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I recently completed (or contributed to the completion) the first phase of a Team Foundation Server (TFS) implementation project. For the most part the implementation was successful and we managed to move a relatively large code-base and complicated build across with only a few minor hitches that slowed progress rather than stopped it.
The code base that we migrated had been around for around seven years and given its age it had been fairly well maintained. The migration to TFS unearthed a few skeletons but because of the level of consistency in the code base we could get around it fairly quickly.
As part of the migration we needed to create a Team Project in TFS which forces us to choose a methodology that we want to govern that particular code base by. Out of the box we get the choice of MSF Agile or MSF CMMI and I had installed the Conchango Scrum Process Template to add a third option.
The Tyranny of Process Templates
I always get a bit nervous about selecting a process template, not because I don't know what they are, but because I'm stating right up front how this code base will be managed from this point forward. If I had to complain about one aspect of the process template system in TFS it is that you can't easily transition from one methodology to another without creating a new Team Project (the alternative is manually applying Work Item Type definitions and updating process guidance and reports – hard work!).
From a project perspective it is quite reasonable to select a process up front. At Readify for example we are quite happy to head into a project stating up front that we will manage this project using the Scrum methodology, but is Scrum appropriate for the maintenance period that follows the bulk of the project work?
Project Lifetime vs. Application Lifetime
The problem stems from the fact that applications have much longer lifetimes than the projects that may have spawned them and that at the end of the project the resourcing levels tend to drop down dramatically. Once deployed, many applications don't have any development resources assigned to them and it can be hard to form a Scrum team.
Of course, as time progresses an application might have more than one project that influences it but there is still a gap in-between which we can call the maintenance period.
So here we have a problem with tooling where the concept of "project" reigns supreme and the concept of sustained engineering is an afterthought that we tack on to the end of projects.
One current solution to this problem is creating a new Team Project when a code base transitions from project-mode to maintenance mode and then select a different process template, but we loose a lot of intelligence about the code base and the requirements when we do that (not to mention that it is a fair bit of work to set the builds up again). Then do the same when we transition into project mode again.
From a project management perspective, Team Foundation Server has some of the best tools I've seen for visualising what is going on in your software project. The challenge is getting it to scale down to a slow bubble of maintenance work.
I'm interested in hearing what other people do around managing general maintenance work within Team Foundation Server. Do you try to stick to the rules of the process template that you selected when the project ramped up or do you just return to a basic Task and Bug list and ignore the advanced features like scope management using PBIs and SBIs?


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OpenCL 2.0 Feedback Series:
- OpenCL Standardization Issues
- My OpenCL Vision and Philosophy (this article)
- OpenCL 1.3: My Proposal For a Final 1.x Release
- OpenCL 2.0: SPIR Feedback and Vision
In my last article, I criticized OpenCL for lacking a published vision or philosophy which unifies the community and provides a litmus test for features. I would like to outline my vision for OpenCL with a new low-level library model, and a potential philosophy. I have inferred my own OpenCL philosophy from the published standards and vendor documentation, however in this article I am going to put forward a different philosophy. If you disagree with me, please post an articulate comment to this article. If you write a response to my article, contact me and I will update this entry with a link back to you. My intention is to spark a real public debate on the future of OpenCL.
My Proposed OpenCL Philosophy
OpenCL is a collection of libraries that enable low-level programming of a heterogeneous collection of devices. The primary role of OpenCL is to enable software portability across disparate hardware devices and operating systems. We recognize that new devices will be created, and programming models will change. Therefore, OpenCL cannot provide a single unified interface that will stand the test of time. Instead, OpenCL is a federation of technologies that are made accessible to developers through a common and minimal API.
OpenCL is a low-level standard, and provides support for high-level libraries to provide language or domain-specific abstractions to developers. The primary role of OpenCL is to expose what devices are capable of doing, and provide access to these capabilities. OpenCL has no place in deciding how developers should use these capabilities, or what the capabilities should be. Instead, OpenCL defers to partner specifications which use the low-level interface of OpenCL to expose new functionality.
OpenCL recognizes that hardware and software technology are constantly changing, and that extra effort is required to future-proof software for the benefit of consumers.
My Proposed OpenCL Model
OpenCL is a low-level standard designed to provide a common programming interface to disparate devices connected to a host. Today, consumer applications have moved beyond the PC to mobile devices and consumer electronics, such as televisions and game consoles. Compute nodes in an HPC cluster might have access to specialized hardware to accelerate specific scientific applications. OpenCL enables developers to use multiple devices within a single application based on device capabilities. For example, an OpenCL application may use a GPU for image manipulation, a DSP for audio processing, and the CPU for low-latency data-structure operations. OpenCL enables applications to support a heterogeneous world.
The OpenCL host is simply defined as any system capable of calling a collection of C calls provided by the OpenCL host API. This loose definition enables an OpenCL host to be a PC with connected GPU devices, or a master-node on a compute cluster with other nodes acting as devices over an interconnect. The separation of host and device is critical to OpenCL, because it enables a heterogeneous environment. In particular, there is no guarantee that host and device share memory, have the same endianness, or ISA. The fundamental role of the OpenCL host API is to discover devices and issue them with commands in a portable manner.
It is not the role of OpenCL to define what a device is, or what commands it should support. This is a tumultuous time for the technology industry as it grapples with software parallelization. On the hardware side, multi-core processors have risen to prominence, along with GPUs, compute clusters and FPGAs. OpenCL future-proofs itself by providing developers with an abstract definition of a device. An OpenCL device could be a multi-core CPU, a DSP, an FPGA, or a remote system that dispatches work to a compute cluster. Each device has substantially different capabilities, and the concept of a "capability" is the key to OpenCL software portability.
Let's suppose for the sake of argument that software developers are not particularly interested in the specific hardware of a device. OpenCL software developers select devices based on their capabilities. An image-processing application might use a GPU for image manipulation, based on its capability to perform this task. Another application might select a specialized device that generates good random numbers for cryptographic purposes. Suppose that both applications have shipped, and one day a customer purchases a new piece of hardware that can do faster image manipulation and generate better random numbers than the other devices on the host. The software should select this new device, and the customer can immediately benefit without waiting for a software update. This is what software portability should be in a heterogeneous world. OpenCL software selects devices based upon capabilities, rather than type or vendor.
"Wait a second", you say, "software must take into account hardware-specific features for maximum performance." I agree with you. But how do we do this now? High-performance software will run, albeit slowly, on any processor. Developers add logic to select hardware-specific execution paths, with a default portable case if the hardware is unknown. If a new device, using the default portable case, is simply faster than another device using the tuned case, then it should be selected by a performance-portable application. This enables customers to use better hardware immediately, and provides software vendors with an opportunity to sell an updated piece of software that is tuned to the new hardware.
I have mentioned the word "capability" several times, but I have not provided a sensible definition. Quite simply, a capability is something that a device can do, which is of interest to developers. A capability is a complete, documented, and hopefully standardized, software interface. You can consider a capability as identifying an API available for a device. I envision a capability as an integer that identifies a particular standard API, and ioctl-like calls are used to call the API, but I'll get into the details in a moment. From the perspective of a programmer, devices are only interesting if they support the capabilities (i.e. APIs) required for a particular program. The diagram below illustrates the programmer's view of devices as collections of capabilities.
There is a final missing concept in my OpenCL model: the implementation. An implementation is installed on the host, and provides access to devices via the OpenCL host API. Typically, an implementation will be shipped by hardware vendors to enable use of a particular device. It is also possible that software vendors provide implementations that do something interesting, without relying upon hardware directly. For example, an implementation might provide a virtual device that transparently uses hardware over the Internet. OpenCL is designed to ensure that multiple implementations can be present on the same host without interfering with each other.
The OpenCL host API is now straightforward. Here is a simple API that could be provided:
* All functions return 0 on success, or an error code on failure.
* The implementation_id is unique.
* The pair (implementation_id, device_id) is guaranteed to be unique and always reference the same hardware on a host.
* Get implementations available on the system.
int32_t clGetImplementations(uint64_t implementation_list_size, uint64_t* implementation_list, uint64_t* num_implementations);
* Query an implementation for its capabilities.
int32_t clGetImplementationCapabilities(uint64_t implementation_id, uint64_t capabilities_list_size, uint64_t* capabilities, uint64_t* num_capabilities);
* Use the capability of an implementation.
int32_t clCallImplementationCapability(uint64_t implementation_id, uint64_t capability, void* command, uint64_t* command_size);
* Query an implementation for the set of devices that it contains.
int32_t clGetImplementationDevices(uint64_t implementation_id, uint64_t device_id_list_size, uint64_t* device_id_list, uint64_t* num_devices);
* Query a device for its capabilities.
int32_t clGetDeviceCapabilities(uint64_t implementation_id, uint64_t device_id, uint64_t capabilities_list_size, uint64_t* capabilities, uint64_t* num_capabilities);
* Use the capability of a device.
int32_t clCallDeviceCapability(uint64_t implementation_id, uint64_t device_id, uint64_t capability, void* command, uint64_t* command_size);
There are three key components to this API:
- Implementation: this is some implementation of OpenCL, likely provided by a vendor to support some hardware. The implementation does not necessarily provide access to devices, it is possible that an implementation does something by itself. Therefore, implementations also have capabilities.
- Device: something accessible to the host, which is provided by an implementation.
- Capability: a command call supported by the device or implementation which is externally documented. Capabilities provide an ioctl-like interface to OpenCL implementations and devices. Capabilities are identified by a unique integer which is registered with the standards body (some are reserved for personal or open-source use), and has a well-defined behavior that is externally documented.
The programmer now has the following view of the world:
The OpenCL host API is very low-level, and resembles a system-call interface. It is not meant to be used directly, instead its purpose is to preserve binary compatibility in spite of constant technological change. Any high-level library that uses the OpenCL host API will continue to work, so long as implementations continue to support the required capabilities. This design also addresses one of my major concerns regarding feature deprecation in OpenCL.
In my OpenCL model and host API, a capability is any defined interface. Each capability should be externally documented and standardized. Capabilities should be fairly fine-grained to have value, however they do not have to be. Capabilities might also depend upon other capabilities. Feature deprecation now becomes capability deprecation, which means that new implementations might no longer support that capability. However, as the number of applications which are OpenCL-enabled increase, capability deprecation will become a drastic and rare event. Deprecation also does not break binary compatibility of shipped applications.
I would like to illustrate the benefit of this approach with some concrete, though fictitious, example capabilities.
- Random Number Generator: an interface for obtaining random numbers. This might be supported by a sound card, or specialized hardware attached to the host.
- Shared Memory Support: the device has access to shared memory with virtual addressing.
- Mappable Memory: the device is capable of mapping memory.
- OpenCL 1.2: the device supports OpenCL 1.2, which is accessed by the new low-level OpenCL host API. OpenCL 1.2 calls translate to the new low-level calls.
Reflections on the OpenCL Model
I believe that the model I've outlined, or one like it, is necessary to reduce the volatility of OpenCL support. The OpenCL 1.x standards already provide several options and extensions, and vendors provide their own extensions on top of that. For example, images are optionally supported by hardware. Not all devices will likely support shared memory as outlined in the provisional OpenCL 2.0 specification, and not all devices will support it in the same way. Not all devices can compile OpenCL C, and there are already a plethora of OpenCL versions deployed. Currently, the OpenCL standard provides the ND-range execution model to execute OpenCL C kernel functions. Although this is a nice abstraction, we cannot view it as universally useful. In time, computer science theory may discover better execution models which should be supported.
I view my proposed low-level host API, based on the capabilities of devices, as a natural evolution of OpenCL. I also view my model as a minor adjustment to OpenCL which provides a wide array of benefits without significant penalty. OpenCL can become a simpler standard. For example, basic OpenCL C code supporting the ND-range execution model can become a capability. Image support can become a new capability, which cleanly extends OpenCL C and the host API as required. A capability can be defined which has complete support for one of the OpenCL standards. Implementations that already have complete support for OpenCL will not have to change much. However, hardware with different execution models, or even just a selection of built-in functions, can support a weaker capability without implementing the entire standard.
OpenCL does support extensions, and I'd like to address why they are not sufficient. Optional OpenCL extensions have gradually become required features for conformance. Although I am not experienced in hardware design, I imagine that if this continues, eventually required features will limit the ability of a hardware vendor to support OpenCL. OpenCL extensions don't exist in a vacuum, there are many core features of OpenCL that are present, such as the execution model, which may limit extensions that challenge these models. We must anticipate change, because hardware and software technology has several revolutions to go before we get parallelization right.
I will conclude this section by mentioning that OpenCL 1.x versions, and OpenCL 2.0 versions may be transparently mapped to this model. Capabilities may be created for those standards, and OpenCL libraries could be adjusted to call the new API without significant change.
The Role of The Standards Body
My vision for OpenCL changes the role of the standards body, and the current OpenCL standard. Rather than producing a single monolithic standard, an ecosystem of standardized capabilities are produced. In particular, each capability is a standardized standalone API that provides a specific functionality. It is critical that capabilities, and the standards that provide them, do not change once published aside from clarifications to eliminate misunderstandings. A new version of a standard should be a new capability, and if a standard is extended then naturally the previous capability is also supported by the new one.
The official OpenCL standards body has a new role in allocating capability identifiers. There will always be a need for unofficial capabilities, which are used by projects and vendors for testing new ideas. However, the standards body should provide a set of official capabilities which are stable, and which vendors have agreed to implement. Care must be taken to ensure that official capabilities do not overlap in functionality without proper justification.
Device Programmability
One of the most important advantages of OpenCL is that it has provided a common programming model and language for so many hardware architectures, namely OpenCL C. I regard OpenCL C as a good thing, but we must acknowledge that it is an evolving language and might ultimately suffer from conceptual flaws. The capability model I propose could easily provide an OpenCL C capability, meaning that new programs can be compiled and loaded. If OpenCL C loses popularity due to the introduction of new program representations, then the new representation and OpenCL C can coexist without undue complication to user applications or developers.
I expect some controversy in my suggested vision, because the programming model I propose is quite different. I hope this blog strikes an interesting, and public, discussion on the future of OpenCL and accelerated applications. The primary role of my suggested capability model is to enable deprecations to occur within the industry, without causing binary compatibility issues or developer stress. If my suggestions are found to have some appeal, I would be happy to cooperate with members of Khronos to prepare a formal specification. I will also note that the above capability model, aside from its other advantages, would make OpenCL into a type of hardware-service discovery system leading to interesting service-oriented applications. In my opinion, that is the ultimate goal of heterogeneous application development.


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Fall 2010 Webinar Series Sponsored by Quest Software
I will be conducting a third series of webcasts for Quest Software that will put you on the fast track to maximizing your understanding and use of Oracle PL/SQL. Here are lots of details and links for registration. I hope to "see" you there!
Session 1: Programming with Collections
Monday, September 27, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern ($200.00 US)
Collections (array-like structures in PL/SQL) are critical data structures that are used in some of the most important features of PL/SQL. Every PL/SQL developer should have a deep familiarity with collections and the wide range of features that Oracle has implemented for them over the years. This session introduces collections and quickly moves on to detailed explanations of collection methods, how to leverage string indexing in associative arrays, multi-level collections, set-level operations on nested tables and more. The session will run for approximately two hours.
Session 2: Say Goodbye to Hard-Coding in PL/SQL
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern ($200.00 US)
Everyone knows that hard-coding is a bad idea. Too many developers, however, only think in terms of literal values when they think of hard-coding. There are, unfortunately, many ways that hard-coding manifests itself in our programs. This webinar offers a comprehensive look at all the types of hard-coding that can appear in your programs, from literals to explicit declarations to exposed formulas, and offers specific techniques to get rid of the hard-coding. The result is code that is much easier to read and to maintain. The session will last approximately two hours.
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Dynamic SQL (construction, parsing and execution of SQL statements and PL/SQL blocks at runtime) has become a common and critical element of most modern applications. PL/SQL offers two distinct methods for dynamic SQL: native dynamic SQL (NDS) and DBMS_SQL. This webinar focuses primarily on the capabilities of native dynamic SQL: how to use EXECUTE IMMEDIATE to execute dynamic query, DML, and DDL statements. We will also go beyond the basics and delve into when to use DBMS_SQL (method 4 dynamic SQL), and new Oracle Database 11g features for dynamic SQL (most importantly, interoperability between DBMS_SQL and NDS. The session will last approximately two hours.
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Dan Docherty's The Complete Tai Chi Tutor leads you on a spiritual journey towards understanding the key principles and history of the art of Tai Chi. It investigates what is known and unknown concerning the origins and history of Tai Chi, from the ancient texts of Chinese civilization to the 21st century, and explores some key questions on the way. Docherty considers the practicalities of teaching, reviewing the fundamentals and benefits of practice, and demonstrates some highly efficacious but little-known drills, as well as fundamental practice and key Long Form techniques. In addition, he explores the martial and self-defence application of some of the fundamental techniques. Finally, Docherty offers guidance on becoming a Tai Chi instructor and explores areas of tuition, competitions and styles. This illustrated guide offers you sequential directions on key techniques, such as Single Whip, Vanguard Arms and Seven Stars, with descriptions on how to do major form techniques. Moves are clearly demonstrated through the use of step-by-step photography and text. Whether you have some Tai Chi knowledge of if you are looking to become an advanced practitioner, this guide will take your practice to the next level.
Dan Docherty is an international Tai Chi and Qijong consultant who has taught, and continues to teach, thousands of students at seminars throughout the world. Since 1989, Dan has been the organiser of the British Open Tai Chi Championships. He is Chairman of the Tai Chi Union for Great Britain. He regularly contributes to martial arts publications and is the author of the recently published Tai Chi Bible (Godsfield, Feb 2014), Tai Chi Chuan and Complete Tai Chi Chuan. Dan learned Tai Chi Chuan while serving as an Inspector in the Royal Hong Kong Police Force between 1975 and 1984. In 1980 he won the Open Weight Division at the fifth South-east Asian Chinese Pugilistic Championships in Malaysia. He is an LLB graduate from Glasgow University and holds a postgraduate CNAA diploma in Chinese. He regularly travels to the Far East, especially to China, for research.


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The course director is Curie Virág (East Asian Studies, Toronto), and faculty include Gabor Betegh (Classics, Christ's College, Cambridge University), Chris Fraser (Philosophy, Hong Kong), Donald Harper (East Asian Languages & Civilizations, Chicago), Brooke Holmes (Classics, Princeton), Maria Kronfeldner (Philosophy, CEU), and Matthias Riedl (History, CEU).
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Studying the laws on how to abolish the SRC, the Our City Our Schools coalition has come up with a critical timeline of how we get our schools back. There are only two ways to abolish the SRC: a simple majority vote of SRC Commissioners with approval from the PA Secretary of Education OR the state legislature. With three new members of the SRC appointed by Mayor Kenney and Gov Wolf (both who have pledged support of local control), we have a historic opportunity to return our schools back to Philadelphians.
According to Act 46 which set up the SRC, if the simple majority vote to abolish occurs before 180 days of the end of the school year, it will take another calendar year to transition the schools back to local control.
In the Fall of 2018, we have a Governors race. Under Betsy DeVos, Under Trump, we cannot risk having the state controlling our schools with a Republican Gov. That's why we need the vote to abolish to happen by Dec 2017 at the very latest.
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Backed by leading-edge research at the Masonic Cancer Center, our team continues to stay at the forefront of treatment for leukemias and lymphomas, the most common childhood cancers. We believe that collaboration, especially with our partners in oncology/hematology to create a comprehensive leukemia program, is the key to taking leukemia treatment to the next level.
Our physicians treat many children with leukemia or lymphoma. Leukemia is a cancer of the blood. It can affect white blood cells, red blood cells or platelets. In healthy children, bone marrow stem cells develop into myeloid or lymphoid stem cells. In acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), the lymphoid stem cells do not develop into healthy blood cells. When this happens, non-functional cells accumulate and are not able to fight infection very well. As the number of leukemia cells increases in the blood and bone marrow, there is less room for healthy white blood cells, red blood cells and platelets. Acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) affects the myeloid stem cells in a similar way.
Most childhood leukemias are acute, meaning they develop rapidly. The majority of children with leukemia have no known risk factors. Children with leukemia may experience fatigue, infection, low blood counts, joint pain, weight loss and easy bleeding.
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Citizens asked to attend meeting on whether city facilities should be improved
By DOUG MYERS Managing Editor
Officials are hoping for a large turnout tonight when a public meeting is held to discuss the need for the city of Stephenville to have a new recreational hall, senior citizen center and swimming pool.
�It�s an opportunity for the citizens of Stephenville to come out and voice their opinions,� city council member Nancy Hunter said Wednesday.
During the meeting scheduled for 6 p.m. at the Stephenville Senior Citizen Center, the city-hired firm of Brinkley Sargent & Associates will lead the discussion. �Focus groups� consisting of city residents could possibly be set up to provide input.
Hunter said the city�s current recreational hall, senior citizen center and swimming pool are antiquated and have �outlived their usefulness.�
As a result, residents will be asked: �What do you want to see in a facility?�
Some envision a community center being built that would include space set aside for recreational activities, as well as a for senior citizens. A new swimming pool could also be included inside or near the new facility.
Meanwhile, a separate meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. Thursday, June 14, at the Senior Citizen Center to discuss whether a new public library should be built or the existing library should be relocated. The city-hired firm of Hidell & Associates will hold the public meeting - also with the possibility of establishing �focus groups.�
City Administrator Mark Kaiser has said he expects the process of evaluating and planning for the possibility of new facilities to take about a year.
If a bond issue will be needed to pay for the improvements, the measure likely would be sent to voters in May 2008, Kaiser has said.
�All of those are to be determined,� Kaiser said recently.
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Dr. Deborah Van Ourkerk is a veteran educator with more than 30 years of teaching experience. Her work experience as well as her dissertation on literacy acquisition in at-risk students has given her invaluable literacy expertise. She has experience teaching grades K-12 and is the science department chair at her middle school.
As a GATE certified teacher, Dr. Van Ourkerk serves her campus as the district GATE representative. In addition, she is a member of the curriculum advisory committee that analyzes and promotes appropriate K-12 curriculum. She has has also served as summer school principal for six years.
Dr. Van Ourkerk is married with two grown children. They live in Southern California and enjoy traveling, hiking, biking, and playing tennis year round.
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- I used our current spelling curriculum to make customized spelling lists for C8. I then chose assignments for her to complete on her own. An example of assignments I chose include a test and games such as Hang Mouse, Match it Definitions, and Premium Crossword. All assignments used only the words from my specific list and the teacher's grade book tracked her progress for me.
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- In addition to spelling/vocabulary lessons, C8 and I watched language arts lessons. LA lessons are short videos with printable worksheets, hands on activities and classroom activities. Two examples of topics we explored are parts of speech and antonyms. In the writing practice area, we watched video lessons on subject/verb agreement and crazy commas. C8 then put into practice what she'd just learned with a printable worksheet.
- There are times when C8 just doesn't want to do computer work. She'd rather use pencil and paper. VocabularySpellingCity caters to her offline/non-computer based needs. At the time of posting, all premium edition games are printable. One premium edition game we all love is Word-O-Rama. ( "The object of Word-O-Rama is to identify words by their definitions, synonyms, antonyms, or by their context within a sentence." ~ online description) Once logged in, to see if a game is printable, just look to the bottom right hand corner of the game's name for the printer icon. Most free games can be used as a printable worksheet as well. (It's important to be logged in, with a list loaded. Otherwise, the printing icons will be invisible.)
- With R6, I printed out customizable handwriting practice worksheets using his spelling list. I let him chose the games to explore on his own, and I sat beside him to offer help when needed. Typing is a new skill for my little buddy.
- We played the free VocabularySpellingCity.com app on our iPhone. There is an option for Premium Members to sign in and use their individual spelling lists.
Having this online spelling resource has been especially wonderful while traveling. C8 and R6 were able to practice their spelling words on the go without packing anything besides our laptop. I like light packing!
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The Healthful Qualities Of Ashitaba Is Making Its Way West
The popularity of Ashitaba is now making its way west as people around the world learn of its healthful qualities. This amazing herb is now largely popular in Japan, China, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia and the US. Ashitaba (Angelica keiskei) is a massive herb that typically grows in the central region of Japan. It is a cool robust definite plant from the angelica genus with a common growth size of 50-120 cm. It is also referred to as "tomorrow's leaf" due to the fact that if you remove a leaf at night, a new leaf will immediately bud the next morning.
The fresh leaves and dried powder of Ashitaba have been made use of as food and medicine in Japan for centuries. Historically, it is seen as a significant factor to the more healthy and prolonged lives of the local people in Japan, probably because of the chalconoids that are distinctive to this species of angelica. The chalconoids are a group of flavonoids which are plant based chemical compounds that can boost your health and can protect your body from a number of nasty diseases. They are powerful antibacterials, antifungals, antimicrobials, and antioxidants.
Understanding that, the health benefits and the rewards of Ashitaba are great. Ashitaba is regarded as a "wonder drug". In ancient medicine, it is believed to be diuretic, tonic, and can accelerate wound healing and stop infection when put on topically. Ashitaba is also made use of for "heartburn", stomach ulcers, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, gout, constipation, and hay fever. Studies have shown that the yellow sap (chalcones) abundant in Ashitaba can prevent acne, Alzheimer's disease, cancer, heart disease, fluid retention, and food poisoning. It is also efficiently applied in the external therapy of smallpox.
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In addition to this, Ashitaba can make you look younger. Ashitaba has the power to rejuvenate your body's cell properties. It also features growth hormones enhancer. In just weeks of consuming ashitaba tea, you will sense an obvious change in the light of your skin immediately. It can be a good alternative to gluta-thione supplements which has the effect of detoxifying and purifying your liver and at the same time whitening your skin complexion since it has an antioxidant property. Lastly, studies have found that Ashitaba chalcones can change your metabolism and help you loose weight. Combined with healthy diet and exercise, Ashitaba can fight the problems of obesity.


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Tom Brady, Difficult Conversations & Dr Hank
It's time for a difficult conversation. Can you score?
Posted Jul 31, 2015
Thirty seconds isn't a lot of time for Tom Brady to quarterback his team for a winning touchdown, but 60 minutes was plenty of time for me to give a game plan to the 400 executives who wanted to know how to handle difficult conversations. In fact, it is one of the most frequent topics that I am asked to speak on by Corporate America.
Looking over the crowd, I called out: "Whether it's in the boardroom or bedroom, we all face difficult conversations." Nobody could deny that point, but I continued to run with, "Whether it's with your boss, colleague, assistant, or your partner, child, parent, or next door neighbor, we've all had difficult conversations that evoke thoughts and feelings of frustration, anger, fear, and yes, nauseating to some.
"There's no guarantee, but there are a few plays I've developed that can help you make these conversations a lot less difficult and a lot more successful." I was already at midfield. I began my play calls, all easy to execute, at least for a pro like me and Tom:
I started running: "What makes it a difficult conversation?" Is it the content you have to deliver, like telling the person he smells? Sometimes it is the relationship as when you have to criticize your boss. Or, is it because the recipient gets defensive, be it angry, tearful or simply withdraws? Once you know what makes it difficult, you can start to develop a strategy. I gained a quick 12 yards with that call.
Next: "What is your goal -- what do you want the conversation to accomplish?" Too many people go into the conversation without knowing what they want to achieve. Thus, they scramble around but often end up losing ground. Knowing what you want the conversation to accomplish allows you to develop a play and pick up ground, like Tom and I typically do.
Keeping the drive going, I called: "Anticipate all the defenses the recipient might throw at you." Anger, tears, and denial can blitz anyone, but also be prepared for silence. By anticipating recipient defensiveness, you can prepare for it and be ready if and when it occurs. Another key point is to know that the faster you read the recipient's defensive moves, the faster you can use them as a cue that you are being ineffective and can then call an that redirects the conversation to productive ground. The trap most fall into is to tell the recipient, "Hey you are getting defensive." This statement only increases the defensiveness you are trying to overcome and more importantly does not acknowledge the truth -- that you, the communicator, are the one who is being ineffective -- if you were effective, the recipient would be listening. This point took me into the red zone.
A fast call: "Ask yourself, what have you already tried?" This increases your awareness to the losing plays you have already attempted and there is no need to try them again. If you can't think of any new ones, forget your ego and ask others.
Looking at the clock, I saw it was time to cross the goal line, and I had the play that never fails. "Finally, remember to be strategic in all of your difficult conversations. Do this by asking: 'How can I communicate this information so the recipient will be receptive?'" Your answer will help you communicate the most crucial communication and overcome any defensive behavior thrown at you.
I was in the end zone and the crowd was going nuts. It was over, but I still went for a two-point conversion. The crowd hushed as I asked: "What do you prefer: Tom
scoring a touchdown or having a plan to handle your most difficult conversations?" With Tebow enthusiasm, the crowd chanted the second option. I finished: "Well, shouldn't I get 20 million too?"
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JIMMY P.: PSYCHOTHERAPY OF A PLAINS INDIAN (Arnaud Desplechin, 2013)
Film Society of Lincoln Center
Francesca Beale Theater, Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center
144 West 65th St. between Eighth Ave. & Broadway
Sunday, March 13, 7:30, and Wednesday, March 16, 4:00
Series runs March 11-17
Based on a true story documented in Georges Devereux's 1951 book, Reality and Dream: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian, which features an introduction by Margaret Mead, Palme d'Or nominee Jimmy P. details the fascinating relationship between French-Hungarian ethnologist, anthropologist, and psychoanalyst Devereux (Mathieu Amalric) and Native American Blackfoot James Picard (Benicio del Toro). A WWII veteran living in Montana in 1948, Picard is taken to Topeka Winter Hospital after suffering from debilitating headaches and temporary blindness. When doctors Menninger (Larry Pine), Holt (Joseph Cross), Braatoy (Ricky Wayne), and Jokl (Elya Baskin) can't find anything physically wrong with Picard — and wonder whether their unfamiliarity with Indians is limiting their understanding of his problems — Menninger calls in his colleague Devereux, a Freudian who is having difficulty getting a full-time position because of some of the unusual methods he employs. An excited Devereux immerses himself in Picard's case, getting the direct, not-very-talkative Blackfoot to soon start opening up about his personal life, share his dreams, and discuss his military experiences. While the other doctors disagree with one another on what Devereux is doing, he and Jimmy develop a unique friendship, two very different men trying to find their place in life. Director Arnaud Desplechin wrote the screenplay (with Julie Peyr and Kent Jones) specifically for Amalric and del Toro, and it's a terrific pairing, the former, who has previously starred in Desplechin's A Christmas Tale, My Sex Life . . . or How I Got Into an Argument, and Kings and Queen, playing Devereux with a childlike, wide-eyed wonder, the latter portraying Jimmy with dark, brooding, penetrating eyes while also exuding an inner peace and poetry. The film slows down and gets off track when it strays from its main storyline, particularly when Devereux is visited by his married girlfriend, Madeleine (Gina McKee), and the reenacted dream sequences and past memories are hit or miss, some boasting a surreal beauty, others unnecessarily confusing, but when Amalric (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) and del Toro (Traffic) are on-screen together, Jimmy P. is mesmerizing. Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian is screening March 13 & 16 in the Film Society of Lincoln Center series "Golden Days: The Films of Arnaud Desplechin," a weeklong retrospective celebrating the March 18 release of Desplechin's latest film, My Golden Days. Running March 11-17, the festival features such other films as The Sentinel, La vie des morts (which Desplechin will introduce on March 15), Kings and Queen (which will be followed by a Q&A with the director on March 17), and My Golden Days (with Desplechin on hand for Q&As after screenings on March 15 & 18).
GLASS EYE PIX 30th ANNIVERSARY TRIBUTE: I SELL THE DEAD
I SELL THE DEAD (Glenn McQuaid, 2009)
IFC Center
323 Sixth Ave. at Third St.
Friday, November 6, and Saturday, November 7
Series continues through November 14
Glenn McQuaid's I Sell the Dead is an old-fashioned fun horror movie, paying homage to the Hammer films of yore. After his grave-robbing partner, Willie Grimes (Larry Fessenden), is guillotined, Arthur Blake (Dominic Monaghan) awaits his turn. With five hours to go before his execution, Blake is visited by Father Francis Duffy (Ron Perlman), who wants to know all the details of Grimes and Blake's business, especially as it relates to harvesting the undead. So with a bottle of whiskey by his side, Blake recounts the pair's eerie adventures through foggy eighteenth-century England and their battles with the House of Murphy, a rival outfit that also gathers corpses for a living. Writer-director-editor McQuaid imbues the film with a graphic-novel feel, with many scenes ending in colorful freeze-frame panels; although I Sell the Dead is an original story (based on his own short), the director did adapt the script into a comic book before shooting in order to capture the mood and visual style he was after. And cinematographer Rick Lopez, production designer David Bell, and art director Beck Underwood nail that atmosphere, along with Jeff Grace's ambitious score. The cast also includes Phantasm Tall Man Angus Scrimm as a creepy violin-playing doctor in desperate need of body parts, Brenda Cooney as Blake's boisterous girlfriend, and Joel Garland as a burly tavern owner after his own piece of the action. The film was shot in Staten Island, Long Island, and Manhattan; if the Fortune of War bar looks familiar, that's because it's actually the Scratcher in the East Village. I Sell the Dead is screening November 6 & 7 as part of the IFC Center series "Glass Eye Pix: 30th Anniversary Tribute," a loving look at the indie company headed by Fessenden, the director of such cult favorites as Habit and Wendigo. The festival concludes November 13 & 14 with Jim Mickle's Stake Land.
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Boardwalk between West Tenth & Twelfth Sts.
Saturday, August 15, free, 11:00 am – 5:00 pm
The twenty-fifth annual Coney Island Sand Sculpting Contest will take place on August 15, as amateur and semiprofessional individuals and groups will create masterpieces in the Brooklyn sand, many with a nautical theme. It's a blast watching the constructions rise from nothing into some extremely elaborate works of temporary art. Last year's winners included Abraham Cruz's Lady Liberty, Team Frank Russo's Castle to the Sky, Gelina & the Sanchez Family's Primordial Lizard, Bradley Pion's Giant Turtle, and Gilbert Ortega's Freedom Tower. The event, which features cash prizes, is hosted by Astella Development Corporation and Brooklyn Community Services, with donations and sponsorship helping those still recovering from Hurricane Sandy. While visiting Coney Island on August 15, you should also check out the Coney Island Museum, the Circus Sideshow, the Coney Island Film Society screening of George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead, the Burlesque at the Beach presentation "Kerryn and Kitten's Night at the Beach," and the Scan-a-Rama 3D Portrait Studio Scan-a-Thon, in addition to riding the Cyclone and the Wonder Wheel.
Who: Isamu Noguchi
What: "Isamu Noguchi: Variations"
Where: Pace Gallery, 508-510 West Twenty-Fifth St. between Tenth & Eleventh Aves., 212-989-4258
When: Tuesday - Saturday through March 21, free, 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Why: Usually you have to go to Long Island City to see an extensive survey of the work of L.A.-born Japanese-American artist Isamu Noguchi, who built his own museum and garden in Queens in 1985. But for the first time in more than a decade, you can take in a major solo Noguchi show in Manhattan, as "Isamu Noguchi: Variations" continues at two side-by-side Pace galleries in Chelsea through March 21. "Growth can only be new, for awareness is the ever-changing adjustment of the human psyche to chaos," Noguchi said in his artist statement for the 1946 MoMA exhibition "Fourteen Americans," continuing, "If I say that growth is the constant transfusion of human meaning into the encroaching void, then how great is our need today when our knowledge of the universe has filled space with energy, driving us toward a greater chaos and new equilibriums. I say it is the sculptor who orders and animates space, gives it meaning." It is a thrill to see dozens of works, from sculpture (in various materials) and set designs to furniture and paper lanterns in addition to abstract gouaches, laid out in a whole new way in this space, with exciting juxtapositions and calming paths bringing new personal meanings.
CUTIE AND THE BOXER (Zachary Heinzerling, 2013)
MoMA Film, Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd St. between Fifth & Sixth Aves.
Tuesday, November 26, 8:00
Series continues through January 16
Tickets: $12, in person only, may be applied to museum admission within thirty days, same-day screenings free with museum admission, available at Film and Media Desk beginning at 9:30 am
Zachary Heinzerling's Cutie and the Boxer is a beautifully told story of love and art and the many sacrifices one must make to try to succeed in both. In 1969, controversial Japanese Neo Dada action painter and sculptor Ushio Shinohara came to New York City, looking to expand his career. According to the catalog for the recent MoMA show "Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant-Garde," which featured four works by Ushio, "American art had seemed to him to be 'marching toward the glorious prairie of the rainbow and oasis of the future, carrying all the world's expectations of modern painting.'" Four years later, he met nineteen-year-old Noriko, who had left Japan to become an artist in New York as well. The two fell in love and have been together ever since, immersed in a fascinating relationship that Heinzerling explores over a five-year period in his splendid feature-length theatrical debut. Ushio and Noriko live in a cramped apartment and studio in DUMBO, where he puts on boxing gloves, dips them in paint, and pounds away at large, rectangular canvases and builds oversized motorcycle sculptures out of found materials. Meanwhile, Noriko, who has spent most of the last forty years taking care of her often childlike husband and staying with him through some rowdy times and battles with the bottle, is finally creating her own work, an R. Crumb-like series of drawings detailing the life of her alter ego, Cutie, and her often cruel husband, Bullie. ("Ushi" means "bull" in Japanese.) While Ushio is more forthcoming verbally in the film, mugging for the camera and speaking his mind, the pig-tailed Noriko is far more tentative, so director and cinematographer Heinzerling brings her tale to life by animating her work, her characters jumping off the page to show Cutie's constant frustration with Bullie.
During the course of the too-short eighty-two-minute film — it would have been great to spend even more time with these unique and compelling figures — the audience is introduced to the couple's forty-year-old son, who has some issues of his own; Guggenheim senior curator of Asian Art Alexandra Munroe, who stops by the studio to consider purchasing one of Ushio's boxing paintings for the museum; and Chelsea gallery owner Ethan Cohen, who represents Ushio. But things never quite take off for Ushio, who seems to always be right on the cusp of making it. Instead, the couple struggles to pay their rent. One of the funniest, yet somehow tragic, scenes in the film involves Ushio packing up some of his sculptures — forcing them into a suitcase like clothing — and heading back to Japan to try to sell some pieces. Cutie and the Boxer is a special documentary that gets to the heart of the creative process as it applies both to art and love, focusing on two disparate people who have made a strange yet thoroughly charming life for themselves. Cutie and the Boxer is screening November 26 at 8:00 as part of MoMA's annual series "The Contenders" and will be followed by a discussion with Heinzerling. "The Contenders," which consists of exemplary films that MoMA believes will stand the test of time and continues with such films as Haifaa Al-Mansour's Wadjda, Ryan Coogler's Fruitvale Station, Alexander Payne's Nebraska, and Richard Linklater's Before Midnight.
METROPOLIS (Fritz Lang, 1927)
Film Forum
209 West Houston St.
Monday, September 2, 5:40, 8:30
Series runs through September 5
Film Forum master programmer Bruce Goldstein has made quite a scheduling choice for Labor Day, screening the 153-minute definitive reconstruction of Fritz Lang's epic silent masterpiece Metropolis as part of the "Son of Summer Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Horror" series. Set one hundred years in the future, Metropolis pits man vs. machine, the corporation against the worker, and sin vs. salvation in a futuristic society run by business mogul Joh Fredersen (Alfred Abel). While Fredersen rakes in the big bucks on the surface, the workers are treated like slaves way down below, in a dark, dank hell where they perform their automaton-like jobs. When Fredersen's son, Freder (Gustav Fröhlich), starts feeling sympathy for the workers and falls for Maria (Brigitte Helm), an activist who is trying to convince the men, women, and children of the lower depths that they deserve more out of life, Fredersen has mad inventor Rotwang (Rudolf Klein-Rogge) create a man-machine version of Maria to steer his employees to a revolution that will lead them to self-destruct, although things don't quite turn out as planned. Written by Lang and his wife, Thea Von Harbou, Metropolis is a visual marvel, featuring jaw-dropping special effects by Eugen Schüfftan (who was developing his Schüfftan process of using miniatures) and a stunning man-machine designed by sculptor Walter Schulze-Mittendorff.
The complex story incorporates biblical elements, from direct references to the Tower of Babel to other allusions, including fire and flood, while focusing on the relationship between father and prodigal son that evokes both God and Jesus and Abraham and Isaac. A parable that also relates to the battle between employers and unions, the film features a series of doppelgängers: there are two Marias, the real one, who is loving and genuine, and the cold and calculating man-machine; Freder and worker 11811, Georgy (Erwin Binswanger), who temporarily switch places; and Fredersen's wife, Hel, who died while giving birth to Freder but has been revived into the initial man-machine by Rotwang, who was also in love with her. The massive achievement was shot by Karl Freund (Dracula, Key Largo) with Günther Rittau and Walter Ruttmann, who give it a dazzlingly dramatic look in every scene, accompanied by a soaring score by Gottfried Huppertz that incorporates snippets of Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle's "La Marseillaise." The film declares, "The mediator between head and hands must be the heart!" Lang explores all three in this remarkable film, which has been shown over the years in various versions and with different music, most famously Giorgio Moroder's 1984 score, but this screening at Film Forum is the real deal, getting as close to Lang's intended original as possible. It's quite a way to spend part of your Labor Day weekend.
YOU DON'T NEED FEET TO DANCE (Alan Govenar, 2012)
Quad Cinema
34 West 13th St.
Opens Friday, March 22
They don't come much more inspirational than Sidiki Conde. Born in Guinea in 1961, Sidiki contracted polio when he was fourteen, ultimately losing the use of his lower legs. But he didn't lose his inner spirit and sense of humor, strengthening his upper body and learning how to walk — and dance — using his hands. Director Alan Govenar (The Beat Hotel) shares Sidiki's inspiring story in the new documentary You Don't Need Feet to Dance, opening at the Quad on March 22. Govenar follows Sidiki as he goes through a normal day: waking up, brushing his teeth, walking down five flights of stairs in his apartment building, putting together his wheelchair, rolling through the streets of New York greeting his many friends, taking the bus or the subway, going for a ride in his specially made bicycle (powered by his hands), and, primarily, teaching disabled children how to play music and love life. All the while, he wears a big ear-to-ear smile, loving virtually every minute of what is not exactly an easy existence. A singer, dancer, composer, drummer, and choreographer, Sidiki was a member of Mohamed Komoko Sano's Merveilles D'Afrique in Guinea, and in 1998, after immigrating to the United States, he founded the Tokounou All-Abilities Dance and Music Ensemble. His joie de vivre is nothing short of infectious; the only thing that gets him down is when not enough people show up for a party. Govenar doesn't turn Sidiki into some kind of circus sideshow; instead, he lets Sidiki tell his story his own way, the only way he knows how: with plenty of love, humor, and gratitude to spread around.


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If you missed Sarah Palin's speech at the tea party convention last night, as I did, here it is:
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What is it about Palin that drives liberals so crazy? Maybe it's the fact that she seems so happy. The most fundamental difference between conservatives and liberals is that conservatives tend to be happy people, while liberals tend to be unhappy. There are exceptions to that rule, of course, but then not all liberals hate Palin. Come to think of it, maybe Ronald Reagan's cheerfulness was one of the reasons they couldn't stand him, either.
We've been accused of being insufficiently enthusiastic about Sarah Palin. Actually, I like her a lot. (Paul, on the other hand, would probably plead guilty as charged.) But while Palin is an important figure in the conservative movement, she isn't an intellectual leader. That's not to insult her intelligence; it simply isn't her role. Paul Ryan, on the other hand, is one of the movement's most important thinkers. He has laid out a Roadmap for America's Future that represents the most comprehensive conservative alternative to the Democrats' unsustainable spending spree. Among other things, the Roadmap includes a fundamental restructuring of Medicare that redefines its status as an entitlement and promises to save the federal government from otherwise-inevitable bankruptcy.
The linked web site includes videos, the legislative text of the Roadmap, and more. This is from Ryan's introduction to the proposals:
This plan is not simply a slimmer version of the "progressive" ideology. It is a true alternative, and a complete legislative proposal consisting of specific policies supported by Congressional Budget Office estimates of its fiscal and economic consequences. More important, it is based on a fundamentally different vision from the one now prevailing in Washington. It focuses government on its proper role; it restrains government spending, and thus limits the size of government itself; it rejuvenates the vibrant market economy that made America the envy of the world; and it restores an American character rooted in individual initiative, entrepreneurship, and opportunity – qualities that make each American's pursuit of personal destiny a net contribution to the Nation's common good as well. In short, it is built on the enduring truths from which America's Founders established this great and exceptional Nation.
This proposal does not attempt to abandon commitments Americans established over the past century, or to dismantle government. It recognizes that government has a necessary role in supporting the institutions through which Americans live their lives, and in providing a safety net for those who face financial or other hardships. But it rests on the conviction that government's principal role is to maintain the freedoms through which individuals can pursue their own destinies.
Paul Ryan should be added to the list of candidates for national office in 2012. If, by then, America is ready for something other than an empty suit, it would be hard to do better.
UPDATE: One thing I forgot to mention: Palin wore a lapel pin consisting of American and Israeli flags. Nice.
FURTHER UPDATE: Coincidentally, Sarah Palin was asked about 2012 Presidential contenders on Fox News Sunday this morning:
WALLACE: All right. Handicap the 2012 GOP presidential race for us. Who's the front-runner?
PALIN: No idea. I have no idea.
WALLACE: Well, you're not a very good analyst.
PALIN: Well, fire me, then, Roger. Sorry. I already failed. But listen, no, we have some strong — some young Turks in this party. Paul Ryan — I'm very impressed with Paul Ryan.
WALLACE: Congressman from Wisconsin.
PALIN: Yeah. He's good. Man, he is sharp. He is smart, articulate. And he is passionate about these commonsense solutions that America has got to adopt to get us on the right road. I can name a whole lot of people.


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It's been busy! Our October events for the park district are over and we don't have any events in November, so things are slowing down. But nannying and having fun with my kids will always keep me busy. Below are a couple of recipes we've made over the past weeks and some crafts I've used with my nanny kids.
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Verdict? I will always come back to this recipe!
Verdict? It was good right out of the oven, but not good for leftovers.
Verdict? Uhh..it wasn't very flavorful and I don't think I would buy the sausage from Aldi again. I would rather do a egg bake in the oven next time.
We've been having spider problems, and I am not talking about daddy longlegs because those don't exist in Illinois..
When I spotted it, the first thing I did was run and put on my rain boots, I did not want that thing coming toward me without proper footwear. I killed him, but I kind of want to erase the photo from my computer because he is so gross.
In lieu of Halloween we made Q-tip skeletons today!
Do you have any recipe or kid craft suggestions?


text: Liaison Services to Overseas Compatriot Associations Assist and guide overseas compatriot associations to organize important events or annual meetings in order to enhance the interactions among overseas compatriot community. Select and recommend overseas compatriot association's cadre to return to Taiwan to attend seminars related to overseas compatriot affairs. Sponsor overseas compatriot associations to arrange celebrations for various festivals and regional activities, such as Lunar New Year, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, and so on. Combine with overseas compatriot communities' strength for the celebration of Double Ten National Day. Conduct the enrollment matters of honorary positions of overseas compatriot for OCAC. Distribute the spring festival couplates and calendars to overseas compatriots. Provide advisory services and counseling to overseas compatriots to assist them to adapt and integrate into local mainstream society and to enhance the interaction and understanding between the overseas compatriots and local mainstream society. Liaison Services to Overseas Compatriot Schools and Students Provide the training in pedagogies for teachers of overseas compatriot schools. Organize the celebration of Teacher's Day and Processing the Outstanding overseas compatriot school teacher's Award. Arrange overseas youth groups to come back to Taiwan to view and emulate. Deal with the matters of overseas compatriot schools' applications for budget subsidiaries and supplying education materials & teaching aids published by OCAC. Process the applications of overseas youth for attending the language and literature courses in Taiwan. Coordinate and receiving Taiwanese Goodwill Mission. Dispatch culture and folk arts teachers to teach traditional culture. Deliver related educational publication. Encourage overseas youth to return to Taiwan for further study. Contact the alumni of Taiwanese schools in order to hold the connection between them and the government. Economic and Trade Guidance to Overseas Community Business Select and recommend overseas compatriot operated business people to attend skill training programs in Taiwan, such as computer workshops, investment seminars, catering training classes and so on in order to develop their professional skills. Support the development of overseas compatriot chambers of commerce. Select and recommend overseas compatriot operated business leaders to attend training programs or workshops for leadership of overseas compatriot chamber of commerce in Taiwan. Assist and guide overseas compatriot operated business people to arrange professional forums. Assist overseas compatriot businessmen with Overseas Credit Guarantee Fund. Other services Invite the reporters of the local overseas compatriot media to visit Taiwan. Provide rental services of books, DVDs, newspapers, magazines, etc. in traditional Chinese characters for overseas compatriots to use. Providing rental locales, such as conference rooms, auditoriums and facilities like traditional costumes and related cultural equipments for overseas compatriots for exhibitions, musical performances, seminars, etc. to rent upon request.


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StageDirector is PC software that provides words, lyrics, chords and muslc notation, used during performance. StageDirector Mac version will be available soon.
Unlike smaller devices like the iPad or Android devices, StageDirector can be used at a distance due to the larger screen format, making it invisible to your audience.
StageDirector has countless other usefull features to make your professional performance more convincing.....


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Baker McKenzie EMEA chair Gary Senior is to stand down after the end of his three-year term, as part of a number of leadership changes announced by the firm.
Senior will be replaced on the firm's executive committee by Amsterdam tax partner Erik Scheer, who will lead Bakers' operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Bakers' Latin America chair Claudia Prado is also standing down after a four-year term, making way for Colombia-based Jaime Trujillo. He is chair of the firm's Latin America M&A group.Both Prado and Senior threw their hats into the ring for Bakers' global chair elections last year, with London head Paul Rawlinson going on to win the contest.
Prado was the first woman to stand as global chair since Christine Lagarde, who was the firm's first female chair from 1999 to 2004.
Senior became a partner in 1992 and was managing partner of the London office from 2003 until 2013, before taking on the EMEA chair role.
Alongside the EMEA and Latin America appointments, Bakers has appointed a series of new practice area heads.
London-based David Allen will be taking over from Michael Fieweger as chair of the firm's private equity practice.
Meanwhile, Mini vandePol is stepping down as chair of compliance and investigations, with London-based Joanna Ludlam and William (Widge) Devaney in New York succeeding her.
Bakers last added new members to its executive committee in October 2016 when Gary Seib and Michael Wagner took over as chairs of the firm's Asia Pacific and North American practices respectively.
The firm also announced two other members; Ai Ai Wong from Singapore and Duane Webber based in Washington DC.


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Overclock your GeForce Graphics Card with EVGAs Precision X Android app
PC gaming has been in for more then a decade now and one of the key jargons which every PC gamer has to have in his/her vocabulary is "overclocking". I still remember the painful and sometimes intimidating steps it took to overclock anything on PC, yet today, companies are releasing Android apps that let you do it on the fly.
EVGA has announced its Android version of its Precision X tuning software through which you can have your games running their beautiful virtual worlds in immersive high resolution on your PC screen. On your phone, meanwhile, there's a touch sensitive interface for tuning your CPU and graphics clock speeds without flicking back to the desktop.
Initially it was ASUS who introduced overclocking via a smartphone with its Republic of Gamer boards a few years ago, but EVGA does seem to have caught up. The Precision app will enable you to take control of your BIOS settings from the moment you hit boot thanks to a Bluetooth connection to the motherboard and take control of all the tweaks available in the new GeForce GTX 680 line of GPU processing chips. The EVGA Precision X app connects your phone to your GPU via Bluetooth, giving you a view of its performance and the ability to set fan speed, power limits and frequencies.
(Check video below to get an in-depth view of what the app has to offer)
Source: Droid Life


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Trust Funds and Financial Aid
Most trust funds are not effective means of sheltering money from the financial aid process and often backfire on the family. Almost all trust funds are counted in the financial aid process, often as an asset of the child. This leads to a high impact on eligibility for need-based financial aid. If the trust fund document restricted the beneficiary's access to the principal, the trust fund will affect aid eligibility every year.
The only situations in which a trust fund would not be counted during the financial aid process are as follows:
As a general rule, voluntary restrictions on a trust, such as restricted access to the trust, do not prevent it from being counted during the financial aid process. Such a trust is reported in the same manner as if there were no restrictions.
The basic principle is that a voluntary agreement between two parties cannot be binding on a third party. For example, prenuptial agreements have no impact on the financial aid process. If the custodial parent remarries, the new spouse's finances must be included on the FAFSA, notwithstanding any prenuptial agreements to the contrary.
Determining who should report the trust fund as an asset is often straightforward:
If the trust is owned by more than one individual, each owner reports only the part he or she owns. If the trust does not specify the percentage ownership of each individual, then ownership is divided equally by the number of owners.
Some trusts assign ownership of the income and assets to different
individuals. In that case, the value of the ownership rights is more
This method of valuation is similar to the methods lotteries use to calculate the lump sum equivalent of a prize.
FinAid includes a Net Present Value calculator that may be helpful in assigning a value to the income and principal of a trust. Only the net value of the trust is reported. Any debts against the trust are subtracted from its asset value before reporting.
If ownership of a contested asset is resolved after the date the application is filed, the FAFSA is not updated. The asset will, however, be reported on subsequent years' financial aid applications.
If a trust restricts access to the principal, consider hiring an attorney. In many states the courts can liquidate a trust to pay for medical or educational expenses.
Blind trusts, when set up on a voluntary basis, do not shelter the assets from the need analysis process. The terms of a blind trust prohibit the trustee from revealing the individual investments to the beneficiary. They do not, however, prevent the trustee from reporting the total asset value to the family (or directly to the financial aid administrator).
Please refer to the account ownership page for information on the financial aid treatment of specific types of trusts often used for college savings.
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Last week the discussion about Planned Parenthood was focused on the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure funding shakeup. Now that's over, and the organization is spreading the word about the reproductive-health disparities facing African-American women. Bonus: The extra attention from the recent headlines is predicted to give a boost to the cause.
A documentary titled A Vital Service is set to premiere nationally in Washington, D.C., New York City and Atlanta, as well as on more than 70 college campuses, during Black History Month.
It features patients, health care providers and politicians, such as Rep. Gwen Moore, whose passionate case against black-genocide rhetoric rocked the House of Representatives last year.
Despite the inevitable response from pro-life groups that this is more evidence of the organization's push for African-American genocide, Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards says, "We've got to find more ways to tell these stories. When we look at reproductive care, African-American women are three times more likely to have an unintended pregnancy than white women. That's just completely unacceptable, and a lot of that is about lack of access to affordable birth control and, for young people, access to sex education."
Watch the trailer here:
Read more at the Huffington Post.


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Still doing Soylent. Still pretty pleased with it. Eating better and I've lost a fair amount of weight. All I have to say, really.
Almost through my second day of 100% Soylent 2.0. It's going pretty well so far. Soylent 2.0 is surprisingly kind of tasty; I've seen some people relate it to Cheerios milk, to me it tastes more like liquid graham cracker. Definitely doesn't need any kind of additive to make it tolerable, I'm actually liking it for the most part.
But maaaaaaaaaaan, never been more mindful of how many food commercials there are on TV. It's kind of absurd. I'm not bought into the whole "Americans do food the wrong way" thing, but I see where that argument is coming from.
I have some Soylent sitting in the fridge next to me. It seems like a good idea.
I have a very boring relationship with food. I love food, but I'm usually too busy/lazy to bother to do anything about it, leading me to the same boring two trips to Panera across from work day in and day out, the same bagel in the morning, sandwich in the afternoon, the same weekend routine of ordering delivery once in the middle of the day and coasting for a day to a day and a half on that.
There are a lot of people who have written about Soylent in the context of what it does to the human interaction with food, which for them is a social experience, but for me, it is absolutely the most uninspired thing imaginable the majority of a time. I like spending time on other things, so I don't spend time preparing food, and get fast food and delivery the majority of the time instead. I live alone and don't have a whole lot of reasons to go out dining, so my schedule is based on getting food when it's accessible to me (at work).
In short, yeah, food kind of is a chore, for me.
After a fair amount of joking on IRC about how much I'd be behind nutrient pills, I figured it was finally time to do this Soylent thing. I've certainly been curious about it for a while, so now seems like as good a time as any. I could use to lose some weight. I could use to eat better even if I didn't need to lose weight. By some back of the envelope math, I could even save some money if I replaced 100% of my meals with Soylent, even the more expensive bottled Soylent 2.0, which is what I've ordered. (Like I established above, I'm lazy --- having to prepare Soylent from powder would probably just kill the experiment for me.)
To be clear, though, I'm not planning on replacing all of my food with Soylent, even if this goes extremely well. I do like food. I love tearing into a good burger, or dining on some godlike pizza. I love going out to a restaurant with friends, when I get the opportunity to. I love a good home-cooked meal. What I am interested in doing, though, is streamlining all the times when I'm eating alone, and eating just to get energy. Those times are kind of boring, I don't really think about what I'm eating (which is bad), I don't put any effort into eating better or even preparing my own meals (also bad), and I don't get an amazing amount of enjoyment out of everyday eating, especially when I'm still preferably thinking about work or playing a game or whatever it is I'm doing. I'm interested to cut those parts of my routine out, and I think Soylent will help with that.
So I'm going to try it. It'll be interesting.