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Adults of All Ages
There are many ways for adults of all ages to grow, serve and transform lives togethers.
Weekly Bible Studies
Sundays Mornings
Adults Sunday School (Bible Study) meets from 9:30 – 10:30 am each Sunday morning.
We have four classes that meet on our 3rd floor in the education building.
Berea Class is a coed class of middle age people who desire to study the Bible in an open and supportive environment. Our class encourages your participation through sharing, praying and class discussions of the lesson material. Please come as you are. We are an informal group that wants to create a welcome and inviting space for newcomers. There is always a pot of coffee. Each week we share our praises and concerns and pray over them. We us the Formation series to guide our Bible study. We particularly focus on how the principles of the gospel apply to our lives in the 21st century.
Cornerstone Class examines Scripture in the light of its historical context so that we can more adequately understand how it applies to our daily life and world issues. We believe that all points of view – liberal, moderate and conservative – have value and are therefore welcome and encouraged. Once a quarter, in lieu of a formal lesson, we enjoy a time of relaxed fellowship and a pot-luck style breakfast. Whenever possible, our class enthusiastically participates in either a community service project or some form of fellowship outside of church.
"Hope" class consists of women who desire a closer relationship with God. Our Bible study is assisted by use of "Formation Series" published by Smith & Helwys. While the study of scriptures is teacher-led, we welcome discussion as we seek to apply the lesson to our everyday lives. We desire to be supportive of each other and of the church as a whole as we spend time sharing and praying our praises and concerns each week. We support the many ministries of our church both as workers and with class funds. We have found that working in missions together creates relationships and a common bond with each other. We take seriously the words of Jesus when he said: "It is more blessed to give than to receive." Women of any age are welcome to join us! Please come as you are!
Unity Class is open to persons of any age, gender, and marital status. Current members range in age from fifty up. The class provides an opportunity for serious Bible study in an open and accepting setting; our curriculum is the Uniform Bible Study series by Smyth & Helwys publishing. Members examine scripture as it relates to their daily lives through sharing experiences, insights, and questions. Each year the class cooks and serves a Sunday dinner for homeless people at Jeff Street at Liberty.
Sacred Sundays
Adults ages 21 and older are invited to engage in Bible Study and conversations about culture, God and everyday living at Krazy Dave's Bar and Grill at 6:00PM on Sunday evenings.
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Dinner and Dialogue - Wednesday Nights
Thursday Brown Bag & Bible Study
Eat. Pray. Share.
Upcoming Events
Halloween Neighborhood Parties, October 31
On Halloween night, (Wednesday, October 31), members and friends of Buechel Park Baptist Church will be gathering in 4 locations around Louisville to hand out candy and hot dogs to children, teenagers, and their families. Volunteer to hand out candy to trick-or-treaters or bring the kids by during the evening to collect candy at one of the Neighborhood Parties!
- Buechel Park Baptist Church's front lawn (2403 Hikes Lane, 40218)
- Krazy Dave's Pub & Grille front parking lot (2817 Del Rio Place, 40220)
- Bannon Crossings Neighborhood
- Saratoga Ridge Neighborhood
Christmas Party (Parents' Night Out!), November 30
The Children's Christmas Party is on Friday, November 30 from 6 – 10 pm and is open to children ages 4 – 6th grade. This event is FREE, but donations will be accepted to support the Parents' Day Out Tuition Assistance Fund and BPBC Children & Family Ministries. Please note that registration availability is limited and ends on Monday, November 26. To register your child, contact the church office, Pastor Sara Turpin, or Nicole Davis.
6:00 pm – Welcome, Prayer, & Pizza Dinner
6:30 pm – Rotations: Bible Story, Missions, Crafts, Recreation
8:30 pm – Movie: The Star (popcorn and water provided)
Children Led Worship, February 24
Easter Celebration, April 13
Passport Kids, June 24-27
Passport Camps is a summer camp for church groups. It is 4 days of high-energy engagement in Bible study and missions, afternoon interest activities (sports, creative arts, etc.), and fun with friends from your church as well as new friends from other churches. Children are eligible to attend Passport Kids during the summers after their 3rd-6th grade years. (We do, however, encourage 6th graders to attend Passport with the youth in order to develop deeper relationships with the youth group.)
Passport Kids 2019 Information
Dates: June 24 – 27, 2019
Location: Lebanon, TN on the campus of Cumberland University
Cost: Total cost per child is $325, which includes registration ($305) and travel fee ($20). The church will cover additional transportation costs as well as group fees and chaperone registration.
Fundraising: Fundraising and financial assistance is available, with priority going to BPBC members and regular attendees. Our annual fundraiser will be Sunday, February 24, when children will lead worship and host the Children's Variety Show afterward. We will need parent help in preparing and serving lunch. We will prepare for this day following worship each Sunday in January and February.
IMPORTANT! Money is never a reason not to participate in church activities, especially for children and youth. Please speak with Sara about further questions and concerns about finances.
Signup: Registration is $75 and is due immediately (spots do fill up). Please communicate with Sara about your plans. We will close registration on November 18 and make final travel, chaperone, and financial decisions at this time. Please note that all campers will need to be involved in BPBC to an extent that we can get to know them before attending camp.
Questions? Concerns? Contact Pastor Sara for more information or to register!


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Resuspension and Advection as Sediment Transport Processes in the Elwha Delta Nearshore Environment
Glass, Campbell
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The largest dam removal project in U.S. history began on the Elwha River in 2011. A large quantity of sediment was expected to enter the marine environment, but where this sediment would end up and how it would get there were unknown. This study investigated currents and sediment transport at a study site offshore of the Elwha Delta over two winters during the dam removal process. Trends between Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) data and oceanographic conditions were examined. Suspended sediment concentrations at the study site were obtained by calibrating ADCP backscatter data, and were found to be most strongly correlated with river discharge. These data indicated that advection was the primary mechanism of sediment transport at the study site. Currents were found to be predominantly eastward, indicating the direction of advection. This study provides a foundation for future work examining the transportation of sediment in and around the Elwha Delta, and how this transport will impact the area in the future.

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Getting A's in Math – A Top College Professor's Expert Advice
Getting A's in math has a lot to do with strategy.
It might be odd to think of math in the same context as pro sports, but the reality is that they share a similar path to success.
While getting A's might not hold the same clout as winning a championship, it's pretty much the equivalent of winning at college.
And Michael Jordan always played to win — whether in a real game or for practice.
He had a plan that would help him little by little make the hard things easy. You can do the same.
Here are some down-to-earth tips from a top college professor* on how to conquer your college math class.
How to Set Yourself Up for Getting A's in Math
1. Practice Like a Pro
There were some days that Michael Jordan spent a couple of hours on the court, and others when he was there from sunrise to sunset. But it wasn't just about time that mattered. It was how he spent those hours.
Jordan kept track of techniques that he wasn't yet good at. Rather than reviewing the things he had already mastered (or getting distracted by something happening on the sidelines), he would hone in on his weaknesses.
Let's take a look at how this applies to math homework.
First, you have to know what you're not yet good at, and looking over your notes won't cut it. Instead, keep track of problems you miss as you do your homework or on tests. Notice which problems include a step that isn't completely clear.
For you, this means being honest with yourself about the tough stuff. Create a running list and title it Hard Problems. Any problems, theorems, or formulas that don't make sense should go on the Hard Problems list. Solve these problems the next day, and if they're still unclear solve them again the day after. Practice in this way until you can complete each problem without looking at your book or your notes.
Remember to ask for help if things just aren't clicking for you. Practicing the right thing the wrong way is just as bad as practicing the wrong thing.
2. Dedicate Time
As you probably know by now, college math requires some serious left brain power. This means that no matter how skilled you are, it will require a significant amount of time.
One student said that her biggest regret was that she failed to dedicate enough time for her math class. She did her homework and then stopped. Her thinking was, "Hey, I did the assignment!" As midterms came around, though, she felt stressed and exhausted because the studying had piled up.
Getting A's means giving your brain time to grasp these concepts. That means not only homework time and practice time (see #1), but also time for the concepts to consolidate. That, interestingly enough, means downtime.
Between math study, your brain needs a break. Spend an afternoon at the beach and get a good night's sleep. It's when your brain shifts back and forth from a narrow "study" focus to a broader "kick back" focus that concepts start to consolidate. And it's when you sleep that the deeper neural pathways develop.
That's why college math classes are impossible to ace through cramming. You have to show up.
3. Balance the Load
Back to Michael Jordan.
He planned his workouts. He had leg day, arm day, back day, shrug muscle day. (I'm not even sure what shrug muscles are, but he worked them out anyway.)
Each workout was focused on one part of his body rather than him attempting to strengthen his entire body in one long workout.
You can do something similar with your schedule. For example, you can plan to work on a specific section your Hard Problems list so that you can master a particular concept.
A weekly and monthly calendar will also help you balance math practice with your other classes. If you make a plan and stick with it, you'll be kicking back during finals week while other students are pulling 12 hour study days.
Turn Your Weakness Into a Strength
If you're like most of the students I work with, implementing these expert math class tips will make getting A's very doable. It will not only change the way you think about math, but also the way you think about tackling hard problems — in college and in any part of your life.
As Michael Jordan said,
"If you push me towards something that you think is my weakness, I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength."
* You can read the complete version of Dr. Jessica Purcell's notes on "How to Get an A in Calculus." She wrote these notes when she was teaching at Stanford University.


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Welcome to The Main Street House
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Humble Bundle has ballooned from a small company offering "pay what you want," charity-focused video game sales to a major player in digital distribution. Humble is taking on Steam's marketplace with the Humble Store, and it's attracting subscriptions with Humble Monthly, a program that delivers a curated selection of games to your digital doorstep 12 times a year.
This month, Humble announced it would start funding and publishing games, starting with seven titles across a range of genres. At GDC 2017, we got our hands on four of them: Staxel, HackyZack, Ikenfell and Keyboard Sports.
Though each game is vastly different and built for disparate audiences, they're all refreshingly creative in their own way.


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The Question of the Day helps prepare you for next Sunday's focus text in worship. These questions are posted here each day offering an opportunity for discussion. (Just click in the title of this post and you will be taken to the discussion window.) Try it out for a week and see how Jesus will use your time of pondering upon God's word to deepen your faith.
Today's question is: How is inheriting eternal life the same as loving the Lord and neighbor, and how is it different?
This week's text for the Fifth Sunday after Pentecost: Luke 10:25-37 (NRSV)
25Just then a lawyer stood up to test Jesus. "Teacher," he said, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?" 26He said to him, "What is written in the law? What do you read there?" 27He answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself." 28And he said to him, "You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live."
29But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?" 30Jesus replied, "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell into the hands of robbers, who stripped him, beat him, and went away, leaving him half dead. 31Now by chance a priest was going down that road; and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. 32So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. 33But a Samaritan while traveling came near him; and when he saw him, he was moved with pity. 34He went to him and bandaged his wounds, having poured oil and wine on them. Then he put him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him. 35The next day he took out two denarii, gave them to the innkeeper, and said, 'Take care of him; and when I come back, I will repay you whatever more you spend.' 36Which of these three, do you think, was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers?" 37He said, "The one who showed him mercy." Jesus said to him, "Go and do likewise."


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Something weird must be happening, honestly! My time management has gone out of the window, my poor sewing machine thinks its been put into early retirement and all I seem to be doing is housework. Poo. I can't understand why this has happened all in the week when the kids have gone back to school???
I was so looking forward to much time with my sewing machine and my blog, free days with no little people. HaHa. Someone else had other plans, the voice in my head said 'NO'. You cannot indulge yourself in your hobbies when your credit card balance is so high and it's going to be Christmas soon. You cannot allow poor 'Mr. G' to work 7 days so you can sew. You must do extra shifts at work. You must work many hours to clear the balance on that credit card. You must kill yourself and work days and nights in the same week!
So that's what's happening around these parts. Work Work Work. I know I'll smile when I can clear the credit card. I know it's a temporary glitch but I still don't like it.
However, I have done a few things to make me smile this last week. I have signed me up for a few swaps. Hooray! I have ordered fabric. Hooray! (Don't tell 'Mr. G')
My 1st swap is:: 'The Christmas Stocking Swap' and here is my inspiration mosaic. You can visit my flickr for more details on the mosaic and click on the icon in my right hand column for details of the host, Selina.
Now the 2nd swap is a Flickr swap:: Scrappy Pincushions (round 2). Again we had to do a mosaic of our inspiration, here's mine.
And the 3rd I'm very excited about! It's the SavVy {Seasons} swap hosted by Heather and Kerri. Here is my inspiration mosaic, it's yummy isn't it?
This swap is going to be twice yearly I think and have a seasonal theme to it. Heather and Kerri host lots of amazing groups on flickr and if you don't know them already, why not? Go! Now! Check them out, you'll be glad you did. Lots of lovely homemade eye-candy!
That's it for now, got another hectic few days ahead of me work wise. Gotta grab it while I can I suppose.
Hugs to you all!!


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This is a shameless, rough translation from a newspaper article. I thought it might be nice to see some "other perspectives", if I may be so patronising.
Edit: See Citykid's comment: "Liberal" here in Europe usually means "laisez faire", free market thinkers, right-end of the political-economical spectrum. I realize again in the US it is far more connected to a leftish, or as we would call it "social-democrat" way of thinking. . Please read the following with the European setting in mind. If you like, replace neoliberal with neocon, but I am not sure that would be entirely fair, as we're not talking about the con men we usually attach to that word :-O
Added Aug 18th: My friend V. actually bought me this book, so soon enough I'll read it all.
Neoliberalism presents themselves as a matter of course. It is the system that occurs when the government let things run their course, the natural situation. The average neoliberal sees himself as a realist. The dreamers are the others. He cherishes no illusions, he knows that man is in essence just let unrelenting self-serving.
In his recent book "The utopia of the free market" the philosopher Achterhuis makes it convincingly clear that this is a fallacy. Neo-liberalism, like communism, is an utopia: a doctrine based on a schematic and highly idealized worldview.
Achterhuis, who since the seventies with some regularity tore down established opinions is hardly slowing sown since since his retirement in 2007. Less than two years after his last book, full of criticism of fallacies in leftist intellectuals thinking, there is another new book.
In "The utopia of the free market", he again demonstrates an unprecedented eagerness. He sucks in everything from newspapers to books and makes no distinction between the great philosopher Michel Foucault and Times reporter Peter de Waard. Both make him think and so both are mentioned in his book. Achterhuis is not afraid to look at is own thinking in a critical way.
This time he takes the blame on himself that it took so long before he saw that neoliberalism was an utopia. "What I knew very well theoretically, but in practice di not realize was that every ideology presents itself as an inevitable and natural view of reality. Thus it remains largely invisible. It is the glasses that almost everyone wears. "
Neo-liberalism, like communism, is a creation, emerged from a group of fanatical believers who – like Lenin and his faithful – succeeded in spreading their vision over a large part of the world. It lifted one of the many instruments of social organization, the market, to a sacred principle.
The main ideologue of neoliberalism is a woman according to Achterhuis: Ayn Rand (1905-1982). She is born in 1905 in St. Petersburg named Alissa Rosenbaum. The October Revolution, twelve years later, brings the Rosenbaum family to beggary. The family members wander for years through Russia and Alissa learns to hate communism and socialism. In 1926 she was given the chance to travel to the United States and she would never come back.
In the United States, she creates a unique philosophy: Objectivism and she wrote a book, Atlas Shrugged, in which she describes her favorite society. In Europe, the book never reached a large public, but in the United States it is considered by many the most important book after the Bible.
In Rand's utopia it is the individual first. The collective, the idea that you help each other, has been eradicated. Charity does not exist. The Robin Hood in the story, Ragnar Danneskjöld, robs Government ships to give the money back to the exploited super-capitalists. And workers self control is seen as no less than a crime against humanity. "Remember this – remember it well – it is not often that you're face to face with undiluted evil."
Also sexually, anyone in Atlantis can follow just their own interest. The main character has passionate affairs with three male protagonists. While making love, no shared, collective interests may be pursued. Sex is there for personal pleasure and certainly not because you want to express the love for one another. "Her sex scenes often come across as semi-rape" writes Achterhuis.
Rand brings her sexual ideal in practice. She has an 18 years long affair with Nathaniel Branden, a psychologist who, according to the doctrine of Objectivism, is to be considered a superman. If he decides to exchange Rand for a much younger sample, the great philosopher is less rational than could be expected from "Atlas Shrugged". Branden is expelled from the group and a smear campaign is started.
If the Rand was the Karl Marx of neoliberalism , Alan Greenspan was Lenin. The later president of the Fed, the U.S. central bank, at the age of 26 came into contact with the close circle of Ayn Rand Objectivists and was almost immediately a believer. He also believed strongly in a "capitalism with minimal government intervention as the ideal form of social organization".
In Alan young revolutionary sentiments rose. "I took part in the nights of passionate debates and wrote commentaries for her newsletter with the fervor of a young disciple who is attracted to a whole new set of ideas," Greenspan writes about it himself.
His love for Rand went well. New friends were always immediately introduced to her and when Branden was excommunicated, Greenspan, in the best Soviet tradition, signed a letter in which he stated that no longer would maintain any contact with Branden.
For Rand, Greenspan is the bridge to the government in Washington. He is a key economic adviser to Republican presidents Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. In 1987, it culminates when Reagan appointed him president of the Fed. In that capacity he can manipulate the entire world to his will. And he does. He keeps interest rates too low for 19 years, allowing the free market to flourish more than ever. Greenspan makes no attempt to rein in market forces.
In the early seventies the first country converted itself to the new faith: Chile. The consequences are disastrous at first: the economy shrinks 15 percent and unemployment rose to 20 percent.
Faced with this misery, Milton Friedman, another major neo-liberal, shows a reflex that was also often observed in communists. If economic performance was disappointing, it was not because communism was no good. No, the real reason was of course that it is not Communist enough. According to Friedman, the only solution that Chile should be more neoliberal. "The only medicine. Absolutely. There is no other. "
The former Soviet Union is also to be converted overnight according to the new utopians. Public Properties fall into the hands of a new class of super-capitalists. Factories from one day to another are closed, many women saw no other option than to prostitute themselves. Pensions were wiped out in one blow and life expectancy is falling rapidly.
The pain is so great that even Alan Greenspan also doubts his faith – there are no social services to be created? – But he recovers quickly. "If we succeed we must break completely with the past."
Many neo-liberals show the same perseverance and emotionless nature as Ceausescu when Romanian villages were destroyed and everyone had to live in large flats. Or, as Mao was with his Cultural Revolution, wanted the final clean-up. "Only when the downfall and destruction of the old world is complete, is it possible for them build the new economy of the utopian free-market capitalism," writes Achterhuis.
In the Western world the the neoliberal revolution proceeds more gradual. Since the early nineties governments begin to retreat, state companies were privatized and subjected to market discipline.
The Netherlands, after Great Britain, is the greediest convert of all European countries to the New Thinking. The natural enemy of liberalism, social democracy turns itself off. In both countries the social democrats convert explicitly to the Third Way. They therefore no longer believe in a strong government, or anything collective, and believe much more good will come from the free market.
Sociakl democrat leader Wim Kok did not even notice that he is converted. He defends its own words just a 'pragmatic' and 'realistic' policy. Later, when he was commissioner at ING bank, and he agrees to a huge salary increase for the top, he not even acknowledges that as a change. Achterhuis has an explanation. "That Kok
(…) enriched himself to three times the prime ministers salary shows how far the ideological maelstrom can draw in a pronounced pragmatist. "
The world view of the neo-liberals is as schematic as the worldview of the Communists. Both hold a limited and somewhat impoverished view of humanity. The Communists forget that the average person suffers from greedy and selfish instincts, so he'll never sacrifice himself for a fully collective ideal. The neo-liberals forget that man also suffer from unselfish love, loyalty and compassion, and so be controlled by blind self-interest only. Both groups of revolutionaries presuppose a rationality that is alien to the average man. They do not see that there are irrational fears and desires. John Maynard Keynes, the great British economist, for example, saw this. He called them animal spirits, and because everyone is possessed with them, we need a strong government to take us – if necessary – on the right path.
Achterhuis finally draws the conclusion that neo-liberalism hasn't done the world a lot of good. The upper and middle classes have certainly benefited – classes who saw their wealth and salaries only increase – the underclass pays the price.
He has been particularly persuaded by Marcel van Dam, who with his documentary "The Unprofitable" tried to show that large groups of Dutch are economically expelled, and by the British historian Robert Skidelsky, who compared the global economic growth in the period 1951-1980, when Keynesianism – that believes in a strong government – was the dominant economic trend to the period 1989 -2009, when neoliberalism conquered the world. In the first period, growth was 4.8 percent. After the glorious rise of the neo-liberals ran it fell to 3.2 percent. Achterhuis: "For me this was the definitive end to the utopian belief that I apparently still had in the economic performance of neoliberalism."
We have not seen a major global revolt against the system so far. But perhaps it is because the ideology is now for the first time seriously tested by the current crisis. Will the neoliberal system within collapse in a few years yet with a thunderous roar? Or will the economy recover just wonderfully with the natural resilience a neoliberal economy has according to its proponents. The verdict is not out yet.
That is no reason for Achterhuis to advocate revolution or for the old Keynesianism system to be restored. He hopes that the world slowly adjusts and that the "ideological vacuum on the left of the political spectrum" is filled. At the end of the book he attempt to do so. The key to the solution lies not in the market or the government – then there is the risk that a new utopia is chosen – but in the people. "We citizens can change more than we think."


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…as an ugly puppy.
As a typical Thai household, we have the prerequisite half dozen or so dogs, but in our case we have the room and are able to provide them with permanent world-standard living facilities. They have an acre to run around in, clean kennels, good food mix and plenty of water. They get nails clipped, fed, bathed, combed, brushed, and most importantly hugged and loved – loved with words that mean a lot to them and to us. We take pictures, post them online, and talk at night about our "children."
Last night my wife asked me to turn off "12 Years a Slave" right where the abuse began. "I can't stand it," she said. We spent the rest of our pre-retiring for the night with the dogs, then turned off the lights and went to sleep.
Living in freedom, having a choice, being surrounded by caring people and companions, feeling that you have love and comfort, shelter and yes, the most basic needs met like food to eat…seems to be a God-given right to all men and animals. Yet, it is not. Caged and chained, both man and animal are often forced to experience the worst of conditions and sadly, the worst of intent.
I took our female Chinese Shar Pei to the vet yesterday for a pre-op check. Her left eye needs operating on to prevent damage to the cornea. That's coming up on Monday. One animal taken care of. But as I pet her and listen to her throaty breathing, I am reminded of how fortunate both of us are to be able to share this kind of life.
Throughout the world, both man and animal live in shackles – some physical, some emotional – to satisfy the global market in slavery of both. Unless you are the caged animal or the caged man, woman or child, it is impossible to truly perceive what degree of depression, of hopelessness and eventually irreversible dejection in inscribed into the hearts of these victims of greed and opportunity to make money or to gain influence. It is to work toward elimination of opportunities to create such misery that various state and private agencies, as well as NGOs, are set up. They combat lack of awareness, fight misconceptions, expose wrongdoers and campaign for collective action to fight slavery and illegal trade of sentient beings.
Their mission is a challenge at best. But it's a challenge taken up by concerted efforts around the world, including in tourist havens like Thailand where both human and animal trafficking are a sad reality of daily life.
One of those organizations operating in Thailand is Freeland Its mission: "FREELAND is dedicated to making the world free of human slavery and wildlife trafficking by increasing law enforcement capacity, supporting vulnerable communities and raising awareness." Awareness is one of the most basic keys to setting up a beachhead against the kind of ignorance that gives so much support to opportunism. When people are informed, when basic communication and undeniable truth reaches their doorsteps, attitudes do change. Most people do want to do the right thing, to preserve the greater environment – existence, so that we can all take advantage of it and live useful, rewarding and productive lives. So they are ready to sit down and listen, to exchange ideas and to contribute. And there is a great deal to talk about.
As only one example of how greed and disregard for the law can go, last year a pet shop owner in Bangkok was arrested after authorities found hundreds of protected species of animals at his shop and a large warehouse. Unbelievably, the animals included a rare white lion and over a thousand other animals ranging from " birds, meerkats, tortoises, peafowls, monkeys and other species believed to be from overseas and Thailand. Police also found a hornbill and a leopard cat that are protected by Thai law." The 41 year-old shop owner faces about four years maximum in prison, but given the laxness of Thai law may well get away with minimal detention. Locally, such pet shop owners and others in their illegal network market their products and services at the famed Weekend Market (JJ Market/Chatuchak Market) in Bangkok, where it is relatively easy to push illegal products, including animals.
Freeland is also involved in countering human slavery, and as part of its initiatives has helped set up "Thai TIP-Net" to reduce human trafficking in Thailand. "The network weds civil society and Thai law enforcement in a practical manner on four levels: improving the capacity of Thailand-based civil society groups to identify and process useful tip-offs on human trafficking; facilitating constructive and targeted communication between civil society groups and Thai law enforcement about their tip-off reports; mentoring and supporting Thai law enforcement through a combination of tactical and strategic training packages and; encouragement of sustained Thai government counter-trafficking enforcement through recognition of performance and best efforts at achieving prosecutions and good victim care." Freeland's website can be found at http://www.freeland.org/.


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Cynthia Nixon is a busy lady. The 42-year-old Sex and the City star is currently playing the lead in Broadway's Distracted, where she plays Mama, a woman who suspects her 9-year-old son may have ADD.
She's also going to be reprising her role as Miranda Hobbes when filming for the Sex and the City film sequel beings soon.
As a breast cancer survivor (and daughter of a two-time breast cancer survivor), she's also involved with the Susan G. Komen Foundation and is a public school and gay rights activist. Oh yeah, and she has her own kids, too.
And it's her real-life role as mother she talked most about with Australia's parenting blog, Babble, this week. They didn't shy away from her being gay at all. In fact, much of the interview has to do with Nixon's gay rights involvement and raising her kids with girlfriend Christine Marinoni.
"I think I'm a pretty hands-on mum. But also, my kids have four parents, including my girlfriend, who's been a stay-at-home mum for the last year and a half," Nixon says. "We don't have a lot of people we hire, but we do have the four of us [including Nixon's ex-husband, Danny Mozes, and his partner]. The more parents the better, you know."
On gay rights, Nixon says:
In terms of raising her kids, 12-year-old Samantha and 6-year-old Charlie, in a same-sex household, Babbles asks Nixon if she feels it's easier or more accepted, to which she says "Absolutely."
Read the rest of Babble's interview with Cynthia Nixon here. How do you mombians feel about her comments on gay parenting?


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It's finally feeling like winter around here and that means jigsaw puzzle time!
I decided I couldn't get the puzzles out until I got a couple of big jobs done around the house that I hadn't had much time to get to this last year. So the windows are washed and the carpets are cleaned and I'm on the second puzzle of the year.
I stocked up over the summer. I love Charles Wysocki puzzles and found ebay is the place to get them! It's like a treasure hunt every time I get on there! What a thrill when I find an old one with all the pieces and a decent price. We've decided to box up the ones we do and keep them for when we get old and then they'll be like doing new ones again as we'll have forgotten doing them before;)
We do them in the dining room on the table and it is a little low for me. Kills my back leaning over it so long. So this year I've solved the problem!
Bed risers! I put one under each table leg and voila! No more leaning over. Does my dining room look weird? You bet, but who cares! Don't mind the scratched up table legs. My set is my grandmother's old maple set and it is 50 years old this year. Its a little worse for the wear and really is in need of being re-done, But we're not picky here.I have the china closet too. Now full of cookbooks instead of china.
So I haven't gotten much reading done with a puzzle going. You can find me at the table doing the puzzle and watching River City (a Scottish soap opera) or Grantchester (an English detective drama) on the computer most days. You can see my computer there in the background.
I am slowly working my way through the book Heaven by Randy Alcorn. Excellent book! I found this great video of Randy speaking on C.S. Lewis on Heaven if your interested!
For pure enjoyment I'm reading Old Dogs by Donna Moore. This one is by a Scottish author and will get me to my challenge level for Read Scotland 2014! Its a humorous crime novel recommended to me by Alan Jones. Ms. Moore has a good website and on her sidebar she has an alphabetical list of Scottish authors! Might come in handy if you are thinking about joining the 2015 challenge!
Well the puzzle is calling to me and A Touch of Frost will be on soon. Talk to you later!
Peggy Ann
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In Organic Chemistry, 3D models are often used in the classroom to increase students' visualization skills and understanding of 2D diagrammatic conventions. As such, instructors often proceed on the assumption that all students in the classroom similarly perceive these models. Preliminary research indicates that students will use different observer perspectives of models as a function of their seat location in the classroom, and therefore approach 3D to 2D translations in different manners. Such different perspectives can increase the difficulty of teaching molecule visualization and diagram translations. Furthermore, it is observed that student performance on tasks requiring the translation from 3D models to 2D diagrams are correlated with their visualization perspective and students in some seat positions may be at a disadvantage in large lecture halls, showing poorer performance than their peers. We investigate methods of reducing these differences in perspective and performance between seat locations and increasing students' visualization skills.


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SEATTLE, Wash.-April 30, 2003- The Management Committee of U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray is pleased to announce the promotion of Michael Doney to vice president, investments.
Doney is a financial advisor with the Seattle office of U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray, a full-service investment firm founded in 1895. The Seattle office of U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray has been serving the financial needs of clients in Seattle for over 30 years.
Doney has been with the Seattle office of U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray since 1998. Prior to joining U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray, Doney was with RBC Dain Rauscher where he was an investment executive. He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Montana in Missoula, Mont. Doney resides in Mill Creek, Wash., with his wife, Jennifer, and their three children.
U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray, a subsidiary of Minneapolis-based U.S. Bancorp is a focused securities firm comprised of three divisions: Equity Capital Markets, Fixed Income Capital Markets and Private Advisory Services. The firm provides a full range of investment products and services to individuals, institutions and businesses. The firm has over 120 offices in 24 states across the country. The Equity Capital Markets Division focuses on the needs of growth companies in the health care, technology, financial institutions, consumer and communications growth sectors. The firm has a national reputation for its expertise in fundamental research and equity and debt financing. The Fixed Income Capital Markets business provides bond issuers, individual investors and institutional investors expertise in investment banking, underwriting, trading, sales and research. The firm offers innovative solutions in corporate and government debt financings with particular expertise in corporate, health care/hospitals, real estate, higher education and government debt. The Private Advisory Services division financial advisors provide guidance in retirement planning, education planning, estate planning and wealth accumulation. Investors select from a wide array of products, including fee-based products, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, annuities, insurance and trust services. U.S. Bancorp offers a comprehensive range of financial solutions through U.S. Bank, U.S. Bancorp Asset Management, U.S. Bancorp Investments and U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray. Securities products and services offered through U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray, Inc., member SIPC and NYSE, Inc., a subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp. For more information on U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray, visit www.piperjaffray.com. Non-deposit investment products are not insured by the FDIC, are not deposits or other obligations of or guaranteed by U.S. Bank National Association or its affiliates, and involve investment risks, including possible loss of the principal amount invested.


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Wolters Kluwer Shareholders Adopt All Resolutions
Shareholders of Wolters Kluwer approved all resolutions at today's Annual General Meeting (AGM). In addition to adopting the financial statements for 2016, shareholders approved a total dividend of €0.79 per ordinary share, resulting in a final dividend of €0.60 per share. Mr. Frans Cremers and Ms. Ann Ziegler were appointed as new members of the Supervisory Board.
Supervisory Board Changes and Composition
Mr. Peter Wakkie, having completed the maximum of three four-year terms, retired as chairman and member of the Supervisory Board at the conclusion of today's AGM. He is succeeded as chairman by Mr. Frans Cremers, whose appointment to the Supervisory Board was approved today. Mr. Len Forman also retired today, having come to the end of his third four-year term.
Following the appointment of Ann Ziegler announced today, women now represent 43% (three out of seven) of our Supervisory Board members, bringing the gender balance in line with Dutch governance standards and our preferred profile for the Supervisory Board. The composition of the Supervisory Board is also in line with the preferred profile as it relates to expertise, nationality, and age. Five nationalities are represented on the Supervisory Board, bringing diverse expertise and experience.
Other AGM Resolutions
The AGM also resolved:
- To re-appoint Kevin Entricken as member of the Executive Board;
- To authorize the Executive Board, for a period of 18 months, to acquire the company's own paid-up shares, up to a maximum of 10% of the issued share capital on April 20, 2017; and
- To cancel for capital reduction purposes any or all ordinary shares in the share capital of the company held, or to be acquired by the company as authorized.
Shareholders Represented
Wolters Kluwer shareholders were represented in person, by proxy voting, or by voting instruction, representing a total of 70.25% of the total issued share capital entitled to vote. The voting results by agenda item will be available on our website at www.wolterskluwer.com/agm as of close of business on April 21, 2017.
About Wolters Kluwer
Wolters Kluwer is a global leader in information services and solutions for professionals in the areas of health, tax & accounting, finance, risk & compliance, and legal. We help our customers make critical decisions every day by providing expert solutions that combine deep domain knowledge with specialized technology and services.
Wolters Kluwer reported 2016 annual revenues of €4.3 billion. The group serves customers in over 180 countries, maintains operations in over 40 countries, and employs approximately 19,000 people worldwide. The company is headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands.
Wolters Kluwer shares are listed on Euronext Amsterdam (WKL) and are included in the AEX and Euronext 100 indices. Wolters Kluwer has a sponsored Level 1 American Depositary Receipt (ADR) program. The ADRs are traded on the over-the-counter market in the U.S. (WTKWY).
For more information about our solutions and organization, visit www.wolterskluwer.com, follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube.
Financial Calendar
April 24, 2017 Ex-dividend date: 2016 final dividend
April 25, 2017 Record date: 2016 final dividend
May 10, 2017 First-Quarter 2016 Trading Update
May 16, 2017 Payment date: 2016 final dividend ordinary shares
May 23, 2017 Payment date: 2016 final dividend ADRs
July 28, 2017 Half-Year 2017 Results
August 28, 2017 Ex-dividend date: 2017 interim dividend
August 29, 2017 Record date: 2017 interim dividend
September 19, 2017 Payment date: 2017 interim dividend
September 26, 2017 Payment date: 2017 interim dividend ADRs
November 1, 2017 Nine-Month 2017 Trading Update
February 21, 2018 Full-Year 2017 Results
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To travel from China to Japan, there is a direct ferry connection from Shanghai (China) to Osaka (Japan). Both cities are connected to the national railway network.
Another option is to travel first by train to Qingdao (China). There you change to the ferry to Incheon (South Korea). Cross South Korea from Incheon to Busan. From Busan (South Korea) take the ferry to Japan.
China - Coreea de Nord
If you want to travel from China to North Korea by train, you can make use of one of the direct trains running four times per week between Beijing (China) and Pyongyang (North Korea). The journey time is about 30 hours.
This route seems to be open for individual travellers.
China - Coreea de Sud
If you want to travel from China to South Korea, you have to include a ferry on the route from Qingdao (China) to Incheon (South Korea). Daily ferry connections are available.
Qingdao (China) and Incheon (South Korea) are both well connected to the national railway network of each country.
China - Kazahstan
To travel from China to Kazakhstan by train, you have once per week a direct overnight train from Ürümqi (or Urumqi / China) to Almaty (Kazakhstan). The journey time is about 36 hours. Buy your train ticket via the given booking link (write the city name like "Urumqi")..
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If you want to travel from China to Mongolia by train, buy your train ticket via one of the given booking links or locally at a train station in China.
Direct connections available from Beijing (China) to Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia).
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To travel from China to Russia by train, use the direct train connections by the Trans-Siberian Railway. Buy your train ticket online via one of the following booking links. There you will also find the exact schedules and ticket prices which depends on the date of your travel.
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If you want to travel from China to Vietnam by train, you have daily connections. There are two main travel routes available.
The first travel route is from Beijing, Guilin, Nanning (China) to Hanoi (Vietnam).
There are two direct trains per week from Beijing (China) to Hanoi (Vietnam).
There are every day connections from Nanning (China) to Hanoi (Vietnam). If you travel on a date were no direct train runs from Beijing to Hanoi, first travel by the daily overnight train from Beijing to Nanning, then by the daily overnight train from Nanning to Hanoi.
The second travel route is from Kunming (China) to Hanoi (Vietnam) with change and border crossing at Hekou (China) and Lào Cai (Vietnam). The train in China coming from Kunming ends at the station Hekou North (China). Journey time 5 hours. There you take a bus or taxi to the border (10 minutes). Walk over the border. And again by bus or taxi (10 minutes) to the station of Lào Cai (Vietnam). From there continue to Hanoi by direct train.
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- buy train tickets from China to Vietnam at Chinahighlights. For the city of Hanoi fill in Gia Lam, Hanoi !!!
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- buy train tickets inside of Vietnam are available via Baolau. For example: Lào Cai - Hanoi.


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Google's saga in Seoul turned act two Thursday. The Korea Communications Commission is secretly looking for ways to retaliate Google for its decision to detour real name verification law, according to a report by Hankyoreh.
Google basically told Seoul to "bug off!" when it announced Tuesday that it disabled video uploads and comments function of YouTube in Korea. The decision has reportedly created a pandemonium in the Commission, provoking ire of some highbrow officials. In an apparent retaliation, it is secretly studying ways to crack down on the Korean arm of the world's largest search engine.
Since Google has officially broken no Korean law with its decision, the Commission will instead try to ferret out any legal breaches it might have possibly made in other areas. The Commission, for example, can grill Google for its sloppy juvenile protection, if its search algorithm ever allowed Korean teens to access adult material. Or it can simply make life difficult for Google Korea by employing various regulatory measures in store.
If the Commission ever takes them into action, it could easily escalate into a diplomatic tension between Seoul and Washington, as we have already seen in Google's act in Beijing.
Yet in another news, the Korea Supreme Court ruled yesterday that Internet portals are liable to the same defamation law as other news media, if it edited bulk of news syndicated from news outlets elsewhere, opening ways to put them under more strict governmental supervision and control.
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Men make a difference in their families, churches, and communities.
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We believe God has charged men with being the faith encourager for their families.*
The first challenge of MIB is for you to lead your family toward consistent church attendance, and to invite others to church. Even when you go on vacation, don't take a vacation from church. If you invite someone, offer to meet them in the parking lot.
We believe God equips the saints to do ministry through maturation and discipleship.
The second challenge of MIB is for you to join a MIB group in order to be equipped for the work He has called you to do. The group will meet over the course of eight weeks, after which there will be a two week break and another group will begin.
We believe our connection with God will connect us to Christians and those who are not.
The third challenge of MIB is for you to encounter God through your fellowship with other Believers and your interaction with those who are not. Four times a year we will encounter God through unique fellowship with one another and interaction with the community.
Men Matter*
If a child is the first person in a household to become a Christian, there is a 3.5% probability everyone else in the household will follow. If the mother is the first to become a Christian, there is a 17% probability everyone else in the household will follow. However, when the father is first, there is a 93% probability everyone else in the household will follow.
Sunday school:
When both parents attend Sunday school in addition to the Sunday service, 72% of their children attend Sunday school when grown. When only the father attends Sunday school, 55% of the children attend when grown. When only the mother attends Sunday school, 15% of the children attend when grown. When neither parent attends Sunday school, only 6% of the children attend when grown.
If a father does go regularly, regardless of what the mother does, between 66% and 75% of their children will attend church as adults. If a father attends church irregularly, between 50% and 66% of their kids will attend church with some regularity as adults. In contrast, if a father does not go to church, but the mother does, on average 66% of their children will not attend church.


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A Simple Common App Tip For The End Of The Year
Our friends at the Common App offer useful tips and tidbits about the application process every few days on their Facebook page. They've reminded us of one of the most important tips there is - not to mention one of the ones you're most likely to forget:
Don't forget: Go to your My Colleges page and check the Application, Supplement, and Payment statuses for each of your colleges. If the status does not show as green, then you have not submitted that item--even if you think you have. Please do this now. It's much better to discover this today than after the deadline has passed.
Simple, but important, no? Make sure that your applications have fully submitted, and that the payments have gone through. As they say, much better to catch this today than after the deadline has passed.
Free Help For Your Regular Decision Applications
If you're cramming in the remaining work for your regular decision applications, remember that College Essay Organizer's Essay QuickFinder is FREE for the remainder of the year! Get access to every essay question you'll need to write this year, including supplemental, scholarship, optional, and program-specific questions you won't find on the Common App -- all organized in one place!
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- Click here and create your Student account. It takes just a few seconds.
- Select "Essay QuickFinder - up to 20 colleges" under "Choose Your Services"
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This offer applies only to high school seniors - no counselors. Each student gets only one free account.
Once you create your account, simply select your colleges and College Essay Organizer will do the rest!
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Free College Application Help From College Essay Organizer
Here's another reminder that College Essay Organizer's Essay QuickFinder is FREE for the remainder of 2011! Get access to every essay question you'll need to write this year, including supplemental, scholarship, optional, and program-specific questions you won't find on the Common App -- all organized in one place!
Get Started Today For FREE!
- Click here and create your Student account. It takes just a few seconds.
- Select "Essay QuickFinder - up to 20 colleges" under "Choose Your Services"
- Enter promo code blogfree1 and press tab - your Essay QuickFinder is free!
This offer applies only to high school seniors - no counselors. Each student gets only one free account.
Once you create your account, simply select your colleges and College Essay Organizer will do the rest!
All students who create their accounts will be eligible to enter our Best Essay Contest and win up to $500 cash!
Your Online Identity And Your College Application
This new article in the Wichita Eagle talks about the importance of your online identity in the college admissions process. We've spoken before about some of the unexpected ways college admissions officers can check into your background, but this is the first article we've seen with hard numbers about the percentage of admissions officers that actively check the Facebook profiles of their applicants, or that Google applicants before fully evaluating their applications.
The article cites College Essay Organizer user Naomi Steinberg, owner of Apply Yourself Educational Consulting in Boca Raton, Florida, as saying that it can be useful for seniors to change the name on their accounts, even if only for the application season:
"As parents and advisors, of course we should be encouraging kids to make good choices and maintain favorable online reputations. In reality, we know we cannot monitor and control every move they make, every photo they or their friends take, and what they have in their hands when the photo is taken."
It doesn't even have to be permanent - returning the user name to your actual name after the acceptances come in is standard, though you'll want to keep privacy settings at a comfortable level if you want to avoid a similar problem with your future job searches.
How To Handle The Open-Ended College Application Essay
We have written about the style of the college essay many times here on CEO Blog. The form at its best is almost its own genre of writing – it is a combination of story telling, personal expression, and resume that demands a level of revision that most high schoolers are not used to.
There are all kinds of things that can make a writer freeze up when putting together a personal statement, but ironically, one of those things is having too many options. Many essay prompts, including the Common App's long response, allow you to write on a topic of your choice, which is to say anything at all.
When you can write about anything, write about your passion.
Your passion won't be the thing you think you're supposed to write about, or the thing you think will be most impressive to the guidance counselor you are imagining, but it will be the thing that makes you sit up and say, "I can write about that."
When you have that a-ha moment and recognize what you care about, your writing will actually improve. You will avoid cliché and, better yet, you will be able to write with detail that shows you understand the world you're talking about. You will be able to invite the reader into an understanding of what you love and show why your involvement in it matters.
In short, you'll be able to describe for the reader something about yourself that your resume doesn't reflect as well as it could, and that's the job of this piece of writing.
College Application Essays: Pacing Yourself This Fall
Chances are, your days are already pretty packed: classes, extracurriculars, seeing friends, spending time with family… and now applying to college on top of that. Senior year can be overwhelming, especially when it comes to writing your personal essays. And while you've certainly written essays on the Civil War, Einstein, or plant biology, a personal essay is a different animal. It can be time consuming and even emotionally draining, depending on your choice of topic. Make sure to pace yourself accordingly and keep that pile of college essay assignments manageable.
Make sure to set aside a little bit of time every day to work on your essay. It's better to spend 20 minutes on it daily than 10 hours right before it's due. You'll find that visiting it every day will help your ideas flow and connect better, give you perspective on what you've already written, and reduce the chances of sloppy mistakes.
As for topic selection, instead of trying to brainstorm an essay that matches an existing question from your school of choice, try working backward. Think of a personal experience that moved you or changed you, then tailor that to answer the question. Let's say you want to write about your experience playing the flute for the first time with a large orchestra. This story answers a lot of possible essay questions: what was a personal activity of special significance, or an accomplishment you are proud of—even an adversity you have dealt with. This one story can be tweaked into the many essays your colleges require.
It's great to get feedback from a friend or a teacher on a draft you've written, but don't overdo it. A common mistake is an essay written "by committee" – too many people have read it and the writer is trying to please too many different opinions. In the end, you're left with an essay with all the life sucked out of it. Find one person you trust—preferably not a family member or friend—and let that individual be your sounding board.
The China Conundrum from The New York Times
The New York Times has a magazine piece up today about the influx of Chinese students into the American university system in recent years. Many of the students, the article notes, are from middle- to upper-class families that can afford to pay the full tuition - a boon for schools struggling under recent budget cuts - but who often arrive without the requisite English skills to keep up in the classroom.
The onus is on them, for the most part, and though navigating a university education in one's second language is an enormous challenge, it's one that isn't dissuading Chinese parents from sending their children to America in rapidly-increasing numbers.
As with any international shift in the college admissions game, understanding the system is of primary importance, especially when choosing your school and managing the college essay process. A number of the students cited in the article admit that when they applied to the school, their English was not strong, which is all the more reason to keep the application process simple, efficient, and direct, so as not to write any unnecessary essays or misinterpret what's required for a given application.
Use of College Essay Organizer has likewise grown among international applicants and international counseling services, and that's to everyone's benefit. Keep things simple and targeted, and make the most of what you have.
Expect to Write More College Essays When Applying to College Next Year
For all the juniors out there who are starting to quiver in their boots in anticipation of applying to colleges in the fall, you might just
have something to worry about. Most of you have heard the stories from your older friends and siblings of how many essays there are to write when applying to college. Well, expect even more essays next season.
As top schools get inundated with college applications -- thousands more than in previous years for the same number of spots -- discussions are forming on how admissions officers can abate surging numbers of applicants coupled with plunging admissions statistics. In a recent article in the Harvard Crimson, Justin Worland writes that Don McMillan, president of a Boston-based educational consulting firm, believes that the Common App is the main force in the rapid growth of college applications.
However, McMillan claims that the Common App supplemental essays (for each individual college) deter some students from submitting additional applications: "The main thing that is keeping kids from increasing the number of applications from 6 to 11 is the supplement. One way [colleges] will be able to moderate [the increase in applications] is by requiring additional supplementary essays or campus visits."
CEO was created with this very point in mind. We agree that the number of essays are on the rise. But because of the overlapping themes among essay questions, as the number of essays increase the number of original essays that you write doesn't have to.
See what we mean here? It'll take you just ten seconds to discover how CEO can save you hours and allow you to apply to all the colleges you want without any additional essay writing.
St. John's University (NY) Admission Essay Prompt Confusion
While researching the essay requirements of the over 600 colleges and universities currently in our database, we have come upon many inconsistencies and contradictions, but few as noticeably different as the one between St. John's University's online application and the PDF version. Here's a taste of what we're talking about - St. John's online application asks this of all who apply:
Although this is optional, we'd like to learn just a little bit more about you. Please submit a short personal statement on one of the topics listed below.
- What motivates you? We'd like to know what activities you really enjoy. Do they tie in with any career goals? Have you won any awards or honors?
- Don't reinvent the wheel. You have the option to submit a graded essay from your senior year.
Nothing too out of the ordinary there. It's an optional but recommended essay with a straightforward prompt and another option to submit a writing sample. But here's what they ask if you're using the paper application:
A 250-word, typewritten personal statement or essay on a topic of your choice. If you choose to submit a personal statement, please offer some explanation of your current career goals, information about honors and awards you have received and/or other activities in which you have engaged in order to provide us with a clear, personal profile of your pursuits and interests beyond the classroom.
This prompt is clearly on a topic of the applicant's choice. So the options are wide-open, which for many applicants means the difference between writing an additional essay or not.
This is the kind of work CEO does for you. We check and re-check the thousands of requirements on many applications nationwide, looking for opportunities like these, and making sure that your options are clearly presented to you. CEO sides with the online application in this case, since it's the one the majority of applicants will be using, but we also provide a note in the school's header explaining the difference and allowing you to choose.
Good College Essay Topics For Your Applications
As students head back to school and the application season starts to really heat up, we thought we'd take this week to focus on things you can do to hone your work and make your writing more memorable to those overworked admissions officers.
One of the most obvious things you can do to make your writing stand out is to choose an exciting, accessible topic for your essay. Of course, many of the prompts will be decided for you, but that doesn't mean the topic is. College applications are known for their broad, interpretable questions that have a surprising amount of flexibility to them if you think about it for a bit.
Here are a few good places to start:
- What are your favorite activities and hobbies? Why?
- What are your talents/skills? How did you develop them? Who helped you?
- Who have been the most influential people in your life?
- What was your most memorable experience? Best? Worst?
- How have you changed in the past four years?
We've got more good essay topics for you here. Remember to not always choose the first thing that comes to mind. It's much more important to have a good piece of writing than to just get it over with.


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Thirlmere Roosters seal hard fought win at home
The Thirlmere Roosters held off a fast-finishing Mittagong Lions to win 36-26 on Sunday afternoon.
The clash at Thirlmere Sportsground marked round five of Group 6 first grade competition.
The Roosters were dominant in the first half, skipping out to a 30-0 lead.
However the Lions mounted a comeback, which eventually fell short. Both coaches would have been frustrated by their team's performance.
Thirlmere only had to wait four minutes to open the scoring, with five-eighth Dayne Craig diving over.
Jacob Loko then crashed over to extend the home side's lead to 12-0.
Jake Mullaney was next to score for the Roosters, capitalising on a superb solo effort.
Kye Madden then dived over, before Josh Bryant scored on the stroke of half time.
Adam Campbell nailed all five conversion attempts as the Roosters led 30-0.
The Lions came out firing after the break, with Geoff McKeown and Rory MacDonald scoring tries to cut the deficit to 30-10.
The Roosters scored their final try at the 60-minute mark, with Josh Bryant completing a double as the home side 36-10.
MacDonald scored his second try with 15 minutes left, before PJ Thorton dived over to cut the deficit 36-22.
Ben Powell scored a try with six minutes left to bring the margin back to 36-26.
However, the Roosters were able to do enough in the final minutes to secure a 10-point win.
The other round five results saw The Oaks defeat Narellan by 30-16, Camden won 26-8 over Moss Vale and Oakdale defeated Campbelltown City by 24-22.


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Contract Management
You have successfully made your way through the sourcing stages and obtained a negotiated contract. Congratulations! But are you getting the anticipated value out of the agreement? All too often we see that scope creep or just intentional change leaves one of the parties frustrated. Proper contract management can help you solve these issues.
Looking for continuous improvements? Measuring and steering Key Performance Indicators and making sure Service Levels are met? Asking for continuous monitoring and evaluation, both from the buying organization as well as from suppliers? How can you set up a cycle that sets priorities so that risks are managed and value is coming out of your wide supplier spectrum? What kind of contracts help you in managing your supplier relations and which contracts are hidden time bombs that pop-up at any moment?
Effectively managing contracts is one of the key elements that needs to be developed in order to have a highly effective procurement organization. Knowing the changing business requirements is key to this, and understanding the business dynamics of the market is equally important.
From beginner contract managers to well-seasoned contract managers, our courses offer in depth insights into the successes and pitfalls of contract management, tailored to your situation with examples from your business.


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Clean Hands, Save lives
Hand hygiene in healthcare is the driving force behind SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign promoted by the World Health Organization (WHO). Healthcare associated infections are still a plague affecting millions of victims who come to hospitals to be cured without realizing hospitals may also turn into dangerous settings.
Marked on May 5 every year, this initiative is part of the First Global Patient Safety Challenge: Clean Care is Safer Care work, led by the WHO to support health-care workers to improve hand hygiene in healthcare.
Improving the hand hygiene of healthcare staff at the point of patient care will reduce healthcare associated infection as hands are a repository for microorganisms that can cause infection. Healthcare staff in all healthcare settings have the greatest chance of transferring these as they move between patients and different care activities for the same patient. National and international studies continue to reinforce the fact that infection rates can be significantly reduced by at least 15 per cent, where a strategy has been introduced to improve hand hygiene.
With the clear and central feature of the importance of clean hands in health care, the campaign aims to galvanise action at the point of care to demonstrate that hand hygiene is the entrance door for reducing health care-associated infection and increasing patient safety. It also aims to demonstrate the world's commitment to this priority area of health care.
Significant gains have been made in highlighting the need for best practice in hand hygiene over the last four years in the UK. The reduction in MRSA bacteraemia can in part be attributed to the concerted action across the NHS.
Key highlights:
1. The role of hand hygiene by healthcare staff in preventing and controlling infection.
2. The point of care as the crucial moment for hand hygiene.
3. The appropriate placement of alcohol hand rub products.
4. Which hand hygiene products to use and when.
5. The current recognised standard for hand hygiene products.
6. Risk management including ingestion, storage and skin irritation.
WHO's role includes encouraging engagement and action to maintain this global movement. Numbers are a great mechanism for raising awareness, as demonstrated by the growing number of healthcare facilities registered for SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands, but they are not the end point. Sustaining the efforts to improve patient safety requires dedicated action and innovation, both of which are now more crucial than ever. WHO has appreciated receiving communications about country and health-care facility activities. Action must continue; use the WHO tools to support your actions.
To find out more about how to get involved and the best way of cleaning your hands to get rid of all those nasty germs, you can visit the official Save Lives Clean your Hands website.


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A month ago, Frank Karlitschek, founder of the ownCloud project, forked the code to create a new company called Nextcloud. Now in its first platform release the company's technology is getting enterprise support.
In keeping with ownCloud's numbering, the new release is Nextcloud 9, though the release brings more than what is available in the ownCloud 9 release that debuted in March.
"Nextcloud is building open-source replacements for the ownCloud closed-source enterprise-only features," Karlitschek told eWEEK. "With this release, 80 percent is done and the rest will be coming soon."
Nextcloud isn't simply replicating features that already exist in ownCloud. Karlitschek said Nextcloud is also developing its own set of new and innovative features.
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"At the moment, we have a new and super easy way to theme your Nextcloud installation with different colors and logos directly from within the Web interface," he said.
Also, Nextcloud has built open-source enterprise features including Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), which is used for single sign-on (SSO). Plus, Nextcloud enables an anonymous upload capability for its users. For both SAML and the anonymous upload capability, Karlitschek said Nextcloud's iteration of those features are more powerful and flexible than the ones available from ownCloud.
"This is the result of the open collaboration that we are doing with several universities and research institutions," he said.
Security is also a core focus, with Nextcloud 9 including two security updates for vulnerabilities that were reported by way of the company's bug bounty program. Nextcloud works with third-party bug bounty platform vendor HackerOne, which has been in the news in recent months for enabling the "Hack the Pentagon" bug bounty program.
Details on the two security issues that have been fixed in Nextcloud 9 have not yet been publicly disclosed.
"Nextcloud doesn't publish any security information to third parties until 14 days after the release, following industry best practices," Karlitschek said. "Note that we do work with our customers to mitigate the security issues we find from the moment we discover them, without sharing details of the vulnerability as much as possible."
Given that Nextcloud is mostly based on code from ownCloud at this point, the same vulnerabilities likely exist in both products. Karlitschek said Nextcloud is actively trying to work together with the ownCloud project on security issues.
"With regard to these vulnerabilities, we have made ownCloud a proposal on how we believe this information exchange should work, but they have not agreed on a proposal yet," Karlitschek said. "We hope that we can agree on a process so that ownCloud users also benefit from the security fixes we do."
For ownCloud users who want to migrate to Nextcloud, or for customers who want to get support, the process is easy, according to Karlitschek.
"Everyone who signed an ownCloud subscription before June can also get support from us for free," he said. "Just send a message through our contact form on the Website."
The migration from ownCloud to Nextcloud is straightforward—users just replace their ownCloud installation with the latest Nextcloud while keeping data and the configuration folder in place, according to Karlitschek.
Since starting Nextcloud, Karlitschek said that he has been surprised by the overwhelmingly positive response he has received so far, from customers, prospects and the contributor community. Thanks to the positive response, Nextcloud is moving faster than originally planned, he said.
"We are working full steam on the next major release, which is planned for August," Karlitschek said. "Users can expect more security hardening and improvements."
Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at eWEEK and InternetNews.com. Follow him on Twitter @TechJournalist.