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NANTUCKET — As David Pierce sat at the table at the Nantucket Seal Symposium last month, he said one image came to mind: private pilot Aaron Knight's video from April of miles of gray seals, a dozen deep, cheek by jowl, banding the Monomoy shoreline.
Recently appointed as director of the state Division of Marine Fisheries, Pierce is a veteran of decades of fisheries negotiations as former director Paul Diodati's proxy on the New England Fishery Management Council. Fishery managers live and die by population estimates — known as stock assessments — that help set sustainable catch levels for commercial fishermen, so it was disconcerting to hear that the same level of science had not been applied to the predators who eat them.
"The determination of population size is extremely important, especially in the context of ecosystem management in New England," Pierce said. "If (gray seals) are out there in large numbers foraging, what might their impact be on the Georges Bank ecosystem?"
The answer will not be coming any time soon, according to federal fisheries officials at the symposium.
"It's just an expensive number to get," said Sean Hayes, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration branch chief for protected species in the Northeast.
Kimberly Murray, coordinator of the seal research program at NOAA Fisheries Northeast Fisheries Science Research Center in Woods Hole, said it could cost as much as a half million dollars to conduct the tagging study alone.
The operational budget for seal research is around $10,000, Hayes said, although that doesn't include the salaries for the two full-time and two part-time employees in the program.
Federal agencies are required to stick to the budgets they are allocated by Congress, and NOAA can't shift money around among species. Because of their historic comeback from virtual extinction in New England waters, gray seals are far down on the budget priority list, Hayes explained, and get minimal funding. To put more money into seal research, he'd have to take it from other programs for more highly endangered species such as right whales during the budget process, and make a successful plea to put that amount into seals.
"We definitely want to try and find the resources to do the whole population count, but competing resource priorities from headquarters for species like the right whales, or a roof collapse at a science center, that comes up every year," Hayes said. "Headquarters is getting hit by all the science centers. Everyone has an urgent priority."
The region's fishermen have been asking in vain for years for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's fisheries division to give them a true population number for gray seals to gauge their impact on fish stocks such as cod, haddock, flounders and striped bass. With the arrival of hundreds of great white sharks to inshore waters of Cape Cod every year, to feast on members of the largest gray seal colony in the U.S., new voices have emerged with concerns about public safety.
"Where is this headed and how are we going to know at what rate this population is increasing if we don't know what the number is now?" asked Orleans Natural Resources Manager Nate Sears.
Their resurgence is both a Marine Mammal Protection Act success story and a cause for concern.
Rob Wissman, owner of Blue Claw Boat Tours in Orleans, asked NOAA scientists at the symposium if Monomoy could eventually look like Sable Island, home to nearly 400,000 seals. There are some surface similarities. Sable Island, a 13-square-mile sandbar off the Nova Scotia coastline, has only in recent years shown signs of becoming overcrowded. The Monomoy Islands are only slightly smaller at just over 12 square miles. Food does not seem to be a problem.
"I think we are at the beginning of this curve," Wissman said. "Once there is a shark attack in full view of everyone on the beach, the game will change."
In the latest shark-tagging data, from 2015, receivers moored in shallow water at Nauset Beach in Orleans detected acoustic signals from 24 tagged great whites, second only to Chatham's 28. For the past two summers, for reasons still not clear to shark researchers, these massive predators have been leaving the relatively remote Monomoy islands south of Chatham in August and heading north to hunt seals in the near shore areas of popular beaches from Orleans to Truro.
"If the seals increase in number, we'll see more sharks recruit to the area," state Division of Marine Fisheries shark scientist Greg Skomal said.
"The more we know about the prey, the better we will understand how the predator behaves," he added. Skomal is finishing the third year of a five-year great white shark population study that is projected to cost nearly $800,000, most of the money privately raised through the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy.
Tagging hundreds of seals would be essential to a population study, Skomal said, and those tags could provide valuable finer scale information on seal movements that would help his research into how sharks hunt them. That could, in turn, help beach managers and public safety officials.
"Their predatory behavior is very telling on how we advise or provide information to beach managers and public safety officials," Skomal said. "Where these sharks are hunting makes a difference."
"It seems inevitable that someone will attack someone in a graphic way in front of a lot of people and people will ask, 'Why didn't you study seals?'" Wissman said.
The seal population data gap also affects the computer models that MIT researcher Wendy Puryear uses to investigate diseases in seal populations and assess their risk of transmission to one another and, possibly, to other species, including humans. Puryear is looking into the gray seal as one possible reservoir of avian flu and the likelihood of its transmission to humans, who have little defense against it.
"Ten thousand vs. 300,000 (seals) makes a difference," Puryear said. "That contact rate (between seals, and between seals and other species) is determined by the amount of animals in the population."
Puryear also agreed with Skomal that the information collected during a large tagging study would be valuable. The mix of ages, their interactions, both in the water and when they are hauled out, all feed into disease models, she said.
"There are so many unknowns here, but trying to understand the disease ecology of what could evolve and how things could be transmitted within and between species, all those parameters are needed," Puryear said.
Although the Marine Mammal Act of 1972 was amended in 1994 in part to require stock assessments every three years, most seal and sea lion population estimates nationwide have big data gaps. The biggest is determining how many are in the water when counts are being done. Then, there's the problem of mobility, as seals can travel great distances, potentially being double-counted. There's also a lot of basic biological information among those unknowns, that tend to increase the uncertainties in seal population studies.
"What's very disturbing is how much we don't know: what they eat, birth and mortality rates, and how far they travel," said State Rep. Sarah Peake, who attended the symposium.
Most stock assessments for seals and sea lions count the pups and then apply a mathematical formula that determines the number of adults that could produce that many young. The pup counts are sometimes done with aerial photography; sometimes volunteers count them on the ground. In at least one case, a tagging study of 180 California harbor seals was also factored in for a better estimate. Flyover counts of both adults and pups have been done for the Cape and Islands gray seals, but most scientists feel a tagging study is the only way to get an accurate number.
"I do a lot of fisheries management work, and we base our decisions on the best science available," Peake said. "The same model needs to be applied here. Seals are top-tier predators, eating cod, striped bass, other ground fish species. They also consume vast amounts of sand lances, a vital food for whales. There needs to be more funding devoted to research so that fact- based management decisions can be made."
"There's no funding for species that are rebounding," said Andrea Bogolmoni, a postdoctoral scholar at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the chairwoman of the Northwest Atlantic Seal Research Consortium. She told the Nantucket symposium her consortium is routinely turned down on grant applications for seal research money. That does not mean that research isn't happening.
"We have 10 to 12 projects," said NOAA's Murray. "We're all working together because the underlying theme is we have no money."
A population study would likely be the biggest research project in terms of expense and manpower, scientists said.
But Hayes, Bogolmoni and others questioned the value of getting that population number. We already know we have a lot of seals, our eyes and aerial surveys tell us that, so how much more valuable is it knowing the exact number?
"I work on marine issues in all the coastal states and I see a crying need to fill data gaps for (endangered) animals like the beluga whale, or what's going on in the Gulf of Mexico with Bryde's whales, or the right whales that are now showing signs they might be in decline," said Sharon Young, marine issues field director at the Humane Society of the United States. "To spend a huge amount of money to satisfy curiosity doesn't seem to be a good use of money."
She worried that the number could be used to justify a herd-reducing cull, as with deer.
"We may be witnessing an emerging imbalance in which the gray seal population continues to expand unchecked to the detriment of other (competing or prey) species and the ecosystem as a whole," Nantucket Seal Abatement Coalition co-founder Peter Howell told those at the Nantucket symposium, while advocating for action that corrects that imbalance.
It was an imbalance created by man. In her presentation to the Nantucket Symposium, Nicole LeBoeuf, NOAA's acting deputy director for the Office of Protected Resources, led off with a quote from the House of Representatives report on the need for the Marine Mammal Protection Act: "Recent history indicates that man's impact upon marine mammals has ranged from what might be termed malign neglect to virtual genocide."
State and municipal records, cited by DMF's Pierce, revealed that from 1888 to 1962, hunters collecting the $5 state and town bounty on seals killed between 73,000 and 137,000 gray seals. Their comeback may have been aided by overfishing that killed off the predators of one of their favorite foods, sand lance.
Many scientists argue a cull would not succeed in controlling gray seal population numbers because seals would be replenished with migrants from Sable Island.
"You could kill the entire 25,000 and it won't change anything because (the Cape & Islands) have perfectly good habitat," Young said.
Others argue that the benefits of seals are being overlooked and undervalued.
Bogolmoni pointed to Australian studies of the fertilizing effect that seal defecation in the upper layers of the ocean had on plankton. Plus, they serve as sentinel species, telling scientists and others when something in the ocean is going wrong because they can easily be observed in shallow waters and on land. A 2014 stock assessment error missed a big dip in the Pacific Coast sardine population, and allowed fishing to continue when it shouldn't have, according to a story in the Orange County Register. The population crash was noticed in 2015 when malnourished seals started washing ashore, suffering from the combined effects of the sardine and anchovy population crash.
It is unlikely we'd ever see a cull. Seals are protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, and only Congress could amend it to allow them to be killed to reduce the population. Conservation groups have vowed they would fight any proposed cull, as they have in Canada.
"I think that we, as a society, are probably not ready to cull them," Young said.
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Lara Cooke, Art Therapist at St Christopher's, recently returned from an inspirational trip to India…
Narratives East West is a project I worked on run by the Fabrics and Threads group at St Christopher's. Participants created an individual 'pocket patch' that made up part of a quilt. The pockets could contain artwork, relics, memories, creative writing or poems the personal journey of that person's loss.
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This section sets out 5 simple steps for any company, but particularly SME, to start managing its human rights risks and impacts. It provides you with
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U.S. Government Approves Fox Sale To Disney! Passes Anti-Trust Hurdle With One Caveat!
U.S. Government Approves Fox Sale To Disney! Passes Anti-Trust Hurdle With One Caveat!
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- WASHINGTON — The Justice Department's approval of The Walt Disney Co.'s purchase of Fox assets is quicker than Wall Street analysts and others were expecting — and it certainly has implications as Comcast weighs whether to counter its counter offer.
UBS's Media and Pay TV analysts called it a "FastPass approval," while MoffettNathanson wrote that "it seems to us that the pressure is now back on Comcast to come in with a more significant bid above Disney's $38 per share offer to help sway the 21st Century Fox Board to reject the bird in the hand regulatory clearance."
Comcast's proposed merger with NBCUniversal was unveiled in late 2009, but took more than a year to secure a green light from the DOJ and the FCC. AT&T's acquisition of Time Warner, first proposed in October 2016, took more than 18 months as the government challenged it in court…
…When Disney and Fox announced their deal in December, the expectation was that it would take 12 to 18 months to close, though UBS's John Hodulik and other analysts wrote that they believed that the Disney-Fox deal could close before the end of the year…
…In announcing the approval, the Justice Department noted that "to streamline agency clearance, Disney agreed to divest the 22 RSNs rather than continue with the Antitrust Division's ongoing merger investigation." In other words, it became clear to Disney what the Justice Department's major concern was with the deal: Disney's purchase of the RSNs would harm competition for sports programming in those local markets. Rather than try to challenge that contention or negotiate some kind of conditions, a process that could have taken many more months, Disney agreed to the type of structural remedy favored by the DOJ under antitrust chief Makan Delrahim.
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For 8/5/2016 the closing price was 101.1700.
Overall, the bias in prices is: Downwards.
Short term: Prices are moving.
Intermediate term: Prices are trending.
Note: this chart shows extraordinary price action to the downside.
By the way, prices are vulnerable to a correction towards 105.22.
The projected upper bound is: 104.31.
The projected lower bound is: 97.67.
The projected closing price is: 100.99.
Rex Takasugi – TD Profile Analysis of FOREX JPY= (JPY=) as of 8/5/2016
FOREX JPY= closed down -0.030 at 101.170. Volume was 81% below average (consolidating) and Bollinger Bands were 18% wider than normal.
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101.210 101.360 101.030 101.170 13,232
Technical Outlook
Short Term: Oversold
Intermediate Term: Bearish
Long Term: Bearish
Moving Averages: 10-period 50-period 200-period
Close: 102.99 104.67 112.85
Volatility: 20 20 15
Volume: 60,848 70,489 61,104
Short-term traders should pay closer attention to buy/sell arrows while intermediate/long-term traders should place greater emphasis on the Bullish or Bearish trend reflected in the lower ribbon.
FOREX JPY= is currently 10.3% below its 200-period moving average and is in an downward trend. Volatility is extremely high when compared to the average volatility over the last 10 periods. There is a good possibility that volatility will decrease and prices will stabilize in the near term. Our volume indicators reflect volume flowing into and out of JPY= at a relatively equal pace (neutral). Our trend forecasting oscillators are currently bearish on JPY= and have had this outlook for the last 2 periods.
Candlesticks Review of FOREX JPY= (JPY=) as of 8/5/2016
A black body occurred (because prices closed lower than they opened).
During the past 10 bars, there have been 3 white candles and 7 black candles for a net of 4 black candles. During the past 50 bars, there have been 18 white candles and 32 black candles for a net of 14 black candles.
Momentum Indicators Review of FOREX JPY= (JPY=) as of 8/5/2016
Momentum is a general term used to describe the speed at which prices move over a given time period. Generally, changes in momentum tend to lead to changes in prices. This expert shows the current values of four popular momentum indicators.
Stochastic Oscillator
One method of interpreting the Stochastic Oscillator is looking for overbought areas (above 80) and oversold areas (below 20). The Stochastic Oscillator is 14.0290. This is an oversold reading. However, a signal is not generated until the Oscillator crosses above 20 The last signal was a sell 11 period(s) ago.
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The CCI shows overbought (above 100) and oversold (below -100) areas. The current value of the CCI is -97. This is not a topping or bottoming area. The last signal was a buy 0 period(s) ago.
The Moving Average Convergence/Divergence indicator (MACD) gives signals when it crosses its 9 period signal line. The last signal was a sell 5 period(s) ago.
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Soviet Foreign Policy Towards East Germany.
By: Megas, Achilleas.Material type: TextSeries: eBooks on Demand.Contributions to Political Science: Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2015Description: 1 online resource (223 p.).ISBN: 9783319200019.Subject(s): Germany (East) -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union -- History | Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- Germany (East) -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Soviet Foreign Policy Towards East GermanyDDC classification: 327.47 LOC classification: DK67.5.G35 -- .M443 2015ebOnline resources: Click here to view this ebook.
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Preface; List of Abbreviations; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 Note on Method; References; Chapter 2: The Politics of Economy; 2.1 Politics; 2.2 Economics; 2.3 Interpreting Soviet Policy in the Context of the German Question; 2.4 The International System and the Paradoxical GDR Dependency on Soviet Policy; References; Chapter 3: Standing Policy Towards the GDR; 3.1 Soviet Leadership in Disarray; 3.2 The German Question in 1953; 3.3 The Weakening of the GDR Economy and the Uprising; 3.4 The Victory of the Hardliners and Ultimately Khrushchev; 3.5 The Legacy of Intervention; References
Chapter 4: The Interplay of Interactive Structures4.1 The GDR´s Military Security; 4.2 Beginning of the GDR´s Paradox; 4.2.1 Military Intervention; 4.2.2 Inter-German Détente; 4.2.3 Limiting the Damage; 4.3 The GDR´s Military Security Reaction; References; Chapter 5: Who Generates Policy?; 5.1 The Soviet-German Security Policy; 5.1.1 The Soviet Leadership and the German Question; 5.2 GDR Policy on the German Question; 5.3 The Changing Leadership Perceptions: New Political Identities; 5.3.1 Generation Structure; 5.3.2 Gorbachev Structure; 5.4 New Thinking in Soviet-German Policy
5.5 New Thinkers: A Different InterpretationReferences; Chapter 6: Structures of Differentiation: The Split; 6.1 Roads of Differentiation; 6.1.1 China; 6.1.2 Afghanistan; 6.2 The Epoch of the `NPT´; 6.2.1 The Inter-German Contacts; 6.2.2 The Reforms; 6.3 Controversy of Using Military Force; References; Chapter 7: Multiple Political Rivalry: Meaning and Significance; 7.1 The Domestic Policy; 7.2 The Diplomacy of the INF: Achieving International Stability; 7.3 The Inter-making of Policy; References; Chapter 8: The Paradox of Policy Restructuring; 8.1 The First Transitional Phase
8.1.1 The Continuity8.1.2 The Challenge; 8.2 The Second Transitional Phase; 8.2.1 The First Decision on German Question; 8.3 The Third Transitional Phase: Policy Restructuring; 8.3.1 Gorbachev´s Illusion; 8.3.2 Radicals Took the Initiative; 8.3.3 A Tragic End; References; Chapter 9: Conclusion; 9.1 How the Shifting Soviet Political Perceptions Should Be Considered: Discussion; 9.2 Adaptive and Confused Understanding?; 9.3 An Alternative Strategy; References; Index
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Author notes provided by SyndeticsAchilleas Megas holds a PhD degree from University of Leeds School of Politics and International Studies (2006) and a Masters degree in International Studies European Organisation, Diplomacy and Economics. He has participated in numerous international conferences with papers and he has published for ECPR workshops on international studies and politics.
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Enabling Emerging Trends* Cloud Development: Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio enables developers to build, debug and deploy services and applications for the cloud. This includes a project model that you can use to build your application or service. The Windows Azure Tools are used to deploy the package to the cloud through the Live Developer Portal. * Parallel Development It's not easy by any means to write code that is optimized to run across more than one processor (parallel development). Microsoft now provides an environment that will help do this through Visual Studio IDE support for Parallel development and Native C++ libraries and compiler support for parallel applications. In addition, version 4 of the .net framework will also provide things like P-LIINQ and parallel language semantics and framework components. The debugger and a performance analyzer are also optimized to support parallel development.
Inspiring Developer Delight* Coding Improvements: A new editor uses Windows Presentation Foundation technology to provide integrated support that helps you understand your code. Things like the "Document Map Margin" -- which renders a graphical view of your source file with information about the code, third party add-ons for custom views, "Inline Call Hierarchy" -- see how a particular method or entity is passed into and out of the code section, and "Highlight References" -- a visual representation of code references.
The new editor also integrates with something called the TDD -- Test Driver Development. The TDD is used to build the tests to test the code before it's even written. * Web Development: A new set of ASP.Net tools allows developers to use TDD to build Model-View-Controller (MVC) based websites. Included are Project Templates and Solutions out of the box for a MVC website, automatic generation of test projects, wizards for common tasks such as creating views from controllers and more. Support for Javascript and JQuery, a "one click" deployment wizard and Silverlight 2 runtime and tooling are also new. * C++ Development: A total revamp of the IDE to support parallel development, cloud development, an MFC Class Wizard and stronger support for large solutions with thousands of files are in the new version of VS.
SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010The Visual Studio Tools for SharePoint were demonstrated at TechEd EMEA Developers 2008. The tools added include: * View lists and other artifacts from SharePoint in Visual Studio * New SharePoint Services Project file * Visual Web Part Designer, web part project items * Event Receivers for SharePoint, Wizards to select the event receiver * ASPX Workflow Initiation form for Workflow Project * SharePoint packaging explorer and editor
Riding the Next Generation Platform Wave* Windows 7: VS2010 will support development for the new Windows 7 operating system which includes a number of new tools to develop new apps and make existing ones take advantage of the new features of the OS. * Office Business Applications: First introduced with VS2005, the next version of VS will enable developers to build Office applications that span multiple versions of MS Office (32 or 64 bit) and deliver them as a single deployment package (again using that One Click Wizard we mentioned above). In addition, we see the introduction of designer support for building flexible UIs in either WPF or Fluent, improved data binding, integration of Office data sources using LINQ and integration of the Business Data Catalog.
Democratizing Application Lifecycle ManagementThe primary discussion around this new version is about the "democratizing of application life-cycle management (ALM)" using Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) 2010 -- also called Rosario.
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AFTCM for the better part of a week now - off and on between cleaning up and sorting my stuff!!
I am so happy with how it worked out!!!!!!!!!!
I used heavy weight cardstock - the backs I ripped off of commercial cards before I refurbished them for donating. Check out the cards here and here.
the process I used for decorating both sides of these papers before I created the little houses. For the backs - the glossy ones have alcohol ink backgrounds and the matte ones have collage. All the fronts were decorated with a multiple step paper decorating process that used a handmade stamp, acrylic paint and plastic wrap. Fun!!
So there are little houses, big houses, skinny houses and everything in between. Even a few duplexes!!
It has been a super fun project. It can be used to count down to any occasion and left up year round should the recipient be so inclined!!
A wonderful little neighborhood!!
I have a few leftover card backs which I hope to use to make another little village. Maybe I will use different architectural guidelines for the next one!!! What fun!! They can stand on a shelf or mantle or maybe could be tied together to stand independantly.
Consider making yourself a fun little advent calendar that you can reuse every year to count down to Christmas and, if you make it fun enough, it will decorate your house or studio all year long!! A new tradition!!
Would love to see what you have created! Leave a comment and include a link!!
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Mixed Media advent calendar
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Labels: acrylic paint, collage, decorative paper, drawing, fibers, project, punchies, sharpie markers, swap, upcycling, watercolour
Paper decorating!!
Are you asking yourself what I did with the card fronts?? You can see the cards I have refurbished and donated here and here.
So that took care of all the backs of these pieces of cardstock. Now, on to the fronts!!
I have taken digital photos of all of them so I can use them in my art later on!!
Decorating paper is so much fun!! I love the randomness of it all and it is fun passing the day just mucking with paint and paper. In this case, it is even better because I started with cardstock that was headed to the recycling bin!! Now, that is upcycling!!
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Labels: acrylic paint, alcohol ink background, collage, colour wash, decorative paper, making marks, MS - Martha Stewart, resist, reuse, reuse greeting cards, stamping, upcycling
Steampunk fat book page
Here is the project I was working on today - a Steam punk fat book page. I created this for a swap on AFTCM. I created a steam punk wind screen using items that I picked up on my walk the other day and a few add ons. What did I pick up?? The base - a clear plastic with holes in it and the rusty washer. I added the central piece (inside of a foam brush) from my desk, the little washers and the electronic bits were discovered during a raid of DH garage and the butterfly charm, the rhinestone and the copper piece are from my stash. I wired all of them into place using wire which I had pulled out from ribbon a while back. Thinking about it - most of these elements have been upcycled!! I ended up painting the back of the clear piece after I had started wiring elements into place so I used a variety of mediums until I got the look I needed. On hindsight, it would have been better to sand and paint it beforehand but it sort of evolved so I had to make it up as I went along. I really like the way it looks!! Once the windscreen was finished I started looking for a fall scene, a flying machine and a pilot. The pilot and the windmill I found at Graphics Fairy and the fall scene I downloaded off the internet. I love how it all came together. I had to add some details to the pilot and also created the outside of his flying machine. The back of the page has the fall scene with some verse I wrote about the colours and flying!! I added some coordinating fiber on the right hand side and my page was done!!
The colours of fall are so awesome here. I grew up in the west where fall colours go from green to yellow and if we were lucky brown but more often than not, we would get a hard frost in September and all the leaves would fall regardless of what colour they were!! Bare trees for Halloween and very often snow suits too!!
PS - If you have been waiting for more photos of my craft room - I have uploaded them into the original post - here!!
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More and more residents are trying their hand at the art of hosting in their independent properties, aka, their home. As a hospitality professional for over a decade, I take the craft of hosting very seriously. While I welcome the newcomers, I ask them not to insult the honorable profession that is hospitality. If you are going to rent a room or your house on an internet channel, please consider these pro tips to welcome travelers. The skill of hospitality will help you make decisions, get you through stressful guest situations and, in the end, give you respect for the skill and rewards of properly serving people.
- Everything is disposable and the welfare of the guests is most important.
I highly recommend that you do not put anything of true monetary or sentimental value in a guest room or property. Renters will not have the same attachment to your items and might break or "accidentally" take them. If something does break, the first question you should ask is, "are you alright"? Always be concerned that the person was not injured in your house. The guest will be embarrassed that they broke something but will feel better knowing that they are more important than the broken object. Control the situation and clean up quickly. Everything can be replaced.
- Build trust by presenting a clean and safe environment.
Trust is fundamental in the sharing economy. Building trust is a basic skill in the profession of hospitality. Acting in a professional way and presenting a clean and safe place to sleep, sets the stage for trust in a rental relationship. If you are offering a place to sleep, the bedroom is very important. Think of all the things a guest will need in that space. In the professional lodging business, there are organizations like AAA that come into the property to rate the quality of the room. Two chairs, a light on either side of the bed, ideally the floor should be wood, a clean and functioning bathroom, fresh paint and lovely decor complete an acceptable room. Extras like wifi, cable tv, a hairdryer, an iron and ironing board, a mini fridge and a safe are all nice touches. Being able to control the temperature in the space is an additional plus. There should be access to a thermostat, air conditioner, and a fan. In keeping with the theme – welfare of the guest is most important, a carbon monoxide detector, smoke detector, and a lockable door ensure the safety of your guest. Since Airbnb properties are not held to the same scrutiny of a third party, these simple details might be missed. This is unfortunate because, in the end, hospitality creates trust. These details contribute to the peace of mind an innkeeper and a renter need at the end of the day. When a guest can trust the host and the environment, they can sleep better. When you as the host know the guest is safe you will sleep better also.
- Guest friendship.
There should always be a professional distance between the host and the guest. Seeking appropriate interaction with your guest is suggested but know where to draw a line. Share all your local knowledge but refrain from sharing details of your personal life. Your guest might want to share their stories and sometimes their medical histories, be polite and considerate of any personal details they tell you. Be patient, look people in the eye and always use appropriate body language.
- Hospitality is being flexible.
Being flexible with a rental property is hard, but if there is wiggle room, make it happen. Late check-ins are annoying but sometimes unavoidable for travelers who are at the mercy of airlines and city traffic. If there is no way to allow a late check in, help the guest find new accommodations for the night. It will be important for you as the host to set the expectations in the beginning so guests do not start asking for things that are not there. If everyone goes into the rental agreement understanding the conditions, the guest will appreciate your gesture to be flexible on some items.
- Create memorable moments.
Hospitality, in the end, is leaving a guest happy they booked with you. They will look back on their time with you and appreciate your kindness and happy environment. The memorable moment component of hospitality is the icing on the cake for a guest. Little details like making the towels into a bunny shape or putting some wrapped chocolates on their bed are kind gestures that make a nice impression. It is important to keep the gestures appropriate. If you do not have proper licensing for food and liquor, do not serve any food or dispense any alcohol. Food and drinks are appropriate in your own home, but when dealing with strangers, there is too much liability. Keep the gestures simple and sweet. Here is a link to hotels that have thought of the small details. http://thechive.com/2017/07/26/clever-hotels-that-deserve-all-of-our-business-30-photos/?utm_source=facebook_chive&utm_medium=post
Just as hotels have learned to innovate because of the sharing economy, the sharing economy should learn the age old tradition of hospitality that hotels have mastered. You will see applying the above principles of hospitality in your business will create trust and respect. Your business will grow and your sense of service to the public will be rewarding. Since there is always room for professional growth in hospitality, consider attending the first Maine Innkeepers and Maine Restaurant Association Annual Maine Hospitality Summit, October 23, 24, 2017.


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Part of our proceeds goes to support Roslin Orphanage in Kupang, Indonesia. Ensuring these children grow up in a loving environment and knowing their value, is the passion behind what we do.
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The Awaken Eye Serum does exactly what it says - "Coffee for your eyes." It wakes me up in the morning. I can glide it on with the cool roller ball and eases tension around my tired eyes. It smooths out fine lines, reduces puffiness and has reduced my dark circles as well. Will be repurchasing for sure!
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Deciding to share your practice isn't often an easy decision or step to make. Asking others to join you can be more nerve wracking when considering questions of ethics, the pulling of others out of their comfort zone to make something viable and challenging. 'Do-gooding'1, the assumption that collaborative practice is a 'given' and that everyone should or want to participate is also a difficult position to unearth.
More difficult still is approaching a collaborative project in a secondary school where collaboration really 'gets in the way'. Instead, in an environment where days, hours and minutes are to be planned and negotiated to the final moment; rigidity and certainty has to be undone.
So, with this in mind, I developed a research project with a small group of 14 year old students. Photography was to be the main protagonist, the camera an object to hide our selves and faces behind while investigating ideas. Using digital SLRs encouraged us to seek out how the school building made meaning, but we quickly noticed this became more about how we could create meaning out of the school building.
Over eight weeks we made a set of images and developed a photographic practice that questioned and disturbed ideas of the students' and adults place and role in the school. Taking advantage of afterschool time, capturing empty corridors, classrooms, cupboards, offices and school equipment. Soon furniture was moved, shelves climbed upon, floors were desks, whiteboards became sculptures and objects 'left-over' from lessons used to collage new images.
The collaboration was unrecognisable, a fuzzy ball of an idea of something and probably different for each participant. An un-negotiated idea in a vigilated environment meant that relationships were re-negotiated, opinions formed, strands of ideas drawn out, discussed, changed, tangled, re-shaped, re-formed. Students stepped in and out of a role of maker; of work and decisions as students or artists, while my role as teacher receded.
In negotiating a different type of collaboration, the one between myself and my mentor has been one of slowly revealing similarities and different positions. My mentor is in the enviable position of having completed a PhD, while I stand at the beginning of mine. Our practices are very different, as are our research interests and directions. But a collaboration here occurs in our train journeys to the meetings, reading, conversations, push-pull of ideas, negotiating city/ies, tea drunk, consuming cake and scones, writing and making work.
On reflection, questions should be posed: where is the collaboration defined? Where does it live or sit? Do we decide if it is a specific practice, or a project? Is it what happens, or what is made? It isn't always where a group of people do something together. Being prepared for things to go wrong, having the courage to wait and see what will be produced, not measuring or marking what has occurred, perhaps then the collaboration will happen without you noticing.
1 Bishop, C. Artificial Hells, Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship. 2012. Verso. London.
Joanna Fursman is an artist teacher and a practice-based PhD researcher examining the production and recognition of the future school art-room.


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In Tribes, Billy, who is deaf, is the only one who actually listens in his idiosyncratic, fiercely argumentative bohemian family. But when he meets Sylvia, who is going deaf, he decides he finally wants to be heard. With excoriating dialogue and sharp, compassionate insights, Nina Raine crafts a penetrating play about belonging, family and the limitations of communication.Nominated for both the Olivier and Evening Standard Awards for Best Play, Tribes premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 2011.Starring Steve Lawson, Samantha Barrass, Tim Seed, Rachel Palmer, Louis Emmitt-Stern and Erica McGrail Barabich. Directed and Produced by Daniel Strain-Webber.
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Strong language and adult themes from the start and throughout. 14+
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|14 - Recapitulation and Conclusion
|14-02 - Recapitulation of the general and special circumstances in its favour
I have already recapitulated, as fairly as I could, the opposed difficulties and objections: now let us turn to the special facts and arguments in favour of the theory.
On the view that species are only strongly marked and permanent varieties, and that each species first existed as a variety, we can see why it is that no line of demarcation can be drawn between species, commonly supposed to have been produced by special acts of creation, and varieties which are acknowledged to have been produced by secondary laws.
On this same view we can understand how it is that in each region where many species of a genus have been produced, and where they now flourish, these same species should present many varieties; for where the manufactory of species has been active, we might expect, as a general rule, to find it still in action; and this is the case if varieties be incipient species.
Moreover, the species of the large genera, which afford the greater number of varieties or incipient species, retain to a certain degree the character of varieties; for they differ from each other by a less amount of difference than do the species of smaller genera.
The closely allied species also of the larger genera apparently have restricted ranges, and they are clustered in little groups round other species -- in which respects they resemble varieties.
These are strange relations on the view of each species having been independently created, but are intelligible if all species first existed as varieties.
|14 - Recapitulation and Conclusion
|14-02 - Recapitulation of the general and special circumstances in its favour
As each species tends by its geometrical ratio of reproduction to increase inordinately in number; and as the modified descendants of each species will be enabled to increase by so much the more as they become more diversified in habits and structure, so as to be enabled to seize on many and widely different places in the economy of nature, there will be a constant tendency in natural selection to preserve the most divergent offspring of any one species.
Hence during a long-continued course of modification, the slight differences, characteristic of varieties of the same species, tend to be augmented into the greater differences characteristic of species of the same genus.
New and improved varieties will inevitably supplant and exterminate the older, less improved and intermediate varieties; and thus species are rendered to a large extent defined and distinct objects.
Dominant species belonging to the larger groups tend to give birth to new and dominant forms; so that each large group tends to become still larger, and at the same time more divergent in character.
But as all groups cannot thus succeed in increasing in size, for the world would not hold them, the more dominant groups beat the less dominant.
This tendency in the large groups to go on increasing in size and diverging in character, together with the almost inevitable contingency of much extinction, explains the arrangement of all the forms of life, in groups subordinate to groups, all within a few great classes, which we now see everywhere around us, and which has prevailed throughout all time.
This grand fact of the grouping of all organic beings seems to me utterly inexplicable on the theory of creation.
As natural selection acts solely by accumulating slight, successive, favourable variations, it can produce no great or sudden modification; it can act only by very short and slow steps.
Hence the canon of `Natura non facit saltum,' which every fresh addition to our knowledge tends to make more strictly correct, is on this theory simply intelligible.
We can plainly see why nature is prodigal in variety, though niggard in innovation.
But why this should be a law of nature if each species has been independently created, no man can explain.
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|14-02 - Recapitulation of the general and special circumstances in its favour
Many other facts are, as it seems to me, explicable on this theory.
How strange it is that a bird, under the form of woodpecker, should have been created to prey on insects on the ground; that upland geese, which never or rarely swim, should have been created with webbed feet; that a thrush should have been created to dive and feed on sub-aquatic insects; and that a petrel should have been created with habits and structure fitting it for the life of an auk or grebe! and so on in endless other cases.
|14 - Recapitulation and Conclusion
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But on the view of each species constantly trying to increase in number, with natural selection always ready to adapt the slowly varying descendants of each to any unoccupied or ill-occupied place in nature, these facts cease to be strange, or perhaps might even have been anticipated.
As natural selection acts by competition, it adapts the inhabitants of each country only in relation to the degree of perfection of their associates; so that we need feel no surprise at the inhabitants of any one country, although on the ordinary view supposed to have been specially created and adapted for that country, being beaten and supplanted by the naturalised productions from another land.
Nor ought we to marvel if all the contrivances in nature be not, as far as we can judge, absolutely perfect; and if some of them be abhorrent to our ideas of fitness.
We need not marvel at the sting of the bee causing the bee's own death; at drones being produced in such vast numbers for one single act, and being then slaughtered by their sterile sisters; at the astonishing waste of pollen by our fir-trees; at the instinctive hatred of the queen bee for her own fertile daughters; at ichneumonidae feeding within the live bodies of caterpillars; and at other such cases.


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It is funny – in the current Mens Dept. you can find items from different designers that follow one vibe. This time it definitely is skating. But let us start at the beginning: I wanted to go with a complete different look and therefor I purchased the Pilot Cardigan from <HVK> – that is obviously not shown here because <HVK> have a special kind of "shoppingbag" for their items which is the skateboard with the pose you can see above. And I have had a good laugh when I saw this and I somewhat wanted to create a look around this one. And for the cardigan – I will feature the knit from <HVK> in a further post for sure, because it is fabulous.
The denims with the wrapped around shirt are from !gO! and I really love the look of them. Also the shirt moves of course with your walk and shows once again the creativity of designers with mesh. The bicolor v-neck comes from [LV]SOLIDe and comes in 4 different styles and of course, like the pants from !gO!, in mesh male standard sizing.
The super curly hair is from [IRUCO] and is their latest release. Definitely a must if you are not going for the usual haircut in secondlife. The fantastic necklace comes from KOSH. The "Adain Necklace" can be found in the Mens Dept. in five different styles (black, chopper, silver, gold and shown here: brass) and this time you also can find the matching rings at the Mens Dept. I especially love of course the flawless texturing and the brilliant crafting of the necklace which is with every KOSH item I saw. Also you get not only the male version but also the female version and both options are also included with the chest- and spine attachment points. My eyes are from Poetic Colors and have been an item in a previous cycle of the Mens Dept.
List of stuff:
Skin: KENTO – Preston T2
Hair: [iruco] hair28 (black)
Eyes: Poetic Colors – Autumn Eyes "October Rain"
Necklace: KOSH – Adain Necklace (brass) (for the Mens Dept.)
Tee: [LV]SOLIDe – V-Neck bicolor black/beige2 (for the Mens Dept.)
Pants: !gO! – Mads Pants (for the Mens Dept)
Sneakers: [JP]:dsg. – Sneakers (Groupgift)
Skateboard and Pose: <HVK> – Shoppingbag (comes with every purchase of <HVK>)
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Article 315-323 deal with the composition, appointment, removal and powers and functions of State recruiting agency which is the State Public Service Commission of India.
It is an independent Constitutional Body.
Chairman of the Commission and other members as the Governor decides from time to time. They are all appointed by the Governor himself. Half of the members should have held office under GOI or State Government for atleast ten years.
The terms and conditions of service of all of the mentioned above are decided by the Governor himself.
The Governor also appoints a member as Acting Chairman who shall act as Chairman in case the office falls vacant and in case the Chairman is absent or ill.
Salaries, Allowances and other prerequisites of Chairman and other members
These are charged from Consolidated Fund of State.
Term of Office
6 yrs or 62 years of age whichever is earlier. They can resign at any time addressing their resignation to the Governor , or can also be removed at any time.
Removal of Chairman or member of Commission
- If he is insolvent or bankrupt
- If he holds some employment other than office of Commission
- If he has unsound mind or unfit body
- Incase of misbehavior like corruption or in case of interest in any contract made by government, President refers the matter to Supreme Court and if Supreme Court advises to remove him/ her, then only President can remove him/ her. During enquiry he/ she can be suspended. Though appointed by Governor, they are removed by President.
Independence of Office
Chairman can be removed by the President in the manner mentioned in the Constitution. Secondly, the service conditions cannot be varied to his disadvantage after his appointment. The Chairman can be appointed as Chairman of UPSC or any other SPSCcannot be appointed further for any other employment by Central or State government. A member of SPSC is eligible for appointment as the Chairman or member of UPSC or Chairman of any other State Public Service Commission or Chairman of same SPSC but not for any other employment under Central and State Government. The members or Chairman after completing their first term cannot apply for the same office for second term. but
Powers and Functions
- 1. Conduction of exams for State services
- 2. Consulted by government regarding
- a. Methods of recruitment to above stated services
- b. Principles to be followed during recruitment, promotions and transfer of such services
- c. Suitability of the candidates for recruitment, transfers and promotions in such services
- d. Disciplinary matters including censure or severe disapproval, withholding of increments and promotions, demotions, compulsory retirement, removal from service etc.
- e. Any claims for pensions due to injuries sustained while working under Government of State
- f. Any claims of legal expenses in legal cases concerning his duties
- g. Any other matter related to personnel management of any local authority, corporate body etc. can be conferred on the SPSC by Parliament
- h. SPSC is also consulted by Governor alongwith the High Court while making rules for appointments in Judicial services.
If government acts without consultation, the decision of the government is still validated. Consultation is not mandatory.
Every year, a report is presented by SPSC to the Governor regarding its performance. The Governor presents the report before both the Houses of the Legislature alongwith a memorandum explaining reasons for not accepting the advice of the Commission.
Functions not under the jurisdiction of SPSC:
- 1. Reservations for posts of SCs and STs
- 2. Claims of SCs and STs to services and posts
The Governor can make regulations in respect to State services, regarding matters in which SPSC is not to be consulted. These regulations should be placed before State Legislature for atleast 14 days. The State Legislature can amend or repeal them.
SPSC is a watchdog of the merit system in state. It advices government regarding recruitment, promotion and disciplinary matters regarding state services. It is not concerned with the classification of services, pay and service conditions and training which are handled by Department of Personnel or the General Administration Department. The role is not only limited, but the recommendations are also just advisory in nature. Even the government can regulate the scope of advisory functions of SPSC.
The emergence of State Vigilance Commission in 1964 has affected the role of SPSC in disciplinary matters. Both are consulted by the government while taking disciplinary action against a civil servant. However, SPSC being an independent body has an edge over SVC .
Joint State Public Service Commission
If State Legislatures of 2 or more states request the Parliament for JSPSC, then Parliament can create this by an Act. However JSPSC is a statutory and not a constitutional body.
Chairman and members of this Commission are appointed by President for 6 years or until they attain 62 yrs of age whichever is earlier. They can be suspended or removed by President. They can resign at any time and write resignation letters to President. The number of members and conditions of service are determined by President. The annual performance report is placed before all State Governors who place them before the respective Legislatures.
The UPSC can also serve the needs of the State on the request of Governor and by the permission of the President.


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Houses to rent
Vacations in Hydra
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Awesome Tours
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The Historical Archive - Museum of Hydra (IAMY) is a place where you can lose yourself in the history of the island.
Explore Argolis, the Ancient Theater of Epidaurus
For the tennis fans who also want to combine the play with an excursion.
Activities for all tastes
Explore the island and combine walking, swimming, and drawing/painting in Hydra's picturesque town and stunning countryside.
For the tennis fans who also want to combine the play with an excursion.
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What to do in Hydra in 3 days
Are you looking for what to do in Hydra in 3 days? Previously, we gave you 10 reasons to visit Hydra Island. Now, we expand this series of articles with activities you can do in the island. In a magical place like Hydra, which is full of natural and cultural beauties, a various amount of […]Read more
Hydra: The laid-back Greek island
Sailing into the small saronic island of Hydra in early summer, the unrivaled colour I see is yellow. The port – a perfect horseshoe – backs into a high amphitheater dotted with 18th-century mariners' mansions painted citrine, picked out now by the morning sun. It is a Rip Van Winkle town, cute-warm and coiled […]Read more
Hydra the Cosmopolitan
Hydra can attract anyone with its beauty that lays in every corner of this little charming island. Its architecture, alleys and nature are unique and beautiful as shown on the linked video.Read more


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Triple H, one of the more famous professional wrestlers in the world was at the "Greg and the Morning Buzz Show" when he was asked to comment on the past year in the WWE. Needless to say this professional athlete was more than vocal on how his employer acted throughout the course of 2015.
One of the most notable aspects of 2015 for the WWE is Hulk Hogan. A sex tape of this pro wrestler was released all over the internet and due to this all merchandise, information and affiliation with the wrestler was destroyed by the WWE. The contract which was held by Mr. Hogan was destroyed immediately which has posed a major problem for the wrestler. Triple H stated, "Hulk coming back is going to be the biggest challenge of his life, he's one of the most famous faces in wrestling and many of his fans were let down. What the WWE was wrong, all of us in the ring weren't pleased by their decision but he will still have to fight to regain what he's lost."
That wasn't the only issue for the WWE this year, the wrestling league released their own broadcasting network but already it's been shut down. The company spent millions upon millions of dollars in hopes that they'd be able to have their own channel, filled directly with wrestling based television programs. Due to this profit has been at an all-time low for the company since 2009.
There is no word if the wrestling league plans on making major changes to rejuvenate life into the sport.


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The best online courses in psychology allow you to achieve excellent learning outcomes. High-quality, fully online programs are available, including bachelor degree courses, graduate diplomas and masters.
- In 2020, you can gain a psychology degree from a leading Australian university through 100% online study.
- Australia's best courses deliver interactive content. They also encourage student collaboration.
Psychology is a naturally fascinating study area. Choosing a good online course can be the start a rewarding learning experience that culminates with a university degree.
Online Bachelor Degrees with a Psychology Major
Deakin Psychology Degrees
Deakin University provides different paths for studying psychology at an undergraduate level. You can choose Psychology as a major in the Bachelor of Arts program, and go on to do an honours (4th) year if your grades are good. Psychological Science and Psychology for Professional Development are available as majors in the Bachelor of Health Sciences program. There's also a Bachelor of Psychology degree where you specialise in either Child and Family, Forensic, Health, or Organisational.
UniSA Bachelor of Psychological Science and Sociology
Career opportunity is the theme of the Bachelor of Psychological Science and Sociology from the University of South Australia Online. The unique degree prepares students for future roles across human services fields, including ageing, disability and criminal justice. It's about developing a deep skill set that gives you value in some of the fastest-growing job sectors. You have total control over where and when you study. Courses are run across 4 study periods, allowing you to focus on just 1 or 2 subjects at a time. The online learning platform is user-friendly and you're backed by 7-days-a-week study support.
USQ BSc(Psychology)
The University of Southern Queensland offers a 3-year online psychology degree (and a 1-year honours degree for graduates with good grades). The Bachelor of Science degree with a major in Psychology is designed for students who want to combine psychology with other disciplines (and can be taken as part of a double major). As well as traditional psychology units, you can study topics such as law, human physiology, sports psychology and human resource management.
University of Adelaide Graduate Diploma in Psychology
The Graduate Diploma in Psychology from the prestigious University of Adelaide is suitable for anyone with a university degree. The 100% online program is equivalent to a Bachelor of Psychology degree. The course consists of 10 units that you complete in sequence. Subjects include psychology foundations, developmental psychology, social psychology, and psychological health and well-being.
Monash Online Graduate Diploma in Psychology
Monash Online offers an excellent study option if you have a uni degree and want to reach the same level in the psychology field. The Graduate Diploma in Psychology course is 100% online and accredited by the Australian Psychology Accreditation Council. The program consists of 10 units, with subjects such as psychological testing, cognition and perception, abnormal psychology, personality and social psychology, and an introduction to counselling.
JCU Graduate Diploma of Psychology
If you have a degree of any kind and an interest in psychology, the Graduate Diploma of Psychology from James Cook University is well worth checking out. The affordable, 100% online program is equivalent to a bachelor degree in terms of qualification. But you can get there much quicker and without having to attend a campus. The course consists of 10 units. You do one unit at a time, each taking just 7 weeks. Subjects include personality differences, human development across the lifespan and environmental psychology.
Monash Online Graduate Diploma of Psychology Advanced
Monash University offers a 100% online psychology degree which is equivalent to an honours (4th year) course. The Graduate Diploma of Psychology Advanced is suitable for students with a bachelor degree or graduate diploma in psychology. You should also have solid grades. The program consists of 8 units and takes 1.4 years of part-time study. Upon graduating, you can register as a Provisional Psychologist. To be a Registered Psychologist, you may then do a 2-year internship via the Psychology Board of Australia. Each student collaborates with their supervisor using a Psychology Research Portal.
CSU postgraduate courses
Charles Sturt University offers distance learning postgraduate courses in psychology. You study online most of the time but, for some subjects, may need to attend occasional residential schools in Bathurst. The Postgraduate Diploma of Psychology (2-years part time) is equivalent to an honours degree (which is required for professional accreditation). CSU also offers a masters degree (4-years part time), which is for registered psychologists wanting to be Clinical Psychologists.
UNE Clinical Psychology
UNE's clinical programs – MPsych(Clin) and PhD(ClinPsych) – prepare students to fill the unmet need for clinical psychologists in Australia (especially rural areas). In the 1st year, students receive extensive training in assessment and evidence-based treatments; then, under supervision, provide assessment and intervention to clients with disorders.
Students completing the MPsych(Clin) full-time need to be committed to being in Armidale for up to 3 days per week during their first year. In 2nd year, students attend brief intensive schools. The programs are structured so that the components of clinical training requiring physical attendance (most coursework and the initial clinical placement) are packaged together at the beginning.


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I have looked around for hide/show functionality in dired, but couldn't find anything. What I mean, is to be able to give a regexp and dired would limit the display to matching files only. Then, to be able to redisplay all the files. This behavior would analogous to gnus-summary-limit-to-* and gnus-summary-pop-limit in gnus, where articles are hidden and then popped. The closest functionality I found is the dired-omit-extensions in dired-x.el and dired-wipe.el, but don't quite have the above behavior. Any help will be appreciated. Enila
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Our architects have taken inspiration from AVA's surroundings to design the perfect home for you.
Beautifully appointed kitchens and generous living and areas make it easy to entertain.
Sleek, light and spacious bathrooms give a touch of luxury to every day.
Every AVA residence is thoughtfully designed with a huge garage, and plenty of space and storage.