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Moven Completes A Round
Today while presenting at Wired Money in the UK, I proudly announced the closing of Moven's Series A Investment round.
Led by SBT Venture Capital, this $8m raise included Route 66 Ventures, Standard Bank, and a few new angels. We are excited to welcome each of them to the Moven family and thank them for their investment in our mission to reinvent banking.
We would also like to thank Anthemis Group, our Seed round lead who also chose to participate in this raise. Their appetite for continued funding is a strong vote of confidence that all of us at Moven deeply appreciate.
Finally, we would like to recognize the Santerre Group, Kevin Plank from Under Armour, our NY Angel investors, and Jim Pallotta from Raptor Group for their stellar support throughout our Seed round and initial product development. We certainly would not have made it this far without them.
As many of you know, Moven has been in launch phase for less than a year, only recently exiting our Beta invite process in March of 2014 and opening up our service to the public. In that brief time Moven has become one of the most watched new brands in the global banking sector. Our work has been cited by Wired, AT Kearney, American Banker, Accenture, Forrester, EFMA and many others as a potential model for the future of banking.
While many "neo-banking" competitors' initial product launches required $10m to $300m to execute, we are proud to say that the Moven team was able to launch what Techcrunch described as a, "feature set (that) is notable, and in some cases even tops that of…other more modern mobile banking/payments apps" with only $4.5m in spend. With $8m more in capital to invest, we believe that we will continue to generate significant progress with effective, strategic use of that investment.
For now Moven's objectives are clear. First is to invest in the product and create the defining benchmark for the 'downloadable smart bank account' category in the US. With this new funding Moven can now fully capitalize on the hundreds of thousands of prospects and emails built over the last few months. And we can continue to invest in ground-breaking features and tools that will redefine the banking experience for every one of our users.
Second, is to exclusively align with strategic partners in other parts of the world to integrate the Moven app with their basic banking experiences. We have always envisioned the disruptive change occurring in retail banking as a global phenomenon. We will now be moving forward with a number of international partnership agreements that will give us presence on three continents while creating new revenue opportunities. You'll be hearing a lot more from us about these partnerships and launches in the coming months.
It's hard to believe that it's been only 18 months since our initial funding, but if our accomplishments to date have been any indication then the journey has only just begun. We believe that in short order millions of customers will be using our app each day to help them spend, save and live smarter.
Thank you for your incredible support thus far and remember to keep on Moven!
– Brett King


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Bepolux is a non profit organization of private companies, federations, business men and women, with business experience in Poland : investment and trade. All of them can share valuable experiences with you and help you to benefit from their network of contacts.
Its main mission is focused on the promotion of Belgian and Luxembourg investments and exports to Poland, but can also support the cooperation of Polish businesses with Belgian and Luxembourg companies.
Bepolux organizes business to business contacts and information activities and offers professional services adjusted to the needs of its members interested in doing business with or in Poland.
Being seated in Brussels - capital of Europe - the Chamber forms a direct link with various international organisations and institutions.
|Since June 11th 2003 Bepolux has been awarded the quality - label of "Certified Chamber" by the Federation of Belgian Chambers of Commerce and is part of the BLCCA network
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Artificial Worlds V.3.0
Artificial Worlds is the end of the world in a short film. Apocalyptic and nihilstic it shows the world in freefall. Focussing on a group of eight anonymous souls we witness their last ditch efforts to survive.
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- 2007
- Type of film
- Shorts
- Running Time
- 7 mins
- Format
- Digital
- Director
- Richard Fenwick
- Producer
- Jo Phipps
- Editor
- Paul Hardcastle
- Director of Photography
- Lol Crawley
- Sound
- Cathode, Michael Powell
- Music
- Cathode
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November 2011
We wish Maria good luck and a speedy convalescence. The youth club will re-open in February 2012 as usual.
October 30th, 2011
BBC Surrey 10 minute studio interview with Emily Jeffrey and Maria Angel on the Sunday Morning Faith Programme, talking about the 'Joys of Volunteering' and raising the profile of The N Factor Youth Club and the mentoring of supervisors, mentioning one team member Alex Young who successfully completed his Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Award having completed his 3 month voluntary experience at the youth club.
March 10th, 2011
The High Sheriff Youth Award 'Money Matters' seminar provided a valuable insight in to the financial capability of young people when it comes to handling money and dealing with bills and debt. The seminar provided an excellent showcase to offer youth clubs such as ourselves 'Sources of Help' where we can forward student members and youngsters who have financial issues and need help, in the right direction. Agencies such as the Citizens Advice Bureau, Money Made Clear and Money Doctors offered useful information which we hold details of and can be made available to anyone on a confidential basis. So please don't hesitate to ask.
January 12th, 2011
Congratulations to two of our members Josh King and Ryan Weatheritt for their efforts in gaining The N Factor a grant from the Surrey Youth Opportunity Fund (YOF) and Youth Capital Fund (YCF) that means we can now buy more activities for the boys. Well done to both members who received a certificate in 'Recognition of the positive contribution' they made to gaining funding for 'More Interactive Boys Activities'. A hearty thanks to Josh and Ryan for their hard work in applying for a grant that now means we can purchase indoor football equipment such as bibs, a soft ball and goals, along with Wii equipment and games.
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|GOP Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina and The Donald
A ticket to drive Democrats insane
EDITOR - Here is a reprint of my article from September, 2015. This information is more important than ever. To win The Donald has to roll some very unconventional dice and strike deep into Democrat territory.
Some 95% of African Americans vote Democrat. Pure and simple the GOP has ignored Blacks. The Donald has been reaching out to Blacks. Putting Senator Tim Scott on the ticket attacks the very core of Democrat power. Pull in even 20% of the Black vote could potentially put multiple blue states into play.
By Gary;
By any standard political timeline it is way, way too early to talk about a GOP ticket. But I have a gut feeling that the entire Republican field of candidates has imploded. The Donald has come.
The fat lady is singing, but the GOP candidates are refusing to listen.
The exciting news to me is the new SurveyUSA poll showing The Donald pulling an unheard of 25% of the African American vote in the general election.
The Trump appeal crosses a lot of supposedly solid political lines. Many Black voters see Trump as looking out for them on immigration and exporting jobs while traditional Republicans are for open borders and poverty for all American citizens. By comparison establishment Republican Mitt Romney pulled a "massive" 6% of the Black vote and McCain got 4%.
If this trend to Trump continues there is an opportunity to re-establish the old Civil War era Republican-Black alliance that died out in the 1930s.
To this end I humbly propose a 2016 ticket of Donald Trump and Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina.
A Trump-Scott ticket could up end the election:
- The phony Democrat weapon of the Race Card is removed.
- If a 25% or more Black GOP vote happens a number of states with large Black populations could go Republican: Florida (17% Black), Virginia (20% Black), Ohio (12% Black) and Pennsylvania (11% Black).
Opportunity may come knocking for the GOP. But the question of the day remains: Will Republicans embrace the American people or continue to lick the boots of the open borders Billionaire Cartels on Wall Street?
Tim Scott Speaks in Support of Full Repeal
A Pro-Civil Rights Republican
And Black Americans responded by voting for the GOP
GOP President U.S. Grant made many advances in civil and human rights. In 1869 and 1871, he signed bills promoting black voting rights and prosecuting Klan leaders. He won passage of the Fifteenth Amendment, which gave freedmen the vote, and the Civil Rights Act of 1871, which empowered the President "to arrest and break up disguised night marauders."
In response to the renewed violent outbreaks against African Americans, Grant was the first President to sign a congressional civil rights act: the Civil Rights Act of 1875. This legislation mandated equal treatment in public accommodations and jury selection.
Former President Grant acidly remarked that the anti-labor wing of the Republicans were the same people who had resisted using federal troops "to protect the lives of negroes. Now, however, there is no hesitation about exhausting the whole power of the government to suppress a strike on the slightest intimation that danger threatens."
Black Republican leaders in 1875
Back in the day Republicans actually cared about African Americans and were rewarded with massive GOP majorities and Black Republican Congressmen.


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Fortune Magazine: iPhone backdoors already exist.
Apple, Jacob Appelbaum and the National Security AgencySpeaking about these back doors Security Researcher Jacob Appelbaum put it this way:
"Do you think Apple helped them build that? I don't know. I hope Apple will clarify that. Here's the problem: I don't really believe that Apple didn't help them, I can't really prove it but [the NSA] literally claim that anytime they target an iOS device that it will succeed for implantation. Either they have a huge collection of exploits that work against Apple products, meaning that they are hoarding information about critical systems that American companies produce and sabotaging them, or Apple sabotaged it themselves. Not sure which one it is. I'd like to believe that since Apple didn't join the PRISM program until after Steve Jobs died, that maybe it's just that they write shitty software. We know that's true."


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Does Generation Y understand social media?
Two interesting recent conversations:
- On asking a twentysomething about her take on Twitter: "Oh, it's just for celebrities."
- On discussing the results of a student exercise on marketing: "Of 10 groups, none of them mentioned social media."
It's true that Gen Y are the 'digital natives'. They've grown up with the web all around them, and they use social media to chat with friends, share photos, arrange meet-ups etc.
I'm Gen X, so I'm the generation that first got into mainstream tech and started using the web in its initial, one-way, non-social form. We're fairly comfortable with computers – today it's as essential as the three 'Rs' – but the older generation can, on the whole, still have problems with it. I'm convinced my mother thinks there's a little homunculus inside the PC doing all the work for her.
Back to Gen Y. OK, these were just two conversations but they surprised me, especially the results of the student exercise. It's as if they're so familiar with the 'social' of social media that they don't see the 'commercial'.
This is endearingly naive and while I don't advocate they all become cynical mercenaries bent on monetising every conversation in the social-media-sphere, if the next generation of marketing professionals are going to help people market themselves, they'll need to break out of this.
I think it's part of a bigger, universal theme. If you're inside something, you can't see outside. I've seen it happen with companies who claim to have rebranded themselves, and when I see the work they've done, it's immediately obvious that they haven't had external input. All their comments on the competition are negative. They tout 'unique' offerings that aren't unique at all. They don't see what they're doing wrong because they haven't looked from the outside in. And, in one case, I knew they were regarded by some as too expensive and offering disappointing results but they simply didn't know this.
So perhaps Gen Y should get a bit more savvy. Maybe as digital natives they need to walk around the virtual world more and explore it.
They already know how to use the platforms but they need to step outside how they use it, and how they think, and be aware of how other people do. That's the essence of marketing, and never more so than in the social media world.
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One nurse at a private hospital in the coastal city of Mersin, Turkey- about a 260 mile hike from Aleppo, Syria- is so fed up and "ashamed" of treating ISIS jihadists, she finally contacted members of Parliament and the National Police Department.
According to the Taraf Daily, E.G. (as she is being identified as) said:
"We treat them, and they go on to decapitate people. I am sick of treating wounded ISIL militants."And it's not just E.G. and the rest of her colleagues who are disgusted at having to help people who "chop off heads," others in Mersin and surrounding areas close to Syria are also troubled by having to treat wounded jihadists. Which means it's a rampant problem.
In the letter she wrote to Parliament and the Police Department, E.G. said she has been employed at a private hospital in Mersin for a long time. She said her hospital has treated many wounded Syrians so far, who have introduced themselves as "opposition members."
However, she noted that she had found out that most of the Syrians recently admitted to the hospital were ISIL members. "I was extremely distressed about this. I am very sorry about this situation. I am disturbed by the fact that these people are being treated in our hospitals while our people are being held by them," she wrote, according to Taraf's report.
ISIL has been holding 46 Turks, and three consulate staff who are not Turkish citizens, as hostages for the past three months.
Back in August, her hospital treated and ISIS commander:
"The ISIL commander named Muhammet Ali R. who was admitted to our hospital on Aug. 7 was treated at room number 323.
Many of his bodyguards kept watch around the hospital. Many other ISIL commanders like him and soldiers have been treated at our hospital, and returned to war after the completion of their treatment. I don't want to help these people. I want you to inspect these hospitals. And I am referring the owners of the hospital and its management to God."
How do these injured militants cross back into Turkey from Syria, without the Turkish authorities knowing? It means the Turks are complicit.
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In line with those that have used CBD to deal with most cancers, the 2 finest choices are vaping (for fast aid) or tincture. As a result of research (referenced under) have proven that CBD may very well kill some most cancers cells, the aim is to get it into your system and preserve a gradual degree. This may be achieved each via oral tinctures and vape. Verified CBD
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If you don't vape or usually are not considering vaping, then your alternative is the oral tincture.
Some counsel a two-pronged method for the most effective outcomes, utilizing each strategy collectively, as they every have some distinct advantages.
Most cancers. It's an extremely distressing analysis and is usually a turning level in an individual's life. There isn't any one treatment, and it could actually result in large struggling, even when it doesn't turn out to be deadly.
However, a most cancers analysis is just not a loss of life sentence, with new remedies over the previous few a long time discovering methods to both get rid of the most cancers or preserve it from spreading. There are additionally many varieties of most cancers, a few of that are very treatable with the surgical procedure, chemotherapy, and different cures. It additionally develops in levels, and the later you catch it, the tougher it's to deal with.
As with different most cancers remedies, CBD is just not one-size-fits-all. It has to slot in along with your therapy routine, both as a vital element or as a therapy for among the signs. Both means, there are causes to see CBD as a thrilling therapy. The analysis has persistently displayed its results, and it circumvents among the issues with different remedies.
Chemotherapy has its issues
Chemotherapy is usually a lifesaver. If most cancers can't be absolutely eradicated, chemo can decelerate its progress, considerably prolonging an affected person's life.
Nonetheless, so as to be efficient, chemotherapy comes with dangers. To ensure that it to be efficient at killing cancerous cells, it needs to be extremely poisonous. And sadly, there isn't any chemotherapy therapy that may goal the cancerous cells alone. It subsequently has a dangerous impact on the remainder of the physique, resulting in excessive nausea, hair loss, weak spot, fatigue, and extra. Some sufferers even decide out of chemo, regardless of its potential to elongate their lives, as a result of they'd fairly not compromise the standard of the time they've left.
CBD kills cancerous cells and inhibits progress…
CBD may be very thrilling as a result of research after research finds that it each kills most cancers cells in addition to inhibits additional progress. That is true of different hashish compounds as nicely, however, CBD is especially fascinating because it doesn't include the psychoactive results of THC which can impair day-to-day functioning.
This analysis has proven it has potential far past the palliative features for which it has long been used.
Research has proven that CBD could also be efficient in opposition to neuroblastoma, one of the crucial frequent cancers in kids. Mind most cancers, which is especially aggressive and exhausting to deal with, has additionally been a spotlight of research on CBD, which has discovered the substance to doubtlessly lower tumor dimension and forestalls it spreading.
Moreover, CBD has been discovered to kill cancerous cells and inhibit the unfold of lung most cancers, one other type of the illness that's notoriously tough to deal with.
That is only a pattern of probably the most harmful varieties of most cancers that CBD can deal with. Analysis has discovered it to be efficient across the board and is a possible therapy for each type of most cancers.
However, it isn't a panacea
CBD is a really thrilling element of most cancers therapy. However, we should be positive to not fall into the lure of treating it as a panacea or cure-all. Analysis remains to be in early levels, and whereas we all know it really works, we will but use it in a focused means with assured outcomes. It ought to definitely be part of therapy – and at this level, it's irresponsible not to make use of it – however, mustn't change different remedies.
CBD for palliative care
Lastly, a fast level with reference to CBD as palliative care. Palliative care is therapy for these within the closing levels of most cancers that may now not be cured or slowed down. Hashish has lengthy been used as palliative therapy, and CBD is efficient even without the psychoactive results of THC. For individuals who are struggling, it could actually vastly enhance the standard of life within the closing months.
CBD is a thrilling most cancers therapy. Analysis signifies that it ought to be part of the therapy regime for any kind of most cancers. It will probably present hope to sufferers within the early levels of most cancers and alleviate the ache of these for whom it's too superior.
Rating the Finest CBD Oils for Most cancers
An analysis of most cancers is severe and doubtlessly life-altering, however by no means unusual. About 39.6% of men and women will be diagnosed with cancer at some point during their lives, and it's protected to say that everybody's life has been not directly touched by this illness. The excellent news is that the prognosis is steadily enhancing. In the US, the overall cancer survival rate has increased by 25% between 1990 and 2014, and that quantity continues to rise due to improved screening and therapy methods. Together with longer lives, these with most cancers reside higher lives, with new choices for managing signs like ache and fatigue. Together with conventional medical remedies like chemo, hormones, and radiation, many sufferers, with their physician's approval, embody different and complementary approaches of their therapy plans. Well-liked and established choices embody vitamin, thoughts/physique integration, acupuncture, medical hashish, and dietary supplements akin to CBD.
CBD (Cannabidiol) is a non-psychoactive compound derived from the hemp (hashish) plant, and has a wide range of therapeutic purposes, together with enhancing the well-being of these with most cancers. CBD works in opposition to most cancers in plenty of methods. It addresses the frequent most cancers problems with ache, stress, and irritation naturally, successfully and without the problematic negative effects of many medicines. Moreover, research has additionally proven that CBD kills cancer cells and inhibits further growth. For those in palliative care, looking for the very best high quality of life within the closing levels of most cancers, fairly than energetic illness combating, CBD also has established benefits.
There are various methods to take CBD, from edibles and oral drops to salves and capsules. Your preferred methodology of supply will rely on your private preferences, way of life and signs. These experiencing nausea as a facet impact of medical therapy, as an illustration, might want oral drops added to water over edibles gummies. For almost all of these with most cancers, CBD oil vaping (inhaling vaporized CBD) is favored for its fast-acting supply. Those that want to not vape usually go for oral tinctures (aka liquid CBD oil).
Whether or not you're considering CBD oil or vaping, you'll need to discover out that are the most effective CBD oils for most cancers? To pick out the most effective CBD oil, you'll need to bear in mind an organization's hemp sourcing, CBD purity, and vary of CBD oil merchandise provided, in addition to the variety of therapeutic dosages. As a result of the trade is just not regulated by the FDA, researching every CBD oil firm is the one strategy to discover a respected and dependable supply.


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There are demands to increase the allowance four-fold.
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Green Business Resources
Green business resources help businesses go green. You can find such resources on special interest or government websites, or in the form of a specialized consultant. Specific green resources may focus on business processes like reducing air emissions, waste or groundwater contamination. They may work with architecture to improve building efficiency, or they may simply encourage businesses to recycle and carpool. By taking advantage of green business resources, businesses can reduce liabilities and expenses while benefiting the environment.
Green Business Websites
Environmentally conscious special interest groups and government agencies often provide free web-based resources to businesses. The websites may provide information about how businesses can stay compliant with certain environmental regulations. Often, the websites give tips about conserving energy. The tips may prove simple, such as turning off the lights once you leave a room, or more complex, such as using recycled materials in your product packaging. The websites also provide lists of environmental services, such as those that involve recycling.
Green Business Consultants
Environmental consultants can be internal or external. Larger companies, such as oil refineries, steel manufacturers and other industries involved in large-scale production, often hire their own green business resource officer, often with a background in environmental science, who takes a proactive stance on keeping the company in environmental compliance. Because large companies spend a lot of money to maintain environmental compliance, many have started reducing toxic air emissions below required levels. They also better control the quality of treated water released into the environment. Not only is this in a company's best interest legally, but from a marketing and public relations standpoint, their efforts are attractive to their customer base.
Green Architecture
A business that is considering construction of new offices should consult with architects familiar with environmentally sound structures. They can help you select architectural designs that bring in natural light and keep a healthy airflow for employees. They can also assist you in using recycled materials in the process, which can often extend the life of your building.
Green Resources for Employees
Green business resources can also provide a guide for ways your employees can recycle, reduce energy and conserve water. Not only will such measures improve your bottom line, but the environment will thank you for generations to come.
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The antique plateware may have a bit of a feminine touch, but chef Sam Crannell's cooking at LloydMartin is meaty and masculine. Yet it will appeal to all who come to this romantic little cocktail bar-like hideaway, named after Crannell's two grandfathers, in Seattle's Queen Anne neighborhood. And after a meal that might include the likes of lamb meatball sliders, roast duck leg, bison Bolognese, and pork roast, how about a dessert to fit the theme?
At LloydMartin, that dessert is the Malted Waffle ($12). This sweetie is a definite head-turner as it makes its way to your table. Filling a large dinner plate, the waffle stands tall in its four sections and is topped with a generous scoop of house-made maple ice cream and fresh raspberries. For a final touch, bourbon-tea syrup, which contains Tahitian vanilla and Egyptian chamomile.
A spoon suffices in piercing the crisp waffle, allowing you to get ice cream and fruit in each bite. As you sink your spoon into the waffle, you'll notice strips of bacon run through the whole thing. The ingredients work wonders together, providing a sweet and salty one-two punch, with subtle notes of bourbon, vanilla, maple, and chamomile. And if this swine-filled treat doesn't qualify as enough of a sweet, you can always finish with an ice cream sandwich as an alternative, or to double down on dessert.
(Originally published at Serious Eats on July 3. And visit here for more on my whole meal at LloydMartin.)


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PSAC will be offering webinars for members who volunteered to be Pay Advocates on how to address common problems with Phoenix.
Participants will explore the steps to take when handling pay problems that occur due to transfer of positions or overtime. They will also explore the claims process when employees are seeking reimbursements for costs incurred due to Phoenix errors, such as paying interest on loans.
The webinars will take place on July 17, 2018, in French and July 18 in English and will cover two topics:
- Pay issues at 7 pm EST (register here)
- Claims process at 8 pm EST (register here)
Interested participants will need to register to take part in the webinars.
In order to help us deliver the webinar effectively and efficiently, we ask that those who will be participating to please submit in advance any specific issues and questions on the two topics they want addressed. You may submit them before the date of your chosen webinars at phoenix-ed-phénix@psac-afpc.com.
Please note, the webinar will be recorded and shared with Pay Advocates should you be unable to attend at the designated times.


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TEFL Jobs Overseas is a complete guide for TEFL jobs, TEFL teachers, TEFL information or TEFL Courses. TEFL Jobs Overseas has many current TEFL jobs for teaching overseas. Before beginning your teaching overseas adventure, you can find any TEFL information you need to help make an informed decision about a TEFL teaching career teaching English overseas.
Teachers in Turkey is a recruitment company. We hire English teachers for private schools in Turkey. We provide teachers a wonderful opportunity to live and work in the cradle of civilization and experience the fusion of East & West. We organize necessary orientation and teacher training seminars that will help teachers adapt to the education system in Turkey easily.
If you want to live in a warm European Mediterranean country, with friendly people, delicious food and good income, could you please send us your CV.


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Nokia has bought mobile file sharing firm Avvenu, it announced today. The deal will make it possible for the mobile phone company to offer new web services, including offline filesharing.
Avvenu's existing service lets you securely access files on your computer via your mobile phone, even when the computer at home is switched off. It works with most major handsets, and has recently been tweaked to work with the Apple iPhone too.
"Avvenu's 'digital locker' file access and sharing technology allows users to search, access and share PC files remotely, using their mobile or other connected devices, even when their PC is turned off or not connected to the internet," said Nokia's Mary McDowell.
"With the integration of Avvenu's technology, Nokia will further extend its business mobility solutions beyond email to add collaboration tools that enable greater everyday productivity through access to a user's own content anytime, anywhere, from any connected device," McDowell said.


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Tribeca Film Festival 2009 – The Program Slims Down as It Returns to Its Roots
"Leaner" and "slimmed-down" are the terms being bandied about to describe Tribeca's program this year which has scaled back to 85 features — down from 120 in 2008, and roughly half that in 2007. Indeed, the festival — launched in the aftermath of September 11 — has returned to its roots as a revitalizing force for downtown NYC. The big guns are fittingly led by Woody Allen's Whatever Works, his first Manhattan-set movie in four years (which opens the fest), while Steven Soderbergh's The Girlfriend Experience is also highly anticipated thanks to his stunt casting of porn star Sasha Grey.
Other movies of note? Mandy Stein's Burning Down the House focuses on the late punk rock Mecca CBGB's
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With all due respect to the locals, the best Tribeca has to offer this time around might be in the way of imports: Japan's Yojiro Takita's Academy Award-winning Departures is getting an overdue New York premiere as is An Englishman in New York in which John Hurt revives his role as gay icon Quentin Crisp; another movie getting a bit of pre-festival buzz is Seven Minutes in Heaven, the debut from Israeli director Omri Givon, which traces the aftershocks of a bus bombing on a memory-plagued survivor.
If that all sounds a bit highbrow, there are also a number of premieres geared more toward mainstream audiences: Cheryl Hines making her directorial debut with some help from Meg Ryan and Timothy Hutton.
As usual, the festival program will include a number of free events. Besides the usual Drive-In and Family Day activities, a number of industry panels will be free and open to the public, including a series on the art of screenwriting. For more information on the festival, its films, and its events, check out Tribeca Film Festival's website.
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Business and every day web users look for a multilingual semantic web
The requirements driving a multilingual semantic web extend from large organizations to every day users of publicly accessible information services. The Web still struggles to provide access to information services that are available only in English (or German, Polish, etc.) to people who do not speak this language, or not well enough to understand everything they need to know. A recently started research project that is coordinated by Paul Buitelaar and Sean O'Riain of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute at NUIG will be researching solutions for this, using a novel combination of automatic machine translation and Semantic Web technology.
The Monnet (Multilingual Ontologies for Networked Knowledge) project, a
€2.4 M Euro European Union funded project is a joint effort between four European research institutes, German software giant SAP, BeInformed a Dutch knowledge-based solution provider for public sector information services and financial and business reporting standards organisation XBRL-Europe. "The infrastructure is already there, we are now seeing that the emergence of semantic search and semantic web technologies are being combined with text mining. If this continues apace it makes sense that the multilingual semantic web will rapidly develop. As text mining will be an important part of semantic web development overall, then multilingual text mining will be an important part too" comments Buitelaar, the project coordinator.
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"On the surface, they can still exercise their iniquitous laws, fight, devour each other, and indulge in all their earthly horrors. But thirty feet below the (sea's) surface, their power ceases, their influence fades, and their dominion vanishes. Ah, monsieur, to live in the bosom of the sea! There I recognise no master! There I am free!"
– Captain Nemo, in Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Se
Nemo was commander of the Nautilus submarine, the mythical vessel which also featured in Jules Verne's later novel, The Mysterious Island.
In the wake of the record Centro settlement – struck under cover of budget darkness on Tuesday this week – the chatter in the partnership realms of the big four audit community was how PricewaterhouseCoopers, Centro's auditor, had blown the caper for everyone.
Indeed, there might even have been consternation on another mysterious island, confided one big time auditor, even within another unfathomable double-hulled vessel with watertight compartments.
So secret is this vessel, said to be docked on a Caribbean isle which only protrudes above sea level at the lowest of tides on a full moon, that it would be improper of your correspondent to confirm or deny that it also might be named Nautilus.
Neither can we confirm that it may have, or may have had, four shareholders, or that it might have held the indemnity insurance for PwC, Ernst & Young, KPMG and Deloitte.
The big four, much of whose vast profits derive from advising people how to avoid paying billions in tax, were firing off press releases like blazes this week, pontificating on every imaginable aspect of the federal budget.
But when it came to fielding one simple and absolutely critical question, their squadrons of communications officers were as silent as the depths of the watery grotto where Nemo himself is interred.
When a client contracts the audit services of Ernst & Young, Deloitte or KPMG, is that client buying the opinion of a blue-chip global audit firm? Or is the audit opinion merely one partner shooting the breeze?
The latter was the case, PwC contended in its defence to the Centro debacle.
Nobody from the big four was prepared to contend otherwise this week. And nobody may know better for quite a while as PwC bit the bullet and agreed to pay $66 million of the $200 million to shut the Centro case down.
Nobody, incidentally, translates as "nemo" in Latin. And it is no accident that this exotic vessel which celebrates Captain Nemo's legacy hails from faraway, tax-effective climes.
It is also proof that accountants have a wicked sense of humour.
Nemo himself was a man of fine taste and the highest intellect, an innovator who eschewed dry land and believed that the laws of the world no longer applied to him. He detested imperialism too, whose economic manifestation is, of course, tax. And he was an accomplished organist, which seems relevant, but we can't explain why.
Eschewing for a moment literary licence, the domicile of this entity which may or may not be called Nautilus is Hamilton, Bermuda. So it is actually in the Atlantic, outside the Caribbean Sea.
The point is the same – this fabled vessel and the secret workings of the big four have as much to fear from the scrutiny of Australian authorities as they do from giant squids and maelstroms.
The professional indemnity insurance premiums payable for being a partner of one of the big four used to be $290 a day over a decade ago. You got coverage as long as you, meaning one partnership as opposed to one auditor, stumped up the first $US5 million of each claim. That's a mighty deductible.
You could double that now, which must put big four partners up there with obstetricians, having to pay hundreds of thousands in insurance before even opening their doors for business.
So there will be a collective hit taken, thanks to a mysterious captive insurance company, but it is the reputational damage to the profession, exacted by the PwC legal debacle, which most irks its rivals.
Like a cabal of World War I generals, the PwC war room shunted its junior officers off to
battle armed with little more than a finger to point. And while their adversaries stood grinning across the trenches, armed to the teeth with bayonets and mustard gas, they were left defenceless, gesticulating at their junior officers and foot-soldiers.
A few notable sets of accounts still lost at sea: Ansett Australia Ltd, June 2011. Hancock Prospecting Pty Ltd, June 2010, Compass Resources Ltd, December 2011, Tiger Airways Australia Pty Ltd, First Fleet (1000 jobs just sunk), Blue Haven Pools & Spas Pty Ltd from 2008.
The list goes on. Maybe one day the watchdogs will use their powers under Section 321 to require laggards to lodge. They could even improve the budget surplus by $1100 a pop in penalties.
Finally, JPMorgan merits a quick mention. The too-big-to-failer has admitted the screen jockeys in its London office have toasted $2 billion on the punt.
Thick-skinned as ever, JPMorgan chief Jamie Dimon was still decrying the "Volcker Rule" – that is, the principle of reforming banks to split their trading activities from the rest.
Unless there is change, it won't matter how many billions JPMorgan blows up, because Dimon and his "hedgers" still get bailed by the taxpayer. So they will continue to take their fancy bets. At the top, risk is dead. And this "moral hazard" has enfeebled the entire system.
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NHC Q&A: Gary Russell
Gary Russell of Columbus, Ohio, is a newcomer to the NHC Tour but plays with the smarts of a contest veteran. The wise-beyond-his-years savvy can be traced, in part, to the help of a willing mentor in NHC regular Mike Elsass, also from Ohio. The 35-year-old senior financial analyst for a major retail company, who just joined the NHC Tour earlier this month, teamed with the 69-year-old abstract painter, a six-time NHC finalist, to win Saturday's inaugural NHC Qualifier at Indiana Grand Racing & Casino. It was Russell's first attempt in an on-track NHC qualifier and already he's punched a ticket to Sin City for the world's richest and most prestigious handicapping tournament, the $2.8 million (estimated) Daily Racing Form/NTRA National Handicapping Championship presented by Racetrack Television Network and Treasure Island Las Vegas, Jan. 27-29, 2017, at Treasure Island.
What made you want to play in the Indiana Grand contest?
"Mike is a veteran on the contest circuit and we grew up in the same small town, Botkins, Ohio. We got to know each other through his nephew, who is one of my best friends. I really only got started a few weeks ago. Mike had qualified for the Wynn tournament and couldn't go because of a family reunion so he asked if I'd sit in. That didn't go so well but that was when I first got my NHC Tour number. We decided to play two entries together at Indiana Grand and we split the cost. Mike doesn't like taking a lot of credit but we really are a team. We talked strategy in the morning and compared who we liked but I was the one who went over there."
How did you manage to win? Can you describe the day?
"So many things that could have gone wrong for us went right instead. For instance, one of my early picks was a 20-1 shot at Del Mar, Souper Knight, and that one hit and put us in the lead. Right after that we had a 6-1 shot at Saratoga so we were feeling pretty good. Then we went cold for a while but the other ticket started picking up. We had a 12-1 at Del Mar, a 19-1 to place at Saratoga and a couple winners at Indiana Grand.
"Then we get to Race 7 at Del Mar and I go put the pick in, come back, start counting my picks, and I thought I still had one left but it turned out I'd just used my last one. Wouldn't you know it, the 5-horse, Coldspell, came across at 10-1, and that put our other entry on top. After that the races kind of chalked out and we won. It just turned out feeling like it was my day."
You hit pretty much every decent price at Del Mar that afternoon. How'd you come up with Zapperkat?
"We went into the contest thinking we didn't want to play many favorites. That was a maiden race and he was a first-time starter, 12-1 on the morning line. I liked the trainer (Richard Baltas) and the trainer-jockey combination (Baltas and Norberto Arroyo Jr.). Both Mike and I liked him and we always feel better when we can pick a horse that both of us like."
How did you react when you realized you were going to win the contest?
"I'm not one to yell and scream at the track – that doesn't do you any good – but I definitely felt good on the inside. I think after being so quiet all day when I told my waitress I thought I'd won she didn't even believe me.
"I got home and e-mailed my parents the pictures and the press release from Indiana Grand. My mother, I love her to death but she's pretty straight-laced when it comes to gambling. Her e-mail back said, 'Wow, that's really neat, be sure to bring the trophy home.' I don't think anybody could have predicted that my mom would find pride in my gambling but here we are."
What was it like playing in your first NHC qualifier at a racetrack?
"I didn't even realize beforehand that this was their first NHC qualifier at Indiana Grand but that makes the win even more special. I can't say enough about how great Indiana Grand was. It's a beautiful facility, the buffet they offered was probably the best meal I've had all year, and their people were all so courteous and customer service-minded. The Indiana Derby should be bumped up to a Grade 1 just on the basis of how great their staff is!"
What tools do you use to handicap?
"I learned on Daily Racing Form but I also use Brisnet's Ultimate Race Summaries, which are very good, and in the last two or three years I really like the product TimeformUS puts out. I never thought I could get away from a paper Form but now that I handicap on my laptop I'm not sure I could use anything else. After looking at all that we just end up going with what our guts tell us."
How did you first get interested in horseracing?
"My first job out of college I was living in Lebanon, Ohio, and it became a Thursday night tradition for me and a couple of buddies to go up to Lebanon Raceway. It was just simulcast but another time we got the bright idea to drive the 45 minutes to River Downs. I started going there a few times a year but as I got older I realized that most of the things people do on weekends in their early 20s weren't near as much fun as they used to be. I had to find something else to do with my time and I drove past Scioto Downs and was like, that's it. Then it became a twice-a-month hobby, then once per week.
"Another person who helped get me started was an accounting professor at Wright State, Dr. John Talbott. He grew up in Kentucky so a lot of our lessons in accounting class centered around bourbon and horseracing. One of my first trips to the track was when he took a case-study team that I was on to beautiful Beulah Park in Grove City, Ohio, and he helped me learn to read the Form."
What do you think NHC 18 in Las Vegas will be like? Will you do anything to prepare between now and January?
"I know there are a lot better handicappers out there than me but I feel good about my game. The format will be the same as what we had at Indiana Grand so I'm hoping to employ some of the same strategy I used there. It'll be a big-time challenge – 600 entries, three days, high stress. Hopefully I just go out there and have fun, enjoy the camaraderie with the other players, and even if I fall flat on my face and have no money to show for it I'll always have the memory and the knowledge that I was the first champion at Indiana Grand and nobody can take that away from me."


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Fox host Eric Bolling used his "Wake Up" commentary to boast about how well his new book "fits into" July 4th – and then proceeded to prove why it's the exact opposite.
"No book fits better into the fourth of July than this one," Bolling bragged. "We still live in the greatest nation on earth, but make no mistake. We're surrounded by evil forces."
What are those evil forces? Terrorists? No, apparently, it's Bolling's fellow Americans. "Liberals are hell-bent on changing our way of life," he continued. "They want to redistribute wealth, they want to come after conservative media, they want you to shut up and be politically correct to a fault."
He described the first chapter as "horror." Why? "In it, Hillary Clinton gets elected president."
Smearing the good chunk of Americans who are liberal as well as the woman who may very well be our next president is no way to honor our country's founding.
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Newtown Connecticut: Sandy Hook Elementary School was the site of a terrible tragedy. The entire town was in mourning. A team of six professional therapists were flown 800 miles to comfort the survivors of that unbelievable massacre. In alphabetical order, their names are Abbi, Barnabas, Chewie, Hannah, Luther, Prince and Ruthie. They each have their own Facebook and Twitter accounts, they each have their own business cards and they each have long ears and a tail. They're called K-9 Comfort Dogs, and they have been helping the bereaved across America and around the world.
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here is the watercolor triptych completed today. each painting is 40 x 30.. and together make a 9 + wide statement
i paid a lot of attention to having the paintings coordinate. the palette -- and the varying views of the figure make this piece fascinating.
left panel- Dealing With Loss
center panel- Rinse and Repeat
right panel- Hydro Therapy
27 February 2008
Posted by Carol Carter at 6:36 PM
3 comments:
- RH Carpenter said...
Just beautiful! Your unexpected color choices always keeps me coming back to look again.
- February 28, 2008 at 6:07 AM
- About said...
The first thing I think when I see your swimmers, and most especially in this one - HEAT. I can just feel the sun burning down. And the water is the counterbalance...cool, refreshing, cleansing, purifying. It's a wonderful balance of elements. A delicious metaphor!
- February 29, 2008 at 7:45 AM
- Karen said...
Carol -
these are so raw with emotion - so powerfully spoken - stirs something in me -
viewing your work is always a sublime experience
ab stunning.
thank you for sharing.
- March 6, 2008 at 1:09 PM
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Google Chrome to overtake Firefox by the end of 2011
Chrome is very popular, and this popularity is winning them some serious users, with Firefox set to lose its title as the second most popular browser globally to Google, as soon as the end of this year. Microsoft's Internet Explorer is still way, way ahead of everything else right now with stats from September 2011 showing that Internet Explorer holds 41.7 percent market share, Firefox holding onto 26.8 percent and Chrome slightly behind at 23.6 percent.
If we view the data over the last year, we see just how quick Chrome is jumping on Firefox's heels and also how many users are leaving Internet Explorer. In October 2010, Chrome had just 12.4 market share, Firefox sitting on 31.2 percent and Internet Explorer had almost half, at 49.2 percent. IE has lost 7.5 percent in a single year, where Chrome added 11.2 percent. If this trend continues, Chrome should be on top of Firefox before the end of the year.


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Half a year after the Wi-Fi version of the Galaxy Tab S 10.5 hit store shelves, T-Mobile is ready to offer its customers an LTE-equipped model for use out of the range or a router. The tablet will go on sale online and in stores on December 10th.
Customers can hand over $27.08 a month for two years or walk out fully owning the gadget for $649.92. Actually using the cellular connection will cost an extra $10 a month, with T-Mobile matching your plan's existing data allotment (a 3GB smartphone plan would result in an additional 3GB of data just for the tablet).
With a 2560x1600 AMOLED display, the Galaxy Tab S 10.5 is a pretty thing to look at, and it happens to be nice to use as well. You can get a better feel by taking a look at our review.
There's still over a week to wait, but if you find yourself overly excited, you can camp out over at T-Mobile's website.
The Un-carrier™ Adds Samsung Galaxy Tab® S to Its Data Strong™ Network
Just in time for the holidays, T-Mobile's tablet lineup is getting another jolt with the addition of one of the season's hottest tablets. Starting December 10, the Samsung Galaxy Tab S will be available in participating T-Mobile stores and online for $0 down (and $27.08 a month for 24 months; $649.92 FRP).
Tablets top the list when it comes to tech products consumers want to receive as gifts this holiday season (according to CEA's 21st Annual CE Holiday Purchase Patterns Study) and only at the Un-carrier can customers get the best tablet plan in wireless—on the nation's fastest 4G LTE network—when they purchase the Samsung Galaxy Tab S.
For only $10 a month, you can add a tablet and match the data on your Simple Choice™ voice plan – up to 5 GB of data a month specifically for use on your new Samsung Galaxy Tab S. This is on top of the data you already get for your phone. And unlike some of the other guys (who might be on the naughty list this year), you'll never pay 'access fees' just to tap into data you already bought.
If that's not enough to get you in the holiday spirit, T-Mobile tablet customers also get the Un-carrier benefits that come with T-Mobile's Simple Choice plan, including no domestic overages, unlimited international data at no extra charge in 120+ countries and destinations and unlimited music streaming with Music Freedom – which now supports 14 new streaming services. All T-Mobile tablets also come with Free Data for Life, giving customers 200 MB of free data per month for the life of their device while on the Un-carrier's unmatched 4G LTE network.
The ultra-thin and light Galaxy Tab S runs Android 4.4 and rocks a vivid 10.5-inch Super AMOLED® screen for deeper blacks and a higher contrast display. For more information on the Galaxy Tab S, the best tablet plan in wireless or how to make the switch to the Un-carrier this holiday season (we make it easy with Contract Freedom!), please visit http://www.t-mobile.com.


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Music Director of the Victoria Symphony in Canada from September 2017, Christian KIuxen is an artist who brings joyful, charismatic energy to both the concert and operatic stage. His success is built upon the natural ease of his conducting, his profound musicianship and artistic integrity.
Since completing his three-year Assistant Conductorship at the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in 2013, Kluxen has conducted many significant orchestras including the Gothenburg Symphony, Philharmonia, Netherlands Philharmonic and RTÉ National Symphony Dublin, as well as Kremerata Baltica at the prestigious Kronberg Academy Festival 2013.
During the 14/15 season, Kluxen held the post of Dudamel Fellow at the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The following season, he made successful debuts with the London Philharmonic and Royal Northern Sinfonia, returned to the Strasbourg Philharmonic and conducted an extensive and critically acclaimed tour of Madama Butterfly with Danish National Opera.
Further important debuts followed, including the Royal Philharmonic and Turku Philharmonic orchestras, the Fondazione Arena di Verona Orchestra in Italy, and the Ulster Orchestra in a live BBC broadcast. Kluxen's work in the operatic field continued to flourish, with a Berlin debut conducting Die Zauberflöte at Komische Oper, and highly acclaimed performances of Ariadne auf Naxos with the Arctic Opera and Philharmonic in Norway.
In 17/18, Kluxen conducts the season opening concert at the Norrköping Symphony, and follows with return visits to the Trondheim Symphony and Turku Philharmonic. The season also sees Kluxen's debuts with the Manchester Camerata, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and Auckland Philharmonia.
Born in 1981 in Copenhagen to Danish-German parents, Christian Kluxen's connections with his home country maintain a meaningful place in his career; he has worked extensively throughout Denmark, making his Danish National Symphony debut in 2013, and maintains regular relationships with the Copenhagen Philharmonic, South Denmark Philharmonic and Odense Symphony. In early 2017, he returned to the Aarhus Symphony to conduct performances of Die Fledermaus.


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The ED NEWS
A Blog with News and Views of Critical Education Issues
"Education is the best weapon to fight against the adversity of life."
Betsy DeVos
Yep! She's even leading off this edition. Are Democrats being a bit hypocritical regrading DeVos' nomination to head the Dept. of Education (DoE)? That's the thesis of a piece by Valerie Strauss on her "Answer Sheet" blog for The Washington Post titled "Democrats Reject Her, But They Helped Pave the Road to Education Nominee DeVos." "Democrats have in recent years sounded — and acted — a lot like Republicans in advancing corporate education reform," she writes, "which seeks to operate public schools as if they were businesses, not civic institutions. . . . By embracing many of the tenets of corporate reform — including the notion of 'school choice' and the targeting of teachers and their unions as being blind to the needs of children — they helped make DeVos's education views, once seen as extreme, seem less so. Historically, Democrats and Republicans have looked at public schools differently." Lamar Alexander (R-TN), chair of the Senate HELP Committee, announced a delay in the vote for Betsy DeVos from today until Jan. 31, at 10 a.m., according to POLITICO. "The delay comes as Democrats have argued that they haven't had enough time to examine DeVos' complicated financial holdings," it reports, "or ask her questions. Patty Murray, the top Democrat on the committee, has said she's concerned that the committee was moving too fast with DeVos' nomination." DeVos completed her required financial disclosure form and ethics letter on Thursday of last week. In the latter she indicated she would divest herself of any education assets that could create a conflict of interest if she's confirmed to head the DoE. The "Politics K-12" column for EDUCATION WEEK has the details. "DeVos and her husband, Dick DeVos, whose father co-founded Amway, are part of a family whose fortune is estimated by Forbes magazine at $5.2 billion," it mentions. "DeVos's financial disclosure shows her investments to be vast and diverse, including many separate investment and venture funds. Her ethics letter identifies the assets that apparently have stakes in education-related companies or might otherwise create conflicts of interest if she were confirmed." The Bald Piano Guy is BAAAACK. This time he has a tune (1:49 minutes) about his "favorite" Sec. of Education nominee, Betsy DeVos. His latest contribution is titled "It's DeVossy!" and is sung to the tune of Cole Porter's "It's DeLovely." YouTube has the video. Be sure to check out the Bald Piano Guy's skill at the keyboard and this time he throws in a short soft-shoe routine. The guy can compose, sing, play the piano AND now, it's revealed, DANCE. YouTube has a version of Porter's original song (3:06 minutes) which you can listen to by clicking here. Michael Moore, progressive Democrat and filmmaker, attended the Womens' March in Washington D.C., on Saturday and addressed the massive crowd. He called specifically for a pervasive opposition to the confirmation of Betsy DeVos and detailed what steps each and every person needs to follow. Valerie Strauss, in her column for The Washington Post, describes Moore's presentation and reviews why a growing list of groups is opposed to her becoming the next Sec. of Education. Strauss even references an editorial in Thursday's L.A. Times that called for the Senate to deny her the post. The Post piece includes a short video (1:45 minutes) of Moore's appearance. "After a highly contentious Senate confirmation hearing [last] Tuesday," Strauss explains, "during which she displayed a lack of understanding of basic education issues, DeVos is facing growing opposition to her nomination as President Trump's education secretary — including from groups that largely support the same issues she does." Diane Ravitch, on her Diane Ravitch's blog, composes an open letter to Senate HELP Chair Lamar Alexander about why she's against the confirmation of Betsy DeVos and why Alexander's committee should reject her. "You are in the position of selecting a new Secretary of Education. I watched the hearings," she writes, "and it was evident to all but the most extreme partisans that Ms. DeVos is uninformed, unqualified, unprepared, and unfit for the responsibility of running this important agency." The rest of her letter lists the many reasons why Ravitch believes that DeVos should not be the next Sec. of Education. Betsy DeVos might actually be the perfect person to hold down the job of Sec. of Education in the era of Donald Trump, "fake news" and "alternate facts." Former Trump campaign manager and current senior advisor Kellyanne Conway invented the term "alternate facts" during a contentious appearance on "Meet the Press" Sunday. Jennifer Berkshire, aka the EduShyster, did some digging into DeVos' background and record and creates a piece titled "Betsy DeVos' Alternate Facts." Berkshire delves into a bizarre business franchise that DeVos has invested in called "Neurocore" that claims to be able to reprogram your brain through biofeedback. DeVos has stated unequivocally that she will not divest herself of this investment if and when she's confirmed to head the Dept. of Education. As Trump might tweet "Strange, Sad!" For more on the DeVos/Neurocore connection, the company's radical Christian roots and the non-medical "doctor" who promotes the service, check out a story by Anita Senkowski, aka "Miss Fortune," a Northern Michigan blogger, on her Glistening, Quivering Underbelly (that's what it's titled) website. Neurocore, the biofeedback company heavily bankrolled by DeVos, makes some rather astonishing claims about its ability to "fix" students with autism according to a "Digital Education" column in EDUCATION WEEK. "On its website, Neurocore makes a number of claims about how its technology can help individuals, including children," it points out, "with conditions such as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism, anxiety, depression, memory loss, migraines, and sleeplessness. . . . Neurocore also claims that users of its neurofeedback training improve their IQ by an average of 12 points." Want to read the U.S. Office of Government Ethics official report on Betsy DeVos? If so, you're in luck. It's appended to the end of an article about the report in The Washington Post. It also mentions the delay in the Senate committee vote on her confirmation from today to next Tuesday. "Though Democrats bristled at having just five minutes each to question DeVos — during which they used some of their time complaining about it and asking for another round of questioning — Alexander limited them to the single round," it makes clear. " [DeVos'] opponents say Alexander is rushing what should be a careful examination of someone they say is unqualified to lead the nation's education department. Eli Zupnick, a spokesman for Washington Sen. Patty Murray, the top Democrat on the committee, said the senator is concerned that members will not have a chance to have their ethics concerns and questions answered before the vote." Democrats on the Senate HELP Committee requested more hearings on the confirmation of Betsy DeVos but were turned down by committee chair Lamar Alexander (R-TN) according to a story on the "Politics K-12" column in EDUCATION WEEK. "[Yesterday] the Democrats wrote to Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., the committee chairman," it reports, "saying they had unresolved concerns about DeVos' financial investments and potential conflicts of interest, and that during the first hearing last week, they were not given enough time to ask DeVos questions." Another update to the story stated: "An aide to Alexander said there will be no additional hearing days for DeVos." The plot thickens! Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), chair of the HELP Committee, borrows Valerie Strauss' blog in The Washington Post to offer a vigorous defense of Betsy DeVos and why he believes she should be confirmed by his panel and the full Senate to become the next Sec. of Education. "Democrats desperately are searching for a valid reason to oppose Betsy DeVos for U.S. education secretary," he commences, "because they don't want Americans to know the real reason for their opposition." This next one is a little surprising, or maybe not. Hundreds of students and alumni from Calvin College, the Christian school that is Betsy DeVos's alma mater, have signed a letter OPPOSING her nomination. Details of this extraordinary development appear in the school's student newspaper Chimes. "The letter was drafted and circulated by Sara Moslener, '96, on Saturday, Jan. 21. As of 11 p.m. Monday night," it indicates, "it had over 700 signatures. Moslener said that, beginning Tuesday morning, signatures would be open for another 24 hours. She will then make the letter available for alumni to send to their senators." The story reprints a full copy of the letter at the end of the piece.
The Trump Inauguration/Administration
Peter Greene, on his CURMUDGUCATION blog, is distressed by the Trump administration's tiff over the size of the inaugural crowd and how it compares to Obama's in 2009. Greene is worried what kind of message it will send to students about telling the truth and treatment of the press. "As a teacher, I am left wondering exactly how I handle this with students. In a journalism class, how do we interpret the new role of journalists, who must now be attacked and criticized by the President of the United States for daring to print facts. Do we have to re-write the old rules of research, which generally told students that a .gov domain name was trustworthy and fair game for a research source. What are we to make of a President who tells pointless bald-faced lies," he ponders, "and uses the federal government to spread them, and then to attack and further damage the conduit of free press through which we are supposed to get our information? How do we navigate a world like this, and how do we teach our students to do so?" Friday's "Ed News" highlighted Pres. Trump's brief remarks about education in his inaugural address. Steven Singer, aka the author of the GADFLYONTHEWALL blog, zeroes in on the comment about "an education system flush with cash." Singer is skeptical of that phrase and provides both words and pictures to refute it including a short reference to the LAUSD. "Donald Trump lies," he begins curtly. "If you haven't learned that yet, America, you've got four more cringe-inducing years to do so. Even in his inaugural address, he couldn't help but let loose a whooper about US public schools." Cheryl Gibbs Binkley, a member of the BATs (Badass Teachers Association), couldn't countenance the comments Pres. Trump made in his speech on Friday (see above). She wants everyone to remember the schools they attended and teachers they had and remember if they were all "flush with cash." Mitchell Robinson gets a little graphic in his reaction to Trump's comments about education. His commentary in the eclecta blog is colorfully titled "Flush This, Mr. President" and he leads off with quite a photo. He believes Trump's characterization of our education system is "mean-spirited" and "belittling." "These comments are ignorant, hurtful, and divisive," he concludes testily. "The President had a chance to use his inaugural address to unite a fractured nation and appeal to our better selves, but chose to insult and disparage a profession of which he knows nothing. It's not our education system that is flush with cash, yet knows nothing. It's you, Mr. President." Peter Dreier, professor of Politics and Chair of the Urban and Environmental Policy Department at Occidental College has two commentaries about the Trump inauguration. The first, from THE HUFFINGTON POST, complains about the singing of "America the Beautiful." Dreier analyzes the words of the song and predicts that the author, Katherine Lee Bates (1859-1929), would roll over in her grave if she knew it was performed at Trump's ceremony because of its emphasis on social justice and condemnation of overseas adventures and corporate greed. The second, from the same publication, compares the words of Trump's speech to what fascists might have voiced in the 1920s and 30s. "I have watched, listened to, and read many commentaries on the inaugural address," he points out, "but so far none of the mainstream pundits have used the one word that best describes Donald Trump: fascist." The BATs issue a "Teacher-Activist Calendar" of 100 things you can do in the first 100 days of the Trump administration. "Many of these items take only a few minutes. Some take a bit more, use the ideas either as an idea bank," they suggest, "or move them around to suit your schedule. Any time you schedule an activist date, such as a meeting or call, move that day's activist suggestion. Even if you miss a day or week, come back and pick something from the list. Share with Friends! Use Liberally!" EDUCATION WEEK outlines "6 Key Federal Policy Areas to Watch Under Trump." "President Donald Trump said less about education on the campaign trail than almost any major-party nominee in recent history," it begins, "except for a high-profile proposal on single issue: school vouchers. But his ascendance to the White House could upend K-12 education in ways that are felt from the U.S. Department of Education's headquarters in Washington to urban schools that serve big numbers of immigrant students." Here are 2 items from the list: "School Choice" and "Immigration." One of the first actions of the Trump administration, taken Friday evening, is to delay the implementation of Obama's ESSA regulations regarding states' developing new accountability systems. The "K-12 Politics" column for ED WEEK describes the action announced. "The delay in the accountability regulations, which would seem to last until late March," it explains, "could throw a monkey wrench into states' efforts to submit their accountability plans by April 3, the first of two deadlines set by the administration. The regulations outline the process for submitting plans, and flesh out details that aren't included in the law."
Ed Issues Facing State Legislatures
Legislatures will be meeting in all 50 states this year. What types of issues will they face regarding education? Chief among them are school funding and how to implement the ESSA (Every Student Succeeds Act). EDUCATION WEEK discusses a number of topics to be dealt with in specific states. California gets a very brief mention related to new school accountability systems as the ESSA goes into effect replacing NCLB. "Skyrocketing K-12 education costs continue to dominate states' budget debates," it mentions, "and conservative lawmakers in many states have long been itching to make dramatic changes to how much money they provide to school districts and how districts spend that money." Two Republicans in the Arizona State House of Representatives have introduced a bill that would prohibit the teaching of "social justice." Yes, you read that correctly. I hope this isn't another trend of the Trump era. The sorry details are briefly provided by Gene V. Glass, lecturer in the College of Education at San Jose State University and emeritus Regents' Professor at Arizona State University, on his Education in Two Worlds blog. "It's hard to see such bills as anything other than raw meat thrown to the base; but in the case of Arizona," he complains, "stupider things than passing such bills have happened."
A Peek Inside the Dept. of Education
With the confirmation process still playing out for Betsy DeVos to become the next Sec. of Education, the importance of what the agency does sometimes gets lost when the focus is often solely on the personalities that lead it. THE HECHINGER REPORT has an interesting item that lifts the veil, somewhat, on how the DoE works. It takes you behind the scenes for a peek at the department's "rulemaking process." First, the article defines exactly what that is and proceeds to detail how it all works. If you've ever been inquisitive about how federal agencies go about their business, this article will start to fulfill your curiosity. "Although the rulemaking process is rarely front-and-center in the eye of the general public," the item indicates, "it is a process that gives the executive branch substantial power. For this reason, the process has been quite controversial, and the so-called 'iron triangle' of legislators, interest groups, and agency personnel stay well-versed in the process so they can exert their influence when it touches their interests."
Schools of Opportunity
And finally, Kevin Welner identifies 4 more schools that have been selected as winners of the prestigious Schools of Opportunity award. This is the eight in his series and he describes each of the 4 again on Valerie Strauss' blog for The Washington Post. 12 campuses were awarded gold medals and these 4 are the silver medal winners. They were picked for having a broad and enriched curriculum. They are located in Boston, East Rockaway, N.Y., Athens, Georgia and Stillman Valley, Illinois and Welner includes a brief description of each campus and why they won. "The four Silver Schools of Opportunity all are exemplars," he points out, "illustrating different ways that universally engaging curriculum can be provided, closing opportunity gaps."


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Arthur Soden, Boston Red Caps, Curt Flood, Four Seceders, Harry Wright, James Billings, Joseph Borden, Reserve Clause, Tommy Bond, Triumvirs, William Conant
1877 was pretty good for the Braves (then known as the Boston Red Caps). They were 42-18 and ended in first. Arthur H. Soden is not a household name these days. He became one in 1877. He headed a group of three men who bought the Braves. The two other partners were William Conant and James Billings. Soden served as President of the club a long time, 30 years to be correct. He and the other two became known as the Triumvirs. If you know ancient history, that would be Caesar, Pompey and Crassus.
Some things last a long time. One of them was what was known as the "reserve clause" in baseball. It lasted almost 100 years. Soden is the man who wrote it into the leagues by-laws. It bound a player to his club no matter what. There was no such thing as "free agency" then. Even if another team wanted to pay them more, they couldn't go unless their current team traded them. Of course, the "Four Seceders" had a little to do with that. The reserve clause wasn't in place yet that year when manager Harry Wright decided that Tommy Bond should replace his pitcher Joseph Borden and the Joseph should be a groundskeeper.
In October 1969, St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Curt Flood challenged his trade to the Philadelphia Phillies. Flood sacrificed the remainder of his playing career to pursue this litigation. Flood's case established that the reserve clause was a legitimate basis for negotiation in collective bargaining between players and owners, and that the historic baseball antitrust exemption was valid for baseball only and not applicable to any other sport.
Removing the reserve clause from player contracts became the primary goal of negotiations between the Major League Baseball Players Association and the owners. The reserve clause was struck down in 1975 when arbitrator Peter Seitz ruled that since pitchers Andy Messersmith and Dave McNally played for one season without a contract, they could become free agents. This decision essentially dismantled the reserve clause and opened the door to widespread free agency.


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If you went to school in Africa (Nigerian boarding schools to be precise) you undoubtedly have a completely different perception to what gets passed off as bullying in the West. The concept of cyber-bull where I'm from is more or less an oxymoron (ain't no body got time for that!). From as early as nine or ten years old most kids (myself included) experience physical bullying in the form of belting and a range of corporal punishments I cannot begin to explain. The school systems are structured to permit this kind of treatment with an unspoken rule that arranges a power structure within students based on what year you are in. Teachers of course are allowed to smack you. While I will not promote or defend bullying in this way, I would point out that this 'suck it up' philosophy encourages a certain type of character building unseen in the West as far as bullying is concerned. I have been reading through comments about the victim of cyber bullying on Ask.fm that ended up hanging herself and it has really got me thinking. Of course this is not the first time such a case has arisen and if steps are not taken it wouldn't be the last either.
Most comments seem to call for better monitoring of these sites, better parental monitoring of children's internet activity, or blame the victims for not being mature enough to handle the situation. I think it is worth considering how children are socialized these days to figure out if society is not giving kids the tools essential to build strong characters. Could it be possible that in today's society children are over-protected and under-monitored? I will give an example. In Nigeria it is very common for parents to physically hit their kids to deter them from repeating an offense. Because this happens to everyone there is no stigma attached to it. No Nigerian grows up feeling 'abused' because their parents hit them with a belt or shoe on a few occasions. In the West a parent hitting the child provides this child with a sob story for the rest of their life. I actually remember being teased with the term 'ajebor' (posh) in school because I said my parents never hit me. In fact I considered making up that they did just to feel normal!
I do not have kids therefore I feel rather unqualified to suggest a solution, but it is obvious that much needs to be done in regards to character building to reduce the need for social acceptance among the young. Perhaps some scheme rolled out to lecture kids on handling bullying after teaching them how to put condoms over cucumbers?