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Vendor relationship managers work with large companies that rely on outside contractors to deliver their goods and services. In this role, it's your job to make sure your vendors have all the tools they need to increase their profits, because the more of your goods and services they sell, the more money you and your company make. Unlike a purchasing manager, who works with vendors who want to make her happy, a vendor relationship manager has to make the vendors happy.
Manage Contracts
One of your main responsibilities is to ensure your vendors understand and follow the terms of the contracts your company has made with them. You may well be the person responsible for negotiating the contract in the first place. You'll have to audit vendors to make sure they are fulfilling their part of the deal and that they are delivering the level of service and product quality to customers that you've agreed on. When dealing with contracts, you must have an in-depth understanding of the terminology used in your industry and how it applies to vendors. Additionally, you must be prepared to deal with circumstances not covered in writing.
Build Relationships
You may have to be the bad guy, holding vendors to the fire when it comes to their contract obligations, but you must be able to do that while simultaneously building trusting and cooperative relationships. After all, these vendors are the bread and butter of your company. They need an advocate in the corporate headquarters as well and will look to you to speak on their behalf, solve problems as they arise and get them all the tools and inventory they need to do the best work they can.
Oversee Finances
Part of your job is to make sure vendors stick within budgets and perform adequately. You have to understand the vendor costs versus your company costs and how to best translate those numbers into profits for everyone. You'll have detailed reports to complete regularly based on the numbers given to you by the vendors and your own internal financial reports. Keeping tabs on vendor performance is an important part of the job.
Solve Problems
In addition to working out issues surrounding contracts and finances, as the vendor relationship manager, you'll oversee a host of differing personalities that each come with their own set of expectations. Building relationships requires you to collaborate with outside and internal forces that sometimes want different things. When you need to confront vendors because they're slack or making mistakes, you must do so in a positive manner, bringing solutions to the table. You'll provide training when necessary to solve recurrent issues. A vendor relationship manager who takes the initiative to be proactive and prevent problems spends less time on this job responsibility.
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Welcome to Career Tech Education (CTE)
What is CTE?
Career Technical Education (CTE) are educational programs offered at Jenison High School that provides learners with the knowledge and skills they need to be prepared for college and careers. CTE gives purpose to learning by emphasizing real-world skills and practical knowledge within a selected career focus.
Jenison students enrolled in CTE take specialized programs in: Marketing, Finance, Business Management, Office Managment, Entreprenuership, and Construction Trades. In addition to these programs, students often have the opportunity to participate in internships, engage with mentors from our local business community, compete in competitions, and practice what they are learning through hands-on projects. Many students who participate in our programs earn college credit as well.
Enrolling in CTE courses delivers real-options for students by preparing them for rewarding careers. Not only that, but it offers the opportunity to develop real-world skills while giving them an exceptional high school experience.
Here at Jenison, we are committed and excited to offer these opportunities right here on our campus. Please take the time to explore our page and see what CTE can deliver for you! Learn more about CTE and learning that works for America here.
CTE Delivers for Students and Prepares them for the Real World
CTE Delivers Real Options for College and Rewarding Careers
- CTE programs allow students to explore a range of options for their future - inside and outside the classroom.
- Through CTE, students can start their path toward a career that they are passionate about, while earning valuable experience, college credits and more.
CTE Delivers Real-World Skills
- CTE is a unique opportunity for hand-on learning - putting students at the center of action.
- CTE provides the skills and confidence students need to pursue career options, discover their passions and get on a path to success.
- CTE gives purpose to learning by emphasizing real-world skills and practical knowledge.
- Students receive hands-on training, mentoring, and internships from employers in their community. They also learn how to develop a professional resume and interview for a job.
- These additional tools and experiences help ensure students are ready for the real world.
CTE Delivers a Real High School Experience with Exceptional Value
- CTE programs are a part of Jenison high school - students can participate in CTE and the other activities they enjoy, such as sports, the arts or whatever else their friends are doing.
- CTE take students even further during their high school experience - providing opportunities for specialized classes, internships, and networking with members of their community.
Why CTE?
CTE is learning that works for students by delivering real options for college and rewarding careers.
CTE fills a critical gap for high school students
- Students in CTE programs and their parents are three times as likely to report they are "very satisfied" with their and their children's ability to learn real-world skills as part of their education.
CTE Creates pathways to college and career success
- Over 75 percent of students taking a concentration of CTE courses enroll in postsecondary education after graduating from high school.
CTE provides pathways to advancement
- 84 percent of adult learners concentrating in CTE either continued their education or were employed within six months of completing their program.
CTE is learning that works for Industry and employers by strengthening their ability to recruit and hire skilled talent.
CTE helps fill the skills gap
- Nearly 60 percent of companies report having difficulty filling job openings because of a lack of qualified skilled applicants, which can cost a company upwards of $800,000 each year in lost productivity and recruitment. At the same time, six out of the ten hardest-to-fill positions are in technical fields or require a CTE background.
CTE programs directly connect learners in high school with employers
- CTE programs provide a clear pipeline of talent and unique opportunities for students to engage in internships, apprenticeships and other meaningful on-the-job experiences. In fact, employer participation is a requirement of funding for CTE programs in the majority of states.
Additional Resources
Learn more about CTE in this USA Today article

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The House That Will Not Stand
May 16: The House That Will Not Stand written by Marcus Gardley, who has secured his place as one of the most promising contemporary playwrights, most notably with this piece, which earned him the prestigious Will Glickman Award for the play's world premiere at Berkeley Rep.
This Salon Reading will be directed by Artistic Director Ian Belknap.
Cast includes Tamara Tunie (Law & Order: SVU), Joniece Abbott-Pratt (Eclipsed), Harriett D. Foy (Mamma Mia), Lynda Gravatt (Skeleton Crew), Nedra McClyde (Mr. Burns, Jessica Jones), Brenda Pressley (The American Plan), and Brittany N. Williams (Bob Marley's Three Little Birds). Casting by Harriett D. Foy - Finesse Casting Ltd.
This reading will be held at The Lynn Redgrave Theater at The Culture Project at 45 Bleecker Street, NYC.
$35 Tickets include a post-show reception with the cast.
Tickets: Call The Acting Company (Mon.- Fri.) 212-258-3111.
The House That Will Not Stand is set in 1836 New Orleans, a time when free black creole women entered into common-law marriages with rich white men in a system of placage. When mourning her common-law husband coincides with the eve of a ball her daughters wish to attend, the house that Beartrice Albans built—on a foundation of wealth, secrets and dearly bought freedom—threatens to collapse.
2016 marks the 20th anniversary of The Acting Company's John McDonald Salon Reading Series. The Salon Series offers New York audiences a range of works that are thematically linked to the company's repertory season and first opportunities to see works that are being considered for future production.
This season of Salon Readings is dedicated to the memory of Gina Ingoglia Weiner, Chair of our Education Committee and our biggest fan.


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Stuffed Mackerel
(Uskumru Dolması)
2 Mackerel, (you can find it in the frozen section at the super markets)
4-5 tbsp flour, all purpose
1/2 cup sunflower oil
4 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1 small onion, chopped
2 tsp pine nuts
Fish meat (inside of the Mackerels)
2 tsp currants
3 stalk of parsley, washed, chopped
2 stalk of dill, washed, chopped
Pinch of cinnamon
First, cut the mackerel's head & tail and discard. Slightly rub the fish with palm of your hand, so that the meat and the bone should separate from the skin. Also, break off the bone from the tail side. Unplug the bone from the top. Push the meat and bone outward from the tail. Discard the guts. Separate and discard the bones from the fish meat. Finely chop the meat portion (picture).
To prepare the stuffing; saute the onion and pine nuts with olive oil for about 2-3 minutes. Add the rest of the filling into the pot. Turn the heat of when the fish meat is cooked. It takes only for about 2-3 minutes. Let it cool down.
Stuff the skin of mackerel with the filling by using a teaspoon. The skin may burst during frying. To prevent this, tie the mackerel at three points with the string.
Dust the fishes with the flour. Heat up the sun flower oil in medium frying pan. Fry each side, turn them gently. Place on a paper towel to soak up any extra oil. Cut off the strings. Serve the stuffed mackerel with lemon wedges.
2 Stuffed Mackerel
*Dolma is a Turkish word means stuffed in English:).
Meal Ideas:
- Arugula Salad, Fava, Bread with Black Olives, Turkish Tahini Cake and Turkish Coffee.
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When clouds form they could become ice clouds or water clouds, which should depend mainly on temperature/altitude. There would be a transition region where the clouds could be mixed phase. Depending how much of the clouds are mixed phase and how long they remain in a mixed phase, the transition could be negligible or not. Then whether or not some additional treatment other than classical cloud condensation/nucleation models is need really depends on how much mixed phase clouds impact model precision.
I like referencing masters and doctoral theses because the candidates generally explain things in greater depth.
"This sensitivity of climate models to mixed-phase cloud specification has been confirmed by other papers; Senior and Mitchell (1993) used 4 different cloud schemes in a GCM and this gave values for the climate sensitivity parameter, λ, between 0.45 and 1.29 ◦C (W m−2)−1. It was also reported that the simulation with the cloud water scheme had a negative cloud feedback as temperature increased as less cloud water was in the ice phase and therefore did not precipitate. This effect was further increased when an interactive radiation scheme was included that treated liquid and ice cloud separately (Senior and Mitchell, 1993). Also, by changing the range of temperature in which mixed-phase clouds can exist significantly changed the radiation budget (Gregory and Morris, 1996). GCMs are also sensitive to the cloud altitude and how the liquid and ice are assumed to be mixed within the cloud as the cloud albedo is very dependent on the phase of the cloud condensate (Sun and Shine, 1994, 1995)."
From the Thesis of Andrew Barrett at the University of Reading in the UK. It would appear that the impact of mixed phase clouds is significant enough to consider.
The mixed phase clouds tend to be liquid topped producing a super saturated water radiant surface at a colder temperature while the ice particles fall below the super saturated liquid top. Unexpectedly, these mixed phased clouds can persist for many hours and potentially days at colder temperatures than "classical" treatments would indicate.
This issue by the way is the reason this blog exists. When I first noted the discrepancies in the Keihl and Trenberth Earth Energy Budgets, the missing energy was due to clouds reducing the 40 Wm-2 atmospheric window to about 22 Wm-2 or an 18 Wm-2 error compared to a potential 3.7 Wm-2 "forcing". It should be so obvious it cannot be ignored, but never underestimate how stubborn academics can be.
webster, the king of stubborn, writes this, "In the text, they applied the theory of Bose-Einstein statistics to model the condensation (8.2.3) and freezing (8.3.2) nucleation rates of water vapor. Their theory competes with the classically described mechanism that occurs in the creation of clouds, which is a nucleation of water vapor into water droplets (low clouds such as cumulus) or ice crystals (high altitude clouds such as cirrus)." That is in his appropriately titled Crackpots Etc. post. He must think that ignoring the problem of mixed phase clouds and slinging insults will make them disappear.


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The European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) announced the winner of its 2016 excellence award at its annual congress, the 26th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) taking place in Amsterdam.
Prof. Robert A. Bonomo, Chief of Medical Service at the Cleveland Veteran Affairs Medical Center in Ohio, Director of the Geriatric Research Education & Clinical Center of the Veterans Integrated Service Network, co-Chair of the Gram-Negative Committee of the Antibiotic Resistance Leadership Group, and Vice Chairman of Veterans Affairs of University Hospitals Case Medical Center, received the ESCMID Award for Excellence in Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases 2016. This award is the most prestigious prize given at the annual congress each year and recognizes an outstanding lifetime contribution to the field of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
Prof. Bonomo is being recognized by ESCMID for his research, teaching, mentoring and over 340 publications all of which have greatly enhanced science, particularly in the field of antibiotic resistance. His primary research efforts focus on structure-function relationships of clinically important beta-lactamases using microbiological and biochemical testing, medicinal chemistry, structural biology, pharmacological analyses, genetics and molecular epidemiology. Prof. Bonomo and his team have participated in the evaluation of many preclinical and clinical drug candidates, including the testing of four novel antimicrobial agents which progressed to phase III clinical trials, which have won regulatory approval, now FDA approved) as well as over 100 other beta-lactamase inhibitor candidates.
The award was given at the 26th ECCMID in Amsterdam by Prof. Murat Akova, ESCMID President, and Prof. Mario Poljak, ESCMID President-elect, on Sunday, 10 April 2016. During this ceremony he gave a recipient's keynote lecture on the renaissance of the beta-lactamase inhibitors, explaining the strategic design of these newer compounds is absolutely critical. He added: "high affinity of the active site is important, but the closer to the active site an inhibitor gets, the more likely it is that inhibitor resistance will occur."
Prof. Bonomo predicted that new boronic acid compounds are going to arrive in the clinic and that 3rd generation diazabicyclooctanes (DBCs), that are more potent and active, could potentially make a substantial difference.
However, he finished by warning that resistance is going to become more common and that new extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBLs) are going to emerge. To overcome this, researchers will need to explore new approaches and tools, alongside beta-lactamase inhibitors and further study the mechanism's basic protein science.
At ECCMID 2016, a number of young scientists were also honoured for their contributions to the research and medical community. The ESCMID Young Investigator Awards for Research in Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases acknowledge excellence in research, and stimulate further study of the highest scientific level.
Due to the large number of excellent applications this year, ESCMID decided to give the award again to three researchers: infectious disease specialist Dr Sanne Jespersen (Aarhus, Denmark) and clinical microbiologists Dr. Robert P. Ryan (Dundee, Scotland) and Dr. Timothy M. Walker (Oxford, England). The ceremony was followed by the award recipients' lectures.
Dr. Jespersen explored optimal HIV treatment in extremely resource-poor and politically unstable countries, applying the tools of science under difficult circumstances. Dr. Ryan looked at the role interspecies signalling plays in influencing both bacterial virulence and response to therapy in various polymicrobial infections. And, Dr. Walker's research focused on how whole-genome sequencing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis can better guide public health investigations into tuberculosis outbreaks, and how genomic mutations can predict phenotypic drug susceptibility.
Finally, the ESCMID TAE Awards for Training Achievements rewarded outstanding trainees in clinical microbiology and infectious diseases. This year, two trainees, Dr. Clíodhna Ní Bhuachalla (Dublin, Ireland) and Dr. Luís Filipe Gomes Malheiro (Porto, Portugal) were honoured.
Presenting the awards was Prof. Annelies Zinkernagel, ESCMID Scientific Affairs Officer, who commented: "In creating the Excellence and Young Investigator Awards, ESCMID is bringing exemplary scientific contributions and the rising stars of tomorrow to the attention of the microbiology and infectious disease community. Prof. Bonomo's work spans three decades, and it is hard to think of anyone else who has made such an outstanding contribution to field. As a result, the new beta-lactamase inhibitors, that are likely to be present in the clinic in the next few years, represent a really exciting development in overcoming resistance.
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Metasurfaces are nanostructured devices composed of arrays of subwavelength scatterers (or meta-atoms) that manipulate the wavefront, polarization, or intensity of light. Like most other diffractive optical devices, metasurfaces are designed to operate optimally at one wavelength. Here, we present a method for designing multiwavelength metasurfaces using unit cells with multiple meta-atoms, or meta-molecules. A transmissive lens that has the same focal distance at 1550 and 915 nm is demonstrated. The lens has a NA of 0.46 and measured focusing efficiencies of 65% and 22% at 1550 and 915 nm, respectively. With proper scaling, these devices can be used in applications where operation at distinct known wavelengths is required, like various fluorescence microscopy techniques.
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Yet another doctor was busted today for illegally selling highly addictive painkillers out of his Queens home "office," which had little actual medical equipment.
Dr. Gracia Mayard, 61, is accused of distributing oxycodone between Jan. 1, 2012 and March 15, 2013. In exchange for cash, Mayard sold 2,953 prescriptions for nearly 400,000 pills to people without doing a medical exam during the first 10 months of 2012. He didn't even meet some of his customers before writing prescriptions.
According to an arrest affidavit, when narcotics agents went to his Cambria Heights home on Feb. 7, his son first told police that Mayard wasn't home. Then, later that day, a blue van arrived at the house and two men tried to slip Mayard out of the home by covering him with a tarp. He took them into his office to show them his "exam room," which was a table covered with dust and papers. "No other diagnostic items commonly present in a medical doctor's office were observed," the affidavit said.
In an attempt to justify his work, Mayard told investigators, "I know that it's a big problem but what happens to the oxycodone after I write the prescription is not my concern. It's just like a person that sells guns, he cannot control what happens after he sells a gun."
Mayard later dithered about where his medical records were. It turned out they were in three boxes in his car. He faces 20 years in prison and a $1 million fine.


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Latest News
September 14, 2018
This week saw the launch of Barts Charity's 2018 Trauma Appeal, which aims to increase awareness and funds for trauma research and care.
Who are Barts Charity?
Barts Charity are Barts Trusts' dedicated charity, giving up to £30 million a year to Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry and Barts Health NHS Trust. The Charity has committed millions to support the ground-breaking work of C4TS including funding towards CRYOSTAT-2 and the new AfterTrauma app.
Why trauma?
North East London is set for a 40% increase in trauma over the next 10 years. Barts Charity's Trauma Appeal aims to raise awareness of trauma as an issue and of the world leading work being done at the C4TS and our primary clinical partner The Royal London Hospital. The appeal aims to raise £1 million for trauma research and care at these sites.
Last year's appeal
Last year the appeal was fronted by rapper Professor Green. The appeal raised £325,000 and reached over 3.5 million people thanks to a partnership with the Sunday Mirror and a social media campaign.
This year's appeal
This year, The Sunday Mirror and Daily Express have pledged their support and the Charity are hoping for more coverage featuring several trauma survivors who are sharing their stories in support of the appeal.
The Charity team have also planned a Facebook and digital communications campaign which features 3 common scenarios: an elderly person falling down stairs, a child falling off their bike and an adult in a road traffic accident. You can click here to see each of them on the Charity's website, and viewers are encouraged to share the link with their networks.
How you can help
The Charity is asking the public to support the appeal in the following ways:
- Spread the word by sharing their posts on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram and mentioning the appeal to friends and families.
- If you are a trauma survivor or carer who wants to share their story, please get in touch (contacts below).
- Stay up-to-date with the appeal by searching #TransformTrauma on social media or sign up to the Charity's newsletter by which can you do on their homepage
- Consider fundraising for the appeal
Further Info
- The trauma appeal webpages are here
- For any further information, please contact: Rachel Hollingshead, Marketing and Comms Officer, Barts Charity, email@example.com, 0207 618 1731


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Reading a novel like Escape from Vietnam by Howard Cohen is so much more than enjoying an intricate, riveting plot and engaging with realistic and touching characters. It's an opportunity for enlightenment, not just about the horrors experienced by both soldiers and those they tried to help during the Vietnam war, but about what it is like to live under communist rule. And it is that last factor that propels the action in Escape from Vietnam and leaves readers grateful they don't live there, even today.
The key characters, the beautiful Vietnamese woman, Lan, and James, a green beret, became lovers during the Vietnam war. The war separates them, each eventually marrying someone in their own country. Now, in 2018, after years of non-communication between them, Lan tracks down James in North Carolina and asks for his help. James obliges, flies to Vietnam and what he learns shocks him. Lan, and members of her family, desperately need James' help to escape unscrupulous and cruel members of the powerful Communist party. Aided by Lan's trusted servants, James follow Lan's plans that involve two separate escapes. The chances of success seem more unlikely with each turn of the page and readers are breathless wondering what will happen next.
It's interesting that while Lan and James are the main characters, some of the minor characters, like Chang, are impossible to forget too. There are so many characters who touch you with their loyalty and strength, and others who make you shudder with their cruelty. The depictions of torture used to extract information makes one cringe. Escape from Vietnam will engage reader interest from start to finish.
Recommended and unforgettable reading.


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Animated pornographic content is at all times high when it comes to popularity. Over the course of the years, several genres related to animated images have spiked dramatically. Hentai for instance, is among the top 5 most popular categories in porn. Cartoon and anime are not far behind. Those who love these genres, want something different. For them, traditional porno with real humans just won't do. They prefer hot drawn characters performing sexually explicit acts. Either computer generated or drawn by artists, the result is the same.
This awesome list contains many of the best websites to watch cartoon porn videos. They are great for those who rather fap to animated sex films than regular pornographic images.
Spank Wire — Folks who love pornography will greatly appreciate this site. It is home to some of the best adult content found online. The same can be said about them when it comes to anime sex movies. They have a tremendous selection of hot, erotic and arousing hentai, cartoon and anime porn. You can see Disney cartoon celebrities sucking and banging. Or 3D hentai videos which look almost too real to tell apart from the real thing. A few ads that pop up from time to time should be expected.
ZZCartoon — People interested in sensuous and randy cartoon porn will want to check out this site. With tons of categories and a large variety of content, what's not to love? The site's functionality are ideal for those who like simplicity. Hundreds of arousing thumbnails depicting sexy cartoons entice you into clicking each link. There's also a 3D porn, Hentai, Comics and Futanari tab for more options.
MyHentaiComics — Simplicity and amazing are two words used to describe this site. Oh yes, and they also have heaps of animated porno to choose from. The website makes navigating through it simple which is a plus. Click on the category tab to find exactly the type of animated adult content that turns you on the most.
HentaiHaven — Although the name refers to hentai porno, that's not all you can find on it. The site is filled with all kinds of cartoon and animated porn content. Some may be censored though since that is how hentai is done in Japan. But there are many other videos created elsewhere which are not. Search bars, tabs and other features make finding your specific kind of smut easy.
101Hentai — For amazing and titillating animated porn pleasure, 101Hentai provides the cure. It is home to some of the highest quality computer generated animation sexual material. The only hindrance are the ads it has. Still, with so much free cartoon porno to choose from, a few ads can't hurt. Additionally, the site is updated continually so you always find fresh content.
HentaiFox — Whether it's manga, hentai, anime or cartoon pornography you are looking for, HentaiFox has it. Endless images, videos and other content related to the genre await visitors. The tag, listing of characters and many other useful features make this site superior. And yes it is also friendly to mobile devices.
A few other sites you should also check out for more anime porno are nHentai, Rule34, HentaiPornTube, Luscious, and E-Hentai.


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Curriculum Design
Our preschool is a four-year learning community that is home to joyful, nurturing, creative learning experiences. Our highly-qualified teachers work closely with parents to create a curriculum that grows from the children's own interests and immerses them in the joys of discovery.
Our education program tracks closely to developmental stages of early childhood. Each school year features intentional curriculum that builds upon the previous year in developmentally appropriate ways.
Interdisciplinary, thematic units that challenge students to utilize critical, creative, and problem-solving skills in meaningful ways seamlessly integrate our core subjects. Academically rigorous language arts, mathematics, social studies, science, arts, robotics physical education, and modern languages are offered in a fun, meaningful way.
Students are guided to master major concepts, processes and skills as they build connections between ideas. Children are given opportunities for self-directed inquiry as well as collaboration with their peers. The goal is to teach children "how to think, not what to think" as they prepare to be outstanding global citizens.
Life Skills
The culture of socio-emotional well-being embraces compassion and kindness, patience, and integrity. Stop Parenting Alone is a group of therapists with expertise in child and adolescent development as well as infant and early childhood mental health who use research-based practices to help each child find their authentic self.
These therapists support our teachers, evaluate children's needs & offer tailored interventions, as well as offer monthly coffee talks to our parents for family support.
Community Class
Elementary students take an active role in a course focused on community building, empathy, and effective citizenship. The social studies-based class provides children with active learning opportunities to practice being compassionate, responsible members of the community.
Language Programs
La Piazza Academy embraces the unique multi-lingual community of Miami by supporting the academic acquisition of world language skills in the classroom. English and Spanish are spoken throughout the day. Additionally, all children receive daily Mandarin immersion classes.
Through project-based, experiential learning, children develop proficiency in speaking, writing, listening, and reading multiple languages that will serve as platforms of communication as well as respect for their neighborhood and global communities.
Beginning in PreK-1, Mandarin Chinese is taught every day. Experiences are designed to cultivate an enjoyment of the language through
- Stories
- Puppet play
- Dramatic play
- Cooking
- Art
- Dancing and songs.
At the elementary level, children communicate proficiently in oral and written Mandarin Chinese.
In preschool, our bilingual teachers speak Spanish and English throughout the day.
At the elementary level, students learn to communicate proficiently in oral and written Spanish.
One of the many highlights of our campuses is the Atelier. The bright art studio offers a beautiful space for children to mold mixed media into original creations. The Atelier is a significant component of La Piazza's collaborative curriculum where students expand their imaginations as they turn concepts into realities. Led by Atelieristas with master's degrees in fine arts, the art classes connect to the children's interests and thematic units.
Music is part of the daily learning experience as a fun teaching tool that engages the child. Children sing, dance, and conduct breathing exercises that assist with appreciation of music. In PreK-4 and Elementary School, children have violin, piano and guitar classes twice a week. Taught by Latin Grammy-winning, international maestros, these instrument lessons offer children the opportunity to play classical and contemporary music. Music theory is intertwined with the curriculum. Additionally, children compose original performance pieces.
Movement, teamwork and sportsmanship are integral to the Physical Education program. Children are introduced to soccer, baseball, tennis, basketball, yoga and obstacle courses.


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Sunday, 14 February 2016
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Sunday Politics
Attorney General race:
MR's new political office:
SLFP Central Committee takes swift action:
Support for new rebel party weakens:
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Support for new rebel party weakens:
With Yoshitha Rajapaksa being arrested in
connection with the CSN TV station controversy, close allies of
former President Mahinda Rajapaksa are now convinced that the wheels
of law enforcement are moving. As an immediate result, they realised
the importance of 'fast-tracking' their process of forming a new
political alliance, so that they would have a platform to politicise
anti-corruption investigations and legal battles surrounding them.
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Jawaharlal Nehru at midnight on August 14, 1947
addressed the nation with his now famous, 'We made a tryst with
destiny' speech. The more you read his address to the nation that
India was now a sovereign State having thrown off the yoke of the
British Raj, the more you are enthralled and more nuances that
assail you.
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The Financial Crimes Investigation Division (FCID),
subject to much criticism due to the nature of the investigations it
carries out against those responsible for financial irregularities
during the Mahinda Rajapaksa regime, completes its first anniversary
this month. Though the setting up of the FCID was gazetted on
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Kid Stuff
It works best for the visually minded. Gorgeous photography, full-color project renderings, and engaging cartoon sketches of design development lead us through the Exleys' minds from earliest idea to finished product, while full-page images pull the reader into the project to reveal the complex details of the work.
Projects are grouped into eight categories Architectural, Out-of-doors, Experiential, Exploratory, Public, Cultural, Spiritual, and Multi-generationaland the accompanying text provides details and anecdotes to support the images. The widely varied projects are uniformly sensitive to their respective contexts. An Illinois Heritage Farm condenses all facets of Midwestern agriculture into clearly understood work/play areas. The Brownsville (Texas) Children's Museum features nearly a dozen thematic zones that highlight the most important cultural and societal issues of the border town.
Even trash is made playfully appealing in "The Stinking Truth About Garbage," a set of exhibits for the Chicago Children's Museum. Fanciful collages of discarded materials explain waste, landfills, recycling, and reclamation.
Throughout the book the authors' real talents and passions are made visible. Sharon, an artist and art educator, has made sure that children can find places to engage with a concept and produce some meaningful activity or work of their own. Peter, an architect, has taken every subject and turned it into a habitable, three-dimensional space that begs exploration.
The book begins and ends with short sections that try to teach us something about the authors' rich design philosophy on children's environments. Those sections also hint that the authors have much more to say than they are telling us between these covers, and the book might have been even stronger had it taken on the task of trying to reach the average reader with some meaningful truths about the design of children's environments.
Understandably, magicians and chefs do not reveal their secrets. However, the title of the book indicates something about the Exleys' intentions that the book doesn't quite deliver. Clearly this talented duo has a profound understanding that could be of great interest to a wider reading audience, and could build curiosity and appreciation for the role of design professionals.
The unfortunate fact is that the design process is often misunderstood by non-designers, and is consequently undervalued. With language that leans more toward "architecture speak" and less toward an open presentation of "design for children," the book does little to help a wider audience understand and value their work. It also tries to reach out to the wider audience by offering more and more detail about more and more projects rather than drilling deeper for rich, distilled insights. Less can be moreand can create more interestif what is told is more engaging and unfolds in a meaningful progression.
By telling the story of their own experiences designing for kids and offering a smaller selection of the strongest projects, the Exleys might have produced a book of more authority on this timely subject while appealing to a larger market. It would also have helped if they had made it clear whether or not a design was actually built, since their built projects are wonderful, and their playful drawing style could have provided rich material for teaching about design process from unbuilt projects.
In spite of this, Design for Kids stands on its own, offering a rare quality of design for children's learning environments. Readers with children may find places in the book they already know and love, such as the air-travel play area in Chicago's O'Hare airport. Readers in the architectural community will immediately recognize the magic touch of the late Steve Izenour GAr'65. Readers in the museum community will see inspirations for learning environments, and a resource to turn to for future development.
Kevin Owens GAr'91 received the Paul Cret Medal for his thesis on mobile, festival architecture. Since that time he has worked in the commercial playground industry in the development of new playground equipment for public use environments.
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As I get older and time passes, I find that there are certain memories I hope I never forget. There are always parts of every trip that stand out, the ones when you day dream about particular instances that you instantly go to.
When I think back to my recent trip to Florida with my son Jax, this is what I see, I open the door of the air conditioned room. The warm air hits and I feel the light breeze blowing . I walk to my car with fly rods in hand and smile, thinking, this is a top down kind of morning. With the convertible top down and fly rods extended out the back, we drive down the street of a sleeping fishing town. The only people up are the girl working the 24 hour convenient store or a flats guide trying to get a jump on the day.
Thanks to a friend, we had some local intel on a place we might be able to catch our first tarpon from shore. He had emailed me places to try from a boat but it was his last email that caught my attention! It started with, " One more thing: if you guys really want to get gnarly". That got me.
As we approached the bridge in the dark all we could see were eyes. The area only lit by street lights and the lights from our phones. I slowly scanned under the bridge, not knowing what I would find, I accidentally kicked an empty Corona bottle and the sound echoed under the bridge. All of which made it a little spooky.
After seeing it was all clear, we were able to get our first look at the water. Wow! The tarpon were feeding and if you have never seen tarpon feeding on mullet it is quite the sight to see. It is like nothing I have seen before. When the tarpon try to eat the mullet, the mullet spray into the air trying to escape their fate. This was all happening only feet from us. Perfect timing! It was an outgoing tide, not at the top or bottom but right in the middle of the drop. SO the tarpon were within casting distance.
My buddy sent me some tarpon flies and told me to try the purple. I cast out and let the fly swing below me then strip it back in. It wasn't long before I felt my line go tight and just like every film I had seen about tarpon fishing, the fish explodes out of the water, taking out line. It jumped several times but came right back towards me. My concern was there were some huge tarpon rolling and there was no way to chase them from shore. Despite that fact, I was able to get the tarpon to shore four different times. It was as long as my leg and i'm guessing around 50-60 lbs. I had hoped Jax could grab it but it wasn't that easy. I tried one last attempt to grab it myself but the leader was half way into the guides and when the tarpon took off again the leader knot caught on a guide and broke. My shot at retrieve that infamous tarpon scale eluded
me yet again.
Jax was up next. His attempt for one didn't take long. Within minutes he was hooked up and just like mine, it jumped and ran. Jax kept the pressure on, bringing it to shore with it's head against the rocks and yelled, "Grab it!" I thought, man mine went crazier than his, he got lucky. I lifted the fish out of the water and was shocked at what I found. Only half a fish. A bull shark had, in one bite, eaten half the tarpon. Jax's eyes got huge and I think was more excited with what had just happened than if he had landed the live, whole tarpon. We snapped a few pictures in the excitement and threw the head back into he water right by shore. The water exploded as the shark devoured the rest of the tarpon. I couldn't have, in my wildest dreams, dreamt of a better, crazier adventure.
Here is the follow up email my friend sent, "If you have some water shoes you can wade out a few feet, on the bay side, under the bridge. May have to cast backhand in there. Hopefully you get an outgoing tide. Black or purple–if you have sink tip or intermediate throw that. If not, weighted fly. That one I sent you is good at night. There's some big tarpon in there. Hang on."
NO WAY were we ever going to get in the water after that!
We trie three more mornings but they never hit like they did that morning. A cold front rolled in and the fish were often just out of our reach. Next year I will be getting up early with some purple flies!
Tarpon, no doubt, are on everyone's bucket list, as they are for us. This was a great experience and one we will keep with us for a long time. They will stay on our list but for now we will head out for our next adventure and bucket list fish, Peacock Bass.


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Strawberry Hill was considered old more than 100 years ago. As far back as 1890 it was given the name 'The Old Farm', in recognition of being the oldest farm in Western Australia, established even before the Swan River Colony.
A Government Farm was established at Strawberry Hill in 1827 as part of the first European settlement at King George Sound. In 1833, Sir Richard Spencer was appointed Government Resident at Albany. He purchased the Government Farm and resided there with his wife Ann, seven sons and three daughters. They lived in a pise cottage until, in 1836, the current two-storey stone house was built adjoining the older home. Even "old" farms change with the seasons. Come and see what is growing.
By 1836 the well established gardens were producing blood oranges, grapes, raspberries, gooseberries, asparagus, figs and almonds. The new house was the centre of the district's social life.
After a period of neglect it was purchased in 1889 by Francis and Augusta Maude Bird who restored the house and farmed the land. In 1956 the property was purchased by the Government as a historic monument but fell into another cycle of neglect. Transferred to the National Trust in 1964, the property is being conserved to appropriately reflect its significance. We are pleased to have eftpos facilities available for your convenience.


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Watch: How giant sequoias, earth's largest and longest-living trees, need fire to survive
Fire, the destroyer, can also be a creator.
The blackened landscape seen after forest fires, whether caused by natural or man-made factors, always gives the impression of large-scale devastation.
However, in some cases, forest fires are beneficial to the ecosystem.
For instance, forest fires have helped giant sequoias – earth's largest and longest-living trees – to survive.
Native to the western slopes of California's Sierra Nevada mountains, giant sequoias – which are one of the three species of coniferous trees known as redwoods – can stand up to 325-feet tall and live for more than 3,000 years.
The video above by PBS follows how fire provides conditions for this tree's seeds to germinate.
The camera takes the viewer from the floor of the forest to the tree tops from where one gets an aerial view of the forest. Even if you haven't seen the tree in real life, the video will give you an idea of its imposing size.
Because of its height, it is difficult for sunlight to reach the ground in groves of giant sequoias. However, these trees require strong sunlight to grow. It is here that fire plays a vital role – the heat allows the tree's cones to split open and release its seeds. At the same time, the fire loosens the soil, clears it of leaves, and allows the seeds to fall on bare soil, which it requires to germinate.
The fire-resistant bark of these trees helps them survive forest fires as compared to other tree species. As the charred parts of giant sequoias are enveloped by newer layers, the rings in the trunk slowly record the history of each fire.
Scientists have been fascinated with the stories that groves of giant sequoias have to tell. But like other flora and fauna on earth, even these species, which go back some 8,000 years, are endangered in the face of rapid climate change.
The videos below are of forest ecologists Wendy Baxter and Anthony Ambrose from University of California Berkeley's Dawson Research Lab who study how drought is affecting the ancient species.


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Repotting My Family Tree0
October 22, 2013 by Pierre the Author
For the past 14 years I have worked on my Family Tree. It is a favourite pastime enjoyed by many people these days. It is fascinating but very time-consuming to dig through online archives, searching for that elusive fact about an ancestor's military service or employment history, even more so if you visit the archive personally. It is very much the proverbial "needle in a haystack", and you're sometimes not sure if there is a needle to find, or if you even have the right haystack!
But it is also an intriguing hobby, because it draws you past the rather dry bare facts of the family tree – the dates and places – and into the real stories of the people who populate your family tree. This is where it gets really interesting, and really challenging, because you uncover the successes and failures, the terrible mistakes and the joyful achievements that make up the average human life.
I pieced together the story of my original ancestor, the high drama that accompanied their flight from Napoleonic Holland, the subsequent events that devastated their careful plans, the unexpected turns of fortune due to chance encounters along the way, the toll that it all took on their health and their family. I was astounded at the depth and drama of the story I uncovered.
As I assembled the story of the succeeding generations, I came across accounts of valour in battle, dishonourable discharges from the military, shocking experiences in British concentration camps during the Boer War, involvement in key national events, families struggling to survive in the face of economic depression and national strife.
I came to two key realisations –
* this was an astonishing story of courage and hope
* this story was not unique to my family, but was shared by most South African families
In 2012, I decided that the story must be told, that it was a story worth telling, that the courageous struggles of ordinary people of every colour and political persuasion in the history of South Africa must be told. I discussed the idea with a local publisher who encouraged me with the words, "There aren't enough South African authors who are writing the stories of the ordinary people of South Africa."
It was then that I decided that my family tree needed to be repotted as a series of novels that follow the story of this family through the tumultuous colonial, political and social history of Southern Africa.
The first book, "The Dream Chasers", explores the horrors and uncertainties of Napoleonic Europe and the dreams for a better, more secure future that lead the hero, Pieter van Scheer, to leave the land of his birth with his family. His challenge is to hold fast to the dream in spite of obstacles raised by events and people beyond his control.
But following a dream can have unexpected results, and there are always consequences that you have to live with. It was no different for Pieter van Scheer, and he could not have imagined the final outcome of his strivings. This is a story that has been repeated many times in the history of a troubled country, and is no different for us who have also left the land of our birth, following a dream of a better future.
Go to The Dream Chasers main page for a full synopsis of the novel
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The pretty desert table.
Welcome to the doll house party!
Such intricate furniture.
Loving the individual table settings especially the pink striped plates
and cups and the super pretty party hat!
Seen @ Little Big Company
I just had to post this adorable little Doll House Party dessert table.
It's cute, has heaps of pink accents and is super unique.
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Re: Tokyo Nakano Sun Plaza Concert (1988) Setlist?
Here is what they have on Setlist.com, but it appears to be incomplete: https://www.setlist.fm/setlist...-japan-33d4308d.html Jane's Music site might have more if you search for it: http://torrent.janemusic.org/index.php
Re: Tokyo Nakano Sun Plaza Concert (1988) Setlist?
Thanks! I had seen the setlist,.com listing already, but it's pretty limited, isn't it. I dug around in Jane's Music, but didn't find anything. Maybe I need to think of more clever search terms!
Tokyo Nakano Sun Plaza Concert (1988) Setlist?
Recently, I came across the video for "When You Come" that was shot in Tokyo. It got me thinking about the band's concert at Nakano Sun Plaza that took place at the same time (Summer 1988) --also my first Crowded House performance. Would anybody have a copy of the setlist from that show? I remember that the power went out at one point, and Neil and Paul started singing Split Enz songs, which stumped Nick. One of my buddies insists that Paul Kelly opened for them, something that I don't...


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I posted a pretty interesting question on Twitter yesterday that said:
...does the USA or Texas deserve my gay foreign money?
Something that you probably already know is that I, like 64% of Americans, hate the current direction of US politics. We have an ineffective leader who is more interested in keeping his own interests afloat and making those with the inability to distinguish the difference between church and state happy. We have a man who is too busy making himself look good rather than making our country look good in control, something that I never thought would happen. We have a man who claims to be a LGBT+ ally, yet disrespects people in our community every chance he gets.
One of the things I am most afraid of is planning my wedding there and some religious nut job getting his way where it can't happen. He's already attacking trans people and trying to dismantle my right to marry the man I love.
I don't like this feeling.
I'm rethinking whether I want to get married in Texas or not because I don't agree with our hateful politicians. The services and goods I purchase there (plus the taxes I pay) go back to paying this never-ending cycle of hate. I don't really want to be a part of that. It's a bit sad because I wanted to do it locally for my family, but I am not confident in the USA (or Texas) anymore. I just don't.
Why should I give more of my money to them if I can avoid it completely? (As a US citizen, I'm still required to pay tax on foreign earned income.)
I don't see things getting better. I see them getting worse–a lot worse. So I'm going to back away with caution for now and either wait for marriage equality here in Australia, or jump across to New Zealand and do it there. Maybe then, I can go to the USA with some Oreos from here (proudly made in China) and have a cookies and water party.
I'd much rather spend money in a country that has laws protecting the people of my community. Though I can't get married here, I still have more legal protections here than I would in the USA, simply because of who I love.


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Rabigh Arabian Water & Electricity Company, Ltd.
The Rabigh IWSPP has been established to produce and supply utilities to the Rabigh Refining and Petrochemical Company (Petro Rabigh); jointly owned by Saudi Aramco and Sumitomo Chemical.
RAWEC, registered and head-quartered in Rabigh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, is a special purpose company created to develop, own, and operate the Rabigh IWSPP. RAWEC is owned by lead partner ACWA Power (37%), Marubeni (37%), JGC (25%) and Petro Rabigh (1%). The basis for a successful business relationship between RAWEC and Petro Rabigh was formalized by the Water and Energy Conversion Agreement (WECA) in April 7, 2005.
In 2014, RAWEC took a conscious decision to contract its O&M activities to Rabigh Power Company (RPC), through an O&M Agreement. RPC, established in May 2014, is owned by ACWA Power subsidiary, NOMAC (51%), Marubeni (34%) and JGC (15%).
The strong partnership between RAWEC and Petro Rabigh became more pronounced when both parties entered into an amendment to its existing WECA to build, own and operate Rabigh IWSPP 2 (Phase 2) for supplying the complex additional utilities to its Rabigh 2 expansion. The amended and restated WECA became effective on March 16, 2015 and will expire on the 25th anniversary of the commencement of the Phase 2 Commercial Operation Date.
During the initial phase, through IWSPP 1, the facility was able to generate 600 MW of Power, 4,230 t/h of Steam and 8,000 t/h Water. The integrated plant, consisting of IWSPP 1 and IWSPP 2, has an installed capacity to 840 MW Power, 6,110 t/h Steam and 12,000 t/h Water to meet the demand of the expanded Petro Rabigh Complex.


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Situated across the famous Garden Route and the Little Karoo, the catchment area of the South Cape College (80 822 km2) is the largest of the six FET colleges in the Western Cape.
It includes Beaufort West in the north, Heidelberg in the west, Plettenberg Bay in the east and the coastal line. The population of the college's catchment area is in the region of 500 000. College programmes are offered to about 1% of this population, with a target of growing to 5% over the next 10 years.
South Cape College, also referred to as SCC, has six campuses in addition to the central office located in George. The campuses are the Beaufort Wes Campus, Bitou Campus in Plettenberg Bay, George Campus, Mossel Bay Campus, Oudtshoorn Campus and Hessequa Campus in Riversdale. A training centre for Hospitality and Tourism students, the Foster's manor Guest House, is located in Oudtshoorn. Hostel accommodation is available in George, Mossel Bay and Oudtshoorn.
The institution was established in 1994, with the amalgamation of the George Technical College (initially the George Technical Institute, founded in 1968), Oudtshoorn Technical College (initially the Technical Institute in Oudtshoorn, founded in 1981), the South Cape Technical Institute in George, which started its first activities in the early 1980's, and Mossel Bay which started operating in 1993 as a satellite of the Oudtshoorn Technical College. SCC was the pilot site for South Africa in this regard, and college mergers followed suit from 2002 onwards.
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Following is a list of Communist Goals that was read into the Congressional Record by A. S. Herlong, Democrat Representative of the State of Florida in 1963. Every now and then, I like to revisit this list to see how the enemies of the civilization are doing accomplishing these goals. While some of the goals on this list are out-of-date historically speaking, many are in the process of being accomplished right now under our very noses. On the whole, the list provides a checklist for how to undermine a nation and set it up for destruction.
I hope that some libertarians will read this list and at least come to understand what you are defending and whose rhetoric you are adopting when you claim that a duly elected government has no right to restrict obscenity.
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January 10, 1963
Current Communist Goals
Thursday, January 10, 1963
Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.
At Mrs. Nordman's request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following "Current Communist Goals," which she identifies as an excerpt from "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen:
[From "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen]
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces.
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.
Beyond libertarians, however, it is dismaying to me how easily some well-intentioned conservatives have fallen for the narrative that obscenity is a "free speech" issue when it never was before the 1960s. Here are two snippets from Supreme Court decisions that were subsequently overturned by the radical courts of the 1960s, much to this country's detriment:
Chaplinsky vs. New Hampshire (1942):Personally, I am happy to see a national candidate of Santorum's stature address this issue.
"There are certain well-defined and narrowly limited classes of speech, the prevention and punishment of which have never been thought to raise any Constitutional problem. These include the lewd and obscene, the profane, the libelous, and the insulting or 'fighting' words....It has been well observed that such utterances are no essential part of any exposition of ideas, and are of such slight social value as a step to truth that any benefit that may be derived from them is clearly outweighed by the social interest in order and morality."
Roth vs. The United States (1957)
"Obscenity is not within the area of constitutionally protected freedom of speech or press--either (1) under the First Amendment, as to the Federal Government, or (2) under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, as to the States.... In the light of history, it is apparent that the unconditional phrasing of the First Amendment was not intended to protect every utterance.... The protection given speech and press was fashioned to assure unfettered interchange of ideas for the bringing about of political and social changes desired by the people.... All ideas having even the slightest redeeming social importance--unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, even ideas hateful to the prevailing climate of opinion--have the full protection of the guaranties, unless excludable because they encroach upon the limited area of more important interests; but implicit in the history of the First Amendment is the rejection of obscenity as utterly without redeeming social importance."


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Holy moly. Today was my last official day of M1. The year is far from over, of course, since we still have a whole week of exams to get through. Still, it feels so weird to think about the fact that I'm already 1/4 of the way through. I suppose it's because the process to get into med school is SO long and arduous, that it's unbelievable how fast time flies once you're actually in.
Maybe this is TMI, but earlier this morning as I entered the bathroom on the second floor of the med building, I couldn't help but recall the first time I ever entered it. It was during orientation, and we all had to pee in cups for our drug test (I was clean, fyi). Perhaps not the most delightful experience to think about, but it also got me thinking about how I felt that day, interacting with the strangers who would become dear friends, and feeling quite overwhelmed after receiving so much information about the curriculum requirements, school policies, etc. To think that a little over 9 months later, the novelty has completely worn off, and mostly I just feel exhausted, hungry, and ready to get these exams over with.
It's also fun to think about the next couple years. I still have so much to learn, and so much to experience. I'm still nowhere near close to knowing what I want to specialize in. This year alone I've jumped from pediatrics, to cardiology, to pediatric cardiology, to neurology, to OB/GYN, and now to endocrinologist. You can see I'm gonna have a tough time with this decision in the future, lol. But as mentioned in a previous post, I've learned to trust the process. I know at this stage I'm not ready to know what I want to do yet, and that's completely okay. I'll know eventually. Three years is a long time, and all the things I have yet to experience and learn from will make the decision easier. In the meantime, I can only focus on the challenges I face presently and nothing more.
And that's my cue to end this post. My 20-minute study break is close to over, and I must get back to the grind. Maybe in the summer when I have more time (ahh!) I can share with you guys some good study tips I've learned and what I consider to be the best study music of all time. Until next time!


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Lately, we've had to report on far too many deaths in the Arizona music scene. But alas, it's our terrible duty to report that Rick Martinez, better known as DJ Essential, passed away on Thursday, March 21, around 2 p.m. due to complications from cellulitis.
Martinez was 43 years old, and widely recognized as one of the first DJs to bring drum and bass and jungle to Arizona.
Over the years, Martinez had many identities, whether it's DJ Essential, Rikki X, Big Rick, or Rick the Beast. He was known for his sincerity and love of music, which manifested itself through his weekly broadcast Wreckage Metal Radio and his band, Catholic School Girls.
"We basically lived at Roads to Moscow, Stinkweeds, Rockaway Records, and for him later, Swell," says Russel Ramirez, who owned the techo emporium Swell Records. "We went to gigs nearly every other night, and hung out at his father's apartment tape-trading and analyzing music 'til the wee hours of the morning, every night!"
Martinez's brother Scott also fondly remembers Rick's expansive music knowledge: "Rick was about two years ahead of the trends of music, whether it was thrash, hardcore punk, glam, grunge, shoegaze, electronic. He had a tape of Slayer's Reign in Blood three months before the album came out."
Martinez scraped himself after brushing into a coffee table in December 2012, and the wound transformed into cellulitis, according to his friend Andy Myers. Treatment adequately took care of the wound until symptoms reappeared two weeks ago.
"Doctors were feeling that progress was being made, but then things turned for the worse when several viruses appeared," Myers says. "Those viruses manifested and Rick's immune system broke down. It was not until the last four days that the complications became terminal. With the onset of pneumonia, Rick was put on life support. Unfortunately, doctors noted that Rick would only be kept alive if on life support." Facebook group Old Skool AZ Ravers 1995 - 2005 is full of condolences and messages of love about Rick Martinez. Here are some of the highlights, which include plenty of his signature "doooooooood" greeting.
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"First time I saw him play was a party called 'Hiatus,' He quickly became one of my favorite Phx Drum and Bass Djs. No Ego, no attitude, just incredibly kind and humble." -- Jason Workman
"He would give you the shirt off his back to help out in any way he could. He lived for all types of music." -- Kirk "Captain Kirk" Millhollin
"Rick was a true lover of music, all forms. I remember late 80's early 90's version of Rick...such an awesome guy, so genuinely kind. He had the Nirvana Bleach album before anybody I knew. We must have listened to that thing a million times, he was so stoked to share it with us. He will be missed." -- George Rudder
"That dude schooled me in so many genres. Way before I was a DJ. Always held him in high regards. Such an enthusiastic, well-rounded lover of music. I remember about 15 years ago he'd host the d-n-b nights at Higher Ground. One night, I walked over to say hello / compliment him on the music and he hands me a $10 and sends me down the street to buy a 6 of Newcastle. I barely knew the guy at the time. Just turned around and did what I was told. He gave me one. Classic memory to smile on." -- William Reed
"Rick was always super-enthusiastic about music, he would get mere inches from your face and he almost had a crazed look in his eyes as he described how a certain sound in a song made him feel." -- Paul Nth


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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - Occidental Vacation Club, a division of Occidental Hotels and Resorts (Madrid), is reporting that sales are on the upswing at the all-inclusive group of resorts.
According to Luis Namnum, President of Occidental Vacation Club, âWe were proud to be listed near the top of the leaderboard among timeshare resorts in active sales according to a survey conducted by Vacation Ownership WORLD Magazine.â
The club has resorts located in Aruba, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico. There are more than 23,000 members at 11 Occidental Vacation Clubs.
The group reported an increase of approximately 7 percent in sales in 2011, rising from $31.81 million in 2010 to $35.45million in 2011. This reflects an addition of one resort to Occidental's group and a 98 more units. 1,500 additional families purchased memberships over the last year.
âWe are attributing this steady climb to our all-inclusive model, which is becoming more and more popular with travelers,â said Namnum, âIn addition, we continue to receive very high marks on traveler-based web sites such as Travelocity. People who own and visit here continue to give us extremely high satisfaction ratings not only for our paradise-like vacation destinations, but also for the warmth and hospitality they find when they arrive.â
The all-inclusive Occidental Vacation Clubs feature limitless meals and snacks; ĂĄ la carte dining in specialty restaurants, including unlimited alcoholic beverages; sports (including tennis on a lighted court, water polo, aqua aerobics, and kayaking where available); use of the fitness center; and more. Daily entertainment and a supervised Kids Club (ages 4-12) are also part of the package, as well as nightly shows and live entertainment, and all taxes and gratuities.
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Gloria Sinner
Gloria Louise (Jones) Sinner was born on Aug. 8, 1931, in Worley, Kentucky, to Ollie Lee (Martin) and Chester P. Jones. Gloria's family were coal miners and she grew up and attended school in the coal country of Kentucky.
Gloria met Lloyd L. Sinner while he was stationed in Virginia serving in the U.S. Army. On July 12, 1961, Gloria and Lloyd were married in nearby Toledo, Ohio. The couple settled in Wauneta, Nebraska, where Gloria and Lloyd raised their two daughters, Donna and Barbara. Gloria was a devoted mother and homemaker. She enjoyed sewing, ceramics, cooking and reading.
Gloria was a member of the World Wide Church of God and the United Methodist Church of Wauneta.
Gloria passed away Thursday afternoon, June 14, 2018, at the Wauneta Care and Therapy Center, Wauneta. Gloria was 86 years of age.
Survivors include, husband, Lloyd of Wauneta; daughters, Donna (Gary) Jarvis, of Broomfield, Colorado, Barbara (Tim) Swaney, of Spokane, Washington; 5 grandchildren, Nathan Swaney, Matthew Swaney, Joshua Swaney, Amber Jarvis and Cameron Jarvis; 6 great-grandchildren, Evan Swaney, Julian Swaney, Alivia Swaney, Lincoln Swaney, Keaton (Jarvis) Allen and Rowan Shea Jarvis.
Gloria was preceded in death by her parents; grandson, Colin Shea Jarvis; brothers, Ernest (Mary Jo) Jones, Estes (Eartha) Jones, Roy (Delean) Jones, Dean (Ginger) Jones; sisters, Gladys (Johnnie) McLaughlin, Jeweline Johnson, Joyce (Channer) Inman, Barbara Sue Jones, Anna Mae Jones, Evaline Jones.
Funeral Services for Gloria will be today (Thursday), June 21, at 10:30 a.m. at the United Methodist Church of Wauneta with Rev. Gary Hunt and Mr. Paige Johnston officiating. Interment will follow at Riverside Cemetery, Wauneta.
Visitation was held Wednesday, June 20, from 2 to 6 p.m. at the funeral home in Wauneta.
Memorials have been suggested to the United Methodist Church of Wauneta and the Wauneta Care and Therapy Center of Wauneta.
Online condolences may be left at liewerfuneralhome.com.
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Count cycling amongst your list of hobbies long enough and you will eventually accumulate gear for every possible weather condition. Arm and leg warmers, vests, long sleeve jerseys, full zip, 1/2 zip, bib-shorts, tights, gloves, glasses for every lighting condition, etc.
Your road shoes are very well vented. Your feet will thank you all summer, but come fall, a heavier pair of socks just isn't going to cut it. Bring on the toe covers!
Having a look at AllSeasonCyclist's winter gear he writes that he has 12 pair of toe covers! I was looking for my 1st pair to cover up my very well vented Diadora Speedracer 2 Carbon shoes that I picked up just a few weeks ago at the Toronto Fall Bike Show. I do have a couple of pairs of shoe covers, or booties as they are known, for more extreme conditions, but was looking for something a little more civilized for those cool, dry fall rides. After a bit of searching, I decided I would just make my own.
Let's start with a look at the finished product:
My BMC Streetfire is black and red with white decals and bar wrap. My Diadora Speedracer 2 Carbon shoes are white with red and black accents. I figured I would carry those colours into the toe covers. I dyed the leather with Fiebings USMC Black leather dye and used a red braided nylon thread to really make the stitches stand out.
The whole process starts by making some paper patterns until you have an idea of how much leather you might need. I then soaked the leather for about 40min and here's where things literally start to take shape. I worked the leather around the edge of the shoes, pulled the leather into position with cord, stretching and compressing it, before letting it dry overnight. This part isn't pretty…
By the next morning they were dry and starting to look like a toe cover:
I cut off the excess from around the edges, made a piece for the bottom, shaped it slightly and dyed all of the pieces:
Oops, missed a step or two. Use the stitch groover so that your stitches will be "counter-sunk", mark all of your holes for stitching, re-dye that strip, mark and rough-up the sections to be glued, apply the contact cement, line the pieces up, fit them into place and begin stitching:
…and then it's just a matter of cleaning up all of the edges, fitting some snaps to secure the cover around your shoe and applying some finishing products to protect the leather. Here they are with my Time Espresso 6 cleats fitted into place:
…and then it's time to enjoy the finished product:
Time to get out and enjoy them. See you on the road!


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But chief executive Mike Turner said the firm had moved "from a position of recovery to one of profitable growth".
If exceptional items and interest are not taken into account, annual pre-tax profits rose 3% to £1.01bn ($1.92bn) on the back of rising order books.
BAE also said its potential post-tax pension liabilities had increased to £3bn in 2004 from £2.1bn in 2003.
These latest pension figures were calculated under new accounting standards, known as the FRS17.
BAE said that returns had been better than expected but its pension pot had been hit by a reduction in bond yields and the longer life spans of its pensioners.
Strong orders
In the year to the end of December 2004, BAE made a pre-tax, post-exceptionals loss of £232m, against a profit of £233m a year earlier.
BAE said the write-downs mainly related to its merger with Marconi Electronic Systems and a deal with Italy's Finmeccanica.
The strong pre-exceptionals figure can be attributed to the strength of the order book.
The value of orders strengthened to £50.1bn from £46bn and the company's net cash jumped to £5m from a deficit of £870m at the end of 2003.
The Saudi Arabian government pays BAE in oil and the rise in the price of crude oil also helped boost BAE cashflow.
Sales boost
BAE's sales were also boosted by its partnership with missile maker MBDA, sales of Hawk trainer jets to India and its 20% stake in Airbus, the world's biggest plane maker.
"Airbus continues to build upon the strong performance of 2003 despite a number of challenges in the current commercial aircraft market and against a backdrop of rising fuel prices and adverse US dollar exchange rates," said Mr Turner.
On top of that, the company is part of the Eurofighter consortium, which secured firm orders from the UK, Germany, Italy and Spain in December.
BAE is increasingly looking to the US for growth.
It completed five US acquisitions last year and is now one of the top providers of IT system support to US government agencies.
Shares in BAE closed up 1.2% at 253 pence.


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Tickets are currently on sale for $15, $19, $23 and $35, with a limited number of $45 VIP and $55 Front Row seats. Tickets for the Thursday, March 10th Opening Night Performance are $12 (excluding VIP and Front Row seats). All seats are reserved and additional service and handling fees may apply. Tickets are available at the Van Andel Arena and DeVos Place convention center box offices, Ticketmaster ticket centers, including D & W stores and select Family Fare locations, charge by phone: 1.800.745.3000 or online at www.ticketmaster.com. Discounts are available for groups of 10 or more. For 10 or more tickets, call 616.742.6185 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Believing is just the beginning in Disney On Ice presents Princess Wishes! Dreamers from all over West Michigan will witness the magic when Ariel, Cinderella, Belle, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Jasmine and Mulan all make their wishes come true in this collection of celebrated tales wonderfully told through artistic skating and acrobatics.
With the help of the magical pixie Tinker Bell, the Disney Princesses embark on an adventure to find their heart's fondest wish. Ariel dreams of a life above the sea, Mulan finds her inner strength, Jasmine discovers a whole new world and Snow White finds her true love. Cinderella, Belle and Sleeping Beauty also find happiness in this beautifully imagined ice show.
Starting one hour before each performance, families will be treated to the Disney Princess Pre-Show, an exclusive fairy tale collection of gowns and treasures from the Disney Princess stories. This bonus experience is free with a ticket purchase per individual and includes a special appearance by a live Disney Princess.
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Thursday, March 10
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Friday, March 11
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Saturday, March 12
11:00 a.m.
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Sunday, March 13
2:00 p.m.
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