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Starting a blog is easy, but creating quality, valuable content regularly and consistently can be hard. If you ever find yourself stuck and can't figure out what to write for your next blog, keep reading! Thanks to the folks at Digital Marketer, they've created this great infographic with 53 blog post ideas you can try out, categorized under eight different goals you may be trying to reach with your blog:
Be Useful
These are blog post ideas that will provide value to your audience and help you establish credibility and authority in your space:
- List Posts
List posts are easy to scan and read, particularly for those who are pressed for time and want to get to the key points right away. You can create blog posts featuring lists of resources, tools, books, and any other topics your target audience will find useful.
- How-to Posts
How-to posts are another popular format for blogs. By walking readers through a process of getting something done, they leave with actionable steps and tips that they can apply to solve a specific problem or challenge they're facing. Make your how-to posts more engaging by incorporating videos, audios, or images.
- Case Study Posts
The word "case study" itself carries more perceived value than other terms like blogs, posts and articles, so it's a great format to grab a reader's attention and encourage them to click through. Case study posts aim to unpack details of something, for example a process, project or event.
- Checklist Posts
If your content can be broken down into a checklist, it will often perform better because it's an easy to digest format for readers to scan and take action on the itemized key points you're sharing.
- Ultimate Guide Posts
Just like this post, ultimate guide posts aim to provide readers a comprehensive, detailed coverage of a given topic. When you're doing an ultimate guide post, make sure you actually take the time to do your research and deliver a definitive post.
- Definition Posts
In niche markets, or where there's an emerging trend that most people don't know about for example, you can create a series of posts that educate and inform your readers on various aspects of your given topic. This is an effective format to help establish your thought leadership and expertise in your space.
- SAQ Posts
No that wasn't a typo! Should Ask Question (SAQ) posts highlight questions customers or prospects don't ask but should be asking. This is another great format to be helpful and provide value to your readers.
- Problem/Solution Posts
Similar to how-to, checklist and SAQ posts, problem/solution posts aim to help readers solve a certain challenge they are facing by defining the problem and presenting helpful solution(s) they can consider.
- Series Posts
If you're covering a complex topic, or if there are opportunities to break a topic into a series, you can publish a post every day or week to encourage your readers to come back for the next installment. Linking your articles also helps drive traffic to other posts in your series.
- Stats Posts
A stats post is just what it sounds like – a post with original and/or curated statistics on a given topic. It's another popular format for blogs since it's easy to scan and for readers to pull out the key points right away.
Be Human
Your customers are human. They want to build relationships and engage in conversations, not talking to robots or listening to corporate speak every day. Here are six blog post ideas that can help you humanize your brand:
- Inspirational Posts
Some of the most effective or popular blogs on the web aren't informational or entertaining, but simply inspirational. This format works really well as a story, profile or quote post for example.
- Holiday Posts
Holidays present huge opportunities for marketers to humanize their brand and build authentic, emotional connection with customers, by delivering well-wishes or showing their humorous side to their audience for example.
- Guard Down Posts
Sharing a deeply personal experience or story is one of the most effective ways to connect with your readers. By letting your guard down, not only are you showing your "human" side but you're also sharing an experience the audience may relate to.
- Behind-the-scenes Posts
This blog format works well especially if you have a loyal following who is interested in seeing what goes on behind-the-scenes at your company.
- Off-topic Posts
This type of posts can be risky as they may seem irrelevant to your readers. But if you have a strong following who has become accustomed to the topics you usually cover, this blog format can sometimes shock or surprise them and can receive a great response.
- Rant Posts
Like guard down posts, a rant post shows your human side by sharing your passion, anger or frustration about a topic relevant to your audience. This format isn't right for everyone, but it can get a great response with the right content and audience.
Be Generous
One of the best ways to grow your blog and increase traffic is being generous by promoting other people. When you promote others, they will help promote you and your content as well. Here are some ways to get started:
- Profile Posts
Write a profile of an influential person in your space. Make sure you reach out to them via social, email or phone to let them know, so they also have an opportunity to share it with their network.
- Crowdsourced Posts
Collaborate with multiple influencers to answer a single question and combine into a post. For example, you can get 10 influencers to share their responses in 100 words or less on a topic relevant to your audience.
- Interview Posts
You'd be surprised by how willing even the most influential people in your space would be to give you an interview if you just ask. The easiest way to interview someone is via a phone call or podcast session, but there are many other ways you can do this depending on what the interviewee prefers.
- Link Roundup Posts
Curate and link to other posts or content that you think your audience will find relevant and valuable to read. You may want to consider including a short blurb or one-liner to describe what each piece of content is about. This type of post works great as an ongoing series you can publish every week or month.
- Quote Posts
Who doesn't love to read quotes from influential people? Take a topic your audience may be interested in and ask or pull quotes from multiple influencers and thought leaders in your space. If applicable, be sure to let those people know that you've quoted them.
- "Best of" Posts
The best of posts often include content, resources, tools or anything else that you've curated, linked to, or written about, which you can highlight and package up as a "toolbox" that will be informative and helpful for your audience to use.
- Pick of the Week Posts
In a pick of the week post, you share a piece of content, resource or tool that you've curated, linked to or blogged about before, which you think your audience should know or read.
- People to Follow posts
People to follow posts are another popular blog format to highlight influencers and thought leaders in your space. In your posts, you can include a short description of these individuals as well as links to their social media channels, blogs, websites, books, etc., for your audience to look into.
Be Promotional
Some brands use blogs in a very promotional way, and while it doesn't work for everyone, it is extremely effective for some:
- Comparison Posts
Like the title suggests, you compare the benefits and features of your products against the solutions of your competitors. To build trust, you want to include cases where your products are not the best solutions.
- Project Showcase Posts
Create a post to highlight a project your organization is working on or has completed. Whenever you can, share the process and results.
- Presentation Posts
If your executives or employees are presenting at conferences, events or online webinars, why not upload these to the web? Consider publishing presentations that contain relevant and valuable content for your audience.
- "Best of" Posts
Pull together some of the most popular blogs you've published over a period of time. Many companies do this at the end of the year to highlight their top content.
- Income Report Posts
In the age of transparency, you may want to open the kimono and share with your audience the money your organization is making.
- Product Update Posts
If you have a loyal and strong fan base, you'd be surprised by how well a post announcing a new feature or product will do on your site and via social. Facebook announcing its new feature Reactions is a great example.
- Company Update Posts
Similar to income report posts, company updates aim to inform and share with customers and prospects the latest information about your company, which may include recent acquisitions, customers, etc.
- Product Tips Posts
Share tips and advice to help customers be more successful with your products or services. This type of posts can be both promotional and useful, and can be extremely effective for the right audience.
Be Controversial
If it fits with your brand, controversial posts can get a lot of attention and action from your target audience. Here are some ideas for controversial blog posts:
- "What If" Posts
If you can choose a "what if" topic that is debatable and relevant to your audience, this type of blog posts can be extremely successful and thought-provoking.
- Debate Posts
Take a stance on a certain topic and present your side of the argument. You can also find someone who disagrees with your stance to present both sides of an argument in your post.
- Attack Posts
You'll want to be really careful with this type of blogs, but if you pick the right person, event or organization in an attack post it will force your readers to take sides and can get you a lot of attention and conversations going. Done right, you can earn some die hard, loyal fans.
- Prediction Posts
Similar to "what if" and debate posts, you take a speculative and debatable stance on a given topic by predicting what will or will not happen in the future. Predictions can get great conversations going and help drive traffic to your blog.
- Reaction Posts
Use your blogs as opportunities to respond to blogs, books or presentations created by someone else.
Be Entertaining
Entertaining content can be challenging to create, but done right it can be extremely effective. These are some common formats:
- Story Posts
Tell a story that would be entertaining and interesting to your audience. Story posts can be separate, individual blogs or as part of a series of posts.
- Satire Posts
Humor, through the use of exaggeration and irony, works really well with timely issues like sports or politics.
- Cartoon Posts
This type of posts can give readers a good laugh and think about certain topics or issues relevant to your space. Cartoon post works really well as a series as well as weekly or monthly publications.
- Meme Posts
Meme's are extremely popular and humorous pieces that can go viral across the web. You can create your own or curate from sites like memes.com.
- Parody Posts
This type of posts can be very humorous and entertaining if you imitate a well-known individual or entity and exaggerate their strengths or weaknesses.
Be Timely
For some niches, it takes commitment and hard work to stay timely and up-to-date with the latest updates in your space. If you find it too daunting to keep up with the latest news, consider creating a blog series that covers timely information on a weekly basis, for example. Here are some blog post ideas that are timely:
- Review Posts
Review a product, service, event or anything while it is still newsworthy. For review posts to be effective, you want to be as honest and unbiased as you can. Painting everything in a good light even when not warranted does not provide any value to your readers.
- Survey Posts
Survey your audience about a newsworthy or trending topic then share the results in a blog post. It's a great way to get your readers involved and drive traffic to your blog.
- News Posts
Consider covering events as they are happening. You don't necessarily have to be the person to "break" the story, but make sure you do add a new perspective or insight that your readers will find interesting or valuable.
- Trend Posts
If you're able to spot trends as they are happening, create content relevant to that trend as it becomes popular. Not only will this help you or your brand stand out from the crowd, but it will boost your credibility and authority in your space.
- Issue Posts
Create content about issues that matter to your audience while they are still timely and relevant.
Be Engaging
Engagement may not necessarily be your end goal, but having an engaged audience is crucial to the success of your blog. Here are some post ideas that can increase engagement:
- Question Posts
Monitor and track questions your audience asks on forums, in the comments section, or on social media, and answer them in your blogs.
- Answer Posts
With answer posts, you actually ask your audience a question and encourage them to share their answers in the comments section. Co-creation is an effective strategy to promote engagement by getting your audience involved in creating your content.
- Challenge Posts
Posing a challenge to your readers is another way to get your audience involved. This post type works well as a blog series with updates on the status or progress made by readers who are participating in the challenge.
- Customer Showcase Posts
While partly promotional, featuring a customer or a project you've worked on does help build engagement.
- Contest Posts
Holding contests on your blog is another great way to boost engagement and participation from your readers. This post type also works well as a series as you can provide ongoing updates on winners or contest results.
- Freebie Posts
Create content that allows your readers to get access to giveaways that are relevant or interesting to them.
Did Digital Marketer miss any other blog post ideas? Please share them in the comments section!
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Creating independent readers and thinkers is a goal of every teacher. This module explores the purpose of independent reading and its benefits for students in grades 3–8. In this module, teachers will learn the advantages of independent reading over sustained silent reading, how to choose "just right" books, and how to utilize reader response journals and logs.
In independent reading, the final stage of comprehensive literacy, students take full responsibility for their reading. As the continuum of reading instruction flows from teacher read-alouds to shared reading to guided reading, students learn and practice good reading strategies with various amounts of responsibility. In the early stages of comprehensive literacy, student responsibility was interposed with teacher responsibility. In the independent reading stage however, students are required to self-select and read materials at their own "just right" levels, navigate texts, and practice on their own what they have learned about comprehending text.
By self-selecting books, students take control of what they read and, therefore, become confident, motivated, and enthusiastic about reading. Because students can now choose what they read, the teacher should have many genres available to them. Books can be recommended to students by teachers or by their peers. A short summary of the book and an explanation of why that book is enjoyable should accompany each recommendation.
During independent reading, students keep reading logs and response journals. The teacher is required to review these logs and journals, as well as conference with individual students, to monitor their progress.
Though independent reading requires more from students than teachers, teachers continue to play an integral role in their students' development. Independent reading is a two-person process in which both parties benefit; the student's role necessitates the teacher's role. In other words, the student may be more independent, but he still needs guidance. Notice the differences in student and teacher roles at this stage as outlined in the chart below by Fountas and Pinnell (2001).
Contrary to what many teachers believe, there is a difference between independent reading and Sustained Silent Reading (SSR) or Drop Everything and Read (DEAR). As detailed in the chart above, independent reading places a huge amount of responsibility on students; teachers simply guide them through mini-lessons and conferences. The process is highly constructive in that the students control both it and the final outcome. Students choose "just right" books, read for a certain amount of time, respond to what they have read by sharing their thoughts with one another, and, finally, keep and manage records of what they have read.
Sustained Silent Reading, on the other hand, is more teacher-controlled. It is an exercise in which the entire class participates at the same time. Students do not manage their own reading or respond to texts; they simply read. During SSR, teachers monitors students' behaviors, but do not conduct conferences.
Teachers need to consider book genres, classroom arrangement/environment, and their students' needs and desires when organizing for independent reading. Each consideration is detailed below.
Students must learn how to choose a book that fits their needs, interests, and reading strengths. Therefore, they must be offered a variety of books from which to choose. Classroom libraries should contain familiar and unfamiliar fiction and nonfiction titles of various genres. Fiction genres include historical fiction, science fiction, fantasy, realistic fiction, traditional stories (folktales, fairy tales), myths, and legends. Nonfiction genres include biography, autobiography, and informational texts that cover social studies, science, and math-related topics. Poetry can be both fiction and nonfiction.
Each student should be able to read and understand most of what is read with little or no help. Independent reading levels vary among students, so teachers should make sure each genre encompasses a wide range of reading levels. To determine a student's independent reading level, the teacher should lead him in an oral reading by following the steps below.
After, the teacher should record her findings. The desired score for independent reading at a particular level is ninety-five percent oral-read accuracy or higher with zero or one wrong comprehension answer(s). If the student's oral-read accuracy at that particular level is between ninety and ninety-four percent with one or two wrong answers, this is the student's instructional level. Oral-read accuracy below eighty-nine percent with two or three wrong comprehension answers at a particular level indicates this is the student's frustration level.
Some schools provide funding for classroom libraries; some do not. Teachers in schools where funding is unavailable can try one or more of the following ways to obtain books:
*Teachers might want to browse through donated book to make sure the content and language is appropriate for students.
By design, a classroom should stimulate learning. A classroom that's supportive of independent readers and thinkers includes charts or posters that remind students of various parts of the independent reading process.
Classroom libraries should contain books that students want to read! To choose books that match students' interests and reading behaviors, teachers should conduct a reading survey. Through this survey, teachers can identify students' needs, desires, reading strengths and weaknesses, and what they have been reading.
In addition to the books included as a result of the survey, teachers may also add the following to the classroom library:
Regardless of the task, if a student does not have a clear understanding of what he must do, he will be frustrated and misuse his time. For that reason, effective instructional framework for independent reading is not only needed, it's also critical.
A teacher's schedule dictates how the framework will be utilized throughout the school year, but the components of the framework (below) should not be changed.
Most teachers will find it impossible to include all four components in the daily independent reading block of time. So, some may choose to incorporate the components into small group reading/reader's workshops. Those teachers may utilize the following framework:
Let's examine each component of the framework.
Though optional, a book talk is a wonderful way for a teacher to introduce his class to new genres and authors, bestsellers, and books that his students would not choose themselves. A typical book talk lasts five to seven minutes. "Book talk" might be a new term to some teachers, but the activity itself isn't new. Most teachers have led variations of a book talk before, during, and after a read-aloud.
Note the following book talk discussion points as identified by Fountas and Pinnell (2001):
Here are step-by-step instructions on how to conduct a book talk.
How To Give A Book Talk
Mini-lessons typically fall under three categories — management, strategies and skills, and literary analysis — and can be revisited throughout the year.
Mini-lessons on management include how to manage the craft of independent reading, organize and handle materials, and work with others quietly and with a clear purpose. In these lessons, students learn to care for books, respect others, identify different genres, choose "just right" books, discuss books in small groups, prepare and give a book talk, return books, keep a record of what they have read, maintain a reader response log, and abandon books. Many of these exercises are routine procedures for independent reading and should, therefore, be introduced at the beginning of the school year.
Mini-lessons on strategies and skills include the same metacognitive and comprehension strategies and skills that are supported during small-group reading and then modeled during read-aloud and shared reading. These lessons may include word-solving strategies, comprehension and metacognitive strategies, how to correctly use nonfiction text features (captions, bullets, graphs, etc.), how to properly identify text structures (cause/effect, problem/solution, description, compare/contrast, and steps in a process/sequence), and fluency skill drills. If these lessons are utilized during read-aloud, shared reading, and small-group reading, teachers do not need to conduct a separate mini-lesson at the beginning of the small-group reading/reader's workshop.
Mini-lessons on literary analysis include discussion of genres and literary elements (character analysis, setting, problem/plot, etc.), and how to respond to a book (how a book makes a reader feel, what the reader thinks about that book, etc.).
An excellent teacher source for the lessons described above is Guiding Readers and Writers Grades 3–6 by Fountas and Pinnell.
One of the differences between independent reading and sustained silent reading is that after independent reading, students respond to the text they have just read. Students respond most effectively by writing their thoughts in a personal Reader Response Journal.
Note the following salient features of the Reader Response Journal:
Some students might find it difficult to pick a topic or begin writing in their journals because they do not yet know how to respond to text. Teachers must do more than simply tell students to write; they must demonstrate proper technique. To help students ease into journal writing, teachers should provide mini-lessons on how to respond to literature. At the beginning of the year, teachers should model several prompts, list them on chart paper, and hang the paper on the wall. As the year progresses, teachers should model ways to generate a personal topic without using a prompt. A list of these methods should be given to students to keep in their journals for quick reference.
In addition to the Reader Response Journal, the Reading Log is also a valuable management tool for students. In the Reading Log, a student keeps a record of what he has read. The log should include the book title, author, illustrator, genre, and date read.
Although writing is very important, the purpose of independent reading is to read. Therefore, the majority of a student's time should be spent reading. Students must be taught to maintain a balance between reading and writing. Reading Essentials suggests that a ratio of eighty percent reading to twenty percent writing is a good proportion (Routman, 54).
During a reading conference, a teacher discusses with a student what that student has been reading and what he may want to read next. The teacher may also ask the student to retell what has been read and then pose a few comprehension questions. The information gathered may help a teacher decide what to teach in a small group or when to move a student to a different small group.
During conferences (especially at the beginning of the year), teachers may talk more than students simply to draw information from them. After a few months however, students will talk more, perhaps even more than the teacher. Readers who struggle might need more time adjust. Teachers should be patient and provide support during conferences. They should ask questions often and try not to accept yes or no answers.
Finally, every teacher should keep a conference journal. Students and other teachers do not need to see the journal; however, it may be used during school conferences and parent-teacher conferences to support inferences and conclusions drawn about individual students.
Independent readers pull together as a community of readers during Group Share and Evaluation. The Share and Evaluation portion of the overall lesson may last fifteen to twenty minutes or longer, and includes pair, small-group, and whole-group discussions. Group Share activities may involve the following:
The following sample mini-lesson incorporates two types of lessons—a management lesson for writing a reader response and a comprehension strategy lesson on making connections (previously modeled during read-aloud and shared reading, and practiced during small-group reading):
Say: Boys and girls, I've just read a chapter from Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell. I want to show you how to write a good response by letting you know what I'm thinking. Remember how we have been making connections during read-aloud and shared reading? Well, that's what type of response I'm going to write. Let me reread what I read earlier so you know what's going on.
Update students on what has happened so far in the story. Read pages 40–55 aloud.
Say: Wow! I need to think about this for a minute. She's left all alone on that island with no one else. There is nobody to help her. And she's only twelve or so. I don't think I could do that. Watch me as I write a reader response that shows you what I'm thinking and how the text connects to my own life.
First I want to make sure I explain some information about what I'm reading. So I'll write the date, the name of the book, and the author's name at the top of the page in my journal.
Write that information clearly, at the top of the chart paper. Then, write the following response on the chart paper underneath the book information.
I wonder how lonely Karana is on the island. She's all by herself! I don't think I could stand being without my parents. I'm so close to them. I didn't even like being away from them when I went to children's camp. I would say that Karana's a lot stronger and braver than I am. She's going to survive. I know that because she talks about making weapons. She's not going to let those dogs get her like they got Ramo.
After writing the response, ask students to read it to themselves. Then ask:
What do you notice about my response? How long is it? Did I worry about spelling or grammar? Have I corrected any of my writing? How many words did I put on a line? Did I skip any lines? Have I gone back and graded it?
The answers to the questions above will help students identify criteria for a quality response without the teacher directly stating them. Asking students to think about the response requires them to take ownership of their own responses and, most importantly, demonstrates that they have a say in the criteria.
Using the students' answers, the teacher can create a criteria chart that may look similar to the chart below. Students should compare their responses against the criteria chart before turning them in.
The entire mini-lesson can be completed in one day, but some teachers might want to teach the mechanics of the response on one day and the criteria for a quality response on the following day.
|The Student's Role
|The Teacher's Role
|• Listen to and participate in lessons
• Listen to and follow directions for reading and for responding in journals
|• Select topics based on observations of student needs, interests, and curriculum goals
• Provide mini-lessons on management, literary works, and effective reading strategies, using examples from real texts
• Remind students to apply what they've learned during mini-lessons to their independent reading
|• Select appropriate books
• Read silently without disturbing others
• Write responses in journals
• Keep records of independent reading
|• Provide mini-lessons on choosing "just right" books
• Assist readers in choosing "just right" books
• Monitor and analyze students' responses and reading logs
|• Confer with teacher about different aspects of reading
• Know when a conference is needed
• Sometimes read aloud for teacher observation
• Share and talk about response journals with the teacher
|• Have engaging conversations with students
• Assist students with the craft of independent reading
• Sample students' oral reading, checking often for fluency and phrasing
• Sometimes discuss response journals
|Group Sharing
|• Share thinking in pairs, small groups, and large groups
• Evaluate personal reading progress and what was learned from personal reading
|• Invite students to share
• Reinforce concepts taught during mini-lessons
• Ask the class or a group to summarize what they have learned

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Dear Journal,
Last night "Miss K" had a bowling party with her high school equestrian team. Thank God I had the fore site to eat before we went to the bowling alley, because you know how much food you can eat at a bowling alley when you are on Whole30? NONE! But my God, did it look good.... Seriously, it was if my brain had a split personality.
Some folks I didn't even know sat down next to me, and had the greasiest, gooiest, cheesiest pizza I had ever seen and all I could think was: "Divert your eyes... Divert your eyes... Seriously! Divert your damn eyes!"
And now I know I have hit rock bottom.
After those folks got up to leave there were 4-5 pieces of their pizza left on their table, and for a second I seriously had this thought: "Those people looked clean enough. I could probably eat a piece of their left over pizza. I mean why waste good food?!"
It was at about this time that the logical part of my brain piped up and said: "Are you freaking serious?! That is disgusting! We do NOT eat left over pizza off stranger's tables! Control yourself!"
Turns out "logical brain" won.
But damn that cheese looked good.....
Cheese is my gateway,


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Consider your current situation. When you look around your workspace, whether a cubicle, vehicle, co-working space, corner office or table in a coffeeshop, what do you see? Are you able to quickly find what you need? Or does the clutter overwhelm you? Is there an established process for how your work flows in and out? If it is not helping achieve your goals, take time now to organize your workspace to reinforce your efforts at attaining each goal.
- Edit the contents of your workspace. The more stuff in your space then the more you must dig through to find what is needed; therefore, utilize delete and discard to boost productivity. Keep only what is accurate, applicable, useful, bringing you joy and difficult to replicate or find later online, always taking into account any legal ramifications. As you purge accumulated excess, think about what can be recycled, shredded, donated, moved elsewhere or consolidated into fewer devices. Particularly for technology, what can be sold via Gazelle, letgo, NextWorth, OfferUp or Swappa?
- Assign homes to what will be kept. As the quote "a place for everything and everything it its place" implies, when you know where something goes, it is easier to find what you need when you need it and put it away after you've used it. Store similar items together, following the mantra of "like with like", and choose zones closest to where items will be used.
- Separate "active" items from those considered "archive". Similar to the real estate refrain of "location, location, location" for buying spaces, the location of items in your workspace matters for ensuring the most productive organizational structure. Prioritize the space within arm's reach from where you spend most of your working hours, assigning homes to what's in your office based on how frequently you use each of them. The prime real estate should be dedicated to active files that you are using most often while archive files can be stored further away. Move shared tools to common spaces for all team members to access easily.
- Choose solutions for containing what you retain based off your personality and workflow style. Whether files, bins, baskets, drawers, shelves, boxes or cabinets, keep in mind whether you lean towards "out of sight is out of mind" or "visual clutter paralyzes". Utilize the walls and backs of doors in your workspace. Then, train yourself to purge or divide contents once any storage solution gets full, particularly utilizing the organizational concept that it's easier to dig through less stuff to find what's needed.
- Use labels and color to enhance effectiveness. Labels allow you to quickly determine what is housed where in your space while different colors can visually group together similar items as well as drive desired behaviors. There is no "right" or "wrong" verbiage to use when labeling, although "miscellaneous" tends to create a black hole to contain just about anything, but balance carefully between generic and specific labels so you have enough folders for everything while not having so many that you potentially create duplicates or struggle to file anything away. If you struggle to determine where something should be kept, how will you ever be able to find it when you need to retrieve it later?
- Implement systems reflecting how "horizontal is hidden and vertical is visible". Use vertical file holders that will not bury one folder under another, hang an inbox as well as an outbox by your door to get those items off your desktop and avoid piles on any flat surface so contents does get lost under something added later. Whether you are receiving work, completing work and retaining finished work for later reference, it's imperative to have solutions that make it easy to quickly access what's needed as well as return everything when transitioning between functions so work moves along more efficiently and effectively.
With what do you struggle in organizing your workspace? Which of these steps can you use to ensure your workspace supports attaining your greatest successes?


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In theory, I don't really have a problem with a reboot of the Spider-Man franchise. It's true that it's only been five years since the last one ended and that the reasons for making this movie now were clearly financial, but that doesn't doom it to creative failure. Sequels and remakes are so ubiquitous now that there's no real point in waiting if you have a fresh take on an old idea.
The problem with The Amazing Spider-Man is that there really is no fresh take at all. The story is virtually identical to the one told in the 2002 version: Peter Parker is a nerd, then he gets bitten by a spider, then his Uncle Ben gets killed, then he fights crime, then he gets the girl, then he fights a Major Bad Guy who has endangered the girl. You could argue that there's no way to do the story without those major beats, but this movie does absolutely nothing to enliven them. It just goes through the already-familiar motions. Continue reading


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As the Bears get ready to host the Buccaneers and former coach Lovie Smith, linebacker Lance Briggs heaps high praise on his former coach, Jon Greenberg of ESPN Chicago reports.
"Lovie should be remembered as one of the great coaches in Chicago," Briggs said during his Wednesday news conference at Halas Hall. "George Halas. You have Mike Ditka. And Lovie Smith comes next."
Smith said he isn't worried how he will be received in Chicago on Sunday. He shouldn't be. Some fans will boo him, for one reason or another, while many more will cheer. One would hope the Bears recognize him with some kind of welcoming message. And he should be honored here when his coaching career ends.
"Oh, I know how I'm remembered there," Smith said during a conference call with the Chicago media. "So as I come in Sunday, I'm coming in as an opposing coach. That's how I'm looking at it. The year I had off, and just being in Chicago for nine years, I don't need anything validated this week.
"Fans were great to me and my family while we were there. Administration was. I have lifetime friends on the Chicago Bears football team. So I think I have all those things. Right now, I'm an opposing coach on the other side of the football coming in this week."
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Footpath Remains Closed
Tuesday 26th May 2020
The footpath through Bodlondeb Park, which runs alongside the new Culture Centre site, will remain closed until the building has been completed.
The footpath is closed for longer than originally planned because the contractors encountered extended root systems for the three Scots Pines by the path.
After getting advice from the Authority's tree officer, a retaining wall has been built to protect the trees; and it has been agreed to keep the footpath closed until the end of the project to make sure public safety, and safe working practices, are maintained.
Pedestrian access to Bodlondeb Park, Bodlondeb Woods and the Council Offices is via the path at the bottom of Town Ditch Road, or by using the main entrance on Bangor Road.
Construction work is scheduled to be completed in September. The fit-out will then take place (i.e. bookshelves, library furniture, exhibition area and café area). The library service can then start moving their stock into the building, with the aim of opening the library and café to the public before the end of the year.
We apologise for any inconvenience caused by the footpath closure.


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China stunned the world once again today by launching its Beijing Olympic Bird's Nest stadium into space. The Chinese Space Agency had billed their latest mission as a space walk for the three Chinese taikonauts onboard their Shenzhou-7 space craft. However, when hoards of Beijing tourists showed up to take photos of the Bird's Nest stadium early today only to find a vast hole in the ground, the government issued a statement confirming that the Bird's Nest was in orbit.
Zhang Zi, Chinese Space Agency spokesperson, told reporters, "We have been able to move our space programme forward by 200 years with hard work, intelligence, and fake aerodynamic engineering degrees." Zhang stated that the launch of the Bird's Nest had been kept under wraps until after the conclusion of the Olympic Games in Beijing. "Actually, we were going to launch the Bird's Nest as part of the closing ceremony, but officials thought that would just be too much cheek."
Speaking from space, chief taikonaut Qing Tao told ground crew at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China that the mission was going according to plan. "The only reported problem so far is that we found London Mayor Boris Johnson still wandering around in the Bird's Nest. He had that flag all wrapped around him so he didn't know where he was going."
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao hailed the mission's success and congratulated the taikonauts. "By launching the Bird's Nest in orbit, you have lifted our spirits as well. Nobody is talking about milk products anymore." An anonymous official closely associated with the top echelons of Beijing, has however, leaked a secret document ordering the taikonauts not to go anywhere near the Milky Way.
Stock markets in Shanghai and Hong Kong skyrocketed upon hearing the astounding news of the launch, anticipating massive commercial benefits. Dim Sum, chairman of the Shanghai Stock Exchange told reporters, "We have inside information that the Bird's Nest in space has already been fully booked until 2130. And there are rumours of another launch soon that will put Hong Kong Disneyland into space as well. We're telling all our investors "The sky's no longer the limit!"
The taikonauts are now busy stabilising the Bird's Nest orbit directly over the North Pole. "We thought using the Northern Lights for a permanent light show display instead of fireworks would be a nice touch", cheesed Qing Tao.
An elaborate opening ceremony for the Bird's Nest in space is now being planned. Details are being closely guarded, but it has emerged that Chinese Paralympic hero Hou Bin is signed on to lift himself and his wheelchair from Beijing to the top of the Bird's Nest in its orbit 213 miles above the earth. "Why not?" quipped Hou. "My heroes have always been Chang'e and Jack and the Beanstalk."
Praise and congratulations for successfully orbiting the Bird's Nest have been pouring into China from governments around the world. Except for Taiwan where there are reports of massive engineering works underway to bolt the island firmly into the earth's crust.


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By Mark Hughes Cobb / Staff Writer Posted Nov 18, 2017 at 9:20 PMUpdated Nov 18, 2017 at 9:29 PM Dianne Teague. Dianne Teague. Dianne Teague. If saying her name three times would magically make her appear in every show from here on out, consider that an incantation. It's tempting to review "August: Osage County," the searing production of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer-winning dark comic-drama at
THEATER REVIEW: Shakespeare takes center stage in 'Equivocation'
By Mark Hughes Cobb Staff Writer Published: Saturday, November 14, 2015 at 11:00 p.m. There's much to chew on in Bill Cain's "Equivocation," a play asking what would have happened if William Shakespeare had written about the failed assassination of King James I, known as the Gunpowder Plot. It tangles with questions of authorship, and
"Tartuffe" brings comedy to life
By Mark Hughes Cobb Staff Writer Published: Saturday, October 3, 2015 at 8:00 p.m. Last Modified: Saturday, October 3, 2015 at 8:17 p.m. If Moliere had written "Tartuffe" today, the hair might pouf out even more outrageously, and his central con-man would be among the multitudes posting prayers, selected feel-good verses and (mostly misattributed) quotes
THEATER REVIEW: "Seduced" is a critique on American desires, dreams
By Mark Hughes Cobb-Tuscaloosa News Although many know Sam Shepard best as a film actor — Chuck Yeager in "The Right Stuff," opposite longtime partner Jessica Lange in "Crimes of the Heart," in Terrence Malick's "Days of Heaven" and more — he built his reputation primarily as a writer. Even while carving out an eclectic
Seduced tells story of reclusive billionaire at Allen Bales Theater
By Sam West-The Crimson White The story of a mad billionaire, a mysterious aide and two alluring women will be put on stage. "Seduced," a drama by acclaimed playwright Sam Shepard, will run until the end of the week at the Allen Bales Theater. The play tells the story of Henry Hackamore, a business tycoon
REVIEW: Musical hums along like a finely-tuned machine
"42nd Street" traveled to Mobile last week, before it opened in Tuscaloosa. Previous University of Alabama musicals "Big River" and "Showboat" visited Montgomery and Mobile, respectively. Last year's snarky "Urinetown" didn't leave town. When shipping ambassadors to a strange land — to not only garner future students, but followers, donors — you send Mr. Rogers,
REVIEW: Musical Showcases UA's Strengths
From The Tuscaloosa News: Show Boat" might well have been retitled "Showcase," for the production at the University of Alabama. It's kind of a greatest hits collection of some of the Department of Theatre and Dance's finest, supported by a couple of old friends, no strangers to the Marian Gallaway Theatre. It's an apt choice for
REVIEW: Musical Showcases UA's Strengths
From The Tuscaloosa News: Show Boat" might well have been retitled "Showcase," for the production at the University of Alabama. It's kind of a greatest hits collection of some of the Department of Theatre and Dance's finest, supported by a couple of old friends, no strangers to the Marian Gallaway Theatre. It's an apt choice for
REVIEW: This is an OTHELLO That Everyone Will Get
From The Tuscaloosa News: Productions of "Othello" typically fit certain descriptors: Harrowing. Dark. Disturbing. Chilling. How they're not as often described: Lovely. Musical. Danceable. The latter fit within the realm of the University of Alabama's new production of "Othello," cut, carved and assembled by director Seth Panitch to also encompass the former, in a lean interpretation
UA Troupe makes Shakespeare Characters Approachable
From The Crimson White: The University's version of "Othello" turns the stage into a gigantic mood ring. It happens amidst a canopy of curtains and veils that melt from blue to green to scarlet to black, tracking the emotional shifts in the greatest soap opera of all time. This is good, because for us non-English majors,


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How to develop a championship team
"Fun to build, hard to maintain"
Article "Leadership by solitude"
Q: "What makes your program click?"
It is NOT the offensive or defensive scheme!
*Your program must stand for something*
Florida/Coach Meyer four points
- DEFENSE (fundamentally sound)
- SCORE in the RED ZONE
- SPECIAL TEAMS must be a priority
Study: When a team blocks a punt, they have won the game 90% of the time
Great Football coaches don't get overlooked…
Too many young coaches are worried about their title, the money, what position, what level…They do this without CONVICTION or RESEARCH. They feel that they deserve it without putting in the TIME and EFFORT.
Position coaches should have a set of CORE VALUES for each position.
Coaches need to train their team for the WHAT IF moment
-PURPOSE (Spiritually, etc)
You need to make a list of ten things you are grateful for. Refer to this list when times are tough.
Give purposely
-MENTALLY (Who/What)
-PHYSICALLY (be in great shape)
To begin the process of changing the culture, you tell the players "If you are not happy, change what you are doing."
Why do people go back to old ways? People are not prepared for the RISK and DISCOMFORT involved in making that change.
When a player is struggling, find a way for that player to succeed. It may be as simple a making a play in practice.
Are you a TEACHER or PRESENTATOR?
Great Teachers
- CLEAR: job description
- CLEAN: They use the best available teaching tools
- CONCISE: they break it down to the smallest point/detail
- DIRECT: reflected by the ability of the player to repeat what the teacher just taught
Spend time in player development!
PROGRESSION of TEACHING
- Install on the board
- Use video examples
- Use walk throughs (Body Teach)
- Practice Individual techniques and Specific techniques
- The PLAN should be TIME TESTED.
- The PLAN should have examples.
- The PLAN should have testimonials.
- Believe in it
- Sell it over and over.
- Demand It
- You adapt your Offense and Defense, you don't adapt yourself!


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Purchasing Card
Departments may find it convenient to pay for expenses authorized for University business by means of a purchasing charge card, rather than other methods of payment such as accounts payable cheque (i.e. purchase order invoices, certified invoices, payments without invoices processed through FIS), petty cash, or imprest expenditure bank account.
A purchasing card is issued to an individual in the name of the department. Charges are paid directly by the University on a monthly basis. There are some restrictions on the type of expenditure for which a purchasing card may be used. It cannot be used for:
- expenses greater than $5,000
- travel expenses (use the Travel and Hospitality Card instead)
- other expenses where specific instructions or exemptions are required on a purchase order
This section covers the requirements for obtaining and using a purchasing card:
Statements and Reports
Policy Objectives
To provide a convenient and less administrative method of procuring and paying for low value goods and services by simplifying the procurement process, reducing paperwork, speeding up vendor payments and empowering faculty and staff who have procurement responsibilities.
Policy Statement
It is University policy to use purchasing charge cards for departmental procurement and payment of goods and services within the local procurement authority where it is efficient, economical and operationally feasible to do so.
The University views inappropriate use as a very serious matter and expects cardholders to act with strict prudence and professionalism. Willful misuse of the card will subject the employee to dismissal and criminal prosecution.
Policy Requirements – General
- Departmental Responsibility – Departments using purchasing charge cards must obtain them from the company with which the University has established a master supply agreement. Departments using purchasing charge cards will be responsible for any fees and charges identified with the card.
- Departmental Card Coordinator – Each department head must designate a senior staff member to act as the departmental card coordinator to authorize, monitor and control the issue and use of all departmental cards.
- The use of purchasing charge cards is subject to the following restrictions:
- Each card may be used only by the person whose name is on the card.
- Appropriate Use of the Purchasing Card – The card may be used for the procurement of low value goods and services for authorized university use and purpose in accordance with the parameters and limitations in this administrative policy and within any specific grant or restricted fund limitations of a sponsor.
- The card may not be used for any the following kinds of purchases:
- Personal or private use travel
- Non-University use
- Transportation expenses (e.g.Airline, rail, bus, car rentals and other transportation) – use instead the Amex Travel and Hospitality Card
- Accommodation and lodging expenses (e.g. hotel, motel and other accommodation) – use instead the Amex Travel and Hospitality Card
- Food and beverage expenses (e.g. restaurants, fast food outlets, and alcoholic beverage stores)
- Cash Advances
- Financial instruments of any kind such as money orders or bank drafts
- Temporary help
- Purchases in excess $5,000 including taxes, currency exchange and all other charges – see Purchasing
- Maintenance contracts
- Laboratory and research animals
- Radioactive material (see Purchasing of Restricted Substances)
- Hazardous material
- Extended rentals or leasing of equipment
- Internal university purchases such as Facilities and Services work orders, computing services etc. The exception is MedStore , which can accept the Purchasing Card.
- Cards will not be accepted by certain merchant categories and may be prohibited at point of initiation for merchant categories included in these guidelines.
- A personal identification number (PIN) will not be issued to allow access to automated tellers and cash advances.
- The departmental card coordinator in every department must ensure that every card holder is informed of his or her responsibilities and the policy and restrictions regarding the use of the purchasing charge card and that each card holder agrees and acknowledges them in writing prior to receiving a card.
- The cardholder must pick up their card in person from the departmental card coordinator and present identification prior to receiving the card.
- Cardholder status changes such as a transfer, termination, retirement, expired funding and credit limit changes must be reported to the departmental card coordinator by the cardholder. The cardholder will prepare a PCard Change Request form and forward it to the departmental card coordinator with the proper one-up authorization prior to processing the status change by the campus card coordinator. Note: if a temporary credit limit change is necessary, please inform your departmental card coordinator as soon as possible in order to avoid a merchant declining the card. If the purchasing card is declined, please refer to Purchasing Card under PCard Declined Charges"
- There is no fee to obtain and use a purchasing charge card. Liability for charges from use of the card rests with each department, not the individual cardholder.
- The purchasing charge card must be returned to the departmental card coordinator or campus card coordinator on the request of the card coordinator.
- Records of purchases made with the purchasing charge card must be kept by the cardholder and /or the department card coordinator for audit trail purposes and to facilitate reconciliation and account verification (i.e. packing slips, card vouchers, transaction log, card statements).
- A PCard Request form must be approved by the person to whom the cardholder reports. In addition, an employee acknowledgement of responsibilities and obligations must be signed by the cardholder and filed with the card coordinator prior to receipt of the card.
- A PCard Request form for a card in the departmental coordinator's name must be authorized by the department head prior to issuing of the card.
- The cardholder will reconcile expenditures made using the card upon receipt of the cardholder monthly statement.
In the event of a disputed purchase that does not accurately record a transaction made by the cardholder (e.g. wrong amount, incorrect account number, multiple postings etc.), this should be reported immediately by the cardholder by contacting the University of Toronto corporate client representative during normal working hours ( 8:45 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.) for removal from the account until resolved. Please note that problems with merchants (e.g. late delivery, etc.) are not a disputed item and must be settled directly with the merchant.
- The University is legally liable for any unauthorized use of the card until notification of loss, theft or cancellation has been reported to the card company by the cardholder. This liability is automatically the responsibility of each department. Lost or stolen cards must be reported to both the campus card coordinator and the card issuer. The Customer Service and Lost or Stolen area can be reached outside of normal working hours at the telephone numbers on this link to the Procurement Services website.
- Purchases made using the card are subject to the normal application of HST.
- Foreign Purchases – Purchases made outside Canada will be converted to Canadian funds by the card issuer at a rate equal to the Interbank rate on the day the transaction is posted to the card account.
- With respect to research grants, normally each principal investigator will have a card. If a purchasing charge card is to be issued to anyone other than the principal investigator identified by the account name, then the principal investigator must provide written approval specifying the delegation of signing authority and the acceptance of responsibility for items charged to the research account(s).
- Responsibility rests with the department for promptly removing expenses considered to be ineligible by the research sponsor (including expenditures incurred subsequent to the grant/contract termination date) or causing the account to overdraw, out of the research grant account.
- Responsibility for ensuring that the purchasing charge card expenses are recorded in the cost center, fund and commitment fund center prior to grant / fund termination and any related University processing deadlines rests with the department.
- The department card coordinator in consultation with the cardholder and department head will determine the credit limit for each purchasing charge card issued. The credit limit should take into account the forecasted usage. Credit will not be provided beyond the credit limit.
Internal Audit reviews the use of purchasing charge cards to determine whether they are being used in accordance with this administrative policy.
The Director of Procurement Services or delegate conducts random reviews with the assistance of department card coordinators to determine whether the administrative policy objectives and regulations have been met, and identifies any productivity improvements.
Statements and Reports
The following statements and reports are currently mailed to departments and will be enhanced on an ongoing basis:
Cardholder Monthly Statement (Cardholder)
Similar to a credit card statement and used to reconcile vouchers, packing slips and to provide an audit trail.
Billing Summary Report (Departmental Card Coordinator)
The Billing Summary Report summarizes all departmental cardholder statements to one departmental summary.
1. Each cardholder must observe the following practices:
When not being used, the card should be kept in a secure location at all times.
When quoting the purchasing card number over the telephone for a purchase, every precaution should be taken to avoid the risk of unauthorized use of the card number.
Items in dispute should be settled promptly by notifying the card company and providing any information and assistance requested to settle the disputed item.
2. The department card coordinator, and campus coordinator should observe the following practices:
Review cardholder individual billing reports for propriety of use and follow-up on questionable purchases with the cardholder, head of the department and the Director of Procurement Services.
All cards held for pick-up should be kept in a secure location.
3. The Director of Procurement Services should observe the following practices:
Randomly review cardholder individual billing reports for propriety of use and follow-up on questionable purchases with the department head, the Chief Financial Officer and the Director of Internal Audit.
Review the changes to the master lists for cardholders and card coordinators on a monthly basis.
Review the changes to the cardholder credit limits on a monthly basis.
Arrange information and training sessions.
Travel and Related Expenses
For eligible travel and related expenses refer to Travel and Other Reimbursable Expenses section of this Guide.
Records Management
For information on retention of purchasing card statements, refer to Records Management – Payments to Vendors.
Last revision: January 18, 2018


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Originally posted on the Chair of Ukrainian Studies Blog, on 23 June 2010
If there is one thing that I have learned growing up in Quebec, it is that language politics never goes away. Forty-one years after language riots in the Montreal suburb of St-Leonard (over whether children of immigrants should be allowed to study in English) and thirty-three years after the adoption of the Language Law (Bill 101, preventing children of immigrants from enrolling in English schools and making French the sole official language of Quebec), language politics is still making headlines here, this time over whether high school graduates should be free to study in college (an intermediate level, before university) in English (they have been free thus far, per Bill 101). (This latest brouhaha is empirically groundless, if you ask me, but this is for another day).
And so it is in the admittedly different setting of Ukraine. Since independence, the language question has periodically reared its head. In the wake of the Black Sea Fleet Accords, the Holodomor turnaround, and renewed pressure on the media, the government of President Viktor Yanukovych apparently intends to change the language law and grant Russian the status of "minority language" all over Ukraine. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Education seems to have lifted the requirement of Ukrainian-language entrance examination (UKL445, item 9) in higher educational institutions and subsidies to the Ukrainian-language publishing industry are in jeopardy. If these changes come to pass, this would suggest that Yanukovych and his acolytes have failed to grasp, in all these years, the sensitivity of language in national politics.
Language politics is about incentives. Wherever political claims collide over the use of a language against another in public institutions, one language is always more socially attractive than the other. In the language of youth, one language is more "cool" – give greater chance of life mobility – than the other. Language politics consists in giving incentives to speakers of the socially dominant ("cool") language to learn and use the other language, which, more often than not, happens to be the language of the demographic majority. In proclaiming French as the official language of Quebec in 1977, the idea was to make English-speakers, mostly unilingual back then, learn French. Not that my separatist (we say "souverainistes" here) friends would ever notice, but the policy was a great success. The vast majority of English-speakers beyond 50 are now bilingual (far more than French-speakers) and half of the parents whose children are eligible to study in English schools prefer to send them to French schools, and there would be no other reason for them to do so unless they believe that French has become essential to make it in Quebec society. This is what the Soviet Union called "perspektivnyi". French has become a perspektivnyi yazyk, a language that opens up possibilities, even though English obviously remains the language of mobility in Canada and the United States, and the "cool" language globally.
The formula is simple, yet endlessly controversial politically. If someone knows that he will always get by speaking his preferred language, then he won't learn the other one. This is why bilingualism does not work in terms of having two languages granted equal official status on a given territory. If Russian and Ukrainian were to be proclaimed state languages in Ukraine ("state language" and "official language" mean the same thing), then Russian-speakers would feel that they don't have to bother with Ukrainian any more and would be perfectly at ease answering in Russian to a query in Ukrainian. The social dominance of Russian would remain unaffected, preventing Ukrainian from becoming perspektivynyi. (Yes, the social value of languages is as constructed as identities are constructed.) Obviously, when the Minister of Education Dmytro Tabachnyk lifts the entrance exam requirement in Ukrainian, he sends a message — still a little confusing, according to Oxana Shevel (UKL445, item 9) — that Ukrainian is not that needed to get a diploma in Ukraine, and therefore not perspektivnyi.
In terms of the official status of languages, the strategy of President Yanukovych's Party of Regions has evolved over the years, from demanding that Russian be made a second state language to calling for Russian to be a "minority language" in Ukraine. This is line with the requirements of the European Charter for Minority Languages, which has been ratified by Ukraine in September 2005. Of course, in a liberal democracy, the protection of the official language must go hand in hand with the protection of minority languages. The problem in Ukraine is that it is not clear who the minority is. Borys Kolesnikov, a Party of Region MP in charge of drafting a new language law, thinks that it applies to "those who speak (volodiiut) Russian."
Yet there is no country in the world that defines its minorities in terms of what they can speak (in Ukraine, the overwhelming majority of Ukrainian citizens can speak Russian). The criteria used is generally akin to mother tongue and it happens to be the sole category used in the Ukrainian census (ridna mova, although a better translation is native language). Crucially, the Charter does not specify how minorities are to be counted, i.e., the statistical threshold that establishes when a "minority" is recognized on a given territory. For Kolesnikov, you only need 10%, while the Yushchenko government, in ratifying the Charter, said 50%. (The tradition in the first country to abide by language thresholds, Austria-Hungary, was 20%). The application of any of these criteria – from 10 to 50%, from "native language" to the ability to speak a second language — would bring hugely different results.
Don't hold your breath, however, for a substantive discussion about all this. Lest anyone needs a reminder, Ukraine is a state based on the unrule-of-law. How else could it be described when the Constitutional Court, the highest court in the land, contradicts its own previous ruling in allowing deputies to defect from electoral factions and form a parliamentary majority (UKL443, 17 May 2010, item 14)? Or when Yanukovych declares to the world that the Holodomor was not a genocide before changing the law that says the opposite? The use of language in public domains is not about to be legally codified in Ukraine. The battle is over the principle of making Ukrainian a language that counts in Ukraine. Leonid Kuchma understood the electoral imperative of identifying the state with Ukrainian within months of winning the presidency in 1994 (and after having campaigned on making Russian a second state language). It is puzzling that Yanukovych does not seem share this basic electoral truth.
Dominique Arel is Associate Professor of Political Science and titular of the Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Ottawa.


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Once the center of student life, Tirey Hall is now a venerable location for high-profile events and university functions.
The magnificent front steps and the classic clock centered on the red bricks just below the peaked roof of Tirey Hall's entrance paint an iconic image of Indiana State University. The fourth oldest building on campus, Tirey has aged gracefully as it has transitioned from a classic student union to a structure that is an elegant venue for meetings, performances and events.
"It's had a hundred lives," said Paul Edgerton, emeritus vice president for student affairs and a 1960 graduate of Indiana State. "It was the center of campus. Everything that happened in terms of student activities was generated in that building."
From hosting Friday night dances and visiting dignitaries to serving as a meeting place for students, a setting for special events and speakers and convocation series to storage space, Tirey Hall has remained an important fixture at Indiana State even as the university expanded its borders both north and west, shifting the center point of campus from the Quadrangle to Hulman Memorial Student Union.
Used today for Board of Trustees meetings among other events and also housing Tilson Music Hall, Tirey's early days are etched as fond memories Edgerton and others have of the building in its heyday when it was the center of student life.
"Tirey was unique," Edgerton said. "There was a food service area called 'the grill.' When you walked in, it just had that collegiate feel."
Michael Jack, '65, recalled being a working student who was literally down to his last dime one day before payday. His choices were to buy a can of Campbell's soup to eat or go to the grill, where he could meet with friends and have a cup of coffee.
"The soup and the coffee each cost a dime," he said. Hunger ceded to coffee and camaraderie, and he spent his 10 cents at Tirey, which plays a role in many of his college recollections.
"It was a classic union building," said Jack, a Brazil, Ind., native who graduated with an accounting degree and has held various executive positions with major corporations. He was a participant in the first Trike race, a 10-lap race around the Quad on children's tricycles that started in front of Tirey.
Built in 1940 as the Student Union Building for $440,000, it was renamed Tirey Hall in 1963 in honor of Ralph Noble Tirey, Indiana State's president from 1934 to 1953. When the building, a Public Works Administration-funded project, was dedicated in March 1940, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt gave the dedication address, and Metropolitan soprano Rose Bampton performed.
Tilson Music Hall, the 1,500-seat auditorium housed in Tirey was named in honor of Lowell Mason Tilson, a faculty member and chairperson of the music department from 1915 to 1940.
Many famous speakers from past presidents to noted journalists and scientists, as well as musical and theatrical performances, still grace the Tilson stage.
Linda Eldred, '63, worked at the university for 40 years before retiring in 2003 as the associate director of Student Life Programs and advisor to the Union Board.
"I spent my lifetime in the union," Eldred said of Tirey Hall. "That building means an awful lot to me."
Aside from being "architecturally the prettiest building on campus," Eldred said Tirey was "a home-away-from-home. It was a meeting place, a place for discussions and activities. It created a community."
As a student majoring in elementary education, Eldred got involved with the Union Board, initially doing decorations for events. She spent hour upon hour in the building, making memories and unbeknownst to her, setting the foundation for what would become her life's work.
In 1963, the university hired her. She had planned to have a long career as an elementary teacher, but she was approached while completing her student teaching about a new, full-time position with the Union Board.
"I got the job, and I began working with just a great group of students. They were on fire and really got things done," she said, recalling the ballroom being the site of plant shows and art shows. She also put together an art festival that was held for two weeks each year at Tirey.
"I was there to grow the Union Board and expand its programs," she said. One such program was bringing in local bands to play for dances after football games.
"I was a chaperone. It was hopping. We had lots of kids come to the dances," she said.
Tirey served the university well as the home of the student union for many decades, and Eldred guided hundreds of Union Board students in their efforts to create a thriving campus life.
As time passed and student enrollment increased, it became clear in the 1980s, Edgerton said, that Tirey would not meet the needs — in terms of space or location — as a union building.
"We needed a union more designed for campus and enrollment in a location where it was easier to walk through it than around," he said.
However, everyone recognized that Tirey was a trademark of the campus and should remain a functional building, which it has.
"I dearly love that union building," Eldred said. "It had so much meaning to me because it changed my life. It led me on new paths."
She recalled her last day on the job before her retirement.
"I went in to kind of say goodbye to the building," she said. She walked through its corridors, reflecting on the many great times and special moments there.
"I walked around and the memories just flooded back to me. So many memories."
It was finally time for her to depart.
"We had an elevator connected to the Elks building, and our secretary got stuck in it all the time. I was moving my last load of things from my office, and I got stuck on that elevator for about 30 minutes," she said. "That's when I thought, 'This union building doesn't want me to leave.'"
And while she did leave, Tirey is near to her heart, as it is to so many people who have traveled and continue to travel its halls.


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SEATTLE (AP) — A man and a woman who found themselves inside a stolen trailer that was accidentally towed to a Seattle police evidence warehouse managed break out and now officers are looking for one of them.
Seattle police said Tuesday that in March a police officer found a stolen truck and trailer. The officer checked the truck for the suspects but couldn't access the trailer because it was locked from the inside. Instead of seeking a warrant to break the lock, the officer had the truck and trailer towed to the police complex in the city's SoDo district, which also housed the SWAT unit, training offices and evidence. The officer notified his auto theft investigators.
Little did the officer know that inside the locked twenty-foot by eight-foot trailer were two men, as well as a mattress, stolen items and drug paraphernalia. The men broke out of the facility after spraying the trailer with a fire extinguisher.
Police say the man is in custody for an unrelated charge and are now seeking the woman.
Officials say the accidental infiltration by the two impacted six cases.
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.


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We've got another solo update! Daniel DeBlanke is going it alone on his latest (soul) project, BOMBAY BEACH REVIVAL!
He's been playing in LA and recently did a live stream for Sofar Sounds! Check him out!
Check out our amazing lady on keys, Ihui, in her new solo project POLARTROPICA!
She's got a new album out and a kick-ass live show. So go see her on stage!
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Check out this short "Closed for Storm," scored by Daniel DeBlanke of ROBOTANISTS & WESTERN BELLS.
Check out the new movie, WUTHERING HIGH on Lifetime to hear our song "Getting By" (from the album CLOSE DOWN THE WOODS)! Check your local listings, or stream it online!
"Getting By" also appears on our 12″ vinyl CURRENT available online at our official store!
We're excited to share a mini documentary featuring yours truly (Sarah Ellquist DeBlanke), my partner in crime, Daniel DeBlanke and some of our new music, aka WESTERN BELLS.
Filmmaker, Marcus Ubungen followed us around for a few days late last year, at home, in the studio, and around town as we were putting the finishing touches on our debut collection of songs. (Shout out to Origami Vinyl, Bedrock LA, United Recording, and our very understanding neighbors in Silver Lake.)
The experience was nothing short awesome, and we're excited that SAMSUNG is sharing it with the world.
Get the first two WESTERN BELLS singles ("HEARTS & STARS" and "TIME TRAVELS") through our store and everywhere else you buy or stream music worldwide.
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Pillowed QWERTY hardware keyboard
Comfortable five-row keyboard, NFC
Compact to hold and carry around
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Decent choice -- the keyboard and business features
Poor quality display
Its decent camera includes plenty of features
Fast, fluid performance
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Can record high-definition 1080p video
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Superb hardware keyboard, Fast
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A glass lamp sits atop a rustic side table in this newly-renovated master bedroom.
A modern globe tabletop lamp.
The four table lamps that sit on the living room's wood side tables are made of etched crystal and add sparkle to the space.
The elegant table lamp on the nursery's dresser with a cream shade has a base with different hues of blue, done with a drip glaze that creates a distinctive look.
Interior designer Brian Patrick Flynn says a pair of lamps with custom shades and a base made with oyster shells gives the mudroom a beachy look without being too cliche.
A pair of table lamps with metal bands finished in plated brushed brass and separated by clear acrylic provide the decorative light that adds coziness and intimacy to the living room.
A lamp made from thick twine adds texture and a nautical touch to this newly-renovated beachfront living room.
A twisted lamp base covered with thick rope nods to nautical style.
A textured ceiling adds a vintage touch to this updated living room. The modern black and white painting provides a focal point while the sculptural floor lamp compounds the visual interest.
A modern floor lamp provides light for reading in the guest bedroom's cleverly utilized getaway niche.
A chest on each side of the bed has a 37-inch high gloss white table lamp with an elegantly spindled silhouette and nylon drum shade in navy.
Blue-gray walls are a complementary backdrop for a collection of antiques and art in the drawing room. The table lamp is a statement piece in the room with its intricate base and stately lampshade.
A lamp shade has an embroidered cockatoo design.
A crisp, white lamp with a floral detail tops the end table, along with wooden animal sculptures.
Along with colorful accent pieces, a white wavy table lamp brightens the guest bedroom and adds an artistic element of form to the bedside chest.
Crystal swoops and swirls to form the base of this gorgeous table lamp.
To eliminate the need for end tables, and to allow for more seating, the family room is lit by a floor lamp with an adjustable arm.
Consider swapping out darker lamp shades for lighter ones to bring an airiness to your living room. The pretty glass and gold detail on this lamp also adds to the room's light and bright, glam edge.


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Student Prevents a Medication Error
Pharmaceutical Technician Student
Externship Student
Career College of Northern Nevada
Greg Pawliszyn
As a Pharmaceutical Technician student, we are strongly reminded the importance of being accurate when filling prescription orders. Time to time though, there will be a prescription that comes through that causes a "trained" Technician to take notice.
I am currently an externship student at a well respected pharmacy that serves the Reno/Sparks and Carson City areas. The days work is always simple; the Pharmacist prints out the prescriptions to be filled, the Technicians fills these prescriptions, and the Pharmacist then checks the filled prescriptions before being sent out.
I received a prescription order for Warfarin 1mg. Directions for this prescription were take 1 tablet by mouth five times daily. Quantity wanting to be dispensed was 120. I asked the Pharmacist if this was indeed correct, and why not just have a prescription for Warfarin 5mg instead? He looked at the prescription and then I also informed him of the quantity being dispensed and immediately then he took action. He looked up the hard copy of the prescription, and it did not match. The hard copy was indeed for Warfarin 1mg, quantity 120, but directions were to take 1 tablet by mouth four times daily. The hard copy matched the quantity being dispense, however, the Pharmacy only allows a months supply of Warfarin to go out at a time.
After contacting the prescribing Doctor, the original prescription was changed to 1 tablet by mouth every day for 28 days. Quantity being dispensed was 28 tablets. Strength was kept the same.
Had I not had a background in technician training that included pharmacology and drug dosing and alerted the Pharmacist, went ahead and filled the original prescription, the patient would have received more that what was necessary and a possible overdose may have occurred.
When on externship, it is just as important to be accurate as well as alert. Just because you receive a prescription to be filled, does not mean that it is correct. Pharmacy Technicians are just as responsible for catching errors as everyone else. Most importantly, when in doubt run your question by another Technician, or Pharmacist, or both! After all, we are dealing with people's safety here.
Clinical Student Caught a Major Error While on Rotation
My name is Rebecca and I was getting ready to mix up an IV bag. The first thing I was taught to do in lab before I start mixing anything is look for the mixing instructions and the expiration date on the vial. (It was a vial from the refrigerator.) As I was looking for the instructions I saw that the expiration date was expired and so I then looked for the instructions on what you do if the medication has expired. Some IV vial medications can still be used up to different time periods. (5-10 days, ect) This medication said to discard immediately after expiring and DO NOT USE IF EXPIRED.
I asked one of the techs at the hospital what I should do with it (how to discard or who to give it to, etc). She informed me that it was still good to use and to go ahead and make the IV bag. I am a very cautious person and try my very best to treat every patient that will be receiving any IV that I prepare as if they were a family member.
I decided to ask the two pharmacists working about what the vial had said. Both of them read the label and kind of looked puzzled as to why the expiration date wasn't "caught" or seen before I had pointed it out to them. They pulled out the IV medication book and looked up what it supposed to be done and it said the same thing. All the techs working said they had never seen it say that before so they just assumed that it was the same with all of the IV medications (good up to 10 days after the expiration date).
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The 2010 class at Southeastern Technical College visited GE Healthcare Nuclear Pharmacy in December 2010 during their last quarter. They got a full tour and an inside look at what nuclear technicians do on a daily basis. As graduates of ASHP accredited programs, there are many advance career opportunities like nuclear, that you can apply for.
How Can Pharmacy Technicians Play a Role in MTM
Medication therapy management, also known as MTM, is defined as a broad range of health care services provided by pharmacists, and the pharmacy team. Included in that team is the pharmacy technician. As more pharmacy technicians advance their training, attend ASHP accredited training programs, and become certified pharmacy technicians, they are becoming invaluable to the management of medication therapy.
Medication therapy management services include medication therapy reviews, pharmacotherapy consults, anticoagulation management, immunizations, health and wellness programs and many other clinical services. Pharmacists provide medication therapy management to help patients get the best benefits from their medications by actively managing drug therapy and by identifying, preventing and resolving medication-related problems.
As much as this country has realized the need for MTM in order to promote medication safety, compliance with medication therapy, and ensure the efficacy of medication treatment, we also realize the time constraint on the pharmacist as the sole key role player in MTM. Many pharmacies are realizing the need to advance the training of pharmacy technicians to support the pharmacist in Medication Therapy Management. For example, a certified pharmacy technician may be asked to assist the pharmacist with the immunization program in the out-pharmacy setting. Not only do certified pharmacy technicians draw up the dosing with their IV skills and knowledge of aseptic techniques, but pharmacy technicians are also registered with document websites such as WebIZ where the technician documents the immunizations given. With advance training, the pharmacy technician may be able to help with marketing, promoting, scheduling, ordering, record keeping, preparing the area, drawing up vaccine or other duties depending on your state laws. (PTCB.org)


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NEW YORK (AP) — Major U.S. indexes are little changed Thursday as technology stocks rise while energy companies and banks slip. Bond prices rose, sending yields lower, after the Labor Department reported that wholesale prices were little changed in July, a sign inflation pressures weakened slightly.
KEEPING SCORE: The S&P 500 index fell 1 point to 2,856 as of noon Eastern time. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 52 points, or 0.2 percent, to 25,531. The Nasdaq composite gained 15 points, or 0.2 percent, to 7,904. The Russell 2000, an index of smaller companies, added 5 points, or 0.4 percent, to 1,692.
Trading this week has been light, and stocks have edged higher in some of the calmest trading of the year. On Tuesday, the S&P's highest mark and its lowest were just 0.25 percent apart, and Wednesday was similar. The typical gap this year has been 1.1 percent, according to Ryan Detrick at LPL Financial.
PRICES: The Labor Department said wholesale prices were unchanged in July, a sign inflation pressure weakened a bit. Gas and food prices both slipped and soybeans prices tumbled, likely reflecting a buildup in stockpiles after China imposed tariffs on them in retaliation for U.S. duties.
Bond prices jumped. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell to 2.94 percent from 2.97 percent. That hurt banks, as lower interest rates make long-term loans like mortgages less profitable.
DEALS OFF: Rite Aid called off its sale to the grocery chain Albertsons following opposition from advisory firms and one of Rite Aid's biggest shareholders. The stock fell 10.6 percent to $1.56. Wall Street never showed much confidence the sale would go through.
Walgreens tried to buy Rite Aid last year, but settled for buying about half of its stores after regulators opposed the full sale. The company has been struggling with high debt and tough competition.
Tribune Media withdrew from its planned sale to Sinclair Broadcasting and said it will sue Sinclair for breach of contract. Tribune rose 3.5 percent to $34.83 and Sinclair lost 2.4 percent to $26.45.
Both stocks plunged in mid-July when regulators expressed major concerns about the deal. Tribune has recovered a bit of its losses while Sinclair has continued to decline.
EARNINGS: Online reviews company Yelp jumped 27.8 percent to $48.76 after it raised its revenue forecast and said advertising revenue surged in the second quarter. Video streaming company Roku climbed 22.4 percent to $57.83 after it took a smaller loss than analysts expected while its revenue surpassed expectations.
Travel site Booking Holdings lost 6 percent to $1,922.54 after a weak profit forecast. Generic drugmaker Perrigo cut its forecasts because of weak results from its prescription business. The stock sank 10.3 percent to $70.21.
THURSDAY LEADERS: Apple gave technology companies a hand as it rose 0.9 percent to $209.18, and PayPal gained 1.3 percent to $87.87.
Amazon pulled retail companies higher, rising 0.8 percent to $1,902.01. Amazon and Booking are the two highest-priced stocks on the S&P 500.
DUN TRADING: Business information provider Dun & Bradstreet agreed to be bought by a group of investors for $145 a share, or about $5.4 billion. The stock rallied 15.9 percent to $142.31.
OIL: Crude prices stabilized following a 3 percent drop a day earlier. Benchmark U.S. crude oil remained at $66.94 a barrel in New York. Brent crude, the standard for international oil prices, lost 0.1 percent to $72.22 per barrel in London.
CURRENCIES: The dollar fell to 110.89 yen from 110.96 yen. The euro fell to $1.1569 from $1.1619.
OVERSEAS: The German DAX rose 0.3 percent. Britain's FTSE 100 fell 0.4 percent while France's CAC 40 declined less than 0.1 percent.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng index advanced 0.9 percent and the Japanese Nikkei 225 slipped 0.2 percent. South Korea's Kospi inched up 0.1 percent.
AP Markets Writer Marley Jay can be reached at http://twitter.com/MarleyJayAP His work can be found at https://apnews.com/search/marley%20jay


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If you would like to discuss having a work of art created for your wall or as a gift, please send me an email with any questions or requests. If you want to talk, include your phone number and times to call. I can use any of your photographs. I can paint everything from floral to a landscape or your neighborhood. Commissioning a personalized piece of art is somewhat more involved process than buying a personalized product, but I have tried to simplify the process here.
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I will reply with a quote and an estimated time of completion. It usually takes about 2-3 weeks to complete a painting, and delivery (after payment is received) is typically another 1-2 weeks, although the process time and delivery date may vary from original estimates - I will keep you informed and provide a realistic waiting time.
Your input is paramount, but please understand that as an artist that I will also use my creativity and interpretation to develop a truly original and artistic work for you. I never paint a copy of photograph. I only used it as a base and reference.
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Autumn at the countryside
Original oil on canvas 16"x20" impressionistic style painting. Not framed.
Original oil on canvas 24"x36".
2006 All Rights Reserved.


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The Hurley Advantage Plus 2/2mm wetsuit gloves let you grip your board in the water with a construction that brings more flexibility than ever. Lightweight and heat reflective with minimal water absorption, they provide the protection you need for hours in the waves, even when no one else is.
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Summer Evening: Sulhampstead
posted by Graham Piper in Summer Outings
Well over twenty members turned out for this evening. Once again the British weather held up and the only people getting wet were the kayakers - Well mainly me! A couple of members took to the kayaks for their first attempt and very much enjoyed the tranquility of the canal, whilst others - supposed competent paddlers - decided to go over the weir. The trip down was fine but getting stuck on the rocks required me to bail out and then try to get the water out of the boat faster than it was coming in! I eventually managed it then proceeded to sink the boat completely further over on a bigger area of the weir. This meant I had to push the boat out into the river and swim to the bank - nice! Once again the evening was finished off in the pub - The Spring Inn on the A4, Ascot Alley cat beer - definitely the WORST pint we have all had in years, if not ever! Thanks to Jason, and Trevor for supplying some kayaks.


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As sisters we couldn't look any more different.. she's blonde, tall, has amazingly long gorgeous legs and I'm...well.....the opposite. She's grown into the most gorgeous, wonderful, intelligent, caring, beautiful, funny and thoughtful young lady and I'm so so so proud of her. Thanks for a lovely day Jodes.
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