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The Department of Transportation requires that airlines operating to the US offer a 24 hour reservation guarantee, where you can lock in a reservation and then have 24 hours to change your mind. This applies to all tickets booked seven or more days in advance. Airlines have two options for how they can approach this:
- They can allow you to hold a ticket for 24 hours with no obligation before having to ticket it
- Alternatively, they can offer a refund within 24 hours of booking
While Delta and United allow you to refund your ticket within 24 hours, American instead lets you hold a ticket for 24 hours before having to ticket. In reality it's actually often more than a 24 hour hold, as the hold is valid through midnight the following day in the timezone your ticket originates in.
As has been discussed on FlyerTalk (and several reliable sources have verified), rumor has it that American will be eliminating complimentary 24 hour holds as of April 1, 2016. That means as of that date American will instead allow you to refund your ticket within 24 hours of purchase, assuming you're booking at least seven days in advance.
No changes will be made to award ticket holds, and American will continue to (generously) allow AAdvantage members to hold award tickets for up to five days.
I'd definitely consider this to be a negative change, though at the same time it's something I really can't blame American for — if I were running an airline I'd probably do the same thing. I hold revenue tickets on American all the time, and it's such a handy feature. I know many people will hold tickets day after day as a means of locking in the price without having to ticket, and then seeing if the fare drops later.
While that's a great feature to have as a consumer, I can't blame the airline for wanting to eliminate that. At least in theory, I imagine this also has the potential to skew inventory a bit, though perhaps that's not as big of a deal when holds are only possible seven days in advance.
A while back American was testing paid holds for a longer amount of time, so I wouldn't be surprised to see that expanded when American eliminates free holds.
I do wish airlines would make it easier to refund tickets within 24 hours. A 24 hour hold is easy since you can just let it expire, while most airlines which let you refund within 24 hours require you to call, which is a pain. That's probably by design since it creates more of a barrier to canceling tickets, though it's annoying nonetheless. I'd be less miffed about the change if it were possible to easily cancel tickets online.
Bottom line
While it hasn't been officially publicly confirmed, it seems fairly reliable that American will be eliminating free holds on revenue tickets as of April 1, 2016, and will instead offer the option to refund a ticket within 24 hours.
While I consider this to be a negative change, it's not one I can fault American for. Now we can just hope that they allow passengers to refund reservations online, rather than requiring one to call.
How will you be impacted by this potential policy change from American?


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People like to say things like 'nautiluses are prehistoric creatures', implying that they're less evolved than octopuses and squid (their nearest kin), but all living creatures have evolved exactly the same amount- 'more' and 'less' evolved aren't terms we use in science. It would be more accurate to say that the nautilus hasn't changed a lot since their ancestors were fossilized and octopuses and squid changed a lot in that time. They are super weird, cool creatures- they swim backwards, for example.
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With René on guitar and lead vocals and Rainier on ukulele and back-up vocals.
Category Archives: Birthdays
Rainier Turns Two
Here's a snapshot of this lovely little monster at 2 years old.
René's Birthday / Rainier's First Haircut
We headed back to the Netherlands for René's birthday, but not before a quick stop in Bonn for a research colloquium.
We just happened to be in Bonn at the same time as the new BUKA selection meeting, so Rainier and I recorded a little advice for the new fellows bringing kids to Germany.
Passau – November 2016
18.11.2016 – Rainier's First Birthday
It has been my absolute pleasure to mother this boy for the past year! At a whole year old he's walking, saying"mama" and "papa," playing guitar and piano with papa, and dancing with mama. He loves toast, fruit, bath time, and his "Mein Erstes Buch zur Guten Nacht" book.
We had a great celebration of Rainier's first trip around the sun with friends and cake.
Turning 33 in Amsterdam
Our first month in Europe has been one of excitement, exhaustion, celebration, and mourning. In the same week, both René and I bid long-distance farewells to our grandmothers. The heartbreaking, yet enlightening, truth that I can not forever share my grandparents, people who have loved me most, with my child, whom I love most, struck me like a ray of sun on a clear cold day – painfully blinding yet warm.
Without Maw Maw Marion, there would be no me, and without her death, Rainier would have no future. I question death, and naturally, life; the made-up words in which we try to contain them, suck. I think of Alan Watts's description of our skin as tiny holes that connect us to the rest of the universe.
And with that feeling of connectivity, I celebrated my 33rd birthday in Amsterdam with René and Rainier, and new friends from around the world, and Maw Maw Marion, and her grandmother too. And I smile knowing that she would not have had it any other way – with big pieces of her in a canal-filled city.


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Zodomas (ゾドマス Zodomasu) is one of Space Empire Zangyack's Action Commanders.
He is a swordsman who believes in winning by any means, having Insarn modify his body with bladed tendrils in response to learning about Gokai Blue's two-blade fighting style. After being defeated by Gokai Blue's five-blade style Blue Slash attack, summoning manifestations of Gosei Blue, Shinken Blue, MagiBlue, HurricaneBlue and GingaBlue. An enlarged Zodomas is destroyed by Magi GokaiOh.
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I knew it would happen, I just thought it would happen after stiffer gun laws came into effect. Another disgruntled young male went on a killing spree. What will be blamed this time?
The people who are staunchly advocating for tougher gun laws will say at least there are not as many deaths with a knife compared to deaths when a gun is used.
I agree the US needs some stiffer gun laws or the laws that already exist need fine tuning and properly enforced, especially the need for training and proper licensing.
In Canada a hand gun requires a different license and a 5 day waiting period from the day the gun is bought to the day the purchaser can take possession (with the first hand gun, after that the person can purchase and take as many hand guns as he wants).
There is a 30 day waiting period for license approval. But once you have your license you can purchase a rifle with no wait.
We also have laws pertaining to the storage of fire arms; which requires they be stored in a locked gun case, be decommissioned or have a trigger lock. But this law would not have prevented Nikolas Cruz, his gun was in a locked gun case. Under Canadian gun laws the Vegas shooter would not have been stopped either. I am unsure what the laws in Canada have to say about the fact that Nikolas Cruz advertised on Facebook for months prior to actually shooting up the school. I think that comes down to society in general ignoring a potential time bomb until it blew. In my opinion the responsibility lies on the shoulders of the mental health professionals and police.
You can ban bump stocks or large magazines but that won't prevent them from existing and being purchased illegally. A legal gun can be modified; Google it.
If someone wants to kill they are not concerned about doing it legally; think about it.
As was just shown with the recent school stabbings in PA stricter gun laws is not going to stop school violence. 21 students are injured, some very seriously, deaths are yet to be determined. Sure there are not as many deaths as in Florida, but even one death is too many.
Guns, knives, bombs, vehicles, are all tools a person can use to kill enmass.
After Canada brought in stiffer gun laws the homicide rate for guns did drop. But interestingly enough the over all rate of homicides AND suicides went up. So stiffer laws on guns only prevented deaths using a gun NOT deaths.
It only makes sense to me that instead of eliminating the means, we need to look at the CAUSE. Guns do not CAUSE deaths, it is the person holding the gun who is doing the killing.
Why aren't people asking WHY!? why are young men (its not women doing the killing) so angry they feel mass murder is the solution?
Could it be that every single mass shooter, adult or youth, has been on some prescription psychiatric drug for either depression or ADHD commonly known as SSRI's?
It is a multi faceted problem that needs to be addressed at the cause.
My mother has had a leak in her kitchen for 30 years. Every time it rains when the wind is blowing a certain direction her kitchen gets a puddle. It appeared to be coming from the skylight. She has hired numerous contractors to fix the leak. They caulk here, reseal there, and think they have it fixed. It has appeared fixed for a year or more; until the wind is blowing in just the right direction during a rain storm and my mom walks into her kitchen to another puddle. She is at her wits end about the problem, the gyproc is now falling away from the ceiling there is no way of hiding the damage any more and the leak is getting worse. My brother and my son (my son was 4 when she moved into the house and it leaked, he is 34 now) are both highly respected in the construction industry and they have both worked on the leak and thought they had it fixed, but no such luck. It leaked again this winter. You can keep patching it again and again and you can patch the drywall and it looks fixed but it will eventually leak again. Until you find the source of the leak the problem won't go away and the source of the leak may not be where you think it is. Water can travel a long way from the original source of the leak.
To assume guns are the cause of mass shootings is like patching the leak in a roof without finding the source of the leak.
I am not saying that the SSRI's are totally to blame either; I think it is a combination of factors contributing to the bigger problem.
I AM saying; find the source, and you will be able to fix the problem.


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On the road again: Grand Cayman, Cayman Cookout, day 6 /
Portland, day 1
I awoke earlier than I wanted by far, but later than normal, to another perfect day in Grand Cayman.
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Sorry about the blackness of the overhang in the upper right corner.
Flying to Portland is going to provide quite the shocking change in weather. As best I can tell, the weather back home is even worse.
Again, though, it's impossible to complain given that I got to enjoy so much time here. I certainly understand why some folks who can afford to do so spend the winter in places like this. I don't know if I would, but it would certainly be tempting, were I ever to have that much money (which I won't).
I wrote the above section of this entry while still on Grand Cayman. I'm writing this piece on the plane to Portland. So far, the travel day has gone reasonably well, but it certainly hasn't been fun.
Due to the flight schedule, lunch was at the Grand Cayman airport's one food stand. The airport's free Wi-Fi connection worked, so I could catch up a bit on email.
The flight to Miami was splendid, a trip in first class that was productive and gave me all the water and Diet Coke I wanted.
Going through customs and baggage handling in Miami, however, was a nightmare of incompetency and long lines. I did a reasonable impersonation of a calm person when necessary, and I made it to my gate on time, though just barely, so I can complain only so much.
Of course, I now have to hope my bag is waiting for me at PDX. If not, I'll be in trouble.
My next layover was in DFW, where I met a colleague who's joining me on this trip and spent a little time in the Admiral's Club. Sadly, this flight was late to take off, so we're not due to hit PDX until just before midnight Pacific time. Oh, boy.
I hit my hotel room, as I expected, about one a.m. PST, so it was a very long travel day indeed. Still, I and my luggage made it, and I had first class the whole way, so I'm not complaining.
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"Tracy is the perfect combination of class, sophistication, and style." – Danny Brown
LOS ANGELES, CA, UNITED STATES, December 9, 2019 /EINPresswire.com/ — Prolific Compass agent, Danny Brown, recently interviewed Million Dollar Listing star Tracy Tutor on his new podcast, "The Deal with Danny Brown." It was mentioned in this episode of the show that Tutor is the only female star ever on the "Million Dollar Listing " and is one of the elite high-end brokers in Los Angeles. She is also the daughter of Ron Tutor (Tutor Perini) the largest commercial contractor in the country who is responsible for building Hudson Yards in NYC and the Metroline in Los Angeles.
Tracy joined her longtime friend and business associate on "The Deal with Danny Brown" last week. The podcast recently won the Best of Los Angeles Business Podcast 2019. "Tracy is the perfect combination of class, sophistication, style and she will open a can of Whoop ass on you and put you in check," remarks Brown. "Tracy took a huge gamble on Million Dollar Listing. Unlike the guys on the show who had zero business when they joined the show, she already had a flourishing brokerage business and had a lot to lose," says Danny Brown.
The Deal with Danny Brown launched on iTunes, Spotify, Sticher, Google Play and YouTube in Spring 2019. The podcast has gained quick traction and is now streaming in 18 countries and 42 states. It has had many distinguished guests from the upper echelon of all industries Distilling their invaluable life lessons and advice down into digestible bite size nuggets of knowledge. Guests from season I include James Farrior, a Pittsburgh Steelers legend and pro football Hall of Fame class of 2020, Darrell M. Blocker, the CIA Head of Station and Anti-Terrorism, Matt Hannaford, a baseball agent who negotiated the biggest contract in American Sports history for Manny Machado, Michael Levine, a PR guru who has represented 58 academy award winners, 34 Grammy award winners, 43 New York Times best sellers, and most recently Tracy Tutor who is a seasoned veteran in the luxury real estate industry like Danny Brown. "When you've been in the business as long as we have you understand that your relationships with top brokers are one of the most valuable assets you have. Tracy and I have seen it all, and have been through some wars together and always have each others back."
Danny Brown started the podcast after years of being a mentor to other competing real estate agents in a dog eat dog world of every man for themselves. "I've been passionate about launching a podcast for the last couple of years. I thought it would be a great outlet and platform to broadcast what I do everyday, and shine a light on the relationships I have with interesting, successful people", states Brown. "The concept of The Deal is to distill life lessons and advice from the world's most successful people so we can educate and enlighten as many people as possible and pay it forward." Brown believes the core part of his job is to give sound advice & insight to clients and add value any way he can no matter how difficult or high pressure the situation may be. Danny knows it is not easy to walk in his shoes and please everyone when there is often conflicing interests in high stakes real estate deals. "This business looks glamorous from the outside looking in, but spend a week in our shoes and you will want to check yourself into an asylum. It's brutal, it's cutthroat and it's a grind 24-7, hopefully my podcast will be a repsite from that!" says Brown.
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Ash Solar had just wrapped up his first two years of classroom teaching when he found himself standing on the campus of Stanford University one fall day six years ago. By then, he knew he wanted to carve out a career in school leadership and was contemplating graduate school. So a friend whom he was visiting in San Francisco took him to check out the beautiful Stanford grounds.The next day, Solar jumped on the Internet and came across a joint degree program at Stanford that allows students to simultaneously pursue a master's in business administration at the Graduate School of Business and a master of arts in education at the School of Education.
"I was stunned there was such a thing," he says. Solar, a Dartmouth graduate with a history degree, had taken the Teach for America path to a 4th-grade classroom in his hometown of Houston. As he taught, he became struck by how little district administrators knew about the quality of their teachers. "We have no idea who our highest-performing teachers are and who our lowest-performing teachers are," he says. Solar wanted to change that, and he knew he would need more skills to do so. But he had never thought he'd go after an M.B.A. Yet as he read about Stanford's joint degree program, he came to believe it offered him the perfect fit."The more I read, the more I realized the M.B.A. was less about making money and more about organizational leadership," he says. "The goal was to change lives, change organizations and change the world."Solar got into the program on his second try and today, at age 29, he is doing exactly what he set out to do, serving in the Oakland Unified School District as manager of talent management initiatives, responsible for defining and identifying teacher effectiveness.A Faster TrackSolar exemplifies the new brand of school leader who is emerging from a growing number of interdisciplinary graduate and professional leadership programs in American colleges and universities. The programs combine the financial, entrepreneurial and innovation skills fostered in M.B.A. programs with the instructional leadership preparation of traditional school administrator studies.Higher education leaders say these programs are a response to the increasing complexity and diversity of public education and a growing body of research that shows the effectiveness of administrators and teachers is the single most critical force in raising student achievement. Many new graduate programs are geared toward reform and linked with foundations and nonprofit education organizations working to transform American education.The new interdisciplinary programs reflect impatience with incremental school reform, says Kent Seidel, one of the leaders of the University of Denver's new M.B.A. in school leadership."We're still wrestling with how to help the kids who have been traditionally underserved by schools to actually do well," he says. "This whole direction is a kind of mutual 'let's try something different that is going to get different results.'"Education leaders need a broad range of leadership and management skills to foster change, says Elizabeth City, who is heading Harvard University's launch of a new interdisciplinary doctor of education leadership program this fall. Students in the three-year program will study under professors from the Graduate School of Education, the Harvard Business School and the Kennedy School of Government. The program drew more than 1,000 applicants for its first cohort of 25 students, indicating aspiring school leaders know they need to have a broad combination of practical skills and political savvy, City says. "They need to deeply understand teaching and learning, and they need to know how to work strategically, to mobilize various stakeholders, to lead an effective team, and to have conversations around race and other identity issues."Most of the interdisciplinary school leadership programs have emerged in the last decade. The University of Denver this spring launched its M.B.A. in school leadership, developed by the colleges of business and education. Other integrated programs, all combining M.B.A. programs with education leadership, include Texas Christian University, Rice University and the University of Michigan.Stanford's BloomsThe Stanford joint program that caught Solar's eye was founded in the early 1970s, making it one of the oldest of its kind. The program remained small, drawing only a handful of students each year until the mid-1990s, when it started attracting a larger and more consistent cohort of students, according to Nereyda Salinas, the program's director. The venture blossomed 10 years ago, and 70 percent of its 250 alumni have graduated since then, she says.
Interest has grown with the recognition that school leadership requires not only content and field knowledge but also skills in organizational management and program implementation, the hallmark of M.B.A. studies. Students examine the economic forces driving school reform and how to distinguish strong research from weak, Salinas says. They also learn the nuts and bolts of accounting, marketing and branding, developing strategic plans, organizing and managing teams, dealing with unions, creating a work culture of continuous improvement, and how to apply all of those skills in an educational enterprise.
Degrees Designed for the Reform Minded
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Most of the small but growing number of universities offering interdisciplinary degree programs in school leadership combine graduate education studies with a master's in business administration program. With many emerging in the past decade, these programs focus on producing school leaders to carry out education reform in schools and other organizations.
Stanford looks for aspiring leaders with intellectual vitality, a commitment to education, dissatisfaction with the status quo, and a desire to change schools and students' lives, says Lisa Giannangeli, an associate director of M.B.A. admissions. She is a graduate of the joint program herself as is the dean of admissions. Other graduates have gone on to lead public schools, charter schools, school districts and other organizations. One graduate now directs the education arm of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Another is managing director for Teach for America. A third is opening a leadership academy in Africa, and a fourth is the chief operating officer for Aspire Public Schools, a California not-for-profit charter school management organization that operates across much of the state. Solar, now two years into his administrative post in Oakland, says he uses daily what he learned in the program, especially the interpersonal skills. "High-perform-ance leadership is about how to build a team and be a team member," he says. "Those are skills that were at the core of my experience."In a real sense, he feels bilingual — able to communicate about instruction/curriculum and operations/finance, which seem to operate in public education as separate houses speaking different languages. Additional HeftThe emerging interdisciplinary education leadership programs reflect the increasing complexity and diversity of American education and a persistent, festering dissatisfaction with the status quo. At their root, the programs express a social justice mission to address the large groups of students failing to receive an adequate education, a problem brought into sharper focus by the No Child Left Behind initiative, says City, who also leads Harvard education school's yearlong practicum on leadership in nontraditional settings."Demography is destiny in the United States," she says. "We believe every child in America should have the opportunity to live up to his or her full potential."Universities need to prepare school leaders for a broader array of possible leadership roles, not only in the public sector but also in education foundations and nonprofits focused on reform, innovation and adequate financing for prekindergarten and public education. The new interdisciplinary school leader programs also may represent an effort to add heft to education doctoral programs in response to critics. Before retiring as president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching two years ago, Lee S. Shulman said the Ed.D. "is perceived as 'Ph.D.-lite.'" The Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate, based at the University of Maryland, is in its fourth year working with 25 universities to design sharper distinctions between the Ed.D and the Ph.D in education. The aim is to tailor the Ed.D for practitioners in the field and the Ph.D for scholars and researchers, says David Imig, director of the project."The Ph.D. has become encompassing of everything, and it has lost its purpose and direction," he says. The need for broader technical, business and political education in school leadership programs is implied in the 2008 revised Educational Leadership Policy Standards adopted by the National Policy Board for Educational Administration. The standards call for preparing education leaders who can carry out a shared vision, who have skills in organization, data analysis, finances and team building, and who have a grasp of the cultural, social and political forces affecting schools and districts.Higher education is moving toward more interdisciplinary graduate work across the fields, not just education and business, says Chris M. Golde, associate vice provost for graduate education at Stanford University and co-author of The Formation of Scholars, a book that resulted from the Carnegie Foundation's Initiative on the Doctorate. "Both institutions and disciplines are trying to respond to a very complex world," says Golde. "We are in a time where disciplines are trying to think about who are their disciplinary neighbors, and they might not be the obvious one."Harvard's new Doctor of Education Leadership Program grew out of the recognition that its well-known Urban Superintendents Doctoral Program, entering its 21st year with its final cohort, is too narrowly focused. It fails to address the need for leaders in the growing variety of other reform-oriented educational enterprises, says Thomas Payzant, a Harvard education professor and former superintendent in Boston and San Diego, Calif., who helped design the new doctoral program. The three-year program has been designed from scratch with a practical focus. After two years of full-time study, the students will go to work for a year with a partner organization, such as a charter school, nonprofit, foundation, state department of education or other education group. Rather than conduct a research project as the urban superintendent's program requires, the students will be expected to write an in-depth paper on "a significant problem of practice" in the organization they are placed in for their third year, Payzant says. As in many other interdisciplinary programs, the Harvard leadership curriculum aims to turn out leaders who are prepared to use innovation and change to reshape American education. "They will be doing interesting and powerful things," City says.Chartering a CareerAnother student aspiring to do powerful things is James Cryan, one of the first two students enrolled in the University of Denver's new M.B.A. in school leadership program, which launched its pilot phase in the spring. After graduating with degrees in political science and international studies from Colby College in Maine, Cryan entered Teach for America and took a job teaching English to 6th graders in a low-performing Denver middle school.Fond of the outdoors, he started a hiking club and took inner-city students on climbs into the Rocky Mountain front range, which stretches grandly west of Denver. He was astonished to learn that for many of his students, these two-hour hikes marked their first venture into the wilderness and a highlight of their school year. That sparked an idea.
After two years of teaching and seeing the possibilities in some specialized, high-performing Denver schools, he began thinking he would like to start his own charter middle school that would blend a college-bound curriculum with an Outward-Bound-type education program. He could take students into the wilderness "to build teamwork, to build emotional intelligence and to build leadership skills," he says. "In my mind, it is a huge social justice issue where students not born into a certain socioeconomic level don't get to spend time in the outdoors."
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More than 1,000 educators, policymakers and others sought 25 highly coveted seats in a new doctoral program this fall at Harvard University that aspires to generate a cadre of school system leaders capable of addressing the most profound practical and moral challenges of the day.
Cryan decided to pursue an M.B.A. because "starting a school, like any organization, takes tremendous business knowledge."The University of Denver's fledgling M.B.A. in school leadership seemed to offer just what he was seeking. The university's Daniels College of Business and Morgridge College of Education joined forces with Get Smart Schools, a nonprofit promoting charter schools for low-income students in the Denver area.As part of his studies over the next two years, Cryan will design his charter school, with plans of opening the doors by fall 2012. His graduate school tuition will be reimbursed if he succeeds in creating a successful school.The University of Denver program is in many ways an expansion of its Ritchie Program for School Leaders, a certificate program for school administrators that relies heavily on using internships to weave practical experience with a series of inquiry projects, says Susan Korach, professor for the education college's preK-20 education programs. Many Ritchie students also earned M.B.A.s. at the university and have gone on to be exemplary principals in the Denver schools. In fact, three of the four principals at Denver schools honored last year for dramatic gains in student achievements are graduates of the program, as are three principals at the four schools granted "innovative schools" status by the district, which gives them more autonomy, says Kent Seidel, chair of the preK-20 education programs. Like the Ritchie program, the new M.B.A. program emphasizes innovation and reform with a focus on transformation at the school level. Some courses include team teaching by professors from the education and business schools and involve role playing and practical simulations. Everything is based on improving student learning, says Seidel."The school leader needs to have a rich, ongoing understanding of the needs of the kids and the families and community supports those kids have so that the school is always making decisions about supporting student growth," says Seidel, an arts educator for much of his career.Traditional programs have put leadership training into "disconnected boxes," he adds, separating areas such as standards, finance, community dynamics and the school vision. The University of Denver program integrates all of those factors so future leaders can see their complex interrelation. "We're trying to prepare principals to be evidenced-based, reflective practitioners who can take good information from a variety of sources and make critical decisions," Seidel says.Business FlairSherelle Hessell-Gordon, 34, the other student in the debut M.B.A. program, plans to design and operate a community-oriented Denver high school something like the rural schools that served as community centers for activists, including her parents, in rural Alabama during the civil rights movement. "There were opportunities for community members to come in to teach," says Gordon, a social activist who already has a master's degree in family and child studies. "And the schoolhouse was not only for learning but also for organizing and gathering and for the community as well. … I'm looking to bring a new-age version of that back."The University of Denver program will add eight students to this year's cohort in the fall and plans to build the program to 15 to 25 students per cohort, according to David Cox, director of graduate programs. Some graduates are likely to launch new charter schools; others will work to turn around struggling schools.The directors of interdisciplinary doctoral programs in educational administration say they expect to see more universities tap their business and management schools for help in training the next generation of school leaders. The business school imbues education leadership training with an entrepreneurial flavor, Cox says."As you look at 'Where can we find some change? Where can we see the greatest innovation?' it is with business," he says. "In the business setting, you innovate or you die."Increasingly, the same is true for public schools. Bill Graves is an education writer with The Oregonian in Portland, Ore. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
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As you probably know, there are quite a number of programs that have been specifically developed for the children of different ages to help them to be fully developed. In addition to that, this is something that is taken very seriously by many schools. To ensure that your child is enjoying what you are enrolling them to, you have to take you time to look at all the factors for example, the interest they have and also the age. Dancing is usually a great activity that many of the children usually enjoy and this is something that can also be done by the adults. To get the most benefits, you have to go for the best dance classes and that you have to choose the institution or the dance trainer carefully. The good thing is that today, you have quite a number of options and this makes it great. For you to have the right motivation, you have to get the right perspective. By reading the information in this article, you are able to understand the more benefits of going for dance classes.
Dance classes are considered to be very important especially because the self-esteem of the people who dance is usually raised when the perfect the art. The dancing style for the different genres of music are different and that's why, you have to look for each edition that provides what you need. When you children know how to dance, it is going to affect them and how they are able to look at themselves meaning that, they will get a positive attitude. Dancing is going to help you to relax which is a good thing because it is a great form of entertainment. In many regions in the world, people like the things that are going to help them to relax and that's why they go for the dance classes. Another interesting thing about dance classes is that it only involves the whole body and therefore, it's one of the best types of exercises. Going for the dance classes is very important especially because your social standings and your social strength is going to be built meaning that you have high levels of confidence. Your teamwork is going to be much better whenever you decide to go for dance classes and that's another reason for the same.
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Spinal cord stimulation faces off against chronic pain to give woman another chance at her youth.
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It's the kind of thing you might expect to see on the Lifetime Channel on a Sunday night. Opening credits roll as the camera follows a little girl, bent by the scoliosis that curves her spine.
Following her through the awkwardness of growing up, we see her undergo spinal fusion surgery by the time she's hit 20. Her back now straight, thanks to some permanent metal hardware, she is well on her way to recovery.
We see shot after shot of a happy young woman doing the things she's always hoped to do: fishing, hiking and climbing around the San Francisco Bay area she's lived all her life. And in what we expect to be the end of the movie, there is an extended wide shot as we see her finishing the second of her two marathons, wrapped in warm embrace by family and friends.
Just look how far she's come. Smiles widen and the credits roll.
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Out there, living her life, Sara is an ER Technician and she is not close to running out of mountains to climb. Emboldened by her many physical accomplishments, she took on new challenges: like some things that didn't hurt… and dirt bikes.
Ultimately, it wasn't a fair fight. She took a rough spill, breaking a bolt on the spinal brace she'd had since the fusion surgery. The metal was repaired but the flesh was not so lucky. Her severe pain led to increased medication and decreased mobility. Numerous treatments followed: sacroiliac joint injections, more meds, physical therapy…and yet, no relief.
Soon she would no longer be able to lead the active outdoor and social life that had come to define her, limiting her interaction with her young children and friends. Eventually, even the 30-minute car ride to visit her parents proved overwhelming. It all came to be much too much, isolating her from the people and activities she loved.
"Emotionally, it's depressing --33 and I should be active, but I can't take my kids places," she said.
She felt her young body aging far beyond her years, with constant aching and throbbing that forced her to retire to the couch for days at a time.
You want many things for the star of this story, but chronic pain is certainly not one of them. None of this was in the original script.
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Searching for a treatment option that would allow her to re-engage with her own life, and that did not involve medications, Sara returned to the care of her pain management physician. The doctor had an idea. They discussed an innovative approach to her chronic pain: Spinal Cord Stimulation.
"She's the first doctor who believed I was in pain and not a pill seeker," Smith said.
She was "all-in" from the beginning, willing to try just about anything to give her back her old life. With the Abbott Proclaim XR recharge-free stimulation system, she receives low intermittent doses of mild electrical impulses to change pain signals as they travel from the spinal cord to the brain.
Simply put, the technology works by blocking the nerves from telling Sara's brain that she is in pain. The impact was swift and life-changing. "The whole concept is amazing to me," she said.
The Proclaim XR platform is app-based and includes upgradeable software so that, as advances are approved, they can be seamlessly introduced to the patient without further surgery. That was the case for the low-dose, recharge-free update that uses less energy, extending battery life for up to a decade.*
Smith – one of an estimated 50 million people in the United States living with chronic pain—experienced 70-75% pain relief during the trial period.
For the first time in a long time, Sara can do housework and other activities without resting. Even more impactful than chore endurance, Sara is now capable of spending more -- and better -- time with her family – including those formerly prohibitive car rides to the grandparents' house that were seemingly part of the past. Now they are an important part of the present and future.
Sara has her hop back, as she returns to a "normal life." And she still has big goals to reach.
So, perhaps in three or four years, that Lifetime movie idea can be revisited.
Cue Take Two: Sara Smith, mid-30's, her spine straight, her body's pain addressed thanks to Proclaim XR and Spinal Cord Stimulation, back on a smoother road to recovery. The smile is back and wide. The montage includes her fishing and hiking and that final pan shows her crossing the finish line of her third marathon. Just look how far she's come. Let the tears and the credits roll…
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Note: This chart is for reference only; actual jobsite times may vary.
Dry, above grade
Please refer to the Open/Working Time Chart.
In order to form a membrane that functions properly, the right trowel needs to be selected. Jobsite conditions, profile of the substrate, depth of back channeling in the flooring, and other factors affect the amount of adhesive that must be applied to achieve proper coverage and transfer. Always pull a board at the beginning of and during the installation process to confirm adequate coverage and transfer. Trowel size may need to be changed to achieve the required coverage and transfer. See trowel suggestions below.
Suggested Notched Trowel (For use as an adhesive and moisture control membrane, refer to chart above.)
Trowel size is suggested to maximize coverage of adhesive. Periodically check coverage of adhesive during installation: >80% coverage and transfer to the back of the flooring is required for all engineered wood flooring; >95% coverage and transfer is required for all solid wood flooring or bamboo flooring products.


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Salesforce provides debug logs to track the events occurring in a Salesforce organization. It contains information about the transactions such as whether it was successful and how much time it took to complete the transaction. Debug logs are generated based on the 'User Trace Flag' in Debug Logs. Debug logs are generated by the system when a user performs a transaction. This is a very useful feature for Salesforce developers and integration partners.
What is a Trace Flag?
Trace flag are used to filter the log. Each trace flag includes a debug level, start time, end time, and log type. The trace flag's log type specifies the entity you're tracing. Below are the steps to create a Trace Flag:
- Navigate to setup and search for 'Debug Logs' in the quick find box. On selecting the 'Debug Logs' below screen will be shown
- Click on 'New' button. You will be navigated to below screen where you need to provide below details :
- Traced Entity Type – If you want to generate debug logs for a User select User from the drop-down list. Select Apex Class or Apex Trigger from the drop-down list to specify the log levels that take precedence while executing a specific Apex class or trigger. If you want to set a trace flag on the automated process user, Select automated process. The automated process user runs background jobs, such as emailing Chatter invitations.
- Traced Entity Name Select the entity for which you want to create the Debug Log.
- Start Date Select the date from which you want to generate the debug log.
- Expiration Date Select the date after which you want to end the debug log.
- Debug Level It specifies the type of information that is logged for different events. Salesforce provides a default log level, that is 'SFDC_DevConsole'. You can also create a new Debug Log Level based on your requirement
- Click on 'Save' button. Now a trace flag is created.
Debug Log Category
Information is logged based on the category called Log Category. Below are the different log categories
|Log Category
|Includes information about database activity, including every data manipulation language (DML) statement or inline SOQL or SOSL query.
|Includes information for workflow rules, flows, and processes, such as the rule name and the actions taken.
|Includes information about validation rules, such as the name of the rule and whether the rule evaluated true or false.
|Includes the request-response XML that the server is sending and receiving from an external web service. Useful when debugging issues related to using Lightning Platform web service API calls or troubleshooting user access to external objects via Salesforce Connect.
|Apex Code
|Includes information about Apex code. Can include information such as log messages generated by DML statements, inline SOQL or SOSL queries, the start and completion of any triggers, and the start and completion of any test method.
|Apex Profiling
|Includes cumulative profiling information, such as the limits for your namespace and the number of emails sent.
|Includes information about Visualforce events, including serialization and deserialization of the view state or the evaluation of a formula field in a Visualforce page.
|Includes information about calls to all system methods such as the System.debug method.
Debug Levels
Log level determines the amount of information logged when an event is triggered. There are different log levels for each log category. The levels are listed below from lowest to highest.
|Log Level
|Error, Warn, Info
|Includes error, warning, and information messages.
|Includes lower-level messages, and messages generated by calls to the System.debug method.
|Fine, Finer
|Includes log messages generated by calls to the System.debug method, every DML statement or inline SOQL or SOSL query, and the entrance and exit of every user-defined method. In addition, the end of the debug log contains overall profiling information for the portions of the request that used the most resources. These resources include SOQL and SOSL statements, DML operations, and Apex method invocations.
|Includes all messages generated by the Fine or Finer log levels, as well additional information on Apex scripts, including the following.
The level is cumulative, which means when a level is selected all the levels above that are also logged. If you select DEBUG, the log also includes all events logged at the INFO, WARN, and ERROR levels.
Limitations of a Debug Log
- Each debug log must be 5 MB or smaller. Debug logs that are larger than 5 MB are reduced in size by removing older log lines, such as log lines for earlier System.debug statements. The log lines can be removed from any location, not just the start of the debug log.
- System debug logs are retained for 24 hours. Monitoring debug logs are retained for seven days.
- Trace flag will be disabled when a debug log more than 250 MB is generated in a 15-minute window. An email will be sent to the user who last modified the trace flag so that, they can re-enable it.
- When your org accumulates more than 250 MB of debug logs, we prevent users in the org from adding or editing trace flags. To add or edit trace flags so that you can generate more logs after you reach the limit, delete some debug logs.
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Western Cape Wines
Wine Distributors -
With The Amazing And
Blazing Wines
The wine:
Wine is the most popular drink in the whole world. Wine is made of the fermented grapes and some other fruits. Wine is an alcoholic drink. There are different variations of wine found in the market. The variations caused by the complex reactions that take place along with the different bio-chemical elements. However, there is considerable human intervention involved in the production of different types of wine. However the main chemical reactor is the yeast. This liquid is a psychoactive drug. In the current days, wine is used as an intoxicating liquid. This has been the use of wine from the very earlier days.
The wine distribution company:
The Wine Distributors serve the best lead role in the wine business. They are the ones who cater the wines to the hand of individuals. They serve as the middleman between the wine producing company and the normal people. Winery is the place the wine is made. One wine company can have a lot of winery under their command. But without the wine distributers, the production of wine does not have any point. So, the wine distributors are one of the main elements in chain that stretches from winery to persons.
Before a deal is signed between a winery and a wine distribution company, there are certain factors that should be evaluated by the both parties. The first thing that the wine distributors make sure is the production capability of the winery. The distributors think the possibility that if they find a bigger market later on, then if the winery can provide the required amount of wine. The distributors need to be sure about this fact before they sign a deal. If the winery is not a large one, then there is a slight problem that can be taken care of pretty easily. The winery has to be flexible while signing a deal with the distributors. The negotiation should be on such terms that they can get a better deal.
The types of the wines:
The Western Cape Wines are among the best ones in the whole world. The wines are great in their respect. They are extremely popular also. There are many types of wines that the distributers distribute to the wine shops. There is Cabernet Sauvington Merlot 2010. This is a quality wine and extremely popular on its own accord. The fragrance is fantastic. The colour is also praise worthy. This is a blend of blackcurrant and ripe palm. Another one is the Chenin Blanc 2011. This is also a popular wine. This wine consists of rich tropical fruits and some other materials. The main element is the guava. The next in the line is the Sauvington Banc 2011. This wine is specially made for the warm days. The wine is made of several items like nuts, cheese and recently caught fishes. The last in the line is the Pinotage 2009. This is also another example of marvellous wines in among the Western Cape ines. This wine is the mixture of rich various herbs and vanilla spice.


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Honeywell recently announced it has been awarded the $4.8 million contract to install the health and usage monitoring systems in all 42 of the U.S. Coast Guard's MH-60T helicopters.
Honeywell has been awarded a $4.8 million contract to install health and usage monitoring systems (HUMS) on all 42 MH-60T medium-range rescue helicopters operated by the U.S. Coast Guard. The installation of Honeywell's Zing® HUMS 1239 greatly increases the U.S. Coast Guard's ability to complete its mission and will help to reduce maintenance costs, according to the company.
HUMS is a sensor-based monitoring system that enables preventative maintenance by measuring the health and performance of mission-critical components. By continuously monitoring vibration at numerous points throughout the drivetrain and pinpointing mechanical faults before they become catastrophic failures, HUMS provides actionable information that allows the Coast Guard to anticipate mechanical failures and make anticipatory maintenance decisions. For more information, visit http://aerospace.honeywell.com/.
The Coast Guard has an ongoing project to upgrade the fleet with new avionics, communications, navigation equipment, and flight instruments. This work converts them to MH-60Ts and will dramatically improved reliability and mission performance. The MH-60Ts have a top speed of 170 knots and a range of 300 nautical miles. They carry a crew of four. The helicopters will remain in service through 2027, according to the upgrade project's website, http://www.uscg.mil/acquisition/mrr/.
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(Targetted?) 40,000 Avios sign-up for BA Amex
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Flyertalker 5mSvGlow pointed me towards this link for the BA Premium Plus Amex card. It offers (until 1st August) 40,000 Avios for signing up as opposed to the usual – already excellent – 35,000 offered via ba.com.
By a coincidence, I also saw this offer last night when I logged into my father-in-law's BAEC account to move his Diamond Club miles over. It appeared as a banner advertisement on his Executive Club home page.
It is not clear if this ad is targetted or not. I presume it must be targetted in some way, since the ad still shows for him this morning yet I have never seen it or my account or my wifes. Wierdly, if I click through to the credit card page on ba.com on his account, I get the standard 35,000 Avios offer.
My gut feeling is that if you apply via the link above then you WILL get 40,000 Avios. Which, given the £150 fee for the BA Premium Plus Amex, is a great deal.
On the subject of credit cards, over the weekend I updated the Cards Update page on the blog to reflect changes over the last month. The changes were:
The United Airlines MileagePlus card has had its sign-up bonus removed! Without the bribe of 15,000 miles, I can't see any reason for applying for this card at the moment, especially as the earning rate at 1 mile per £1 is also weak for an Amex.
The Starwood Preferred Guest Amex sign-up bonus has dropped back to 10,000 SPG points from the promotional 20,000. This 20,000 offer comes around a couple of times a year, so I would hold off from applying for a few months unless you have a specific reason.
I included the link to the '40,000 points and your fee refunded' Priority Club Black Visa promotion, although if you were not targetted for this then you may not get anything more than the usual 20,000 points and no fee refund.
Apart from that, unless I have missed something, everything else is as it was in June. The BA Premium Plus 35,000 Avios sign-up bonus (40,000 via the link in this post), the fee-free Amex Preferred Rewards Gold with 20,000 Membership Rewards points and the Hilton Visa with the free night certificate for spending £750 remain my top picks at the moment.
I will continue to publish one in-depth review each week of a loyalty card – next up will be the Marriott card.
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Edelweiss has the collaboration of several priests of the Catholic Church for Christian formation that is taught in school aimed to prepare students for first communion and confirmation.
First communion
3º of primary students receive at school during the school year the catechesis in preparation for first communion. They receive first communion in 3rd grade.
The course 2016-2017 will be held on Saturday, may 6. This preparation are:
-Don Pedro Bisbal. Priest who attends the elementary stage
-Mª Carmen Feltrer. Catechist of the College
3º ESO, 4º ESO and 1st high school students receive during the school year the catechesis for preparation for confirmation. They will receive the sacrament in 1st high school.
The course 2016-2017 will be held on Friday, may 12. This preparation are:
-Don Guillermo Carrasco. A priest who attends the high school stage.
-MªCarmen Feltrer. Catechist of the College


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When Zara says she has a crappy dad, she's isn't kidding. Left holding the stinky bag of deceit and debt her father left her and her brother, she's determined to make it right. She basically writes Logan Reese, the debt holder, a blank check and he fills in the blank all right.
This was a fun and sexy read that pitted two alphas against one another. Logan knows he's an alpha, but Zara isn't aware of her own status due to her inability to shift. And for some reason, all the men she meets lately don't believe that she can't, indeed, shift. This is a short read, and one of four total. Logan and Zara do a little tap dance and then they are burning up the sheets, or rather the wall. There is also some pack intrigue and the mystery of the back alley fighting taking place and who is behind it all. Characters that promise to be important later are introduced and their status outlined. Any way, a quick read that left the reader wanting the next installment.
Hard as nails fight club manager Zara cares about two things in life: her club and her brother.
The problem is, technically the club belongs to her asshat of a father. Who is missing, along with last quarters takings… and the money the club owes to Reese, the guy who controls all the shifter fight clubs in the city. He's a dangerous man and now Zara owes him money. A lot of money. The sort of money that would normally get her and her brother taken outside the city limits and buried in a shallow grave. But Logan Reese isn't the monster he should be. He's as hot as hades, and way too intelligent by half. She's screwed six ways to sunday…
He's a fighter through and through… The King of the Ring.
Logan Reese can't abide thieves, so when one of his club managers runs off with money that belongs to him, he's all for breaking bones and asking questions later. Until he see's her. Zara Hunter is a delectably curvy little bundle, strength and delicate femininity wrapped up in one irresistible package. Logan is anything but a saint, and he has a few ideas about how she can pay off her debt to him…
Fair Warning: This is a raunchy little shortie that contains one hot as hell werelion using any excuse to get his hands on the sexy, curvy woman he wants. It does not end in a HEA (at the moment) but does have hot sex (on a desk)


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The book of Ezra records that Haggai was a faithful prophet of God at a pivotal moment in Judah's history. The Jews had just been sent home from their decades-long exile in Babylon and Persia and the nation needed to be rebuilt. Their first priority should have been rebuilding the great Temple in Jerusalem, but after laying the foundation they abandoned the project while they built luxurious homes for themselves. This was not just an issue of poor planning. It did not reveal an administrative problem, it revealed a spiritual problem. By neglecting the Temple of God they were neglecting the God of the Temple. God sent Haggai to confront the nation's leadership and to motivate them to put God first and to honor Him by resuming work on His house.
In our chapter today, we find that the people were working on the Temple, and two months into the project the structure was taking shape. But some of the old men who had seen the original Temple were discouraged. They wept when they realized that the new Temple was not going to be as glorious or as beautiful as the one Solomon had built (see Ezra 3:12). That kind of discouragement can spread quickly and kill a project, so God gave Haggai another message for the people. The prophet addressed the problem directly (v.3): "Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory?"
The assumption among the older men must have been that the nation had sinned-away God's glory, and that they would never recover the magnificence of Solomon's Temple or the favor of God they had once known. But Haggai gave them this message from God: "I am with you…My Spirit remains in your midst" (v.4, 5). The important thing was not the appearance of the Temple, but the presence of the Lord in the Temple. Decorations can be destroyed and beauty can be ruined — they knew that fact very well — but if you have God, you have everything you need. Think about that.
Before two final sermons that assured the people that God was going to bless them and give them victory over their enemies (v.10-23), Haggai delivered a message with a distant, end-times meaning. In verses 6-9 the prophet predicted that God will someday "shake" the world with His judgment. The result of God's global shakedown will be a glorious renewal of His people. When the Messiah, Jesus Christ, returns in the last days to set up His kingdom on earth, the glory of God's people in those days will eclipse anything the world has ever known. (Note: this is not a promise for Jews only, but for all believers who have been "grafted into" God's great family; see Romans 11:11-24).
Our hearts should long for that day when Jesus returns and sets everything right. And until then, we should do what the people did in Haggai's day: stop being so self-centered, stop procrastinating our obedience to God, stop romanticize "the way things used to be" in the past, stop stalling-out every time someone complains, stop whining about the difficulty of our mission — and get busy doing the Lord's work. If God is with us, we don't have to be afraid (v.5). If God is with us, His limitless resources are at our disposal (v.8). And if God is with us, we can live in that unique glory-zone in which our work becomes our rest and our excitement is our peace.