So I'm in a reflective mood, and this first post of 2018 is very different to my usual posts. In fact, I've been wondering for some time whether to write about this. Because you see, this one isn't about career lessons, or business lessons, but life lessons. It's about life, and death, and resilience, and hope.
But I figured that my work is all about helping people find a meaningful career and life which allows to them to be the best and most authentic version of who they really are. And being authentic means that life isn't always rainbows and sunshine. Sometimes we're tested to our limits.
2017 was an incredibly difficult year on a personal level. My coaching business was and continues to be a bright spot, a welcome distraction, and my clients have been an inspiration. You guys know who you are, and I think you're all amazing!
But I've been faced with an ongoing challenge: How do you give your best to your career or your business, when your personal life is falling apart?
2017 was basically a crash course in grief and loss.
In March, my partner and I lost our very wanted IVF baby during pregnancy to a genetic disorder called Edwards' Syndrome. Then in October, we lost my dear Uncle to suicide. In November we decided to try again with IVF but it failed.
Grief changes you as a person, but you also learn a lot. About yourself, about your relationships, and about what really matters.
Life has generally been a work in progress since then, and I continue to be surprised by the ups and downs of grief. You think you're doing better for a while, and then something comes along to trigger you or remind you, and you're back again at square one.
I don't have all the answers yet, but I plan to continue sharing the lessons I'm learning about resilience during the course of 2018, because I know I'm not the only one who has faced this dilemma of balancing work and personal challenges.
And don't worry there will be plenty of practical career tips and inspiration too, my next posts will be more cheerful!
Happy 2018 my lovely readers, and hold your loved ones close this year, nothing else matters more than that.


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Team Sky partners with Ford
Team Sky are thrilled to announce a new multi-year partnership agreement with Ford as the team's exclusive supplier of cars and vans.
Liveried in the distinctive blue and black Team Sky colours, Ford's latest vehicles will support our busy programme from the start of 2016, backing up the team both in and out of races.
The most visible cars in the peloton will be the Ford Mondeo wagons used by our Sports Directors and team mechanics. These will be joined by a range of other Ford vehicles with the in-car technologies for any race and any environment.
All Kuga sports utility vehicles and S-MAX sports activity vehicles, as well as two of the Mondeo Wagons will be equipped with Ford's Intelligent All-Wheel Drive technology ready for tough Belgian cobbles or Alpine descents. This technology measures how the car's wheels are gripping the road surface and can adjust torque delivery between the front and rear wheels in under 20 milliseconds.
"Our new partnership with Team Sky is a fantastic opportunity to embrace this vibrant sport, and to connect with a new audience of passionate cycling fans," said Anthony Ireson, director, Marketing Communication, Ford of Europe. "This partnership enables us to showcase Ford's latest products right at the heart of the action to both the avid cycling fans that line the route of these incredible road races and those that tune in from around the world.
Currently in use at the team's Mallorcan training base, the vehicles will make their race debut in the first event of the European season at the Mallorca Challenge, starting on Thursday 28 January.
"Ford is the perfect partner for Team Sky, sharing our core values of combining technology and innovation to meet the specific and often varied demands needed in any high performance environment," said Sir David Brailsford, Team Principal at Team Sky. "As we embark on our racing programme, Ford's range of vehicles will play a vital role for Team Sky delivering the right car for the right environment as we strive towards even greater success and more race wins in 2016 and beyond."

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When Erika and Jared decided it was time to find their first home, they thought condo living was the right fit. Their budget was good for a modest-sized condo, and they had recently seen one that seemed to tick all the boxes. When they contacted Michelle to prepare an offer, they were a little surprised when she started asking questions about what they were truly hoping to get out of their new home. Michelle thought there was a better solution for Erika and Jared. After they agreed to say no to the condo, Michelle sat down with the couple and presented several housing options. In the end, the Michelle Walker Team showed the could afford a freehold house in a fantastic neighbourhood, which was a better fit for them.
Next Michelle and the team set about to educate Erika and Jared using Michelle's proven five-step process. Various neighbourhoods were studied, the walkability of the streets was considered, and even what school's districts would be right if they decide to have kids in the future.
Throughout the six-month process, the Michelle Walker Team stayed on top of every new listing and often got Erika and Jared into view homes long before other buyers. In the end, this strategy paid off. On a rainy Thursday night, Erika and Jared secured their first home at the right price and long before it went into a bidding war.


Almost immediately after the invention of photography was announced in 1839, Sir Francis Ronalds conceived the idea of a "movie camera" to enable continuous scientific observation without repetitive human effort. Its unique feature was that the photosensitive surface travelled slowly past the aperture diaphragm of the camera box in a long case, driven by clockwork. In this way the minute by minute variations of a physical parameter could be recorded over a 12- or 24-hour period.
Sir Francis was able to build his first machines in 1845 for the Kew Observatory. Different models monitored atmospheric pressure, temperature, humidity, atmospheric electricity and geomagnetism. The British Prime Minister awarded him a £250 prize because of the importance of the invention for observational science.
Sir Francis provided his cameras to other observatories both in Britain and abroad. Examples survive at the Science Museum in South Kensington and the Museum of the History of Science at the University of Oxford.
Beginning in 1862, the traces from his automated photo-barometer at the Kew Observatory were used in the UK's earliest official weather forecasts, published in The Times. A few years later, the Meteorological Office was established, having a series of observing stations around the UK each supplied with Sir Francis' cameras. The observing network was coordinated from the Kew Observatory.
Its success resulted in many more of the machines being sold around the world. Some were in use for over a century and together they delivered wide scientific and social benefit in helping to understand the weather.


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Biografia

Dal 1994 al 1997 frequenta vari stages di recitazione. Dopo aver iniziato a lavorare in teatro, sia come attore che come assistente alla regia, nel 1998 gira la prima stagione de Il commissario Montalbano, andata in onda nel 1999 su Rai Due, in cui è l'agente Gallo, ruolo che interpreta anche l'anno successivo, nella seconda stagione. Successivamente continua ad alternare il lavoro di attore con quello di assistente alla regia. Inoltre gira vari spot pubblicitari e nel 1999 è protagonista del videoclip Che cosa penserai di me di Pino Daniele.

Tra i suoi lavori televisivi, ricordiamo: la serie TV L'ispettore Giusti (1999), regia di Sergio Martino, le soap opera Un posto al sole e CentoVetrine, la miniserie TV Don Gnocchi - L'angelo dei bimbi (2004), regia di Cinzia TH Torrini, e i film TV Sant'Antonio di Padova (2002), regia di Umberto Marino, e La notte breve (2006), regia di Camilla Costanzo e Alessio Cremonini.

Per il cinema ha partecipato al film Besame mucho (1999), regia di Maurizio Ponzi, ed è stato protagonista di alcuni cortometraggi, tra cui: Il regalo di Natale (2002), regia di Daniele De Plano, vincitore di molti concorsi per cortometraggi e finalista ai David di Donatello 2003, come miglior cortometraggio.

Filmografia

Cinema

Besame mucho, regia di Maurizio Ponzi (1999)
Parabole imperfette, regia di Daniele De Plano (1999)
Il regalo di Natale, regia di Daniele De Plano (2002)
Kappaò, regia di Michele Rovini (2002)
L'uomo di vetro, regia di Stefano Incerti (2007)

Televisione

L'ispettore Giusti, regia di Sergio Martino (1999)
Il commissario Montalbano, regia di Alberto Sironi (1999-2000)
In crociera, regia di Roberto Quagliano (2000)
Il commissario, regia di Alessandro Capone (2001)
Sant'Antonio di Padova, regia di Umberto Marino (2002)
Un posto al sole, registi vari (2002)
Casa famiglia 2, regia di Riccardo Donna (2003)
Don Gnocchi - L'angelo dei bambini, regia di Cinzia TH Torrini (2004)
CentoVetrine, registi vari (2004)
La squadra, registi vari (2005)
La notte breve, regia di Camilla Costanzo e Alessio Cremonini (2006)
Nati ieri, regia di Paolo Genovese, Luca Miniero e Carmine Elia (2006)
Vivere, registi vari  (2007)
Ho sposato uno sbirro, regia di Carmine Elia (2007)
R.I.S. 5 - Delitti imperfetti, regia di Fabio Tagliavia - serie TV, episodio 5x17 (2009)
Occhio a quei due, regia di Carmine Elia (2009)
Don Matteo 7 - Serie TV - Rai Uno - Episodio: Balla con me, regia di Giulio Base (2009)
La Certosa di Parma, regia di Cinzia TH Torrini (2012)
L'accarezzatrice, regia di Giorgia Würth (2014) BookTrailer
Un passo dal cielo 3, regia di Monica Vullo e Jan Maria Michelini (2015)
Solo per amore, regia di Raffaele Mertes e Daniele Falleri - Serie TV - Canale 5 (2015-2017)

Videoclip

Che cosa penserai di me, regia di Sergio Pappalettera - Pino Daniele (1999)

Collegamenti esterni

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Lawyers // Vardin, Elliott A.
Elliott Vardin is a partner at Fogler, Rubinoff LLP. He practices all aspects of corporate, commercial and securities law, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance. Elliott has developed a reputation for expertise in securities law and for his ability to negotiate and complete complex and innovative transactions. Elliott represents a range of public and private companies in diverse industries, including real estate services, technology, investment brokerage & management, solar energy and mortgage investments. He has established various types of pooled and other investment funds and advised lead and significant investors. On an ongoing basis, Elliott advises a number of Canadian reporting issuers and investment funds in connection with securities and regulatory compliance and corporate governance matters.


In Vicia, the style is glabrous except for a tuft or fringe of hairs at the summit, just below the stigma. In Lathyrus, the style has a longer strip of pubescence. Only two of our species are native in North America. The others are all European, doubtless originally grown for forage or as a cover crop.
1. Inflorescences sessile or on peduncles shorter than the leaflets, 1–2-flowered.
2. Calyx oblique at apex, the teeth unequal (upper ones smaller) and all less than half as long as the tube and less than 2 mm long; perennials.
2. Calyx not oblique, the teeth ± equal, ca. half as long as the tube or longer and more than 2 mm long; annuals.
3. Corolla yellow (sometimes marked or suffused with purplish), ca. 25–35 mm long; calyx teeth clearly shorter than the tube.
3. Corolla blue to purple (or white), ca. 5–16 (–30) mm long; calyx teeth nearly or quite as long as the tube.
4. Corolla ca. (10–) 13–16 (–30) mm long; most tendrils branched.
4. Corolla ca. 5–8 mm long; most tendrils unbranched.
1. Inflorescences on peduncles longer than the leaflets, with usually more than 2 flowers.
4. Leaflets with ca. 10 or more pairs of firm lateral veins running nearly or quite to the margins; stipules with several teeth or lobes; inflorescences slightly exceeded by subtending leaves, 3–8-flowered.
4. Leaflets with ca. 6 or fewer pairs of lateral veins running nearly or quite to the margins; stipules at most with 1 basal lobe; inflorescences shorter or longer than the leaves.
5. Flowers less than 6 (–8) mm long, 1–6 (–7) in an inflorescence; calyx teeth (at least the longer ones) about as long as or longer than the tube.
6. Calyx teeth ± equal; fruit pubescent, (6–) 8–9 (–10) mm long, 2-seeded.
6. Calyx teeth unequal, the calyx clearly oblique; fruit glabrous, 10–13 mm long, mostly 4-seeded.
5. Flowers at least 8 mm long, (8–) 12–40 or more in an inflorescence; calyx teeth often shorter than the tube.
7. Calyx ca. 3 mm long or shorter, the teeth deltoid (about as long as broad), ± equal; corolla white (except for blue-tipped keel) or occasionally tinged with blue.
7. Calyx ca. 3.5–8 (–9) mm long, the teeth elongate (at least the lower ones) and distinctly unequal; corolla (except in albinos) blue to purple (or rarely pink).
8. Calyx not extended beyond the pedicel, which appears basal (though off-center); blade of standard about equaling the claw; stem and pedicels with mostly appressed or incurved pubescence.
8. Calyx projecting at its base beyond the attachment of the pedicel, the latter thus appearing subterminal or ventral; blade of standard about half as long as the claw or shorter; stem and pedicels usually covered with fine spreading hairs (rarely glabrate).
MICHIGAN FLORA ONLINE. A. A. Reznicek, E. G. Voss, & B. S. Walters. February 2011. University of Michigan. Web. April 18, 2019. https://michiganflora.net/genus.aspx?id=Vicia.


Revisit the magnificence of the past with a truly precious limited edition collection by Lakmé that pays tribute to the reign of queens – Lakmé Absolute Royal. Inspired by the era of the royals, this new collection introduces limited edition shades for three amazing products: Lakmé Absolute Crème Lip Colors, Lakmé Absolute Royal Nail Colors and Lakmé Absolute Shine Line Eyeliners that will help you create an elegant look for the festivities this season. This limited edition collection will be available in stores starting 1st September 2013.
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Indulge in lavish dual toned nail colors reminiscent of royal treasures. Emerald, purple, turquoise and teal, it's elegance that truly befits the modern queen.
With this new collection, Lakmé lays out the beauty statement for the season that is dominated by imperial velvet red lips and a unique play of light pink and gold for the eyes. These rich hues, reflecting modern opulence, will take center-stage at the Lakmé Fashion Week Winter/Festive 2013 Grand Finale by Sabyasachi Mukherjee.
Speaking at the launch, Purnima Lamba - Head of Innovation, Lakmé said, "The trends on ramp for the festive season are all going to be about opulence. And complementing that trend is Lakme's new Absolute Royal make-up collection that defines royal chic. Absolutely everyone ought to try the new Absolute Royal red lips this festive season and feel like a princess".
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Former Brewer Notes
By Jeff Sackmann Aug 28, 2006, 8:56am CDT
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In an effort to shift the focus away from the dreadful last three games, I thought we could take a look at some recent Brewers, and how they're doing elsewhere:
Gary Bennett, a guy who I wouldn't take back over Mike Rivera even if his does this every night for the rest of the season, finished back-to-back games with walk off hits. On Saturday, he homered, then singled in the winning run in the 9th. Yesterday, it was a bottom-of-the-ninth grand slam. Yes--that's the same Gary Bennett who slugged .327 for us.
Wes Helms is continuing his pinch-hitting mastery. He's 13 for 36 as a PH with 2 HRs and 10 RBIs. Most impressive (or disturbing) is that he's managed 3 triples. That's kind of like Damian Miller stealing bases. Strangely enough, he's hitting much better against righties. Last year, he put together a nice season by beating up on lefties. Go figure.
As much as I was sad to see Jorge de la Rosa traded, I'm not at all sad to not have to scratch my head over his inconsistency anymore. That, Royals fans can do:
"He's got good stuff, electric stuff," manager Buddy Bell said. "This is the first time, really, he's been somewhere that he got an extended look as a starter. I'd really like to keep him in there."
...Since arriving, De La Rosa, 25, is 1-1 with a 7.48 ERA in five starts and has allowed 17 runs in his last 15 2/3 innings. He is scheduled to pitch Thursday, when the Royals conclude a three-game series at Minnesota. That will be eight days after he failed to last four innings after being staked to a 10-1 lead against the Indians.
Carlos Lee is hitting well since the trade to Texas, but I can't imagine the Rangers are happy with his power production. His AL line thus far is .325/.361/.504. The first two numbers are improvements on his performance with the Brewers, but the last is a big step down. I expected more, especially with Carlos headed to the homer-friendly Ballpark in Arlington.
In our next edition of "Former Brewer Notes," we'll focus on departed fan favorites Kevin Mench, Dan Kolb, and Geoff Jenkins.
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Rock or sand
Mt 7:21, 24-27
Jesus said to his disciples: "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the Kingdom of heaven, but only the one who
Everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock."
Are we wise? Have we built our Spiritual House on THE Rock?
As we begin our day, let us examine:Where is our focus, where is our trust?
When we build on The Rock- Lord, Thy will be done- His graces will carry us through anything.
"The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and buffeted the house. But IT DID NOT COLLAPSE ; it had been set solidly on ROCK."
We have the choice: Rock or sand; Solid or ruin?
Today, we have been blessed with a new start. The opportunity to construct a solid foundation. - "Yesterday", we can take to confession and receive grace. - "Today", we can build on The Rock, and again receive grace.
Let us keep our eyes on the Kingdom, do the will of The Father, and build our Spiritual house on The Rock.
St. Nicholas, pray for us


ASICS Greenville Track Club-ELITE is excited to announce that recent Florida State University graduate Chelsi Woodruff will be joining the post-collegiate, Olympic Development group in Greenville, SC. The Winter Park, FL native recently earned All Atlantic Coast Conference honors after placing third in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the 2015 ACC championships.
"We are pleased that Chelsi has decided to continue her running career and pursue her dreams as a part of our developing group of post-collegiate athletes," stated director Mike Caldwell. "While she focused on the steeplechase in college, our plan will definitely include the flat 1500 and 5000 meter events, which will increase her speed and strength."
Woodruff competed on the Seminoles nationally ranked cross country team, which placed 12th at the 2014 NCAA DI championships. She also earned All Region honors at the NCAA South championships. On the track, she was a two-time qualifer for the NCAA East Region Preliminary meet in the steeplechase in 2014 & '15.
Academically, Chelsi majored in Family and Child Science at FSU and is also interested in starting a career in the areas of sports science and conditioning.
Native Texan Dylan Doss has been selected to join the ASICS GTC-ELITE post collegiate, Olympic Development program located in beautiful Greenville, SC. Doss is coming off a 2015 track season in which he earned NCAA Division II All America honors by placing fourth in the 3000-meter steeplechase with a personal best of 8:51.37.
Hailing from the town of Carlsbad, TX, Doss graduated in 2014 from West Texas A&M University and then ran for Angelo State University in 2015, while he pursued his Masters degree. He continued to improve his times in the steeplechase, which is the event he will focus on for the 2016 USA Olympic Trials.
ASICS GTC-ELITE's management team of Bill Keesling, Mike and Laura Caldwell were each impressed with Dylan's potential after meeting with him on a recent interview/visit to Greenville. "Dylan's recent times in the steeple are very good in relation to some of his other collegiate performances," noted Mike Caldwell. "Once he transitions to the post-collegiate level training, we believe he has some potential upside from 1500 to 5,000 meters, although the focus will definitely be the 3000-meter steeplechase."
"Dylan is truly an extrovert and should fit in quickly in the Greenville community, once he arrives in August," explained Caldwell. "Although he has a degree in business, his interests include coaching in the future which should fit in well with our running-related community outreach activities."
Doss is the second addition to the post-collegiate program since May, as former American University standout Mark Leininger was also recently selected and announced and will be arriving in early July.
ASICS Greenville Track Club-ELITE's Nicole DiMercurio followed her personal record at 1500 meters last week with a win, and another personal best, in the Women's Invitational 5,000 meters at the Music City Distance Carnival in Nashville, TN. The University of Georgia graduate ran with the chase pack behind only the designated pace-setter (Sarah Pease) and the Boulder Track Club's Maor Tiyouri for the first 2600 meters, then took the lead and passed 3K in 9:44.62. Running the final 1800 meters by herself, DiMercurio cut eleven seconds from her previous best and won handily with a time of 16:17.68.
It was a very good effort on a hot (85 degrees) and humid Saturday evening on the Vanderbilt University track. DiMercurio's teammate Alison Parris suffered over the final two kilometers from the heat, but still managed to place fourth with a time of 16:49.12.


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Q: Create Kotlin Library I am trying to achieve what is extremely simply in other languages, however I am new to Kotlin and Android Studio.
I wish, when creating a project, to reuse code by having it in a seperate directory to the project, but to be able to create instances of a Kotlin class in a given project, and also to be able to edit the class definitions and rebuild the 'library' in that open project
Before anyone shoots me I have read
Create a Kotlin library in Android Studio
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Science Documentaries
One couldn't call themselves a serious, or even intermediate addict without having a personal soft-spot for the science documentary. These films will amaze the viewer and provide that sense of wonder and sometimes disbelief at how science has shaped our lives and will continue to affect us in times to come. Science documentaries = mandatory.
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Cosmic Journeys - Birth of the Moon
The latest episode of Cosmic Journeys, enjoy in full HD 1080p. Scientists have been reconstructin...
Cosmic Journeys - Mysteries of a Dark Universe
Cosmology, the study of the universe as a whole, has been turned on its head by a stunning discov...
Cosmic Journeys - The Search for Habitable Planets
Find out where to look for Extraterrestrial Life. What planets are likely to have the right condi...
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Cosmic Journeys - Venus - Death of a Planet
From the fires of a sun's birth... twin planets emerged. Venus... and Earth. Two roads diverged ...
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What's the hottest place in the universe? What's it like inside a Black Hole? This video climbs t...
Cosmic Journeys - Is the Universe Infinite?
Explore the biggest question of all... in 1080p. Since ancient times, we've looked into the night...
Cosmic Journeys - The Incredible Journey of Apollo 12
It's the ultimate buddy movie. Forty years ago, on November 19, 1969, astronauts Pete Conrad and ...
Cosmic Journeys - Supermassive Black Hole in the Milky Way Galaxy
From a distance, our galaxy would look like a flat spiral, some 100,000 light years across, with ...
Cosmic Journeys - The Search For Earth-Like Planets
The search for Earth-like planets is reaching a fever-pitch. Does the evidence so far help shed l...
Cosmic Journeys - Voyage to Pandora - First Interstellar Space Flight
Pandora is the idyllic blue world featured in the movie Avatar. Its location is a real place: Alp...
Cosmic Journeys - The Asteroid that Flattened Mars
Just about every two years, the planet Mars makes its closest approach to Earth around 36 million...
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Why some tropical storms erupt into monster hurricanes capable of wrecking coastlines. Can they b...
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Some 900 million miles from the Sun in the outer regions of our Solar System orbiting the planet ...
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We've never seen them directly, yet we know they are there, lurking within dense star clusters or...
Cosmic Journeys - How Large is the Universe?
The universe has long captivated us with its immense scales of distance and time. How far does it...
Cosmic Journeys - When Will Time End?
Time is flying by on this busy, crowded planet as life changes and evolves from second to second....


Interviewers often ask candidates where they see themselves in 5 years. But asking a common question doesn't mean they're looking for a cliché answer. Here's a look at what the question's meant to evaluate, so that you can craft an answer that addresses the interviewer's concerns.
That's an easy question. In 5 years I will be replaced by a cheaper less experienced h1b visa. holder.
There is that old worn HR manual again. I five years I'll be on another 6+ months contract and about to be discarded because I've set up the system fine and some H1B guy will be hired to maintain it until he/she screws it up and they want me for a 2+ month contract to fix it and train him/her and the other H1B people. Nope, not going to happen. Save a penny, spend a dollar. What do you think you are, the Government?
Where will I be? Who knows? But if I'm not riding the curve (because I know I'll never get ahead of it), I'll be jobless.
So how many job seekers know how the UNIX task switcher works?


On behalf of millions of American public transit commuters, the Commuter Benefits Work for Us Coalition applauds the introduction of the Commuter Parity Act of 2013 in both the United States Senate and House of Representatives to permanently place the monthly pre-tax limit for the transit commuter benefit on par with the benefit for parking. This legislation, if passed, will avoid a severe drop in the transit benefit scheduled for the end of this calendar year, and once and for all end the tumultuous cycle of fluctuating caps for the transit benefit.
The coalition expresses its gratitude to Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) for his introduction of the Commuter Parity Act of 2013 in the United States Senate, and to Representatives Michael Grimm (R-NY), Peter King (R-NY), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) and James McGovern (D-MA) for introducing the legislation in the House of Representatives.
The current monthly pre-tax limit for the federal transit and parking commuter benefits is $245 per month. However, without Congressional action by the end of this year, the transit benefit will drop to $125 per month, while the parking benefit will remain at $245. The coalition looks forward to working with the Senate and House sponsors of the Commuter Parity Act of 2013 this year to pass this critical legislation.
The Commuter Benefits Work for Us coalition consists of non-profit advocacy organizations, public agencies and businesses dedicated to promoting the transit commuter benefit as an effective federal tool to help encourage increased use of public transportation and van pools. Key members include Edenred, Inc., the Employers Council on Flexible Compensation, TransitCenter, Inc. and WageWorks.


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Please visit us at booth 3402 in hall 4. We are looking forward to seeing you!
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Fraunhofer Cingo brings immersive audio to VR devices and applications with a stunning level of realism to create the experience of "being there". With more than 25 years of experience in the field of audio coding and processing, Fraunhofer IIS is a driving force in the industry in the development and delivery of truly immersive sound on VR devices, smartphones and tablets.
Cingo renders 3D audio content over headphones by incorporating head movements and as a result, sound sources can be perceived from anywhere in the 3D space around the listener. A truly immersive soundscape is of utmost importance in any VR experience and serves as a determining factor in the success of the illusion. The MPEG-H audio standard is the ideal companion for Cingo 3D audio rendering with the ability to deliver immersive 3D sound for virtual environments to mobile devices at bitrates used today for delivery of 2D surround sound. MPEG-H can carry channels, audio objects and higher-order-ambisonics signals. This capability makes it the ideal VR audio codec for user generated and Cinematic VR content, providing a complete toolset of VR audio mastering and mixing plugins from Fraunhofer.
In addition to immersive sound, Cingo also enables an excellent surround sound listening experience over stereo speakers or headphones while providing existing stereo content with a more natural and clear sound. It includes features such as loudness optimization for listening in noisy environments and improves the intelligibility of dialog and commentary. Fraunhofer Cingo is used by industry leaders such as Google in its family of Nexus devices, Samsung Gear VR, LG 360 VR, and in the Hulu VR app.
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Enhanced Voice Services (EVS) is the next-generation 3GPP VoLTE codec, successor of AMR-WB. EVS enables phone calls with Full-HD Voice quality, bringing call fidelity up to the same level as today's other digital media services. Integrating state-of-the-art speech and audio coding technology, EVS removes the limitations of bandlimited, voice-centric codecs previously used in mobile communication. The algorithm enables high quality speech, background music and mixed content with the full audible audio spectrum at unmatched low bit rates. Combined with EVS' advanced robustness against packet loss, the algorithm results in clear, natural sounding conversations and vastly improved performance of hold music and ring back tones.
EVS implementation in VoLTE services
T-Mobile USA was the first operator in the world to announce the introduction of EVS in its VoLTE network in April 2016. Only one month later, the Japan based operator NTT DoCoMo also launched its EVS powered VoLTE service. In June 2016, EVS reached Europe: Vodafone Germany announced the implementation of EVS on numerous smartphones during the following months.
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I am trying to link identical tables in Oracle DB and MS Access and I followed steps in this article.
I did step 1 - 6 and I got 'OK' message for tnsping testing.
From MS Access side, this is what I did.
From 'Create New Data Source' pop up, I selected Oracle in OraDb10g_home1, gave name and clicked finish button, but got this error message.
If I choose 'Machine Data source' tab and clicked 'new' button and selected OraDb10g_home1, the I got this error msg.
'The setup routines for the Oracle in OraDb10g_home1 ODBC driver could not be loaded due to system error code 998.
Add the OS user to the Members List, that should resolve your problem.
I right-clicked the Oracle root folder --> Properties --> Attributes --> Selected "Read-only" --> Applied changes to folder, subfolders and files and rebooted my machine.
Then I received a system error code 998 when I tried to add a new System DSN.
Afterwards, I did the opposite -unchecked the Read-only option- and rebotted the machine, then it worked again.


A while back I interviewed my colleague Ruth Waterhouse about her use of the Betty Smithers Design Collection. Ruth (newly retired) taught Sociology and felt that integrating objects in her teaching brought another dimension to her discipline.
Ruth W first used the Design Collection to support teaching at adult education level outside of the university, particularly for a course where the changing nature of women's fashion was discussed and put into context with the culture of the time. She first used garments for illustration purposes only to show the changes in fashion in a chronological way.
As the garments came from a handling collection, she also encouraged handling and this turned out particularly successful in a session with older women groups when discussing World War II and connected fashions. The tactile experience of the handling seemed to trigger memories of the participants' own experience, in the first instance particularly through materials. As the group was made up of women who could remember similar garments, they were very knowledgeable about using these materials. Ruth states that she got a better response in this handling session than she got from lecture-style talks, because the garments triggered an emotional response and stimulated reminiscence. The participants were delighted in being reminded of these objects, not just visually, but through a tactile exploration, and this in turn stimulated discussion which contained a lot of oral history. It created a unique atmosphere and engagement.
The success of this session gave Ruth W the idea to use the Design Collection resources more at the university level and she included it in the 'Dedicated Followers of Fashion' module which is an option on the Sociology degree at Level 5 (she has used it in this context for the last five years). To begin with there was one session done by Ruth Brown, at the time keeper of the Design Collection, which publicised it and told students about how they could use it themselves. However, in following years they began tying it into the subject matter more, with Ruth W doing a lecture that was immediately followed by a session with Ruth B with a rack of fashion that gave a spread from the earliest items in the collection through to the 1990s.
At one occasion Ruth B dressed up in Edwardian garb, turning the clothes from the hanger into a worn dimension, and the students were asked to reflect on the role of clothing and what it reflected in life.
Ruth W states that sociology is often a very abstract subject. Examples make it more concrete. Touching items and feeling the weight of them make it easier to ask yourself what it would have been like to wear them. It makes it easier to explore whether they might have been constraining or constricting. Examining their construction close-up allow a judgement of their quality, their price and the effort it takes to maintain a wardrobe at the time, for example making it easier to understand how Edwardian clothing sustained a servicing class through the laundry, mending and pressing that was necessary to keep them wearable.
While it is very successful to use the objects from the Design Collection for that particular module, Ruth W thinks that it is the only one of the ones she teaches and knows of, that it would be appropriate. Her colleagues in sociology don't use it as far as she knows, although she says there might be material that could be found in the archive's collection of magazines that could relate to the 'Deviant Bodies' module which is concerned with sociology of the body. She states that it would have worked much more in the context of sociology of culture, which doesn't run at Staffordshire University anymore. She also says that a collection of this nature would be useful to sociologists of popular culture; of the body and of subcultures, especially youth cultures. The use of the collection is somewhat restricted at Staffordshire University because of the options that are currently offered, but she strongly feels that aspects of the collection could be linked into theories of consumption and identity and would resonate with many other aspects of sociology.
She says that only a minority of students take the opportunity to check out objects (she remembers a student researching shoe fashion for example). She thinks this little take-up might be due to finding the time. However, she says that even if students don't use the collection itself, using it in class encourages them to use what they have themselves. It inspires them to ask more questions and to use objects as well as secondary sources for their research. It has freed students up from thinking they have to deal with textual material, the abstract. This is reflected in the work they put in, the subjects and also adds another dimension to their work. For example, they present their work in a more innovative way. The assessment criteria stipulate a portfolio that Ruth W interprets widely and she encourages students to utilise their visual sense, etc, alongside the written text. Almost half take this up, it gives them permission to go broader than just writing things up. This feeds their imagination, it is outside of the straightjacket of theoretical sociology, makes theory meaningful, they make sense of society through exploring its objects.
She attempts to stress that sociology is also about imagination and should be within the arts to build those bridges (at Staffordshire University sociology is located in the Faculty of Arts, Media and Design rather than linked to psychology or the sciences, which means it is located in a different academic culture) – is it narrowing its focus by being too concerned about its image? Using the Design Collection, which has mostly everyday objects in it, encourages them to use material objects from their cultural world as a starting point.
• Think more explicitly – she wonders whether her approach is a bit hit and miss, and thinks that it needs to be articulated carefully what you want, possibly in the learning outcomes.
• Don't be worried about incorporating tactile stuff, the smell, move beyond just the cognitive, rather employ a full range of senses, not just thinking about stuff.
Ruth W states that the handling collection is vital, as it is different to a museum and the interaction that is in its centre is very important.
A big part of its importance and usefulness is a matter of personality, Ruth B is very approachable, accessible, willing to engage, helpful – can this be replaced by a data base? NO! the ad hoc nature, not preselected apart from showing the Everyday-ness of everyday life.
Items are not precious, this makes them more valuable in an educational context as it has the capacity to stimulate, trigger stories, the mind, recollections – encourages students to become experts of their own lives by interrogating them rather than just living them.


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Some Book Reviews
Hello. Besides the literary books of 'weight' - fiction and non-fiction - I have distracted myself with some relatively lightweight reads.
Recommended by a bookshop owner friend I embarked into the detective genre. Abir Mukherjee is the son of immigrants from India and grew up in West Scotland and now lives in London. His debut novel A RISING MAN appeared in 2016. We meet Sam Wyndham, a World War I veteran and Scotland Yard refugee, who takes on a job offer in Calcutta in 1919. A rising man belonging to the British Raj ruled by Viceroy Lord Chelmsford is found murdered in a disreputable part of Black Town with a message stuffed in his mouth warning of the coming independence movement that is taking a path to revolution.
Sam Wyndham is placed in charge of the investigation by his superior, Lord Taggart, and is partnered by an arrogant British officer Inspector Digby and a British educated but Indian born Sargent Banerjee. He reveals himself as an invaluable local for interpreting and understanding the 'methods' and values of this great city, to lucidly assist his officer superior in the solving of the crime. In the novel he is called 'Surrender-not' as his British superiors can not - will not - pronounce his name Surendranath. This is the first of the racist tensions, unconscious and systemic, that colour the world of this book where the British population of all classes regard that they belong to a superior civilisation and despise the local peoples.
No-one in this novel, except, perhaps, Banerjee are without flaws. Our leading man Sam Wyndham is 'lost' in a PTSD depression, having survived the trenches of World War I and the loss of his young wife and has a naked cynicism to the values of the world. He balances his sanity with an addiction to opium (as does Sherlock Holmes) and has little trust for his British commanders and is dogged in the pursuit of unravelling the murder. We meet a very interesting range of characters, especially, an attractive anglo-indian secretary, Annie Grant, that provides a tantalizing possibility of a romantic interlude. The climax of the investigation comes with the background issue of the troubles/massacre of Amritsar. stirring with menace of things to come in the country's political future
We find out truths but you must not expect justice. The novel is permeated with a cynicism that is very 'modern' and gives the work a contemporary resonance although it is set in a period of history a century ago. The writing rattles along at a galloping speed and leaves one breathless and keen to turn the page - it was an absorbing day long read. It was mostly fascinating, although, there are some too obvious clues to the suspicions of whodunnit that undercuts a fully committed surrender to the chase. However, A RISING MAN won the Harvill Secker/Daily Telegraph crime writing competition, and a CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger and the Eastern Eye ACTA Award for literature, and was shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger.
I followed up a few weeks later with his second book in the Sam Wyndham/'Surrender-not' Banerjee series, A NECESSARY EVIL, published in 2017, and is set in 1920. The book is a continuation of Wyndham's career set in Calcutta as part of the Bengal Imperial Police and we meet characters we already know from the first book and observe the deepening relationships as well as a whole intriguing set of new principals in the solving of the assassination of the Maharaja of Sambalpore's eldest son - the heir apparent, Adir.
In the royal family, there are three wives and forty odd concubines with hundreds of children, living in the zenana. The Maharaja, Rajan Kumar Sai, the wives: the first elderly Maharani Shubhadrra, the third Maharini Devita,(the second Maharini has died); the heir apparent Adir, his younger brother Punit, and the very young Prince Alok, the third in-line for the kingdom. The novel of 370 pages begins on Friday 18 June and is over by Thursday 24 June - a mere six days. The story rockets along and is full of political twists and turns intriguingly bound in religious entanglements and beliefs. The suspects are numerous.
The guiding deity is Lord Jagganath (the origin of the English word juggernaut) and is the centre of the Maharini Subhadra's worship, supported by the mystic priest Dewan. The English representatives are Mr and Mrs Carmichael - professional diplomats bored to mundanity soaking in alcohol; Golding the practical, realist, efficient bookkeeper/accountant of the affairs of the Kingdom; Fitzmaurice, the corporate leader of the Anglo-Indian Diamond Company attempting to claim the kingdom's new money resources: coal, as the diamond mines dwindle as the money maker; Colonel Aroa, in charge of the Maharaja's police, he seems to have a foot in the present and the future - which side is he on?; a powerful eunuch of the harem, Sayed Ali; Miss Pemberley, a white British woman sought by the playboy Prince Punit; and the outspoken radical critic of the political structures, schoolteacher Shreya Bidika. All have motive. Even the British Government who wish to enforce the Kingdom of Sambalpore to become a member of the Chamber of Princes - an instrument that will maintain - ensure - British control: Viceroy Lord Chelmsford and police controller, Lord Taggart have much at stake with their career on government view, for whom Wyndham/Banerjee are the accidental tools of enforcement.
The corruption of the Kingdom is surrounded by the corruption of The British Raj and Mukherjee in his handling of the description of the places of the book, signalling the degradation of the British Empire, saturated in centuries of ambitious deceits. The genre is crime fiction but it is also a political critic of the affairs of history. Fortunately it is delivered without overbearing didacticism and seeps insidiously into the spine of the tale. for those of us who are 'awake'.
There are now two new books in the series: SMOKE AND ASHES and DEATH IN THE EAST, and I am curious to see the developments of character. Of Wyndham's addiction - the dangers that its revelation will put his career in peril; of the growing relationship with his Indian partner, "Surrender-not' Banerjee, who one hopes becomes even more central to the unravelling history of Bengal, Pakistan and India.
A NECESSARY EVIL was a one day read. It was a page turner much like its predecessor. Recommended
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Check out the 2010 Harley-Davidson CVO models featured and the J&P Cycles 30th Anniversary. This issue also features a Readers Rides section in which JD Bristow's 2009 Road Glide is featured. Also featured is retired NFL star Ruben Brown's 2003 Road Glide built by Perewitz Cycle Fabrication and Big Ron. Tech product installs this issue come from Innovative Storage Solutions, Harley-Davidson, Fat Katz, Saddlemen, Kendall Johnson, Kuryakyn, Kendon, and Chrome Dome Motorcycle Products. The Buyer's Guide features the newest and best products for paint and sheet metal.


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WSJ News Exclusive
Equifax to Pay Around $700 Million to Resolve Data-Breach Probes
Credit-reporting firm nears deal to settle investigations into 2017 hack that exposed millions of Americans' personal data
CEO Mark Begor testifies in Congress on March 7. He has said the company has sought to help consumers fix errors on their credit reports since the breach.
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Equifax Inc. EFX -2.13% is nearing a deal to settle a slew of state and federal investigations into a 2017 data breach that exposed nearly 150 million Americans' Social Security numbers and other sensitive personal information.
Under the agreement, the credit-reporting firm would pay around $700 million to settle with the Federal Trade Commission, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and most state attorneys general, according to people familiar with the matter. The deal would also resolve a nationwide consumer class-action lawsuit, they said.
The settlement could be announced as soon as Monday, the people said. The amount Equifax ultimately pays could shift based on the number of consumer claims that are eventually filed, they added.
The deal would clear a cloud that has hung over Equifax since it revealed in September 2017 that hackers had penetrated its systems and gained access to consumers' names, Social Security numbers, birth dates and addresses.
The hack, among the biggest consumer-data breaches, exposed big security flaws at one of the nation's largest credit-reporting firms and raised cybersecurity alarms among consumers and policy makers alike. Hackers were able to work their way into Equifax's systems through a software flaw the company had neglected to patch. A malfunctioning scanning tool, meanwhile, allowed hackers to roam undetected in the company's network for months.
The backlash was swift. Within weeks, the company's long-serving chief executive retired. State and federal officials launched a spate of investigations. Lawmakers excoriated Equifax executives for waiting six weeks to disclose the hack after it detected suspicious activity and raised questions about how it handles the troves of consumer data it collects.
Equifax and the two other major credit-reporting firms, Experian Plc and TransUnion, compile lengthy financial dossiers on hundreds of millions of Americans that include their credit accounts and repayment histories.
They also have access to addresses, Social Security numbers and other information necessary to apply for credit. Those personal details are what the hackers stole.
The breach highlighted how little control consumers have over their personal data and how it is shared. Much of Equifax's revenue comes from the credit reports and other products it sells to lenders, which use the information to evaluate potential borrowers. Unlike hacks that have affected consumers who shop at particular merchants or use certain websites, the Equifax breach affected millions of people who never dealt directly with the company.
The settlement would establish a fund to compensate consumers for harm suffered because of the breach, according to people familiar with the matter. A website and call center would be set up to handle the claims, one of the people said.
The settlement would also require Equifax to make additional changes to how it handles and protects consumer data, the people said. The company is on track to spend some $1.25 billion shoring up its security systems and upgrading technology. Regulators in several states last year ordered the company to strengthen its information-security defenses, patches and disaster-response protocols.
Equifax is still working to recover from the hack nearly two years after it was disclosed. New product sales to U.S.-based lenders are lagging, as are sales of its consumer products. The company suspended stock buybacks and froze its dividend in 2017 to prepare for a potential settlement. In a May securities filing, Equifax said it had set aside $690 million to cover expenses pertaining to investigations and lawsuits. Chief Executive Mark Begor told analysts that month that a global settlement was in the works that would cover "many of the significant issues facing the company."
The breach heightened congressional scrutiny of the credit-reporting industry. Congress passed legislation last year barring credit-reporting firms from charging fees to freeze and unfreeze credit reports.
Some lawmakers have called for tighter requirements on credit-reporting firms to fix inaccuracies in credit reports.
At a House Financial Services Committee hearing earlier this year, Equifax Chief Executive Mr. Begor said the company has taken steps since the breach to help consumers more easily access and fix errors on their credit reports.
"Our culture is shifting," said Mr. Begor, who testified alongside TransUnion and Experian executives.
—Corinne Ramey contributed to this article.
Write to AnnaMaria Andriotis at annamaria.andriotis@wsj.com
Appeared in the July 20, 2019, print edition as 'Equifax Nears $700 Million Settlement in Data Breach.'
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Paul Whitehead is a British painter and graphic artist known for his surrealistic album covers for artists on the Charisma Records label in the 1970s, such as Genesis and Van der Graaf Generator.

Life and work

England: Liberty Records and Charisma Records
An art show in London in the mid-sixties led to Whitehead being picked up as an in-house artist for the London office of Jazz record label Liberty Records. Previously, he had been studying at the University of Oxford on an art scholarship. The first record cover he designed was for a repackaged Fats Domino album. This was followed by a series of work for other reissues for the UK market. In 1968, Whitehead became the original art director for Time Out in London magazine, which led him to further commissions for album covers.

After a meeting with producer John Anthony, Whitehead was introduced to Tony Stratton-Smith, the founder of Charisma Records. Stratton-Smith introduced Whitehead to Genesis, and he was hired to do the cover to their 1970 album, Trespass. Charisma Records allowed Whitehead complete creative control over his work. Fruitful work in collaboration with Genesis, Van der Graaf Generator, Lindisfarne, and Peter Hammill followed at Charisma. Additionally, Whitehead is also credited as a performer on the Peter Hammill albums Fool's Mate (drums) and In Camera (percussion).

United States
In 1973, Whitehead moved to Los Angeles, where he continued to work on album covers as a freelancer. He is still most associated with progressive rock, and designed the 2000 logo for NEARfest.

As a founder of the Eyes and Ears Foundation, he conceived of and organised the "Drive Though Art Gallery" Artboard Festival in February 1977, where artists painted on donated billboards. He has also created murals and designed corporate logos. Whitehead was in the Guinness Book of World Records for the largest indoor mural, which he painted at the Vegas World casino (since demolished and replaced by the Stratosphere casino) in Las Vegas.

Selected artworks

Album covers

Genesis
1970 Trespass
1971 Nursery Cryme
1972 Foxtrot
1973 Genesis Live (lettering only)
Van der Graaf Generator
1970 H to He, Who Am the Only One
1971 Pawn Hearts
Peter Hammill
1971 Fool's Mate
1973 Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night
Le Orme
1975 Smogmagica
2001 Elementi
2004 L'infinito
Alex Carpani
2004 Waterline
2010 The Sanctuary
Other
1968 Johnny Hallyday – Rêve et Amour
1969 High Tide – Sea Shanties
1971 Renaissance – Illusion
1975 Tom Fogerty - Myopia
2001 Submarine Silence - Submarine Silence
2004 Various artists - The Colossus of Rhodes
2004 Systems Theory - Soundtracks for Imaginary Movies
2006 Akacia - Fading Time
2007 Systems Theory - Codetalkers
2007 Holding Pattern - Breaking the Silence
2013 Days Between Stations - In Extremis
2014 Gnu Quartet - Karma
2018 Fernando Perdomo - Out to Sea
2018 Robbie Gennet - Gleams
2019 Fernando Perdomo  - Out to Sea 2
2020 Fernando Perdomo  - Out to Sea 3

Miscellaneous

1977 "Solar Carte" (mural)
1978 Armando Gallo - Genesis: The Evolution of a Rock Band (book cover)
2001 Kevin Holm-Hudson - Progressive Rock Reconsidered (book cover "Storm In a Teacup")

References

External links

World of Genesis interview
Paul Whitehead Turns It On Again for Genesis

Fantastic art
Album-cover and concert-poster artists
Genesis (band)
British expatriates in the United States
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)


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According to the man who started Apple with Steve Jobs, Wozniak says that Jobs still influences decisions made by the company more than four years after his death. This can be seen in the closed nature of Apple products, something that The Woz is not happy with. "I don't like being in the Apple ecosystem. I don't like being trapped. I like being independent," he said.
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If to some of you I appear to be knowledgeable about college admissions, it is because I am an experienced college admissions counselor. I have helped a number of incredible kids get into great schools like Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Columbia, Dartmouth, etc., and most of them scored below 2100 on the SAT. And no, they were not all URMS or athletes! Hear me, just as long as you can prove that you have special or extraordinary abilities or talents and that your SAT scores fall within a certain threshold (for Harvard that's 600 to 800 on each section of the SAT and within the same range on the Subject Tests), you have a shot at admissions! The SAT is not the gold standard that you think it is. It opens the door for consideration, but you must make a convincing case of your admissiblity apart from your SAT scores once you are in the door!
It is true that some students with SAT scores less than 2100 get into HYPSM. Some are even unhooked. However, as dascholar said you better have "special or extraordinary abilities or talents". An example of this is this year someone http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/14021211-post51.html got into MIT as an international with a 1890 (540CR, 800M, 550W) SAT. However, the guy also had several IMO medals and IOI gold medal in addition to various extremely prestigious sounding awards from his country.
Student 1: SAT 2400, Intel Finalist, top violin player who performed several times at Carnegie Hall.
Student 2: SAT 2400, US Math Olympiad Winner, co-wrote a math paper with an MIT professor during high school.
When you have a 2400 SAT, Harvard is still looking for something extra special!
But that also means that 50-60% of those who got 2400 in the test got rejected, no?
or waitlisted but yes most 2400s do not get in.
Or for those not as interested in more physics, this kind of ability would manifest as a high AMC score (120+) or AIME (6+) or USAMO qualifier.
There are some problems with your calculation.
The 152 is a meaningless number that ignores the other lower results, the randomness in the scores, and the lack of other success at the top 150 (or 500, or 1000) level when many other opportunities to demonstrate ability were available and some participation in them is visible from the record. If there is no evidence of having done something more difficult than high scores on the SAT then the measured academic level is not "top 152 in the nation" just because that was the number of high SAT scores that year.
The writing test is inconsequential, especially for females with M+V scores near 1600. The comparison group is the scores within 20 points (or 30, or 40, depending on the scoring that day, the number of retakers and so on) of 1600 M+V, plus the students with comparable scores on the ACT. This is a set of about 3000 students in which males outnumber females by 1.5 to 1, so 1200 females or something of that order. Our heroine was a Presidential Scholarship candidate, which is a 1300 males + 1300 females list of highest test scores, controlled for gender and geography and excluding international students. She did not make semifinalist, which is a list of about 500.
The resume presented is not at the level that HYPMS admits in the pure academic or pure talent categories. Excluding international students, students admitted to fill particular institutional needs (such as rare majors, geographic distribution, legacies, donors, athletes, etc), and those minority students who would not be admitted without preferences, leaves about 500 female admission spots per school in the high academic with relatively high extracurricular "unhooked" category, from a pool of maybe 3x as many comparable candidates per school (where the universities may trade slightly lower SAT for higher extracurricular or something like that). I calculated the implication of an approximately 1/3 admission rate above: rejection at all of HYPS one time out of five.
Adjust the details as you like but this is a rough yet realistic picture of what the crapshoot probably looks like.
Based on this relatively common rejection outcome, plus a totally predictable rejection at MIT, and the fact that the other 3 accepted students from the same school had 5 Asian parents, there was a claim that this was pro-white, anti-Chinese discrimination (!), and that the Chinese ethnicity was "the most important factor" (!!). Uh, OK. We have seen from years of experience on CC that the China Pride type of postings are high on accusations and low on calculations but an acceptance rate of 0.00% for applicants at that school *without* Asian parents does not exactly suggest that whites are being favored.
and for a girl to achieve a 6 on AIME, she needs to be top 20 in her class in the nation. Are you suggesting that as a Chinese girl, she has to be a very top student in the nation to get into HYPSM?
You are claiming that a 2400 is automatically in the top 150 females in the nation, and I am curious how that level of ability can be true without also being in the top few hundred of *even one* other metric, which could be the AIME, the science project competitions, writing, language learning, computer programming, building things. If the SAT result is not predicting other outcomes at high school level, what is the reason for being shocked when it is not taken as a reliable indicator (of being in the top 150 or 500 or similar echelon) for college?
If there is no evidence of having done something more difficult than high scores on the SAT then the measured academic level is not "top 152 in the nation" just because that was the number of high SAT scores that year.
I did not claim them the top students in the nation, but merely state the facts of how many were the lucky ones among the potential top students.
She did not make semifinalist, which is a list of about 500.
I did not defend her. I just said that you can not require those 2400ers to get a 6+ on AIME. In the past 5 years, I have seen 50+ HYPSM admits, none of the girls had a 6+.
I did not support his view, if you read my previous posts. I believe that though fierce competition among Asian students, it only makes them stronger and more competitive, in any sense.
I just said that you can not require those 2400ers to get a 6+ on AIME. In the past 5 years, I have seen 50+ HYPSM admits, none of the girls had a 6+.
Your statement was that using high AIME score as one of many possible additional data whose presence or absence affects the value of an SAT score, would mean unfairly creating a separate admissions category for Chinese girls, and requiring the members of that category to be the absolute top few female applicants in the nation in order to be admitted to the super-elite schools ("HYPSM"). Discrimination!
In fact, the analysis that I posted was race-independent. It also listed many other possibilities besides a high AIME score, as ways to raise the credibility of an extremely high SAT score. There is nothing special about 6+ (or the AIME) except that it is verifiable, because the AMC publishes the names of the students with those scores each year. If there are 30 different activities in which one can demonstrate ability or achievement higher than what is measured on the SAT, and *none* of them appear on an application from somebody with a 2400 SAT (whether male, female, Chinese, or some other category), that is evidence that the person is probably not in the top few hundred in ability, and this negative evidence is stronger when the applicant is known to have participated in some of the 30 activities. Do you agree that this is true and has nothing to do with being Chinese?
Regarding the Chinese matter, it is true that a race-blind analysis of the supply-and-demand market value of the credentials, or of the estimated ability level given the credentials, will disadvantage US schooled, immigrant Asian females -- especially those from some Korean and Chinese subpopulations and communities -- compared to people from most other race/gender/geography categories. Belonging to an academically very advantaged and hard striving subpopulation tends to increase test scores and grades at any fixed level of ability, and it also tends to reduce ability level at any measured level of scores and grades. If admissions does not completely account for this effect, the result would be overadmission of Asians relative to actual ability levels. There are many numerical indications that this has been happening for years, such as measurable academic underperformance of Asians relative to credentials on dozens of criteria. The Asian parents and conspiracy theorists on CC should consider the possibility that in real terms the existing system discriminates in favor of Asians relative to a pure ability-detecting or performance-predicting selection, by taking many items on the application at face value instead of discounting scores for likely inflationary factors such as test prep, weekend and afterschool academies, academic summer camps, and the rest of the advantaged immigrant routine. Or it could be a partial discounting, but less than a meritocracy would require. This is, in fact, the only known interpretation of what might be happening that is consistent with all known studies performed by Espenshade and others, including not only the admission regressions, but the ones on academic (under)performance and academic preparation.
I was a 2400 SAT, 8 AIME of Italian descent who was rejected from Princeton, Duke, and Columbia and wait-listed at Harvard, UChicago, and UPenn. I will probably be attending Norhtwestern this fall. I had pretty good extra-curricular activities and a 3.91 GPA at a competitive school in North Carolina. I'm not saying this to scare anybody, but you really never know with the college process.
I've known two people personally who scored a 2400. One was an insanely obsessive girl who studied for YEARS to take the test. She once canceled her score because she knew she missed one math question. By this description, I'm sure you can tell that she was also absurdly involved in everything at school and had immaculate grades. As a college, I would never consider her an asset. She worked hard solely to get in Ivies and top schools, had no core interests, and her only job prospect was being a dentist, based solely on making money. Sorry, but I just wouldn't see the value in having that person at my college, but alas college admissions deans can't see this fact. They just see the score. She is not abnormally intelligent, just crazy. I can't count the numerous times she has begged for my help on a simple physics or comp sci assignment. The other guy I knew who got a 2400 was my best friend, a lazy guy who will be graduating with a 2.4 GPA this year. He is going to community college next year, as he only got into two local colleges that aren't the best and would rather transfer to a nicer school through a guaranteed agreement in 2 years. His grades were low because school was not engaging, and if you wanted to talk to him about a subject he loved, like computer science, he seemed to have a degree in it. In a place like college where you pursue what you want, I would consider him an actual asset. Sure, he may not do the best in general ed classes, but if you let him put his mind to his passions, he will be driven out of intelligence alone, not something inane like making a lot of money. That is the type of student I would want to have.
Bottom line--a 2400 isn't really indicative of anything. If you try hard enough, you can probably get it, or at least get quite close. It's not the measure of the genius, and tells you nothing about an individual. Unless you totally bomb that test to prove your sheer lack of proficiency, the SAT is a pretty worthless exam to use to determine anything about a student. By its standards those two people I know are of equal intelligence, and trust me, it's not even close.
They are judged based on the believe that they must have paid someone to polish their applications or they have done nothing but built their resume!
You know what? The truth is this unfairly treatment to the Asian kids may will be the drives for them to fly high in the future.
But I did findout that these schools do give preference to SIBLINGS with decent scores. This will limit the number of seats available for normal admission. As a parent I am proud of what my D has achieved and have confidence that where ever she goes she will be successful.
There are many numerical indications that this has been happening for years, such as measurable academic underperformance of Asians relative to credentials on dozens of criteria.
siserune, you are one serious anti-asian dude. Put up some facts -- something in the form of research article, with all his scholarly credentials on the line, like the one by Espenshade, not just such twisted arguments misguided by your anti-asian bias and hiding behind anonymity of internet message board.
Fermat25, the first one will be whom I will choose any day. This kid will succeed anywhere if she is so motivated toward her set goal. Whether it is money (tell me your family live despising money) or Ivy league school or whatever. When the situation comes where something else is important in her life she will put that 150% effort in it. The second one is a worthless kid .. don't care how smart the brain may be, unless self motivated and put up his self driven effort he is worthless and deserves the community college admission 100%. I would not take this kid unless he shows a serious change in work ethic and motivation.
The second one is a worthless kid .. don't care how smart the brain may be, unless self motivated and put up his self driven effort he is worthless and deserves the community college admission 100%.
I disagree. Raw intelligence is still something to be reckoned with. The second perfect scorer has much greater potential than the first; not only does he sound much more sane, but judging by his scores/description, he could excel if he was placed in a challenging environment.
The kid is not worthless; he's just bored. Imagine where he would be if he applied himself.
As for the 40-50% acceptance rate... it still seems really low, considering the perfect 2400. I'd be interested to see if there was any hard data to back up this claim.
An important thing to note is that even if siserune's claims about Asian-Americans doing better in admissions than they would be by "pure-ability" [how "pure-ability" is defined is unclear], it would still be totally illegal for colleges to factor that into admissions decisions as Supreme Court decisions have been absolutely unambiguous that any use of race in college decisions must be narrowly tailored and holistic. Obviously, having higher standards for some race because of a statistical tendency does not come close to the standard. Imagine the outrage if some college announced it would have higher admissions standards for blacks than whites because blacks underperformed compared to statistical expectations.
Although I believe I have seen some studies that have suggested Asian-Americans somewhat under perform compared to what their stats would predict, it is not clear this is not caused by some other factor. It's plausible that different choices of majors could cause this for example. There are a number of other factors that could cause this as well. It's unclear why there is a distinction between "pure-ability" and performance. It seems to me that working hard would increase all sorts of abilities.


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Q: Doctor's translation in the God Complex refers to whom? In The God Complex, the Doctor translates...

 An ancient creature, drenched in the blood of... I'm not talking about me

Who was the creature referring to? The easy answer is the Doctor himself, but I am not completely sold on that. Perhaps it's related to the Doctor's fear or faith? He never answered what was in that room. Maybe...

 The corpses or Amy and Rory?

A: It is referring to the Doctor.

 The Doctor, at first, assumes the Minotaur is describing itself, but only after the last line does the Doctor realize what we've known all along—that the Minotaur is talking about both itself and the Doctor.

That is, the reason that moment is important is not because of what the viewer sees, but rather the impact it has on the Doctor himself.
It doesn't refer to:

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*the others, because it's using the singular

*Amy or Rory, because while both can be argued to be ancient for different reasons, the other grimmer attribute doesn't apply

 Furthermore, the series has had a lot of introspection by the Doctor into who he really is: the heroic physician or the "mighty warrior"—this description tallies with the Doctor perfectly, and further serves to demonstrate to him who he really is. It no doubt influences his decision to leave Amy and Rory.

A: According to the Time of The Doctor, the Doctor's fear is shown to be the crack in time and space.


However, numerous individuals and organizations oppose it because it's overly broad, vaguely written, unconstitutional and has unfairly set its sights on law abiding citizens who want to speak out on behalf of animals. Under the law, if you protest peacefully or engage in other forms of civil disobedience or undercover investigations you could forever be labeled a terrorist.
While it has a provision that is supposed to protect legal activities that are covered by the First Amendment, many, including the NYC Bar Association, believe that it's insufficient when it comes to protecting citizens who want to raise public awareness about animal suffering.
Causing damage to labs, fur farms or slaughterhouses might come to mind, but the law's use of the term "animal enterprise" is overly vague. It covers every place that sells animals or animal products, including grocery stores, but at the same time doesn't define illegal conduct, leaving both citizens and law enforcement confused about what people have a right to do.
"The AETA explicitly punishes causing an "animal enterprise" to lose profits, and I have spent years living in fear that the more persuasively I tell the truth about the animal suffering that underpins so much of our daily lives, the more likely I am to get thrown in jail," she recently wrote in Truthout.
While the AETA is supposed to target violent activities, it's already been pointed out that we have laws on the books to protect individuals and businesses from harassment, trespassing and damage.
This law doesn't do much but make advocates afraid to bring attention to the atrocities animals are forced to endure for fear of being arrested and silence those who may otherwise spread information and start a dialogue with the public that might change minds and behaviors, while allowing the industries that continue to profit from their use hide behind the war on terror.
not our idea of a thrill.
we are just tired of bloodshed.
so mother earth will survive.
Thank you so much, UFO.
Vocês são exemplos a serem seguidos. Parabéns e que nunca percamos a força para lutar pelos animais e aos maus intencionados que só atrapalham.
I had to translate that, but I agree that ARAs are most definitely role models! Thank you for your thoughts.
They wanna label me a terrorist? Fine by me. And I'll be a proud one for animals 'til the day I die.
Awesome attitude, Dave, thank you.
Were people who demonstrated, staged sit-ins, and marched for their basic rights in the 60's "terrorists"?
Why is there a petition for sea turtles at the end of the article???!!!
I can't share this with that there — makes no sense!
That is the way the article was written; it was written on Care2 with it. I am completely baffled by your statement – why can't you share it with it?
The word "terrorist" has such negative connotations. Animal activists are freedom fighters. I applaud them.
I agree, thank you, Emy.
I haven't read it yet, but I am glad this issue was introduced. I agree – it's insane! Thanks, hon.


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