United Voice is a powerful union of workers who make their voices heard on important issues at work and in our society. Every day, United Voice members contribute time and money to win fairness and respect. When United Voice members commit themselves to a campaign, we usually win. I'm looking forward to winning jobs that we can count on, where workers are safe, fairly paid and respected by employers.
My Father has been a United Voice member and workplace delegate for almost 50 years. I grew up with member meetings at the dinner table and listening to Dad giving advice to workmates over the phone. I joined United Voice when I started working at the University Bar. Later on, I began working for United Voice in administration and I'm currently part of the Member Rights Team, supporting and empowering members to win fairness and respect at work.
If elected, I hope to improve housing access and affordability, particularly for people with a low income and end homelessness in Hobart. I want to fix traffic congestion in Hobart and encourage other modes of transport so people can spend more time with their families and doing things they enjoy.
I'm constantly in contact with members, so I have a good understanding of the issues that United Voice members face each day. We need those voices on Council. A vote for me will help me to be your voice on Council. If you want to have a Council that stands up for you and cares about issues that impact you, you need to vote. If you don't speak up and participate in discussions that will impact on your life, then other people will speak and they will decide your future. What do you want for your future?


James Blake visited Jools Holland to play "Retrograde," one of the best songs off his new album Overgrown. If you're a James Blake super fan (and with that Chance The Rapper collaboration more and more people are) you'll notice two cool things. One, the other fella on synths is Rob McAndrews aka Airhead, who put out a solid debut album this year with a near-perfect lead single. Two, Blake is wearing a 1-800-DINOSAUR shirt which is the name of his recently founded label. Watch the video below.


For most of human history writing and acting, or more precisely the composition of the words and the performance of them, were unified in the same person. The poet Homer, or more likely the poets who gave us the poems The Iliad and The Odyssey, would also have performed the poems, indeed honed them through performance. Whether to entertain a king or earn enough in a tavern to buy supper, the choice of words and the speaking of them were unseparated in their task – to move the audience.
With the advent of the written word these tasks became more specialised, although it's worth remembering that the finest writer of the English language, indeed one of its most important creators, William Shakespeare, was first of all an actor.
Specialisation has many benefits, especially for a craftsman dealing in multifarious techniques. However, the downside of it in storytelling has been the loss of that original unity of feeling. Perhaps the degradation of feeling altogether. The unknown Hollywood hack listed third under the "screenplay by" credit on a comic book adaptation in 2016 suffers the same soullessness as the third person along on the magneto ignition assembly line for Henry Ford's Model T in 1913.
Detecting a similar lack of genuine feeling in the acting he witnessed, the Russian director Konstantin Stanislavski decided to come up with a "system" for his actors. His first full production was an 1898 revival of Anton Chekov's first play, The Seagull, which had been a disaster when it debuted. Stanislavski's staging was, by contrast, a massive success.
Stanislavski's theories were exported around the world, most famously by a cooperative of producers, directors and actors in 1930s New York called the Group Theatre.
Perhaps the best-known, Lee Strasberg, coined the term the "Method" for his own adaptation of Stanislavski's teachings, and went on to extend its influence when he ran The Actor's Studio from the 1950s, especially through the success of pupils such as James Dean, Jack Nicholson and Al Pacino (opposite whom Strasberg himself acted in The Godfather Part II, earning himself an Oscar nomination in the process).
Other members of the Group Theatre included Stella Adler, who set up her own, rival school. Among her early pupils was Marlon Brando, the first actor really to popularise this form of acting on stage and screen, especially as directed by another member, Elia Kazan, in A Steetcar Named Desire and On The Waterfront. Adler would also later train Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel.
As with all collectives of this kind, there were rivalries, feuds and schisms — most notably between Strasberg and Adler, with Strasberg focusing on Stanislavksi's early techniques of "emotional memory", which he called "affective memory", in which an actor uses the feelings engendered by recalling past experiences to move himself into the emotional state required by the role.
Stanislavksi himself later would largely discard this approach, regarding it as limiting in so far as it restricted the actor to what they had previously experienced and also ran contrary to his ideas about emotional truthfulness to the character: in essence, you are left playing a variant of yourself. It was also said to have led to the nervous breakdown of his then protégé, the actor Michael Chekhov, nephew of the playwright, who went on to found his own school of acting in the 'Method' line.
Stanislavski's later work focused on the use of imagination and the fictional circumstances of the character, which was what he taught to Stella Adler when she went to study with him in Paris and Moscow — the only American to do so — and she developed her own 'technique' from this.
A final note: the popular notion of Method Acting tends to focus on extreme immersive techniques of "living in character". One might think of Daniel Day-Lewis living in a wheelchair and demanding to be carried on set by the crew to play Christy Brown in My Left Foot, actors responding to only their character name while making a movie, even during breaks in filming. These are not, however, merely the later elaborations of Hollywood stars. From the beginning of his experiments in this field Stanislavski himself employed such techniques as an actor walking the streets of Moscow, and recommended them to his students.
The three conveners of this class have, amongst other things taken up smoking to write about the perfect cigarette for a guide to living, lived in a cupboard to write from the perspective of a live-in stalker for a thriller, and become a Spanish matador for an introduction to bullfighting.
Whether or not writing can be taught is a question open to debate — one might ask a similar question about acting. Some would point out that everyone writes, in some sense, just as everyone acts, in certain circumstances. It is, at least and without doubt, our belief that someone who already has talent as a writer can be helped to become even better.
The are plenty of creative writing courses available, teaching such mechanical basics as structure and plot, pacing and dialogue, all vital elements of the craft of writing, but this very focus on craft runs the risk of, indeed has actually resulted in, a manufactured look to the shelves of the contemporary bookshop.
What of feeling? We believe in an emphasis on feeling before words. A skilled writer may write well, but if he or she doesn't know how to achieve the right emotional state for the task of writing, the result is unlikely to move the reader. This is the foundation of the service we offer at The Act of Writing — this conviction that the same techniques as have caused a revolution in the performance of stories could, if applied in an adapted form, create a similar revolution in the very way in which stories are written.
With this in mind, we have prepared a series of day-long classes, to be held on every Saturday of March this year, which will be given by ourselves, at our building in Mayfair in central London.
Class details are available online here.
For information on the conveners, visit the 'About Us' page here.
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This should come as no suprise… Using Excel for complex analysis on an ongoing basis is asking for trouble!
This report on how using Excel has caused some major miscalculations should come as no surprise… Excel exists because it is pervasive, easy to use and can be applied to a range of decision making activities. However, have you ever had the experience of trying to create a repeatable, defensible and transparent report using excel WITHOUT having to make sure you had done it correctly? The attached article talks about a number of mistakes. I have had a number of discussions over the years with companies that are struggling with whether or not to implement a BI system, and if so to what extent should it provide structure and guidance to the process of using Excel?
The easy implementation of BI is to implement a tool such as Tableau that in essence takes spreadsheets and allows you to pivot the data and visualize more easily that one could in excel. I realize that Tableau does more than that now, but that is how it started and most people appear to use it that way still. This gives you great looking dashboards, and allows you to roll around in the data to bubble up insights. However, it does nothing to address the quality of the report and the issues raised by the article.
At the other end of the spectrum are enterprise level tools that do a great job of locking down the source data, and tracking everything that happens at the desktop to make the final report.These tools are focused on creating the SAME report with exactly the same inputs and calculations as all previous times. To the extent changes are made, they are tracked, and capabilities exist to flag and route changes for review and approval. The downside of course is that they often limit what the user can do with the data.
Somewhere in the middle is the happy spot. To the extent tools are not able to support the requirements for transparency, traceability, and defensibility, these requirements must be addressed through policy, process and standards. Most of the enterprise tools are configurable to create a well defined set of gates between which analysts and report creators can have complete flexibility.
In the cases mentioned in this article, the technology exists to create the safeguards required. However, the user communities were able to resist change, and management – for whatever reason – did not make the decision to invest in underlying data management, BI and analytical capabilities. In a data driven world, it is only a matter of time before that comes back to bite you.


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Q: Switch statement for UserDefaults (Swift-Xcode) I would like to know how i could do a switch-case/any good statement for user defaults instead of using if-else because as you can see from my code, i'm using 3 if statements which is abit redundant and ugly.
The purpose of this view controller is for a "Pick a card" game, the user gets to pick 3 cards each time and if he/she selects a card, they will not be able to select that particular card again.
import UIKit

class ViewController: UIViewController {
    @IBOutlet var buttona: UIButton!
    @IBOutlet var buttonb: UIButton!
    @IBOutlet var buttonc: UIButton!

    override func viewDidLoad() {
       super.viewDidLoad()
       if (UserDefaults.standard.integer(forKey: "dissapear") == 1)
       {
           buttona.setImage(UIImage(named: "wildcardbackingblack.png"), for: .normal)
           buttona.isEnabled = false
       }

       if (UserDefaults.standard.integer(forKey: "dissapear2") == 1)
       {
           buttonb.setImage(UIImage(named: "wildcardbackingblack.png"), for: .normal)
           buttonb.isEnabled = false
       }

       if (UserDefaults.standard.integer(forKey: "dissapear3") == 1)
       {
           buttonc.setImage(UIImage(named: "wildcardbackingblack.png"), for: .normal)
           buttonc.isEnabled = false
       }
   }

   override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
      super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
      // Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
   }

   @IBAction func Button1(_ sender: Any) {
      UserDefaults.standard.set(1, forKey:"dissapear")
      self.performSegue(withIdentifier: "show", sender: nil)
   }

   @IBAction func Button2(_ sender: Any) {
      UserDefaults.standard.set(1, forKey:"dissapear2")
      self.performSegue(withIdentifier: "show", sender: nil)
   }

   @IBAction func Button3(_ sender: Any) {
      UserDefaults.standard.set(1, forKey:"dissapear3")
      self.performSegue(withIdentifier: "show", sender: nil)
    }
 }

A:     func updateCard(button: UIButton, image: String, isEnabled: Bool) {
        DispatchQueue.main.asyc {
            button.setImage(UIImage(named:image), for: .normal)
            button.isEnabled = isEnabled
        }
    }

    .
    .
    .

    let option : Int = UserDefaults.standard.integer(forKey: "dissapear")
    switch (option) {
        case 1:
            self.updateCard(button: ..., image:"wildcardbackingblack.png", isEnabled: false)
        case 2:
            self.updateCard(button: ..., image:"wildcardbackingblack.png", isEnabled: false)
        case 3:
            self.updateCard(button: ..., image:"wildcardbackingblack.png", isEnabled: false)
        default:
            self.updateCard(button: ..., image:"default.png", isEnabled: false)
    }
//Save the different integer value in same key user defaults.

 @IBAction func Button1(_ sender: Any) {
      UserDefaults.standard.set(1, forKey:"dissapear")
      self.performSegue(withIdentifier: "show", sender: nil)
   }

   @IBAction func Button2(_ sender: Any) {
      UserDefaults.standard.set(2, forKey:"dissapear")
      self.performSegue(withIdentifier: "show", sender: nil)
   }

   @IBAction func Button3(_ sender: Any) {
      UserDefaults.standard.set(3, forKey:"dissapear")
      self.performSegue(withIdentifier: "show", sender: nil)
    }

A: Here is how I would write this code, if I were sticking to the same UserDefaults storage. Note: you need to reconnect cardPressed(_:) to every button/card
import UIKit

class ViewController: UIViewController {
    @IBOutlet var buttonA: UIButton!
    @IBOutlet var buttonB: UIButton!
    @IBOutlet var buttonC: UIButton!

    let buttonKeyPairs: [(button: UIButton, key: String)] = [
        (buttonA, "dissapear"),
        (buttonB, "dissapear2"),
        (buttonC, "dissapear3"),
    ]

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        for (button, key) in buttonKeyPairs
            where UserDefaults.standard.integer(forKey: key) == 1 {

            button.setImage(UIImage(named: "wildcardbackingblack.png"), for: .normal)
            button.isEnabled = false
        }
    }

    override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
        super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
        // Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
    }

    @IBAction func buttonPressed(_ sender: UIButton) {
        let key: String
        switch UIButton {
            case buttonA: key = "dissapear"
            case buttonB: key = "dissapear2"
            case buttonC: key = "dissapear3"
        }
        UserDefaults.standard.set(1, forKey: key)
        self.performSegue(withIdentifier: "show", sender: self)
    }
}

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Junior Achievement gets $10K grant from Avedis
By Vicky O. Misa | Vicky.misa@news-star.com | (405) 214-3962 | Twitter: @Vicky_NewsStar
The Avedis Foundation recently announced a $10,000 grant to Junior Achievement of Oklahoma (JA) for curriculum support for Pottawatomie Schools.
The project supports funding for 36 classroom-based and capstone programs offered at no cost to Pottawatomie County public schools.
"Junior Achievement offers curriculum that meets Oklahoma education standards to public schools at no cost on financial literacy, workforce readiness, and entrepreneurship," Joe Wise, Junior Achievement of Oklahoma regional director, said.
She said last year 862 Pottawatomie County students received Junior Achievement curriculum through 58 trained volunteers from the business community.
"This includes 327 high school students who attended JA Finance Park, which meets all 14 financial literacy mandates for graduation as stated in HB 1476," she said.
All JA curricula are centered around JA's three pillars: work readiness, financial literacy, and entrepreneurship, Wise said.
One of the newest programs offered is JA Finance Park, JA's capstone program for high school students. "Teachers love JA Finance Park because the program satisfies Oklahoma HB 1476 financial literacy mandates for graduation," Wise said, "while it also introduces students to successful volunteers from the local business community."
The program incorporates 13 teacher-taught lessons that prepare students for the JA Finance Park simulation.
"JA believes that volunteers are its competitive advantage, as volunteers bring its programs to life," she said.
Students learn how to create and track a budget for a family that include everything from housing, insurance, utilities, daycare, etc.
"The realization of how expensive it is to have a family, is a recurring comment," she said.
Upon completion of the program, Pottawatomie County students will have a much better understanding of earning and saving money; the correlation education has to future careers and resulting income; and the real-life consequences of creating debt at an early age.
"This is such a wonderful opportunity for students to learn about responsible financial practices and prepare for their future," Tracy Meeuwsen, Avedis Foundation program director, said.
The Avedis Foundation is honored and pleased to fund this project making a difference in the community.
To support the perpetual mission of this organization both now and in the future donations can be made directly to Junior Achievement of Oklahoma.
The Avedis mission is to measurably improve health, wellness and the quality of life for the people of Pottawatomie County and surrounding areas.
For more information about the Avedis Foundation, visit avedisfoundation.org.

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End of Year Report 2021
It is our pleasure to share with you the inaugural IUPUI Center for TRIP Annual Report. This online report highlights some of the many accomplishments of the TRIP Scholars and the IUPUI Center for TRIP. These successes are very impressive despite the circumstances (i.e. COVID-19 pandemic). The information in this report proudly showcases the talent, dedication, passion, collaboration, and expertise of IUPUI faculty, staff, students, and community partners. Thank you for taking a moment to review this report and show your support.
The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically affected daily life around the globe. Thousands of people in the United States and around the world have died since the beginning of the pandemic. Unfortunately, many people continue to die. However, TRIP Scholars see opportunities in challenging times. Read on to see how our faculty are using their expertise to alleviate the damage and destruction of the pandemic.
COVID-19 Vaccine and Children
COVID-19 at the Nano Level
COVID-19 and Sexuality
COVID-19 Birth Stories
COVID-19 Breath Test
The 2021 Charles Bantz Community Fellowship was awarded to Dr. Leslie Etienne, Clinical Associate Professor in the IUPUI School of Liberal Arts. The Co-PI on this project is Dr. Tambra Jackson, Dean of the School of Education at IUPUI and. This award supports their work with the Indianapolis Freedom Schools Partnerships and their project: "A Summer of Service, A Lifetime of Commitment: Developing Freedom School Interns as Community-Engaged Scholars."
Dr. Leslie Etienne, Fellow, and Dean Tambra Jackson, Co-PI, briefly discuss their translational research with the Indianapolis Freedom School Partnership. "A Summer of Service, A Lifetime of Commitment: Developing Freedom School Interns as Community-Engaged Scholars."
The 2021 Charles Bantz Community Scholar award was presented to Dr. Victoria Garcia Wilburn, Assistant Professor with the IUPUI School of Health & Human Sciences, and Dr. Devon Hensel, Associate Research Professor with the IU School of Medicine and Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology at IUPUI. The project, "Understanding Cravings and Triggers in Adolescents Attending a Recovery High School in a COVID-19 Era," is a partnership with Hope Academy Recovery High School. The research will allow the researchers and Hope Academy to better understand adolescents' daily lived experiences, improve client-centered care, and capture the real-life barriers in substance-use disorder.
Dr. Victoria Garcia Wilburn and Dr. Devon Hensel along with their community partner, Rachelle Gardner, briefly discuss their translational research project that deals with understanding teenagers' cravings and triggers while attending a recovery high school. "Understanding Cravings and Triggers in Adolescents Attending a Recovery High School in a COVID-19 Era."
The 2021 Bantz-Petronio Translating Research into Practice Faculty Award recipient is Dr. Gerardo Maupome, an IUPUI TRIP Scholar with extensive expertise in public health and community-based translational research. Dr. Maupome is the Associate Dean of Research in the Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health. Additionally, Dr. Maupome has conducted high impact interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary research that has generated new knowledge and positively influenced the health of Indiana residents and beyond.
Dr. Gerardo Maupome briefly discusses his translational research that deals with examining the peer networks, health behaviors, and healthcare seeking behaviors among Hispanics.
In January 2021, the IUPUI Center for Translating Research Into Practice (TRIP) launched its monthly virtual conversation series. Each month, IUPUI Center for TRIP provides an opportunity for TRIP Scholars to present their translational research to a virtual audience during a 60-minute lunchtime Zoom session. Each session is interactive with opportunity at the end for attendees to ask the presenters questions and engage in thoughtful dialogue. Continuing Eduction Units (CEU) are also offered to attendees. The TRIP Conversation Series is facilitated by Stephan Viehweg, the Associate Director of the IUPUI Center for TRIP.
In addition to these monthly events, the IUPUI Center for TRIP hosted its annual Keynote event featuring Dean Bernadette Melnyk from Ohio State University, the Charles R. Bantz Chancellor's Community Dialogue, and the annual Fall Showcase. This year, over 500 people attended these virtual events. View a full list of the events and watch recordings.
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"I deeply appreciate community engaged research and the faculty/community partners."
"Thank you for continued support of IUPUI scholars and their research!"
IUPUI ScholarWorks
IUPUI ScholarWorks is an institutional digital repository that provides free access to scholarly communication such as articles, posters, reports, theses, educational materials and historical documents submitted by members of the IUPUI campus.
Graph Showing Increase of ScholarWorks Usage (2010-2021)
TRIP Scholar Accomplishments
Professor Charlotte Westerhaus-Renfrow
Professor Charlotte Westerhaus-Renfrow received the Indiana University Bicentennial Medal. She serves on the IUPUI Chancellor's Board of Advisors, IUPUI Student Affairs Committee, is an IU Bicentennial Professor, and was named to the Alliance of Distinguished and Titled Professors. She is a recipient of the Samuel S. Dargan Award from the IU Mauer School of Law's Black Law Student Association and the Schuyler F. Otteson Award for Teach ing Excellence and Evening MBA Teaching Award from the Kelley School of Business. Professor Westerhaus-Renfrow is also a regular columnist for the Indianapolis Business Journal. She is a popular speaker in the community on topics of grit, perseverance, negotiation, and cultural intelligence. She has also served on boards for Girls Inc. of Greater Indianapolis, Diversity Roundtable of Central Indiana, Indianapolis Charter Schools, Indiana State Bar Examiners, One Indy, and the Indiana State Bar Association. And, she serves on the IU School of Nursing-Bloomington's Advisory Board.
Professor Gabriel Filippelli
Professor Gabriel Filippelli, Chancellor's Professor, received a Fulbright Foreign Award to Australia for the 2021-2022 academic year. Professor Filippelli is also the Director of the Center for Urban Health and the Executive Director of Indiana University's Environmental Resilience Institute (ERI). This year under Professor Filippelli's direction, ERI received Indiana's most prestigious environmental award for its work in helping communities prepare for climate change. Professor Filippelli was also named a "Prominent Indivdual" in the Supporters of the Eneregy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act. And, Professor Filippelli is collaborating with local Indianapolis faith based organizations in African American communities to provide residents with the resources and information to test for lead levels in their residential water.
TRIP Scholars in the News
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The Endless Robbing of Native American Graves
Richard Holden
Inside Indiana Business
A New App to Help Caregivers of Adults with Dementia
Karl MacDorman
Computer-Generated 'Virtual Influencers' Are Becoming Social Media Stars
Susan Hyatt
IU Newsroom
Understanding Immigration Struggles of the Past Sheds Light on Today's Challenges
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Dad jailed for life after shaking his baby to death
Daniel McLaren murdered his son while the boy's mother was enjoying a meal with her family
By James Aldridge
Daniel McLaren, 30, of Fleetwood Close, Thatcham. Credit: Thames Valley Police
A dad who shook his 'defenceless' baby to death has been jailed for life.
Daniel McLaren was alone with his four-and-a-half-month-old son Jack, while the boy's mother was out enjoying a family meal, on Friday, June 2 2017.
McLaren seized his Jack and shook him causing injuries which led to his death.
He then called paramedics to the family home Thatcham, Berkshire, just after 7.30pm.
Jack McLaren was taken to hospital but died of a brain injury two days later on Sunday, June 4, 2017.
Man charged with attempted murder in Whitley
McLaren, 30, of Fleetwood Close, Thatcham, was sentenced to a minimum of 22 years in prison for one count of murder at Reading Crown Court.
He was also sentenced to seven-and-a-half years' imprisonment, to run concurrently, after being convicted of one count grievous bodily harm with intent against another child.
Following the sentencing, senior investigating officer Detective Superintendent Nick John, said: "This is an utterly tragic case and one in which a number of people will have to live with the consequences for the rest of their lives.
"The violence Daniel used against his son Jack, a defenceless baby, is never acceptable.
"Once left alone with Jack, Daniel used physical force against him, causing injuries which were ultimately fatal.
"This deprived Jack's family of a much loved little boy and our thoughts remain with them at this incredibly difficult and painful time.
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"I would like to thank the Crown Prosecution Service, the investigation team, witnesses in the case and the jury for their attention and consideration throughout the two-week trial."
McLaren was found guilty by a unanimous jury at the same court in Reading, Berkshire on Friday, October 12.
An NSPCC spokesman said: "Jack was a vulnerable baby boy who had his life tragically cut short at the hands of the very man who should have been loving and protecting him.
"Babies and young children are entirely dependent on those who care for them and we all have a responsibility to look out for their welfare.
"It's vital that anyone with concerns about a child reports it. They can call the NSPCC Helpline confidentially on 0808 800 5000."
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With a hanging white sheet the only stage prop but with immense versatility of expression, body movement and voice, Donal O'Kelly mesmerized his audience at An Grianan theater in Letterkenny last week as he enacted 'Catalpa,' about the rescue of Fenian prisoners from the British colony of Australia in 1865.
In a riveting 90-minute show, O'Kelly – who also wrote the script – plays a wide array of characters such as George, a whaling captain; Greta, his wife; a French maid; Mister Richardson, a brusque shipping agent, as well as a ghost – many of them in different accents ranging from Irish to Scottish and American.
He also skillfully voices various inanimate sounds, and creatures, including a seagull and a whale and by draping the sheet around his shoulders also accomplishes a fleeting but imposing impression of the Statute of Liberty. His comical impersonation of Breslin, a recalcitrant Irishman, raised more than a few chuckles of delight.
O'Kelly, who has honed his performance brilliantly in the 20 years since he first performed his one-man show, is ably supported by musician on stage, Trevor Knight, whose arrangements provide seamless mood accompaniment. Kudos also go to technical manager, Ray Duffy, who parlays his dexterity on the lighting console to create a key additional dimension through interplay of illumination and shadow.
Dressed in dark blue pajamas, O'Kelly opens the play as the narrator getting ready for bed and chiding himself for failing to persuade Hollywood agents earlier that day to shoot a film based on the historic rescue of the six prisoners and their safe passage to New York on a whaling ship. He then launches into the whole story, combining the voices of diverse characters with atmospheric sounds and impressive facial expressions as the plot slowly unfolds.
Interestingly, O'Kelly also provides a unique perspective from on high through his excellent impression of a seagull, a recurring motif throughout the play. It is obvious this fine actor must have analyzed the flying habits of that particular feathered species in great detail as the way in which stretches out his arms and flaps them in a peculiar motion is highly convincing.
His mouthing of various sounds is also quite remarkable, ranging from the hollow vibrations emanating from a seabed and the clip-cop of horses' hooves to oars swishing the surface of water and even the clink and jangle of manacles in the hold of a ship. And to cap it all, O'Kelly also manages to regale the audience with a verse or two.
The event proved to be a delightful evening of theatre, one well worth seeing. All credit goes to the team at An Grianan for bringing the show to Donegal, one of up to 200 events a year across different art forms it hosts.
In terms of performing arts in Letterkenny, located in Ireland's most northerly county, McBride considers it, "exceptional in its venues for a town of its size," adding, "We have a purpose-build theatre which specializes in the performing arts and a purpose-built arts centre which focuses on the visual arts and niche music events." Both venues also have a strong participative arts programme of workshops and classes.
Future shows at the 383-seat An Grianan, opened in 1999, range from the production of 'It's The Real McCoy' written by Tommy Marren's and performed by the Crokey Hill Players; next week's 'The Shakespeare Sessions,' an innovative take on the works of the Stratford Bard hosted by Cyclone Rep, a theater-in-education arts group; 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' in March by the New Theatre Dublin in association with Richard Ryan Promotions; and the Opera Theatre Company's new production of 'Rigoletto' in May.
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During 2013-14 Inverkeithing High School pupils nominated us as one of their two charities of the year. Their fundraising efforts meant they were able to donate £2,000.00 which went towards funding a vein finder for the Day Chemotherapy Unit based in the Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy.
The school have contained to support The Cookie Jar by holding Senior Sponsored Onesie Days, which are held in October to commemorate Christopher's birthday. We received £1,000.00 in 2014 from several of their fundraising events, but this year Inverkeithing High surpassed that amount by raising an amazing £2,500.00 from this year's Onesie Day! These funds have been allocated towards the Family Drop-in Centre Courtyard at the new Royal Sick Children's Hospital which is due to open in 2017 at the relocated site next to the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, Little France Edinburgh.
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Maison de Moggy is Scotland's first cat cafe, based in Stockbridge Edinburgh. Maison de Moggy and its owner Laura O'Neill have been key supporters of The Cookie Jar Foundation. We are delighted to announce that Maison de Moggy have agreed for us to use our logo on their website and that in the future we will be selling our famous Cookie Cupcakes in their cafe.
David Wardell has kindly donated both his time and professional photos to allow The Cookie Jar Foundation to capture some great moments. David has donated photos from our Vein Finder presentations and has always been available to help us out.
From July 2014 until July 2015 John Young signs will be sponsoring The Cookie Jar Foundation as their nominated Charity. They have already helped us with printing our t-shirts and we are looking forward to working with them this year.
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McTaggart's is a family run Cafe/Deli situated in the heart of Aberdour.
John McTaggart taught Chris Modern Studies and has been the main driving force behind our biggest fundraising event yet, the Scottish Sponsored Cycle Event, all our events meetings have been hosted here by John and his lovely family Liz and Joe.
Mint Gun Club is Dunfermline's premier Tattoo Parlour. Since our inception Mint Gun Club have actively promoted The Cookie Jar Foundation in any way they can. Holding special events every year. Including the "Friday the 13th" fundraiser were Mint Gun Club offer special discount tattoos with proceeds going to The Cookie Jar. We are delighted to announce that this is taking place once again this year.


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Utilizing the backyard of the house may at times be a headache to the homeowner. One of the ways of utilizing the backyard is by building a deck, and the deck can serve several purposes. One by building the deck it will improve the value of your home, one of the aims of property investors is to develop a property and increase the cost. During the summertime, the weather is conducive to outdoor events like a family gathering, and they can take place in the deck. The deck can be used for relaxing after a busy day at the place of work. The deck has several functions in a home, and when the homeowner decides to make one they should hire the services from a company that builds the deck is they do not have the knowledge about the deck building. Getting the right company to build the deck is tuff today because several companies offer the services. In this article the benefits that the homeowner stand to benefit from when they hire a deck contractor have been discussed.
Although the process of getting the right deck contractor is complicated for an individual, but when one gets a good contractor, they are assured of proper installation of the deck. For one to be a deck contractor, they should have the right qualification, and also experience is vital when building the deck. Experience is all about having spent a lot of time building the deck. Taking a course about deck construction enable one to acquire the knowledge required. The authorities award a document to show that one has qualified once the individual passes the exam given to them. The deck is essential in a house, and a qualified and experienced contractor will build a good deck.
By hiring a contractor to build the deck save time and money used in the building of the deck. Knowing constructing the deck enable the contractor to build the deck within the shortest time. Also they know the best materials to use in building the deck, and they know where one can get the materials at a fair price. A professional deck contractor will schedule for the construction of the deck, and also will show the homeowner where to get the material at a reasonable price.
Ensuring that the contractor has the permit form the local authority is vital when hiring a deck contractor. A person who is not involved in deck construction regularly may not be conversant with the regulation, but the contractor know the regulations. To get a deck that meets the regulation one should hire a contractor.
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Half of S.Sudanese hungry, as famine looms again
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Without assistance, as of May, more than 1.3 million children under five will be at risk of acute malnutrition.
South Sudanese refugees preparing meals
Nearly half of the population in war-torn South Sudan is experiencing extreme hunger, with many more set to run out of food as famine looms, government and UN agencies said Monday.
A year after South Sudan became the first country in six years to experience famine, due to a drawn out civil war, its National Bureau of Statistics warned that 40 percent more people were going hungry this year, even before the lean season sets in.
The state bureau said in a statement that in January 5.3 million people, representing 48 percent of the population, were facing acute food insecurity.
In 2017 some 100,000 people were affected by a famine -- meaning people started dying due to lack of food. It was declared over in June.
"Improved access and a massive humanitarian response succeeded in containing and averting famine later last year. Despite this, the food insecurity outlook has never been so dire as it is now," said a joint statement from three United Nations aid agencies.
Four years of civil war have devastated agriculture, while prices have soared and rains have also been unreliable. The country has also been hit by crop-destroying armyworm caterpillars.
"The situation is deteriorating with each year of conflict as more people lose the little they had. We are alarmed as the lean season when the harvest runs out is expected to start this year much earlier than usual," said Adnan Khan, World Food Programme (WFP) country director.
The statistics bureau and aid agencies warned that if humanitarian assistance was not stepped up, more than seven million people could become food insecure -- two thirds of the population.
Eleven counties are at risk of famine.
Allain Noudehou, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in South Sudan, told a press conference that only 5.5 percent of $1.7 billion (1.3 billion euros) in aid needed in 2018 had been received.
South Sudan, the world's youngest nation, was engulfed by civil war in 2013 after President Salva Kiir accused his rival and former deputy Riek Machar of plotting a coup against him.
Violence -- initially between ethnic Dinka supporters of Kiir and ethnic Nuer supporters of Machar -- has since spread to other parts of the country, engulfing other ethnic groups.
The last ceasefire, signed in December, was broken within hours while the latest round of peace talks in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa have stalled.
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Pierre Pansu (born 13 July 1959) is a French mathematician and a member of the Arthur Besse group and a close collaborator of Mikhail Gromov. He is a professor at the Université Paris-Sud 11 and the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. His main research field is geometry. His contribution to mathematics was celebrated by a double event (a conference and a workshop) co-organized for his 60th birthday by the Clay Mathematics Institute.

Pierre Pansu is the grandson of French physician Félix Esclangon, and the great grand-nephew of mathematician and astronomer Ernest Esclangon, inventor of the talking clock, and brother of Robert Pansu, chemist and research director at CNRS.

See also
Metric Structures for Riemannian and Non-Riemannian Spaces
Pansu derivative

References
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 Prix Georges Charpak 2013, , Académie des Sciences, France.

External links
Pansu's website at Université Paris-Sud 11

References

1959 births
Living people
20th-century French mathematicians
21st-century French mathematicians
Academic staff of the École Normale Supérieure
International Mathematical Olympiad participants
Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research

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Stratification at the University of Maryland is grounded in the classical sociological theories, but goes beyond the original writings to contemporary theory and research. Our program includes special attention to questions about intersectionality in stratification systems, especially as they involve institutional, organizational and labor market dynamics, immigration and residential segregation. In addition, we offer a focus on the macro economy at the national and global levels.
Philip Cohen: Writes the blog Family Inequality and is the author of The Family: Diversity, Inequality and Social Change.
Patricia Hill Collins: Author of Black Feminist Thought and Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism.
William Falk: Author of Rooted in Place: Family and Belonging in a Southern Black Community.
Meredith Kleykamp: Author of articles on labor market issues and discrimination against military veterans and organized labor.
Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz: Co-author of Unveiling Inequality: A World-Historical Perspective.
Kris Marsh: Author of articles on the black middle class, educational attainment and racial identification, and health disparities.
Julie Park: Author of articles on the adaptation process of immigrants, including intergenerational mobility and residential segregation.
Christina Prell: Author of Social Network Analysis: Methodology, Theory, and Practice.
Rashawn Ray: Editor of Race and Ethnic Relations in the Twenty-First Century: History, Theory, Institutions, and Policy.
Reeve Vanneman: Co-author of The American Perception of Class, and Gender Inequality at Work.
Students are encouraged to present papers at meetings and to become involved in faculty research. Currently a number of students are collaborating with faculty in ongoing research projects. A wide variety of datasets are also available for student use. Students past and present have published journal articles individually and in collaboration while in the graduate program.
Recent graduates with training in Stratification have accepted employment at such schools as University of California-Irvine, State University of New York-Stony Brook, The University of Utah, Tulane University, Union College, the University of Missouri-Columbia, and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.


"Optimisation of size-controllable centroidal voronoi tessellation for " by Liang Luo, Zhengyi Jiang et al.
Luo, L., Jiang, Z., Lu, H., Wei, D., Linghu, K., Zhao, X. & Wu, D. (2014). Optimisation of size-controllable centroidal voronoi tessellation for FEM simulation of micro forming processes. Procedia Engineering, 81 (C), 2409-2414.
Voronoi tessellation has been employed to characterise material features in Finite Element Method (FEM) simulation, however, a poor mesh quality of the voronoi tessellations causes problems in explicit dynamic simulation of forming processes. Although centroidal voronoi tessellation can partly improve the mesh quality by homogenisation of voronoi tessellations, small features, such as short edges and small facets, lead to an inferior mesh quality. Further, centroidal voronoi tessellation cannot represent all real micro structures of materials because of the almost equal tessellation shape and size. In this paper, a density function is applied to control the size and distribution of voronoi tessellations and then a Laplacian operator is employed to optimise the centroidal voronoi tessellations. After optimisation, the small features can be eliminated and the elements are quadrilateral in 2D and hexahedral in 3D cases. Moreover, the mesh quality is significantly higher than that of the mesh generated on the original voronoi or centroidal voronoi tessellation. This work is beneficial for explicit dynamic simulation of forming processes, such as micro deep drawing processes.


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For the tourist who wants a holiday in Arezzo, surrounded by a family atmosphere, we provide a list of some of the Bed and Breakfast in Arezzo. The friendly staff and offers tourists the chance to spend a pleasant holiday in one of the most exclusive cities of Tuscany.
Just 300 meters from the center of a beautiful art cities, Arezzo, Bed & Breakfast FRANCESCO REDI, located in a building newly built and consists of only two rooms on two different floors, with private bathroom, tv color , electric hair dryer. A provision of the two rooms was a kitchen equipped with everything you need for quick meals. Breakfast is included in the price and is prepared with guests in the rooms, find everything you need (the, coffee milk, jams, biscuits, honey and nutelline).
The historical center of Arezzo is not accessible by private vehicles. For those traveling by car, 50 mt. by Francesco Redi can find various options for free parking and can walk to the monuments, the best restaurants and Antiques Fair of the First Sunday of the month .
The warm and generous hospitality, the family tradition through the centuries, is today to all those wishing to enjoy, if only for a night, the privilege of sleeping in history.
The B & B Santo Spirito is located about ten minutes walk from the old town and the station of Arezzo, and is perfectly served by buses.
Located in the historic center, near the railway station and the most important monuments. Featuring a familiar courtesy and hospitality. Nearby are excellent restaurants, where you can enjoy the typical flavors of Tuscany.
Consisting of atmosphere and equipped with all comforts. A provision of the tourist a beautiful garden to relax in the shade on hot summer days. Organic and traditional breakfast.
Located in the historic center of Arezzo with view on Piazza Santa Maria in Grandi. The property was recently renovated.
Old farmhouse made up of double rooms with private bath and a large garden. A provision of tourist a WiFi internet connection. I accept small animals.
The B & B located in Petrarch's historic center in Arezzo offers to all its guests comfortable rooms and decorated with care in order to make your stay in Tuscany more relaxing and enjoyable as possible.


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Out now: Nagapriya's 'The Promise of a Sacred World'
by Windhorse Publications | Aug 30, 2022 | Newly Published, News | 0 comments
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We're delighted to announce the release of Nagapriya's latest book, The Promise of a Sacred World: Shinran's Teaching of Other Power.
We've got a special offer to celebrate the release: for customers who buy the paperback edition of The Promise of a Sacred World from our website, we're offering Nagapriya's other books, Visions of Mahayana Buddhism and Exploring Karma and Rebirth at a whopping 40% discount. To take advantage of this offer, simply click on the 'Buy now (UK & Europe)' button above.
Shinran (1173–1263) is one of the most important thinkers of Japanese Buddhist history and is regarded as the founder of its largest sect, the True Pure Land School (Jodo Shinshu). Nagapriya gives a contemporary audience access to Shinran's thirteenth-century religious perspective. He offers close readings of Shinran's writings, places him in the context of his imagined Pure Land lineage, and brings alive Shinran's perspective on 'Other Power' as embodied in the myth of Amida Buddha and the Pure Land scriptures.
Nagapriya writes this about the book:
"When I first encountered Shinran's teachings in the late 1990s I immediately felt a kind of existential resonance. Something about them seemed deeply true, even though I couldn't say exactly what it was. On the one hand, what I encountered seemed to contradict some of the most basic tenets of Buddhism that I had imbibed and yet, on the other hand, these teachings seemed to be speaking to something that was beyond my known self; they addressed my ultimate concern.
Something that is unusual about Shinran as an ancient writer on Buddhism is that he is subjectively present in his works; his joys, struggles, and gratitude are revealed through the existential outbursts that interrupt what otherwise is often a careful arranging of scriptural quotations. This existential presence is one of the things that calls to me. His message, however, may at times seem a little disconcerting. We are enmeshed in greed, hatred, and delusion, which causes us to suffer. So far we are on firm ground with basic Buddhism. But, Shinran says, we do not have the resources to overcome our predicament because all of our efforts to relieve our suffering, since they are expressions of greed, hatred, and delusion, serve only to confirm it. We are, it would seem, stuck. What is required then is some factor that goes beyond the known self and this factor is symbolised in Amida Buddha.
Who or what Amida Buddha is, and means, within Shinran's religious imagination is no simple matter and not something that may be explained once and for all, but rather must be deciphered over and again. My book is an attempt to engage with that process of deciphering and, in doing so, to invoke the sacred possibilities that it promises."
– Nagapriya
The Promise of a Sacred World online book launch
Don't miss the launch event! It will take place at 7:30 pm UK time on Tuesday, 30th August. Ratnaguna will be in conversation with Nagapriya about the book and there will be an opportunity for a Q&A session afterwards.
Click here to join the Zoom meeting on the day, or watch the livestream on our YouTube channel here.
Praise for The Promise of a Sacred World
"Nagapriya not only accurately captures the heart of Shinran's spirituality and teachings, but conveys it in ways that are novel and easy to understand."
– Kenneth K. Tanaka, Professor Emeritus, Musashino University, Tokyo; Past President, International Association of Shin Buddhist Studies; author of The Dawn of Chinese Pure Land Buddhist Doctrine
"An astonishing, highly poetic, magical, mystical, personal, emotional, and even confessional encounter with Shinran, which strikes a brilliantly fresh note."
– Galen Amstutz, Adjunct Instructor, Institute of Buddhist Studies / Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, USA
Nagapriya was born in the UK in 1969. While studying for a philosophy degree, he began practising with the Triratna Buddhist Community and was ordained into the Triratna Buddhist Order in 1992. He later studied for a master's degree in the history of religions. Since 2013 Nagapriya has been living in Mexico, where he is chair of the Cuernavaca Buddhist Centre.


It seems like yesterday that I was writing my thesis and exploring my love of cognitive maps and mental models. I was doing this as a way of making peace with my competing sympathies for scientific realism and linguistic or global antirealism. Ahh, good times, philosophy. And my thesis was actually, in my not so humble opinion, innovative. For philosophy and especially the issues surrounding truth, this is, well, admirable.
Please forgive my smugness – if you would like to check out my thesis, I have it posted here. But the reason I bring up mental modeling, and cognitive mapping, is that I just read this great article, by Alex Hutchinson, at the Walrus magazine on just this topic.
In the article, Hutchinson asks the question, "is gps making us dumb?" People model their spatial surroundings with varying skills and capacities. Crucially, contra traditionalists who will argue that there is a racial or gender component to these skills, it looks like these mental mapping skills are trainable. So if you exercise your brain, it gets stronger. And if you rely on your gps a lot, well, you might just get dumb. Okay, it's nowhere near that clear. But read the article anyway! It gets me excited to think about the way we think. Metacognition! Yeah.
On one critical note, I think Hutchinson is wrong to say that Edward C. Tolman was the first academic to argue that we carry maps around in our head. Kenneth Craik published The Nature of Explanation in 1943 and while he might not have actually used the word "map" (although that's worth checking) I do know that he posited an array of mental structures to make sense of the way that "thought models, or parrallels, reality."1 Sounds like the spirit of cognitive maps to me – especially given that he was writing in an era marked dramatically by behaviourism. That said, I failed to include Tolman's 1948 paper in my citations. Even though it's about experimenting with rats, I should have cited it and it would have made for another fun way to show how people that are less obsessed with language actually find super-productive ways to further our understanding of the human mind.
2 thoughts upon reading this: 1) I love when I can hear sherwin's voice in my head whie reading his blog…and 2) he compose this in order to cyberflirt with hugh?
Just because I'm commenting now doesn't mean I'm flirting.
I haven't read the linked article, but I'll say that I think spending a lot of time with maps (and yes GPSes) has solidified my particular style of mental mapping: I tend to order myself and my surrounding with respect to the cardinal directions, and create a fairly formal paper-map-like mental-map of the regions I live in. I don't think it's a smarter or stupider way of mapping my personal geography than a more relative approach. But it totally screwed up my first few months in Vancouver because back when I was only a visitor I had assigned my mental north to actual west, but only for downtown. It took me months until I wasnt' all F'ed up whenever I tried to navigate across neighbourhoods.


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Top 25 Best Medium-Sized Colleges | 2019 Rankings
Middle of the road in terms of student population definitely doesn't equate to middle of the road in terms of quality, and these fantastic schools prove that. Many of the very best medium-sized colleges are quite well known.
Medium-sized schools offer students the chance to meet many different people without totally getting lost in the crowd, and explore plenty of opportunities without getting overwhelmed.
For the purposes of our list, we are considering schools with total student enrollments of 2,000 to 10,000.
Here are College Raptor's picks for the 25 best medium-sized colleges.
25. Brandeis University
Wikimedia Commons user Kenneth C. Zirkel
Location: Waltham, MA
Located near the historic Charles River, Brandeis is named after the very first Jewish Justice of the Supreme Court—Louis Brandeis. Their mascot is named Ollie the Owl, and the school colors are blue and white. Brandeis has a 4 year graduation rate of 80%, which jumps up to 86% in 6 years.
24. Lehigh University
Flickr user Lehigh Valley, PA
Location: West Bethlehem, PA
Lehigh is often considered a "Hidden Ivy" school. Nearly 14,000 applications were sent in last year, and Lehigh accepted almost 3,500 of them, giving the school an acceptance rate of 25%. The range of 28–32 is the average ACT score for incoming freshmen, while the range of 1320–1450 is average for the SAT.
23. The College of New Jersey
Wikimedia Commons user Tomwsulcer
Location: Ewing, NJ
A lion features on TCNJ's school seal, and doubles as their mascot known as Roscoe. Students wear blue and gold to cheer on the TCNJ Lions in a multitude of sports, including baseball, basketball, football, lacrosse, and tennis. They have an impressive 94% first year retention rate, and a student-to-faculty ratio of 13:1.
22. Macalester College
Flickr user Alan Levine
Location: St. Paul, MN
Macalester College is a liberal arts school with a fairly high four year graduation rate of 85% and first year retention rate of 93%. With a 10 to 1 student to faculty ratio, almost all professors at the school have the highest degree available within their field. The most popular majors tend to be biology, economics, and political science.
21. Wesleyan University
Flickr user Jay McAnally
Location: Middletown, CT
Wesleyan has a plethora of notable alumni and faculty in her ranks, including playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda, writer/director Joss Whedon, Blue Man Group co-founder Chris Wink, and author D.B. Weiss. Wesleyan has a 16% acceptance rate. The most popular major on campus is Economics, followed by English and Political Science.
20. Lafayette College
Flickr user drewbee
Location: Easton, PA
Named after Marquis de Lafayette, this college is often considered a "hidden" or "little" Ivy League school. While many of the students call Pennsylvania their home state, many other students come from New York and California. The school participates in 23 NCAA Division I sports.
19. University of Richmond
Flickr user Rob Pongsajapan
At this university, a majority of the students are at the undergraduate level–81% to be precise. 33% of students who apply are accepted into Richmond. Business Administration is by far and away the most studied major on campus. The University of Richmond has a very unique mascot for their sports teams—a spider named Webstur.
18. Babson College
Flickr user sporst
Location: Wellesley, MA
Biz E. Beaver is the mascot of the Babson Beavers, who participate in 22 varsity sports. Though Babson was initially a men's college, it became coeducational in 1969, and nowadays 47.5% of the undergraduate students are women. Around 7,100 applications are sent in to Babson, though the college will only accept around 1,700 of them.
17. Colgate University
Flickr user Mike Bash
Location: Hamilton, NY
Economics, Political Science, History, Neuroscience, and Psychology are the top five most popular major at Colgate. Incoming freshmen score an average of 30–33 on the ACT, and 1390–1500 on the SAT. Colgate has a 94% freshman retention rate. Their athletic teams are called the Raiders.
16. United States Air Force Academy
15. Barnard College
Flickr user david basulto
One of the original Seven Sisters, Barnard is also one of the oldest women's colleges in the world. It's located right on the Hudson River. Blue and white are Barnard's school colors, and their mascot is Millie the Dancing Bear. The acceptance rate is 15%, and Barnard received nearly 8,000 applications last year.
14. United States Military Academy
Flickr user mikek7890
Location: West Point, NY
Known colloquially as "West Point" the US Military Academy sports the colors black and gold. To gain entry, students must apply and be nominated–typically by a Congressmen or Delegate, though students can also be nominated by the President or Vice President of the US. The acceptance rate is 10%.
13. Vassar College
Flickr user Yibo Yu
Location: Poughkeepsie, NY
Vassar was the first degree-granting institute of higher learning in the United States, and was one of the original Seven Sisters. It became coeducational in 1969. Nearly 7,800 applications were sent in last year, and with an acceptance rate of 24%, about 1,850 were accepted. They have almost 400 athletes on campus, a near even split between men and women.
12. Middlebury College
Flickr user daiji
Location: Middlebury, VT
Middlebury is the oldest college in the state of Vermont, founded back in 1800. Economics, Political Science, Environmental Studies, Psychology, and Neuroscience are the five most popular majors on campus. It was the first institute of higher learning in the country to award a Bachelor's degree to an African-American student—Alexander Twilight, class of 1823.
11. Carleton College
Flickr user Willy Lee
Location: Northfield, MN
Blue and maize are the bold colors for the the Carleton Knights. The most popular majors on campus are Computer Science, Biology, Economics, International Relations / Affairs, and Chemistry. The average ACT scores for incoming freshmen are between 30–34; for the SAT it's between 1410 and 1540.
10. College of William and Mary
Flickr user benuski
Founded in 1693 by King William III and Queen Mary II, this college also the very first to have a Greek society—Phi Beta Kappa. Business, Political Science, Health and Fitness education, Biology, and Psychology are the five most popular majors on campus. W&M sports the colors green and gold.
9. Washington and Lee University
Flickr user Robert of Fairfax
Location: Lexington, VA
The motto "Non Incautus Futuri" translates to "Not unmindful of the future," an apt phrase since the school was partially named after a very forward thinking historical figure: George Washington. The second part of this school's name comes from Robert E. Lee, who was president of the school for 5 years.
8. Wellesley College
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A member of the original Seven Sisters Colleges, Wellesley is a women's school that was chartered back in 1870 (though classes didn't start until five years later). For every 7 students, Wellesley has 1 faculty member. Economics and Biology are the two most popular majors on campus.
6. Dartmouth College
Flickr user Dennis Yang
Dartmouth's Latin school motto, "Vox clamantis in deserto", translates to mean "A voice crying out into the wilderness." It has a 7:1 student-to-faculty ratio, and a 4 year graduation rate of 86%. Of the total students at Dartmouth, 67% are undergraduates, while the remaining 33% are graduate students.
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As an Ivy League school, it should come as no surprise that admittance is very selective. Of the over 30,000 applications received, Brown will admit only 8% of them. Additionally, average ACT and SAT scores are impressive, between 31–35 and 1420–1570 respectively. Fitting its name, one of the official school colors is brown, the other two are cardinal and white.
4. Williams College
Flickr user Peter Rintels
Location: Williamstown, MA
The purple and gold-wearing athletic teams at Williams College are cheered on by an interesting mascot—the Purple Cow. On average, incoming freshmen score between 31 and 35 on the ACT, and between 1420 and 1570 on the SAT. With an acceptance rate of 15%, Williams College admits nearly 1,300 students annually.
3. United States Naval Academy
Flickr user Butch Dalisay
"Ex Scientia Tridens" translated to "From knowledge, seapower" is an apt school motto for this naval academy. Around 1,300 students are admitted each year. Several different engineering fields are popular majors on campus, including System Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Ocean Engineering, and Aerospace / Aeronautical / Astronautical Engineering.
1. Princeton University
Flickr user Kah-Wai Lin
Location: Princeton, NJ
Princeton is one of the most well-known universities in the country, and for good reason. Several alumni have gone on to become impressive leaders in their fields, including: Alan Turing, Jimmy Stewart, Michelle Obama, and Sonia Sotomayor. As an Ivy League school, it's not surprising that Princeton has a low acceptance rate of only 6%.


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AFL West Coast Eagles Club soars to new heights with United Nations SDGs
By Dr Renée Ralph, Co-Founder, The Brilliant Foundation
AUSTRALIA - United Nations Association of Australia (WA) (UNAAWA) held its second Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Business Forum of 2021. The forum was a resounding success with over 100 participants in attendance at West Coast Eagles Club, Mineral Resources Park, Laithlain.
This was the first ever SDGs forum in Australia featuring the sports industry, and it has taken three years for West Coast Eagles and United Nations (UN) in Western Australia (WA) to officially launch this partnership. The forum explored the issues of SDGs in relation to the sports arena and how local government, community leaders in WA can help transform businesses to deliver positive social and environmental outcomes.
Photo : Nic Naitanui, West Coast Eagles Australian Football League (AFL) 2020 Club Champion; Founder of Naitanui Academy and Author of Little Nic's Big Day
Dr Sandy Chong, President of UNAAWA and Harvard alumna, facilitated the event with the Honourable Dr Tony Buti MLA Minister for Finance; Lands; Sport and Recreation; Citizenship and Multicultural Interests presiding; Russell Gibbs, Chairman, West Coast Eagles and Nic Naitanui, West Coast Eagles Australian Football League (AFL) 2020 Club Champion, who zoomed in online (abiding to quarantine rules and regulations after a recent inter-state game).
Other special guests speakers included:
Michelle Cowan, Australian Rules Football Coach who was the inaugural head coach of the Fremantle Football Club in the AFL Women's competition. Michelle is currently new head of Operations and Player Wellbeing, with West Coast Eagles AFLW.
Dr Alec O'Connell, Headmaster of Scotch College
Professor Sophia Nimphius, School of Medical and Health Sciences from Edith Cowan University
UNAAWA and SDGs
Dr. Sandy Chong, President, United Nations Association of Australia (WA) is passionate about leadership that is benevolent, giving and inspiring. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future.
At its heart are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for action by all countries - developed and developing - in a global partnership. They recognise that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests.
17 Sustainable Development Goals are as follows: 1. No poverty 2. Zero hunger 3. Good health and well-being 4. Quality education 5. Gender equality 6. Clean water and sanitation 7. Affordable and clean energy 8. Decent work and economic growth 9. Industry, innovation and infrastructure 10. Reduced inequalities 11. Sustainable cities and communities 12. Responsible consumption and production 13. Climate action 14. Life below water 15. Life on land 16. Peace, justice and strong institution 17. Partnerships for the goals
Photo : Russell Gibbs, Chairman of West Coast Eagles Board of Directors
Russell Gibbs, Chairman of West Coast Eagles Board of Directors stated that West Coast Eagles as a professional elite sports club is extremely pleased to have made the decision to embrace the United Nations SDGs. He stated that as a premium club it has a role to play in the community and "our responsibility to take the lead in embracing SDGs which aligns with West Coast Eagles values. The AFL reaches to our Australian community at grassroots levels, from workers, sporting clubs and charities and continues to do so in the future."
Photo : Honourable Dr Tony Buti MLA Minister for Finance; Lands; Sport and Recreation; Citizenship and Multicultural Interests
Dr Tony Buti mentioned that his focus has always been supporting grassroots sporting activities, utilising and finding ways to empower younger people. He said that he is a Dockers supporter, a member of Armadale; and is extremely supportive of West Coast Eagles, an elite sports club who is the first sporting organisation in Australia to embrace UN SDGs.
Dr Tony Buti also highlighted the development of women's game in AFL making progress and ensuring kids' sport program affordable so that all kids can play sport. There should be no barriers to playing sport for our youth. The community should be able to help our First Nations Peoples, marginalised communities and children with disabilities. He hopes the Special Olympics will takes place in Perth, Western Australia and expressed ardently that the 17 SDGs are close to his heart.
Dr Sandy Chong posed the question to the guest speakers which of the 17 SDGs resonated with them?
Photo: Michelle Cowan is currently new head of Operations and Player Wellbeing, with West Coast Eagles AFLW.
Michelle Cowan stated that SDG 3 – Good health and well-being struck a chord with her. Having good physical and mental health will allow an individual to fulfil their potential in life and fulfil the goals that they want to achieve.
Professor Sophia Nimphius felt that SDG 5 – Gender Equality was essential for girls' and women's sport in the industry so that females can feel empowered in what they do.
Dr Alec O'Connell stated that SDG 1 – Ending Poverty was essential. Alec cited the Segregation Policy example in America, where African Americans in the 1920s to 1940s were not allowed to swim in the public swimming pools and only the White Americans could swim. In that environment, Alec highlighted that the youths who were deliberately segregated did not have an existing network to build upon compared to the kids that could swim in the public pools. It was not only their physical well-being that was compromised, it was their future where the Black Americans did not have the connections and framework that could support them throughout their growing up years. Networks are vital for our Australian youth to survive and thrive.
Photo Credit : West Coast Eagles - Naitanui Academy recently played at Optus Stadium earlier this week.
Nic Naitanui agreed with Michelle that SDG 3 is important to him and emphasised that having a healthy and eating lifestyle is essential to his well-being. Nic also hoped to end poverty with SDG 1. He felt that in his experience, football has helped him to provide for himself and he hope to break the poverty cycle in his community. Recently, Naitanui watched in the sidelines whilst his Naitanui Academy team played at Optus Stadium.
Dr Sandy Chong asked how sports have helped the community? Have any changes occurred in sports?
Nic Naitanui said he has been to Kenya and Israel and has seen children being active in sports and being healthy develops empowerment, empathy and a sense of belonging. He has experienced this positiveness in the South Pacific where he comes from. Now with West Coast Eagles leading the way with UN SDGs, the change has already occurred, even for him, wearing a uniform with the UN logo imprinted on it.
Photo : Professor Sophia Nimphius, School of Medical and Health Sciences from Edith Cowan University
Professor Sophia Nimphius said that she is inspired by the new sports in the Olympics such as surfing, skateboarding, karate, BMX freestyle that are reinventing the games and reinvigorating youth. That is the heart of the being involved in sports where the youth can participate fully.
Sophia mentioned as an American, Title XI Act in USA, equal education was agreed in 1972 and that meant that in the sports programs had to be equitable too for women.
The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) enforces, among other statutes, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. Title IX protects people from discrimination based on sex in education programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance. Title IX states:
No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.
This interlink was essential for women that offered a voice and influence that they didn't have previously.
Photo : Dr Alec O'Connell, Headmaster of Scotch College
Dr Alec O'Connell said that the health and benefits in sports reduces obesity and the children growing up doing sports, will have fun with friends and a lifestyle that they can carry through in life. It also develops physical and mental health.
Photo credit : Womens AFL
Michelle Cowan shared the gender equality aspect is shifting in particular with AFL women's team that was launched in 2020. There are currently 18 AFL ladies team and at grassroots level AFLW is being livestream in our TV living rooms is a dream come true for her. Broadcasting is huge for AFLW, there are female coaches now, pathways for women to coach at the highest level and there are opportunities for everybody. As a kid she always wanted to play AFL but there were no avenues for women, now, the possibilities are endless.
Dr Sandy Chong shared that she leaned towards sport at a young age when her dad, a military man made his kids run 2.4km every Sunday and the weekend was spent playing basketball and badminton. They were exhausted after each physical activity, however, she realised that it taught her resilience, team work and collaboration skills when she grew up.
What can sports help to achieve?
For the future, being part of the sporting industry and embracing UN SDGs, Nic Naitanui said he is mindful and consumes healthy drinks in public when he is in front of younger children. He will not have soft drinks, instead he will have water.
He likes the UNAAWA tagline Inform. Inspire. Engage and states that it is good to have other partners to help in this cause.
Photo credit : The West Australian


AUGUSTA — Nine schools across Maine will receive new educational orchards with the support from a local nonprofit program, ReTreeUS. In total, 168 well established fruit trees will be planted, varieties of apple, peach, pear, and plum. The organization, whose mission is to promote an environmentally sustainable, socially just food system, is expanding its reach across the state and educating students of all ages. Hundreds of students will get their hands dirty in the soil this May, all while helping their school and the environment.
ReTreeUS will also be planting orchards at Wolfe's Neck Center for Agriculture and the Environment and in collaboration with a sustainability project in Patten, Maine.
"We believe that by engaging students in the process of growing their own food and caring for trees, we can create lasting change," says Richard Hodges, ReTreeUS Program Manager. Hodges has been planting at schools throughout the state for the past five years. He'll lead classes in a lesson on their role in the orchard, starting with a conversation about the impact growing their own food has on their health and that of our planet.
Next comes the planting, with Hodges providing step by step instructions as classes come out to help. Mornings begin with dormant trees soaking in water while students dig holes. They then mix compost into the piles of soil from each hole and secure the mixture over the roots to plant, followed by spreading a ring of mulch and a good watering.
"These are your trees," Hodges says to the students at the end of each planting. The orchard is made complete with educational signage overviewing the environmental, health and cultural importance of growing sustainable fruit trees and to make the space accessible for self-guided tours.


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The [pass-through] deduction leaves a gaping hole in the tax code, and the goal by the end of the presentation today is to make you guys the bus drivers, or the truck drivers, to drive right through that hole with your clients.
The deduction is a prime example of the tax law's three fundamental flaws: it's heavily tilted toward the wealthy, loses much-needed revenue, and opens massive new avoidance opportunities that weaken the integrity of the tax system. It creates an incentive for high-income individuals to convert labor income such as wages into pass-through income to take advantage of a more than 10 percentage point drop in the top individual tax rate when claiming the deduction. The law contains complex "guardrails" to prevent this type of abuse, but they're poorly designed and, when combined with an underfunded IRS, practically invite abuse from wealthy taxpayers.
The deduction is fundamentally flawed, and policymakers should repeal it.