This past week, I had the joy of being part of Inspire Innovate 2016, a conference of almost 500 educators from across NSW (and some from further than that!). It was a pretty intense experience, with some sharp keynotes and a range of really practical breakout sessions. I came away very satisfied for the two days that I had to spend away from school to be a part of it. Definitely recommend it to others if you have the opportunity to attend.
I had the privilege of presenting two workshops, one on strategies for teaching mathematics and the other on what I've learned from doing Wootube for 3 years. As is my style, I also took a copious amount of handwritten notes – 11 pages worth – to document the sessions and help me reflect on what I was learning.
And here's a selection of my tweets to #inspirensw during the conference.
It has taken me a while to think of myself as a teacher who has something to offer to other teachers. In many ways I am still very young and inexperienced, and there's no shame in admitting that – it would be a greater mistake to pretend otherwise! Yet at the same time, I've come to a point in my career where I've made enough mistakes and experienced a broad enough range of situations that I actually do have some things of value to pass on to pre-service and early-career teachers. That's why I'm excited about ment2teach, a new initiative launched by Jennifer Michalski.
Among other things, ment2teach is a space and a platform to facilitate mentoring relationships between teachers. I know how important mentoring is – I was incredibly fortunate to have spent my first six years teaching in a faculty where basically all the staff took it upon themselves to mentor me in one form or another – and I believe it's one of the best ways to learn. Life's too short to learn from your own mistakes – if you want to get anywhere, you need to piggyback on the experience of others.
Apart from offering myself as one of the mentors there, I'm also contributing to the ment2teach's blog. In fact, my post there – "The missing ingredient" – is the first one published on the site. It's the first in a series, and over the next two weeks I'll be posting the rest. Happy reading!
I'm feeling a lot more settled and directed heading into 2015 – I guess that's to be expected since this is my second year in the role. Nonetheless, there is plenty of change afoot – a couple of new staff in my faculty, and I'm very excited about the energy they're going to bring to the table. One thing's for sure: there are interesting times ahead!
Hey Eddie, I got offered a full time job next year. Pretty excited but I want to be an active member within the school, rather than just doing the teaching component. So for example I want to participate in extra curricular activities within the school. But i was wondering if that is something a first year out teacher should do, considering the workload? What are your thoughts on that?
What a fantastic question. It comes from a really good heart that wants to get involved but also wants to be realistic about its own limits (and believe me, in your first year of teaching you will definitely confront your limits!). This is something I personally feel very strongly about, and I'm glad you're thinking about very consciously rather than just falling into the path of least resistance.
Full disclosure: every year that I've been a teacher (including my first), I've been deeply involved in activities outside the classroom. That probably gives you an indication of the kind of advice I'm about to give. But now what's important is that I justify it!
To answer your question, I need to pose a question back to you first. And that question is: what is a teacher's role? What is a teacher actually supposed to do? You'll note that I did not ask, "What is a teacher's job?" or "What is a teacher paid to do?" I don't want to know what the minimum expectations are; I want to know what it actually means to be a teacher, what it should mean, what it ought to mean. As a teacher, who are you? Why do teachers exist?
Your answer to my question will define the answer to your own question. I'll show you how I answer each one in turn.
As a teacher, who am I? Why do I exist? I am a role model, an instructor, a mediator, a mentor, and a coach. I exist to do everything I can to bring people through the journey from being a child to being an adult. That includes standing in front of a classroom and explaining things – a lot of it – but it includes so much more. It includes teaching children how to relate to their peers – and those who aren't their peers. It includes being an example of character and integrity. It includes forcing students to challenge their own limits even when they don't want to – and proving to them that they are capable of more than they believe they can do. It includes showing them why they shouldn't always do things even when they are capable of doing them. It includes helping them understand right and wrong in the nitty gritty of everyday life where things aren't black and white. It includes helping them see their true role within their family, within their group of friends, and within broader society. It includes training them to work effectively with others.
So what am I supposed to do? Does my role end when my students and I walk out the door of the classroom? Not a chance. In some ways, that is just the beginning. I can think of two primary reasons – among hundreds – why teachers must participate in school activities with their students.
In those other activities, you are still teaching. A lot. You are still explaining and training and helping students to learn. In fact, you are helping them to learn a whole host of skills and knowledge that cannot be taught in a classroom setting. I think back to my days as a touch football coach, and the many mornings I spent out on the oval teaching my team how to be a team. I'm confident that the lessons I taught out on the field will be some of the most enduring memories of school for the boys and girls I had on my squad. So if you're a teacher, you should be out there doing that. Why would you pass up that golden opportunity?
In those other activities, you see students in an entirely different light that will help you to understand them better and be a better teacher to them when you are back inside the classroom. Conversely, your students will see you in an entirely different light and that will help them learn more effectively too. Whether it's sport or photography or army cadets or prefects, each activity you're involved in helps you see a different side tip your students. Often a student who seems to do badly in your class has meant wonderful skills in other areas, and discovering those will help you appreciate them and give you opportunities to reach out to them (rather than them constantly disliking you because you are merely the teacher of the class they hate the most). Just like air is the medium for sound, I believe that relationship is the medium for learning. And every avenue along which you can form a better relationship with your students will help you to teach them more effectively.
So you can see I have a pretty firm stance on this one. I think it's a no-brainer to get involved with school activities wherever you can. In fact, hopefully my two reasons above help you to see why I don't think it's actually accurate to call them "extra-curricular" activities (since "extra" literally means "outside of" and "separate to"). I think the name "co-curricular" activities is far more appropriate (because it helps us to see that the learning taking place in such activities runs in parallel to the learning taking place in classrooms).
That brings us to the question, then, of time. You wisely ask if these activities are "something a first year out teacher should do, considering the workload". To be sure, any and all activities you engage in will take a significant investment of time (if you do them well, that is – and you should). There are only so many hours in the day and that means the time you spend on activities will inevitably take away from your time spent on other tasks related to classroom teaching.
But this fact remains true throughout your teaching career; it's not like you hit some magical point in your fifth or tenth or twentieth year where you say, "Great, I've perfectly mastered my classroom teaching now, so with I'm going to devote some of my wonderful newfound spare time to some activities!" That day never comes. Teaching by its very nature is all-consuming. It's a bottomless pit that will swallow up however much time you throw at it. You can always plan a more innovative lesson. There is always a new tool or technique or technology to try out. You can always spend more time helping out students after class. And there will always be new opportunities to broaden and deepen your understanding of your subject area.
None of these are bad things – they are the reasons why we as teachers never need to get bored! But they do mean, in my opinion, that you shouldn't wait indefinitely to get involved in school activities. I would wait an absolute maximum of twelve months, because admittedly the very first year is not just your entry into teaching but into full-time work itself, and that can be pretty traumatic. But after a year, it's time to take the plunge. Yes, it will take some time out of your 24 hours. It's so worth it, though, that I don't think you'll look back.


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- Bring the kids along for some child-friendly programmes!
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The charge is usually "eavesdropping" under the theory that recording exchanges between 2 or more individuals without their express consent violates wiretap laws. Such wiretap laws are supposed to protect the individual's right of privacy, but how can an activity or conversation held in public be private? That's the question courts consider when they throw out convictions based on these laws. Courts have ruled that there is no reasonable expectation of privacy for activities occurring in public.
But since the beginning of the Occupy movement, oddly enough, one hears less of prosecuting photographers under "eavesdropping" laws. Perhaps that's because it's easier to hush up a felony charge against a solitary videographer than dozens of charges against a bevy of photographers participating in a mass demonstration.
In 2007, Seattle resident Bogdan Mohora videotaped an arrest, and police seized his camera and arrested him. You can read the Seattle PI account by clicking here. They released him several hours later and never charged him. But he spent time in the hoosegow and police seized his camera. Seattle Police never apologized nor did they even file a legally required police report. Nevertheless, Mr. Mohora was lucky, compared to a certain Florida resident named Narces Benoit. At least Mr. Mohora later received $8000 damages the court ordered the PD to pay as the result of an ACLU suit.
On Memorial Day of 2011, Narces Benoit filmed police surrounding a car and firing over 100 rounds into it, killing the occupant. You can see his chilling video by clicking here. Alternet reports that police seized and smashed several witnesses' cell phones, including Mr. Benoit's. According to reports, police stomped on Mr. Benoit's camera, smashing it, and arrested him, but not before Mr. Benoit surreptitiously rescued the SIM card and slipped it into his mouth. That's why you now can view this video. The police responded by charging Mr. Benoit with eavesdropping—charges that carry a 15-year sentence in that jurisdiction. Click here to read Alternet's story.
Then there's the story of 41-year-old Michael Allison, who faced 75 years in prison, which at his age is a virtual life sentence. His crime? He's in trouble for filming several of his encounters with police and one with a judge.
Another example: Police arrested Emily Good, a Rochester NY resident, for filming a police encounter between 3 white police officers and a black civilian that occurred across the street from her. She filmed this encounter from her front porch, on the opposite side of the street.
There are many similar horror stories and amateur videos of police misconduct floating around the web. The charges are usually criminal eavesdropping, occasionally inciting to riot, or interfering with police.
However, courts more and more are overturning these laws on the legal theory that video recording public activity in public places does not constitute a breach of anyone's privacy. Notwithstanding that, plenty of jurisdictions continue to charge the lone photographer and videographer with violating privacy and eavesdropping statutes for filming police activity that occurs in public.
But we haven't seen a lot of that with the Occupy protests so far. How come? What's the explanation?
Check out the picture right above. Just look at how many cameras and video-recorders there are in this demonstration, will you? That's the problem for the misbehaving cop.
There are so many cameras at these protests that police behavior will be recorded, and within an hour, these pictures flash around the world. The cops can't seize all the cameras. They can't avoid being photographed. The world is different from the days of Rodney King when few people had video-cameras or even thought of filming police misconduct. Nowadays, some of these cameras are networked to satellites in the sky and instantly upload graphic files as soon as the shutter is snapped! Technology makes it virtually impossible to censor videos and photographs of cops misbehaving.
The authorities don't want the bad press associated with prosecuting hundreds of protestors for photographing the very scandalous police misconduct these videos expose. That's just bad theater. Instead, too often police just single out photographers for arrest, beating them, even shooting projectiles at them, hoping to discourage their activity or frighten them off. That's pure intimidation and legally sanctioned bullying!
To the rogue cops, I have this message: There are just too many cameras. You can't smash them all.
The more you try, the more the Occupy movement will grow. The Occupy movement has no center, no hierarchy, no command and control. It's too bloody decentralized for you to disrupt. The social networking sites and the internet appear to be incompatible with official old-school repression. The old paradigms have passed into history. This is a new world, the world of tomorrow.
Beware the photographers and videographers.
To the brave photographers and videographers: Keep your wits about you and give no legal excuse to the cops to victimize you. Remember, the disinfectant of sunlight is our best antibiotic against the disease of police brutality, the megabucks public relations campaigns arraigned against us. and the official attempts to disrupt us with police infiltrators.
We are shaking the foundations of the empire with our mighty weapon, nonviolent mass action.
We are pitting a picture, an idea, a pen, and a thirst for justice against the policeman's truncheon, his water cannon, his rubber bullets, his flash-bangs, his tear gas. That's why we have the advantage in this battle, as long as we can remain unified and in solidarity with each other.
We are the 99% and the 99% are us.
Out of all the things the Occupy protests have accomplished one of the more overlooked is that it's making self described middle class Americans much more aware of who the police actually work for. It's something that people of color, and people who live in poverty have known for quite some time.
We live in a nation where members of the "1%" profit off of destroying the world economy, exploiting the working class, and pillaging the worlds resources.
But if a handful of peaceful protesters momentarily block an intersection it necessitates the pepper spraying of an 84 year old woman. If a group of people in Oakland gather to exercise their constitutional right of free assembly, then you must disburse them with tear gas and rubber bullets, nearly killing an American veteran.


NEW YORK; April 24, 2015 – Accenture has been named a 2015 DiversityInc Top 50 Company for Diversity for the ninth year, marking the company's fourth consecutive year in the Top 15.
DiversityInc, the leading publication on diversity and business, annually recognizes companies that exemplify meaningful diversity management through their corporate practice. To qualify for the ranking, participating companies must have more than 1,000 employees and complete a detailed questionnaire about their policies, diversity initiatives and workforce demographics.
According to DiversityInc, Accenture demonstrated strength in the four equally weighted areas of measurement, including Talent Pipeline, Equitable Talent Development, CEO/Leadership Commitment and Supplier Diversity. In particular, DiversityInc noted Accenture's efforts to strengthen its pipeline of diverse leaders, its commitment to supporting women and its role as a pioneer in creating flexible workplaces.
Earlier this year, Accenture released its 2014 Corporate Citizenship Report, "Making a Measureable Difference," which illustrates its commitment to advancing inclusion and diversity among its people and suppliers. The company intends to grow its percentage of women new hires to at least 40 percent worldwide by the end of fiscal 2017 and develop 170 small, medium and diverse enterprises through its Diverse Supplier Development Program by the end of fiscal 2016.
DiversityInc's mission is to bring education and clarity to the business benefits of diversity. The DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity list began in 2001, at the same time many corporations were beginning to understand the business value of diversity-management initiatives. The 2015 Top 50 Companies for Diversity results are featured on DiversityInc.com and in DiversityInc magazine. For more information, log on to www.diversityinc.com, https://www.facebook.com/DiversityInc, https://twitter.com/DiversityInc, or http://www.linkedin.com/company/26561.


VANCOUVER – A BC research team has identified a set of molecular markers that can better determine whether individuals with oral pre-cancerous lesions are at high risk of having those lesions progress to oral cancer.
The findings were published today in Cancer Prevention Research and represent the only large-scale population study with long-term follow up.
The study was led by Dr. Miriam Rosin, director of the BC Cancer Agency's BC Oral Cancer Prevention Program, and validated the "loss of heterozygosity" (LOH) analysis the team first discovered 10 years ago. This analysis successfully identified a change in the DNA of genes in specific chromosomes that have been shown to be highly predictive of the development of oral cancer.
• Patients with oral lesions can be grouped according to risk level.
• Two out of every three high-risk patients progressed to cancer.
• Follow-up and treatment could be tailored to a patient's risk level.
Oral cancers are a global public health problem with close to 300,000 new cases identified worldwide each year.
associated with a high cancer progression risk and should be treated definitively. The challenge within the field, however, has been to distinguish which low-grade lesions are the most likely to progress to cancer.
lesions where progression to cancer was known to have occurred. From those samples, they developed a method for grouping patients into low-risk or high-risk categories based on differences in their DNA.
The current study confirmed the findings from 2000 and also identified two new DNA risk markers that allowed researchers to categorize patients into low, intermediate and high-risk groups.
Compared to low-risk lesions, intermediate-risk lesions have an 11.6-fold increase in progression to cancer, while high-risk lesions have a 52.1-fold increase in progression risk.
The likelihood that low-risk lesions will progress to cancer in five years is 3.1 per cent, while for intermediate-risk lesions, the likelihood jumps to 16.4 per cent in five years and for high-risk lesions, the likelihood is 64.1 per cent.
Dr. Miriam Rosin, director of the BC Cancer Agency's BC Oral Cancer Prevention Program.
A large team of clinicians and scientists contributed to this body of work. Partners include Simon Fraser University, the Oral Biopsy Service at the University of British Columbia and Vancouver General Hospital, the dentistry clinics at the BC Cancer Agency's Vancouver Centre and Fraser Valley Centre and the oral mucosal clinics at Vancouver General Hospital and the University of British Columbia. The project was funded in large part by the National Institute of Health and the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research with additional funding from the BC Cancer Foundation to support community engagement.


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Le pont Saint-Martial, à Limoges, a été construit en 1215 sur les bases d'un pont gallo-romain.

Historique

Il est situé en contrebas de l'ancien forum gallo-romain - actuel hôtel de ville - dans le prolongement de l'ancien cardo maximus, axe principal nord-sud de la ville antique. Ce pont fut à l'origine construit par les Romains afin de traverser à sec la Vienne et facilitait ainsi les échanges sur la voie reliant Avaricum (Bourges) et le sud de la Gaule. En 1182, Henri II Plantagenêt, roi d'Angleterre, duc d'Aquitaine et donc suzerain de Limoges, fit détruire le pont gallo-romain pour punir la cité de son infidélité. Le pont ne fut reconstruit que trente-trois ans plus tard sur les bases de l'édifice antique.

Le , le pont est classé au titre des monuments historiques.

Description
Le pont possède sept arches en arc ; un quartier s'était développé sur la rive droite de la Vienne autour de l'église Sainte-Félicité. Il existe encore quelques demeures médiévales et classiques, dont l'une accueillit Molière durant une nuit en 1669. Aujourd'hui il apparaît isolé du reste de la ville, dominé par le pont de la Révolution, le quai Saint-Martial, et sur l'autre rive par la rue de Babylone prolongée par la route de Nexon.

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Articles connexes
 Liste des monuments historiques de Limoges
 Quartier des Ponts
 Histoire de Limoges

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Paul R. Jones didn�t donate 1,700 pieces of art from his collection for the sake of charity alone.
Considered one of the top 100 art collectors in the U.S., Jones� collection features work by black artists from around the world. With work by various painters, printmakers, photographers and sculptors, Jones� collection has been named one of the largest and most comprehensive collection of 20th century black art.
But while Jones could have easily sold his collection, he saw more value in its educational opportunities.
�The purpose of the collection is to educate the university and the people in our community. It was a gift to the citizens of Alabama,� Jones said.
Amalia Amaki, a professor of art history at the University of Alabama, has worked with Jones for a number of years. She assisted Jones with his first donation to the University of Delaware and came to the University of Alabama to help direct his most recent donation.
Amaki has orchestrated a series of lectures and exhibits that features a number of contemporary artists whose works are included in the Jones collection. Amaki said she wants to expose her students to the artists and styles in the collection.
�We want to leave it open to faculty and students. We want to validate what they�ve been learning. We want to introduce students to someone who is modern, contemporary and avant garde,� Jones said.
influence on fine art, are featured in the collection. The Brooklyn, N.Y.-based Pecou said his work was created as a response to the aggressive, voyeuristic marketing campaigns he feels some music artists face. Pecou, whose work has been selected for a host of international magazines, attracts a younger generation of artists.
�He�s doing the kind of imagery that my students respect,� Amaki said.
Pecou said he was honored to have been selected as the first artist for the lectures. In addition to Pecou, artists Freddie Styles, Mario Petrirena and Aimee Miller will hold lectures in March and April.
�It�s an extreme honor. You hear mention of his collection all over, and I�m really excited to be here,� Pecou said.
During his time in Tuscaloosa, Pecou also did one-on-one training with students.
All lectures are free and open to the public. A portion of the collection is also on display at the Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library and another will be exhibited at the Bryant Conference Center in March. According to Jones, there are also plans to exhibit the collection at other universities and colleges.
While Jones hopes that the collection will continue to be popular, he also hopes it will redefine American art.
�I have tried to demonstrate that African-American art is American art. I want to redefine American art,� Jones said.
Jones and Amaki have great expectations for the collection in Alabama. In addition to incorporating art into the university curriculum, Jones said he expects the art collection will put Alabama on the map.


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More needle cleanup and disposal kits available to residents (04/24/2018 Herald article)
EVERETT — A program that provides free kits to help people safely clean up and dispose of needles is set to expand around Snohomish County.
Starting Wednesday, needle clean-up kits are to be available at five locations. New safe disposal sites are being added, as well.
The kits will be at the Snohomish Health District, Everett and Lynnwood city halls, and the Arlington and Monroe police departments. Once full, the sealed sharps containers included with the kits can be dropped off during open hours at the Snohomish County recycling and transfer stations in Everett, Arlington and Mountlake Terrace, and at the Monroe Police Department or the health district.
The kits include a container for syringes, puncture-proof gloves, safety glasses, tongs, hand sanitizer and instructions.
The health district announced the launch of the needle clean-up kits program in September. Within days, the first 50 had been snapped up and a wait list started.
Since September, 800 kits have been given out and thousands of syringes safely disposed of, according to the health district.

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Yesterday, Mortal Online added a new free trial.
The free trial can be started by signing up a Mortal Online account, and will last 14 days. These accounts are restricted to 600 skill points, with a maximum of all skills at 60.
Mortal Online is a sandbox pay-to-play fantasy MMORPG, featuring open world PvP, crafting, political and territory systems, and more. It is published by Star Vault.
Starting today, Thursday Feb. 24th 2011 Mortal Online offers a free trial for the game. Simply create an account and participate in the game for 14 days. No credit card information is required to set up the trial!
Trial accounts are restricted to 600 skill points and the maximum for all skills is capped at 60. Trial players new to the game should take a look at the Character Creation Tutorial Video in the multimedia section. The video was created by the Mortal Online Community and offers helpful insight for new players.


We are spending like crazy at restaurants right now.
So whether you're going out on a date with someone new or keeping things fresh with your spouse, going on date night doesn't have to cost a fortune.
Here are 20 unique date ideas that don't cost a fortune.
Our local art museum is fantastic and costs $0.00 to get in. Not only does this date make you look smart, but by spending nothing to get in, you have a little extra cash in the budget to find a cheap dinner.
Everyone binge-watches TV shows. I do it too, but I relate it to binge-eating potato chips.
It gives you something to do, then after a certain period of time, you realize how much of it you've actually done without even knowing it.
Get your brain working a little harder and head over to instantwatcher.com and look under the Rotten Tomatoes Fresh Picks section to find a film that will make you think.
I can't tell you how many different video games we've picked up and played. It's addictive.
I've collected quite a few game systems over the years, and it's fun to dust off my Nintendo 64 once in a while to play some old-school Mario Kart with my wife.
If you don't have an old game system, you can get any number of them on eBay (with games and controllers) for less than it costs to go out to dinner.
Even better, you can buy retro systems like the NES Classic or Super NES Classic.
We just started doing this actually. Instead of going out to a bar or restaurant and ordering drinks, appetizers, and dinner, we'll go to a bar and get only ONE drink each, get the check and go home.
Once home, we've had our fill of 'getting out' and can do whatever we want. This is a perfect compromise for couples who like to both stay home and go out once in a while.
One of our favorite things to do is find inexpensive vegetarian meals. We're both vegetarian, so it's fun to get creative with it.
One suggestion is to Google something like "5 ingredient vegetarian recipes" or "3 ingredient pasta".
It's incredible the type of stuff you'll find that only require a few ingredients, thus making it cheaper.
Once you get the stuff (assuming you don't already have it in the pantry) you can cook together while jammin' to some tunes on Spotify.
This one can actually be pretty fun. Hop in the car with absolutely zero intention of going anywhere specific and just start driving.
You'll find yourselves having time for good conversation, and you may end up discovering a new party of town while you're at it. Just make sure you have a GPS (and maybe some pepper spray, depending on where you live).
Sure you have to clean your house and probably make an appetizer, but have some friends over and ask them all to bring an appetizer or main dish, their choice of alcohol, and some type of game.
Seriously – everyone wants to get out of their house once in, and nobody likes to clean, so they'll be more than happy to do this.
You'll spend next to nothing, yet get to eat a variety of food and drink all kinds of booze. Oh, and you get to see your friends.
If you don't have a fire pit, you absolutely have to get one. This might be the most important idea on the list. You can either bite the bullet and buy one from Home Depot (like I did), or if you're savvy enough, build one.
DIY Network has detailed instructions on how to build an in-ground fire pit (the best and safest) if you're up for it. Regardless of what you decide, having a fire pit is unlike anything else.
You can sit out there with your date or with a ton of friends (just don't go lone-wolf by the fire pit).
It really doesn't matter what time of year it is, who's over, or what else is going on – everyone wants to sit around a fire pit.
It's warm, generates fantastic conversation, and you can roast marshmallows in it. Do this.
This is even better if you have a bottle of wine. Get the most massive, most complicated puzzle you can possibly find and pair it with an alcohol of your choosing.
You'll find yourself going through different phases of emotion throughout the night – such as anger, happiness, frustration, love, hatred, excitement, and maybe even exhaustion.
Building a puzzle brings out everyone's competitive spirits, plus it's perfect for your mind.
There are actually real health benefits to stargazing. It's wholly relaxing, yet it forces you to focus.
In fact, some organizations have used stargazing to help cure addictions and mood disorders. There are even resorts that focus on stargazing tourism!
You can spend all kinds of money on a fancy telescope, or you can grab a blanket and lay out in the backyard with your date and try to find Orion's Belt.
We often do this in the summer when the skies are clear, and the weather is nice.
This typically costs a few bucks and can really be a lot of fun.
Dress warm, get good seats and drink some hot chocolate while watching your former high school play its heart out as you re-live your glory days of being there.
If you get REALLY into it, check out a site like MaxPreps where you can follow your favorite high school team.
Everyone loves bowling, and I'm sure there's an alley in your area.
GoBowling.com has a database of nearly every bowling alley in America, so if you don't know of one, you should be able to find one close using that site.
Bowling can be super competitive, or entirely relaxed. It also has health benefits like muscle toning and weight loss.
You can actually find some pretty sweet board games these days. One game that my wife and I love is Monopoly Deal. It's a fast-paced, Monopoly card game.
We find ourselves getting pretty competitive over this game. You can even take this a step further and make it a social game night if you're having people over. Play a trivia game, or if you have three hours to kill, play Axis & Allies.
Hands down, our favorite group card game is Cards Against Humanity. You'll thank me later.
Local community colleges typically offer a ton of evening classes for adults that aren't seeking any kind of degree. You'll find exciting ones out there, and maybe even learn a thing or two.
If you're looking for something a little more romantic, take a wine and painting class where you literally drink wine and paint a picture, or take a cooking class.
Go to a yoga class together. It'll cost you $20-30 on average for two of you, and you'll get a great workout.
You could also join a local recreation league and play indoor soccer, basketball, or volleyball on the same team.
Plus, they say couples who sweat together, stay together. Just make sure it's something fun and unique that you both enjoy.
For us, going to the gym and running on a treadmill just sounds awful. We took up boxing instead.
This one sounds cliche, but ice skating can be very beneficial to your health. You'll work on balance, and you'll get an aerobic workout without putting a ton of pressure on your joints.
Bonnie Schiedel of Best Health Mag wrote an excellent article about some of the fitness benefits of ice skating, as well as things to consider before you go.
We have a bunch of local bars and coffee shops that feature live music on the weekend in our area.
This is an excellent opportunity to get out of the house, support a local band, find some cool new music, and of course – people watch.
(In fact, maybe 'people watching' could be a date night in itself!). Eventful.com lets you search local concerts by zip code.
If you enjoy craft beer like me, I highly recommend this one. You can buy a home kit online, but if there's a local brewery that offers tours and the option to brew your own beer, you should definitely try it.
You won't actually take your beer home with you that night, as the beer has to ferment, but it offers a fun date night, and I'm sure you'll get free samples.
If you don't already know how to play chess, you can learn on a site like Chesscademy. Once you've gotten the hang of it, pick up a cheap chess board and spend the night trying to outsmart one another. Besides, learning to play chess can increase your IQ.
This one isn't always a cheap date option, but if you use credit card points or find a great deal through a site like TripAdvisor, it could be. Sometimes you can get so stuck in your routine of doing the same things that dates can lose their luster.
Staying at a nice hotel for just one night can be a game-changer when it comes to otherwise stale date nights. Get creative and find a fresh new hole-in-the-wall restaurant to eat at, or just take a walk in a city you don't usually see.
If you can swing a multiple-day getaway, another option is to find a local camping ground or a remote place where you can rent a cabin.
Depending on how much you want to 'rough it,' this could be the combination of the ultimate relaxation and date night, as you're really out of your normal routine.
You don't need to spend hundreds of dollars on a fancy restaurant or pay for Uber to take you to the city just have a date with your significant other. The two of you (or a group of you) can enjoy plenty of options for a cheap date night if you are willing to get creative.
What types of cheap and unique date nights have you come up with? Please share them in the comments below!
One thing that my wife and I like to do is go miniature golfing, which is a pretty cheap way to entertain ourselves for a while, and also lets us hone our [friendly] competitive spirit a little bit, too. I prefer the slightly larger "par 3" miniature golf courses, but the wife enjoys the traditional courses.
Craft beers, now that is definitely something that you and I have in common – though, I would much rather drink them than brew them. There's an amber from Thunder Canyon Brewery here in Tucson that is my absolute favorite.
I'll have to see if I can find that one at my local brew shop, thanks for the suggestion. Miniature golf is really fun, I agree, but the one near us is pretty junky. We are always looking for new and creative 'cheap dates' to keep things fresh. Another one that we've been wanting to try but haven't is batting cages – my wife played softball and I played baseball so that would probably be pretty cool. As always, thanks for posting and sharing your thoughts!


Styled to resemble a vanity license plate, this magnet is perfect for practical or decorative use at home or in the office to remind everyone of who We Are. Like all of our magnetic art, this original design is made from sturdy 16-gauge stainless steel. It makes a terrific gift for anyone who loves Happy Valley (including yourself).


A friend of ours regularly buys techy stuff for himself only to turn around and sell it again shortly after; this inspired my other half to suggest that there should be a "for sale" sign somewhere on his birthday card. We had already decided there would be robots and this Lawn Fawn set has a cute little gift stamp, so I decided to have a pile of presents already for sale.
The initial inspiration for this design came from Grá over at Paper Learning Curve and I did follow her recipe for the background piece: layers of sprays, ink, and stencilling, followed by running it through an embossing folder and highlighting some of the embossed edges using, in my case, gilding wax.
I also followed her advice of having some spare card around to mop up the excess colour and I ended up with another five background panels for future use.
The robots and accessories were stamped with Versafine, coloured with Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers and fussy cut out — those robot arms are fiddly! I used linen thread for the balloon strings and glued everything in place, popping the robot in the middle up on some thin foam tape.
Thanks! I used watercolour paper for a change and it wasn't bone dry when I ran it through the embossing folder – I think that helped get a really good impression without it splitting like the Neenah does sometimes.


This is what we feel for champagne, with which we fell in love at first...sip (we stock more than 400 champagnes, which is one of the largest selections in the country, if not in a wider area). Then we are passionate about wine in general and new products that are compelling, tannic, fruity or give you the surprise of your life, that rub shoulders on our shelves while they wait to be transformed into gift ideas by being married with food items that the establishment selects for its corporate clients and for the public at large.
Les Caveaux d'Elie also means Belgian and foreign spirits and very naturally bubbly, craft beers and national brand beers (Ruffus, Orval, etc.). Discovery... Season after season new vintages or our latest favourites make their appearance on our displays. But much more than that, this year, from September, the tasting area facing our cellar will be open for your delight from Tuesday to Saturday. The word "discovery" will then take on all its meaning, with "4 bulles au verre", four reasonably-priced wines to be sampled from champagne glasses or from small champagne glasses, to allow you to learn and be surprised, without you having to leave a gaping hole in your bank account. And you can do this with your eyes closed, letting yourself be lullabied by the authentic sound of a vinyl record. Wines and spirits will not be neglected and we will notably hold themed evenings. Quality... Getting out on the ground, travelling around, building up relationships and trust, meeting people, talking to them. Networking? Luck?
Whether you have an aptitude for tasting or otherwise...a gift or gourmet insouciance? The reason why Les Caveaux d'Elie is able to source high-quality products is down to a mix of values and gut instincts about people, tender and impulsive. Trust between people working together, between people talking with each other, listening to opinions, sharing experiences, loving what you do, what you drink, all this gives rise to us offering up to our clientele all the sensations, whether delicate or abrupt, that we like to experience ourselves.
When one is convinced that what one is drinking is magnificent, being able to share it is marvellous. Very voraciously!


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Q: datasource configuration in standalone app when using Hibernate I am wondering, where do we store database config in standalone app.The client is connected to database directly (I know it's not a good idea, but I am not allowed to create a server or open new port for RMI)
I certainly don't want user open up Hibernate config xml file and get all the details (database username & password etc).

A: If your client app is going to need the details in the end they will always be accessible to the user in some way or another. The best you can do here is obfuscation of the details. You could just base64 encode them and store them in a properties file (not hibernate.properties), then load them in yourself before obtaining a session factory. To load configuration properties you can use the Configuration class.
If you're looking to foil the slightly more knowledgeable client you could also encrypt them and store the key as a static field in your code. This doesn't make it secure but it's possible your clients aren't adept enough to decompile the source and see for themselves how you're decrypting these things.
Remember to shore up security on the server side. (make sure that DB account has minimal privileges!) Also, disallowing remote services but allowing direct access to the DB doesn't seem like a very sensible policy to me.

A: Hopefully, you've got a directory server (any J2EE app-server will do) then pop a data source up there and use Spring's jndi-lookup to retrieve it.
Failing that like @wds says, it's encrypted credentials or prompting even, creating restricted accounts for each user in the database.
I don't have such a problem with client-side DB access - it's worked fine for years before SOA came along - just make sure the user accounts only have limited permissions - select access only for tables or even perform all look-ups through views (again with the necessary permissions) and execute on the required procs.

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Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee (TTOC) President Brian Lewis is to engage with the Korean Ambassador to the country, Moon Up Sung, on developing an exchange and access programmes around the winter sports and the Winter Olympic Games.
As reported by the Trinidad Express, Lewis recently returned from South Korea where he was one of 10 "distinguished guests in culture and arts" invited by the Korea Foundation to a week of diplomatic activities.
The Korea Foundation is a non-profit public diplomacy organisation established in 1991 to promote a better understanding of Korea and strengthen friendships in the international community.
It carries out various projects for exchange between South Korea and foreign countries to cultivate mutual understanding.
Bobsledder Gregory Sun was Trinidad and Tobago's flag bearer when the country last participated at a Winter Olympic Games, in Salt Lake City in 2002 ©Getty Images
Trinidad and Tobago last participated at the Winter Olympic Games in 2002, when Salt Lake City played host.
Flag bearer Gregory Sun featured on the two-man bobsleigh team that ranked last of the 37 countries represented.
Sun participated in all four runs, while Andrew McNeilly took part in the first two runs and Errol Aguilera was in the sled for the last two runs.
Sun also competed in the same event alongside Curtis Harry at Lillehammer 1994 and Nagano 1998 - Trinidad and Tobago's two other Winter Olympic appearances - with the pair managing 37th and 32nd-place finishes respectively.
February 2019: TTOC thank participants of #10golds24 campaign at Trinidad and Tobago International Marathon
January 2019: Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee aim to raise funds through marathon
December 2018: Commonwealth Games gold medallists win top Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee awards
November 2018: Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee launch virtual 5k project #GetMovingTTO
September 2018: TTOC President Lewis urges athletes to work with "landmark" new national sports policy
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Those are the words of legendary producer Don Was to singer-songwriter Tyler Stenson after his performance at the finals of the Guitar Center Singer-Songwriter competition in early 2014. Stenson was a Top Ten finalist selected out of over 10,000 artists in that competition. In 2014, several of Stenson's songs were added to the SiruisXM's Coffeehouse playlist and he has been an in-demand guest for numerous radio and blog interviews, including features on the syndicated Static Beach radio, the Portland Radio project, EGH Radio, Our City Radio and more.
Born in Wyoming, but raised in Oregon, Tyler Stenson is an arresting singer/songwriter of acoustic 'elegant folk' music that hints at comparison to songwriter greats such as James Taylor, Cat Stevens and Ryan Adams. Having been twice-named "Songwriter of the Year" by the Portland Songwriters Association (2007 and 2008), "Best Male Artist" at the 2011 Portland Music Awards and ReverbNation's "Breaking Artist" in 2013, Stenson is noted as one of the premiere artists in the Northwest but is gaining traction on a much bigger world stage.
As a result of his increasing popularity, Stenson has opened for LeAnn Rimes, Chris Isaak, John Popper, Matisyahu, Adam Duritz (Counting Crows), Mark Cohn, Fuel and Guster and, out of nearly 4,000 national bands, Stenson was hand-selected by Adam Duritz (lead singer of Counting Crows) and Ryan Spaulding (rslblog.com) to perform at The Outlaw Roadshow showcase at the 2013 SxSW music festival.
Off stage, Stenson is currently sponsored by Bose and Boulder Creek Guitars and his original music has been featured on multiple Chevrolet commercials and a few popular television series. He was also asked to write the opening song for a new web series "Drained World" (debuting soon) and 6 of his songs were featured in an audio book series.


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Syrian refugee 'hero swimmer' Sara Mardini is out of prison. She plans to keep helping refugees.
December 14, 2018 · 4:45 PM EST
By Fahrinisa Campana
Sara Mardini and Sean Binder, both volunteers with a Greek nongovernmental organization that helps refugees reach safety, were released from prison in December 2018 on bail. Greek authorities had accused them of people smuggling, espionage, money laundering and participation in a criminal organization. Mardini and Binder are waiting to find out whether their case will proceed to trial.
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Last week, Sara Mardini, known as one of the Syrian refugee sister "hero swimmers" for her rescue efforts on a migrant boat in 2015, was released on bail after being imprisoned on the outskirts of Athens, Greece, for 106 days.
Sara Mardini, a volunteer with ERCI, a Greek nongovernmental organization that helps refugees reach safety, was arrested on Aug. 21 along with its founder and head, Panos Moraitis, and volunteers Sean Binder and Nassos Karakitsos on charges of people smuggling, money laundering, espionage and participation in a criminal organization. They were released last week with bail set at $5,652 (5,000 euros) for each of them.
Sara Mardini and her colleagues now await a decision by the judicial council about whether or not there will be a trial and what the charges will be. In a press conference in Berlin on Wednesday, their lawyer, Zacharias Kessos, refuted the charges as "false accusations that don't follow the law."
Kessos is optimistic that even if the case does go to trial, the volunteers won't be convicted.
"I handle many such cases in Greece — real criminal teams, real, big cases with smugglers and criminal organizations," he said. "What they tried to present here as a case or a criminal [organization] or a smuggling network is totally silly."
Sara Mardini, who is well-known in the humanitarian world, and Binder, were caught off guard by the turn of events.
"I can't believe that doing what we did was wrong," Binder said during the press conference at Bard College Berlin, where Sara Mardini is a student. "What is wrong with pulling people who are drowning out of the water; what is wrong with helping people who are hypothermic, or women who are pregnant or kids who just want to be children? There's nothing wrong with that in my opinion, so, yes, it was very surprising."
In 2015, Sara Mardini and her younger sister, Yusra Mardini, 19, made international headlines for different reasons. During their perilous journey on a flimsy rubber dinghy from the shores of Turkey to the island of Lesbos — the epicenter of refugee arrivals in 2015 and early 2016 — their boat, which was carrying 18 other passengers, began to sink.
Related: She's one of the Syrian refugee 'hero swimmer' sisters. Now, she's in a Greek prison.
In a split-second decision, the girls decided to jump overboard to relieve some of the weight. Both girls were experienced swimmers, having swum competitively back home in Syria for many years. For 3 1/2 hours, the girls swam alongside the boat, one on each side, nudging it along and guiding it safely to shore.
Later, Yusra Mardini went on to participate on the first refugee team at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio and became a "goodwill ambassador" for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), while Sara Mardini decided to dedicate her time to helping refugees in another way.
She became a volunteer spotter and rescuer for the Greek nongovernmental organization, European Response Center International (ERCI), traveling back and forth between Germany and Greece over the course of three years.
In February 2018, while out patrolling on Lesbos, Sara Mardini and Sean Binder were briefly detained by local police and their phones confiscated. They were told it was because they were driving an official ERCI vehicle that was said to have fake plates. After they were questioned, the two were released and all seemed to return back to normal.
At the time, both Sara Mardini and Binder didn't mind handing over their phones and passwords and other information.
"We weren't afraid, we gave our passwords and we left everything open because we didn't [have] anything to hide," Sara Mardini said. "But it was shocking how it turned totally the opposite."
Newspaper clippings of Sara Mardini line the walls of the administrative building at Bard College Berlin.
On Aug. 21, she was arrested while waiting to board her flight back home from Lesbos to Germany, where she was set to start the fall term at Bard College Berlin on a scholarship for gifted refugees to study economics and social sciences.
Between February and August, police conducted an investigation and prepared a case against her and her colleagues, which eventually led to their arrests and an Aug. 28 press conference held by the police, something that, according to Kessos, is extremely rare for Greek police to do.
"They presented the case and this created pressure through the media," he said. It also gave the public the impression that they had found something [serious], when "really there is nothing."
A story from The Guardian describes the press conference: "In an unusually long and detailed statement, last week, Mytilini police said that while posing as a non-profit organisation, ERCI had acted with the sole purpose of profiteering by bringing people illegally into Greece via the north-eastern Aegean islands."
Many also suspect that the larger reason for such a public display was to send a message to volunteers and NGOs on Lesbos island. According to Kessos, the local authorities believe that NGOs and volunteer rescuers are pull factors for migrants and smugglers. "They [the police] believe that as long as we have NGOs and volunteers on the island helping and making better the life of the people, that means that the smuggling teams will continue choosing Lesbos as a point of landing for these people that are trying to go to Europe."
For this reason, he said, their goal was to try to push the NGOs and volunteers to the mainland and out of Lesbos.
"This case is proof that the police, especially on the island of [Lesbos], don't want NGOs that just cooperate with them; they want the NGOs to work for them."
Sean Binder and Sara Mardini's legal team meet after the press conference to discuss next steps.
Binder says the police have already accomplished some of their goals.
"[It] is kind of visible considering that on the southern shore where we operated with four other organizations, now there are no formal organizations acting in search and rescue at a time when there are more crossings. So, I think there is some causation there and some fear about the work that they have done and do."
Sara Mardini said she, too, is fearful. "There is still fear inside of me, so I imagine that everyone else on the island now is scared."
Four months behind bars
After two weeks in a tiny cell at the local police station on Lesbos, Sara Mardini was transferred to a maximum-security prison on the outskirts of Athens. For four months, Sara Mardini spent her days reading books in English to improve her language skills, getting to know her cellmates and writing letters to her family and friends, including Binder, who was in a prison on Chios with Katakitsos and Panos Moraitis, the founder and head of ERCI.
Sara Mardini was also active in prison, teaching English to her cellmates and doing other odd jobs like painting. She also organized a small protest while behind bars for a better television set to be installed the women's wing.
And while Sara Mardini waited for her release patiently on the inside, a team of lawyers worked around the clock to facilitate her release on the outside. "We explained everything, and we gave [the police] access to their bank accounts," Kessos said. "They found out that there were not any illegal transactions or money connected with anything that could be suspicious."
Furthermore, the police checked all of their Whatsapp and other social media messages for any evidence of communication with smugglers.
"We gave them proof for every conversation that the police were saying was peculiar or illegal, and we explained what they were speaking about [in the messages]," he said. "[There was] no direct communication with anybody in Turkey, or any smugglers, or any refugee inside the [incoming] boats."
Kessos and his team were also able to prove that all the information the volunteers relied on about incoming boats — related to the smuggling and espionage charges — was, in fact, not classified information, but rather, open to anyone through social media platforms.
"There are many social media platforms both in Arabic and the English language where you can find real-time information about the boats that are leaving Turkey and coming to Greece, which happens for no other reason than to maximize the possibility of being found and saved on time," he said.
Sara Mardini's and the others' release came as a surprise to most. But Florian Becker, a professor at Bard College, said in a Skype interview that he's sure "it is because of the evidence that was presented that is really what changed the situation. We are feeling that this submission of evidence that we did was effective, however, it is very likely that there will be a trial."
"They still face the same charges; they still face the same potential sentences; and also, even if everything went very well from now on, a lot of damage has already been done not just with their time in prison but also in regards to the effect that it has had on the NGOs on Lesbos, and perhaps even more broadly."
For reasons unconnected to the case, Sara Mardini is prohibited from traveling back to Greece until her refugee travel documents are renewed, an "easy enough thing to fix," Kessos said.
However, Sara Mardini plans to continue her work as a humanitarian and an activist. She previously traveled around Europe talking about her experiences and aims to do so again. She wants to contribute her time, her knowledge and her connections to small humanitarian projects in Germany, as well. "The crisis or the refugees are not only in Greece," she explained. "I'm just going to continue doing activism, because it wasn't only Lesbos that was my work."
When asked if they regret anything from the past several months, both Binder and Sara Mardini gave an emphatic no.
"I'm actually very happy about our roles after the situation, because before, talking about me and the volunteers on Lesbos in general, we didn't have this strong position and we weren't heard," Sara Mardini said. "At the end of the day, we gained the respect, not just for us but for all humanitarians on the island."
Sara Mardini will also resume class next semester.
Fahrinisa Campana reported from Greece and Germany.
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You may wonder what a gal and her guy do on a Friday night when you live just outside the inspiring and vibrant city of Chicago. Well, us big city folk like to do crazy fun things like makeover old wooden signs and play video games. Wait. That's not all. while we paint we also take in some classic episodes of Friends, Seinfeld and How I met Your Mother. All this fun is usually followed by some milk and cookies before bed at 10pm. Yep. That's just how we roll here in Gold Shoe Land.
So anyways, this was a quick project I did while watching tv. I find that as I have gotten older I can't just sit and watch tv without something else to do. I don't know if tv is too mundane now or I have developed some kind of ADHD or if I am in constant multi-task mode - anyone else with this disease? In any event, I am trying to get some little things done and out of the way while I continue to wait for the big things in the kitchen to get moving. You can read more about my kitchen plans here.
I've had this sign since we bought our very first home over 10 years ago. Back then our living room was done in the whole hunter green & burgundy color scheme so it fit right in. Now my taste tends to be light colors and more modern french country than american country. I still liked the sentiment on the sign so I thought I would give it a quick little makeover so I could use it in my kitchen dining area.
I bought it at one of those "fall in the country" things where they have 100's of booths all at the fairgrounds. At the time I was good with the pine and the green. Now it is just too country for our home.
So I did a quick coat of primer over the top both to hide the green and the pine knots that were starting to come through. Then I had a little sample pot of a light blue paint that I put over the primer. Sometimes I am very impatient so before the blue paint even got a chance to dry I was painting the letters with some navy blue craft paint I had on hand.
The next morning I finished the lettering and then started distressing. I sanded down the corners, edges, etc with some fine grit sandpaper we had in the garage. Then I found a small can of stain left behind by the old homeowners. I used a wet paper towel dipped in the stain to "glaze" or "antique" over the blue paint.
Here are some closeups so you can see how the distressing and antiquing look.
This shot shows the finished product against the dropcloth tablecloth in our dining room. It looks great here. The blue is nice and subtle.
After I few hours I asked my husband to hang the sign up for me. I wanted it above our patio doors right by our kitchen table.
Here's how it looks on the wall.
I'm not loving it. It looks okay. I think the blue is too bright against the tan walls and the oak woodwork. Oh well. It can stay there for now. I am hoping that once I start to redo all the major kitchen stuff it will look better. If not I can always repaint it another color next Friday night.


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Harvey Weinstein Tries And Fails To Have Several Sexual Assault Charges Dismissed
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Harvey Weinstein and his attorney Mark Werksman at a pre-trial hearing for Weinstein on July 29, 2021.
Harvey Weinstein has lost his attempt to have three charges of sexual assault thrown out at a hearing today at the Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles, but his attorneys did get the judge to agree that one of the charges should be amended.
The Associated Press reports that Los Angeles County Superior Court judge Lisa B. Lench rejected arguments by Weinstein's lawyers that two of the multiple charges against the disgraced movie mogul had exceeded the statute of limitations. The AP also reports that Lench dismissed a third charge, but gave prosecutors permission to amend and refile it.
Weinstein is facing eleven charges of rape and sexual assault from five different women that date from 2004 to 2013. He pleaded not guilty to those charges last week after being extradited from New York to Los Angeles. Back in February 2020, Weinstein was convicted of raping and sexually assaulting two women and been serving part of his 23 year sentence at a state prison in upstate New York; he'll be sent back there after his Los Angeles trial
Defense attorneys had argued that Weinstein was too weak to be extradited to Los Angeles in an attempt to delay a trial that had already been pushed back on the docket due to Covid-19 restrictions. If convicted of all the counts against him, Weinstein could face a maximum of 140 years in prison.


After completing the trek through the windy streets uphill, you arrive to Mt. Olympus, a great small open space in a residential neighborhood that houses a breath-taking obelisk.
Mt. Olympus is owned by the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department.
33-Stanyan -- Ashbury St. and Clifford Terrace. Walk west along Clifford Terrace (it's uphill) to Upper Terrace, then go left (south). At some point along Upper Terrace, you will have the decision to either bear to the right or stay straight. Either way, you will end up at Mt. Olympus.
37-Corbett -- Roosevelt Way and Clifford Terrace. Walk east along Clifford Terrace (it's uphill) to Upper Terrace, then go right (south). At some point along Upper Terrace, you will have the decision to either bear to the right or stay straight. Either way, you will end up at Mt. Olympus.


After she received the post about the Spirit Books at The Fictional Café (she is a member), Judy Wood from Arizona contacted me via facebook messenger. She told me of her feeling of connection with the Spirit Books and her love of trees. She offered to send me one of her "spirit trees" and I reciprocated with a catalog. She sent me one titled :peace: which is inspired by the photographs of Donna Marinela Ilie. You can see more of Judy's spirit trees here. The complaints I have about how much time I spend on the computer seem insignificant when I think of rewards such as this. Thank you Judy.


Ranching for Wildlife (RFW) started as a pilot program in 1986 with the intent to improve public hunting access to private land and to form a wildlife management partnership with participating landowners.
The program provides Colorado residents a unique opportunity to hunt on private ranch land normally closed to the public. Participating ranches provide public hunting recreation access to their land free of charge to those who draw licenses.
Through this program, hunters can play an important role in assisting CPW and landowners manage wildlife populations on private land. In addition to providing public hunting access to successful applicants, participating landowners are required to improve habitat on their ranch for both game and non-game animals. These efforts help preserve and enhance open spaces for wildlife to live and thrive and keep the hunting heritage alive for you and future generations.
Public Ranching for Wildlife (RFW) licenses are available only to Colorado residents through the CPW draw process. Licenses are valid only for the season and ranch specified.
For a more detailed description of information relevant to hunters interested in the RFW program, visit Hunter Information.


For fine South Asian cuisine in a lovely setting, Nandini Indian Restaurant in Greater Manchester's Oldham provides the ideal setting. Featuring primarily Indian dishes, as well as a selection of Bangladeshi and Nepalese specialties, Nandini on Manchester Road always has something new for guests to sample. And with secure parking available, plus close connections to public transportation (South Chadderton tram station is just a few minutes away), this Indian restaurant draws in locals from all across the Manchester metropolitan area.
Locals love Nandini – that's why the restaurant is almost always packed to the brim with regulars. With Bollywood nights and special banquet menus offered throughout the month, the folks behind Nandini on Manchester Road (close to South Chadderton station) aim to make their restaurant a beloved figure in the local community, which has proven to be a success thus far. And they do catering right, too. Available for birthdays, corporate events, weddings and conferences, Nandini is proud to serve curry lovers in all parts of Oldham and Greater Manchester.
Opening up daily during the afternoon, Nandini Indian Restaurant offers everything from light snacks to hefty mains and decadent desserts. Have a glance at the seafood selection and try out fish pakora, prawn biryani and tandoori king prawns. Vegetarians ought to try the lachedaar veggie – made with a number of fresh seasonal vegetables and cooked with paneer, herbs and spices, it's a delight for herbivores and omnivores alike. Make a reservation and experience what makes this restaurant in Greater Manchester's Oldham a local favourite.


With a little smart thinking, you can maximise downtime during the holidays to help further your career.
Many businesses close down during the quiet period between Christmas and New Year. If you're lucky enough to have some "bridge days" away from work, why not put them to good use? With a little smart thinking, you can maximise downtime during the holidays to help further your career.
The festive period is a great opportunity to meet up with friends and ex-work colleagues you haven't seen in a while. 'While you're catching up on old times, you can share what is happening with you work-wise,' says Corinne Mills of careers consultancy Personal Career Management and author of Career Coach.
Many jobs are never advertised, and often it's "not what you know, but who you know" that can make all the difference. According to a survey by career management consultancy Drake Beam Morin, 60% of former job hunters said they had found a new role through networking.
If you haven't done so for a while, now is a good time to update your CV and LinkedIn profile.
'Applying for jobs in the modern world is about so much more than what you put on your CV and any recruiter worth their salt is likely to have at least a cursory glance at your online presence in order to get a fuller and more detailed picture of what you're really like,' says Michael Bennett, co-founder and managing director of Rethink Group.
As the year comes to an end, the holidays are an ideal opportunity to think back over your achievements and consider how you want 2016 to be different.
'Now's the time to review your career kitbag,' says John Lees, career strategist and author of How to get a job you love. 'What have you learned in the last 12 months? What can you do now that you couldn't do a year ago? How have you changed and developed?
Stuck in the office between Christmas and New Year? You might as well do your best to get the most out of it. 'If you're working intermittently over the festive period, this can be a great time to speak to your manager, colleagues or other decision-makers who might be in at the same time,' says Corinne.
Finally, you've worked hard in 2015 – so don't forget to enjoy the Christmas break!


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6) Preferred hair colour on opposite gender?
7) What other websites do you regularly look at on the computer?
8) What kind of computer are you on(mac,windows,ect)?
10) Top 5 favorite youtube channels?
13) Console or PC gamer? Or Neither?
14) What's your most memorable childhood memory?
15) If you could stay a certain age forever, would you? If so, what age would you want to be forever?
17) What's 1 item you really want to have? Something on your wishlist.
18) Are you part of any clubs/teams/groups? If so, what are they?
20)If you had to confront one fear, which one would you confront? Why?
4. Any is good but I like blue.
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Students and Local Nationals resident Abroad and Foreign Professionals are given following duty exemptions in addition to article 3, under the provisions fo 2015/U-002 (1).
1 Professional Equipments and Computer items imported by Students coming from abroad.
3 Those coming back to Maldives after a period of 1 to 3 years are allowed a duty free allowance of MVR11,500.
4 Those coming back to Maldives after a period of more than 3 years are allowed a duty free allowance of MVR14,000.
5 In addition to those stated in 3(a), used items brought by passengers coming back to Maldives after a period of more than 1 year.
6 Used items brought for establishment by professionals coming to work in Maldives for a period of more than 6 months.
As per Law No: 31/79 (Maldivian Import Export Act) the following items imported by tourists and other passengers for their personal consumption will not be dutiable.
This category includes published and electronic documents items that are of no commercial value.
(b) Items imported by traders as sample items (Any sample items exceeding USD50 in value and must carry a "sample" label and should not be in a resalable packaging).
(c) MVR6,000 or worth less of items imported for personal consumption.
**pls refer to 2015/U-002(1) for further information.


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It doesn't get any cuter than this! l.e.i. has a line of adorable T-shirts with a glittery purse graphic that offers a fully functional zipper pocket purse. These stylish purses are available in six colors. My daughter was recently sent two of these adorable shirts and she instantly fell in love. She received the the deep violet fringe purse shirt and the princess blue cheetah purse. Of course the day she wore one to school it was gym day and she had on a bracelet. She took off her bracelet and then placed it in her purse on the shirt. No need to run back to her locker! One of her classmates then asked if she would hold her bracelet in her purse for her too. It was a huge hit. At lunch she placed her change in the shirt instead of her backpack.
It is so convenient and at first glance, most folks don't realize it is a working purse. We have washed the shirt inside out and line dried it and looks great and still zips perfectly.
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An Arabic version of the PressDisplay interface as been released in addition to the existing English, French, German, Russian and Italian language interfaces.
A new look for the article text view-Readers will notice a sleek new look to articles within SmartNavigation titles viewed as text. The new format includes all of the great features you remember plus new features such as commenting (see below).
Fostering discussion and creating community-Commenting is now available for articles in SmartNavigation titles. The commenting feature is found in the article text view and once an article has been commented on a green bubble will appear next to the article, if the article appears on the home page, as well as on the image of the newspaper page. Comments are moderated by both NewspaperDirect and the newspaper publishers.
Reason: Schedule change from Mon-Sat to Tue-Sat for the period July 21-Aug 8.
Reason: The following supplements have been added – Connect, Real Estate, TV Guide, Weekend.
Reason: Title Changed to Go Memphis.
Reason: Has been stopped by the publisher as a separate publication and will now be included into the Russkaya Mysl' (ID 0047) newspaper as a section.
Reason: The following supplements have been added – Escape, Body & Soul, Inside Entertainment, Stuff, Sunday Puzzles.
Reason: The following supplements have been added – IT, Literary Review, Racing, Travel, Career, Wealth.
Reason: The London edition has now been released into PressDisplay also not all of the supplements are available in PressDisplay.
The ABI/INFORM databases have begun using new Article Types and a new indexing field this year, with articles retrospectively indexed to capture this information going back several years.
The new article type Market Research highlights the depth of material in ABI/INFORM Global providing data-rich information about diverse industries and markets, in publications ranging from Advertising Age and Brandweek to Journal of Advertising and Journal of Consumer Behaviour.
In conjunction with Market Research as an article type, we have added a Market Segment field, where we index market segments such as African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Baby boomers, Children, Generation X, Generation Y (Millennials), Older people, Young adults, and Men and Women. Using this indexing, you can find academic articles about market segmentation or practical articles about how to target a particular segment.
Other new article types are Business Case, used to index business school case collections and journals such as Journal of the International Academy of Case Studies, and Case Study, providing a way to search for academic case studies in disciplines ranging from information science to mathematics to economic theory. The Literature Review article type is used to indicate that the author of an article has included a review of the literature in the course of his or her research.
Researchers now have centralized access to the latest information on cutting edge social science and business trends together with a powerful research database. The Social Science Research Network (SSRN) encourages the early distribution of research results by publishing drafts (working papers) of top quality research papers from around the world. Over 23,000 SSRN working papers are now available through ProQuest's ABI/INFORM, Accounting & Tax with Standards, ProQuest Entrepreneurship and ProQuest Central.
SSRN working papers add cutting edge research information on key trends in the fields of management, economics, finance and accounting months for years before they appear in published journals. Because working papers are not limited in size or edited to meet publication requirements, researchers can access all the vital information found in an author's original work.
Researchers can cross-search this information simultaneously with the thousands of full-text publications and full-text business dissertations already found in ABI/INFORM, Accounting & Tax with Standards, ProQuest Entrepreneurship and ProQuest Central.
Additions to the ProQuest collection of the SSRN working papers will be made periodically (between 8,000 to 12,000 papers will be added each year).
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You can sign up for feeds from each of the music databases to be notified when enhancements are made and resources are added.
The American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) is partnering with ARTstor to distribute approximately 70,000 images depicting Indian art and architecture. Subjects include stone, metal, and terracotta sculpture; numismatics; painting, manuscripts and miniature paintings; as well as Buddhist, Jain, Hindu, and Islamic architecture.
More than 450 images are now available from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) Visual Resources Collections's Slide Library depicting works of art and architecture.
The Charles Moore Foundation has partnered with ARTstor to digitize and make available approximately 50,000 images depicting works of architecture designed by Charles W. Moore (1925–1993), architect and author.
Franklin Furnace will contribute an additional 5,000 images to ARTstor. These images document events that took place during its first decade of existence. The entire Contemporary Art (Franklin Furnace Archives) collection in ARTstor will consist of documentation of artists' books, performance art, site–specific works, and other time–based ephemeral arts.
More than 4,000 additional images from Larry Qualls' archive of contemporary art are now available in the ARTstor Digital Library. This collection documents three decades of contemporary art exhibitions at galleries and other exhibition spaces throughout New York City and elsewhere.
Alka Patel of the University of California, Irvine is contributing approximately 14,000 images to the Digital Library. Her fieldwork photography focuses on the Islamic artistic and architectural history of South Asia from the 12th to the 18th centuries, as well as Cuban architecture of the 18th through early 20th centuries.
Sara N. James is contributing approximately 600 images of European architecture and sculpture to the Digital Library.
The last release of images from the A.C. Cooper Archive of glass plate and nitrate negatives, as well as polyester "interpositives," is now available in ARTstor. There are now more than 10,000 images in this collection, with a particular focus on paintings, but also including prints and drawings.
The final images from the Sansoni Archive at the Frick Art Reference Library are now available in the ARTstor Digital Library. Digitized from large–format negatives, these images are prized by scholars as a unique visual record of lesser–known and largely unpublished works of art, many of which have subsequently been damaged, lost, or destroyed.
ARTstor has updated and added new topics to its instructional video series "ARTstor in 3 Minutes." These instructional videos are now available in ARTstor, on YouTube and on the TeacherTube.
Alexander Street Press has just announced new linking to a streaming audio collection of Haya ballads in Black Short Fiction and Folklore. Click here for more information and to listen to this collection, entitled Performed Words: Ballads and Folktales of Tanzania's Haya People.
Performed Words is a multimedia resource that uses Synchrotext technology to stream audio recordings of Haya balladry and folktales simultaneously with their English-language transcriptions. The site contains 10 ballads and 36 folktales.
made available to Black Short Fiction and Folklore subscribers through the through a collaboration of Alexander Street Press and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.
Population is a peer-reviewed quarterly scientific journal published in English and in French. It presents original research in the fields of demography and related disciplines: sociology, economics, anthropology, history, geography, epidemiology and public health, methodology in social science. Contributions can be submitted in either English or French and are published in both languages. Both developed and developing countries are covered. Population trends in different parts of the world are presented in special annual features.
ISI Web of Knowledge has been enhanced. More information on the new data, tools, and options is available here.
The Century Magazine Illustrations of the American Civil War collection is now available in the Digital Library. This collection is the result of a project undertaken by Allan Kohl, Visual Resources Librarian at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, to assemble images depicting Civil War battle scenes and camp life, as well as details of weapons and uniforms.
Approximately 1,500 images from an ARTstor–sponsored photographic campaign with Canyonlights are now available to ARTstor users. These images focus on Spanish Colonial missions located along California's El Camino Real.
More than 60 images of American and European prints and paintings highlighting the diverse permanent collection of the Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College are now available in the ARTstor Digital Library. ARTstor, through a partnership with the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, is attempting to reassemble a substantial portion of the original Kress Collection as it existed before its dispersal to museums like the Cornell Fine Arts Museum.
More than 2,200 images have been added to the Contemporary Architecture, Urban Design, and Public Art (ART on FILE Collection). A portion of ART on FILE's image archive is being digitized and made available through the ARTstor Digital Library, and ARTstor has also agreed to sponsor photographic campaigns to generate new content.
ARTstor announces the addition of approximately 400 images to the Mellon International Dunhuang Archive, a collection of images of Buddhist cave shrines in Dunhuang, China.
Version 3.1 of the Offline Image Viewer (OIV) has just been released to address issues reported by users since the last release in September 2007. This updated version includes a number of enhancements, such as improvements to text editing in the Slide Editor.