Under the Thought Leadership framework, the Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation seeks to build capacities and provide learning resources for all, thus contributes to supporting the educational journey. The Foundation also supports scientific research, and prepares a generation of Arab scientists, experts and specialists, so as to enhance knowledge and achieve practical benefits to the Arab world as per its set priorities and needs.
As part of the Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation's vision to enhance thought leadership within the society, it has sought to create an appropriate environment which ensures the interaction of Arab intellectuals, scientists, scholars and artists. It also promotes dialogue by supporting the organization of conferences, seminars and debates, aimed at enhancing all thought leadership efforts exerted in this respect.
The Abdul Hameed Shoman Arab Researcher's Award was launched in 1982 to serve as the first Arab research-focused award, supporting and shedding light on scientific research throughout the Arab world, as well as celebrating the achievements of Arab researchers, and taking part in preparing and inspiring a generation of Arab researchers, experts and specialists in various scientific fields, given the current, limited potential of institutions, universities and individuals.
In an effort to support scientific research, the Abdul Hameed Shoman Scientific Research Fund was established in 1999, so as to provide the required support for scientific research projects, carried out in Jordanian universities, institutions and scientific centers.
In support of intellectual dialogue and interaction, the Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation established the Abdul Hameed Shoman Cultural Forum in 1986, to serve as a free platform, hosting thought leadership, politics, philosophy, arts and culture-related subject-matter experts. The Foundation aims at enhancing interaction with a wider audience of different society segments.
In an effort to build and strengthen the culture of scientific research, entrepreneurship and innovation among children and adolescents, as well as enriching the education sector in Jordan by building the capacities of science teachers and students, the Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation launched the Science and Education Program in 2014.
The Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation aims, through its Thought Leadership Grants Program, at disseminating scientific endeavors, which would address pressing social issues and provide sources of sciences, learning and educational spaces for all.
Given the great importance of investing in culture, the Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation aims, through the Literature and Arts Program, at developing literary and artistic talents and skills, preserving national heritage, and promoting cultural diversity by providing artistic and literary activities of all kinds, including: Literature and performing arts, music, creative products, and various media, in addition to supporting libraries in Jordan and Palestine in order to spread the culture of reading and research.
In this respect, the Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation seeks to enhance the role of intellectuals, writers and musicians, as well as to support their chef-d'oeuvre and ensure their connection with a wider audience. It also aims at enhancing creative and innovative thinking among children, and providing them with an environment to promote and motivate them creatively.
The Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation launched the Abdul Hameed Shoman Award for Children's Literature in 2006, which was inspired by the Foundation's belief in the great importance of enriching the Arab creative content of children, and its keenness to create a pure and authentic environment that would help and motivate children to read and think creatively.
In order to provide a knowledge and education space for all segments of society, the Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation established the Abdul Hameed Shoman Public Library in 1986, to serve as the first computerized and fully-equipped public library in Jordan.
In an effort to provide an open environment and space for children and youth, aged between 3 and 16 years, the Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation established the Knowledge Path library in 2013, to serve as a free and vital space for reading, interacting and participating in creative activities, as part of an intellectual and creative journey to achieve self-discovery.
In 1989, the Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation launched the Cinema Program to promote the dissemination of the cinematic culture, as a form of cultural expression and exchange, and a contribution to the growth of the film industry in Jordan. In order to stimulate critical thinking among children and youth, the Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation launched the Children's Cinema Program in 2014, which includes filmmaking workshops, as well as monthly movie shows, followed by discussion panels.
In support of emerging musical talents in Jordan and the region, 2014 witnessed the launch of the Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation's Musical Evenings.
The Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation aims, through its Literature and Arts Grants, at promoting cultural diversity, making arts available for all, as well as enabling the preservation of cultural heritage.


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Some members have asked how to filter things so they get the view they want. Here's how.
To exclude or include specific forums from view, you can bookmark search URLs that allow you to do this. These will be about the same as the Unified View, but filtered as desired.
The forums to include/exclude are listed in the URL as a comma-separated list of forumid's as shown in the examples. You get the forumid from the end of the forum's URL after the "f=".
In the example URLs prefix each with the base Forum home URL "http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum".
Feel free to ask here for more examples if needed.
It eliminates the D***** forums but it seems to show all posts in the other forums, even old ones, and they are all over the place datewise. How do I show only new ones, and/or sort them by date and forum?
OK, last time it seemed to work. Maybe it just needed to sit for a while to register.
Yeah it has waits for you to be offline for a while fo the 'last visit' date to be set to something more recent. Otherwise you can use the 'mark forums read' from the Quick Links in the menu to catch everything up.
Might be a good idea to make this thread a "sticky".
and when I return later using that bookmarked URL it says no posts meet my search criteria, even though I know there are new posts. I have to paste the actual search url in each time in order for it to work.
2) That search doesnt get only new posts since my last visit, and since it is sorted by forum there can be dozens of old posts on the front page of the search results, and new posts in other forums on the second page or even further down.
You have to bookmark the original URL, since for some odd reason, the software changes it to that 'searchid' thing. I think most browsers let you bookmark a link just by right-clicking on the link.
Oh, on point #2, I assume you're using the 'getnew' format. It selects new posts from your last visit time (the system decides what that is). You may need to use 'mark forums read' from the Quick Links menu item to catch up if there are old posts showing up.
thanks, I was just about to ask that one. I think that will get the job done.
For obvious reasons I'm posting this question to an unrelated thread. One would think the easiest thing in the world would be just starting a new thread (i.e. asking a question, making an observation, etc.) as opposed to replying to an existing thread. Obviously others have figured this out since plenty of people are posting questions and I'm sure I'll be embarassed when someone explains how, but I've decided to swallow whatever pride I have in my computer literacy (which is very little), stop reading FAQs, clicking on any conceivably relevant link, and otherwise spending a lot of time on what surely must be the most basic of all things in this new system, and just ask the question: how do you start a thread?
. . . how do you start a thread?
To start a thread in the proper sub-forum, click on the "Large Format Photography Forum" link in the top box. That will take you to the sub-forum view, then select the forum you want, and there's a "New Thread" button above the messages.
I looked into the last visit thing. "Last Visit" only gets set after your connection cookie times out (currently after 30 min). So, if you re-visit before the timeout happens, the 'Last Visit' time isn't updated in your user data, and stays whatever it was. I guess that means if you checked in every 25 min, forever, your Last Visit time would never be updated.
Thanks Ralph. I'm glad to see it wasn't quite so obvious as I thought it might be. I didn't realize we now have sub-forums, guess I'll have to read up on that one too. Pretty soon I may actually figure this whole thing out and even get comfortable with it.
Tom, is there a way of turning off the pagination of threads? Or at least configuring the number of posts per page to a higher number?
do you all take donations for the forum?
I don't know if there's a 'proper' way to do it, but I look at new posts. I right click the 'New Posts' tab at the top and 'copy shortcut' then edit the bookmark and paste in the link.
This thread was started in 2006. Is it true that in six years no one has figured out how to program some functionality into the software to let members customize the forums to view? Am I missing something in the new forum upgrade?
There used to be a third party plug-in for that, but the author is no longer maintaining it and it doesn't work in the new version--I tried during testing. Figuring out if it's possible to make it work in the new version is on my things-to-do-list.
You must restore the original URL because some strange reason, software changes, "searchID" thing bookmarks. I think most browsers you can just bookmark a link, right-click on the link.
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You do realise your username is your email? This means all bots and people in the world can see it.?
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DEUTERONOMY AS A METAPHOR FOR GROWTH
DEUTERONOMY AS METAPHOR
The book of D'varim (Deuteronomy) can be looked upon as a metaphor for personal growth. Let's start with a look at Moses at the burning bush in Exodus, chapter 3. Moses has, rather impetuously, killed an Egyptian taskmaster and had to flee to Midian. Now he is tending his father-in-law's sheep in the wilderness near Mt Horeb and sees a bush that is aflame but not being consumed. God speaks to him from the bush and tells him that he must return to Egypt, confront Pharoah and free the Israelite people from slavery. Moses, instead of accepting this commission from God with well-deserved pride at having been chosen, demurs. He presents God with a string of excuses which pretty much are variations on "I am not worthy". He concludes by pointing out, in Exodus 4:10, "I am not a man of words… I am slow of speech and slow of tongue". Of course, God does not relent and Moses accepts the commission and leads the people out of Egypt and for forty years on the wilderness.
Fast-forward forty years. The book of Deuteronomy begins "these are the words that Moses addressed to Israel…". Moses now launches on a series of eloquent prose and poetry that takes up one-fifth of the Torah. Moses has not only become a man of words, but also a great leader.
Moses has led Israel across the Sea of Reeds, to Sinai and through the wilderness. He has dealt with rebellion and complaining. He has led military conquests. He has developed from a reluctant and hesitant leader, unsure of himself and his adequacy to the task, to a confident and assertive commander. He has shown love for his people even in the face of their unfaithful ness. In the aftermath of the great sin of the golden calf, when God wanted to destroy the people, Moses intervened on their behalf, reminding God that the Lord is patient, forbearing and forgiving. These are traits which, by journey's end Moses has acquired himself, though, of course, to a far lesser extent. But his confidence is tempered, always, by humility. He is open to the possibility that the Law as he has taught it to Israel might need re-understanding and revision as in the case of the daughters of Tzlofchad in Numbers. In the course of the forty years Moses has grown as a leader. He has learned and taught his flock lessons about morality. He has learned and transmitted lessons consisting of the kinds of rules that are needed to build and maintain a functioning civil society. Has learned and taught the lessons of devotion, loyalty and ritual. He has paid attention and learned well (from a Great Teacher) and, as evidenced by the reverence he has commanded through the ages,nthus teaching the importance of studying these lessons.
Moses' flock, B'nai Yisrael have grown, too. They (we) have gone from a ragtag mob of recently freed slaves, still carrying a slave mentality, to a unified nation, firm in their dedication to God and ready to enter the land promised to their ancestors. They have reached the end of a bumpy and uneven road, uneven psychologically, spiritually and physically, from Sinai to the banks of the Jordan. They have gone from "na'aseh v'nishma (we will do and we will learn) to having enough understanding to raise reasonable questions, again, the daughters of Tzlofchad and the men for whom Pesach Sheni was established (Number 9:13-14). They are prepared and willing to go forward and establish a nation in Cana'an. That is a truly impressive transformation.
Indeed, Moses taught a lot during these last discourses. Of the 613 mitzvot in the Torah around 200, in Moses own words appear in D'varim. It includes the restatement of the "Ten Utterances" at Sinai. It includes what we say twice daily as the first two paragraphs of the Shema. There is so much more including countless verses that have become part of our prayer liturgy. So, Moses has become not only a student who transmits and shares what he has learned. Moses appears to become the actual author of, perhaps, God-given or inspired law
But Moses is not perfect. He is still capable of getting angry and acting impulsively as he did when he struck the rock at Meribah instead of speaking to it as he was instructed by God. He shows an angry and bitter side he spends much of the book of Deuteronomy, his farewell song, carping on the rebellions and sins and acts of faithfulness he has had to put up with. He spends over fifty verses in chapter 28 calling down, in graphic detail, all manner of evils and curses upon the people if they are disobedient and faithless to God. Even his so-called blessing at the very end is tinged with some bitterness.
But that is part of the point. It is what makes Moses real and accessible. It teaches us that you don't have to be perfect to be good. You really just need to do the best you can and not give up on yourself. Moses was, according to our tradition, an eighty-year-old shepherd when God spoke to him at the bush. The lesson is, as I said in the beginning, one of personal growth. If Moses can transform and learn at the age of eighty, then it is neither too late, nor hopelessly difficult for any of us. If a band of escaped slaves can learn the lessons to be taught and transform themselves into a real nation we too can learn and improve. We all have untapped potential We just need to invest the time and effort to grow into it. This, I believe is one of the great lessons of the Torah as a whole and of Deuteronomy, in particular.


As rumor mills had predicted earlier Microsoft has announced the new Surface Laptop along with the Windows 10 S. The Surface Laptop comes equipped with aa 13.5-inch display and is optimized to work with the Windows 10 S operating system. According to Microsoft's Panos Pranay, the Surface Laptop has been designed keeping in mind the needs of students who are on the verge of graduating from the high school.
It's interesting how Microsoft is not just restricting the Windows 10 S to budget hardware but is extending the same to the top of the line Surface lineup as well. Since the Surface Laptop runs on Windows 10 S only the apps available on Windows Store can be installed and just in case you want a more comprehensive access to software you can simply upgrade to the Windows 10 Pro.
The laptop will ship in four colors including platinum, burgundy, cobalt blue and graphite gold. Also, the device supports Microsoft Surface Pen. Pranay further lauded the performance of the Surface Laptop and since it's using the latest generation Intel i5 and i7 processors the battery is rated to last for 14.5 hours.
It's also worth noting that the Surface Laptop is a full fledged laptop, unlike the other Surface products that are primarily 2-in-1 detachables. Microsoft has designed integrated vapor chambers on the rear of the device in order to regulate the temperature and it has also done away with speaker grills and holes, instead, the speakers are integrated below the keyboard and the sound comes from underneath the keyboard.
Microsoft has also opened up the pre-order for the Surface Laptop and the Core i5 variant with 4GB of RAM and 128Gb of SSD will retail at $999. The Surface Laptop will begin shipping only on June 15th.


I got my first camera when i was 12 yo, since that day I started snapping everything around me.
Someone who looks beautiful naturally, without any make-up. Someone who doesnt have to try. But thats on the outside. Tru natural beauty comes from the inside, i do consider people, nature, even an object like beautiful.
Every day we are missing many agreable surprises, why we can't stop for a while, just observing, learning... I try to sublimate, to immortalize through my hobby, beautiful moments, beautiful people, beautiful things.
I take great pleasure to observe, compose, and then freeze those moments, those things with my camera.
I'm naturally attracted by art, painting, drawing, images and decoration.
"Nature is the universal teacher and safe for the beholder." And I totally agree with this proverb.


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Susan Douglas's "Enlightened Sexism"
Susan J. Douglas is the author of Where the Girls Are, The Mommy Myth, and other works of cultural history and criticism. She is the Catherine Neafie Kellogg Professor of Communication Studies and chair of the department at the University of Michigan, where she has taught since 1996. Her work has appeared in The Nation, The Progressive, Ms., The Village Voice, and In These Times.
She applied the "Page 99 Test" to her new book, Enlightened Sexism: The Seductive Message that Feminism's Work Is Done, and reported the following:
I lucked out on this assignment—which, like many of the other authors, I was wary about, given the randomness of the page number—because when you open Enlightened Sexism to page 99, you find yourself at the end of the chapter titled "Warrior Women in Thongs," and so there are concluding paragraphs that summarize the book's themes. Enlightened Sexism provides a somewhat irreverent tour through the changing media images of girls and women from the 1990s to the present, and lays out what I found to be a striking irony. With of all those super heroines, high-powered female attorneys, surgeons, judges, and police chiefs in prime time, not to mention prominent news anchors, reporters and pundits, much of the media have come to overrepresent women as having made it—completely—in the professions, and having achieved a level of financial success and comfort enjoyed primarily by the Tiffany's-encrusted doyennes of Laguna Beach. So there is a rather large gap between how the vast majority of girls and women live their lives and what they see—and don't see—in the media.
What the media have been giving us then, are fantasies of power. They assure girls and women that women's liberation is a fait accompli, and that we are stronger, more successful, more sexually in control, more fearless, and more held in awe than we actually are. Because full equality allegedly has been achieved, it's now acceptable to resurrect sexist stereotypes of girls and women because supposedly they can't undermine us anymore. Thus, what has emerged is a new, subtle, sneaky form of sexism that seems to accept—even celebrate—female achievements on the surface, but is really about repudiating feminism and keeping women, especially young women, in their place. Girls and women are torn between impossibly contradictory images of the importance of femininity on the one hand and empowerment on the other. Lurking in most of this media fare is the message that feminist politics is no longer necessary, is even dangerous to women, when a host of issues from pay inequity, poverty and violence still affect millions of us.
"Warrior Women in Thongs" is about the rise in the 1990s of the sexy, mouthy, butt-kicking heroine—think Buffy, Xena, Lara Croft, et al. at the height of the "girl power" movement. Here's an excerpt from p. 99 (with a few sentences from the bottom of p. 98 so it makes sense).
The warrior women in thongs insisted that females could, and should, combine force and aggression with femininity and sexual display. On the one hand, this was welcome, given how often our culture emphasizes that female sexuality is dangerous and shameful. On the other hand, they also reaffirmed the sexual objectification of women and girls, and suggested that women could be as strong as any man as long as they were poreless, stacked, and a size two. No matter how strong we got, it was more important to be slim and beautiful and to know how to deploy femininity as a weapon. And for most of the warrior women, their sexuality got them into trouble with the wrong men and even endangered those closest to them.
Finally, and obviously, these female heroes could only be kick-butt strong in fantastical other worlds either in some mythic past, in a place over a Hellmouth, or in a nether world or parallel universe of spying. In the real world, there's the question of whether it's all that great for girls to feel empowered primarily through the use of physical violence against others. But it was precisely because the settings of warrior women fare were mythological that they provided ideal metaphorical realms for exploring the increased fluidity and uncertainty of gender roles in the 1990s and beyond.
Warrior women were both transgressive and conformist. They fought like Jackie Chan but cried over romantic betrayal or injury done to others; they were physically dominating yet caring. While they suggested, on the one hand, that with enough Tae Kwon Do lessons women could reduce the differences between the sexes even further, their form-fitting, skin-baring outfits made clear that gender differences were here to stay. In addressing, however campily, our culture's anxieties about changing gender scripts at the turn of the century, the warrior women in thongs asserted that to exert power, women had to be a lot more like men (hardly the feminist hope of the 1970s) and, at the same time, true to their socialized female selves that were not like men at all. They insisted that women were and could be comprised of a complicated, daunting bundle of roles, skills and emotions that drew from both sides of the old gender divide. In particular, increased physical strength matched by a defiant rhetorical toughness might be necessary now for women, but the traditional male emotional repertoires of aloofness and insensitivity were not. This was a very different and more complicated and ambiguous kind of female persona from those on Dallas, thirtysomething, or Touched by an Angel.
Learn more about the book and author at Susan Douglas's website.
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LEVELING THE PAYING FIELD
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Leveling the Paying Field & Achieving Fair Pay
Women & Corona
This time of Corona Virus has been especially hard on women for many reasons that I don't have to explain to anyone. That's why I chose the image above. But now I want to talk about a bigger issue now that women will be returning to the workforce in droves. Which, my friends, is a good thing!
[From the Leveling the Paying Field book, Pg 61]
We hear a lot about equal pay and pay disparity—phrases that have their place and that I will continue to use throughout the book—but I have a different take on the bigger issue: Why are we talking about equal pay when the Quotient is able to measure a return on investment (ROI) in a way that has never been achievable in the past? Before the QTNT Personal Value Calculation, we have never been able to mathematically measure the value of a contribution from any employee—woman or man, disenfranchised or not. The Quotient changes all that.
How about, in addition to talking about equal pay, we talk about the appropriate pay for performance? How about we talk about proper pay for the value delivered? What if a woman's work product is more valuable than a man's in the same position? Does equal pay make her salary acceptable? I prefer that we—as both individuals and businesses, men and women, protected classes or not—seek fair pay for measurable value delivered. Isn't this how it works in sales? Yes. But don't get me wrong: I'm not suggesting non-sales professionals should be paid on a commission-type basis. On the contrary, my goal is to see that everyone learns how they add value to the organization, identify the extra value they deliver, defend it, and be paid accordingly. Will this take some education? You bet! That's why I have written Leveling the Paying Field and why you are reading and learning from it.
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The Quotient (QTNT)--a Bright Fresh New Idea
An acknowledged trailblazer in online job search and career advancement as well as a genuine thought leader, Rick Gillis has spent 20+ years accumulating the 10,000 plus hours (and far more) of the deliberate practice that Malcolm Gladwell contends is required to become a world-class leader in one's field. It is out of these thousands of hours that Rick created the QTNT Personal Value Contribution process that changes all that is currently understood about measuring the value of work delivered by an employee to their organization. (And where employers learn who is truly deserving of their $'s and attention!)
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package org.hisp.dhis.jphes.hierarchy.mechanism;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonProperty;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.annotation.JsonSerialize;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.xml.annotation.JacksonXmlElementWrapper;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.xml.annotation.JacksonXmlProperty;
import org.hisp.dhis.common.BaseIdentifiableObject;
import org.hisp.dhis.common.DxfNamespaces;
import org.hisp.dhis.dataelement.DataElementCategoryOption;
import org.hisp.dhis.jphes.hierarchy.agency.AgencyUnit;
import org.hisp.dhis.jphes.program.Program;
import org.hisp.dhis.user.UserGroup;

import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.Set;

/**
 * @author bangadennis on 11/01/17.
 */
public class MechanismUnit extends BaseIdentifiableObject
{
    private String description;

    private String shortName;

    private String partner;

    private AgencyUnit agencyUnit;

    private UserGroup userGroup;

    private DataElementCategoryOption categoryOption;

    private Set<Program> programs = new HashSet<>();

    private Boolean enabled;

    public MechanismUnit()
    {

    }

    //logic

    public void addProgram( Program program )
    {
        programs.add( program );
    }

    public boolean removeProgram( Program program )
    {
        return programs.remove( program );
    }

    public void removeAllPrograms()
    {
        programs.clear();
    }

    // Getters and Setters

    @JsonProperty
    @JacksonXmlProperty( namespace = DxfNamespaces.DXF_2_0 )
    public String getDescription()
    {
        return description;
    }

    public void setDescription( String description )
    {
        this.description = description;
    }

    @JsonProperty
    @JacksonXmlProperty( namespace = DxfNamespaces.DXF_2_0 )
    public String getShortName()
    {
        return shortName;
    }

    public void setShortName( String shortName )
    {
        this.shortName = shortName;
    }

    @JsonProperty
    @JacksonXmlProperty( namespace = DxfNamespaces.DXF_2_0 )
    public String getPartner()
    {
        return partner;
    }

    public void setPartner( String partner )
    {
        this.partner = partner;
    }

    @JsonProperty
    @JacksonXmlProperty( namespace = DxfNamespaces.DXF_2_0 )
    public AgencyUnit getAgencyUnit()
    {
        return agencyUnit;
    }

    public void setAgencyUnit( AgencyUnit agencyUnit )
    {
        this.agencyUnit = agencyUnit;
    }

    @JsonProperty
    @JacksonXmlProperty( namespace = DxfNamespaces.DXF_2_0 )
    public UserGroup getUserGroup()
    {
        return userGroup;
    }

    public void setUserGroup( UserGroup userGroup )
    {
        this.userGroup = userGroup;
    }

    @JsonProperty
    @JacksonXmlProperty( namespace = DxfNamespaces.DXF_2_0 )
    public DataElementCategoryOption getCategoryOption()
    {
        return categoryOption;
    }

    public void setCategoryOption( DataElementCategoryOption categoryOption )
    {
        this.categoryOption = categoryOption;
    }

    @JsonProperty
    @JsonSerialize( contentAs = BaseIdentifiableObject.class )
    @JacksonXmlElementWrapper( localName = "programs", namespace = DxfNamespaces.DXF_2_0 )
    @JacksonXmlProperty( localName = "program", namespace = DxfNamespaces.DXF_2_0 )
    public Set<Program> getPrograms()
    {
        return programs;
    }

    public void setPrograms( Set<Program> programs )
    {
        this.programs = programs;
    }

    @JsonProperty
    @JacksonXmlProperty( namespace = DxfNamespaces.DXF_2_0 )
    public Boolean getEnabled()
    {
        return enabled;
    }

    public void setEnabled( Boolean enabled )
    {
        this.enabled = enabled;
    }
}

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The Lead Manager of Daimler, the Mercedes Benz and other car manufacturer, Dieter Zetsche mentioned on CNBC this am that Daimler is partnering with a Chinese electric car and battery manufacturer, BYD, to build a new brand of electric cars for the Chinese market.
BYD Company Limited (BYD) is a Hong Kong-based joint stock company. The Company, along with its subsidiaries, is engaged in the research, development, manufacture and sale of rechargeable batteries, automobiles and related products, handset components, liquid crystal display (LCD) and other electronic products. It operates in four segments: the battery and other products segment comprises the manufacture and sale of rechargeable batteries for mobile phones, emergency lights and other battery related products; the mobile handset components segment comprises the manufacture and sale of LCD and other handset components; the automobiles and related products segment comprises the manufacture and sale of automobiles and auto-related moulds and components, and the others segment comprises, principally, non-manufacturing business of the Company and its subsidiaries.
This is big news since although the electric car market seems to be burgeoning throughout the world slowly, China, already a leader in green house gas emissions, simply cannot replicate the transportation model of Europe and the US with millions of petro-powered vehicles. The world could not handle the waste.
It was pleasing to hear Zetsche say just that and is a great shot across the bow of the petro manufacturers that the Daimler Chair would vow to offer China's people a different than the current model of the world where we are all beholden to a small group of petro power producers.
Zetsche went on to say that the current drawback to electric cars is the range(ie you can only go a limited distance on a battery charge) limitation.
I know there are many companies working on improving battery technology to correct this problem. Of course there is the problem of consistency of sourcing key heavy metal ingredients of electric rechargeable batteries that could lead to a new level of tyranny by the countries mining these key metals as the petro states have treated us all with oil.
Zetsche says he feels that in 10 years time up to 10% of North American vehicles will be powered by electric. Finally the tide is turning and the grand party the petro powers(including many based in the USA)have enjoyed for many years at the expense of the world could finally be ending.


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(b) the penal, contempt and disciplinary provisions of the County Courts Act 19841.
(3) Unless otherwise stated, this Part applies to procedure in the Court of Appeal, the High Court and county courts.
81.6 Subject to rules 81.7 and 81.8, copies of judgments or orders and any orders or agreements fixing or varying the time for doing an act must be served personally.
(b) the court may direct that the matter be referred to the Attorney General with a request that the Attorney General consider whether to bring proceedings for contempt of court.
81.22 Subject to rules 81.23 and 81.24, copies of judgments or orders and any orders or agreements fixing or varying the time for doing an act must be served personally.
81.27 A writ of sequestration must be in Form No 67 as set out in Practice Direction 4.
81.35 Where a complaint is made against a person under section 124 of the Act for having lost the opportunity of levying execution, the court will issue a summons, which must be served on the alleged offender personally not less than 7 days before the day of the hearing stated in the summons.
81.38 If a person pays a fine and later gives evidence to satisfy the court that, if the evidence had been given earlier, no fine or a smaller fine would have been imposed, the court may order the whole or part of the fine to be repaid.


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Making My Way To McLeod Ganj
June 18, 2008 By Dave
I missed my overnight train from Agra to Pathankot, the jumping off point for a bus to Dharamsala (which, in turn, is the jumping off point for a taxi to McLeod Ganj, home of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan government-in-exile). I was not a happy camper by that point. I had paid 75% of my room cost so I could hang out in it after the normal check-out time, and then I had spent another few hours at the hot, crowded train station.
I was on the right platform, however they must have announced the train arriving on a different one. A guy started to help me out, and I accepted his support knowing he was benefiting financially in some way. I got a 50% refund on my train ticket, and accepted the cost of a commission from a travel agent to get a new overnight ticket situated for the next day.
As I had the whole next day to kill, I ended up being taken for a ride (literally) by a friend of the guy who first helped me. Bottom line, I paid to hire an air-conditioned car for a half day to be taken to a series of commission-paying souvenir shops. The guys are good here in India…very good. Sometimes you don't even know what hit you, and you just get tired of saying "no" so you go with the flow (at your own expense!).
Thankfully, I made the overnight train the second time around, though my seat was unconfirmed (in effect, I boarded while still on the waiting list). I sat impatiently in the appropriate carriage, wondering if I'd be kicked off the train in Delhi. To my delight, an Indian passenger informed me I had been assigned a berth based on a recent printout that had been placed on the carriage a few hours into our journey. I put my sheets and blanket down and drifted off to sleep.
I arrived at the Jalandhar Junction train station a few minutes too late in the morning. My connecting train to Chakki Bank had already passed through, leaving me with a few hours to kill on the fly filled train platform. At least it was early in the morning so it wasn't too hot. As I began to look around, I noticed more turbins on heads, and a few guys walking around in orange and purple flowing outfits with swords swinging from their hips. I consulted my Lonely Planet which always has an answer for such cultural quandries. Turns out Punjab is home to a minority religion in India known as Sikhism, and its followers carry swords, considered to be one of the five articles of faith.
My train dropped me off at Chakki Bank, a town with a heavy military presence. I took a bicycle rickshaw to the stand where I could catch a bus to Dharamsala. I could've sworn the driver quoted me 15 rupees, which is why I went with him, however upon paying him a generous 23 rupees, he looked at me with disappointment, and said the cost was 50 rupees. I knew this to be way too high, as my 3-hour bus ride was only going to be about 70 rupees, however having accepted the ride with him, I gave him the 50 rupees, plus 10 as a tip. Once on the bus, a nicely dressed, well-spoken gentleman with whom I was squeezed against in the back seat informed me that the local rate was 10 rupees. He was tempted to step into the situation, but didn't see it as his place. I was just happy to know there are people out there who don't want to see us tourists being ripped off.
After the local bus ride which had me literally launched into the air after some large bumps in the road, I picked up the short bus to Dharamsala (which was nicer, and slower). Finally, I paid a taxi to take me from Dharamsala to the Green Hotel in McLeod Ganj. I had made it to my #1 destination in India after 24 continuous hours on the move, and 10 days coming across from northeastern India. I ate dinner on a restaurant rooftop, catching a great sunset against the nearby Dhauladhar range. It was worth it.
Last Updated on September 17th, 2009
Filed Under: India
Stefan Knoepfel says
hey dave glad to hear you made it to Dharamsela safe and sound…sounds like quiet a journey. If you want a small tour of Mcleod Ganj ask around for my uncle Nawang Lobsang… im sure he would be happy to show you around =)
clair says
:lol: "launched into the air" – I like that expression. But you're not alone.. we've got potholes here where we get "launched into the air" even on modern highways, not to mention how many of my CDs that's killed.
Scary how you got fleeced out of that 50 rupees. You gotta be careful with your wallet and documents. Sorry, that's the mom in me speaking :lol:
That photo of the kids on the tracks is amazing. Sucks how much trouble y ou've been having getting things done while in India. I hope it get easier for you.


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Norman Reedus Celebrates Pregnant Girlfriend Diane Kruger's Birthday in Silly Selfie
By Daniel S. Levine - July 16, 2018 03:39 pm EDT
Diane Kruger celebrated her 42nd birthday Sunday, and boyfriend Norman Reedus marked the special day with a silly selfie.
(Photo: Instagram/Norman Reedus)
Reedus, 49, shared a photo of the two wearing face masks. "Happy Birthday sunshine," Reedus wrote in the caption.
Kruger also shared the Zodiac message for her birthday.
"What you accomplish in the world at large always begin with an idea in your head and some of the ideas you come up with this year will be touched by genius," the message reads. "Your higher mind and your human mind are now in perfect alignment."
"I'm just gonna go with this one and hope for the best," Kruger added in the caption.
Reedus and Kruger reportedly started dating in late 2016, although they met the year before when they made the romantic drama Sky together. The two took their relationship public in March 2017, then made their red carpet debut at the 2018 Golden Globe Awards in January.
In May, sources said the two were expecting their first child together. According to PEOPLE, Kruger sparked pregnancy speculation when she wore loose-fitting outfits to the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.
This will be Kruger's first child. The German actress was previously married to Guillaume Canet from 2001 to 2006, and had a 10-year relationship with The Affair star Joshua Jackson until 2016. Coincidentally, Jackson also appeared in Sky, which is available to stream on Netflix.
As for Reedus, he was previously in a relationship with model Helena Christensen from 1998 to 2003. The couple have an 18-year-old son, Mingus Lucien Reedus.
In Sky, Kruger starred as a woman who escapes an abusive husband while on vacation in California. When she reaches Las Vegas, she meets Reedus' character and they start a romantic relationship.
"I didn't know [Reedus] before the film," Kruger told PEOPLE in April 2016. "We share a lot of intimate scenes... I was really nervous about meeting him and not being able to have a drink with him, or talk with him."
Kruger said she was "pleasantly surprised" by Reedus' off-screen personality, which is nothing like the characters he plays on the screen.
"She's a dream," Reedus said of Kruger in 2016.
Kruger also said Reedus "guilt-tripped" her into catching up on The Walking Dead.
Reedus is best known for playing Darryl Dixon on The Walking Dead, which will return for a ninth season later this year. Kruger's next movie is Welcome to Marwen, which opens on Nov. 21.
Photo credit: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic
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Q: how to check all the CheckBox are checked on button Click in android Below is the code where I am checking all the mandatory CheckBox is checked on NEXT button. There is totally 17 checkbox. But I am showing this in a Alert box so It is not taking this layout in View and taking the count of checked items in actual layout. Please help me to resolve this.
public void showConfirmPopup()
{
    final Dialog dialog = new Dialog(SubmitViewActivity.this);
    dialog.setContentView(R.layout.activity_uikyc);
    dialog.setCancelable(false);
    Button back=(Button)dialog.findViewById(R.id.btn_bck);
    Button next=(Button)dialog.findViewById(R.id.btn_next);
    final CheckBox[] checkboxes;
    checkboxes = new CheckBox[17];

    for(int i=0;i < checkboxes.length; i++){
        checkboxes[i] = (CheckBox) findViewById(getIdName("check_" + (i+1)));
    }

    back.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        dialog.cancel();
    }
    });

    next.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

    @Override
    public void onClick(View view) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    //int lenCheck = checkboxes.length;
    int iCheck = 0;
    for(int i=0;i<checkboxes.length;i++){

        if(checkboxes[i].isChecked()){
            iCheck++;
        }

    }
    Log.e(String.valueOf(iCheck), "count of checked option");
    if(iCheck != 17){
        Toast.makeText(SubmitViewActivity.this, "Confirm all Checkboxes are checked" , Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
        dialog.cancel();
    }else if(iCheck == 17){
    dialog.cancel();
    savedetails = new SaveDetails();
    savedetails.execute();
    }
    }
    });

    dialog.show();

}

A: Try this..
Change your CheckBox id in xml as check_1,check_2,check_3...check_17 like below for every 17
       <CheckBox
            android:id="@+id/check_1"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="check_1" />

and java
Declear as CheckBox[] checkboxs; in global variable and initilize it like below
    checkboxs = new CheckBox[17];

    for (int i = 0; i < checkboxs.length; i++) {
        checkboxs[i] = (CheckBox) findViewById(getIdByName("check_" + (i + 1)));
    }

getIdByName method
public static int getIdByName(final String name) {

     try {

         final Field field = R.id.class.getDeclaredField(name);

         field.setAccessible(true);
         return field.getInt(null);

     } catch (Exception ignore) {
         return -1;
     }
 }

and you can check wheather check box is checked or not using below codes.
    for (int i = 0; i < checkboxs.length; i++) {

        if(checkboxs[i].isChecked()){
              iCheck++;
        }
    }

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ANZAC Day Footy Memories in Federation Story
Federation Square and ANZAC Day
Collingwood and Essendon at the MCG 2014
federationstory.com
The AFL blockbuster game at the MCG to commemorate ANZAC Day will become part of the Federation Square digital time capsule, federationstory.com, with special personal messages from the Coaches and Captains of both Collingwood and Essendon.
Nathan Buckley, the Collingwood Coach and Jobe Watson, the Essendon Captain have recorded their personal messages on video to be placed in the digital time capsule.
Nathan's Anzac Day Message
Jobe's Anzac Day Message
Jane Sydenham-Clarke from Fed Square said, "ANZAC Day is one of the most important days in Australia's social fabric and Federation Story provides easy access for the community to post their stories and comments online with photos and videos.
"We are looking to capture the memories and thoughts of the ANZAC Day Memorial march and those who march in memory of, or with family members, to show ongoing support for the ANZAC Spirit.
"The inclusion of personal comments from the Coaches and Captains of Collingwood and Essendon about ANZAC Day and the special game played at the MCG each year, when over a hundred thousand people observe a minute's silence, is a significant story for future generations.
"We are also encouraging supporters who attend the game to submit their thoughts and memories of ANZAC Day as well as schools to use the Federation Story as a special project to commemorate ANZAC Day."
Ms. Sydenham-Clarke said following ANZAC Day we are encouraging people to use the photos or videos they have taken during ANZAC Day of themselves, family and friends and add their own story into the time capsule to create a family record of the event.
Upload your story at http://www.federationstory.com/upload-your-own-story/
View more stories at http://www.federationstory.com/category/theme/war/
Ron Smith, Corporate Media Communications, Fed Square - Mobile: 0417 329 201


Taxes can shrink your realized returns from your investment portfolio, and yet, most investors don't have a strategy in place for tax-efficient investing.
Comprehensive tax reform passed late last year means many taxpayers are now in a lower tax bracket and will see higher take-home pay. Still, because of the tax law's cap on state and local tax deductions, some taxpayers are likely to experience an overall increase in their tax bill for 2018.
Though you can't control tax policy, you can establish an active and updated tax management strategy for your investments. Even small reductions in tax payments today can have a big impact on your wealth tomorrow. Consider putting in place some or all of the potential solutions below to help you retain more of your assets.
What Kinds of Accounts Do You Have?
Different kinds of accounts are taxed differently. Employing a tax-aware asset allocation strategy can take those differences into account to potentially increase your after-tax returns. By allocating high-yield assets to tax-deferred and tax-exempt accounts, such as Individual Retirement Accounts, you can help minimize your exposure to taxes. Your Financial Advisor can assist you in structuring your asset allocation across your accounts.
Many investments allow you to save for a variety of goals while also offering tax benefits. Municipal bonds, the interest on which is typically free from federal, state and local taxes can be one of the most efficient investments available for defending against current and potentially higher tax rates. Beyond municipal bonds, consider tax-efficient mutual funds or separately managed accounts that aim to limit the number of taxable events within your portfolio.
Diversifying your retirement portfolio with a variable annuity may provide tax-deferred growth potential, guaranteed lifetime income, increased retirement savings, equity upside potential, and a death benefit for named beneficiaries. A 529 college savings plan is a tax-advantaged way to save for college expenses. Donor-advised funds for charitable giving provide potential tax advantages while helping you support your favorite causes.
Current U.S. tax law permits tax-loss harvesting, a process by which you can offset capital gains with capital losses that you've incurred during that tax year, or carried over from a prior tax return, to possibly lower your tax bill. Capital gains are generally the profits you realize when you sell an investment for more than you paid for it, and capital losses are generally the losses you realize when you sell an investment for less than you paid for it. If your losses exceed your gains, they can also be used to offset up to $3,000 of ordinary income each year.
When engaging in tax-loss harvesting, be sure you don't inadvertently participate in a "wash sale," which can occur when you sell or trade stock or securities at a loss and buy substantially identical stock or securities 30 days before or after the sale. Talk to your Financial Advisor to learn about your options.
If your taxes rise, it may make sense to fully fund your employer-sponsored retirement plan, such as your 401(k), since contributions can be made on a pretax basis. If your taxable income is lower, the amount of income tax you owe for that year might also be reduced. Because this is a tax-deferred account, you generally won't pay income taxes on any earnings from your investments until you withdraw funds. For 2018, you can contribute up to $18,500 to your 401(k) plan, with up to $6,000 in additional contributions for those over 50.
For 2018, the federal estate tax exemption has increased to $11.18 million per individual. Regardless of whether your estate will generate estate taxes, all investors should have an estate plan that reflects their wealth-transfer goals and objectives. Trusts can be an effective tool to reduce estate taxes or assure a fair distribution of wealth among family members. Taxpayers with taxable, or potentially taxable, estates who are in an economic position to do so and would like to leave money to their heirs should consider making lifetime gifts to those heirs now, which can also be a tax-efficient wealth-transfer strategy. Also, consider making gifts under the annual gift tax exclusion ($15,000 for 2018) and charitable gifts before year-end. Morgan Stanley's Donor Advised Fund may be a good solution to help you achieve your charitable giving strategy. These investment strategies can help minimize your overall tax bill.
This material does not provide individually tailored investment advice. It has been prepared without regard to the individual financial circumstances and objectives of persons who receive it. The securities discussed in this material may not be suitable for all investors. Morgan Stanley Wealth Management ("Morgan Stanley") recommends that investors independently evaluate particular investments and strategies, and encourages investors to seek the advice of a financial advisor. The appropriateness of a particular investment or strategy will depend on an investor's individual circumstances and objectives.
Interest on municipal bonds is generally exempt from federal income tax; however, some bonds may be subject to the alternative minimum tax (AMT). Typically, state tax-exemption applies if securities are issued within one's state of residence and, if applicable, local tax-exemption applies if securities are issued within one's city of residence. The tax-exempt status of municipal securities may be changed by legislative process, which could affect their value and marketability.
Mutual funds and variable annuities are sold by prospectus. The prospectus contains the investment objectives, risks, fees, charges and expenses, and other information regarding the mutual fund or variable annuity contract and its underlying investments, which should be considered carefully before investing. Prospectuses for the mutual fund or the variable annuity contract and its underlying investments are available from your Financial Advisor. Please read the prospectus carefully before investing.
Variable annuities are long-term investments designed for retirement purposes and may be subject to market fluctuations, investment risk and possible loss of principal.
All variable annuity guarantees, including optional benefits, are based on the financial strength and claims-paying ability of the issuing insurance company and do not apply to the underlying investment options.
Variable annuities are offered in conjunction with Morgan Stanley's licensed insurance agency affiliates.


The image capture button can break or become stuck. This guide details how to replace the image capture button and the surrounding plastic housing on the Canon PowerShot SD1400 IS camera.
Use a Phillips #00 driver to remove the four 2.0 mm Phillips screws on the camera housing.
There are two screws on either side.
Use a Phillips #1 driver to remove the one 4.0 mm Phillips screw located on the bottom of the camera.
Remove the face housing from the body of the camera.
Turn the camera over and remove the rear housing.
Remove the button panel if it did not fall out on its own.
Use a Phillips #0 driver to remove the one 3.0 mm Phillips copper screw from the top of the camera.
This screw is only visible after the front and rear panels have been removed.
Use a Phillips #0 driver to remove the one 3.0 mm Phillips silver screw from the rear face of the camera.
Use a plastic spudger to lift the golden film off of the microchip on the front face of the camera, exposing a screw.
Use a Phillips #0 driver to remove the one 3.0 mm Phillips screw.
Use a metal spudger to carefully pry the small black tab away from the connector that secures one end of the golden film.
When fully released, the small black tab will stand up straight from the face of the camera and the golden film will no longer be secured.
Carefully insert a metal spudger under the two clusters of wires that are plugged into the small chip on the face of the camera.
One cluster of wires is red, the other cluster is black.
Pull the wires parallel to the face of the camera to disconnect them from the small chip.
The image capture button housing can now be removed from the body of the camera and replaced.
Follow these instructions in reverse order to reassemble the device.


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Restaurants in Xiamen China | Hai Tien Lo at Pan Pacific Xiamen
Home Dining Hai Tien Lo
Varying Opening Hours
Taste the fine flavours of authentic Cantonese cuisine with a traditional selection featuring Dim Sum, fresh seafood and other regional specialties. Five luxurious private rooms offer a conducive setting to host your business function or social gathering.
Lunch - 11:30am to 2:30pm
Dinner - 5:30pm to 10:30pm
Email - haitienlo.ppxmn@panpacific.com
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Finchley Road, Hampstead, London, NW3 7AA
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This apartment is ideally situated for access to the amenities and excellent transport links of Finchley Road, West Hampstead and Hampstead Village. The green open spaces of Hampstead Heath and Golders Hill Park are also approximately 900 metres away.
Finchley Road and Frognal Overground is approximately 600 metres away and Finchley Road Underground Station (Jubilee and Metropolitan Lines) is approximately 1.3 km away. West Hampstead Underground Station (Jubilee Line) is approximately 1km distant and West Hampstead Thames link and Overground are approximately 900 metres away. There are also three major and frequent bus routes into Central London on the doorstep with two of them being 24/7.
Situated on the top floor at the back of this red brick building is this newly refurbished apartment which offers fantastic panoramic views overlooking London's skyline.
The apartment features an open plan reception room complete with a fully equipped modern kitchen. The bedroom accommodation comprises a principal bedroom suite, two further bedrooms and a further bathroom. All the bedrooms are fitted with walk-in wardrobes.
The fixtures, materials and finishes are contemporary and luxurious. There is Smart lighting in every room that works from an App. The lighting is provided by Easilite and can be intergraded with Phillips Hue lighting. In the living room there is 5 speaker in-ceiling surround sound. Every TV in the flat links to a HDMI matrix which distributes the audio/video around the property, which is also also app controllable. An additional benefit includes plenty of eaves storage space.
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American Academy of Dramatic Arts-Los Angeles
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Default Rate
481 Applicants
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After taking grants and loans into account, the average net price for students is $39,696.
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In 2017 American Academy of Dramatic Arts-Los Angeles had an average net price — the price paid after factoring in grants and loans — of $39,696. Between 2016 and 2017, the average net price of American Academy of Dramatic Arts-Los Angeles grew by 5.25%.
This chart compares the average net price of American Academy of Dramatic Arts-Los Angeles (in red) with that of other similar universities.
Other Student Expenses
The average yearly cost of room and board at American Academy of Dramatic Arts-Los Angeles was of $13,600 in 2017. During the same period, the average yearly cost of books and supplies was $570. The cost of room and board decreased by 5.23% between 2016 and 2017. The cost of books and supplies did not change during the same period.
This chart compares the average student costs at American Academy of Dramatic Arts-Los Angeles (in red) with that of similar universities.
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In 2016 the default rate for borrower's at American Academy of Dramatic Arts-Los Angeles was 9.95%, which represents 21 out of the 211 total borrowers.
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American Academy of Dramatic Arts-Los Angeles received 481 undergraduate applications in 2017, which represents a 7.37% annual growth. Out of those 481 applicants, 378 students were accepted for enrollment, representing a 78.6% acceptance rate.
There were 280 students enrolled at American Academy of Dramatic Arts-Los Angeles in 2017, and N/A% of first-time enrollees submitted SAT scores with their applications.
American Academy of Dramatic Arts-Los Angeles has an overall enrollment yield of 29.9%, which represents the number of admitted students who ended up enrolling.
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This chart compares the acceptance rate of American Academy of Dramatic Arts-Los Angeles (in red) with that of other similar universities.
N/A% of enrolled first-time students at American Academy of Dramatic Arts-Los Angeles in 2017 submitted SAT scores with their applications.
American Academy of Dramatic Arts-Los Angeles has a total enrollment of 280 students. The full-time enrollment at American Academy of Dramatic Arts-Los Angeles is 280 students and the part-time enrollment is 0. This means that 100% of students enrolled at American Academy of Dramatic Arts-Los Angeles are enrolled full-time.
The enrolled student population at American Academy of Dramatic Arts-Los Angeles, both undergraduate and graduate, is 46.1% White, 5.71% Black or African American, 5.36% Hispanic or Latino, 4.29% Two or More Races, 0.357% Asian, 0.357% Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders, and 0% American Indian or Alaska Native.
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The enrolled student population at American Academy of Dramatic Arts-Los Angeles is 46.1% White, 5.71% Black or African American, 5.36% Hispanic or Latino, 4.29% Two or More Races, 0.357% Asian, 0.357% Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders, and 0% American Indian or Alaska Native. This includes both full-time and part-time students as well as graduate and undergraduates. By comparison, enrollment for all N/A is .
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In 2017, 60% of students graduating from American Academy of Dramatic Arts-Los Angeles completed their program within 100% "normal time" (i.e. 4 years for a 4-year degree). Comparatively, 60% completed their degrees within 150% of the normal time, and 60% within 200%.
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American Academy of Dramatic Arts-Los Angeles has an endowment valued at nearly $1.14M, as of the end of the 2017 fiscal year. The return on its endowment was of $131k (11.5%), compared to the N/A% average return ($N/A on $N/A) across all N/A.
In 2017, American Academy of Dramatic Arts-Los Angeles had a total salary expenditure of $9.92M. American Academy of Dramatic Arts-Los Angeles employs 8 No academic ranks, 0 N/A, and 0 N/A. Most academics at American Academy of Dramatic Arts-Los Angeles are Female No academic ranks (6), Male No academic ranks(2), and N/A (0).
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American Academy of Dramatic Arts-Los Angeles has an endowment valued at about $1.14M, as of the end of the 2017 fiscal year. The endowment of American Academy of Dramatic Arts-Los Angeles grew 0.335% from the previous year. The value of their endowment was $N/A N/A than the median endowment of N/A according to the Carnegie Classification grouping.
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In 2017, American Academy of Dramatic Arts-Los Angeles paid a median of $4.13M in salaries, which represents 41.6% of their overall expenditure ($9.92M) and a 10.9% growth from the previous year. This is compared to a 8.18% growth from 2015 and a 0.0221% growth from 2014.
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In 2017, American Academy of Dramatic Arts-Los Angeles paid a total of $779k to 8 employees working as instructors, which represents 18.9% of all salaries paid.
This is compared to a median of $727k (28.1%) for similar Special Focus Institutions.
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Republican News · Thursday 04 May 2000
The real meaning of Mayday
BY ROBBIE MacGABHANN
This week, tens of thousands of workers from all over the world marched to celebrate May Day while also highlighting and protesting about the vast range of issues affecting the livelihood of workers in the world today.
In Bilbao, it was the demand for a 35 hour week. In Dublin, the theme was combating racism. In London, thousands of people marched to reclaim the streets from car use as part of a carnival against capitalism. In South Korea, students and workers protested about foreign take-overs of domestic companies. In Brazil, thousands of rural workers occupied plantations in protest at the slow pace of agrarian reform while another 1,500 workers blocked traffic on the Trans-Amazonian highway, one of the state's most important roads.
In London, the huge Carnival against Capitalism went off largely peacefully. One section of the marchers chose to ransack a McDonald's, and then while in conflict with riot police added some embellishments to Winston Churchill's statue and defaced the cenotaph, symbol of remembrance for Britain's war dead.
Cue the establishment outrage. Tony Blair led the way, branding the McDonald's wreckers as ``idiots'' who were ``beneath contempt''. Blair's condemnation was expansive. He said: ``The people responsible for the damage caused in London today are an absolute disgrace. Their actions have nothing to do with convictions or beliefs and everything to do with mindless thuggery''. On the defacing of the cenotaph, Blair said: ``It is only because of the bravery and courage of our war dead that these idiots can live in a free country at all.''
So the end result of May Day activism was that most of the media coverage went to cover the high moral tone of Blair and others who were only too willing to express outrage. The real reasons behind protests all over the world were casually glossed over.
As a Labour leader, Blair seemed strangely ignorant of the history of May Day as a platform which workers around the world use to highlight what they believe are the important issues affecting them.
May Day's origins begin with the 1884 convention of the Federation of Organised Trades and Labor Unions in the USA. They adopted a resolution stating that beginning 1 May 1886, ``eight hours shall constitute a legal day's work'' and workers would strike at companies that did not recognise the eight-hour day.
By April 1886, a quarter of a million workers had committed themselves to go on strike as part of the May Day movement. This enabled thousands of workers to win shorter shifts. Most employers, however, refused to reduce working hours.
Chicago, along with many other US cities, became a focus for widespread worker dissent and that year's May Day march became a symbol of struggle for workers around the world.
The International Working People's Association had been building a movement that included immigrants, African-Americans, women and white workers. Up to 50,000 workers were on strike that day and thousands of others attended the May Day parade, which went off peacefully. Two days later, on 3 May, at another meeting police fired into the crowd, killing two protesters and wounding others. Another meeting held the day after in Haymarket Square on 4 May led to more indiscriminate killing of eight protesters after a dynamite bomb was thrown at police lines, killing one sergeant. The Haymarket martyrs have become a symbol of the struggle workers face around the world today.
What Tony Blair seems to have forgotten is that some of the basic demands made in 1886 by workers have not been met. He is making the false assessment that the reasoning behind the current transnational protests in Seattle, Washington and now again in London, are driven not by misguided anarchists but by an evergrowing number of people who believe that capitalism in its present form is killing our environment, exploiting many first world workers and impoverishing those in less developed states.
What Tony Blair and many other political leaders across Europe and North America have to realise is that the call to kill capitalism before it kills the planet is much much more than just a catchy slogan. It is like the call to cancel third world debt, a deeply felt belief by an ever increasing numbr of people who don't consider themselves to be idiots or thugs.