for state investment deals.
And in 2003, Charles Spadoni, the former vice president of a Boston investment firm, was convicted of racketeering, obstruction of justice and other charges in a case that accused him of agreeing to provide consulting deals to friends of Connecticut's treasurer in exchange for $200 million in pension fund awards. An appeals court overturned all but the obstruction conviction last year and ordered a new trial.
Conflicts of interest
Even in cases with no charges of illegality, watchdogs argue that the campaign contributions - known as pay-to-play - create conflicts of interest.
"The selection of investment advisers to those plans shouldn't be based on campaign contributions. They should be based on the merits," said Mary Schapiro, chairwoman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, which she said is probing potential pay-to-play cases "in multiple states."
The SEC in July proposed a rule that would disqualify firms from being awarded pension fund investments for two years after making campaign contributions over $250. Schapiro said the rule is crucial because pay-to-play practices harm pension fund beneficiaries by fostering "subpar advisory services at inflated prices."
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, whose office began a now-two-year corruption investigation that has recently been expanded by other states, issued a code of conduct with similar restrictions earlier this year. The probes focus in part on charges that some firms met kickback demands by public officials or others in exchange for pension fund awards.
Cuomo's investigation so far has produced two guilty pleas and criminal charges against four defendants. The suspects include Hank Morris, a nationally known campaign strategist who was the top political adviser to former New York state comptroller Alan Hevesi, and David Loglisci, a former Hevesi aide at the nation's third-largest public pension fund. Both have pleaded not guilty.
The probe also is examining private investment firms' hiring of placement agents, intermediaries who at times use political connections to help win pension fund business. Several funds have recently banned the practice.
Cuomo said the alleged illegality and separate ethics issues uncovered in New York are part of "a nationwide problem."
Prominent givers
USA TODAY's analysis focused on private firms mentioned but not charged with wrongdoing in the pay-to-play cases filed by Cuomo and the SEC. The analysis, based on campaign financial disclosure data collected by the National Institute on Money in State Politics, found many contributions to pension officials in New York and elsewhere.
Prominent givers included David Rubenstein, co-founder of the Carlyle Group. He contributed $48,000 since 2002 to Hevesi's election bids, records show.
Carlyle manages nearly $1.5 billion for the New York state pension fund and received about $38.6 million in management fees since the state's 2004 fiscal year, said Robert Whalen, a spokesman for Thomas DiNapoli, New York's current comptroller.
Carlyle executives or employees also gave at least $114,375 to 18 pension fund officials or office seekers in 10 states since 1998, the campaign records show.
Those donations included at least $28,750 in California, where records of the state's main pension fund, the nation's largest, show it has committed more than $4.1 billion to investments in 28 Carlyle funds since 1996.
Carlyle surfaced in the New York investigation via its energy-related joint venture with Riverstone Holdings, a smaller private-equity firm. In 2003, a Riverstone executive learned the venture could get a New York pension fund management deal by retaining Morris "as a finder," according to the SEC's court complaint.
Carlyle agreed to the hiring even though it already "had its own in-house marketing operation and was spearheading the marketing efforts" for the joint venture, the SEC alleged.
Although the Carlyle-Riverstone team had previously managed only one small energy fund, the joint venture got a $500 million pension fund investment after hiring Morris. He was paid $4.75 million in fees on the deal, according to the SEC complaint.
In a June agreement with Cuomo's office, Riverstone agreed to pay a $30 million settlement and end its use of placement agents in seeking pension fund work.
In May, Carlyle agreed to pay $20 million and enact reforms to resolve its role in the New York case. The reforms included adoption of the Cuomo code of conduct that bars investment firms from doing business with a pension fund for two years after making a campaign contribution to an official able to influence the fund's investment decisions.
Carlyle backed Cuomo's bid "to implement reforms that usher in a new era of transparency and accountability into the pension fund investment process." The firm said in a news release that it would file a lawsuit seeking $15 million in damages from Morris and the brokerage where he worked "for the harm" they caused Carlyle. Company spokesman Christopher Ullman declined to say whether the lawsuit has been filed.
Commenting on the campaign donations, Ullman said, "These contributions were given by Carlyle employees on their own behalf and were properly disclosed to the public." The firm now has a $300 limit on contributions to state or local officials, said Ullman, who added that the giving must be pre-approved by Carlyle's compliance officer.
Blackstone contributions
Officials of the Blackstone Group have similarly contributed to pension fund incumbents and candidates. The firm's chairman is co-founder Stephen Schwarzman, a former Lehman Bros. executive. Co-founder Peter Peterson retired as Blackstone's senior chairman in 2008.
Campaign finance records show Schwarzman; his wife, Christine; and Peterson gave a combined $30,000 to three candidates who ran in 2002 to succeed H. Carl McCall as state comptroller. Hevesi, the winner, got the most, $21,000. Separately, McCall received $25,000 from Christine Schwarzman for his unsuccessful bid for governor.
Blackstone has received about $1.74 billion in private equity- and real estate-related investments from the New York pension fund since 1993 and has been paid about $20 million in fees, said Whalen, the state comptroller's spokesman.
The firm has not been accused in the New York investigation.
Stephen Schwarzman gave $11,000 to Pennsylvania Gov. Edward Rendell's races in 2002 and 2006, campaign finance records show. Pennsylvania's governors by law appoint six of the state pension board's 11 members.
Blackstone's relationship with the Pennsylvania pension fund dates to at least 1994 and includes more than $2.8 billion in private-equity, real estate, stock and other investments, a state summary shows. The deals have paid about $129 million in fees.
Blackstone declined to comment directly on the Pennsylvania contributions. Spokeswoman Christine Anderson said the firm adopted a policy more than three years ago that required Blackstone's general counsel to approve campaign giving.
The policy "banned outright contributions to candidates for office with direct, day-to-day oversight" of public pension funds, Anderson said.
As the New York investigation expanded this year, Anderson said Blackstone "proactively" tightened the policy to include governors and others in pension funds' command chains.
Tightening regulation
The Quadrangle Group is a global private investment firm founded by Rattner, a chief architect of the federal bailout of Chrysler and General Motors.
In 2005, the firm sought an investment from the New Mexico State Investment Council, which manages the $12 billion state endowment created by oil, gas and natural resource extraction fees.
The nine-member council, chaired by Gov. Bill Richardson, approved a $20 million Quadrangle investment in November 2005, state records show. The award has generated about $1 million in fees for Quadrangle so far, said council spokesman Charles Wollmann.
Rattner gave $5,000 to Richardson's election committee in 2002, campaign finance records show. Long known as a major Democratic fundraiser and contributor, Rattner gave an additional $15,000 to Richardson in 2006, the records show. The gifts didn't pose a conflict because Richardson didn't vote on the Quadrangle investment, Wollmann said.
However, the panel in May approved a policy restricting campaign gifts by executives and others connected to firms that receive investments. It bans campaign gifts to elected and appointed officials serving or seeking posts "that may have influence over" the investment council and other state investment boards. The ban applies during the term of investment deals and for two years after. Had it been in effect then, it could have barred Rattner's 2006 contribution to Richardson. Quadrangle declined to comment.
The SEC pay-to-play proposal, unveiled July 22, would impose a two-year ban on pension fund awards to advisers that have given more than $250 in campaign contributions to any public official able to influence the fund's investments. The rule would cover donations to incumbents and challengers and would apply to investment executives, their firms and some employees.
The proposal is similar to a never-enacted 1999 SEC plan. It would bar investment advisers from directing political action committees or intermediaries to make such contributions. It would also bar investment advisers from paying intermediaries to solicit pension fund investments and would prohibit indirect contributions.
The SEC is scheduled to set a final vote on the crackdown after a 60-day public comment period.
"It's certainly an issue that we think, based on our enforcement experience, really deserves our attention," said Schapiro.


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By Sonia Ricotti
February 10, 2006
Sonia Ricotti has many years of management experience with prominent health club organizations. She is a speaker, sales and leadership trainer, and is the founder of Club Training Forum, a training and development consulting firm. She can be reached at (416) 804-1974 or at [email protected]
As each month goes by, we attempt to find new and innovative marketing ideas. How do we increase sales? How do we attract new members? Having sat through many brainstorming meetings in the past, I realize how frustrating and tiresome these experiences can be. The truth is, we are missing the boat. As health clubs and businesses attempt to differentiate themselves from their competitors, the timing couldn't be better to incorporate cause-related marketing initiatives into your business plan. Cause-related marketing can give clubs a powerful marketing edge. Loosely defined, cause-related marketing is a mutually beneficial marketing campaign/relationship between a company and a charity and/or a social cause.
The market of socially conscious people is rapidly growing. Paul H. Ray and Sherry Ruth Anderson, authors of The Cultural Creatives—How 50 Million People are Changing the World, say the fastest growing segment of the population is "cultural creatives," people who are looking for a life of less stress, more spirituality, better health and purpose. At present, they represent more than 50 million in the United States alone.
By demonstrating to the public that they care, a health club or business can rapidly increase sales. In light of all the tragedies that have occurred around the globe, people feel the need to make a difference and contribute. To identify themselves with a business that makes a difference just adds to their fulfillment. Let's face it. People would prefer to bring business to a company or health club that stands for something more than profits. Statistics from a 2002 Cone Corporate Citizenship Study reported that 84 percent of Americans said they would be likely to switch brands to one associated with a good cause if price and quality were similar.
As cause-related marketing takes the business world by storm, many companies are reaping the financial benefits from this innovative and socially conscious marketing strategy. For instance, Bruce Poon Tip, CEO of GAP Adventures, an adventure travel company, has adopted sustainable tourism as his company's cause. GAP has also developed the Planeterra Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to giving back to the people and places they visit.
"It has always been our philosophy to practice sustainable tourism. That is the core of how our business model began," he says. "As the years passed and the company grew, it was very important that we gave back to local communities and also have local business be successful as we became successful. There is no other reason other that it's the right thing to do, and we were passionate about it."
Goodlife Fitness, the largest health club chain in Canada, has been heavily involved in several cause-related marketing ventures including creating the GoodLife Kids Foundation. The foundation was created to teach the benefits of getting fit, eating right and self-esteem to 5- to 12-year-olds. CEO David Patchell-Evans said the goal of the program was to help the children before they needed help. Patchell-Evans is also the founder of the Kilee Patchell-Evans Autism Research Group (named after his daughter with autism), a non-profit organization that focuses on finding the cause and a cure for autism.
Other well-known companies involved in cause-related marketing practices include The Body Shop, Ben and Jerry's, Johnson and Johnson, and American Express. No doubt, these practices and their caring attitudes have contributed to these companies' immense financial success.
Here are six ways to begin developing a cause-related marketing plan.
1. Create a focus group with both employees and managers.
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3. Decide on a cause that fits your business and resonates well with your potential members and existing members. If you are truly passionate about the cause, it will engage you, your staff, your members and the community as a whole.
4. Ensure that you clearly define all your objectives, goals and expectations. Determine what role each side will play. Think win-win, and keep in mind that business is business. Will they mention your company in their newsletters or have a link to your Web site? Who will issue the press releases?
5. Develop a solid marketing plan.
6. Ensure you maximize the opportunity, and use as many guerilla marketing avenues as possible to get the word out (flyers, word of mouth, e-mails, newsletters, press releases, special events, etc.)
Cause-related marketing can and should become a cornerstone of your overall marketing plan. Not only is it a proven successful tool in increasing a company's bottom line and improving its image, but it also benefits society. Overall, it is the right thing to do.
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|1830 U.S. Federal Census
Last week was the 1820 census. This week it's time to topple the 1830 census! More cells to input data although that doesn't necessarily mean more usable information. I'll make my point on that in a moment. The U.S. Census Bureau sums up this census by stating:
"Prior to the passage of the census act authorizing the fifth census in 1830, President Adams, in his fourth address to the U.S. Congress on December 28, 1828, suggested the census commence earlier in the year than August 1. He also proposed that the collection of age data should be extended from infancy, in intervals of 10 years, to the "utmost boundaries of life". These changes were incorporated into the census act of March 23, 1830. As in the previous census, the enumeration was made by an actual inquiry by the marshals or assistants at every dwelling house, or, as the law stated, by "personal" inquiry of the head of every family, and began on June 1."
So the data is better for you in that it gives more age groups (still only the heads of households though). More age groups means it's easier for you to better analyze who is in the household and perhaps rule out or confirm that they are your ancestors. Not more information on those people. There is a column to mark if any were "Deaf and Dumb," blind or not naturalized, but it doesn't give you any indicators as to who those people are. Still, it's better than nothing and they are improving.
I also found it interesting that for the whites they had 13 categories where age was broken down for the men and the women. For slaves and free colored persons it was less than half that at 6 categories for each gender. It does give us an insight into the minds of the people at that time. I will stop there or may become too critical. Historical context, I know. I must detach myself emotionally from that.
Sadly, no attempt to collect data on business/agriculture/industry was made. The Bureau didn't state why, but I'm sure there were reasons.
Again, more good information at www.1930census.com with their overview of the census, the map of the United States in 1830, and the historical facts for that time period are back! It's always a great idea to check out what was going on in the country and world at that time so you can put the data into better context.
As I've mentioned before the spreadsheet will appear to have more than one page when viewed through Google Docs, but when you download it there will only be one page. Again, the cells where there are test are locked so you can't accidentally type over the text. It also makes it easier going from cell to cell without having to avoid the text cells. It will just jump to the next empty cell.
Sorry, not "Notes" block on this form. Too much information to squeeze in and the font was already too small. Didn't want to push my luck there. The rows for data input are numbered so it's easier when moving to the bottom group.
If you have any trouble viewing or downloading the spreadsheet, just comment or send me an email and I'll see what I can do to fix it. So far there hasn't been any trouble since the very first sheet I posted. I'll cross my fingers!
Let me know if there are any mistakes as well. I'm sure you can imagine my eyes were starting to go crossed by the time I was done with this form! Corrections and suggestions are always welcome!
To access the form simply click on the image at the top of the page or click on anywhere it says "1830 census".
Good luck and have fun tending those roots!


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Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Because We All Know That Professors are Slackers
I've read all of the above posts with a kind of detached interest. See, at my uni it is university policy (and we are reminded of this every semester) that we must have some kind of "culminating experience" during the final exam period, and as far as I'm aware, people take that seriously. In other words, I'm not aware of any of my colleagues - whether within my department or outside the university - who take off for greener pastures as soon as the regular semester is done. I'm sure some may exist, but I don't know 'em. I've been on campus both Monday and Tuesday this week (although I didn't have a final Monday), and while I will be at home grading today, I'll be back there tomorrow to accept seminar papers from my grad students. I'm not sure whether I'll go in Friday, but I may well do. I won't be on campus next week because the reality is that with the electronic submission of grades there is no need for me to go in.
What's interesting about all of the above posts is that while the central issue appears to be "Professors flee during final exam week! How dare they?!" the subtext is really much broader, and has to do with an anxiety that somehow professors selfishly seek to short-change students in a variety of ways (whether it's not assigning substantial writing projects, not giving "real" finals, not offering an exam during the exam period, not grading their own students' work, not checking in over the holidays, not being available outside of regular business hours and the regular semester via email or to meet, not holding enough office hours, etc.) in the service of their own personal convenience. This narrative creates a binary opposition between privileged tenured folk and students/administrators/adjuncts/TAs, with privileged tenured folk on the side of all that is self-centered, lazy, and wrong and those others on the side of hard work and fairness and right. This opposition is, to my mind, very simplistic and not terribly useful. While I'm sure there are some professors who abuse the autonomy, flexibility, and lack of accountability (i.e., the lack of a clock to punch) that the profession affords, I'm willing to venture that the narrative about professorial slackitude, while convenient, doesn't present a realistic picture of the motivations and actions of most professors.
First, let me address the issue of exam week.
Mitigating circumstances:
1. How does the university schedule the final exam period? This is crucial. My university schedules it M-F during the week immediately following the end of classes, and finals are scheduled at roughly the same time that the course typically meets. This scheduling makes sense, and it encourages faculty to administer some sort of graded work for that period for a number of reasons including a) students won't have legitimate reasons why they can't attend the final; b) profs have at least four days after the exam period is over in which to tabulate final grades; c) there is enough time after final grades are due - even if one doesn't get them in until the very last minute - to complete holiday travel (and let's note that for the majority of faculty, holiday travel is likely because of the nat'l job market and the fact that one can't settle in his/her hometown near to family, though I suppose one might argue that faculty should just ignore things like "family" over the holidays).
2. Number of students/number and type of preps/the presence or not of grading assistance. If one is teaching two comp courses, say, and then two other writing-intensive literature courses, one might be inclined to have one or more "final" equivalents due prior to the regular exam period of the course, if one is responsible for all grading. In that case, the issue may not be about fleeing from campus but rather about having the time to conscientiously grade the work submitted before submitting final grades.
How I have come to approach exam week:
In writing courses, I typically will have a portfolio due on the first day of the finals period (regardless of when the scheduled exam period is) that includes revisions of previous work and a final research project. This amounts to about 30 pages of writing per student, and the only way for me to get it all read and evaluated by the time grades are due, I really need a week for grading/commenting. Students know about this deadline from the very start of the semester, and this is an excused exception to our "you must meet during the exam period" policy. In courses that count for general education, I hold a traditional cumulative final exam, with a mix of types of questions, from identifications to matching to short answer to essay, and it's typically worth about 20-30% of a student's final grade in a course. In upper-level classes, I've moved to having a short oral presentation during the final exam period for the final that is worth only around 10-15% of the final grade, in which students are asked to synthesize what they've learned over the course of the semester and to link it to their final paper project. This is a relatively new development in my teaching, and pedagogically I find it much more beneficial to students than a traditional exam, since as students become more advanced in my field, what matters more than their ability to spit back plot information or definitions of terms is their ability to write and speak about the literature and the theory. The paper is really the most important thing they'll do for me, and a more traditional final doesn't really show me anything substantive in addition to what this oral assignment does. It's also less stressful for students, which I think is a good thing. And the presentations are easier/faster to grade than a traditional exam. For graduate students, they write a seminar paper. The idea of testing my graduate students is absurd to me. If they need a test, they shouldn't be in graduate school. (Note: this is the norm in my field.)
So am I slacking? I'd say I'm not, but I think a person could ostensibly read the above information and say that I am. I only give traditional exams in approximately 1/2 of the courses that I teach. But I'm not jetting off to glamorous locations as a result of my pedagogical choices. Because my choices are pedagogical - they're not about me getting out of work. Why would we assume that professors are, when they choose not to give a certain kind of assignment or a certain kind of test, that they make those choices without regard to their students? It seems to me that those assumptions are underwritten by a kind of anti-intellectual suspicion that I find deeply, deeply troubling.
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And I think that anti-intellectual suspicion drives other complaints related to professorial workload that have nothing to do with exam week. For example, it's unclear to me why it's so unthinkable for a professor to have a teaching schedule that is only two or three days a week. I have had a schedule like that for the past few years. It doesn't mean that I'm not on campus five days a week - much of the time I am. It's just that having a schedule where I'm not teaching every day allows for me to use those "off" days for other things - like research, advising students, meeting with students in my courses, committee work, professional service, and course preparation. It also means that I have to cancel fewer meetings for conferences, which I need to attend in order meet the basic requirements of my job. While it's true that I may not come to campus if I don't have something scheduled, I do check email on the days when I don't come in, and I do work on the days when I don't come in. Similarly, when we talk about things like course releases or sabbaticals, we're not talking about professors "getting out of work." We're talking about a redistribution of workload, an acknowledgment that there are aspects of this job that exceed the work that we do in the classroom.
So here is the thing. I'm not a fan of the discourses about how professors don't do their jobs, or about the discourses that reduce professorial workload to time spent in the classroom and to specific approved classroom practices. This isn't because I'm all "poor me! look how hard I work and how much work I do!" It's because I think it's stupid and fails to produce any productive results or productive conversation about workload. And perhaps more important than that, it fails to acknowledge that maybe there are multiple ways of doing the best we can for our students, and maybe doing our best means allowing for some flexibility.*
*Within reason. I am not saying that I think the whole thing should be a free-for-all wherein professors are completely unaccountable. It's just to say that it's important to realize that pedagogical choices are not uniform across disciplines or even across individual instructors, and that it can be the case that deviation from "the norm" isn't about slacking or the desire to slack.
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- FrauTech said...
Good points. I think though that students are not sided with the administrators on this one. Students prefer stuff to be cleaned up as soon as possible. Students, like professors, don't want the pressure of too much work too late into the semester. Back when I was in lib arts major, I loved having papers due for finals instead of exams, and generally they could be turned in up until the final exam time. That meant those of us who wanted to could write them all ahead of time, and turn them in early finals week and so get an extra week off. I think students and professors are generally on the same side on this one...professors struggle with the pressure to turn in grades very soon after finals, and students want that to be easier so as to get their grades quickly after finals.
- Dr. Crazy said...
Frau Tech,
I think it depends with students. The post from uni diaries to which I linked linked to an editorial in a student newspaper, so I think that in some places, students really resist having things due before the final, or resist having a paper/project in lieu of a test.
- Earnest English said...
I understand the original complaint, which seems to me to be mostly about losing dead week -- a time for most students and faculty to catch up. But my students, for example, love that we don't have a final exam -- and their final project is important but a small part of their grade.
I think a lot of this depends on context.
Students calling faculty slackers? Hmmm. Can we say payback?
- Dr. Crazy said...
EE - we have no "dead week" policy at my uni, so I can't really speak to that. (also, I don't entirely understand the concept of this, as it also wasn't a policy anywhere I've attended/taught.) I also take your point about faculty getting back what they give (i.e., if faculty call students slackers). I'd say this, though: I think that my students work hard, and I think that I work hard. I don't think it's an either/or. What struck me about the ongoing conversation is that it is primarily faculty/administrators participating in this suspicion of faculty, and that strikes me as unproductive, much as conversations about faculty members mowing their lawns on a tuesday afternoon is unproductive, and obscures any real inquiry into faculty workload.
- gwinne said...
I feel like there's a no-win situation here. I have never required students to turn in final papers before the final exam period. This semester one class has a "final" the last day of exam week; I gave students that deadline (they've known about it since day 1) and also told them they could turn in material the last day of class, or the first day of exam week. That's two opportunities earlier than the university-mandated final; still, people grumbled that they weren't allowed to meet me to turn in material on days 2-4 of exam week.
I'm crabby. Must go grade more exams.
- Shane in SLC said...
Crazy, how big are your upper-division undergrad classes? Even the senior seminars are capped at 25 in my department. For the final presentation idea to work in my context, the presentations would have to be 5 minutes each, or shorter. Is that enough to satisfy the pedagogical goals of the assignment?
I give exams only in the 200-level introductory class, which is skills-based and requires students to memorize a lot of terms related to literary analysis. In my classes for majors, I don't give exams, for the reasons Dr. C offers above: I don't find them pedagogically useful for testing the sorts of skills and knowledge I want students to develop at that level. (I don't teach first-year writing these days, but never really gave exams in those classes either.)
Instead of an exam, students in my upper-level classes write a final research paper, which I generally schedule to fall due in the middle of finals week, with an annotated bibliography due the last week of classes or the week of Thanksgiving. Mid-exam week is a nice compromise, as it gives students time to do their best work (in theory), but also gives me plenty of time to grade the results.
I was likewise troubled by the tone of Dean Dad's correspondent on the 2-day-a-week schedule. I try to work from home at least two weekdays a week, because I'm more productive in my home office: the books I need for my research are at home; my own computer is nicer and faster than the one my department provides at work; I'm not constantly interrupted by used bookseller reps asking if I have desk copies to sell, random students knocking on doors looking for a stapler, etc.
The bottom line is, 50% of my role assignment is devoted to research, and my research is best done at home, where I work probably 40 hours a week, in addition to the 20 or 30 I spend on campus. I don't need Calvinist scolds chaining me to my office desk for 40 pre-scheduled hours a week.
- Dr. Crazy said...
My upper-level courses in the major are technically capped at 22 I think, with a minimum to go at semester's start at 15. Typically, there are a handful of drops, but yes, the presentations are only 5-10 minutes long. I'm ok with that since the presentation is only worth 10-15% of the grade, and I give a very detailed assignment, which requires them to really review what they did over the course of the entire term and to make connections between material over the course of the whole semester as well as between work they did independently (their research paper) and the work we did together. So while they aren't talking for all that long, a lot of preparation goes into editing all of their reflection into 5-10 strong minutes of polished presentation. The reason I like the assignment is that they all get to listen to one another and it's a way of having students themselves do the overview/wrap-up of what the course accomplishes. It would be impossible to do with 25 students, I think, and I believe the highest number I've ever done it with was somewhere around 17. I think if I ever had a class that was totally maxed out, I'd do something different with the final, but since I've started doing this, my enrollments have never been so high that this was an issue.
The truth is that their "final" is really the research paper. But this is a way to comply with the university's demand for a final that doesn't put an undue burden on them and that constitutes a nice culminating experience for the course.
- Another Damned Medievalist said...
I think you touch on a lot of important points. I also think that there are professors who do try to get out of giving finals during finals week because they are commuters who can save on coming in at all, or because they want to leave early.
We have a study week, and are supposed to have some sort of contact during the assigned final period. Some people just don't do it. I can see many reasons not to -- for example, I have had finals scheduled across from a major conference before. But skipping out for the sake of more time off? Not so cool.
I feel the same way about people who only come in on teaching days, especially if they aren't available for the whole day. We're a teaching school and what we advertise is lots of student contact time. Research is necessary, but if there's a meeting or a student can't come in on a particular day, it doesn't help when people aren't around. I'm not saying faculty should be on campus all the time, but I have actually heard faculty refuse to come to meetings, etc., because it's one of the days "I'm not on campus."
- Dr. Crazy said...
ADM - I entirely agree with you about availability and about the fact that student needs, esp. at a teaching institution, MUST drive what we do. The whole "I only come in on teaching days" thing just isn't on if you've got a teaching schedule that's not 5 days a week. Now, if there's no reason to come in, I think it's fine if you work from home, as long as you're in touch with email. That's a totally legitimate way to protect one's research time. But - and this is the important but - if there's a reason why you need to be on campus, you need to haul your butt in.
(I'm a person who doesn't necessarily schedule a lot of office hours, but I do make myself available to meet with students whenever they need me to meet with them by appointment. Which often means I come to campus on days I don't teach, or that I hang around long after the teaching portion of my day is done or come in way earlier than I'd need to come in if I were just coming in to teach my classes. Similarly, while I prefer not to be scheduled for teaching 5 days a week, I never say that I can't attend a meeting on a non-teaching day unless there is some really clear time-sensitive conflict with me being there.)
- PhysioProf said...
I am not saying that I think the whole thing should be a free-for-all wherein professors are completely unaccountable.
Well I sure as fuck am saying that!
- Dr. Crazy said...
Physioprof - Let's note the artful rhetorical move there. I said I wasn't *saying* that - not that I wasn't thinking it :) Mwahahaha!
- PhysioProf said...
Coattail rider!!!
- Dr. Crazy said...
Is Coattail Rider the cousin of copy-cat? I feel like it is :)
- Doctor Pion said...
You are not slacking by having an oral presentation during the final exam period for your upper division classes. You are teaching and evaluating their learning, which is all that is really required to satisfy any policy I know of for finals week. I'm sure they will get more out of that presentation than any written exam.
- Unknown said...
I have followed much the same conversation on the blogosphere with interest as our dean has recently gotten a bee in her bonnet about this issue.
My rationale for 2 out of 3 classes this semester not having final
1. contact hours are met during the semester
2. take home paper v final, IMHO WAY harder to grade the take home final than an inclass exam
3. whiny students who complain that finals week is too crammed/too hard to write for 2 hours/too hard to actually think after the semester is over/need to get home to work, cheaper flight etc
4. two hour final period whereas I use three one hour class sections to give three part exam
5. document analysis portfolio in lieu of final
and YES I am totally willing to say that my PH.D. as well as years of exp make me and ONLY me qualified to decide what kind of "culminating experience" (is that like a 'happy ending') my students need.


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While foraging though a local record shop's bargain bin recently, I ran across two Billboard compilation CDs from about a generation ago: 1989, to be exact. The first volume of Billboard Greatest Christmas Hits was hardly comprehensive. Covering the years 1935 to 1954, it comprised a mere 10 songs, nine of them instantly recognizable to anyone who's ever spent a December in America: Eartha sings 'Santa Baby,'Bing sings 'White Christmas.' (The 10th, 'Christmas Island,' seems to have fallen out of favor, even though Bob Dylan covered it on his 2009 puzzler Christmas in the Heart.)
The second volume had the same number of songs - including, in ascending order of heinousness, 'The Chipmunk Song,' 'Nuttin' for Christmas,' and 'Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer' - but from a survey period almost twice as long, 1955 to the 'present' of 1989. Ten songs for 35 years. Nine, actually, because vol. 2 includes a different version of 'White Christmas.'
If Billboard made a similar compilation of popular Christmas songs written after 1989, what would be on it?
Mariah Carey's 'All I Want for Christmas Is You,' and that's all. It's at No. 1 on Billboard's Holiday Digital Songs chart this week. At this writing, it's also at No. 1 on the Holiday page of the iTunes Store. But if that irresistible candy cane of a love song, co-written by Carey and Walter Afanasieff, were a candy, uh, man, he'd be old enough to vote now. 'All I Want for Christmas Is You' came out in 1994. It is, if anything, more ubiquitous now than it was then. At this time last year, a delightful video of Carey performing the song for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon while Fallon and the Roots and four moppets played and sang along on toy instruments renewed its cachet. When Michael Buble and CeeLo Green elect to cover the same tune, it can safely be called a standard.
But what else? There hasn't been another original holiday single in the 19 years since 'All I Want for Christmas Is You' that's had anything close to that song's commercial or cultural impact. Despite the gigabytes of Christmas music released each year - big stars making their first charge into the yule breach this year include Kelly Clarkson, Mary J. Blige, and, alarmingly, the cast of Duck Dynasty - they are, overwhelmingly, reiterating yuletide warhorses. It's up to you whether you'd rather hear Clarkson or the Robertsons of Duck Dynasty do 'Baby, It's Cold Outside,' but both options are available.
What gives? Where are the new Christmas standards?
The release of holiday-themed material may no longer be de rigueur in artists' recording contracts, but it isn't as though big pop names have stopped writing Christmas songs. It seems we've just stopped embracing them. Lady Gaga released 'Christmas Tree,' which she wrote with Martin Kierszenbaum and Space Cowboy, in 2008. It's wretched, but at least it wasn't another cover of 'Santa Baby.' Coldplay's 'Christmas Lights,' from 2010, is terrible, too, but you'd expect them just to do 'Happy Xmas (War Is Over),' right?
Gaga and Coldplay are two of the biggest acts of the 21st century. Do you remember either of those songs? Or Brad Paisley's '364 Days to Go' from 2006? Or Justin Bieber's 'Mistletoe' from only two years ago? Or the New Pornographers' 'Joseph, Who Understood?,' from 2007, which spares a thought for a guy who might not have found the Immaculate Conception quite so miraculous?
That New Pornographers song, at least, is terrific. But none of those had the cultural penetration of Christmas pop originals from the generation before: Paul McCartney's beloved and despised 'Wonderful Christmastime' (1979) or Wham!'s feather-haired 'Last Christmas' (1984) or Run-D.M.C.'s simply unfathomable 'Christmas in Hollis' (1987). Love 'em or hate 'em, these songs get played year after year, and they all came from artists who were at or near the height of their fame when they released them, as Gaga and Coldplay and Paisley and Bieber were when they released theirs.
The yule canon, it seems, isn't just closed - it's a location-undisclosed black site that's locked down tighter than Santa's workshop. In 2006, when the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers released a list of the most-performed holiday songs in the U.S., the newest song to crack the top 10 was 'Jingle Bell Rock,' from 1957. The most recent song in the top 25 was 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' an all-star charity single from 1984.
It makes sense, sort of, that during the nostalgia-drunk holiday season, people crave old songs. But nostalgia is a deeply strange and deceitful concept. We needn't have lived through the era of Polaroid or vinyl or Phil Spector's Wall of Sound to feel comforted by our modern simulations of these antiquated cultural totems. And nostalgia and Christmas, at least in its secular observance, are inextricably linked.
No wonder the best of this year's new Christmas records sound sort of old. Clarkson's Wrapped in Red marries the bounce of 'All I Want for Christmas Is You' to the style of the classic A Christmas Gift for You From Phil Spector, first released the same day President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. Of 'Wrapped in Red's' five originals, I'd say that at least the title track and 'Underneath the Tree' have reasonable odds of remaining in the yuletide rotation five years from now. So does 'One More Sleep,' the original lead-off track from Leona Lewis' holiday offering, Christmas With Love. Lewis' album has fewer new songs than Clarkson's, but their sound is even more self-consciously Spector-y: Its second track is a 'Winter Wonderland' that's almost indistinguishable from Darlene Love's version of 50 years earlier. Its cover art, too, is a throwback to the graphic design of the Mad Men era.
Nick Lowe's Quality Street - which shares this year's 'A Christmas album by who?' category with Kool & the Gang's brand-new-though-you'd-never-guess-it Kool for the Holidays - contributes four worthy new songs to the holiday missal: My favorite, 'A Dollar Short of Happy,' which Lowe co-wrote with Ry Cooder, is in the honorable tradition of forlorn yule standards like Charles Brown's 'Please Come Home for Christmas.' But they're all too subtle to stand a chance of breaking through. You might hear one of them in a Starbucks, but broad cultural buy-in ain't gonna happen.
It never happens anymore even though plenty of great artists have released great Christmas songs since Mariah first donned her Santa furs. The 10 Christmas EPs Sufjan Stevens has released (in the form of two boxed sets) since 2006 comprise more than 100 songs, dozens of them original compositions. On the whole, they're tremendous, by turns giddy and somber, insolent and reverent, capturing the whole range of complex emotions the holiday season engenders. Check out 'Put the Lights on the Tree' or 'That Was the Worst Christmas Ever!' ('Mr. Frosty Man' is in the middle of the pack, songwise, but its zombie-splatterin' claymation video is - like the Sufjan Christmas EPs as a whole - superb counterprogramming for when you've had a few sugar cookies too many.)
The Killers have released an original Christmas charity single every year since 2006, an admirable custom even if none of them have been as great as the first, 'A Great Big Sled.' It's a bell-ringing, hall-decking specimen of '80s U2-style bombast with a chorus that sounds ripe for the covering by other artists. I would've loved to hear Mary J. Blige belt out this song on her new collection, A Mary Christmas, instead of sticking to the overfished dozen she's recorded. (We're good on 'The Little Drummer Boy,' ladies and gentlemen, forever. Please just stop.) But 'A Great Big Sled' has become a seasonal staple only to me, apparently.
It's a shame that A Mary Christmas, like an increasing number of holiday albums, doesn't bother to submit any new songs for our consideration. Since consumers can simply cherry-pick the songs they want, why make the effort? It's yet another way that the iTunes-YouTube era's commercial imperatives have altered the aesthetics of music making: Once upon a time, consumers had to purchase a full album to get the version of 'Silent Night' they craved. So a handful of original Xmas tunes on a record helped new songwriters earn some royalties, even if it was often the requisite holiday standards driving the sale. And if one of those new songs hit? Ho-ho-ho, it could be Christmas every day for the rest of your life. Stephen Colbert underlined this point in 2008's 'Another Christmas Song,' which has a lyric about how writing a calculated yuletide staple will help fund his retirement and concludes with the soothing words, 'Copyright Stephen Colbert.'
Ironically, the soundtrack album from his special A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All, is composed, save for one cover, of all originals, and they're some of the best holiday songs of the 21st century. (He and Jon Stewart duet on 'Can I Interest You in Hanukkah?') They're funny, of course - but the Colbert tunes are also surprisingly relistenable, as would-be standards must be. They're tart but absent the bitterness that makes most song parodies instantly wearying. 'There Are Much Worse Things to Believe In,' written and performed by Colbert and Elvis Costello, isn't even all that much of a parody. In fact, it implores listeners to trade in their cynicism for sincerity.
That's actually the same sentiment expressed in 'Love Is Everything,' the better of the two original songs on a new holiday-themed EP from Ariana Grande, the 20-year-old singer-songwriter and actress. It's a not-bad attempt by Grande to join Mariah in the holiday hall of fame. As I write this, it's at No. 2 on Billboard's Holiday Digital Songs chart, right behind 'All I Want for Christmas Is You.' But on the iTunes chart, it's being beaten out by another Grande holiday track: A cover of Wham!'s 'Last Christmas.'


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Vancouver Vietnamese Mennonite Church (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
In 2000 the Conference of Mennonites in British Columbia began exploring the possibility of beginning a Vietnamese ministry in Vancouver. Nhien Pham from Calgary, Alberta was appointed by the Evangelism and Church Development Committee (ECDC) of the conference to be the church planter, and in August 2001 a congregation began meeting at Sherbrooke Mennonite Church. It was originally intended to be called the East Vancouver Vietnamese Fellowship. The Sherbrooke congregation and ECDC partnered with Nhien Pham in this ministry. The congregation was accepted as a member of Mennonite Church British Columbia on 23 February 2008.
In 2008 the congregation began assisting Mennonite Church British Columbia and Emmanuel Mennonite Church in establishing the Abbotsford Vietnamese Ministries, a Vietnamese church that meets in Abbotsford. The group organized formally in 2009, with Nhien Pham as pastor, and meeting at the Emmanuel Mennonite Church building.
The congregation's worship style is considered traditional, singing a mixture of hymns and choruses with piano, and approximately once a month youth accompany the singing with instruments such as guitars and drums. Though the worship of Vietnamese Mennonite is in the Vietnamese language, some of the young people attend the Sherbrooke services and have become involved in the Sherbrooke youth group. The Vietnamese congregation also joins with the Sherbrooke congregation several times a year for special occasions and the annual family retreat at Camp Squeah.
Ministries of the Vietnamese Mennonite Church include translation services for recent Vietnamese immigrants and refugee sponsorship.
Dueckman, Amy. "Abbotsford Vietnamese Fellowship Expanding." Canadian Mennonite (February 16, 2009): http://www.canadianmennonite.org/vol13-2009/13-04/godchurch.php.
Mennonite Church British Columbia. New 'n Notes (Jan/Feb/Mar 2009).
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Address: 7155 Sherbrooke Street, Vancouver, BC V5X 4E3
Phone: 604-324-1200
Denominational Affiliations:
Mennonite Church British Columbia (2008-present)
Mennonite Church Canada (2008-present)
Vancouver Vietnamese Mennonite Church Ministers
|Nhien Pham
Vancouver Vietnamese Mennonite Church Membership
Map:Vancouver Vietnamese Mennonite Church, Vancouver, BC
|Richard D Thiessen
|Amy Dueckman
|Date Published
|March 2012
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Thiessen, Richard D and Amy Dueckman. "Vancouver Vietnamese Mennonite Church (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. March 2012. Web. 24 Feb 2020. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Vancouver_Vietnamese_Mennonite_Church_(Vancouver,_British_Columbia,_Canada)&oldid=142213.
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Thiessen, Richard D and Amy Dueckman. (March 2012). Vancouver Vietnamese Mennonite Church (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 24 February 2020, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Vancouver_Vietnamese_Mennonite_Church_(Vancouver,_British_Columbia,_Canada)&oldid=142213.
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