The project organized by GoGlobal initiative is recruiting English-speaking volunteers who would come to Ukraine and interact with the children in English in summer school camps.
GoCamp is a new wave of English summer camps for children in 2017. Within three weeks of camp, children from small cities or villages (who have never been to other countries or have never interacted with foreigners) can take part in the implementation of challenging projects and tasks to communicate in English with foreign volunteers and have fun. Using a specially developed program, children will learn to work in teams, communicate in a multicultural environment, to think critically, and be tolerant of others. The main goal is to educate a new young generation of active and conscious citizens of Ukraine, capable of life long learning, and prepared for the challenges of the 21st century, fluent in foreign languages and open to other cultures and experiences.
GoGlobal is an initiative of Global Office NGO whose aim is to promote the opportunities of foreign language knowledge, expand the horizons and establish English as a vital necessity. GoGlobal is working on ensuring that Ukrainians speak English, and thus have a chance to be heard all around the world.
GoCamp will take place all over Ukraine, including small cities and villages. Volunteers will be placed in one of numerous GoCamps in all regions of Ukraine except for the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The rest of Ukraine except for the Donetsk and Luhansk regions is safe, everyday life goes normally. Our volunteers safety and security is our priority, so no volunteers are sent to the conflict area.
Participation fee is used for: transfer from the Kyiv airport; orientation training after arrival to Kyiv; pre-departure support by email; visa support; accommodations; partial meals; travel to your host community and back; SIM-cards for local calls; support from office staff and a hotline 24/7.
Volunteers are required: to be at least 18 years of age; to have upper intermediate or above level of English or be a native-speaker.
We are looking for volunteers to dedicate several weeks this spring or summer to assist teachers with various types of activities at GoCamps. Volunteers are going to participate in English speaking programmes and contribute their knowledge, skills and experience. You will conduct interactive activities, games, workshops, etc, according to the strand(s) you have chosen.
Receive a full pre-departure information package and do an online child protection.
To apply, submit the application form on http://gocamps.com.ua/en/volunteer by January 31, 2017. The earlier you submit your application the more options you will have for your camp site preference.
More info at: https://www.facebook.com/gocampua, https://www.facebook.com/goglobalua/, http://gocamps.com.ua/en; http://globaloffice.org.ua/en/.
Be a part of this incredible story, become a GoCamp volunteer!


It is the WE, time to burn some rubber.
Thanks to Richo for the initial job ans permissions. Precise work. But 2016 version is different from the version he did and a lot of work was needed to update it. Many things redone here to match as much as possible 2016 version but some very little details still missing.
I chose to release only garner version becasue of some inaccuracy on other layout. Would need a long work again. But Garner is the best layout to me.
Thanks to Gringo for this usefull help and AIW tweak.
Thanks to Luigi for cams. He already did a first version and I am waiting for the new one. This one is good enough and I will patch the track when I will get them.
Hope you will have great fun on this track.
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Brick wall fix and some other tweaks.
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Nick Smith joins Voxtur's board of directors
December 28, 2022 by Waleed Hassan Sheikh
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Voxtur Analytics Corp., is a data analysis company running feathers by offering mortgage mortgages an alternative to traditional title insurance, called commercial mortgages Nick Smith in his board of directors.
Smith, the founder of Minneapolis Capital of Rice Park in 2019 and is its managing partner and CEO, a veteran of Blackstone Group, Two Harbors Investment Corp., Green Tree Investment Management and GMAC ResCap.
Rice Park Capital led the largest investment in Blue Water Financial Technologies, which was acquired by Voxtur in September. Smith too served on the boards o Sitekick, AI Software LLC (dba Capacity), Realized Holdings Inc. and Brass Ring Capital.
"Voxtur is a new company and a platform that provides products that have the potential to improve home ownership and reduce the cost of borrowing by digitizing the purchase of a home and mortgage from the beginning to the end. end," Smith said in a information Wednesday. "I am excited to join the board, and along with my fellow board members, help support the company as it pursues its high growth goals."
Mr. Smith Mark Volosov on Voxtur's board. Volosov, CEO of the asset manager Sage Residential Management LLCwas selected in a second 12-month term on Voxtur's board of directors in June but resigned effective December 13, 2022.
A spokeswoman for Voxtur told Inman via email that Volosov and Smith "have competing interests in their businesses (specifically) that are independent of Voxtur and therefore (Volosov) felt it might conflict." he in his duties to give value back to Voxtur in our plan."
Pioneer in legal title book ideas
Find ways to make it cheaper to buy a home, major Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgages this year. update their rules allow lenders to get legal opinions instead of insurance policies.
An insurance industry group, the American Land Title Association (ALTA), has expressed concern about what it sees as the dangers of "alternative title insurance products" including "four "attorney notices" are issued to borrowers and buyers.
level of ALTA states that "it is misleading for lenders to offer insurance premiums that provide less coverage while introducing more risk to borrowers and borrowers buy."
But the nation's largest mortgage lender, United Wholesale Mortgage, embrace quickly the option of using the lawyer's information book instead of the traditional title insurance, said that it is expected "big savings" for borrowers thanks to a cheaper review process.
Voxtur says that its book of legal opinions, Voxtur AOL, "provides complete insurance for the borrower and the buyer at a reduced cost," combining data analysis with a legal opinion that is also supported by insurance Debt.
In September, the advertising company the Voxtur AOL launch with a number of lenders, "including at least one top bank and several national lenders." "
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"We're excited to see more lenders offering Voxtur AOL as an option to customers as housing prices and costs continue to rise, creating a restrictive housing environment," said the Voxtur CEO Jim Albertelli at the time. "Working with large and medium-sized investors on a national scale allows us to provide quick savings to many customers, making it easier to find homes."
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Voxtur – which is based in Toronto, Canada and Tampa, Florida – hearing on September 22 closed the $101 million acquisition of Blue Water Financial Technologies Holding Company LLC. Blue Water's largest holding company, RPC Ventures Fund I LP, is managed by Rice Park Capital.
Blue Water provides services to mortgage originators and investors in mortgage rights (MSRs), including asset valuation, MSR distribution and protect the MSR.
"By combining Blue Water's digital assets with Voxtur's data repository and analytics solutions, we are creating a new powerful and unique platform to facilitate mortgage transactions," Albertelli said at the time. "This acquisition allows Voxtur to expand and expand existing income from the primary mortgage market, while adding new income to the secondary market."
On December 22, Voxtur announced its capital markets division, Blue Water Financial Technologies, signed an exclusive partnership with an unnamed mortgage lender that represents several loan.
Blue Water will provide tools "to facilitate mortgage asset valuation, commitment, transfer, underwriting, and due diligence, as well as rep and warrant protection," simplifying the process of transferring mortgage rights from startups to entrepreneurs, Voxtur said.
Voxtur, which paid $30 million in cash and issued 170 million shares of common stock to close the Blue Water acquisition, announced it will expand its existing credit facilities with Bank of Montreal's Technology & Innovation Banking Group is $30 million with the acquisition.
Voxtur also announced a preferred conversion offer in which BMO Capital Partners paid $4 million (Canadian) for 4.08 million preferred shares in Voxtur.
BMO Capital Partners, a private equity division of Bank of Montreal, is an investor in nesto, a Montreal-based digital mortgage platform that announced a $80 million Series C funding round on December 13.
Editor's note: This story has been updated to include a statement from Voxtur that Nick Smith will replace Mark Volosov on Voxtur's board of directors.
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We're not fans of ad-blockers AdBlock, NoScript & Ghostery - The Trifecta Of Evil AdBlock, NoScript & Ghostery - The Trifecta Of Evil Over the past few months, I've been contacted by a good number of readers who have had problems downloading our guides, or why they can't see the login buttons or comments not loading; and in... Read More here at MakeUseOf. Like almost every other site on the web we rely on advertising to pay the bills associated with producing the content you read every day. And everyone who installs an ad-blocker eats into our ability to pay those bills and stay in business.
In April 2017 we reported how Google was considering adding an ad-blocker to Chrome Google Chrome Could Soon Start Blocking Ads Google Chrome Could Soon Start Blocking Ads Google is considering adding an ad-blocker to Chrome. The built-in ad-blocker would likely filter out bad ads, letting those that meet a certain standard through. Read More . At the time The Wall Street Journal suggested that rather than block everything it would likely "filter out certain online ad types deemed to provide bad experiences for users as they move around the web".
Fast-forward three months and Google is now testing its new ad-blocker. And lo and behold rather than blocking all ads from every website it's a much more nuanced effort to clean up online advertising. The idea being to improve the quality of ads and the sites running them.
Google's new ad-blocker is being tested in Chrome Canary. This is Google's experimental version of Chrome, and it's listed on Google Play as being "Unstable". Google also suggests Chrome Canary is "for developers and advanced users only," so be aware of that before you install it.
The built-in ad-blocker was first spotted by Carsten Knobloch but it has since been confirmed by TechCrunch. Canary users given access are seeing a new setting for "Ads… Blocked from some sites" with the option to toggle "Block ads from sites that tend to show intrusive ads" on or off.
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After reading your post, I installed recent Canary (i.e. 62.0.3172.2 x64 bit). But there is no ad-blocker in Chrome Canary Desktop version! I think it's proposed for Android app.
I currently using ad-blocker via Opera built-in ad-blocker. The usage of ad-blocker IS NOT a FEATURE such that ENABLE or DISABLE. For the example, I use Opera ad-blocker with EasyList, EasyPrivacy, Malware Domains, Ad-block warning removal, Fanboy's Annoyances Removal, Adware Filters, Youtube Pure and Turkish Filter. So adding more lists means to block more ads.
I have not whitelisted MakeUseOf; and now Opera ad-blocker blocks 41 ads in your site; but after this comment and whitelist your site.
I like Opera, it has a built-in ad-blocker for quite some time now. It works great and uses less RAM than other 3rd party ad-blockers.


Janet lives in the Pacific Northwest with her family and one neurotic Border Collie.
Forum members love to camp! Try your hand at organizing a rally, we can help.
Forum rallies are camping get-togethers organized by forum members. Each rally is unique and designed by our members to meet their interests and needs. There is no formal process to make a rally an "official forum rally" and the forum offers no substantial support other than encouragement and internet space for planning. Forum rallies are independant, member driven events but any rally including rallies sponsored other organizations may be posted on our rally calendar.
Once you have chosen a date and location, get to work on the details. Generally rallies are either planned substantially by one person or in a more free form fashion by the folks attending. In either circumstance, you can use a forum discussion thread to hammer out details and get attendance information.
Get the word out about your event - we can help!
Post a thread about your intended event in the Rally sub-forum. Make your thread title pop, keep it short and content heavy.
Post a rally listing on the forum rally calendar and include a link to your new thread as well as links to information about campgrounds, local tourism, etc.
Design a rally graphic. The forum offers ad space for rallies at no cost to our members. These will substantially increase visibility for your event and improve attendance. These graphics are in rotation on the right hand column on each page of the forum and will contain a link to your calendar posting. Rally graphics should be exactly 125 x 125 pixels, visually interesting and text should be kept to a minimum. If you don't want to do your own design we can help. Contact a forum moderator for help with this.
Plan or discuss meals. Meals can be simple potluck meals, catered extravaganzas, restaurant runs, BBQ pits, pizza deliveries, group or individual meals or anything else that works for your group. Consider posting a menu and then encouraging those attending to contribute items on the menu. Don't forget the plates, utensil, condiments and firewood.
Plan or discuss activities. Some rallies have organized activities, tours, special guests, demonstrations or even classes. Other rallies have no activities and are deliberately designed to be free form, relaxing and unstructured. Make sure that those attending understand any costs involved. Planing a rally does not mean that you have to foot the bill.
Share the work - learn to delegate! Enlist folks to help with set up, cleanup, meal prep, parking, kid activities or whatever you anticipate needing help with; remember you are supposed to be on vacation!
Share the fun. When your rally is over, post some pictures to your rally thread! Show us a great location, a happy camper or Airstreams in their natural habitat!
Go camping and have fun!


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Young right-hander Chris Paddack makes Padres rotation
Published 5:58 a.m. ET March 26, 2019
SEATTLE (AP) — When manager Andy Green walked to the mound on Monday night, the plan was set in motion.
He congratulated Chris Paddack on finishing off his brilliant spring training with the San Diego Padres by throwing 2 2/3 shutout innings against the Seattle Mariners. Green then turned to Eric Hosmer, Ian Kinsler and Manny Machado as they surrounded the young pitcher and posed a question to the veteran infielders.
"He asked us what we were all doing Sunday and we said we would be right behind this guy playing," Hosmer said. "I think he got the message."
The 23-year-old Paddack, a promising right-hander, will be part of San Diego's rotation when the regular season begins. He'll make his first major league start Sunday against the San Francisco Giants after capping his eye-opening spring with a dominant — albeit brief — performance in Seattle.
Green and his staff had already seen enough over the previous month to know Paddack had earned his spot two years after Tommy John surgery nearly derailed his career.
"(He) earned it. He really did. He did it the way you want to see everybody do it. He knocked the door down," Green said.
Green was correct. Paddack was impressive all spring. Monday was his fifth appearance and he finished allowing three earned runs in 15 1/3 innings while striking out 24. His fastball and changeup were already major league quality, but the addition of a curveball was a big difference in his progression this year.
Paddack had Tommy John surgery in 2016 after throwing just 42 innings in the minors. He missed the entire 2017 season while rehabbing and split last year between Class A Lake Elsinore and Double-A San Antonio as he continued to build up arm strength. He threw a total of 90 innings in 2018 and was shut down.
There was optimism he could break through during spring training, but no guarantee it would happen.
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"Just the whole moment. Coming in today knowing this was my first opportunity to pitch in a big league stadium. Going into it I had no idea that was going to happen," Paddack said.
Paddack broke into a smile on the mound as he realized the news being shared. He tried to stay stoic as he walked off the mound, but by the time he reached the dugout the emotions had hit. He connected with his family and his best friend. He made video calls and relished in making the big league club.
"Tears of joy. Tears of hard work," Paddack said. "Just reflecting on everything that happened, soaking it all in. They gave me some time to call the family. If you were in the hallway you probably heard me screaming."
Paddack is just another addition to a young but promising Padres pitching staff. His innings will be closely monitored throughout the season and there will be times he might be skipped or regulated considering his limited usage a year ago.
But on this night, all that was secondary.
"The road hasn't been straight," Paddack said. "We've had some bumps in the road coming back from Tommy John surgery, first full season back last year, I had some adversity I've faced, but it's a special moment for me and my family."
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The deal sounds great in writing and makes us just as excited to go to the airport as is does to land in America, however we will find out if it really is that great when we get there. When we do, we will write our honest review on here, this will hopefully allow other people to decide if it is an option they would like to take.
Economy – Complimentary drinks complimentary meals, blockbuster entertainment, complimentary amenity kit, goody bags for kids.
Premium Economy – Dedicated cabin, welcome glass of bubbly, crockery, cutlery and linen, comfy roomy seats, separate check-in, priority bag reclaim.
First Class – Complimentary Clubhouse/lounge, dedicated check-in, fast track security channel, private bar on tap, restaurant quality meals, leather seats/flat bed, complimentary PJs.
I'm sure if everyone had the money then they would opt for first class, and as good as it sounds (and as nice as it would be for such a long flight), however first class does not come cheap. It all depends on your flight and how you have booked it but for us it is around an extra £4,500 each. The next option for Premium Economy sounds good, but for what is essentially an extra 2 inches space in your seat it costs around £2,000. So we have opted to stick with economy, an extra 2 inches doesn't seem worth the money to us and we don't have a spare £9,000 to go first class. I personally cannot see us having an issue.


Fallout 76 players who die during the game – whether at the hands of the game's West Virginian monsters or other players – will not lose their items after they shuffle off their mortal coil. Both senior vice president Pete Hines and game director Todd Howard confirmed that you won't be 'punished' for death, and will simply respawn in a nearby location.
There's plenty of good news relating to Fallout 76 when it comes to combating griefers. Sure, you can be killed over and over by Fallout 76's monsters if you're not careful, but players won't be able to kill you over and over, because the game's PvP is more like a challenge system than anything else, according to Pete Hines. If you don't want to fight someone anymore, you don't have to.
You can check out an extended gameplay trailer for Fallout 76 below, which gives you a look at some of those monsters, as well as offering some potential hints as to how PvP might work.
The Fallout 76 release date has been confirmed as November 14 this year, meaning you don't have to wait too long to head out into West Virginia's wasteland.


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1) It is slower than transaction method.
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Banking Relations Management is responsible for the development and maintenance of counterparty relationships (depositories, correspondent banks and trading counterparties) under involvement of specialist units for operational matters.
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In 2013 the Pro Football Hall of Fame and Museum celebrated its 50th anniversary by adding a new addition adjacent to the original building. The new section of the Hall of Fame was joined to the existing section by means of a passageway called the Time Tunnel. The Hall of Fame decided to decorate the passageway by showing life-size portraits of The 15 Greatest NFL Players of All Time. The Hall of Fame hired Scott Sillcox of Heritage Sports Art to create the player images. This framed piece contains the two actual original pieces of art that were used to create the life-size image of Player #5 in the timeline – Jim Brown. To the viewer's left is the actual original watercolor painting of Brown's uniformed body, while the image in the center-top is the actual original painting of Brown's face. The image to the viewer's right is the final art that was electronically created using the two original pieces of art, and it is this compiled image that has been enlarged to life-size and can be found in the Time Tunnel at the Hall of Fame.
JAMES NATHANIEL BROWN … SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ... 6'2'', 232 ... SYRACUSE ALL-AMERICAN, 1956 ... BROWNS' NO. 1 DRAFT PICK, 1957 ... AWESOME RUNNER, LED NFL RUSHERS EIGHT YEARS ... ALL-NFL EIGHT OF NINE YEARS ... NFL's MOST VALUABLE PLAYER, 1957, 1958, 1965 ... ROOKIE OF THE YEAR, 1957 ... PLAYED IN NINE STRAIGHT PRO BOWLS ... CAREER MARKS: 12,312 YARDS RUSHING, 262 RECEPTIONS, 15,459 COMBINED NET YARDS, 756 POINTS SCORED ... BORN FEBRUARY 17, 1936 IN ST. SIMONS, GEORGIA.


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Kelowna's CKLZ-FM returns to its roots as 104.7 The Lizard
Pattison Media has returned CKLZ-FM Kelowna to its roots, rebranding Power 104 as 104.7 The Lizard, the branding the station formerly held from 1989 to 1999.
104.7 The Lizard "The Rock of Kelowna!" will continue to play a mix of classic and current rock. Senior Program Director Russell James says listeners won't notice changes to the station playlist, although over the long weekend they did revisit "vintage Lizard" tracks from bands like Garbage, Limp Bizkit and Black Crowes, riffing on '90s nostalgia for The Lizard.
"We wanted to refresh the brand while bringing it into the 2020s and how we present the best rock music on the planet while it is still on top," James told Broadcast Dialogue. "While the music hasn't changed from the successful Power 104 playlist, we wanted to bring back one of the most beloved brands in the history of Okanagan radio."
Along with the rebrand, the station has a new morning show featuring Big Ginger (Kieran Wilkie) and new addition Chris Roach, who previously was in afternoons on Power 104. Sarah Nick recently joined the station from KiSS 102.3 (CKY-FM) Winnipeg to take on the afternoon drive timeslot.
CKLZ-FM was first launched in 1964 by Okanagan Broadcasters under the call letters CJOV-FM and was Kelowna's first FM radio station, a sister station to CKOV-AM.
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BONGKOD BENCHARONGKUL: SAD BEAUTY (2018) - NEW YORK ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL
FLORENCE FAIVRE AND PAKKAWADEE PENGSUWAN IN SAD BEAUTY
Extremes of friendship
Bencharongkul's Sad Beauty is a picture that delves into friendship of women, narcissism, spousal abuse, even murder, but it seems most notable (in this combination) for, as the title says, its beauty, a glamour and sensuality that's so strong even when a corpse is being fed to crocodiles, it's pretty. This somehow fits with the tropical magic of Thailand that's evoked by the country's most famous filmmaker, Apichatpong Weerasethakul. This is veteran actress Bencharongkul's second sortie as a director, and she seems to know what she's doing. This is a movie that's interesting and intriguing. It's an odd combination of elements, fashion shoots, a sordid beating and murder, a body disposal worthy of the Coen brothers with a touch of Patricia Highsmith, and then back to the night club scene where the model-failed actress Yo (Florence Faivre, well cast) looks glamorous even when she's bruised.
Yo's best friend, companion and unpaid assistant is Pim (Pakkawadee Pengsuwan, excellent), who's smaller, seems younger, also more stable, but is sorely tested. Pim's diagnosis with serious eye cancer - following a club night and a steamy, sensuous shared shower - leads the two women to Pim's house, where her mother has been badly beaten, and the fatal confrontation of Yo and Pim with Pim's brutal, abusive stepfather takes place. The body disposal, requiring a trip to Pim's "uncle," her mother's ex-boyfriend, way up in the woods, is the central, most absorbing section in the movie. Sparse, Hemingwayesque hints at his remote house suggest he may have experience in combat and big game hunting, or maybe he's just a tropical he-man. But he's young. Though he's a total contrast, and not a talker, he plays the same role as The Wolf (Harvey Keitel) when Jules and Vincent accidentally have a corpse on their hands in Pulp Fiction.
This is a hard act to follow, but one of Sad Beauty's best aspects is the assurance of its sudden shifts. Suddenly it's a year later but Yo and Pim, who had a bitter little spat after the corpse disposal (that was a long, tough night), are still friends. Pim has been having chemo. Yo is still making good money, but still has bad vibes in the business. She still is dissolute, has no purpose, is pursued by handsome guys after a good time, and now has nightmares inspired by that night of the crocodiles. Gradually it sinks in that this is a woman's picture, centered on an intense, dysfunctional woman's friendship, in which the killing is forgotten and the greatest crime is the failure to be there for one's friend at the crucial moment. But this failure isn't without repentance. This is a female director who can handle film noir with its appropriate violence, but also delve deeply into the complexity of a women's friendship. The sensuousness also extends to things that are icky or disgusting, like the wrapped, seeping body and Pim's diseased eye, but also to a delicate handling of the lost friend that's sad without being sentimental.
The Far East Film Festival 20 blurb points out interesting details about the film and the filmmaker. More known in Thailand as Tak Bongkod, or her acting name before being married, Bongkod Kongmalai (Thai names aren't easy!) Bencharongkul began acting at fifteen in 2000, the "early days of the New Thai Cinema era." She starred in more than twenty movies for Sahamongkol Film, including blockbusters, and has also starred in TV series. This film, her first as an independent writer-producer-director (fortunate position) benefits from cult film director Kongkiat Khomsiri for details of production. The writer suggests an expressionistic role in the camerawork, bird's eye view angles "perhaps to signify the patriarchal control surrounding the protagonists," and handheld camera movement "to stress the convulsive sensibilities and feelings of being female in Thai society." But that seems to me secondary to the way the images deliver beauty even at the ugliest or ickiest moments in the action - an effect that is both cloying and liberating. And beyond the style, this director has something important and heartfelt to say. An excellent and original film.
Sad Beauty, 92 mins., debuted at Udine Apr. 2018, also Shanghai and Bucheon. Screened for this review as part of the 2018 New York Asian Film Festival, showing at the Walter Reade Theater on 14 July 2018 at 5 p.m.
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The Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church Ghana, the Most Reverend Titus Kofi Awotwi Pratt, has advised members of the church not to indulge in any form of corrupt practices that will bring disgrace to themselves, their families and the church.
He said the recent accusations of church leaders involved in financial misconduct were not encouraging and urged Christians to abstain from such ungodly behaviours.
"We are all aware of the accusations and counter-accusations of people in authority of financial malfeasance all over the country.
"Christians, and for that matter members of the Methodist Church Ghana, should not be part of such practice because it is tantamount to greed and selfishness. Methodists are disciplined and we must exhibit that everywhere we find ourselves," he added.
The presiding bishop further urged that "Christians must practise the good deeds the Bible preaches and stay away from criminal activities in society in order not to bring shame onto themselves and Christendom".
"People appointed to serve should always exhibit good examples by being truthful, patriotic and accountable," he stated.
Most Rev. Awotwi Pratt was speaking at the dedication of the expanded church building of the Ebenezer Methodist Cathedral last Saturday at Madina, near Accra.
The more spacious building will now be able to accommodate the growing congregation. The expansion works cost $3 million.
Delivering a sermon on the theme: "Go and Do Likewise" and quoting from Luke 10:37 and Matthew 5, Most Rev. Awotwi Pratt said the dedication of the church could only be complete if its members fully dedicated their lives to serving Christ and be examples to society.
"To make the Ebenezer Methodist Cathedral attractive and to win souls for Christ depends to a large extent on how the members conduct themselves," he emphasised.
The Superintendent Minister in charge of the Madina Circuit, Very Rev. John Hammond, was grateful to members of the church and people who supported the project in diverse ways.
"Christian friends, what you see now is a combination of efforts by the Projects Implementation Committee, Brushwell Contractors and Mrs Esther Agyapong," he said.


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Social Welfare for Under 26
For the Government to set the rate for all people under the age 26s set at the minimum adult rate of €188 per week.
The current social welfare rates for under 26 year olds (introduced in Budget 2014) is a financial penalty for unemployed graduates and youths in Ireland with 39% of young people struggling to make ends meet nationally. The Programme for Government (38) states, "Before the economic collapse, Ireland had the highest rate of jobless households in Europe, facilitated by educational disadvantage, poor childcare, and a passive social welfare system". In Budget 2017, the maximum personal rate for an adult aged 25 was increased from €144.00 to €147.80, while those aged 18-24 saw an increase from €100 to €102.70. The breakdown can be found below:
The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for persons aged 15-24 years (youth unemployment rate) was 12.9% in April 2017, a decrease from 13.7% in March 2011. Despite initiatives to incentivise young people to work with 3,250 places being created since 2013 there are 16,082 young people in long-term unemployment seeing majority of young people struggling on €100 p/w or €144 p/w and the will still struggle on the new rates with just a €2.70 increase a week.
Ireland currently has the fourth highest number of young people who are 'Not in Employment, Education or Training' (NEETs) in the European Union with 18.4% compared with the EU average of 12.9% (EuroStat, 2014). Even if young job-seekers entered the Labour Market earning minimum wage the weekly take home pay (minus USC) is approximately €329. This should be considered a financial incentive to work compared to the proposed €188 p/w rate (NYCI, 2016).
Despite efforts to implementing the Pathways to Work 5 Year Strategy, which aims to help 50,000 Long-Term Unemployed (unemployed for 12 months) people into jobs (Department of Social Protection, 2015), there are 179,500 persons unemployed. With young people lacking necessary experience in a competitive Labour Market, and a timeframe of up to 12 months being unemployed to enter JobPlus to further obtain employment and skills (Department of Social Protection, 2016), young people cannot survive on the current Jobseekers' Allowances with the cost of living of a single adult being €184 pw (Vincentian Partnership, 2013). USI support NYCI's claim to restore over time the Jobseekers' Allowance starting with an immediate investment of €24m.
Costings:
For a gradual increase: €24mNote, for a full restoration: €149m
Responsibility: Department of Social Protection


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Victoria's $810 Million Mortlake Gas Plant to Secure Energy Supply When Demand Peaks
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Premier Ted Baillieu last week officially opened Origin's $810 million Mortlake Power Station, Victoria's largest gas peaking plant, located 12 kilometres west of Mortlake in western Victoria.
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Joined by Minister for Energy and Resources Michael O'Brien and Minister for Regional Cities Denis Napthine at the opening, Mr Baillieu said the plant would provide an important source of energy for Victorian consumers.
The Mortlake Power Station has been specifically designed to provide energy into the grid to meet the demands during Victoria's peak times.
"This plant means more certainty and reliability for Victorian families when demand peaks – especially in the summer time. The development of this gas-powered plant, which has been in the making for four years and employed more than 350 people during construction, is hugely beneficial because it again adds to the diversified energy mix in Victoria, and will help meet our future energy needs, " Mr Baillieu said.
The project represents a significant investment by Origin Energy in regional Victoria, Mr Baillieu believes it is a vote of confidence not only in Victoria as a place to do business, but also to the strength of the privatised energy network and the huge potential of Victoria's natural resources.
Mr O'Brien said the plant was designed to meet Victoria's peak power demands and was able to generate up to 550 megawatts of power on relatively short notice.
"Victoria's electricity demand is amongst the most variable in Australia, and this plant will help to ensure that households and businesses have supply when it is needed most, especially during the height of summer. The power station will employ another 10 people on an ongoing basis, and operates using natural gas which has considerably lower carbon emissions than coal-fired plants," Mr O'Brien said.
1"In this age of energy sustainability, it showed foresight to design the plant so that it can be converted to an efficient low carbon combined cycle plant in the future. It is important for Victorian consumers and businesses to establish a peaking power plant and we are happy to have Origin Energy develop this important new source of power for our great state," he added.
Dr Napthine said regional and rural Victoria held the key to balancing the state's future growth and the plant's construction was a boon for the local economy.
"The Coalition Government is committed to encouraging investment and growing regional and rural Victoria to create new prosperity, more opportunities and a better quality of life for all Victorians," Dr Napthine said.
Development of the station had also included the construction of an 83 kilometre underground gas pipeline, which runs from the Port Campbell area to the power station at Mortlake.
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Focal high-intensity focused ultrasound ablation is an effective treatment for prostate cancer
For some prostate cancer patients, radical treatment (surgery or radiation) are treatment standards. However, these procedures may cause side effects including urinary incontinence or impotency.
A new study from USC Urology with Keck Medicine of USC demonstrates that focal (or targeted) high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) ablation of the prostate is an effective alternative to surgery or radiation, with encouraging outcomes and shortened recovery time.
Focal HIFU ablation is an outpatient procedure that uses a focused ultrasound beam to raise the temperature inside the prostate to approximately 90 degrees Celsius (194 degrees Fahrenheit) to destroy targeted areas of prostate tissue. The procedure takes around two hours and the patients are often discharged home the same day.
The study, published in The Journal of Urology, followed 100 men in the United States who underwent a HIFU procedure for prostate cancer between 2015-2019. This is the first and largest study examining the outcomes of focal HIFU ablation as a primary treatment for prostate cancer in the United States.
During follow-up, 91% of HIFU patients successfully avoided radical treatment. Also, 73% of patients did not experience treatment failure, which the researchers defined as clinically significant cancer recurrence, metastases or mortality, or the need for additional hormone therapy, chemotherapy, surgery or radiation.
The results demonstrated that focal HIFU carries a low risk of complication and can help preserve quality of life. In fact, all patients remained continent and there was no significant decrease in sexual function. There also were no serious adverse events or major complications.
Minor complications, including difficulties with urination and urinary tract infection, occurred in a small proportion of the patients, and were addressed without major interventions. Patients were typically discharged the same day as their procedure and resumed regular activities shortly thereafter.
This positive data empowers urologists to use focal HIFU ablation to effectively address prostate cancer without the intrinsic side effects of radical treatments."
Andre Abreu, MD, Study First Author and Assistant Professor, Urologic Surgeon, Clinical Urology and Radiology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
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Abreu is also an assistant professor of clinical urology and radiology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. "We hope this study encourages prostate cancer patients to talk to their doctor about all potential treatment options to ensure that they receive a personalized care plan that addresses their individual needs."
Urologists worldwide have used HIFU ablation to treat prostate cancer patients for many years; however, the technology was only approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for prostate tissue ablation in 2015. Keck Medicine was among the first U.S. institutions to use this technology following the FDA approval.
"USC Urology is dedicated to refining cancer care through collaboration and innovation," says Inderbir S. Gill, MD, founding and executive director of USC Urology and senior author of the study.
"Throughout screening, diagnosis and treatment, it is important to balance accuracy and efficacy. Our physicians will continue working toward better methods to personalize that balance for every prostate cancer patient," continues Gill, who is also Distinguished Professor and chair of the Catherine and Joseph Aresty Department of Urology, Shirley and Donald Skinner Chair in Urologic Cancer Surgery and associate dean for clinical innovation at the Keck School.
In 2010, USC Urology launched a focal therapy and image-guided surgery program to develop more accurate methods to diagnose and treat prostate cancer.
Since the program's inception, USC Urology has increased its annual image-guided prostate biopsies six-fold, with the vast majority of these procedures using a combination of MRI and ultrasound imaging. Additionally, USC Urology physicians are skilled in the most innovative therapies, including focal HIFU, cryoablation and robotic prostatectomy.
USC Urology physicians also collaborate with Keck Medicine radiologists and pathologists to create tailored, multidisciplinary treatment plans for each prostate cancer patient.
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Education for Economic Security Act: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on ...
Por United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and Humanities
Indiana has three persons with less than four years of high school for every person with
four or more years of college. Compare our statistics with those for states such as
Illinois or Missoun which have two people with less than four years of high school for
every person with four or more years of college, or to those for states such as California
and Massachusetts which have one person with less than four years of high school for
every person with four or more years of college.
In the past, students easily succumbed to the temptation to drop out of high school and
take jobs as unskilled laborers. We must now convince students to stay in school and
train for the more demanding jobs that may be the only ones available for them when
they enter the job market.
Sputnik shook everybody up because it was something our enemies did that we could see. But this is a quiet crisis and a lot of people don't believe in it. They need to be informed.-Robe Jentgens, Crane Naval Weapons Station
Are students responding to the demands of the job market? Data indicate that fewer Indiana students are now studying mathematics and science beyond ninth grade than a decade ago There has even been an 18% decline since 1972 in the number of students taking algebra (compared to an 11% decline in total enrollment in Indiana public secondary schools dunng the same penod), and we must remember that algebra is the key subject for further study in mathematics or science.
And how are we showing our determination to improve our educational programs? We allow ourselves to rank 34th in the nation and last among Midwestern states in terms of per pupil expenditures for education!
At the same time that the state is facing a need for a population that is better educated in science and mathematics, it is facing a critical shortage of secondary school mathematics and physics teachers and a shortage of chemistry, earth science and general science teachers. In 1982, Indiana's four major state universities graduated only enough mathematics teachers to fill 58% of the teaching vacancies Even more shocking are statistics indicating that in 1982 these same four universities graduated a total of 3 chemistry students, 4 earth science students, 4 general science students, and 2 physics students with qualifaications to teach in these areas. Moreover, several (if not all) of these graduates probably chose not to take teaching positions because of the inability of school systems to offer salaries anywhere nearly competitive with those that business and industry can offer to people with their training in science or mathematics.
The states and the private sector must now assume a greater role in seeking ways of improving education. We have convened this conference to provide a forum for the three major constituencies—the private sector, state government, and the educational sector-10 give their perspectives of the problem and propose ways that each can act, individually or cooperatively, to provide the improved educational climate Indiana needs so badly. Too much is at stake in this effort to even contemplate failure.
Business, Industry, and Labor Perspectives on the Crisis
Education has become an economic necessity, and many recent reports have emphasized that the economic structure of a community depends on its investment in education. As states increasingly compete for new businesses, especially high-technology industries, the availability of a well-educated work force has become a crucial factor for economic survival.
Bert Curry, the executive director of personnel operations for Eli Lilly and Company, explained that his company relies heavily on Indiana's schools to provide the workers Lilly needs. Out of about 3,300 persons working for Lilly in research and development activities, two-thirds are technicians who do not hold degrees, Curry said. Therefore, Lilly encourages prospective employees to take as much high school mathematics and science as possible.
The day is past when parents could say to their child, 'just get your diploma and everything will be all right.' -Max Wright
John Walls, president of the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce, suggested that
there are three options available for alleviating the shortage of qualified mathematics
and science teachers. These include doing nothing, which Indiana simply can not
afford; paying all teachers more, which is economically impossible; and finding a way to
pay teachers in heavy demand areas more than those in areas of oversupply. The third
option, Walls argued, is the only one feasible.
Indiana's unions are also greatly concerned about the quality of mathematics and
science education because there is no longer a need for workers who do not under-
stand mathematics and science, Max Wright, secretary treasurer of the Indiana AFU
CIO, explained. He added that in union apprenticeship programs for construction
workers, machinists and other occupations, a good understanding of mathematics and
science is essential.
The AFUCIO therefore has a number of recommendations for improving mathematics
and science education, Wright said. These include (1) encouraging students with talent
in mathematics and science to continue studying these subjects beyond high school,
(2) making school counselors more aware of job opportunities and their mathematics
and science requirements, (3) setting up scholarship funds to encourage students
talented in mathematics and science, (4) bringing teacher salaries more into line with
salaries for other professions, and (5) making funds available for continuing education
for teachers to help keep them up-to-date.
"The current and growing shortage of math and science teachers, and particularly good
ones, is occurring for the same reasons that students are not taking math or science:
lack of incentives," Dr. Frank Jaumot, the director of advanced engineering for the
Delco Electronics Division of GMC, argued.
"In industry we know that both the price and volume of a product are determined by the
marketplace if one wants to compete," Jaumot said. "If it means paying science and
math teachers more, whether directly or indirectly, so be it. If it means providing them
with better equipment than the home economics teacher, so be it."
Jaumot argued that Indiana should concentrate the training of mathematics and sci-
ence teachers in a very limited number of institutions and also require that teachers take
a reasonable amount of continuing education. He also said that more units of mathe-
matics and science should be required for students, even at the expense of units on sex
education, drugs and alcohol, nutrition and energy conservation.
Carole Garstang, vice president for the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, empha-
sized that partnerships linking business, industry and the schools are necessary both
for raising students' aspirations and interest levels in mathematics and science, and for
raising teachers' awareness of the use of mathematics and science in the real world.
All the panelists agreed that the economic well-being of the state depends on the
well-being of our schools. Several of the panelists suggested that differential pay for
mathematics and science teachers may be desirable but, by itself, will not solve the
problem. Other incentives are needed as well. All the panelists agreed that a closer
alliance between business, industry and the schools is necessary.
Government Perspectives on the Crisis
The need for the state government to be involved in any effort to improve mathematics and science education in Indiana's elementary and secondary schools should be obvious. The state is responsible for providing funds to operate the schools, for licensing the teachers and for establishing the minimum requirements for graduation.
Indiana L. Gov. John Mutz said that the state needs to spend more money for education, although the governor's policy for the past two years has been not to raise taxes despite increasing requests for money from the state's school corporations.
"The kind of commitment government needs to make is the one that reflects the importance of education in the future," he said. "Additional investments in the future of this state are essential."
If we could get our superintendents and principals to put as much effort into finding qualified math and science teachers as they put into finding coaches, I think we would have part of our problem solved.-Marilyn Schultz
Mutz, who is also director of the State Department of Commerce, explained that
available jobs, and the kind of training that will be required for these jobs, are likely to
change dramatically in the next 10 to 15 years.
"The economic analysis section of our department is determining what we call the
targeted industries' for the future in Indiana. They are significant in terms of why
mathematics and science, foreign language, and computer literacy and those related
subjects are important areas for concern in terms of our educational system," Mutz
said. He explained that these targeted industries are the communications/electronics
industry; the diesel engine industry; the materials industry, including the production of
steel and aluminum; and the energy industry, all of which will require a work force
knowledgeable in mathematics and science. He added that even the agricultural
industry, with the use of the new recombinant DNA technology, will require a highly
skilled work force.
Marilyn Schultz, the state representative from Bloomington, agreed that Indiana needs more money for basic education programs in the elementary and secondary schools, as well as a substantial investment in equipment, including computers, for the schools. But money is just the starting point, she said. Some of the options Schultz suggested for recruiting more mathematics and science teachers were forgiving student loans for those entering teaching in critical shortage areas, state-funded retraining of teachers, putting emphasis on part-time teaching to allow graduate students and retired scientists to teach, state-supported summer programs for students and teachers, offering teachers summer jobs with business and industry, and giving teachers more career opportunities by offering them 12-month contracts
Schultz, who is a member of the Governor's Select Commission on Primary and
Secondary Education, also said that stress and criticism should be applied to school
administrators who allow and foster unqualified personnel in the classrooms.
"I have heard case after case of qualified science and math teachers waiting to fill a
vacancy until after the coaching position was filled, because the highest priority in that
high school or middle school was getting a football coach who could if necessary teach
math, whether or not qualified, rather than getting that math teacher in," Schultz said.
But as bad as the teacher shortage is, the shortage should be even greater, Harold
Negley, the state superintendent of public instruction, explained.
"The real shortage is that there wasn't a group of youngsters out there who were pressing, and whose counselors were pressing them, to cause a shortage of teachers," Negley said. He added that if students were taking as much mathematics and science as they need, the teacher shortage would be much greater than it currently is. Negley pointed out that a grassroots movement for more science and math education has begun, but that more leadership from school administrators is necessary. He added that the Commission on General Education, which he chairs, will be pushing to raise the minimum requirements for mathematics and science in the schools
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Public Schools Perspectives on the Crisis
Whatever initiatives are eventually taken to solve the problems in mathematics and science education, Indiana's teachers will be a central factor for their success. But the supply of teachers is dwindling steadily. In Indiana, only about one-third as many persons entered teaching last year as a decade ago. Furthermore, 10% of the teachers under 40 years old recently responded to an Indiana State Teachers Association poll by saying they definitely plan to quit teaching as soon as possible, and another 62% said they plan to leave but either had not decided when or were waiting for something better to come along. Clearly, if a solution to the problems of mathematics and science education is to be found, then teachers' concerns must be taken into account
Cordell Affeldt, the president of the Indiana State Teachers Association and an elementary school teacher, emphasized that problems causing the shortage of mathematics and science teachers are also causing shortages of teachers in many other areas. Furthermore, these problems are likely to become much worse in the next decade, Atfeldt said, adding that the use of quick fixes, such as "bounty pay" (paying higher salaries to teachers of particular subjects) and the use of unqualified personnel in the classroom, is simply shortsighted and will not solve the basic problem.
In education, it seems at times that it is forgotten that our final product is a vital piece of humanity.-William Lumbley
William Lumbley, a chemistry teacher at Bloomington High School South, agreed that
the salaries of science and mathematics teachers should not be raised above those of
other teachers. While inadequate salaries are a malignancy that continues to drive
teachers from the profession, Lumbley pointed out that there are many other problems
affecting teachers. He added that because of these problems, he can not counsel a
talented student to enter teaching.
"I could not, in good conscience, try to convince them to enter a field where the pay is
half of what they could receive in the private sector with the same background, where
the pressures of accountability are not based upon what you do and how well you do it
but rather on hearsay and personality conflict, where your product is never publicized
and seldom returns to say 'Thank you,' or where the hours that are necessary to
adequately prepare for the next day detract from the care and attention of your own
family members and their needs," Lumbley explained.
Lumbley stated that the conditions under which mathematics and science teachers work must be improved. Some of Lumbley's recommendations include that no science laboratory course be conducted with more students enrolled than there are safe, functioning laboratory stations available that the science teacher be given the same consideration in time and budget for preparing and maintaining curcular activities as others are for extracurricular activities," and "that active support and observational basis for that support create an awareness in the decision makers, the policy formulators and the general public that the work of the science teacher is not simply an amoeboid motion nor a puff of smoke."
Alfred L Bias, the principal of Elkhart Central High School, agreed that salaries and working conditions must be improved, and added that the image of teaching as a career should also be promoted both in the schools and universities and among the general public. "Teachers want to be appropriately paid and appropnately respected," Bias said.
There are pressures now at work that are likely to intensity all shortages in the future.-Cordell Affeldt
All of the panelists agreed that the problems affecting mathematics and science teachers also affect all teachers. They emphasized that a commitment to quality education from the state is desperately needed, not only in terms of higher salaries but also for regular, tunded inservice training and continuing education for teachers. They also suggested that teacher/professor exchanges, summer employment programs for teachers in business and industry, and forgiveable loans for education students be established as soon as possible.
Higher Education Perspectives on the Crisis
They find a warm body to slip into a classroom somewhere and turn off the kids, which is virtually what happens from day one.-F. Keith Ault
One of the major resources available for combaling the crisis in mathematics and
science education is the state's universities and technical colleges. It is in these
institutions that Indiana's teachers and skilled workers are trained. These institutions
also hold a large pool of scientists and educators who can be tapped to help retrain
teachers that are already in the classrooms, as well as providing the expertise needed
to design the programs and curricula that will be needed if the crisis is to be solved.
"I think we have come to the time where we must look for a revision of the state tax
structure," Allan H Clark, the dean of the School of Science at Purdue University, told
the conference participants. "The property tax freeze, the fact that we are very low in
income tax and in sales tax, simply means that we do not have the resources to do what
needs to be done and to make the improvements that need to be done"
Because Indiana's teacher shortages are severe, the state needs to move faster than
other states to solve the problem. Clark said. Incentives for elementary and secondary
school teachers should be increased, and the National Science Foundation Summer
Institutes for teachers, which ended eight years ago in the summer of 1974, should be
reinstituted, he added.


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Flagship San Francisco Apple Store Approved by Planning Commission
Thursday February 6, 2014 5:46 pm PST by Juli Clover
The City of San Francisco today approved Apple's plans to build a new retail store in the city's famous Union Square, taking over the former Levi's building at the corner of Post and Stockton streets.
According to an Apple representative presenting the company's plans to the city's planning commission, the flagship store will be "more iconic" than the well-known Fifth Avenue glass cube retail store in New York City, reported ifoAppleStore's Gary Allen after attending the meeting.
A model of the San Francisco Apple Store presented at the meeting (Courtesy of ifoAppleStore)
Renderings of the location shared earlier this week depict the new store with two massive 44-foot tall sliding glass panels that allow the building to be exposed to the street.
Apple originally filed plans to move its existing Stockton Street store to the prime Post Street location back in May of 2013, but the company was forced to revise its initial building plans after critics objected to the removal of the historical Ruth Asawa fountain and the installation of an 80-foot wide wall along a key pedestrian and transit corridor.
Revised plans for the site were filed in August, and Apple pledged to move the fountain to a nearby location, add an eight-foot wide window, and move the glass wall of the store back by four feet.
The commission has now accepted Apple's second proposal with one small caveat -- the company will need to offer improved accessibility options for the store's upper floor. Earlier today, the San Francisco Historic Preservation Commission also approved a permit for the project, giving Apple a green light to move on with the store's construction.
Xenc
What is this? An Apple store for ants?!
AngerDanger
Time to train birds to swoop in and steal iPods!
FrizzleFryBen
Heck, I'll visit just to see the giant sliding doors! Totally rad!
AZREOSpecialist
The real victory is they saved the fountain, and all the anti-art naysayers on this board lost: Apple made room for it.
You mean this piece of crap?
Some things deserve to be torn down.
Macist
Apple are now 100% wedded to pure modernism, with its emphasis on minimalist function. This is a glass box they've boxed themselves into.
The trouble is when you arrive at pure minimalism there's nowhere else to go as any design choice that runs counter can be dismissed as trite ornamentation. On the other hand, designs that echo the organic structures of the natural world, perhaps to provide better ergonomics or some other useful function, may be dismissed as being too jarring aesthetically.
DeeGee48
Better Do It Now!
Jony Ive should design traffic bollards for the front of that place. I can see already that some idiot will one day want to ram his car through those doors!


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I like the details on these figures. I'll probably grab 3-4 at launch. My favorite so far is Princess Peach.
I plan to get all of the amiibos! I hope megaman and greninja to get one too!
They all look great! Man, I hope Little Mac and Pac-Man get their own.
shinhawk (4 years ago) #2195884Totally hyped for Amiibo even though I don't intend on getting a Wii U.
I'm not planning on getting one for a long time, but I'm excited for these too. It's Palutena's chance to get a figure!
Totally hyped for Amiibo even though I don't intend on getting a Wii U.


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Q: How to know if a Fragment already called onCreateView() We all know that when using ViewPager with Fragment and FragmentPagerAdapter we get 3 Fragment loaded: the visible one, and both on each of its sides.
So, if I have 7 Fragments and I'm iterating through them to see which 3 of them are the ones that are loaded, and by that I mean onCreateView() has already been called, how can I determine this?
EDIT: The Fragment doesn't have to be the one that the ViewPager is showing, just that onCreateView() has already been called.

A: I added an interface to Fragment. Looks like:
protected OnCreateViewCallback createViewCallback = null;

public void setCreateViewCallback(OnCreateViewCallback createViewCallback) {
    this.createViewCallback = createViewCallback;
}

public interface OnCreateViewCallback {

    void onCreateView();

}

In my onCreateView():
    //initialize your view.
    if (createViewCallback != null) {
        createViewCallback.onCreateView();
        createViewCallback = null;
    }
    return mainView;

From my activity:
        if (ocrFragment.getView() == null) {
            ocrFragment.setCreateViewCallback(new MainScreenFragment.OnCreateViewCallback() {
                @Override
                public void onCreateView() {
                    ocrFragment.ocrImage(picture, false);
                }
            });
        } else {
            ocrFragment.ocrImage(picture, false);
        }

A: Well logically, this would be a reasonable test if onCreateView has been called:
myFragment.getView() != null;

Assuming you a have a reference to all of the fragments in the pager iterate, them and check if they have a view.
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Fragment.html#getView()
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The above answer assumes that your fragments always create a view, and are not viewless fragments. If they are then I suggest sub classing the fragment like so:
public abstract class SubFragment extends Fragment
{
    protected boolean onCreateViewCalled = false;

    public boolean hasOnCreateViewBeenCalled()
    {
        return onCreateViewCalled;
    }

    @Override
    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup Container, Bundle state){
        onCreateViewCalled = true;
        return null;
    }
}

Just bear in mind that further sub classes will have to call super or set the flag themselves should they override onCreateView as well.

A: If you are trying to perform something after onCreateView is called, use onViewCreated:

Called immediately after onCreateView(LayoutInflater, ViewGroup,
  Bundle) has returned, but before any saved state has been restored in
  to the view. This gives subclasses a chance to initialize themselves
  once they know their view hierarchy has been completely created. The
  fragment's view hierarchy is not however attached to its parent at
  this point.

public void onViewCreated(View view, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
       MyActivity myActivity = (MyActivity) getActivity();
       MyActivity.newAsyncTask(mPar);
}

A: You could also check for Fragment.isVisible() because a Fragment is in visible state when it's in the offscreen page limit of a ViewPager.
Edit: But it just really depends on what you really want to achieve with your question. Perhaps some kind of update to all UIs in your Fragments when their UI is ready?
EDIT:
Just another addition, you could listen to onViewCreated() and set a flag. Or notify your Activity and do further work (getActivity() will return your Activity at this point). But really, better state what you want to accomplish with your question.

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The Suntory Yamazki (山崎) 12 is probably one of the most available Japanese whisky in the world and the first point of contact to Japanese whisky to most who tried it.
Comments: Very smooth and extremely drinkable. In a blind tasting you would probably identify this as a Higland whisky. The mild oak influences gives depth.
While a good whisky it can hold no candle to the Yamazaki 18 which is the real star of the Yamazaki core range and plays in a different league compared to the 10 and 12yo.


WILMINGTON, Del.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) announced today that it has invested in GoPago, Inc., a provider of emerging mobile payments technology. GoPago has developed a free smartphone application that allows consumers to browse, order, and pay for local goods and services. The investment, in the form of GoPago's Series A preferred stock, will support the company's expansion into mobile payment services by helping brick and mortar businesses modernize to better compete with online businesses.
Consumers can use GoPago to enjoy the convenience of ordering and paying for items or services with their smartphones, which accelerates service, provides exclusive deals, personalizes offers, and rewards customers for their loyalty. Businesses benefit by being able to easily set up mobile storefronts and the rich data and analytics GoPago provides helps them better target special offers to drive sales.
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Embassy of India in association with the India Club Jakarta organized a grand Holi Fair on 24 February 2018 at Pasar Festival Ground in Kuningan, Jakarta. H.E. Mr. Pradeep Kumar Rawat, Ambassador of India who was Chief Guest greeted participants on the occasion of Holi. He told the audience that Holi festival is occasion to forget all animosity and renew friendship. Playing with water and colors is symbolic of cleansing of sins and vices, he added.
More than 1000 persons, mostly Indonesian nationals, participated in the event. Indian food stalls set up by Indian restaurants served delicious Indian food and snacks which was savoured by the guests. Rain Dance, Live DJ , Bollywood flash mob and singers from India enthralled the audience. This was first time the Embassy organized Holi event in such a large scale.


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The long game: PND Engineers Inc. knows hiring UAA engineering grads builds a strong local workforce
by cmmyers | September 10, 2019
From front to back, PND Engineers Inc. Principal and Senior Engineer Paul Kendall, Senior Engineer Charles "Chip" Courtright, Staff Engineer Claire Ellis, Surveyor Colton Jessup, and Geotechnical Engineer Kannon Lee in front of PND's offices in Spenard. (Photo by James Evans / University Advancement)
In the heart of Anchorage's Spenard district is PND Engineers Inc.'s spacious two-story headquarters. The engineering consulting firm rooted in the Alaska community since its founding in 1979 has offices statewide and in Washington, Oregon, Texas and British Columbia. The firm has a long-standing history of hiring University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) College of Engineering (CoEng) grads, and recently hired a handful of newly graduated engineers.
"We hire a wide cross section, but more often than not, with time, most of the people that we hire from UAA or UAF tend to be with the company for 10 years or more," said Paul Kendall, B.S. Civil Engineering '01, who's been a principal and senior engineer with the company for 15 years. "From an employment standpoint, it helps us with retention. Additionally, it also provides us with engineers who have a background in the types of things we do even if they don't realize it, just because they've lived around it for so long."
Kendall helped in the hiring of new local talent from UAA CoEng's most recent cohort of engineering graduates.
A love of math and science
"Ever since I was 14, I've worked in construction," said Colton Jessup, B.S. Geomatics '17, who was recently hired as a surveyor with the company. He had a love of math and science growing up, but it was his summer job in high school that put him on the path to geomatics. "I remember when I got older, like when I was 17 or 18, I started paying attention to what the surveyors did. They were always looking at the map and drafting plans and I thought that was cool."
Since then, he's always wanted to be a surveyor. He likes the aesthetic, artistic side of this niche career within the engineering field, saying he thinks surveyors' work is beautiful and that he likes the communicative aspect of the job as well. In high school, Jessup took a lot of drafting classes, the old-school way with pen and paper, and realized that when he came to UAA, he could combine his love of drafting, math and science into a geomatics degree.
Staff engineer Claire Ellis, B.S. Civil Engineering '19, said she also had a love of math and science growing up, and it was her family of engineers and her early exposure to the work that engineers do that motivated her to pursue a degree in engineering.
"I was exposed to UAA's program and what civil engineers did in their careers early on," she said. "I kind of already knew what I was getting into and I appreciated the knowledge and technical expertise, as well as math and science that goes into engineering."
Both Kendall and principal and senior engineer Charles "Chip" Courtright, B.S. Civil Engineering '06, said that they also had a passion for math and science early on, and that pursuing a degree in engineering was a natural extension of their learning. In fact, almost everyone had a love of math and science, except for Kannon Lee, M.S. Civil Engineering '19, who was recently hired as a geotechnical engineer.
"I don't like math or science," Lee said, as the whole group erupted into laughter. His passion for pursuing a degree in engineering came from his three-year career as a grant writer in Igiugig, Alaska, where he experienced first hand the positive impact engineers have on rural Alaska communities. "We had engineers come in all the time and help build your water system, or your roads, and all these other things, and after talking to them I found it all very interesting."
Although initially not a huge fan of math and science, Lee has come to like it through his graduate coursework and second career, but said it was a bit of an adjustment from his Bachelor of Arts degree and work in grant writing.
A dynamic career
"There's not a community that doesn't need an engineer," said Kendall. After high school, it took him some time to settle on a path in life. He's found that his civil engineering degree has yielded a lot of opportunity and flexibility in his career - something he doesn't think every career field has and what might surprise people about becoming an engineer.
For both Kendall and Courtright, civil engineering was the only engineering degree offered at UAA at the time, but now CoEng has expanded to offer 10 undergraduate and graduate degree programs, as well as three collaborative programs and one Ph.D. program.
"The types of projects appealed to me," said Ellis, who is excited to have such a wide variety of projects to work on at PND. It was part of her reasoning for earning her civil engineering degree, because it's such a versatile degree within the field.
Jessup said that geomatics is a little more specific, but one of the best parts of his job is getting to be outside. He prefers spending his days out in the field surveying, rather than sitting in an office.
Lee agreed with Jessup, saying that he also wanted to work in the field, and found that pursuing a civil engineering degree yielded more opportunities to work in the field.
"A lot of people don't realize the thought that goes into creating solutions that are both innovative and elegant," said Courtright of the types of projects and work that PND is known for. "There's a lot of time, thought and planning that goes into this that the general public just doesn't realize."
Kendall added that it's easy to generalize that all engineers like math and science - nearly the whole group said they did - but really, what's surprising is how little math and science you do compared to how much you learned over the course of your college career.
"Engineering is a lot of intuition for how you do things that are constructible and successful, and that becomes a more important part of your career than the math and science you have to do in school," Kendall said. "More of our time is spent report writing, communicating and problem solving."
He said it's something that most people don't realize, but you have to be a fairly proficient writer and communicator to be an engineer because you are often explaining difficult topics to clients who don't have a background in engineering, math or science.
For PND, having a local pool of well educated engineering students is invaluable to their company. Of their more than 100 employees, about half of them are UAA CoEng graduates, according to Kendall. Hiring local students who are willing to work, live and understand the challenges of living in Alaska makes recruiting and retention in their company much easier, he said.
On the flip side, the recent graduates said that landing a position at PND Engineers Inc. is coveted as they have a reputation of excellence throughout the engineering community. Additionally, their main offices are located in Anchorage, which is a huge bonus for many UAA graduates who want to live and work in Alaska.
"The fact that they're based here in Anchorage is appealing, even though they have offices Outside," said Jessup. "Everything goes through the Anchorage office still, which I like."
Kendall added that the company is an employee-owned model and that he's pretty proud of the fact that he works at a company where half of the employee-owners came from UAA's engineering school.
"The fact that you have a university that provides capable people, who are from here and more likely to stay, has proven itself to be a positive outcome over and over again," he said.
In 2008, the Alan B. Christopherson Engineering Scholarship was established to honor the late Alan B. Christopherson, a partner at PND Engineers, Inc. and alumnus of UAA's College of Engineering, M.S. Civil Engineering '81 to benefit students pursuing their degree in civil engineering. Learn more about the scholarship at https://alaska.academicworks.com/donors/https-alaska-academicworks-com-donors-mary-christopherson.
Written by Catalina Myers, UAA Office of University Advancement
"The long game: PND Engineers Inc. knows hiring UAA engineering grads builds a strong local workforce" is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
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An Igorot Displacement Story: Busting the Claim that the Ibalois Sold Baguio
Baguio was and will always be an Igorot heritage
Gary Paul Abela
Jun 11, 2021 | 4 min read
It is quite ironic that the Igorots of Baguio, particularly the original Ibaloi settlers, are now considered to be part of the minority sector in the city. Compared to the other towns in the Cordillera region, Baguio seemed to have lost its "kaigorotan" sense of identity. Its unique heritage is slowly fading with the influx of local immigrants, tourists, and aggressive development. Even in terms of leadership, the City has been run mostly by "outsiders" and affluent immigrant families coming from other parts of the country.
Since it was chartered, there were only about three Igorots who were lucky enough to sit as City Mayor out of the twenty-seven from 1909 to the present. Even most streets, roads, and other notable sites were named after foreign personalities and other Filipino political families prominent during the American and Commonwealth periods.
While it is but proper to give due recognition to the people who were instrumental to the rise of Baguio as one of the country's most loved tourist destination, let us not forget the Igorots who toiled these lands and protected it with their lives before they were unjustly displaced and robbed of their birthright.
Contrary to the popular notion and belief being mongered by some people that Baguio has been sold by the Ibalois, history presents a more accurate perspective as to how "kafagway" fell into the hands of the Americans and later on to other Filipino aristocrats. Kapaoay or Kafagway was a grazing ground for cattle before the Americans decided to build the city of Baguio.
According to the 2002 study of the status and impact of ancestral land claims in Baguio that Ibaloi families conducted for the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process, custom dictates that "the first to till the land or introduce improvements" are recognized owners of the property. This is expressed during ritual feasts when a "mambunong" recites the community's history. This is known as the Traditional "land acquisition" process of the Igorots long before there were land titling procedures.
On Nov. 11, 1901, the American government appropriated P11,000 for the expropriation of Baguio land as it embarked on the creation of the mountain city. The study said the Ibalois were forced to sell their landholdings which were in the way of proposed government building sites, and lost much more land they needed for grazing cattle. Coercion was the mode by which the Americans "convinced" the Ibalois to accept the meager amounts offered. Some vast areas of land were just taken as a punishment for those who aided Emilio Aguinaldo and the remaining "katipuneros" as they elude American soldiers.
To facilitate this appalling dispossession, the Ibalois were also required to register their lands - a process that confounded Baguio's original settlers and made it more difficult for them to "legitimize" their ownership because it involved new concepts like land surveys. On account of this burden, it made land grabbing and stealthy acquisition techniques easier.
In 1909, Baguio was officially declared the summer capital, and the American government gave its inhabitants a shorter period to perfect their land titles when it established the Baguio townsite. In 1924, 48 Ibaloi claimants petitioned the government to recognize their land rights, but these claims were not settled. The number of Ibaloi claimants grew just as Baguio developed. But when World War II ended, Baguio addressed its first squatting problem, by relocating these families to villages, which were covered by ancestral land claims.
The national government had tried to resolve the claims from the 1960s to the martial law years of the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos. In the 1990s, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) was tasked to process ancestral land claims, as the government pursued the enactment of Republic Act No. 8371 (Indigenous Peoples Rights Act of 1997 or Ipra). But by 2002, 757 claims remained in limbo. The study said 194 of 425 ancestral land claims it examined indicated they inherited these properties.
The study said the Ibalois never abandoned their claims. "In the 1950s, fortunes were made and lost in the attempt to register and perfect Igorot claims. The Ibaloi family learned to rely on lawyers in the never-ending encounters with the administrative and judicial courts," it further claimed.
Baguio was and will always be an Igorot heritage and though other ancestral claimants have given up specially those involving lands now occupied by the government, they still deserve respect and recognition. There is no greater consolation for them than to see Baguio loved and protected genuinely and to one day wake up to a Baguio returned to its former glory as the heart of "kaigorotan".
(Originally published at gpabela.com inspired by "How the Ibaloi Lost their Land", PDI Article published January 14, 2014)
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