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Four Creative Teacher Appreciation Bulletin Board Ideas: Tips for Decorating on Teacher Appreciation Day
Teacher Appreciation Day is in May. Parents, students and faculty can show teachers their appreciation by creating a bulletin board. To show appreciation of the teaching staff, create a display that highlights each teacher in the school. Here are several bulletin board ideas that will show that you recognize the teacher's hard work, dedication and the sacrifice that they make for students each day.
World Class Teachers
Use the bulletin board to display teachers as world class leaders. Create a globe that is as big as the bulletin board and display teacher's pictures across or around the globe. Title the bulletin board, "World Class Teachers".
We Are Lucky to Have You as Teachers
Another idea is to create a bulletin board that centers on how lucky everyone is to have such wonderful teachers. To accomplish this you have to incorporate pictures of things that are lucky such as, four leaf clovers, ladybugs, the number 7, rabbit's feet, horseshoes and a penny. Add pictures of the teachers and title the bulletin board, "We Are Lucky to Have You as Teachers". You can emphasize the word "Lucky" by changing the color or making it bold.
The Soundtrack of our Teachers
For this bulletin board you will have to enlist help of all the students. Each classroom is to think of a song that represents their teacher. Then the students will create a short passage about why they chose that particular song for their teacher. Teachers will be represented by a picture on a CD. Above the CD will be the song the students chose for them, and below the CD will be the passage they wrote. In the middle of the bulletin board will be a CD player. Write the title, "Thank you…Our Teachers Rock" or "The Soundtrack of our Teachers "on the CD player where the song title would be displayed. This musical bulletin board is sure to be a "hit" with the teachers.
Why We Love our Teachers
Create an interactive bulletin board where students can write down what they love best about their teacher. Display teachers pictures on the bulletin board with the title, "Why we Love our Teachers". Under each picture have a pocket with blank sheets of paper in it. In addition to the blank sheets of paper, have one sheet that has a list of prompts for the students such as, my favorite teacher memory, how does the teacher make you feel, your favorite funny teacher moment etc. You can use library pockets or small envelopes for the pocket. Then attach a pencil to the board in case students do not have one handy. Have students write down what they love best about their teachers as they change classes or during lunch. This is a great way for teachers to learn how much their students appreciate them.
These ideas will be sure to make any teacher feel loved on teacher appreciation day. Every effort that you make to show the teaching staff that you appreciate their hard work, will just improve the teacher's desire and dedication to teach.
- Image Credit: CD - balir_25/Flickr
- Image credit: Teacher bulleting board - Old Shoe Woman/Flickr
- Source: Author's Own Experience.


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UNKLE recently released the album "Where Did The Night Fall". I managed to score a pre-release copy some months ago and on first listen i was disappointed. But unsurprisingly like every other UNKLE album it grew on me. I've loved UNKLE, James Lavelle in particular, for years now (my early teens) but every time there's a new album i always feel let down until about 3 or 4 listens. That's usually the stage where i go "wait, this is actually fucking brilliant". Each new listen providing different sounds and conjuring up new images. It seems i'll never learn to appreciate Mr Lavelle's talents first time round. Some collaborators from the last album, the critically acclaimed War Stories, joined in again on the newie. The returning guests included Joel Cadbury, Gavin Clark and the frustratingly inactive yet genius Autolux. But what caught my eye more than anything was a guest appearance from Mark Lanegan. If he lends his smoke tangled, gravelly, tortured voice to anything then i'm definitely in.
The first track "officially" released was a teaser in the form of "Natural Selection". A number featuring the Black Angels. But the song that caught my attention most on the album was "Follow Me Down". I'd never heard of Sleepy Sun until that track. Rachel Fannan comes across like a slightly more laid back version of Bjork. Her vocals sound like a mixture of frustration and freedom mixed together, if that makes sense.
Anyway, the whole point of this post was to stick up two remixes of "Follow Me Down" that i've been wanting to post for a while now and seeing as i don't have much time (i never seem to have much time at all recently) tonight i'll get straight to the point.
MP3: UNKLE – Follow Me Down (The Golden Filter remix)
MP3: UNKLE – Follow Me Down (Dave Sitek Remix)
The first remix is courtesy of The Golden Filter. I first heard these guys a few summers ago and the track "Solid Gold" was a mainstay on my iPod for months. It reminds me of a catwalk fashion show for some reason, check it out if you haven't already heard it and i guarantee you'll think you're in Milan watching models glide by but enough day dreaming back to their remix of UNKLE. Their remix certainly gives the original a bit more oomph and elevates the track to a level and style that would be passable in a nightclub. Albeit an indie nightclub.
The second remix is by the ridiculously talented Dave Sitek. If you don't know who this man is then be ashamed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Andrew_Sitek
His version is a slighty more abstract remix, slowing the tempo slightly before bringing it back up and highlighting and making full use of the many vocal elements that are maybe not as evident as they should be on the original.
Here's the original…
Just as a little extra and seeing as it's a briliant track in it's own right here's a classic from Greg Dulli and Twilight Singers….who just happen to be regular collaborators with a certain Mr Lanegan also. See it's all relevant and related! It's not really, i just wanted to post this track. I love it. I love the chords, the voice, the emptiness of it. I love playing it on guitar and sometimes i even love ATTEMPTING to sing it.
MP3: Twilight Singers – Follow You Down
More posts at the weekend. For once i have an absolutely diary free weekend. No plans, no nights out, no visitors. Just me, some weed, the drinks cabinet, the newly freshened up iPod and my laptop. Perfect.
S.I.T Wolf X

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To participate in the national Fair Trade Fortnight, Petrina and Team Green organised a Fair trade morning tea. We baked muffins, brownies, slices and truffles with a majority of fair trade ingredients then sold them in the staff room for a gold coin. And we offered fair trade coffee and chocolate.
We raised $130.10 by doing our bake sale – very generous donations! The money has now been transferred to Oxfam, who have already gathered $27,354 in donations from similar events around NZ during May. Some of that $ will get into the hands of the farmers who truly deserve it. Teachers tasted the difference of fairly traded foods and commented: "a great cause and simple…anddddd delectable!!! 🙂"
We intend to switch the instant coffee and chocolate made available to teachers in the staff room to fair trade.


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Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes. ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Our country is torn in two, at least that's what it seems. Although, is it really that different from the 1860 election when Abraham Lincoln ran against his opponents Breckinridge, Douglas and Bell? As much as we honor and respect Abraham Lincoln, he didn't carry the popular vote. In fact, he wasn't liked by many people, hence his assassination. However, in present day, most agree he was honest and tried to do right by all the American people, even though it wasn't acknowledged until much later in textbooks. Did you know Abraham Lincoln was the first Republican president? Fun fact.
Now, going back in time, to the near past, one that I remember when George W. Bush ran against Al Gore in the 2000 election. That was a very close race. I'd like to say the 2016 elections reminds me of those days, yet the attitude is very different. We seem to be truly divided down the middle, desperately in need of a leader to unite us. Although, that doesn't worry me. In fact, it seems to be a repeating theme throughout history, regarding war, politicians, laws and even art. What is disturbing, are the verbal attacks, lies and disrespectful actions of our candidates, some more than others. That's what makes this election classless and in poor taste.
As a nation, we'll never have one hundred percent agreement on anything. That we can to agree on, that and the idea of simple respect needs to be practiced more. I'm not talking about compromising morals and what's right as to not hurt another person's feelings. I'm talking about being honest, direct, listening and reacting with truly good intentions and selfishness. Tall order right? It is, but not impossible. I'm referring to our candidates toward each other, the candidates toward the people (becoming humble and always being honest and truly doing what's right) and the people toward each other including the media.
On a side note, when did reporters stop doing their research and begin believing rumors and bringing their own personal opinion to the front page? Reporters need to be held accountable for their work and their actions.
What I'd like to see is a responsible and honest election. Let the people actually have a vote. I guess I should correct that statement with saying living people (yes that's not such a subtle dig on those who are using our deceased to sway the election). Again, disrespect for the deceased, the families, and our country as a whole. I personally don't like my rights being taken away by such actions. We have an obligation to show the rest of the world what a true republic is and how good honest actions prevail.
After this election, history will be remembered slightly differently, depending on the outcome. Why does time change a situation? Or does it allow us to reflect and learn? I remember studying history in school and being taken back when I learned our soldiers returning from the Vietnam War, after risking their lives for our country (most drafted), were treated with hatred and anger and disrespect. Of course that's not in fashion now, thankfully. Now my next biggest question, is it because it's what's trendy and popular or because it's what's right? Again, I see history repeating itself and instead of using common sense and respect, the trendy path is chosen.
Evey person has the ability to change history and change the path of our future. Every person. Every person has a choice to do what's right and to think of others before themselves. Everyone. I'm not trying to sway anyone. I'm simply asking people to stop lying for others, stop being deceitful, and stop any illegal actions (that's another tall order), starting with election fraud. Stop the violence when you don't get your own way, stop the disrespect and start working together for a better future. No one wins when hate takes the reins, but we all win when love is in our hearts and actions.
On another side note, without pushing one candidate over another, I've found this pretty neat. The Trump House in Youngstown, Pennsylvania. Little old Youngstown, Pennsylvania has made major news for their part in the election. Perhaps there's a Hilary House somewhere, and if so I'd love to hear about it. Since I've never heard of any, I'm going to focus on what I know, the Trump House.
I love the involvement and dedication that resulted in the Trump House. The Trump House owners spent their personal money for signage and other promotional pieces to give away. Now a days, people expect reimbursement or compensation for such actions. The owners of the house are not pushy or loud, except the house decor certainly makes a statement. They really want to educate and do what's right for America. That I can respect. Again, perhaps there's a similar place dedicated to Hillary. If so, wonderful.
How can anyone not appreciate the effort in this house? I mean, they have a fifteen foot tall (I really don't know how tall it is) picture of Donald Trump! What a fun idea! Since the creation of the house, they've had nonstop traffic from supporters visiting, getting their pictures taken and honking when passing by. This is what America is about, freedom to choose and freedom of expression. This is what makes election season exciting, certainly not all the bashing commercials on television, the radio and online.
Not to end on a negative note, but the Trump House has every right to decorate their building any way they want and to support any candidate they choose. So why did they need to hire personal security to deter violence and vandalism at the Trump House? Why did they get major backlash from people criticizing the way they spent their money? This is what I'm saying, no respect. If it was for Hillary, I'd think it was equally neat.
The house has been dedicated to the Trump campaign since I believe this past summer, and it took the Tribune until this past week to write a story on them, hidden among the pages. I always thought the news was to be unbiased, but all I've heard are opinions running through the media, for both sides, again some more than others. The majority of the news is obviously swayed to one side. It's still not right and basic propaganda, similar to Hitler's tactics. He used media to reinforce his ideals and he targeted children and the younger generation who were easily swayed. Let's get back to practicing respect, the truth, common sense, and good old-fashion morals.
Personally, I've always tried to involve Kyle as much as I can with the news and historical milestones, trying to avoid negativity and reinforcing good moral decision making. In the past, I've taken Kyle to rallies. I've even taken him into the voter's booth with me. I wanted to show him what to expect when he got older, and I tried to set the example of having an educated and sincere voice.
On Sunday night I asked Kyle if he wanted to come vote with me this year. I was denied before I even got it out of my mouth. He'll come around with his own opinions when he's older.
I'll certainly be voting tomorrow, and I'll be praying tonight for God to lead this country in the right direction.


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Franklin Equipment has opened a new branch in Nashville, giving it branch locations in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee and Wisconsin.
"We are excited to enter the Tennessee area markets and increase our coverage area for our valued regional customers," said Troy Gabriel, owner of Franklin Equipment. "Our customers will find our fleet to be the newest equipment available from our equipment suppliers."
Franklin Equipment has also recreated the original Wacker Neuson Roadshow that will tour Franklin's nine stores. Franklin Equipment developed the road shows to promote and familiarize their current and potential customers with the entire line up of Wacker Neuson Equipment, the company said.
"We are excited to partner with Wacker Neuson and Skyjack to have the road shows in our different markets," said Troy Gabriel, owner of Franklin Equipment. "We truly appreciate the support of our valued relationships with Wacker Neuson and Skyjack. Our customers will see and get to experience the entire line of Wacker Neuson and Skyjack equipment…whether they want to rent or buy.
The road show will go from Cincinnati to Milwaukee to Indianapolis to Dayton, Ohio, to Westerville, Ohio, and will finish in Nashville.
Franklin Equipment's rental fleet includes scissor lifts, telehandlers, wheel loaders, dirt-moving equipment and a range of attachments, along with safety gear and more.


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CHAMAN : Atleast three terrorists were arrested in Chaman during security forces' combing operation on Sunday.
According to details, the operation was carried out in Guldara Bageecha area of Chaman.
Meanwhile, two bombs were defused in Dera Bugti which were recovered near a gas pipeline and security forces' caravan.
Moreover, two bombs were also neutralized in Swabi's Malikabad area.
Previously, 202 terrorists of different outfits were arrested in the combing operations in Punjab.
According to details of those terrorists, as they include nine from Al-Qaeda and 13 from Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Most of the arrested terrorists belong to Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.
Five of Al-Qaeda's terrorists were arrested from Lahore and four from Dera Ghazi Khan.
Recently six terrorists were nabbed in Faisalabad on Thursday.
Combing operation have not only broken the back of terrorists but also helped in restoring peace in country.


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The following is an interview with Anita Mirchandani, founder of FiTMAPPED.
Company Description: FiTMAPPED is the first-ever, all inclusive, searchable database for the full breadth of fitness options in the New York City area. From large gyms to boutique fitness studios, specialized classes, bootcamp workouts and more, FiTMAPPED makes it easy for New Yorkers to find the fitness options that are both right for them and right in their neighborhoods (and it's free!). We think of it as "your GPS for fitness." Our goal is help urban residents find fitness easily and provide a social platform with which they can connect with fellow fitness enthusiasts.
Your Target Market and What You are Attempting.
Our target market is anyone interested in fitness between the ages of 18-50. We are attempting to provide a comprehensive database so that people can trust visiting our resource to find fitness easy and simple.
What is your company/service?
FiTMAPPED, website & mobile application
What were you doing before?
Marketing / Currently a Registered Dietitian
Tell me how it all started, where did your vision/inspiration come from?
The idea stemmed from the fact that when Michelle (other co-founder) went to look for a bootcamp in Tribeca for her friend who didn't want to commute to Columbus Circle and couldn't find an easy way to do it. She couldn't input certain criteria to find what she was looking for easily.
Why does the world need your product? Why now?
Fitness in urban cities is growing drastically and there is no resource prior to FiTMAPPED that would provide the functionality to search by various criteria and receive instant results. America is growing
more and more obese by the day. While there are various apps and tools for motivating an individual or allowing an individual to track progress, there isn't one that provides tangible information.
What keeps you motivated?
The constant growth and collaboration of the fitness industry
What would you consider to be a successful result for your company?
Several thousand core users and a nationwide presence of FiTMAPPED
What has been the most challenging aspect about building your startup so far? What
has been the most rewarding?
The founding team is far from technical so we launched a baseline product without having a technical skillset. With only one person full-time, we've launched an app and a website as well as got ourselves featured in the NY Times.
What advice would you give to other aspiring entrepreneurs?
HARD WORK DOESN'T COME EASY; YOU HAVE TO REALLY DEVOTE YOURSELF AND YOU HAVE TO HAVE PASSION FOR THE CONCEPT. From Michelle: Its ok to make a mistake. Everybody does.
Stressing over it is neither helpful nor productive, learn from it and it will make you better.
What do you do for fun when not working on your company?
I love to dance, drink wine, watch movies, or bake!


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Four Steps to a Better Mobile Strategy
Americans are now using smartphones and tablet apps more than PCs to access the Internet. According to CMOCouncil.org, by the end of 2017, 87% of the total sales of Internet-enabled technology will be made up of mobile devices and nearly 25% of overall eCommerce revenues will come via mobile devices.
There's a plethora of other statistics out there supporting the simple fact that the proliferation of mobile devices and the way people use them are continuing to expand at a break-neck pace. It's no longer an option to have a mobile strategy, it's become a necessity. But where to start? Here are 4 steps you should consider in building a better mobile strategy:
Know Your Audience
Before diving head-first into a mobile strategy, take a step back and think about your target audience and your company's objectives. Ask yourself some basic questions:
- What jobs or tasks do you want your audience to accomplish?
- What have your customers or employees told you they want?
- What are your company's objectives?
- What is the overall experience you're trying to convey?
Once you've answered those type of basic questions you can then begin to formulate your mobile strategy.
Mobile App or Responsive Design?
Not everyone needs a mobile app. Often times, a responsive version of your website is sufficient. Responsive design delivers the full version of your website using CSS and HTML to resize and move content so that it adapts to the screen size of any device. Outside of the CSS/HTML effort, there is no additional development effort involved and any user with an adequate internet connection can access your responsive site.
Mobile apps, on the other hand, are developed for specific functions such as sales enablement tools, location services that leverage GPS, or in-store savings while you shop (think Target's cartwheel app). These require their own development efforts and need to be downloaded from a marketplace such as iTunes or Play Store. Additionally, separate applications need to be built for each mobile platform although there are app development tools such as Xamarin that promote cross-platform development.
For more help in determining whether you should invest in a mobile app, check out our related article on the differences between web and mobile apps.
Provide an Excellent User Experience (UX)
It goes without saying that good user experience (UX) is important for any website or application. But it becomes even more imperative as the real estate (i.e. screen size) you have to work with decreases. Users need to have a clear sense of how to complete a task or find something intuitively upon launching your app. Make sure to follow industry standard best practices and trends as a means to achieving that goal. The ways users interact with your app on a desktop, tablet, and phone varies from one device to another so be sure to account for these behaviors.
Start Small, Measure, and Iterate
Even if you're behind the curve in implementing your mobile strategy, don't rush to address your web presence all at once. Start off with a single function, create a feedback loop, and build from there. Create a backlog of features or functions you're considering, prioritize, and formulate a development and release schedule. For example, a restaurant may want to start off with a menu or reservation page while a yoga studio might start with a class schedule. You won't likely tackle your entire mobile platform in one bite so keep the mobile context in mind and use data to develop a plan that can support future growth.


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Freeway has released his We-Up (Re-Produced) EP through DJ Booth as part of its series where three producers put their own spin on a particular artist's track.
For the We Up EP, beatsmiths including Numonics, Ro Blvd and Sean Divine each put a spin on the original track, which is produced by JRB. The track was originally included on Free's Freedom of Speech mixtape, hosted by Don Cannon.
Freeway is currently gearing up for the release of his Babygrande Records debut Diamond in the Ruff, releasing on November 27th.
Stream the EP below and head over to DJBooth.net to download the project.
RELATED: HipHopDX's 2012 A3C Recap Featuring Killer Mike, Big Boi, Freeway & More


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I am the Super Star of Mollywood (Malayalam Film Industry). I am a fallen goat. There was a bitch actress who slandered me to my wife saying that I was having an illegitimate affair which is also partly true. I hired a quotation team (thugs) to molest her by blockading her car and hijacking it. They did the same meticulously. Later on the quotation team got arrested by the Police. From Jail they started black mailing me for more money. Then I complained to the police, that I was being blackmailed. The cops grilled me for hours and the statements I made did not corroborate and they arrested me. Now I am in jail with petty criminals. The judiciary does not draw a fine line with rape and molestation. I am also denied bail by the highest court of Kerala. Do I have the right to feel angry or sorry? When I am taken to the court my own fans boo and mock at me in derision. I have been ousted from the film makers association. Come on, the bitch was only molested, not raped. I have every right to take my own sweet revenge. I end by quoting Sartre: 'Man is condemned to be free'.
Month: July 2017
Hong Kong
It's prejudice among South East Asians to accept Native Speakers to teach English. They might not even have the requisite qualifications but still they are preferred. Whites' form a privileged term and colored and blacks are marginalized. While during an interview in Hong Kong I was asked about my teaching experiences. After uttering a sentence, I was dismissed. Before the interview they had promised to reimburse the airfare. But to my consternation they did not! I lost a lot of money and ended up home penny less. I do not have any regrets but Asians fail to recognize Asian talent. I was hoping to my heart that the panel would ask me questions on Literature and English. But my hopes sank. At least those bastards could have paid me back my airfare.
Choosing Abraham
Choosing Abraham as an idiom is related to the Old Testament Patriarch Abraham who made love to his maid Hagar when his wife did not conceive. After his wife conceived he abandoned her and her son Ishmael.
As an idiom it means abandoning a significant other for the sake of family interests.
In my life, if I am going to take up a new career in South East Asia, I won't be a choosing Abraham.
We come across many choosing Abrahams in our life.
The Book of Imagination
Recently I got the idea to write a novella, a work of fiction based entirely on thought. To write is to become a metaphor. Will I be fanciful, ornamental and magical? I don't know where to begin…To write is to become God…When you read me, you kill me as the death of the author. There is a monster moving my hand … Every stroke is a metaphysical ellipse. Words become scattered like fangs. Thought becomes submerged in an eclipse. Ideas bang their heads on the wall. I will create an end: ode to a hyperbole in the suspension of belief…a requiem where a voice speaks to a wreath, a synesthetic trope. I am writing now….fanciful, ornamental and picturesque.
World's Shortest Epic
He wonders at other writers: how do they write books? One person told him, to be a writer, you must read all the books in the word. How can that be possible? Finally he decided to write the shortest epic in the World. "He is in , and nearing a ." Thus ends the epic, a stoic ornament.
Yes, it's word that I coined. To tell you the fact I dread cops. The moment I see a cop jeep in front of me, I slow down. I become so anxious. I wonder, have I done murder, have I done rape, have I been burglar? No, none of these things. Yet my heart beats 10000 times louder. Today I saw a cop jeep pass by my house. Immediately, the fear, are these ass***** going to enter my house. I am seized with a trauma. I wonder are they coming to arrest me. I don't know why I have this fear… I dread their uniform and everything thing about them. Recently I wrote something rude to a woman in Whatsapp and she threatened me that she will complain to the cyber cops. Thank heavens she did not! Recently I got down from a bus and lit a cigarette. There was a car parked a little distance away from me. Now smoking is banned in public places. As I stubbed it out and walked to the car …I was taken aback. It was written "police"! The cops all ladies gave me a sound ticking off. I was lucky that they did not book me. I am not at all comfortable with cops. Yes, I am a copOphobian. It is written in front of all Police Stations of Kerala: "People Friendly Police". I don't know whether to smile or laugh. I wonder is the handcuff people friendly!
An Analysis of Pierre Menard's Quixote by Borges
I would like to analyze the story based on the literary codes developed by Barthes. They are: the hermeneutic code, Proairetic code, the Semantic Code, the symbolic code and the cultural code. For Barthes, the hermeneutic code represents the enigma of the text. The Proairetic code represents the spatial and temporal dimensions. The Semantic code refers to the level of connotation. The symbolic code represents the binary division of language and the cultural code the conventions of the society.
Looking at the story from a Hermeneutic code, Borges writes about an imaginary writer and a book that does not exist. He creates facts out of fantasy and fantasy out of facts and his whole fictional exploration is a futile phantasmagoria.
He begins the story by quoting a catalogue made by Madame Henri Bachelier on the omissions and additions made to the text of Menard which appeal to Calvinists, Masons and the Circumcised. Is he making a dig at conservatism? Is he being skeptical about tradition? One can never fully interpret due to the very obscurity of his comment. There is an ironic humor inherent in this statement.
Borges again becomes fictional and goes on to enumerate that an examination of the files of Menard is necessary for the exegesis of Quixote. The files are literary and mention the following:
(a) A symbolist sonnet which occurred twice in a review. Everyone is familiar with idea of symbolism and symbolist poets. What one can't discern is to why Borges makes a random connection to symbolism while trying to explicate Menard's Don Quixote. Is Borges playing some kind of practical joke with the reader?
(b) A monograph containing the possibility of creating a poetic vocabulary of concepts which would not be synonyms or periphrases of those which make up everyday language. Is Borges hinting at adornment of poetic language? Adornment can take place by clothing words with figures of speech or using neologisms.
(c) A monograph on certain connections and affinities with the Philosophies of Descartes, Leibniz and Wilkins. Is Borges making a big bluff or does he want to impress his readers that he is conversant with the philosophies of the above mentioned philosophers. Why does the author want to show off to an audience?
(d) The work sheets of a monograph on George Boole's symbolic logic. It is very intriguing that Borges makes this strange connection. How can logic be related to fiction.
(e) An examination of the essential metric laws of French Prose. Borges is conversant in Spanish. I am not sure whether he has the adequate knowledge to comment on French Prose. Meter again is connected to poetry. How can it be equated with prose? Is this a structural flaw in the narrative?
(f) A work in which different solutions are given to the problem of Achilles and the Tortoise. It is really absurd, a canard of the mind. May be Borges is inducing the reader to think that Achilles won the race. Borges has not deconstructed the paradox of Zeno. I wonder why Borges does not suggest an alternative.
(g) A determined analysis of the syntactical customs Toulet. Menard says that censure and praise are sentimental operations which have nothing to do with literary criticism. This statement makes Borges a precursor to literary theorists.
Again Borges digresses and goes on to discuss texts which have inspired Menard to create Quixote. One is a philological fragment which mentions Christ on a boulevard, Hamlet on La Cannebiere and Don Quixote on Wall Street. The depiction of Christ is rather incongruous. What is the mystic connection between Christ and a boulevard? The same goes to Hamlet. Are the Moguls of Wall Street Quixotic?
Again Borges the writer mentions that Menard writes to him that the final term in a theological, metaphysical demonstration –the objective world, God, causality the forms of the universe is common in my framed novel. This demonstrates that Borges is a confused writer. If the world is created by God how it can be objective? Is he mixing up a broth of evolutionary theism?
Again he expostulates that to write Quixote, one must know Spanish well, recover a Catholic faith, fight against the Moors and forget the history of Europe between the years 1602 and 1918. Everyone knows that Quixote by Cervantes was a revolt against Catholicism. The fight between Catholics and the moors is related to History. Is Borges being ironic when he reiterates that we should forget History? 1918 is symbolic for the beginning of the First World War. The narrative of Borges is so fragmented and ambles irrelevantly from one topic to another.
Borges contradicts himself by saying that in a passage of Menard never authored by him there is a sentence: 'the river nymphs and the dolorous and humid echo.' This provokes the reader to laugh in delicious delight. Borges is embarking on a flight of fancy. This statement brings into the mind of Borges a quotation of Shakespeare 'Where a malignant and a turbaned Turk'. Is the monument of literature a sheer extravagant waste? Is it built on the foundations of whimsical chicanery?
Menard in his novel Quixote has no gypsies, no conquistadors and no mystics. Is Borges making an allusion of irony? Again Borges says that in chapter nine of Menard's Quixote there is a quote: '…truth whose mother is History, rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, exemplar and adviser to the present and the future's counselor. Borges is being philosophical about History. But the fundamental questions are: is History a truth? In postmodernism History is a methodological discourse.
Sunset Ruminations
The sky dark
Remained like a torn carpet,
A Diaspora of refugees,
Fleeing the tempest
Of a violent home land…
Wounds remained
Like gnarled creeks…
Dark settled in violently
Like a knife, searing the
Flesh of the clouds into
Battle of surreal pilferage …
T S Eliot remained silent
And meditating drunk
On a soiled Waste Land.
Dream Journal
I have insomnia and when I do not take sleeping pills, I go into a dream state. Yesterday, the whole night I was dreaming. I am able to recount only one of my dreams. I was driving a minivan to buy cigarettes and I crossed a bridge and after that I was driving on and on through a lush paddy field. I woke up without reaching the destination. I can't find a single dream book which carries multiple interpretations. What does the dream signify? Do the bridge and the lush green paddy field signify new positive beginnings? Is a Freudian interpretation of anxiety in the unconscious a right one or is the dream a detour from the realities of life? Freud calls it as condensation and displacement. I don't trust my unconscious with Freud. Am I authenticating my life in the existential Sartre's- way?
Introspection of Salvador Dali's Persistence of Memory
I have been fascinated with this painting for a long time. At first my consciousness accepted it as a work of art and nothing more. Then slowly my consciousness started interfering with it like pebbles struck by the moving stream. I thought of Freud and the association made by the surrealists with him. The surreal painters used to juxtapose dream and reality to create in my own words a (Hallucinogence), a hallucinogenic reflection on the art's work. Probing the painter deeper, what is Dali trying to manifest from the unconscious? Is it his own oedipal conflict which is vividly portrayed in the frozen embryo? The melting clocks portray time as Streams of Consciousness. Time is not a linear entity but is marked be the phenomenology of drifting towards a past, present and future. The genealogy of time is not chronological. Is time also showing a depiction of state where there is no care or worry, an embryonic time?


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'My Journey to Black Belt'. I have created this new blog to plan, document and analyse my training over the next few months as I prepare to take my Shodan grading in May/June 2011.
I currently train about 5 hours per week in karate and one and a half hours per week in kobudo. In the run up to my black belt grading I have decided that I need to increase the amount of home training I do to supplement my class training. I need to do this in a structured way so that I focus on all aspects of the syllabus and in particular on my weaknesses.
By publicly documenting my training and progress I hope to 1) stay motivated and committed, 2) provide a written record of my schedule which is open to scrutiny and analysis, 3) observe my own progress over the months through the posting of videos and 4) share the journey with other martial artists who are also preparing for a black belt grading in 2011.
So whether you just want to follow my progress or you are preparing for your own shodan test why not leave me comments and share your thoughts and tips about training with me.....


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Continued prayers for Fran Walter for healing from her quadruple bypass. Prayers for my brother Bob with back problems.
Prayers for prosperity in holding and keeping a good job to pay our debts that we owe, Gary needs a break in finding employment to support us. Prayers for me to have more understanding and support my husband Gary better.


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Upon turning 70 ½, and each year onward, the IRS will require you to take required minimum distributions, or RMDs, from your IRA accounts. RMDs ensure the government receives taxes from the funds that were deposited pre-tax. The minimum distribution rules apply to all retirement plans except Roth IRAs because Roth IRAs are after-tax money and grow tax-free. The required minimum distribution must be recalculated as balances change.There is flexibility in RMDs, though. Funds may be withdrawn from a single account, multiple accounts, in equal amounts or unequal amounts as long as the total RMD is met by Dec. 31.
Refer to your account balance at the end of the year in which you turn 70 ½. This information is most easily found on your year-end statement.Step 2
Consult the IRS life expectancy tables in the appendices of Publication 590 for the appropriate life expectancy number. Life expectancy must be recalculated each year.Step 3
Divide your account balance by the life expectancy number; this is your RMD. Repeat this procedure for each of your IRA accounts.Step 4
Add the total of each account's RMD and divide that sum by 12 to find your minimum monthly withdrawal amount. Withdrawals do not have to be in 12 equal increments as long as the total RMD for all accounts is met by Dec. 31.Step 5
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Narmada Park is located in the Lembuah village, District Narmada, West Lombok Regency, about 10 km east of Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara. Narmada Park has an area about 2 acres that was built by the King of Mataram named Anak Agung Ngurah Karang Asem in 1727. This park is commonly used as a place for the Pakelem ceremony held every 5 years in the Caka Month (October-November).
Most buildings are considered sacred to this day and are still being used as a means of religious rites by followers of the Hindu religion.
Tourists can enjoy the beauty of the park which has several pools of water that still look beautiful and natural. The pools where once used as a bathing place for the king's concubine.
In addition you can visit Mukedas Bale or Bale Agung which is a resting place for the king where he could see his concubines in the bathroom. There is also a fountain called the "Fountain of Youth". The water comes from Mount Rinjani and drinking it supposedly can make a person stay young.
The cost of entry to the park is pretty cheap. Local tourists are charged Rp 4,000, while foreigners are charged Rp 10,000. Although the prices are different, the staff will welcome all people with the same enthousiasm and smile.
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According to preliminary data, there were more than 4.3 million live births in the United States in 2007, an increase of 1 percent from the previous year. The number of births rose in every racial and ethnic group, most noticeably among Asian/Pacific Islander women (6 percent). Overall, the crude birth rate was 14.3 births per 1,000 total population (data not shown). Hispanic women continued to have the highest birth rate in 2007 (102.1 per 1,000 women), followed by non-Hispanic Black women (71.6 per 1,000 women). Non-Hispanic White women had the lowest birth rate (60.1 per 1,000 women).
With regard to age, overall birth rates were highest among mothers aged 25–29 years (117.5 live births per 1,000 women), followed by those aged 20–24 years (106.4 births per 1,000 women). The birth rate for non-Hispanic Whites was highest among 25- to 29-year-olds (108.8 per 1,000), while the rates for non-Hispanic Blacks, Hispanics, and American Indian/Alaska Natives were highest among 20- to 24-year-olds (133.6, 178.5, and 116.3 per 1,000 women, respectively). The birth rate among Asian/Pacific Islanders was highest among 30- to 34-year-olds (125.1 per 1,000 women).
The percentage of births delivered by cesarean has steadily increased since 1996. Among all births in 2006 (the latest year for which data are available), nearly one-third (31.1 percent) were delivered by cesarean, a 50 percent increase since 1996. Additionally, induction of labor increased more than 130 percent since 1990, from 9.6 percent in 1990 to 22.5 percent in 2006. In contrast, rates of vaginal births after a previous cesarean (VBAC) continued to decrease from 2005 to 2006 (from 7.9 to 7.6 percent; data not shown).1
In 2006, 83.2 percent of women received prenatal care during the first trimester of pregnancy, while 3.6 percent of women received care in the third trimester or not at all (data not shown).1
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To catch you up on what's been going down in the house of dee, we've had two bouts of croup blow through in the last month. J had it first and quickly recovered. Currently, it's D's turn. She came down with it two or three weeks after J did and has been pretty miserable these last few days. I suffered through yet another sinus infection, this one of the migraine-inducing variety. That makes two in the last four months for me. Lots of fun.
Outside of that, it seems like there are so many events and things coming up that, at times, I feel a bit overwhelmed. Suffice it to say that remembering to update the blog tends to fall by the wayside. Currently, D has swim lessons three days a week, D has ballet once a week, we've got Mother's Day plans to arrange, pre-K graduation/after-party to plan, J's first ballet recital, birthday party planning for J's fifth in June, our summer vacation in late-June...it just seems like it's always something. I find myself making lots of lists here and there--to do, groceries, and so forth. Kinda comes with the territory of motherhood I guess :)
In the midst of all that, however, I continue to make it a point to take care of myself physically. I've been going to the gym 6 days a week. I usually take Sundays off. I am doing both cardio and strength training. I'm not going to lie and say that I love it. I enjoy it (most days) as I can see changes in my stamina and my body but there are days when it takes all the motivation I've got just to get out the door and go. Wednesdays are my weigh-in days with my workout buddy (who lives about 90 miles from me) so we take a picture of our feet on the scale (to show that it's really us and not, say, our husbands standing there 'cause sadly both she and I weigh more than our husbands do) and send it via cell phone to the other person in order to have some accountability in all of this.
As of yesterday, I've lost 17.4 lbs. since the last week of February. I feel really good and proud of what I've managed to do to improve my health and appearance so far. When I lose 25 more lbs., I'll be where I started before I got pregnant with J, which would be awesome; if I can manage to lose 45 lbs. total (20 lbs. after the 25 more goal ) I'll be where I was at my healthiest and lightest in 2003. I've struggled with my weight most of my adult life, typically because of bad choices and sheer laziness. No more of that. That's not to say that I don't indulge my sweet tooth or get lazy or what have you every so often, 'cause I do. I just do it less frequently than I used to. Some days, I really miss being lazy ;)
Besides that, it's official: I am the parent of a kindergartener. I officially registered J this past Tuesday evening. School starts August 17th. To say she is excited about going would be an understatement. It is adorable to see. And me, being the anal, get-it-done-now mom that I am, have already started knocking items off of the kindergarten supply shopping list that was provided to me at orientation. And so it begins....
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In Memoriam: August 2013Published: August 15, 2013
M. Joan Lyon, an instructor at CSULB for 34 years, passed away on May 10 at the age of 84.
Born in Hollywood to William and Sally Lyon, she graduated from Hollywood High School as valedictorian in 1947, received her bachelor's and master's degrees from Stanford and her Ph.D. from the University of Southern California.
After teaching for five years at Whittier High School and one at UCLA, she came to CSULB where, over the following three-plus decades, she taught kinesiology, exercise physiology and sports biomechanics, as well as serving as a coach for tennis and swimming. In addition, she co-authored the book The Female Athlete.
Lyon, who was a Seal Beach resident for more than 40 years, was an accomplished sailor, skier, motorcyclist and bicyclist. She served as Commodore of the Marina Yacht Club of Long Beach in 2005 and was a member of The American Legion Yacht Club, Women's Sailing Association of LB/LA and Horizon Yacht Club. On her sailboat named "Sunshine," she sailed the California coast from San Diego to Santa Barbara in the summers and skied Mammoth and other locations during the winter months.
"Jo was very versatile, both as a faculty member as well as in her personal life," said former colleague Dixie Grimmett. "She taught a number of activity type classes and coached in her early years at Long Beach and then proceeded to prepare to teach in the science classes in her later years. She was well-liked by her students and was always very pleasant and understanding with their needs. She was a good person, who loved life and lived it to the fullest."
In lieu of flower or cards, those wishing to do so can make donations to the Sierra Club in honor of Lyon.
Robert A. Rodgers, known to his friends and colleagues as Bob, passed away on June 11. As a career audio-visual specialist, Rodgers began working full-time at CSULB in November 1981. His expertise as a media production technician had him working at most of the campus events throughout the year. His specialties were digital and analog audio, digital video, instructional design and media production and information retrieval. He held certificates in Instructional Media Production, Video Production and Digital Multimedia.
Rodgers' educational background was diverse, with an A.A. degree in foreign linguistics from Long Beach City College, along with a B.A. degree in geography (1981) and a M.A. in education-instructional media (1987), both from CSULB. Then, there was the clown school, Santa University and the International Brotherhood of Magicians. He was also certificated on the Emergency Response Team, USAR Light Specialty as well as the CSULB Search and Rescue Team.
Known for being the campus' "sound guy," Rodgers worked for presidents Stephen Horn, June Cooper, Curtis McCray, John Beljian, Karl Anatol, Robert Maxson and F. King Alexander. For the 50th anniversary celebration, he provided support to former Govs. George Deukmejian and Arnold Schwarzenegger, Long Beach mayors Beverly O'Neill and Bob Foster, and entertainer Steve Martin.
During his career, Rodgers recorded and mixed audio soundtracks, QuickTime movies, videotaped lectures and academic events. This past spring was his 32nd commencement running the sound board and he did the same for the annual American Indian Pow Wow for more than 20 years.
Rodgers and Denise Davis began the annual Cherishing Children's toy drive and party for the local area foster children and their families in 1997, with he and Davis playing the parts of Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus. Toys not used at the party held on campus were given to the Long Beach Fire Station 22 for the Long Beach Fire Department Spark of Love and the American Red Cross. Rodgers also played Santa for many campus functions and public venues over the years.
A member of Staff Council for more than 10 years, Rodgers served as chair and vice chair in 2002-03. He chaired and was an active member of the campus special events committee for more than 15 years, overseeing such events as Staff Day, President's Breakfast, Kaleidoscope, Spooktacular, Staff Summer Picnic and the Ice Cream Social. He was one of the few to be selected as both Outstanding Staff Member (2000) and Community Service Award (2001). In addition, he had been on the Special Olympics Organizing committee since 2000, helping with sound and recruiting volunteers. He also supported the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life and Globe for a Better Environment.
Rodgers was predeceased by his parents, Robert Albert Rodgers and Mildred Graves (Harrison) Rodgers, and his half-brother, Jerry Szmanski. He is survived by his niece, Maryanne Funk, and his half-brother's widow, Susan Szmanski, long time family friends Denise Davis, Dana Hooten, and Solomon and Rebecca Martin. He leaves behind his two prized friends—Mackie and Mojo—a rat terrier and Chihuahua mix (both of whom are looking to be re-homed, preferably together).
Rodgers was a member of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa tribe and will be laid to rest in the state of Washington with family members on an American Indian reservation.
Robert "Bob" Wuesthoff passed away on July 12 at the age of 87. Born on May 25, 1926, in Alameda to Charles and Sigrid Wuesthoff, he married Gerry Lehnert on June 18, 1955, and just celebrated their 58th wedding anniversary.
Wuesthoff was in athletics and education for 56 years. He began teaching and coaching baseball at Madera High School and later did the same at Menlo Junior College and San Jose State University before settling at CSULB, where he was the head baseball coach for six seasons. He also served as an associate athletics director for the Forty-Niners and was the interim athletics director during the 1969 football season.
Along with former Forty-Niner Athletics Director Fred Miller, Wuesthoff co-founded the immensely successful and popular 49er Camp, a youth summer sports camp for which he served as director for more than four decades. The camp will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2014.
Wuesthoff is survived by his wife, Gerry; his three children, Rob Wuesthoff, Suzie Torrey and Tammie Smith; his sons-in-law, Jeff Torrey, and Peter Smith; and his three grandsons, Tanner, Riley and Colter Smith.
A celebration of Wuesthoff's life was held on Tuesday, July 23, at Blair Field, where more than 300 family and friends gathered to remember him as a family man, a great teacher and someone who always believed in doing the right thing.
The family requests that any donations be made to the Bob Wuesthoff Baseball Endowed Scholarship, c/o CSULB 49er Foundation, 6300 State University Drive suite 332 Long Beach, CA 90815.


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Ron Rothblum
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
February 1, 2016
Interactive proofs have had a dramatic impact on Complexity Theory and Cryptography. In particular, the celebrated IP=PSPACE Theorem [LFKN92,Shamir92] allows an all-powerful but untrusted prover to convince a polynomial-time verifier of the validity of extremely complicated statements (as long as they can be evaluated using polynomial space). The interactive proof system designed for this purpose requires a polynomial number of communication rounds. It is very natural and well motivated to examine the power of more efficient interactive proofs, and this is the focus of this talk. Our main result is that for every statement that can be evaluated in polynomial time and bounded-polynomial space there exists an interactive proof that satisfies the following strict efficiency requirements: (1) the honest prover runs in polynomial time, (2) the verifier is almost linear time (and under some conditions even sub linear), and (3) the interaction consists of only a constant number of communication rounds. We introduce several new notions for interactive proofs that turn out to be very useful in our work and may be of independent interest. One of these notions is that of unambiguous interactive proofs where the prover has a unique successful strategy. Another notion is that of probabilistically checkable interactive proofs (PCIPs) where the verifier only reads a few bits of the transcript in checking the proof (this could be viewed as an interactive extension of PCPs). Joint work with Omer Reingold and Guy Rothblum.


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How Netflix's 'Bright 2' can succeed where 'Bright' didn't
**Spoilers will follow, fam**
Judging from the largely negative reviews that have hit the internet since the release of Netflix's first "blockbuster" film Bright, you'd think it was an embarrassing failure that even Will Smith's magic couldn't save, yet Netflix quickly greenlit a sequel. But, regardless of whether you loved or hated the movie, the sequel is the perfect opportunity to right the first film's shortcomings.
Released exclusively on Netflix's streaming service on December 22, Bright was billed as a gamechanger for the platform. The point was to prove that an online outlet could release a successful big-budget film and circumvent a traditional movie theater release. And based on Nielsen's approximate ratings, it was a success. Bright reportedly clocked 11 million viewers in the first 3 days of its release, 7 million of which were in the coveted 18-49 age range (For more information on how to interpret Nielsen ratings, go here: A primer on how to actually support a Black TV show).
The film itself was a bit of a risk. As the synopsis states, Bright is an action-thriller "set in an alternate present-day where humans, orcs, elves and fairies have been coexisting since the beginning of time." Will Smith plays human cop Ward partnered with the first-ever orc cop Jakoby, played by Joel Edgerton. And in this "Training Day"-like film, this unlikely duo ends up being charged with protecting a young elf, a magic wand, and by proxy, the fate of the entire world.
The Critics
While that description sounds like the makings of an amazing film, I've read a number of blistering reviews of the film. Critics have called the film "astoundingly bad in virtually every way", "so profoundly awful that Republicans will probably try to pass it into law over Christmas", and "lazy nonsense that's too silly to be good and too self-serious to be any fun". Even Chance the Rapper chimed in, calling its illustration of racism "shallow". The general consensus, according to Rotten Tomatoes, is that "Bright tries to blend fantasy, hard-hitting cop drama, and social commentary — and ends up falling painfully short of the mark on all three fronts."
This feels like piling on. Especially when I thoroughly enjoyed the film.
To be clear, I don't find fault in any of these criticisms. I do however feel like I was able to enjoy the film because my expectations for the film were not for it to provide any meaningful commentary on race, serious dramatic storytelling, or Oscar-worthy performances. There was action. There was drama. And production values were impressive. I expected a summer tent-pole style film featuring cops set in a world where humans, elves, and orcs coexist. And the film delivered on that but not much else.
Goldilocks storytelling
Still, it was far from perfect.
While the overall cast was largely diverse, most of these same actors were relegated to minor and/or tired stereotypical roles. Will Smith's family members, which we would assume would be a major driving force behind his will to survive, make "blink and you miss it" appearances. And despite its impressive effects and competent performances, the film did little in the area of worldbuilding. We know next to nothing about how any of the communities work. There's a bit of mythos slipped in about Orcs and some allegiance to an evil entity, but any exploration of this development is shoved into the background for the sake of the greater narrative. It's lazy storytelling at best.
But perhaps the biggest miss was any real discussion about of what race relations look like in this iteration of reality. Humans are almost only depicted as gangsters or cops, with Latinx and Black folks largely filling the gangster roles. Law enforcement's treatment of the Orcs paralleled how Blacks and other people of color are treated by the police. No doubt, these treatments were heavy-handed and shallow, but I wasn't surprised either. A throwaway line about "fairy lives not mattering today" included in the trailer and at the opening of the film should have been a key indicator of the level of racial discourse this film would engage in.
The filmmakers were clearly trying to hit that "Goldilocks" sweet spot in their storytelling, doing their best to give the right amount of backstory, action, character development, and comedy for a balanced movie. While I'd argue that the film itself was fairly balanced, I'd also argue they were only marginally successful on all of these counts. There's just not enough space to do all of that work within the confines of one 2-hour movie.
It would have been great if Bright could have been the film that people seemed to be looking for, offering a nuanced discussion on race with a fully realized and explained world of magic. But any film looking to cover that much ground would have been bloated by subtext and left inadequate space for actual story. Or, it would have been at least an hour longer.
Expectations for Bright 2
Even with all of these shortcomings and the harsh criticism, Bright has been an undeniable success for Netflix. Viewers gave the film a high positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes and those Neilsen estimates speak for themselves. That's why Netflix quickly ordered another one.
This is also the perfect opportunity to address the first film's weak points. Now that this environment has been established, the sequel can offer the details viewers missed. We can get more of a history lesson on how the infusion of magical creatures has altered history. We can get a clearer understanding of Will Smith's Ward outside of his uniform. And most importantly, the film can make the real thoughtful social commentary that so many felt was lacking. I'd argue that the film is well positioned to do all this work now that we've been given an entry point into this world.
Netflix clearly has the world's attention here. People will be watching and ready to be even more critical the second time around. I can only hope that this pressure can form Bright 2 into a gem of a film that clearly tackles race and class dynamics and the role of policing while exploring the impact that magic would have in the development of the world. Anything short of that would be a true failure.
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Business Ethics: Satisficing
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1. Which of the following explains the term "satisficing?"
Striving to select only the best alternative
Following simplified decision rules
Selecting the alternative simply because it is the easy way out
Selecting the alternative that meets minimum decision criteria
2. Which of the following is a criticism of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act?
It excludes requirements for certification of documents by officers.
It imposes extraordinary financial costs on the firms.
It does not require lawyers to report concerns of wrongdoing if not addressed.
It does not require codes of ethics for senior financial officers.
The next two questions response should be at least 200 words in length. All sources used must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.
3. In the 1960s, Britain and France decided to jointly fund and build a supersonic transport that became known as the Concorde. Research the decision to build and fly the supersonic transport Concorde. Then, discuss how the sunk costs and an escalation of commitment affected their decisions.
4. Throughout its existence, Saturn has never turned a profit for General Motors. Research the history of Saturn and GM's decision to continue funding it (although GM has now decided to close down the auto maker). Why hadn't Saturn made a profit? Was escalation of commitment in play in GM's decision? If so, how?© BrainMass Inc. brainmass.com June 4, 2020, 5:09 am ad1c9bdddf
Solution Summary
This is an examination of the definition of satisficing. Also, the major impact of Sarbanes-Oxley on business. Further, a look into the impact of sunk costs on continuing a failed project. Finally, the GM's decision to continue Saturn despite the losses.


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As we all know in the marketing world. Content Creation is everything. And there are many job profiles regarding content marketing. Content is you can say, an art of writing. You must know what you want and what you are writing. Content creation is everything you must know how to write. Obviously, we have written many articles, essays since schooling days but here it is different.
Content has mainly two parts –
Content creation – As the bloggers do, they publish online posts, blogs, their views about something that is happening in the globe around. We write for your websites. It is important to know what you are writing. As imagine yourself as a reader reading something online? What would you want? Would you ever read the boring content? The answer would be definite No. That is what the readers expect from you. If you want to create content. Make sure the content is fresh and not copied from anywhere. Make it relevant to the point that your readers can relate to you. And never forget to be consistent. You are doing content creation which is good. But in the meantime, you are creating content once in a blue moon. This is something which is definitely not acceptable. You must be consistent and write good readable, interesting articles. In order for people to be fond of you, to visit you again to write your writings. Which is equally important.
Content distribution – The second important thing that comes after content creation is content distribution. You wrote great content alright, but you surely did not write those articles to keep it with you. Obviously, you wrote because you want people to read it and for it, you need to distribute your writings? But how? Where will you distribute it? You can share your content on your social media sites, ask your friends to read it. And share it with their pals and companions. You can create your Website and write articles there. And this is the excellent way to gain organic traffic to your website. Many bloggers are there who are famous because of their excellent content creation.
- Definitely, you will not be able to write excellent articles in one go. It will take time but all you need to be is consistent. Keep writing and in the meantime, you will be improving yourself. Slowly, you will start writing good articles. And it will make you write more. Why? because people will be appreciating your writing skills. And it will be boosting your self-confidence. And will make you write more for your valuable readers.
- You need to have plans in your mind. Being Lethargic will definitely not work. Have your Why? clear in your mind. No matter how busy you are. If you have chosen this line. Be adamant to give your content creation your time and devotion.
- Obvious thing. Let me make you understand a bit more. When you were a kid you did not learn to swim, dance in one go. See what would have happened if when you have learned to walk first and you fell. Did you tell your mother that I fell now I would not walk? This did not happen. You fell And again you stood up and walked. Same is with content writing. You will not be having many readers in the beginning. But with your consistent efforts, you will have your readers.
Always keep in mind:
- Good Content is the base of any type of marketing.
- Content is what you will need every time
- You need to have good writing skills, and you will need it throughout your life
- Many leading renowned brands also use content creation
- Always try to make your content catchy and relevant
- Keep your content to the point. You are writing content and in the middle, you are writing something which is completely out of the context. This is a negative remark and can leave the negative impression on someone who is reading your content.
- Write and improve. When you will begin to write. You will know what mistakes you are making. See yourself as a reader and you will know what a reader expects from you.
- One of the best way to improve your writing which I tried personally. Is in your free time. Become a reader. Read other blogs. See their writing skills. Examine their good and bad. See the way they wrote. And what topics they are writing on? Are they writing on evergreen topics or something else? Go see by yourself, learn and evolve.
Increase reader engagement. Ask your readers for their opinion on something. Ask them to mention the things they liked about your writing. Interaction with your readers is a good way that your reader will come back to read your writings.
Content Creation & Content Marketing
- Choose your topics wisely. See what you are passionate about because it becomes easy when you write something you are passionate about.
- Is your passion lies in some sport? Great, go ahead. Write about your favorite sport, their players or their recent championship. Ask readers to mention something about their favorite player.
- Sit somewhere, organize your thoughts. Choose topics and decide what you want to write
- When you read other blogs. See what audience like to read. Is the writing too long or too short? Which basically depends on the topic on which you are writing about.
- The topics in which the content should be not too long or the topics in which content has to be written long. You need to see those by yourself.
- Read, Learn, Write, Repeat
- Remember, Content Is Always The King
In the modern 21st century digital era you will need content everywhere
For your Website – If there will be no content, you will not be getting good traffic
For PPC – you need to have creation
- There are many reputed job profiles who pay you the handsome amount and all they want you to create good content for them
- Even housewives can earn with content creation by staying at home itself
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The City of Jonesboro has launched OneJonesboro – a free mobile app that empowers citizens to easily report non-emergency issues located within the City limits of Joensboro. It also provides on-the-go access to the latest City news and information.
In a matter of minutes, the app allows users to submit a description, picture and location of a City neighborhood issue, such as a streetlight outage, pothole or park trail obstruction.
The report is automatically submitted to the respective division or department for review. The individual who submitted the service requested will be notified when the issue has been acknowledged and closed. Citizens will also be able to view, comment on and vote to fix problems submitted by their neighbors.
Additional features of the app allow residents to read about the latest city news and events, contact City staff, and more!
"We're always looking for new ways to increase engagement with the members of our community, " said City Manager Ricky Clark. "With so many of us taking our smart phones and tablets everywhere we go, we are excited to offer this mobile-friendly tool for residents to both stay informed of City happenings, as well as report non-emergency issues we can address to make Jonesboro the best and cleanest place it can be."
The OneJonesboro app is available for download on Android and Iphone. Simply search "OneJonesboro" on the App Store and Google Play. In addition the mobile apps, citizens and send reports through the City's website by clicking the OneJonesboro app on the homepage. See more at www.jonesboroga.com
OneJonesboro was developed in partnership with SeeClickFix and Clayton County. SeeClick Fix was founded in 2008 to empower citizens with tools to publicly document quality of life concerns in their neighborhoods. By radically improving the quantity and quality of this data, SeeClickFix was quickly adopted by local governments, who needed a better way to received information from citizens.
This exchange helped to build one of the largest neighborhood networks in the world – upon which public agencies and public citizens engage to improve communities. Today, SeeClickFix has official partnerships with hundreds of cities, engaging hundreds of thousands of citizens in the resolution of millions of issues.
SeeClickFix has worked with government partners to develop municipal management tools on top of this citizen network. As SeeClickFix is adopted into the everyday lives of government users, the benefit of the engaged citizen base continues to grow.
With regards to the photo for the events…Use my attached photo on the homepage for Concerts in the Park.


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Flock seems like a childish title on the surface, but like many Xbox Live Arcade titles of this ilk, first impressions most definitely deceive.
The premise is that you control an alien space craft, on a quest to round up sheep, cows, chickens and pigs to your mothership, dubbed as the 'motherflocker'. You do this by using a smaller space ship, designed as you very own flying sheep dog, herding the animals in the direction you want them to move, while not having any direct control over where they go, as they are after all still semi-wild animals.
The game is at a leisurely difficulty to begin with, as your main obstacles will be gates that are inaccessible, although a quick trip through a water fountain will shrink the sheep, enabling them to squeeze through the fence. Things soon get tricky though, as sheer cliff faces are introduced, as well as different kinds of livestock, each with their own quirks and, for lack of a word, abilities.
Gameplay can become finicky at times, as your flying sheep dog will seemingly have no effect on some livestock, who want to cause their own demise by taking sharp turns in to pits, or over cliffs in to the sea surrounding the paddocks. The livestock also have a problem with crossing fences which has been knocked down for that very purpose; perhaps they're afraid of getting splinters in their hoofs?
Flock also features a hugely in-depth level editor for a XBLA game. You have the ability to play and modify everything you experience within the game's campaign, altering it to suit your artistic wishes. For instance, you can change the season the map takes place in, as well as how many and what types of animals you need to complete the level.
Visually Flock is one of the better looking XBLA in the marketplace at the moment. Everything looks lush and vibrant, which fits well with the overall theme and atmosphere of the game. The changing seasons add a nice touch, and it's cool to see the landscape in winter, juxtaposed to a summer paddock.
Personally I'm afraid that Flock's gameplay quirks will harm the experience for many gamers. I didn't find them game-wrecking by any stretch of the imagination, but there will be some people who will throw their hands up in despair. Past this however, is a title full of charm and a great interval to full blown retail games.


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Significance & Meaning Of Angel Number 283
Angel number 283 is a symbol of excitement. This a message from the guardian angels advising you to be more enthusiastic about life. Your workmates do not ask you to accompany them to after-office activities because you are too boring and do not believe in life after work.
The angel numbers are encouraging you to be more enthusiastic about life, by seeing life in the eyes of those around you. The angels want you to embrace enthusiasm for the next few days and see how your life will begin to feel lighter.
Angel number 283 is assuring you that the angels will always be there to protect and guide you in all that you do. Do not be afraid and do not hold back on living life.
Angel Number 283 Meaning
Communication is fondly associated with Angel number 283 meaning. This is a signed form the angels for you to begin communicating in your relationship. Stop being upset over what your partner does and not communicate with them. The angels are advising you to begin speaking out more on the matters that are not giving you happiness. The angels are telling you to interact more to encourage trust. When communication is present so is trust and faith in another person.
Creativity is a symbol of angel number 2, number 8, and number 3. Your boss has been encouraging you to pursue a different way of presenting your projects. Angel number 283 is a sign for you to become more creative not only in your work but even in your thinking.
Angel number 283 symbolism is telling you to exercise the creative part of your mind for better results. The angels are advising you to believe in yourself and be sure that everything you practice will work out well in the end. Embrace creativity moving forward in all angles of your life.
Expansion and growth are symbols of Angel number 283. The angels are sending you a message advising you to embrace the development and growth that is currently taking place in your life. You do not do well with change, but we must accept that change is inevitable. Expansion and advancement are inevitable if performance is at its best. Angel number 283 is a sign that you need to be flexible and willing to embrace change as and when it happens.


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This post, I want to devote to explaining where we got our Inspiration from and talking a bit about the two applications.
The very first idea of doing an anonymous Posting-Website for students was inspired by a German App called Yodel. It is not very well known in England, but a lot of my friends from home are using it to keep track of what is happening around them. The app is following a very similar concept to our website. Smartphone users can download it and then anonymously post and others can read those posts and rate them. The user only sees the posts from people close by, for example in their city. It is mostly used by people aged 18-25 to express their thoughts and ideas without sharing their true identity.
After looking into it, me and my teammates found another app that uses the same principle. It is pretty similar to Yodel and called YikYak. So I decided to look a bit into it, hoping to learn something for our project:
YikYak was first launched in 2013 by Tyler Droll and Brooks Buffington. Both of them are graduates from a college in the US. The app allows people to create and view so called "Yaks" within a 10 mile radius. Just six months after the App was released, it became the 9th most downloaded app in the US.
Here you can see both, the webpage as well the app interface of YikYak:
YikYak, 2013. Available from: http://www.yikyakapp.com/ [Accessed: 11th March 2015]
Itunes Applestore Preview, Yik Yak LLC, Available from: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/yik-yak/id730992767?mt=8 [Accessed: 11th March 2015]
Dredge, S., 2014. The Guardian. Yik Yak is the hottest messaging app in the world. So how are Brits using it? Available from: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/16/yik-yak-messaging-app-brits [Accessed: 11th March 2015]


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