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Category: Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
Equality, diversity and inclusion (ED&I) remain hot topics, especially when analysing representation, or the often thereby lack of, at the top, and we're working hard to ensure that ED&I becomes part of the norm by changing the conversation.
A lack of diversity has created an imbalance in many of the sectors that we operate in, such as engineering, aerospace, IT, rail, nuclear and construction, and we've witnessed first-hand how females, LGBTQ+ and ethnic minorities have been underrepresented, particularly at senior level.
Change is Coming
Within our own business, we strive to ensure that our workforce represents our customers and society as a whole, which means recruiting from the widest talent pool possible and giving our people the tools, drivers and learning opportunities to thrive and reach their full potential, from entry through to board level.
We are ferociously challenging stereotypes to build diverse workforces that drive innovative ideas, change the status quo and raise the bar for success.
Including inclusivity as one of our core company values ensures that we do everything possible to provide a fair, open and equal culture from the top down and bottom up so that ED&I touches every part of what we do.
We also excel in the levels of diversity amongst our senior management and to ensure our board of the future replicates this same forward-thinking approach to talent irrespective of their gender, race, sexuality, age, religion and belief, and more, we run an ongoing mentoring programme with our leaders who possess the drive to reach the top.
Diversity breeds innovation, productivity and drives commercial earnings, and we work in partnership with a number of our clients to champion their own ED&I programmes, by giving everyone a voice and developing cultures that embrace change and outperform their peers.
The Diversity and Leadership Exchange
Maintaining an equal, diverse and inclusive workforce is part of Morson International's DNA. As one of the most respected names in recruitment, we've built a business that delivers excellence for our employees, candidates, contractors and clients.
Improving diversity, particularly in leadership positions, is good for business, yet many technical sectors still lack gender and ethnic diversity at senior level.
We're hosting a unique panel event which brings together world-class leaders from various professions and industries to share their own stories and insights on leadership behaviours to create inclusive cultures, lead successfully diverse teams and develop environments where all staff can thrive and reach their full potential.
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We will be releasing the findings of the event in a video and write up which hopes to uncover the latest trends affecting business and how current and future leaders can navigate these issues to create more diverse teams that are engaged, productive and innovative, and ultimately drive business objectives.
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March Phone Bank II
March 25, 2018 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Join Sea Change volunteers for a phone bank in Culver City. We'll be making calls to voters in red Congressional districts and volunteer recruitment calls. All you'll need to bring are a charged cell phone and your enthusiasm. We'll provide scripts, training, and snacks. Be sure to RSVP so we know you're coming!

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Downtown Springfield will be alive with the work of local artists when the Springfield Central Cultural District's Art Stop pop-up galleries return to the city in April.
The event, which the SCCD first brought to the city in October, is billed as a pop-up gallery and street festival hybrid.
A pop-up gallery walk will take place on Wednesday, April 5. The event will feature art throughout pop-up galleries inside New England Public Radio, 1550 Main Street, and SilverBrick Lofts. The event will also feature street performers who will guide visitors between galleries.
"There will be activities between the locations ranging from live muralmaking, to an indie-jazz duo, to traditional fiddle," the SCCD said in a press release. "Inside the galleries, visitors can ask the artists questions one on one and key down from their workday."
The celebration will take place from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. For more information, visit springfieldculture.org.
The cultural district is still looking for artists to create installations downtown. Artists will display their work from March to June, receive all proceeds from any sales and be paid a $200 stipend.
The original deadline for proposals was March 8, but it was extended to March 17 earlier this month.
"This is a great opportunity for both emerging and professional artists," cultural district Executive Director Morgan Drewniany said in a statement. "Most public galleries don't pay a stipend and charge a fee if works are sold. We are not only paying the artists for lending their work, but underwriting the cost of the program for them."


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Vera James House is a purpose built residential care home for older people situated in the historic centre of Ely within walking distance of the market place and the cathedral. The scheme has 42 single rooms, all with ensuite facilities.
We have rooms available on two floors with lift access to all areas and some rooms have views of the Cathedral. Regular trips to the market and Cathedral are arranged for residents. Visitors to the home include local school choirs, the PAT dog, carol singers, local church and volunteers. All meals are cooked on the premises in our own kitchens in partnership with Apetito and have been awarded a five star rating by Environmental Health. To read what residents and families say about Vera James House click here Vera James House is in the process of being sold to a new owner, Glenholme Healthcare www.glenholme.org.uk, which has many years of experience in care. For more information visit click here


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Kabul guy: When his pal Hamid Karzai became president of Afghanistan, Said Fazel Akbar sold his Oakland hip-hop clothing shop and went home to help. He became the official government spokesman, and in 2002 his teenage son, Hyder Akbar, came to spend that summer in the ancestral homeland he'd never seen, skipping his prom to witness ambushes, bombs, warlords, al-Qaeda trails, and the gory corpse of an assassinated vice president. That and subsequent trips became pieces on This American Life and now a book, Come Back to Afghanistan (Bloomsbury, $24.95). "I consider myself an Afghan," says Akbar, who will be at Cody's Telegraph on November 16, though "I'm probably more American than I'd like to admit." His time in the nation where he plans to relocate after finishing at Diablo Valley College has entailed shock, food poisoning, and empathy: "Afghanistan is so underdeveloped that a distinct youth culture barely exists. ... Sure, in Kabul you can now buy Barbecue Pringles and bootleg DVDs," but these treats mean little to kids who grew up with war, says the author, who so feared impending boredom that he brought eighty CDs on his first visit.
Plugged in: The Huskette, the Ram-a-Lot, the Thrill Hammer, the Love Locker ... El Sobrante photographer Tim Archibald, whose work has appeared in Newsweek, GQ, and The New Yorker, traveled cross-country snapping inventors and their creations for Sex Machines (Process, $24.95), a surprisingly warm and suburban look at metal, motors, and lifelike replicas in another America where guys in Levis build stuff to -- as one inventor puts it -- "make the world happier." Thirtysomething dad Archibald isn't a scenester himself: "It's not the Folsom Street Fair-type of underground where there's a fashion and a code," he says. "These are just regular Joes." An airplane mechanic, a welder, a homesteader, a born-again-Christian motorcycle builder -- Archibald shows them not demonstrating the machines but posing proudly amid sofas, pets, crutches, bags of Tostitos: "Their homes were totally middle-class. That's something I'd always liked -- people's kitchens and garages. ... These folks didn't have dungeons.
"The greatest machine that hasn't yet been invented," says Archibald, who will present a slide show at San Francisco's Modern Times Bookstore on December 8, "is the one that'll do the dishes and listen to you."
High there: Travel impresario Rick Steves has written that pot brings smokers closer to God. He's on the National Organization to Reform Marijuana Laws' advisory board; addressing a local NORML meeting earlier this year, he compared being high to being in Cuba, because "anytime my government says I can't go somewhere, I feel it's one of my rights to go there. My government can't tell me I can't go to Cuba." Along with actor Tommy Chong -- who served nine months in prison for distributing bongs online in 2003 -- Steves is a key speaker at the Wonders of Cannabis festival in Golden Gate Park on Saturday and Sunday. Featuring panels, booths, and a giant rolling contest, the fair is sponsored by Oakland pot guru and Closet Cultivator author Ed Rosenthal, whose Quick American Archives publishing house has just released Spliffs 2 ($12.95).
Regular ... or super-absorbent? Lesbian theorist, Another Mother Tongue author, and Oaklander Judy Grahn now edits Metaformia: A Journal of Menstruation and Culture, festooned with a bloody-fingerpaint illustration at Metaformia.org. It's based on Grahn's Metaformic Theory, in which "ancestral humans have understood, quite reasonably, that the jelling up of menses within the womb produces a new being"; thus many creation myths entail darkness "that then separates into the forms we know as light, water, earth, sky. ... I call those forms metaforms, related to menstruation and its rituals. ... Metaforms at times 'speak' to us in some fashion, and people understand this communication as a dialogue with nonhuman intelligent spirit, or deity, as messages from the mind of the cosmos." Contributor Deborah Grenn asserts that "women's menstrual rituals created much of what we know as culture," and Grahn submits a postulate for warfare's origins: "Men developed bloodshed rites because they needed to keep up with the cultural developments women were creating."
Oh, that conspiracy: Jews are America's richest ethnic group; hence the looming presence of "Jewish elites" and "Jewish power" and a "Jewish lobby" and "the pro-Jewish bias of the corporate media" evinced by an "influential Jewish presence at all levels," writes De Paul University professor Norman Finkelstein in Beyond Chutzpah ($22.50), new from UC Press. American Jews perpetrated "a conspiracy -- this is the correct word -- to blackmail Europe," Finkelstein declares, and Jewish elites wield "a lethal brew of formidable power, chauvinistic arrogance, feigned (or imagined) victimhood. ... Coddling them is not the answer. They need to be stopped." He drew approving laughter when he told an audience in Boalt Hall this month: "What's called the new anti-Semitism is not new and it's not about anti-Semitism. Every fifteen years the main so-called Jewish defense organizations start a campaign." Today's "so-called anti-Semitism," Finkelstein said, is actually "a phantom phenomenon" engineered to manipulate public opinion about foreign affairs. In his book, he ridicules "the new anti-Semitic circus," questioning feminist Phyllis Chesler's sanity and dubbing novelist Cynthia Ozick a redundant "ancient diva, rolled out for every new anti-Semitism production."
Whether you win: He pokes lit cigarettes into a chimpanzee's belly at the zoo, but that's because the hero of Micheline Aharonian Marcom's novel The Daydreaming Boy (Riverhead, $14) has a tattered soul, having grown up in a loveless orphanage after his father was bludgeoned to death during the Turkish genocide against the Armenians in 1915. Marcom, who teaches at Mills College, has just won the 2005 PEN/USA Award for fiction. It's a $1,000 cash prize -- peanuts compared to the $35,000 Whiting Writers' Award snagged by fellow Berkeleyite Ilya Kaminsky, whose first book of poems, Dancing in Odessa (Tupelo, $16.95), came out this year. Past Whiting recipients include Jonathan Franzen, William T. Vollmann, Mary Karr, and Tony Kushner. Kaminsky, who clerks for the National Immigration Law Center, arrived here from Russia as a teen when the US government granted his family asylum. In his poem "Praise," he writes: "i was born in the city named after odysseus/and i praise no nation."
Hawks, doves, etc.: Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev, Zhao Ziyang, Hosni Mubarak, and Kuwaiti Prince Shaikh Said have all owned bronze fowl sculpted by Oakland's Wheatley Allen. The Bay Area native's self-published picture book Howard Wheatley Allen: Sculptor to Emperors, Presidents & Kings ($24.95) is a who's-who of world leaders who have owned metal loons, curlews, owls, and quail.
Not really waiting: The biggest myth about unwed midlifers is "that they're out to pasture," says San Francisco Chronicle columnist Jane Ganahl, editor of Single Woman of a Certain Age (Inner Ocean, $21.95). "In our mothers' era, if you were unmarried and over, say, 45, you were considered a spinster -- a sad and forlorn woman waiting for a man to save her. These days, women consider marriage an option that they can take or leave ... especially women who have already been married." In the anthology, April Sinclair recounts moving from Oakland to rural Marin, where a drunk white woman jeeringly gave her the Black Power salute but probably wouldn't have "if I'd had a man or even a woman at my side." Ultimately, "I was alone in my blackness." Ganahl, Sinclair, and other contributors will be at A Great Good Place for Books on November 5.
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With bullwhip in hand, Indiana Jones has unearthed a wealth of ancient treasures. In Raiders of the Lost Ark, the fearless archeologist journeys from Nepal to Cairo to the Mediterranean, dodging poisons, traps, and snakes, battling rivals old and new–all in pursuit of an ancient artifact that holds the key to dazzling, invincible power. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom finds our intrepid hero in a remote village in India, where a mysterious old shaman tells him that his arrival has been foreseen–and that he must retrieve a stolen mystical stone. And finally, Indy must face the most challenging and personal endeavor of his life: rescue his estranged father, the eminent professor Dr. Henry Jones, from a Nazi's lair, and recover the legendary Holy Grail. Yet Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade doesn't mean the adventure is over. . . .
Differences from the Films
- Jock Lindsey is Scottish instead of American.
- Indy at one point recalls some of his previous encounters with Belloq, such as at graduate school, when Belloq plagiarized Indy's essay on stratigraphy, and as a result was awarded the Archeological Society Prize. Later, in the summer of 1934 Indy found that Belloq already had excavated a spot in the Rub al Khali Desert of Saudi Arabia, a place which Indy had spent months planning to dig.
- Dietrich is introduced immediately after Indy and Jock escape from the Hovitos, in Berlin being given his marching orders by an SS officer named Eidel.
- Belloq, upon being hired by Dietrich, is brought to Adolf Hitler's countryside retreat for an audience with him. They are made to wait, and Belloq expresses annoyance and disdain for Hitler because of this.
- Although in the film it is a nameless Nazi agent who gets aboard the plane with Indy as he leaves for Nepal, the novel combines this character with Toht.
- Indy recalls the last time he spoke with Abner Ravenwood, discussing Indy's relationship with Marion.
- Upon arriving in Nepal, Indy acquires both a car and directions to the Raven bar from a contact named Lin-Su.
- After Indy leaves the bar, he sits in his car and stews over what he should do, and doesn't notice Toht and he cronies walking past on their way to the Raven.
- When Indy rescues Marion, Marion remembers how Indy everyday used to practice with his bullwhip. Indy then recalls how he developed his fascination for the bullwhip, seeing a whip-act in a travelling circus when he was seven years old.
- The Arab Swordsman never appears.
- An added extra scene at Tanis wherein Belloq is overseeing the dig, and Belloq recalls how Toht arrived with the markings of the Headpiece to the Staff of Ra burned into his palm, and how he made a duplicate Headpiece from this by taking a mold of Toht's hand.
- The first mechanic never appears; instead Indy only fights the wrench-wielding second mechanic who is described as having tattoos, and he meets the first mechanic's fate of being shredded by the Flying Wing's propeller.
- The truck chase happens differently. Firstly Toht rides in the same car as Gobler, and thus dies when the car flies off of a cliff. Also the Nazi gunner in the back of the car is flipped out when Indy sideswipes Gobler with the truck, and he falls down a cliff. The Nazi sergeant never appears; instead two soldiers try to climb over the top of the truck, but are killed when Indy slams the brakes and sends them flying against the side of a mountain.
- Following the truck chase, there is an added scene of Belloq and Dietrich at the German consulate in Cairo, where they smoke cigarettes and wonder what they should do, be being given news of the departing Bantu Wind.
- Indy uses his whip to lash onto the periscope of the Wurrfler, but loses his hat in the water and his whip tied to the periscope.
- Indy interrupts the Ark-opening ceremony after Belloq has changed into his ceremonial robes. When he is subdued by Captain Mohler, Dietrich attempts to execute him, but Belloq stops him, telling him to tie Indy up and kill him after they open the Ark, so Indy can die knowing he (Belloq) defeated him one final time.
- Belloq's death is different than the movie. His eyes burn out of his sockets, his skin decays, and he turns to dust. Also the deaths of the Nazis (particularly Dietrich) are not explicitly described.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- Willie Scott and Short Round have detailed backstories.
- The novel describes Indy as having a gray fedora, not a brown one.
- The scene where Indy tries to shoot the two Thuggees on the mountain is not in the novelization.
- Many graphic scenes that aren't shown in the film, such as Indy and Shorty being covered by flying human skins, are in the book.
- Willie escapes the guards that ambush her and Short Round, she makes it back to her room and tells Chattar Lal and Blumburtt about the temple. When Indy — under the sleep of Kali Ma — comes tells them that everything is fine, Blumburtt returns to his room while Lal and Indy capture Willie and take her back to the temple.
- Chattar Lal dies in the book, while he lives in the movie.
- While Short Round is digging, a guard gets burned by lava and returns to normal but is dragged away to drink the Blood of Kali again, then Short Round gets the idea of how to save Indy.
- The Thugge Slave Driver's death is different. In the film Indy beats him up until his sash got caught in the rock crusher, while on the book he tried to grab Indy only but lost his balance and his sash got caught on the rock crusher.
- Mola Ram has also taken the Blood, and at the end of the book, when Ram burns his hand on the last Sankara Stone, he returns to normal and Indy tries to pull him to saftey but, Ram falls off the bridge
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- A longer introduction to the ship scene with Panama Hat. The man explains to Indy that he has a prospective buyer ready to purchase the Cross of Coronado but demands that Jones be killed to eliminate any loose ends. Later on, Indy speculates that the anonymous buyer may have been Walter Donovan, though this is never proven.
- Jones being approached two other professors (who despite not being identified by name would appear to be the Professor Stanton and Dr. Mulbray alluded to in the credits) and asked to authenticate a fertility idol.
- A longer scene of Jones being escorted to Walter Donovan's home by his men.
- When arriving in Venice, Indy and Marcus witness the local militia brutalizing an old man. This prompts them to mull over the current situation in Europe and the rising threat of Fascists and Nazis, foreshadowing the appearance of the latter a few chapters later.
- After knocking the butler at Castle Brunwald out, Indy and Elsa hide his body in a closet.
- While leaving the Hitler rally, Indy, in German uniform, is accosted by an SS officer, who he punches.
- Aboard the zeppelin, Indy and Henry are chased by a Gestapo agent who had boarded with Vogel. The agent and the pilot he drafts into service are killed when they crash their biplane.
- In order to gain access for their vehicles to the Canyon of the Crescent Moon, Donovan and the Nazis blow up the entrance with explosives while Indy and the others watch.
Other noteworthy differences include:
- Indy's interrogation of Kazim and his revelation of Henry's whereabouts occurs while the motorboat is being chopped up by the ship's prop, rather than after they have escaped.
- Instead of pretending to be a Scottish lord named Clarence MacDonald, Indy pretends to be an English lord named Clarence Chumley. Also the butler says if Indy is a lord then he is Jesse Owens, not Mickey Mouse.
- Indy kills the SS officer in Henry's room along with the guards, instead of just knocking him out.
- Donovan opts to have Indy and Henry killed before receiving word of Marcus' capture, which occurs later. Also there is no direct cable from Berlin of Hitler ordering him to "eliminate the American conspirators."
- There are only four Nazi communications officers, vs. the film's five, and all of them are males. The female officer does not appear. In addition, Indy jams the fireplace door with a table leg instead of a bust of Hitler.
- The motorcycle chase is omitted entirely.
- The car given to the Hatayan Sultan (individual) is a Daimler-Benz, instead of a Rolls-Royce.
- Marcus is already in the tank at the outset of the Nazis' journey to the Canyon (yet Donovan's line, "Put Brody in the tank" remains). Also, he actually manages to drink from the canteen. Vogel does not take it from him, and Marcus throws it back at Donovan when he's finished.
- Indy and the others witness Kazim's death.
- Sallah joins Indy on horseback but they get separated when Sallah falls off his horse after almost being hit by flying car parts when the tank blows up the Kübelwagen.
- In addition, the Kübelwagen carries two soldiers vs. the film's one, and is jammed sideways between the tank treads rather than upside-down on the cannon. The other Kübelwagen (described as "a jeep") also joins the two troop carriers, and Indy fights more soldiers on the tank as they board from the extra vehicle as a result. In particular, two soldiers fall on the tank treads and get crushed, instead of just one.
- The crew of the tank are all Germans, instead of three Germans and two Hatayans. The Hatayan gunner and tank driver do not appear.
- Indy's escape from the falling tank and Vogel's death are different. Indy and Vogel get tangled in the length of chain Vogel was using to fight with, and Indy has to free himself by taking off his pants. Vogel remains tangled in the chain, and can't get off of the tank as a result.
- The Grail Knight's warning not to take the Grail past the seal occurs after Henry has been healed, because he follows Indy and Elsa back out into the temple proper. The warning is also directed specifically at Elsa. He also asks Henry and others if they are the ones come to challenge him, if not Indy.
- The fleeing Nazi soldiers fall into the crack in the temple floor trying to jump over it, whereas in the film they make it and escape.
Indy is attempting to recover the Ark of the Covenant, alongside with Marion Ravenwood, but on the way they face Nazis, Toht, and the infamous Boulder Dash - it's gonna be tough!
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
He's back and this time he meets Short Round and Willie Scott, though this time he faces such treacheries as a spike chamber, bugs, and Thuggees.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Indy teams up with his father, Henry Jones to once and for all destroy the fiendish Nazi Empire. On the way he faces boats, tanks, explosions and a whole world of adventure.


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Vince starts off with an environmental update but goes off on a tangent every time he mentions plutocrats. Next he talks about the reality of fake news; and comments on coverage about Iran blowing a hole in a Japanese oil tanker. His fiery rant is interrupted by a caller who happens to be an irate professor. After another call Vince loses his temper and proclaims, "I've Had Enough." MickWop Music is jammed. After the song he picks right up on how the main stream media influences sheepie behavior; then an update on the artificial economy and he gives us some reality as well. A quote from the original Doctor Who ends another enthralling Plutocracy report.


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Show starts at 2:00 with a special opening performance
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You can bring yourself, your friends, your kids, lowback chairs, and sweaters & blankets (you never know in Los Osos!). No outside food or beverage, please.
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Washington, D.C. : The Minority Media and Telecommunications Council (MMTC) proudly commends President Barack Obama for selecting senior FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn and telecom visionary Tom Wheeler to be Interim Chair and Chair of the FCC, respectively.
Last week, MMTC and 49 other organizations, including the NAACP, League of United Latin American Citizens, and the Alliance for Women in Media, wrote to the President to encourage him to nominate FCC Commissioners that would prioritize minority and women's issues. The letter cited the disproportionately low representation of women and minorities in media and telecom ownership, procurement, employment, and entrepreneurship in industries overseen by the FCC.
Since joining the FCC in 2009, Commissioner Clyburn has served as a bastion of support for minority and women's issues, having recently been instrumental in defending the Universal Service Fund's Lifeline Program, and speaking out against predatory prison payphone rates that disproportionately impact minorities and women.
Tom Wheeler has nearly three decades of experience as a policy expert at the forefront of telecommunications policy and business development, building a reputation for promoting diversity and innovation throughout his career. MMTC is confident that, along with Commissioners Clyburn, Ajit Pai, and Jessica Rosenworcel, Wheeler will continue to advance minority and women's issues in industries comprising one-sixth of the economy.
On the appointments, MMTC President David Honig stated, "With Tom Wheeler as Chair and Mignon Clyburn as Interim Chair, the White House has given us a 'dream team' – two extraordinarily talented public servants, both of whom bring many years of practical business experience in media and telecom and who are known for their integrity and fair-mindedness. They will ensure that diversity, equal opportunity and inclusion will be top priorities at the FCC."
About MMTC:
The Minority Media and Telecommunications Council (MMTC) is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and preserving equal opportunity and civil rights in the mass media, telecommunications and broadband industries, and closing the digital divide. MMTC is generally recognized as the nation's leading advocate for minority advancement in communications.


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Thomas Dart has been named the new Director of Development in the division of University advancement. He is now responsible for managing the university's fundraising which includes corporate, foundation and planned giving along with alumni donations, research and the well endowed annual fund.
The annual fund is used for direct monetary release to the university's operating expenses, or that for which tuition alone can not accommodate. Traditionally, alumni, trustees, parents, faculty, staff and friends of the university comprise those who contribute to this annual fund.
The office of University Advancement, primarily responsible for fundraising, marketing and alumni communication, established the paid student calling program, in which current John Carroll students place phone calls to alumni to ask for donations to the university's annual fund. The program has generated an 85 percent success rate, according to Doreen Riley, Vice President for University advancement. Riley attributes such success to the fact that the university employs actual John Carroll students, rather than outsource the job.
Dart, who assumed this title on September 19th after the position had been vacant for about six months, brings tremendous international experience to the John Carroll community. He served in the Peace Corps in Tunisia, where he met his wife of 26 years.
He then taught History and English at international schools in Greece and Germany for five years. He served as a director of development of the Catholic Relief Services (CRS) for 13 years and spent five of those years as a CRS representative in Rwanda, Burkina Faso and The Gambia.
Dart was the regional director of major gifts for the University of Chicago for two years. He comes to John Carroll after six years as Senior Director for Campaign Leadership Gifts and Executive Director of Development at Dominican University.
"I love it here" said Dart after his fourth day on the job. "I feel so blessed to be at JCU and to have the opportunity to be associated with such a strong university." He first visited John Carroll five years ago when his son was looking at schools. Dart is the father of five children, and his daughter is now a sophomore at the University.
Dart envisions the success of several initiatives in developing the university. "Right now, I want to learn as much as I can about John Carroll, the alumni and the Jesuit mission."
Riley says she can not imagine anyone more fit for the job: "He blew all the competition away."


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NEW YORK — Match.com and Tinder are looking for a Wall Street hookup as their parent group prepares to establish them as a separate, publicly traded company.
IAC/InteractiveCorp, which is controlled by billionaire Barry Diller, has approved a proposal for an initial public offering.
Diller said Thursday that it's "healthy" to give companies "independence from a mother church."
He laid the groundwork for the IPO two years ago when he formed the Match Group, which also includes OKCupid, Chemistry.com and other dating sites and apps.
IAC said it expects the Match Group to issue less than 20 percent of its shares in the IPO. That means IAC will still be majority owned by its parent. The IPO is planned for the fourth quarter of this year.
The Match Group had revenue of $239.2 million in the first quarter of this year, an increase of 13 percent from a year earlier.
With the IPO, "Match will be able to unlock value, a topic that has been in the forefront with the dating business for the last 2-3 years," said Cowen and Co. analyst John Blackledge in a note to investors. He added that Match is a leader in the growing category and the IPO could help both it and IAC pursue new acquisitions, "nurture them over time and create further shareholder value." This, he noted, has been IAC's playbook for the past two decades.
Separately, New York-based IAC also named Joey Levin as its CEO. IAC has not had a CEO since 2013.
IAC shares jumped $3.54, or 4.6 percent, to $80.80 in morning trading Thursday. Its shares are up 17 percent over the past year.


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Lower Hutt Women's Centre
1987 –
Theme: Service
In 1986 the Lower Hutt City Council, as a response to the United Nations Decade for Women (1975–1985), set up a series of seminars for the women of Lower Hutt to put forward ideas on what they needed. One of the ideas was a women's centre, for empowerment, education, ending discrimination and tackling oppression of women. Similar initiatives were being put forward at that time in many cities and small towns across Aotearoa New Zealand.
Several feminist women working in the Lower Hutt City Council's community development department were tasked with starting the Lower Hutt Women's Centre. Many groups gathered to get it underway, including Pacific Mamas Group, YWCA, Lower Hutt Women's Health Collective, Lower Hutt Women's Refuge, and Hutt Rape Counselling Network. All these organisations originally set up their offices at the Women's Centre. From 1987 to 1993, each of them grew, developed and found their own premises, all making significant contributions to the Hutt Valley community.
The centre began in a Lower Hutt City Council house in Laings Road. In 1990 the council purchased a house in Knights Road, with the centre having the obligation to buy it over time, on a long term loan. In conjunction with the YWCA National Office, with generous donations from many women and a loan from Prometheus Ethical Finance, by 2014 the house was at last fully owned by the centre.
Lower Hutt Women's Centre
The centre's purpose or kaupapa was worked on by the establishment committee. In 1990 the following philosophy was put into the constitution as the guiding purpose, and remained the central focus from then on:
- We recognise and work in the spirit of Te Tiriti O Waitangi.
- We confront women's oppression and empower women to take control of their own lives.
- We oppose discrimination by those who have power against those who do not. This includes discrimination against women, especially Maori women, Pacific Islands women, women of colour, lesbians, and those who are differently abled, young, old, working class, and those with different spiritual beliefs.
- We promote a safe and supportive environment for all women and children.
- We promote the sharing of power and resources.
- We act as a resource and information centre for the community. [1]
The centre aimed to provide opportunities for women to empower themselves, by increasing their sense of self-worth and helping them find their own voice. The centre's approach was focused on these core ideas: that an enhanced sense of connection and belonging helps women to be clear about their life choices and direction; and that everyone's wellbeing and liberation is inextricably tied to everyone else's. Through their work, the centre's staff and volunteers developed empowering relationships with the women and girls of the community, and gave life to these core ideas. The centre was an inclusive space which created fertile ground for healing within the wider community.
Women involved with the Lower Hutt Women's Centre in 2018 commented on the difference it had made for them:
Mary: 'I have discovered I am a decent human being and that makes a difference to how I live my life. It makes a different to my decisions and who I hang out with and how I look after myself.'
Julie: 'I grow bit by bit – just like the mosaic. It is hard but if I hadn't started I wouldn't be here. My boy is so important and I want to keep him, and be a good mum. That's what I'm going for.'
Jennifer: 'I will be less "nice" and more real – I will listen to me, I will choose how I want to act rather than "react", without conscious awareness.'
From 1987 on, the centre was involved in political campaigns and protests, including End of the Welfare State, 1991–1993; many Women against Pornography protests; Lesbian and Gay Liberation; Seabed and Foreshore Hikoi (Wellington, 2004); and many Reclaim the Night Marches.
Once the centre began to get government contracts, it was decided to focus on fundamentals of empowerment, based around what could be done with the time, income and resources available. This work was based around courses, workshops and counselling. The centre also worked with many groups, including DPB Action and Poverty Action, to provide workshops, support and information for women.
From the outset, the centre regarded itself as a feminist centre working to feminist principles. It provided a large range of courses, workshops and other activities, including Rape Survivors Legal Guide, self defence, anti-racism workshops, making submissions to government, free legal advice, and providing massage therapists and computer tutors. It also ran women's dances, women walking (tramping) groups, art programmes, weaving, singing, and running a very large range of workshops for other community groups.
For 2019, it was running groups for self esteem, assertiveness, anger, resilience, meditation, understanding the blues, parenting, and a range of therapeutic workshops on topics such as co-dependency, inner child, and self development. It offered support groups around drug and alcohol problems and sexual abuse. The centre also provided counselling, social work, support, information and drop-in space. All this and more was provided in a comfortable, safe and empowering environment, where cultural diversity was respected.
The centre continued to be a safe place for women and children. Its model specifically focused on human rights, in particular the human rights of women and girls. By 2019 its staff included a manager, counsellors, a social worker and several group workers, along with many volunteers. A board of trustees provided governance; He Huarahi o te Wāhine, the Māori Focus Group, provided resources and bi-cultural knowledge, and focused on providing services to suit Māori women.
Many women over many years contributed to the centre, as volunteers, paid workers, members on the board of trustees, occasional and long term donors. All the women coming to the centre brought their own energy and life, sharing these with the energy and life of other women, and thus continually giving life to the Lower Hutt Women's Centre.
[1] Lower Hutt Women's Centre Constitution, 1990.
Published sources
Bindon, Pamela, Lower Hutt Women's Centre 1987–1997 [pamphlet], LHWC, 1998
Further sources
Lower Hutt Women's Centre website: www.lhwc.org.nz


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Beaded earrings Sweet Candies
Do you still remember a glass pot on the highest kitchen-shelf full with candies in your grandmothers house?Yes, I remember and I remember I got a candy if I behave as a little good girl should behave. But unfortunately, I was too wild. I loved to claim in the trees, to play Indians and the dolls were not my favorite toy. These games were not really on the list of my granny's good behavior list for small girls and the candy pot stayed on the shelf. Now, I even don't like candies, I am a real chocolate monster, but still pink candies bring me back some nice sweet memories


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We're into week 3 of two kids, but the first week doesn't count due to the extenuating circumstances of juggling home and the NICU. So far my conclusion is: I love them both beyond words, but does love really conquer all??!!
Colette is doing really well considering her world just got turned upside down, but that doesn't meant every moment is sugary and fluffy. There's jealousy and excitement and other emotions that she doesn't know exactly how to express. She has a slew of new rules about how to interact with William and when she can climb on Mommy.
My mantra has to be give her grace. It's tough in the heat of disobedience or frustration but as soon as I see the confusion on her face, I melt.
One of the things I have to remember is that she misses me as much as I miss her. I miss our "mommy and Colette" time, and that didn't just get limited 3 weeks ago, it's been since I was on bed rest. I may seem preoccupied with her brother, and I am. I adore him, but that doesn't make me miss my special time with her any less. I just want to have a good long snuggle with her and to hold her like my baby girl.
I know this will get easier. Once William has more of a routine, once I quit getting clogged ducts, once I can go a whole 4 hrs without feeling like I'm goin to pass out, this will all be a bit more manageable. However, right now, I feel like I've failed to get a handle on something that every other mother of two seems to do so easily. And this is where I need to give myself grace too. But, that doesn't come quite as easy as giving grace to my angel girl through the transition.
I don't know how in the world I would be getting through these first weeks without Jonathan. And honestly I don't know how in the world I'm going to get through the next few weeks when he returns to work. But there comes a time when you have to sink or swim. And as much as I have the drive to swim, I think I'll just be treading water for awhile.
Meanwhile I will be pouring and praying over this verse: Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. What you have learned and received and heard and seen in meâpractice these things, and the God of peace will be with you. (Philippians 4:4-9 ESV)


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Lapuan Kankurit Sumu Mohair Blanket, Black Grey Stripe
Scandinavians have mastered the art of cosy, quality blanket making with this luxury design mohair wool, Sumu Blanket. Mohair is soft & durable with a silky & luxurious quality & a natural sheen to the yarn. Sumu blanket in neutral shades of blacks & greys with soft fringing and large stripe detail, due to it's unique insulating properties it will keep you warm in winter but it's moisture wicking properties will also keep you cool in warmer weathers. Whatever the time of year this luxury blanket will keep you cosy and add a real designer touch to your home decor.
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Dimensions: 130 x 170 cm
Pattern: Stripes
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Mind Mappingby Gillian Burn
Looking after your brain
Mind Maps® will help you to use your brain more effectively, but you also need to take care of your brain and maintain its optimum health if you are to get the best from it.
Brain food
You may want to consider the following dietary habits, designed to stimulate the brain and enhance transmission of information between brain cells.
- It's important to drink water regularly, as this enhances connectivity between brain cells and ensures that brain pathways can transmit information effectively – think of a river flowing with plenty of water and the contrast with a dried up river bed!
- Ensuring you eat breakfast helps to maintain energy levels, stimulating brain function and restoring glucose and energy stores after sleep.
- Eating regular meals throughout the day helps to maintain sufficient energy stores.
- Make sure you eat food containing the valuable Omega 3 fatty oils found in fish (sardines, herrings, pilchards, salmon), pumpkin seeds and nuts (walnuts, brazil nuts, almonds, cashew nuts). Omega 3 oils help to enhance brain function.
Mens sana in corpore sano (A healthy mind in a healthy body).
- Other high energy foods for the brain include oats (muesli, porridge) and brown rice. These help improve neuro-transmission, enhancing mental and thinking skills.
- Try to reduce the amount of processed foods you eat, as these are often high in fat, sugar and salt and not so beneficial for brain cells.
- Maintain a healthy balance of seasonal fresh fruit and vegetables.
Brain exercise
If you exercise your brain you will positively influence your body; if you exercise your body you will positively influence your brain.
Remember to take regular brain breaks, with simple exercises to keep your brain stimulated and alert. If you stand up and walk around, the blood and oxygen supply to the body and brain is increased, improving brain function and reducing eye strain and stress.
Exercise improves brain function:
- A well-exercised body has 500ml more blood
- Your brain uses 25 per cent of circulating blood.
Here are some simple good habits that will help your brain to work well:
- Take a mini break every 45 minutes
- Stand up
- Walk around
- Get a glass of water
- Change your position.
Brain break ideas
It may seem worthy to slog on regardless, but you'll achieve more in the same time if you take time out for some quick exercises.
Eye exercises
Regular eye exercises help to reduce eye strain, so you will have fewer headaches and be less likely to suffer itchy and dry eyes. For example, every 30 minutes, look away from the computer screen; blink consciously and focus your eyes into the distance; move your eyes around an imaginary clock face; use gentle circular movements or gentle tapping with your finger tips around the eyes to stimulate blood flow and exercise the eye muscles.
Desk exercises
Simple desk exercises include elbow flare, shoulder shrug, arm stretch, standing up tall, and trunk mobility twist.
Brain Gym®
Brain gym exercises were developed over 20 years ago by doctors Dennison and Dennison, initially for children with learning difficulties. They are particularly beneficial for anyone wishing to improve brain function (from children to adults).
The series of exercises increases energy and provides valuable eye relaxation from computer work. The exercises activate and stimulate both sides of the brain, improving whole-brain learning and enhancing
- Creativity
- Thinking skills
- Focusing attention
- Mental and physical fitness
- Alertness
- Memory.
Examples include
As you learn, the circuitry of the brain learns too.
- Cross crawl – an arm and leg exercise, crossing over the midline of the body
- Lazy 8 – improves visual attention and eye mobility
- Hook ups – an exercise to relax the central nervous system.
See Brain Gym.


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This is an old revision of the document!
This page is a concept discussion. The goal of this page is to layout a topic for consideration and comment. The posting of the ideas contained within in no way constitutes a decision or commitment by Cyrious to implement this idea. Cyrious is sharing this information in order to provide a public mechanism to solicit comments and thoughts on the idea. If you have comments, please post them on the Discussion board for this page. Cyrious staff receive and read all comments posted on these boards.
This document is written in the present tense. This is not because the feature exists, but because it is easier to write in this form and it makes the documentation easier to adapt if the feature is adopted.
Company StagesThe choice of "Stage" was the pick of lesser evils. Another term may be better suited. Status, Disposition, Group, and Type were all discussed but bring with them other implicit ideas that make the meaning less clear. are used to group or classify the prospects and clients according to the life-cycle buying stage that best reflects them.
Company Stages are user definable, but the following standard Company Stages are defined in the starting OOB dataset:These changes were made in the OOB dataset effective date needed
- Prospect Company Stages
- Cold Lead
- Warm Lead
- Hot Lead
- Dead
- Client Company Stages
- New Client
- Established Client
- Past Client
- Dead
Company Stages could be used in several ways, including:
- As a basis for measuring salesperson conversion rates. The Stages correspond to the stages in the sales pipeline/funnel, measuring the conversion rate of customers that move through the pipeline is key to effective sales management. The Company Stage Conversion Report shows number of companies to change from one category to another during a time period, grouped by Company Salesperson.
- As a way to identify target prospect of customer groups, such as VIP customers, slow-pays, etc.
User Interface Changes
Account Entry
In Account Entry, the company stage drop-down is displayed at the top of the main frame below the Company Name.
Explorer Changes
The following changes were made in Company Explorer:
- Added a drop-down filter for Stage in the basic Explorer. The filter also supports wildcards like "*Lead".
- Added the option to display or not display this filter in System Setup | Company Explorer Options. By default, this filter is displayed.
- Added the column for Company Stage to the column chooser (and therefore the grid).
- Implemented sorting on the Company Stage by clicking that column header.
- In Advanced Explorer, added the text criteria Company Stage under the main "Company Critia" group.
The following changes were made in Activity Explorer:
- Added the new Activity Type "Company Stage Change" to the selection criteria.
- In Advanced Explorer, added the new Activity Type "Company Stage Change" to the selection criteria.
Complete Activity Popup
In order to make it easy to change the Company Stage while prospecting, this ability is built into the "Complete Activity" frame the pop-ups when you choose to complete the activity. Immediately below the notes field, a drop-down called "Change Company Stage To:" was added. If a value is filled in here, upon save of the completed activity the company stage will be adjusted accordingly.
The following changes were made in all grids showing activities, like the Activity Manager "Activity List" tab:
- Added the column "Company Stage" to the column chooser.
- Made the Company Stage column sortable by clicking on the header.
Activity Listing Grid
The following changes were made in all grids showing activities, like the Activity Manager "Activity List" tab:
- Added the column "Company Stage" to the column chooser.
- Made the Company Stage column sortable by clicking on the header.
The following new actions were added:
- Change Stage. This action was added to all prospects and clients and is accessible from Company Explorer. The right-click menu implementation (added to prospects and clients) added a sub-menu of all of the valid Stages.
- Change Company Stage. This action was added to all contact activities with an associated prospect or client. The right-click menu implementation added a sub-menu of all of the valid Stages for that Company.
Macro Enhancements
The following macro changes were added:
- Add these option to Customer triggers:
- On Company Stage Changed
- On Company Stage Changed To [ v]
- On Company Stage Changed From [ v]
- Add a new Company Stage Change macro action that would allow you to change the stage of the selected company (or the company of the selected transaction).
The customer import works as follows:
- Company Stage (text) can now be imported.
- The imported Stage must already exist. If the stage does not exist, it will be ignored and a warning logged.
- Companies imported without a valid stage are set to the default prospect stage.
The following Company Stages options are user defined under System Setup | Company Stage Setup:
- [ x ] Enable Company Stages
- [ x ] Enable Blank Stages for Prospects
- [ x ] Enable Blank Stages for Clients
- Prospect Stages
- (List w/ Add, Delete, Edit, Set Inactive, Set as Default actions)
- Customer Stages
- (List w/ Add, Delete, Edit, Set Inactive, Set as Default actions)
The company stage is accessible via CFL as in the following example:
IF Company.StageText = "Hot Lead" THEN
"* This is a hot lead!"
"* This is not a hot lead. :-("
The following reports are included with this feature:
- Company Stage Conversion Report by Salesperson
- Sales by Company Stage (for client stages)
Technical Notes
Additional technical notes:
- The changing of a company stage is recorded as an activity in the company record.
- A new activity type was used, and records the new station, the previous station, what time it was changed, and by whom.
- There are no Stages on Vendors or Personal accounts. If the Account is not a prospect or client, the Stage drop-down is suppressed (hidden). If the account is both a prospect or client and a vendor or personal account, the Stage is shown and the valid stage options displayed.
- If Company Stages are not enabled, all traces of these enhancements are removed.
Database Changes
The following fields would be added to the database. (Each new field is represented as TableName.FieldName below.)
- Account.StageID (int) - This field would link to the Company Stage located in the Element Table.
- Element - There are no changes in this table, though the Company Stages are stored as rows. The class types for these records are:
- 5511 - Prospect (Company) Stage
- 5512 - Client (Company) Stage
- Store Options - Additional store options are stored in the UserOption Table (with ParentClassTypeID = 1000 to refer to the store)
ClassType Changes
The following Class Types were added for this feature:
- 5511 - Prospect (Company) Stage in the [:sql_structure_-_element_tableelement| Element]
- 5512 - Client (Company) Stage in the Element
- 20515 - Company Stage Change Activity
- 23182- Set Company Stage Macro Action in the xxxxx Table
Contributor: Cyrious Software
Date: 11/2009
Version: Control 4.4+


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Veeam B&R 5: Block Size Optimization and Reversed Incremental or Synthetic Full
Saw these two piece of useful information on Veeam's forum today, mostly contributed by Tom:
Block Size Optimization
In the job properties, on the "Backup Destination" if you hit "Advanced" and then select the "Storage" tab with V5 you can now select to optimize for Local disk, LAN target, and WAN target. What this is really doing is setting the "block size" of the VBK. Previous version of Veeam always used 1MB blocks, which is now the equivalent of the "Local disk" option. LAN target uses 512KB blocks, and WAN target uses 256KB blocks. The smaller blocks sizes typically mean that incrementals are smaller and thus less data is transferred over the LAN or WAN at the cost of some CPU. Because we push our backups across sites we always use the WAN target settings.
Reversed Incremental or Synthetic Full
As a general rule, reverse incrementals are going to use the least amount of space on disk, but the most amount on tape, while the reverse is true of forward incrementals, they will use more disk space, but significantly less tape space. The only exception might be if you have a fairly small retention period.
Assume you have a 100GB full backup with 10GB of changes a day, here's how the space would break down assuming 4 weeks retention:
Reverse Incremental:
Disk — 100GB Full + 280GB (10GB/day * 28 days) of reverse incrementals = 380GB
Tape — 100GB VBK copied to tape every day * 28 days = 2.8TB
Forward Incremental w/Synthetic Full:
Disk — 400GB (100GB Full * 1 per week) + 240GB (10GB/day incrementals * 24 days) = 640GB
Tape — Same as disk, since you simply copy the full or incremental to tape every day = 640GB
So, the Forward Incremental/Synthetic option in this scenario would use ~70% more disk space, but less than 25% of the tape space. If you're planning to keep only a short period of disks on retention and use tape for long term storage then forward incrementals will save space, but that's about the only scenario where it will save space. For the best space savings with on disk retention, reverse incremental are the way to go, but at the cost of a large amount of tape space.
Personally I prefer reversed incremental because my main strategy is to get a full working backup to tape every night without the need to merge increments when in an emergency need to get my files back from tape.


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A Tile-laying Challenge
Carcassonne is a clever tile-laying game based on the southern French city of Carcassonne, famous for its unique Roman and Medieval fortifications. The players develop the area around Carcassonne and deploy their followers on the roads, in the cities, in the cloisters, and in the fields while creating a perfect city landscape. With each tile placed, strategies will be tested and the skill of the players will determine who stands victorious.
Carcassonne (2015 New edition)


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First tourist hackaton
The first Ukrainian tourist hackathon "Hackathon/Ideathon" starts today.
You will enjoy success stories and motivating team speeches during the event. Also, all participants can take an introductory Watson course provided by Intela technical experts.
All participants have a unique opportunity to get up to $5,000 prize for the most innovative usage of Watson services.
October 9 — Meeting of juries and mentors with teams.
October 20 — Final of Hackathon and rewarding of participants.
The organizers of Hackatron are Hospitality Association, Zruchno Travel, E-Ukraine and Intela Solutions (American E-Corporations).
Develop Ukrainian E-tourism together!


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NOD News
Grove of Dana College reformations
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- Created: Thursday, 10 December 2009 00:00
- Published: Thursday, 10 December 2009 00:00
We would like to announce some fundamental changes in the "Grove of Dana" online Druid college of the New Order of Druids.
Due to a recurring shortage of volunteering mentors, we were forced to reorganise the way in which we offer our free courses in the college. The changes as explained below, are effective immediately.
If you wish to enter the Bardic Course, you will henceforth be directed to the "Bardic Course" forum (under the category "College Campus") where you will be able to post your written work, discuss it with the mentors (moderators) and fellow students like an actual "classroom". You will also be able to discuss the written works of other students, thus making it possible to learn from each other in the process. More practical information can be found in the Bardic Course forum.
We still offer the service of a personal mentor who guides you throughout the course. However, this service is only available for our upgraded members as of today. Upgraded membership with N.O.D. starts at 29,97 euro per year and serves to cover the expenses to keep this website up and running for you. It is sufficient for you to get enrolled in the Bardic Course during your upgraded membership, you will be able to continue with a mentor even after your upgrade expires, so long as you remain enrolled (by logging into the course at least once every 60 days).
These changes only affect the Bardic Course and (in the future) the Ovate Course and Druid Course! The Bardic YOUTH Course remains available with mentor for free members!
Transition students arrangement
To make these fundamental changes as smooth as possible, we have built in a "transition" arrangement which will still allow a certain number of students to remain within the Bardic Course with a mentor. Any student who has turned in at least two assignments to date, remains enrolled in the Bardic Course and is allowed to continue the course with mentor, without the need to upgrade. However, if you get unenrolled after an inactivity of more then 60 days, you will no longer be able to benefit from this transition arrangement.
In the Ovate Course, all current students are allowed to continue their course with their mentor.
If you are already an upgraded member, you should also remain enrolled of course. Keep in mind that the old enrolment key will no longer work to re-enroll.
We thank you for your understanding, and if you have any questions then do not hesitate to contact the College Coordinators, Bran and Myrddin, on the Support Helpdesk.