This year 17 new IBDP students took part in the 3rd annual SJIIM Lasallian Leadership Training Camp in the Philippines from 4 to 14 August 2018. An exciting development this year was the involvement of both scholars and non-scholars in a group of 17 incoming Year 12 students. With the emphasis on preparation for these students to serve as senior Lasallian leaders in the school, this camp follows not only an annual tradition at SJIIM, but also at its brother school in Singapore. Whilst on the trip, students have sessions in which they learn about the history of the Lasallian movement and the values that it stands for, as well as the story of its founder Saint John-Baptiste de la Salle. As well as these more theoretical sessions, however, students have opportunities to actively serve the poor in the Philippines, including planning for mini service projects. This then prepares them to initiate and carry out similar service projects for those in need closer to home back in Malaysia.
Before the students left for the camp, most of them had never met each other before, nor had they been to the Philippines. Since I had also never visited the Philippines before, I was equally excited for the adventures to come. Whilst on the camp, we visited three different Lasallian schools: La Salle Green Hills School and De La Salle Santiago Zobel School, both located in Metro Manila, as well as Jaime Hilario Integrated School-La Salle, which is near Bagac, in the province of Bataan on the western coast of the Philippines. Each of these schools brought different experiences for the students and through the interactions with a variety of Lasallians – both teachers and students – this allowed the students to develop a deeper and more complex understanding of the three core values associated with the Lasallian movement (faith, community and service). Not only that, they also came to understand that these three values do not stand separately, but are instead intimately interrelated, so that for example one's faith is strengthened through providing service to others, as the possibility of making a change in the world becomes tangibly evident. When working together as a community to improve the lives of others through service, the links between the members of the community are tightened.
At Jaime Hilario Integrated School-La Salle the students interacted with students in a variety of means. These included in class immersions on the first day there, in which they were assigned a class teacher to shadow for the day. In this experience, they supported students in their learning and found out what it was like to be a teacher at the school in planning, preparing for and delivering lessons. They also had the chance to plan for and deliver some sessions of their own, singing a song with the school's Grade 11 and carrying out games with Grade 12 students involving them learning common Filipino words and the Grade 12 students learning some Bahasa. Through this, they had the chance to realise how similar they were to these students, and to share their differing and common cultural and personal characteristics. What had the most impact on them at the school, though, was the night that they spent with host families in the local village. Many of these families gave up their own already humble sleeping quarters for the SJIIM students, and gave the students a strong understanding of the Lasallian values in action. Many of them realised that although these people had much less than them materially, they had much more spiritually, and began to get what was for some their real first taste of what community can mean when the needs of someone else supercede our own.
At De La Salle Santiago Zobel School, they had further experiences with giving service. Here, they learned from the students how to plan effectively for a service project, and to ensure its successful execution. Taking part in the school's established "Goodbye Gotam" (or "goodbye hunger") project, they planned games for the local children whose families had moved to Metro Manila in order to be close to their loved ones who are incarcerated at the local penitentiary. For many of these children, it was not unusual to have only one meal a day. By participating in the weekly feeding of these children, our students were able to experience firsthand what a difference a simple meal can make to others. Perhaps more importantly, they also learned about self-sacrifice and care for others through these children, since many of them saved part or all of the meals provided for them to take home to the rest of their families. By providing simple games for these children, they were able to give them a chance to just be children for a few hours, away from the hardships of their daily lives. In the afternoon, they visited a home for former street children called "Haven for Children", again playing games with these children and sharing a meal with them. Here, many of them were struck by the ways that they could communicate and bring happiness to these boys, despite the language barrier between them.
As well as visiting these schools, they also had the rare opportunity for a tour of De La Salle University, Manila. There, they were lucky to have a session with Br. Michael Broughton FSC, the outgoing Vice President for Lasallian Mission at the university on the core Lasallian values. A key idea that he reinforced about the value of faith is that it is a much more complex concept for Lasallians than simply religious faith: it can encompass for example faith in oneself and the belief that one has the capacity to make a difference in the world, faith in the goodness of others, faith in the possibility for improvement, and faith in something higher or greater than ourselves. That thing that is greater than ourselves might be God, or a set of values, a cause we are deeply committed to, our community and/or family. It is what gives us purpose, and can contribute to our resilience to face the challenges in life. He reinforced to the students that lack of religion does not keep one from a Lasallian spirituality, and encouraged them to explore that aspect. He encouraged the students to consider the needs of all who are less fortunate, whether or not they are "nice" people, keeping uppermost in their minds the suffering of those less fortunate than themselves. He highlighted the interesting idea that de la Salle was himself a revolutionary, having gone against the expectations of the Catholic church of his time in wanting to provide for the education of poor children. The tour of the university included not only the college's academic and administrative buildings, but also the resident cats, who are part of a project dear to the hearts of the several staff at the university to show love and care for these animals who would otherwise be neglected and even perhaps directly harmed by those who see them only as a nuisance to the local neighbourhood. A visit to the college's Chapel of the Most Blessed Sacrament included a narration by Brother Michael of the massacre of February 1945, during which more than 70 Filipino people including women and children were attacked by more than 20 retreating Japanese soldiers. This story served to contrast with the Lasallian values that the students had been considering on this visit, perhaps even more strongly reinforcing the importance of these values in impacting not just ourselves as individuals, but in the care and respect that we show to others as a result of holding these values.
For myself, I felt so fortunate to have joined the students on this trip. As a teacher who is new to the Lasallian tradition, having joined SJIIM only in August 2017, I feel that it strengthened my own understanding of the Lasallian values. Previously, I had not understood the important connections between these interdependent values. Through seeing the students interacting with other children of varying backgrounds, I have so much hope for the next two years and the enormous difference that these young people will bring to the communities that they are a part of, both inside and outside of school. My own faith has grown, and I feel an even stronger commitment to supporting the development of these values, not just in the students under my care, but also that of my own.
Below are excerpts of the scholars' reflections after the camp about their experiences and what they learned as a group and as individuals throughout this training and immersion programme.
1. Happiness does not come from material possessions, it comes from being grateful with what you already have.
2. Life isn't about becoming the richest or the best at something, it's about helping and lifting the Last, the Least and the Lost.
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New York National Guard Emergency Response Team Enhances Homeland Security
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Story by: MSG Corine Lombardo - NY National Guard Public Affairs
Dated: Sun, Jun 17, 2007
Medical treatment teams from the New York Army National Guard's Company A, 427th Brigade Special Troops Battalion provides assistance to a role-playing casualty during the validation exercise of New York's Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Explosive Enhanced Response Force Package (CERFP) at Fort Drum, N.Y. on June 17. U.S. Army photo by Lt. Col. Richard Goldenberg (RELEASED)
The roughly 300 citizen-Soldiers and Airmen are trained to respond to chemical, biological, radiological or high explosive attacks or incidents. The scenario driven training at Fort Drum's mock village, was designed to test the N.Y. National Guard' Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and High-Yield Explosive Enhanced Response Force Package or CERFP.
The team is trained and equipped to respond in the event of a natural disaster, chemical spill or deliberate act of terrorism involving weapons of mass destruction. The CERFP supports local civilian authorities by searching an incident site, including damaged buildings; rescuing victims, decontaminating them, and performing medical triage and initial treatment to stabilize them for transport to appropriate medical facilities.
"This is totally different from what we would normally be doing as combat line engineers," said Staff Sgt. Jeffrey Martinez, an engineer with Company A, 427th Brigade Special Troops Battalion. His traditional mission includes building bridges or blowing things up. "I hope something like this doesn't happen because of the number of potential casualties, but it's a great feeling to know that our team is ready if called."
Martinez and fellow search and extraction team members received specialized training in rescuer safety, rigging techniques, confined space extraction and debris removal equivalent to civilian urban search and rescue teams. This allows the search and extraction element to work closely with civilian teams.
Once an incident occurs, the type and level of contamination present is established and local authorities determine the need, CERFP team members report on site to the civilian incident commander.
In a frenzy of activity, the team immediately dons chemical suits, sets up a central decontamination sight and a medical triage area. Once the decon area is ready, the search and extraction element begins examining and assessing impacted structures for damage to enable fellow team members to focus on initial medical triage and evacuation of victims.
As victims are removed from the incident scene, they are processed through a make shift "car-wash" set up between the contaminated area, or "hot zone" and the clean area, or "cold zone." Everyone removed is decontaminated insuring that no contamination is spread outside the existing scene. Injured patients, both ambulatory and non-ambulatory are processed under the supervision of medical personnel to insure that they are adequately decontaminated without sustaining further injury.
In addition to working with the decontamination and casualty extraction teams providing emergency medical triage, treatment, and stabilization, the Air National Guard medical team is trained and prepared to provide complex emergency medical treatment prior to evacuation. These on-scene medical personnel are also responsible for minimizing health risks and emergency treatment of hazardous materials exposure for National Guard personnel responding to the incident.
According to Scott Edkin, the New York State Office of Fire Prevention liaison with the CERFP, "This is the first time the entire team of infantry, engineer and medical personnel has had to interact. The team has made great strides over the past week."
In addition to liaison duties, Edkin provided all Hazardous Material technical aspects of the training.
The NY Army National Guard's 2nd Battalion, 108th Infantry provides the command structure for the CERFP. The 2-108th directs the overall activities of the CERFP and coordinates with the Incident Commander. Soldiers and Engineers from the 27th Brigade Combat Team make up the search & extraction and decontamination elements of the team. The medical element is supported by the NY Air National Guard and the NY Guard, all-volunteer force supplements where needed. The units that make up the CERFP will continue to support their traditional state and federal missions while on call as this response force.
Currently, 12 states have CERFP capability with at least one located in each of the 10 Federal Emergency Management Agency regions.
The teams evaluators included representatives from the National Guard Bureau, the First U.S. Army and other operational CERFP elements.
"I'm here in two roles," said Capt. Jeffrey Winn, from the Massachusetts National Guard CERFP team. "I'm here as an evaluator for the validation as well as an observer from my own team back in Massachusetts. I'm already taking some notes on key things I've learned here to take back to my unit."
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Wayfarers All: Exile, Pilgrimage, and Hope in the Middle Ages (GTX 3320)
Dr. Melinda Nielsen – TR 3:30 – 4:45
We are wayfarers: in this life we find ourselves midway wandering "in a dark wood," as Dante famously begins the Commedia. Medieval writers called man a homo viator: one journeys in hope, longing for divine happiness and yet alienated from it. In this course, we will explore their visions of order and stability; exile and estrangement; and the quest to regain a joy greater than what was lost. Readings include The Rule of Saint Benedict, Thomas Aquinas, Norse mythology, the Gawain poet, and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, as well as selections from Tolkien's Silmarillion, an epic that re-forges the medieval quest for modern readers.
Great Texts in the Origins of Science (GTX 3343)
Dr. Eric Martin – TR 3:30 – 4:45
If humans have always sought to understand the world, what is distinctive about the methods, philosophies, or institutions that arose in early modern Europe that we recognize today as 'science'? What characterizes scientific inquiry, and does science have the ultimate authority to pronounce on matters of reality? How were religious world views entwined in the beginnings of scientific thought, and has science now superseded religious understanding? This course will investigate such questions through engagement with primary texts in the origins of science, including selections from Aristotle, Bacon, Descartes, Galileo, Newton, and Boyle. The class will help students navigate difficult questions about science's multifaceted history, its place in society, and its philosophical significance.
Great Texts in Leadership (GTX 3350)
Dr. Scott Moore – MW 1:00 – 2:15
In GTX 3350 we will read a selection of great texts of literature, philosophy, and politics that address the nature and character of leadership. We will be confronted with classic models of decision-making, with concrete historical examples of good and bad leadership, with sustained reflection and argumentation on legitimate and illegitimate means and ends of action, with the prevalence of self-deception, naiveté, and overconfidence, and with an astute understanding of the role of habit and character formation. We will read selections from Aristotle, Plutarch, Shakespeare, Machiavelli, Jane Austen, Graham Greene, Isabel Allende, and others.
Great Texts in Business: Wealth, Success, and the Imagination (GTX 3351)
Dr. Michael Stegemoller – TR 2:00 – 3:15 or TR 3:30 – 4:45
In this course, we will read and discuss some of the great texts that address questions of business and commercial life. These texts may include historical and/or philosophical treatments of business, such as Adam Smith's Of the Wealth of Nations, Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto, Alexis De Tocqueville's Democracy in America, Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, John Ruskin's Unto This Last, and excerpts from the Old and New Testaments, as well as literary treatments of business, such as Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, Dickens's Hard Times, Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, or short stories and essays by Louis Brandeis, Leo Tolstoy, Wendell Berry, William Law, and C.S. Lewis.
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (GTX 4320)
Dr. Alan Jacobs – TR 11:00 – 12:15
Starting in the latter third of the eighteenth century, a series of social and political movements arose that permanently and radically transformed Western culture, and indeed the whole world. Wholly new political philosophies were devised; and a new literary genre, the novel, emerged to chronicle the experiences of people whose lives were being turned upside down. In this class we will chronicle some of these massive transformations.
Great Works in Music (GTX 4340)
Dr. David Corey – TR 12:30 – 1:45
Musical discourse, while more limited than verbal discourse, is something to which most of us are drawn with an immediacy that is hard to explain. Though the specific point the composer would like to communicate may not be thematized in words when we hear the piece, somehow it is still conveyed in a wordless manner that leaves a lasting and deep impression. In this course, we will explore the various ways in which transcendent meaning is conveyed through music. How are things like key, rhythm, and orchestration put into the service of expressing and communicating complex existential longing? Special attention will be given to the relationship between musical form and emotional or conceptual content of the piece. While the focus will be largely on classical music, larger questions about the way that meaning is constructed in music, in general, will be of central concern. No formal musical training required.
Confession and Autobiography (GTX 4351)
Dr. Ralph Wood – TR 2:00 – 3:15
Why should one tell the story of one's life? What makes a life worth narrating—its discovery of ultimate purpose, its failure to find transcendent meaning? Whom does an autobiographer address and for what purposes? Confession to God and others, so as to account for both dark sin and shining faith? To show how we have created our lives by our own will and desires, to admit that, even at best, we are no more than co-authors of our life story?
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September 25, 2017 07:00 ET | Source: Intellipharmaceutics International Inc.
TORONTO, Sept. 25, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Intellipharmaceutics International Inc. (Nasdaq:IPCI) (TSX:IPCI) ("Intellipharmaceutics" or the "Company"), a pharmaceutical company specializing in the research, development and manufacture of novel and generic controlled- and targeted-release oral solid dosage drugs, today provided an update on its RexistaTM, henceforth referred to as Oxycodone Hydrochloride Extended-Release Tablets ("Oxycodone ER"), program.
The Company has received a Complete Response Letter ("CRL") from the United States Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") for its Oxycodone ER New Drug Application ("NDA"). In its CRL, the FDA provided certain recommendations and requests for information, including that Intellipharmaceutics complete the relevant Category 2 and Category 3 studies to assess the abuse-deterrent properties of Oxycodone ER by the oral and nasal routes of administration. The FDA also requested additional information related to the inclusion of the blue dye in the Oxycodone ER formulation, which is intended to deter abuse. The FDA has determined that it cannot approve the application in its present form.
Intellipharmaceutics International Inc. is a pharmaceutical company specializing in the research, development and manufacture of novel and generic controlled- and targeted-release oral solid dosage drugs. The Company's patented Hypermatrix™ technology is a multidimensional controlled-release drug delivery platform that can be applied to a wide range of existing and new pharmaceuticals. Intellipharmaceutics has developed several drug delivery systems based on this technology platform, with a pipeline of products (some of which have received FDA approval) in various stages of development. The Company has Abbreviated New Drug Application ("ANDA") and NDA 505(b)(2) drug product candidates in its development pipeline. These include our Oxycodone ER product, an abuse deterrent oxycodone based on its proprietary nPODDDS™ novel Point Of Divergence Drug Delivery System (for which an NDA has been filed with the FDA), and Regabatin™ XR (pregabalin extended-release capsules).


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I have some serious spring fever. I've been lucky to get in a few long, and some other shorter, rides on the cyclocross bike over the last two weeks, and this weekend should be another rad one. Today is the first day that actually feels like spring; I am so excited for an actual mountain bike ride with actual dirt and no mud or numbness or freezing rain.
Here is a video that has generated a lot of interest.
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Food for Thought: On Being Read and Reread
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By Tim Franklin in Author's Craft, Writers
There are many ways to come up with a story idea. Some of the best stories start with the simple question of what if?
The what if can be reasonable, i.e., what if a boy meets a girl and they fall in love and then break up?
Or the what if can be outlandish, i.e. I like the idea of what killed the dinosaurs. We've heard several different reasons, but the most popular one is the idea that an asteroid hit the earth and blocked out the sun long enough to kill off the vegetation and without food the dinosaurs met their doom.
What if that was not the way it happened? What if the dinosaurs had a bloody war and killed each other off? What if the dinosaurs found a powerful drug, which they became addicted to and they died as junkies? What if the dinosaurs found a powerful bomb that had been left on earth by aliens, and they accidently detonated it? The last idea is little more far out than the other two, but as you think about it more there are so many things that could have happened and no one really knows because we were not there.
I know that science says something else, but how many times has science been wrong?
Let's go with the dinosaurs and the aliens, but lets not stop there. Let's also add in the drug aspect. So it goes something like this:
Aliens have landed on a planet dominated by dinosaurs. The Aliens appear friendly at first and find a way to communicate with the dinosaurs. What the dinosaurs don't know is that the aliens are in search of guinea pigs. There is a deadly disease on the planet that the Aliens come from and now they need some other life form to test their drugs on. They secretly begin testing their drugs on the unsuspecting dinosaurs, just a few at first. The results are great, better than the aliens could hope for, but it would be years before the final cure was found.
Over the years the toll on alien life is high, as the dinosaurs wreak havoc when they have the drug and even when they don't have the drug. When the drug is in their system they turn from a peaceful species of plant eating animals into violent flesh eating animals, but the aliens are so close to a cure they are willing to sacrifice a few of their own in order to accomplish their goal.
The dinosaurs would whip themselves into a frenzy everyday beating on the outside walls of the make shift lab setup by the aliens to do their drug testing. On a typical day the pounding on the walls would go on for hours until the aliens would shoot what look like a giant drone into the sky. Once the drone was high above the planet it would begin to fire rockets toward the planet. On impact huge plumes of smoke would rise from the ground, the smoke filled with the drug the dinosaurs craved. The grayish mist looked like dense fog as it spread for hundreds of miles. The dinosaurs breathed deeply as they bathed in the enslaving gas.
It had taken 50 years, but the aliens had finally found the cure they so desperately sought. A new generation of aliens had been born on earth. Many had taken over the research started by their grandparents.
Over the last ten years reports from their home planet had been bleak. They were not sure if there was enough time to save what was left of their own planet, which was millions of miles away.
The day had come to leave earth and go home to save what was left of their planet. Some of the Aliens felt ambivalent about leaving the planet in the condition that it was in. The dinosaurs had gone from a peaceful species of animals to one that was deranged. The inbreeding alone was causing some dinosaurs to be born with long hind legs and short legs in the front and cranial deformations were also noticeable among some of the young.
In the end all of the Aliens agreed to leave earth, go home and save their own planet and return one day to reverse the damaged they had caused on earth. After all it could take another 50 years to find the cure for the drug addicted dinosaurs.
On the day of departure the Aliens awoke to the familiar pounding of the dinosaurs when they craved the drug. Except this time the pounding was against the ship that would take them home. Something had gone wrong. In anticipation of leaving the Aliens shot off several drones the night before with impact locations far from the ship. Why had the dinosaurs not followed the normal pattern?
The pounding on the ship had become intense. It was much more forceful than it had ever been. If it kept up the ship would be damaged. The Aliens had to make a decision. Should they fire on the dinosaurs or fire more drug releasing drones into the sky in hopes that it would pull the dinosaurs away? In the end they would find out that they would have to do both.
The Aliens released the ships weaponry against the dinosaurs. Because it was a ship design for science expeditions the Aliens wondered if the weapons on board would have much impact. They were encouraged at first, but it only work against the dinosaurs for a short while.
Thousands of dinosaurs had been killed but thousands replaced them. It wasn't until the ships computers blurted out that the hull of the ship had been compromised that the Aliens decided to shoot off all of the remaining drones.
Mass plumes of grayish smoke dotted the landscape as far as one could see.
It worked. The dinosaurs stopped the attack on the ship and lumbered toward the billowing smoke plumes that seemed to be everywhere.
The ship had been damaged beyond repair. A flight home would be impossible. The Aliens immediately began to make plans of how to survive in caves that they had explored while on the planet the last 50 years.
The Aliens knew that life would not be easy on a planet inhabited with drug infested flesh eating animals, but they also felt that they could wait the dinosaurs out, as a new disease had infected them a disease that caused them to die within months after mating. It would take hundreds of years, but what was the alternative?
As the Aliens began to pack up the things they would take to the caves they wondered what would become of their own planet? What would happen to the wives, husbands and children left on their plant? They also wondered how their species of humans would/could survive on this planet they had named earth?
This just small example of what can be accomplished by using the "what if" approach when trying to come up with ideas to help with a story. The beauty of it is that you can go back into the story and pick out things that you like and write a story just based on that, for example I like the idea of drones on carpet bombing runs dropping drugs instead of explosives. The end result is to control someone or something anyway. So maybe your story is about controlling an entire society via drones.
Whatever your story ends up being just keep writing.
Tim Franklin
Book Lover on June 19, 2014 at 11:45 am
Wow, Tim, That was a great "What If." You should develop this into a full-fledged story.
dwhirsch on March 8, 2014 at 10:27 pm
"What if" is always a good jumping point for stories.
Phil on March 8, 2014 at 5:12 pm
Tim, everyone knows it was cigarette smoking that killed the dinosaurs.
Arlene on February 27, 2014 at 3:25 pm


After 10 years of preparation, British and American School Stories, 1910–1960: Fiction, Femininity, and Friendship by Dr. Nancy G. Rosoff, dean of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies, and co-author Dr. Stephanie Spencer, professor of the History of Women's Education at the University of Winchester, has finally hit the bookshelves.
The historical analysis examines how reading selected British and American school stories contributed to the formation of gender identity for teenage girls in the early to mid-twentieth century. Dr. Rosoff said that rather than comparing cultural differences, the book explores similarities that can be found across British and American cultures.
In total, Drs. Rosoff and Spencer examined five series—Marjorie Deane, Grace Harlowe, and Joan Foster for American novels and the Chalet School and Dimsie for British novels. Throughout these books, the authors examined five overlapping themes under the umbrella topics of friendship and femininity—sociability, responsibility, authority, domesticity, and possibility. Dr. Rosoff noted that since the analysis follows the characters from school age to early adulthood, all face the "possibility" of life after school or college, whether that is further education, working, getting married, or motherhood.


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Q: Apache logs timestamp to Date typescript I am getting this timestamp "18/May/2011:12:40:18 -0700" from an Apache log and I want to convert it to a Date type. I want to extract from the timestamp the day of the month, the month, the year and the time.
When I try to create a new Date from the data showed before, I receive Invalid data error message from TS compiler. I think the -0700 is the problem, so I ask for a solution, please.

A: The problem is the colon between date and time. You need to replace it with a space.
var timestamp = '18/May/2011:12:40:18 -0700';

var jsdate = new Date(timestamp.replace(':',' '));

A: The code below shows the issue you're having. JavaScript can't parse that format into a date. (The -0700 is the difference to UTC).

var dates = [];

dates.push(new Date("18/May/2011:12:40:18 -0700"));
dates.push(new Date("18/May/2011:12:40:18-0700"));
dates.push(new Date("2011-05-18:12:40:18-0700"));

dates.forEach(parsedDate => console.log(parsedDate.toString()))

You will probably need to parse the date yourself or use a library

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I'm excited to teach an online course on "Stewardship and Culture: Building Contagious Generosity" this next Jan. 9 through Feb. 11. Registration will be open beginning in December at transformingthechurch.org. The class will feature four audio-video presentations, an interactive online Class Forum, and four weekly live conference calls on Saturdays, Jan. 21 and 28 and Feb. 4 and 11. We'll begin with a conference call on Jan. 9 to introduce ourselves to the class, website, and one another.
The course will explore how aspects of our North American culture influence our practice of stewardship and giving. Students will frame critical questions about consumerism and God's vision of sufficiency, recognize the impact of technology and marketing on consumerism, and begin to create an intentional Generosity Plan for their congregation. Topics will include critiquing mainstream-culture assumptions about achievement and individualism, redefining ourselves from consumers to stewards, shifting our focus from "the market of one" to hands-on community work, and strengthening a culture of generosity within our faith network.
"Stewardship and Culture" is sponsored by the Ecumenical Stewardship Center, which provides stewardship resources for churches and Christian organizations all across the U.S. and Canada. I look forward to joining in this venture with you!


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Janie Rothfield and Nathan Bontrager
Janie Rothfield is an award winning clawhammer banjo player and powerhouse fiddler who has been playing Old Time Music "forever"! Janie got her start playing with older generation fiddlers and banjo players from New England, North Carolina and Quebec and since high school has had bands that played music rooted in Traditional American and Celtic music styles. She is known for her melodic and rhythmic style on both fiddle AND clawhammer banjo and for her original tunes. Two of her tunes have won the Best Non-Traditional Tune at Clifftop Appalachian Stringband Festival! Her newest solo CD, OUT OF THIN AIR, features all of her own compositions and songs, and in 2016 she released a wonderful CD of Fiddle/Harmonica duets with harmonica master, Brendan Power called PUFNSAW, and OFF THE CUFF AND ON THE FLY with her duo Hen's Teeth (With Nathan Bontrager)! Jane performs with numerous bands, including Coracree, Hen's Teeth,The Janie Rothfield Old Time Duo/Trio and with daughter Shona Carr as Little Missy.
Janie has taught clawhammer banjo, fiddle and guitar for over 35 years, privately and at camps and festivals such as Banjo Camp North, Old Songs Summer Camps, Janie's Jumpstart, Heart of the Alleghanies Festival, Philadelphia Folk Festival, Folk College and the Festival of American Fiddle Tunes and even as far away as Australia! Her teaching method combines an easy to learn technique that combines strategies for learning to play by ear quickly with a focus on musicality and rhythm!
"Janie came highly recommended so I had high expectations. They were met and exceeded. I've been playing fiddle for years, trying to learn from books and the internet. After Janie showed me the proper way to hold the fiddle and bow, and proper bowing technique, all those tunes I know became so much easier to play. Then she showed me the most important thing about playing any instrument; the difference between playing notes and making music. And the whole time I never feel like I'm taking lessons. I feel like I'm just hanging out playing music and learning new things. Most importantly, I'm excited about learning because it has become fun again." Jamie McCracken- Janie's Fiddle student
"Janie has shown me how to pull the melody out of old time tunes on my banjo… to make them less busy and more musical. I had developed some poor habits throwing every banjo cliché I ever learned into each tune I played. Janie showed me how to strip out all of the unnecessary stuff… to concentrate on the melody and rhythm which ultimately "pops" the tunes and makes them more beautiful." Tim Wade-clawhammer banjo (Doylestown, PA)
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Cellist, Nathan Bontrager, is one of those rare musicians who has seamlessly and beautifully combined his years of rigorous classical music training (Baroque and Renaissance) with American Old Time and Celtic folk music. As a multi-instrumentalist equally at home playing fiddle, clawhammer banjo and guitar, Nathan brings a deep understanding of traditional music and a unique voice to his music.
Following years of rigorous classical training, Nathan began to focus primarily on improvised music, traditional folk music and Baroque and Renaissance music. This wide array of skills has allowed him to develop techniques and a sound on the cello that can be applied to virtually any traditional style of music. Nathan is also proficient on bass, guitar, banjo, fiddle and other instruments and has made a focused study of how to translate techniques idiomatic to other instruments to the cello. The cello, being an "outsider" in most traditional music contexts, can either be a welcome and inspiring new addition or an awkward invader. Bontrager uses his broad musical experience and knowledge to find ways to sensitively introduce the cello into new musical contexts. As a teacher, he stresses the need for cellists to be attentive to the specific needs of a particular musical situation, starting from the perspective of a bass player. From there, he introduces foundational rhythmic and harmonic principles which are augmented by useful techniques for folk music such as percussive bowing styles (chopping, Balkan "village bass" style, etc.) and extended pizzicato techniques.
From Pennsylvania, Nathan currently lives in Germany teaching and touring with Hen's Teeth, the UK based Root & Branch, the Bal Folk Trio, Salut! and other experimental, improv and pop music projects. http://randb.org.uk/ https://www.facebook.com/salutfolks/


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German second seed Alexander Zverev saved a match point and survived a second successive French Open scare on Friday, coming back to defeat Bosnia's Damir Dzumhur 6-2, 3-6, 4-6, 7-6 (7/3), 7-5 to reach the fourth round for the first time.
Zverev, 21, who is seen as Rafael Nadal's principal obstacle to the Spaniard's expected coronation as champion for an 11th time, endured a nightmare outing before claiming victory after almost four hours on Court Philippe Chatrier.
He hit 73 unforced errors, dropped serve eight times and served up seven double faults.
He had to save a match point in the 10th game of the decider before breaking and holding to make the last-16 where he will face either French 15th seed Lucas Pouille or Russia's Karen Khachanov.
"It was an amazing, high level match, it was the first time I have won on this court and I hope there are many more to come," said Zverev, bidding to become the first German men's champion in Paris since 1937. Dzumhur, the 26th seed, was left to regret squandering a host of opportunities.
He served for the match at 6-5 in the fourth set only to be broken to love before battling back from 1-3 down in the decider to go to match point at 5-5.
That was saved by a nerveless out-wide serve from the German who held, then broke for 6-5 before claiming victory when the Bosnian hit long.
Dzumhur finished with 51 winners — the same as Zverev — but 68 unforced errors and was broken nine times.
"All I could do was keep fighting," said Zverev who had also needed five sets to beat Serbia's Dusan Lajovic in the second round.
For Zverev it was a 33rd win of the season, the best figures on the tour which has also yielded clay court titles in Munich and Madrid as well as a runners-up spot to Nadal in Rome.
In a dramatic — if error-plagued match — there was a worrying moment when Dzumhur accidentally collided with a ball boy as they both chased an airborne dead ball after two games of the fourth set.
The distressed youngster needed to leave Court Philippe Chatrier after receiving a consoling hug from the Bosnian player.


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Leitrim woman part of the new Vision for cycling in rural Ireland
Leitrim Observer Reporter
This week saw the formal launch of the Vision for Cycling in Rural Ireland by Cyclist.ie's Rural Cycling Collective, an array of groups and individuals under the umbrella of the wider national Cyclist.ie advocacy network.
One woman to the fore front of the group was Jo Sachs Eldridge from Leitrim Cycling Festival.
The Collective seeks to make rural communities (towns, villages, and rural roads) cycle-friendly for all ages and abilities. It aims to re-balance the debate on active travel so that everyday journeys by bike across rural Ireland are enabled and supported.
The Vision was laucnhed by Junior Minister Malcolm Noonan over zoom and Jo Sachs-Eldridge (Transport Planner/Leitrim Cycling Festival) gave a 5 min presentation on the document.
Dr. Damien Ó Tuama for Cyclist.ie said:"Today, we launch our vision document which aims to promote and celebrate everyday cycling in towns, villages and their surrounding areas. Cycling is not just for Dublin and other cities. Our vision highlights the needs of areas outside of the major cities and the opportunity now presents itself to transform peoples' experience of active travel.
Jo Sachs-Eldridge of Leitrim Cycling Festival, explained, "What we want is to see changes in the way things are being done in our local authorities, we need to move from a reactive, ad hoc approach to one that is much more strategic and proactive. And we need to change the environment on our roads – both the physical and the social environment - so that they are safer for everyone.
"The 8 key recommendations in the vision document could transform the countryside into places where cyclists are "expected and respected", by designing useful, connected cycle routes throughout Local Authority areas", Sachs-Eldridge continued. "As a priority, safe cycle routes to schools and car-free zones should be introduced at school gates in all towns and villages, along with lower speed limits to make our roads and streets safer and more accessible for everyone, and to reduce casualties".
Sachs-Eldridge added that "we are delighted to finally see a funding commitment for cycling in the Programme for Government. But it must be accompanied by an improvement in design standards, and improved project management capacity at all levels of local and national government."
Summary of major points in the Vision:
Create an environment in our cities, towns, villages and rural roads where CYCLISTS ARE EXPECTED AND RESPECTED
Implement BEST PRACTICE DESIGN to ensure routes are safe and comfortable for cyclists of all ages and abilities
Prioritise SAFE CYCLE ROUTES TO SCHOOLS and car free zones at school gates
LOWER SPEED LIMITS to make our roads and streets safer and more accessible for everyone, and to reduce casualties
Ensure clear and timely ACCESS TO FUNDING, by improving capacity at all levels of local and national government
COLLABORATE WITH ALL STAKEHOLDERS - including cycling and community groups - at all stages of planning and design
Provide CYCLE TRAINING for all ages, especially children


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GRATA International Publications Energy law and regulation in Kazakhstan
Energy law and regulation in Kazakhstan
Organisation of the Energy Sector
Kazakhstan is the largest economy in Central Asia and home to more than 18 million people. As a country rich in coal, oil, natural gas and uranium, Kazakhstan's economic focus remains firmly on its industrial sector and the extraction and processing of its natural resources. There is also enormous potential for renewable energy in Kazakhstan, particularly from wind and small hydropower plan. Kazakhstan's total energy production covers more than twice its energy demand which is why in 2018 Kazakhstan was the world's 9th largest exporter of coal, 9th of crude oil and 12th of natural gas.
Energy accounts for about 21% of the country's gross domestic product (GDP), and approximately 62% of its exports. Interestingly, coal represents around half of Kazakhstan's energy mix (50% in 2018), followed by oil and natural gas (both with 25% shares), whereas the share of natural gas in the total final consumption (TFC) is only 13% in 2018.
The Current Status of Kazakhstan's Gas Industry
The Kazakhstan gas sector has vast potential as its total proved reserves of the natural gas at the end of 2019 in Kazakhstan was 2.7 trillion cubic metres making it in 2018 the world's 12th largest exporter of natural gas. Most of Kazakhstan's natural gas reserves are in crude oil or condensate-rich fields and, therefore, 90% of produced gas in Kazakhstan is an associated gas. Much of Kazakhstan's gross natural gas production is reinjected (more than 30% in 2019) to increase oil production. Natural gas production (gross extraction) has been slowly but steadily increasing in recent years in Kazakhstan – from 19 billion cubic metres (bcm) in 2009 to 23.9 bcm in 2018. Natural gas production in Kazakhstan is expected by many experts to remain stagnant and even decrease after 2025, as no new foreign direct investments are expected to be attracted in the near future in exploration and development of new gas fields in Kazakhstan, unless deficiencies of the legislative architecture of the current gas market design will be rectified to improve commerciality for gas, as discussed below.
In terms of regional gas consumption, the western part of Kazakhstan is a significant gas consumer, while in the north and the east of Kazakhstan economies are run predominantly on coal. The south of Kazakhstan uses both gas and coal. This trend is expected to continue. Domestic consumption of natural gas though increased significantly, from 10.1 bcm in 2009 to 19 bcm in 2018, and it expected that Kazakhstan's apparent natural gas consumption will grow at about 1.9% per year on average out to 2040. Competition for available commercial gas volumes between domestic consumption and export to China, therefore, will soon become one of the major problems for Kazakhstan and will require Kazakh government to make a tough choice – either continue to prioritise domestic consumption and in this way to receive less profit than one's due or instead opt for a more lucrative option of exporting limited gas volumes available to China at the expense of domestic consumption. Many experts, therefore, expect that Kazakh gas export to China will probably fall, from 7–8 bcm each to China and Russia in the early 2020s, to less than half that in the late 2020s.
Most of the gas delivered by pipelines in Kazakhstan is consumed in power generation (50%), followed by residential-commercial users (domestic sector) (36%), and industry (14%). Under the national Green Economy Strategy adopted in 2013, Kazakhstan's programme of gasification and switching the predominantly coal-fired power sector to gas has made good progress in the last five years.
Authors: Shaimerden Chikanayev, Partner and Lola Abdukhalykova, Counsel of GRATA International, Kazakhstan.
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We need to start talking to the Assad regime again….It will have to be done very, very quietly. But bad as Assad is, he is not as bad as the jihadis who would take over in his absence.
Never mind that Crocker's basic facts are wrong: "Al Qa'eda" did not carry out a raid on Free Syrian Army warehouses earlier this month. It is his dramatic call to accept Assad rather than the insurgents that will resonate.
So is Crocker merely expressing his personal opinion or is he acting as a public spokesman for some officials inside the Obama Administration?
ROBERT SIEGEL: And what is worse than the Assad regime?
RYAN CROCKER: Al-Qaida, pretty basic.
CROCKER: As I tried to point out in my op-ed, I don't think so. I certainly hope not. Bashar Al-Assad is ready for this fight. He and his father have been ready for it for 30 years. I think they will prevail. But what we got wrong, right from the beginning, is that the opposition in Syria wasn't going to be warm, fuzzy, cuddly friends of America. It was going to be what we're seeing right now, real time, hard line, Al-Qaida.
SIEGEL: By the way, you're saying that as if that was always going to be the case. Some people will argue that if the U.S. had acted differently, it could've encouraged a very different kind of opposition to Assad. Do you agree with that?
CROCKER: That would be an argument from people who simply don't understand Syria's history. As I pointed out before, Hama 1982 when Hafez Al-Assad's forces annihilated the Syrian Muslim Brothers in Syria's fourth largest city and in the process, they killed somewhere north of 15,000 innocent Sunni civilians. Look, I make no apologies for this regime.
It is brutal beyond belief. But what happened in 1982 were two things. First, the regime was not stupid. They realized that there might be a day of reckoning and they spend three decades being ready to prevail against it. This is not Egypt. It's not Libya. It's not Tunisia. These guys are ready for the fight. The second thing that happened, of course, is that it radicalized the Sunni population.
They had to keep it quiet, but those currents were always there. So I don't buy the argument that gee, if we had just come in earlier with more support that moderates would have prevailed. If we'd come in earlier with more support, the extremists, Al-Qaida, would have more arms because they would've taken them away from that of those we were trying to support just as we saw up north with the raid on Free Syrian Army warehouses.
SIEGEL: Well, let's assume that you're right and that Assad is likely to survive in power. What does it mean to come to grips with that? What would U.S. policy be in relation to a government that President Obama has said should be done with already and that we weren't very close with before all this fighting began?
CROCKER: You know, if you're going to set out a policy, you better have the means to make it work. We didn't understand the realities and our policy isn't working. We have the Geneva conference coming up. We will be there. Syrian officials will be there. It is an opportunity for us to begin a quiet dialogue.
SIEGEL: Can't you imagine the repatriation of millions of Syrians who fled the war to Syrian state that might reasonably be very suspicious of those people who left?
CROCKER: That would be part of a negotiation. Clearly, if we're going to reengage with this regime and, you know, look for a negotiated settlement, it's going to have to involve certain guarantees and certain protections. These people fled because of the violence. Not just violence from the regime but violence on all sides. They weren't part of the fight so they need assured that they will have reasonable protections when they return. And it is in the interest of the regime that they do return. You can't rebuild the state with millions of its population displaced internally or in exile.
SIEGEL: You've said that what's worse than the Assad regime would be al-Qaida in Syria. But wouldn't accepting the Assad regime's continuance mean accepting an alliance stretching from Iran through Iraq, Syria and Southern Lebanon, of Shia or Shia-backed forces that are extremely hostile to U.S. interests?
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Girl With the Dragon Tattoo TV Show Reboot In the Works At Amazon
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In February 2009, director Niels Arden Oplev released his adaptation of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, starring Michael Nyqvist and Noomi Rapace.
For second and third films, based on the novels of the same names, Rapace reprised the role of Lisbeth, alongside Swedish director Daniel Alfredson, which premiered in September and November of 2009.
The success of the European films lead to David Fincher's American adaptation, released in 2011, starring Daniel Craig as Blomkvist and Rooney Mara as Lisbeth among big names, like Stellan Skarsgard and Robin Wright. Finally, Claire Foy took on the role of Lisbeth in 2018's The Girl in the Spider's Web.
New Series Adaptation Being Developed at Amazon
Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Noomi Rapace |ScreenRant
Variety announced an original series based on Lisbeth Salander is in development at Amazon. Unlike the American film, an adaptation of the books, the streaming service intends to take the title and character of Salander, with little else.
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The announcement shares the project is titled The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, but is not a sequel or continuation and rather an entirely new story. The series is a collaboration between Amazon, Left Bank Pictures, and Sony Pictures Television, with no writers or actresses attached to the project.
About Amazon Studio
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Amazon Studio started in 2010 and has plenty of original series, with countless more in production, most famously The Lord Of The Rings prequel. Beyond Transparent and shows like The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Amazon Prime Video doesn't have many recognizable original shows, which makes the possible success of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo all the more alluring.
There is a comfort for studios in reboots. This is because audiences and previous fans will often tune in to consume the episodes just for the sake of comparison. So, what do you all think about this and which actress that you think can follow Mara & Rapace's Lisbeth amazing portrayal?
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Danielle L. Jensen: Biography
Danielle L. Jensen is a Canadian author who was born and raised in Calgary. She attended the University of Calgary and graduated with a degree in finance in 2003. She worked in the oil and gas industry for 6 years before having a change of heart. In 2010, she returned to university and studied English Literature at Mount Royal University. She has been writing fantasy books for young adults since 2008.
It took her 2 years to finish her first fantasy manuscript, after having unsuccessfully dabbled in romance writing for a while. After having finished the book in 2009, she finally received a call in 2012 with a promise of representation for her book Stolen Songbird. In 2014 it was listed as a finalist for the GoodReads Choice Award.
Stolen Songbird is the first in the Malediction trilogy. It is the story of a world in which a curse has forced the population of trolls to live underground for 5 centuries. A prophecy has been made which predicts that the trolls will be set free and the trilogy's protagonist is kidnapped and taken underground as a result. The initial idea for the book came from a dream that Jensen had about a city which was covered in rubble. The main mountain in the novel, the one under which the trolls live, was inspired by a Turtle Mountain in Canada. In 1903 there was a huge landslide on the mountain and 90 people were killed in the town below. This mountain and the story of the landslide are the basis for Forsaken Mountain which is so important in the setting of the Malediction trilogy.
Danielle L. Jensen still lives in Calgary, Alberta but now with her partner and their daughter. She writes full time.
2017 The Broken Ones
2016 Warrior Witch
2015 Hidden Huntress
2014 The Songbird's Overture
2014 Stolen Songbird
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In the case of the sexual abuse of children at a campsite in North Rhine-Westphalia, the office of the public Prosecutor Detmold determined against several employees of the youth welfare offices of the circle lip and the district of Hameln-Pyrmont in lower Saxony. "We will check, whether the authorities have made a mistake," of the Detmold chief Prosecutor Ralf Vetter said. It is a possible violation of welfare or education compulsory according to Paragraph 171 of the criminal code.
Over a period of ten years, two men to at least 23 child sexual abuse and child pornographic have made. A third man acted according to investigators information as a Client. It is a matter of more than a thousand single deeds. The Suspects – a 56-Year-old from Lügde, a 33-Year-old stone home in Höxter and a 48-Year-old from Stade in lower Saxony – were in custody.
in 2016, the 56-Year-old investigators, according to the foster father of a little girl. Their mother had already spent in 2015, a lot of time on the campsite and the child then in the custody of the man. The girl should also belong to the Victims.
by the end of 2016, a child had been displayed in the child welfare endangerment. "This display was related to the suspicion of neglect of a child, not a potential abuse," said a spokeswoman for the circle lip. The youth welfare office had reviewed "immediately," the Situation on the ground.
"revealed in The evaluation of employees: The child has not lived in any of the squalid environment, so that child protective services took the child into custody." , The authority have, however, recommended not to change the accommodation and domestic Situation in the long term.
This evaluation and the reference to a latent child welfare risk was Hameln to the competent youth welfare office, in the district of Pyrmont have been forwarded with the request to check the placement of the girl. The mother lives according to the authorities in Hameln-Pyrmont. By a decision of the local youth welfare office, the child had lived in the 56-Year-old. They should be related.
the end of 2018, then the youth welfare office of a criminal learned of a complaint for child abuse against the 56-Year-old. The foster child had been taken "on the same day in custody," said the district spokeswoman.


Constitutional validity of Aadhaar has been upheld by the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India in September 2018. Consequently, in terms of Section 139AA of Income Tax Act., 1961 and order dated 30.6.2018 (F. No. 225/270/2017/ITA.II) of the Central Board of Direct Taxes, Aadhaar-PAN linking is mandatory now which has to be completed till 31.3.2019 by the PAN holders requiring filing of Income Tax Return.
Procedure for Aadhaar PAN linking has been published vide notification no. 7 dated 29.6.2017 by Pr. Director General of Income Tax(Systems).