Introducing the topic to your readers is another very important function of an introduction to a research paper. You should make your reader know what kind of research you're going to offer him, what kind of problem you're going to study, and what methods or techniques you're going to use. Your research paper introduction should primarily include thesis statement and all the info necessary to help the reader understand your argument. In order to inspire your mind for creating an effective introduction for your research paper, you should start your work with asking yourself a series of questions: what is the use, the importance and significance of your topic? What can be the best way to assist your reader understand the topic you're going to study and the methods you're going to use? How can you prove your topic to be more interesting than other common ones? Answering these questions will help you generate great ideas for writing a great introduction for your research paper.
The writing style you're going to use for your academic work should depend on the topic and the type of your research paper. Scientific research papers should begin with stating the main purpose, the aim of the work, as well as with mentioning the methods and approaches used for analyzing the problem. An introduction for a research paper on social sciences or art should be less formal and be focused on the information and facts necessary for better understanding of the idea or concept that is going to be discussed in the paper. Surely, a corresponding writing style should be used for the whole academic paper.
Most of today's college students know that writing a good introduction for a research paper is a great part of success of the whole work. Introduction is the first paragraph of an academic paper, which is the first one that reader sees. The main function of an introduction is to attract attention and make readers want to go on reading the paper. That is why the role played by an introduction to a research paper is significant, and it is absolutely crucial to pay proper attention on working on this very part of your research paper or other academic paper.
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Sephiroth is an optional boss in Kingdom Hearts. He is accessable only after unlocking the Hades Cup. He'll be right below the Hades Cup inside the ???? match when you first unlock it. After that, it will turn into the Platinum Match. Level requirements will depend on skill level, but once you see his pattern of movements, you can defeat him easily at lower and lower levels. Being level 100 won't give you that much more of an advantage, unless you severely lack defense and HPs. Equipment is a bigger concern.
The best equipment armors you can wear are Gaia Bangles. They will give you the largets HP boost as well as much needed defense. Make sure you can take 2-3 of his hits before you go critical. Anything that boosts HP + Def is recommended, but Gaia Bangles are the best, so try and synth 3 of them. Your keyblade is up to you, I used Oathbringer for the critical hits, my first time I went up against him, but some like Black Chocobo for the extra reach. It depends on how close you can get before you can hit him. If you aren't comfortable getting as close, use the Black Chocobo. You might even consider Lionheart or Oathbringer (for the critical blows), or any other weapon that boosts magic power for increases cure effect. This will depend on your HPs. If you have a lot, you'll want the extra magic power for your cure, so you can gain more per cast.
Equip as many Elixers as you can. Yes, they get used up during Collesium battles, but you saved your game before you faced him and died (and your Elixers were gone without killing him), right? If you don't have enough Elixers to fill your slots, use Mega Ethers. Refilling your MP is much better than refilling your life, but Elixers are really what you want to be using.
Equip MP Haste, MP Rage, Critical Plus, Dodge Roll, Second Chance, Strike Raid.
Other abilities won't really matter. However, I suggest NOT equipping Sonic Blade, Ars Arcanum, and Ragnarok. You'll want to always be able to use Strike Raid when you want it.
Sephiroth does a basic standing sword slash. His sword has an incredibly long reach. If you're good, try parrying it. More often than not, I simply got hit by this, and cured after 2-3 of them.
Sephiroth does a teleport somewhere around you, generally behind you, and then follows with a sword slash. This can get annoying, because you lose your target lock on him. Damage is about the same as a Basic Sword Slash. He'll also do almost every time after you land a combo, sometimes interrupting your combo.
Sephiroth summons a huge pillar of flame to surround him. He is not invincible while he does this, so take advantage of it. Unfortunately, you can't get close enough to him while he does it to hit him.. or can you? He normally does this attack after 2-3 sword slashes, and after interrupting Sin Harvest.
Sephiroth teleports into a corner and summons some nasty voodoo against you. This move will hurt! Do not let it hit you! It will reduce your HPs to 1 (if you have Second Chance equipped), and your MPs to 0. It will kill you outright if you don't have Second Chance. After he does this, he will normally do a Teleport Sword Slash and try and kill you. If you interrupt this move (by hitting him), he'll immediately go into a Flame Pillar.
Sephiroth does a frenzy of standing and leaping blows, then leaps up and does a finisher. This will hurt very much, but I've noticed the hits don't stun, so you can dodge roll away and Cure in the middle of his tantrum if you want. Just be wary of the last blow, because it takes a chunk of life. After he's done, he's winded for a second, so get a few hits in.
Sephiroth summons 5-8 Darkness Balls that surround him, then he closes in on you, and does as Basic Sword Slash as the Darkness Balls draw in close to you. He will also do a Teleport Sword Slash here as well, if you dodged the Darkness Balls and his Basic Sword Slash. Doesn't really do a whole lot of damage, but it can keep you stunned if you get hit by a lot of them. I basically mashed Cure here, and waited for an opening to hit him.
Sephiroth turns white and summons a bunch of meteors. They circle around him slowly, causing you damage if you get hit. Then the meteors get sucked into a black hole over his head, then a huge meteor from the black hole hits you. He's invincible (at least from my testing) while he's doing this, so just try and stay away, and cure as needed.
Sephiroth has a very long reach with his sword. Do not underestimate your own reach. Using the MP Rage abilities, you should gain MP every time you get hit, enough to cast Cure. Obviously, this makes things easier if you're not spending time using items to regain your precious MP. Hit him when he's open, and try to avoid getting hit. Wait for your opening, just don't swing blindly. You'll die if you keep doing that. The basic strategy here is to whittle him down slowly but surely (hence the emphasis on defense and HPs), while ensuring that you stay alive.
Sephiroth uses Basic Sword Slash, Teleport Sword Slash (when you combo), and Flame Pillar. Dodge Roll his Basic Sword Slash if you can, or parry it if you're really good. He will run all over the place, and attack you at different angles. If you get hit, don't fret. You *NEED* to get hit in order to keep your MPs up. This is very important, as your MPs will cure you. Using Cura or Curaga if you have it, you should pretty much refill your HPs with 1 casting. You may also use whatever form of Aero you have, but at 2 MPs casting cost, I normally skip it. As discussed in the equipment section, you might want to even use a weapon that enhances your magic power and MPs. When he does his Flame Pillar, that's your chance! Dodge Roll away from him quickly, then use your Strike Raid to hit him through his flames. After a few of these, his life bar should begin to move. You may try and normal combo attack him here, but I don't recommend it, because more often than not, he'll use Teleport Sword Slash, and hit you from behind. When his life gets down to when the Yellow bar is visible, he'll teleport and say "come on".
Sephiroth will start doing Teleport Slashes and become in my opinion, slightly faster. Maybe he just attacks you more often. But the big thing here is his Sin Harvest. He'll teleport away from you into a corner somewhere, then he'll say "Sin Harvest" and have a rainbow-like glow around him. Then you'll notice that same rainbow-like glow over your head. At this point, it's too late. You're gonna get hit by it, and your HPs will now become 1, and your MPs will be 0. Directly following this, he'll use a Teleport Slash, and impale you. Here's the strategy: Sin Harvest is your time to nail him. Do not get close to him and hit him, unless you just happen to be near him when he teleports and starts doing Sin Harvest. If you interrupt his Sin Harvest, he'll immediately go into a Flame Pillar. This isn't good if you're standing near him. Stand away, near the center of the arena, then when he teleports, quickly press R2 to lock onto to him. If you hear "Sin Harvest", quickly use your Strike Raid to nail him. It will interrupt his Sin Harvest, making you immune. If his Sin Harvest attack manages to go through, use an Elixer right before it actually affects you. If you time it correctly, you'll go through the item animation, Sin Harvest will hit, then your item will take effect. This is why you have Second Chance and those Elixers... just in case it hits. After that little exchange, dodge roll and/parry his Basic and Teleport Slashes, then wait for him to use Sin Harvest again, and repeat. He'll also use Omnislash for the first time. You can either get hit by this and cure like mad during it, or use Strike Raid to become invincible. I normally get hit a few times at the beginning of this to regain MP, then cancel into a Strike Raid to avoid the final hits of his attack. When he's done with his Omnislash, combo him, or continue to hit him with Strike Raid. Just get some hits in. After you knock his life down to where the Green is just barely visible.
Sephiroth gets really angry here. A black and green vortex will surround him, and he'll have a white glow. Instead of relying on Sin Harvest, he'll be hurling other nasty voodoo at you, namely Darkness Balls and Meteors. While he's doing Darkness Balls, you can hit him. So make use of it. You'll need to cast Cure frequently here, so don't hesitate. When he does his Meteor attack, he's invincible (at least from my testing). Avoid the meteors as best you can, and quickly pop out the cures. Occassionally he will use Sin Harvest during this phase. Don't let it throw you off guard! He uses it infrequently here, and often at strange times, like right after his Meteor Shower. Sometimes he'll just do a Teleport Slash after it, and sometimes he'll teleport into Sin Harvest. My advice is to *NOT* cast Cure after the final meteor blast, and wait to see what he does. If you hear Sin Harvest, nail him with Strike Raid. If not, dodge roll, then Cure. He'll also use Omnislash here again as well, and it will be more powerful. Just repeat the strategy you used in Phase 2 for that, and you'll be okay. He'll infrequently use Flame Pillar, especially if you're close to him. Try and dodge roll away, then launch into a Strike Raid attack to hit him for some damage. Remember to cure! After this phase, he's dead.
Don't worry. You will die a lot until you get used to his incredible range and his timing. If you're dying in the first phase, either you aren't curing properly, or you don't have enough defense. Try levelling, or synthing items like Defense UP and Gaia Bangles. If it happens during the second phase, it's probably due to Sin Harvest. You must quickly press R2 to lock onto him, then nail him with Strike Raid. If you can't seem to do that, rely on Elixers. Get your Elixer ready when you see him doing Sin Harvest, then quaff it just before Sin Harvest hits. If you're dying during the third phase, it's either from Sin Harvest, or from his Meteors. I never died from his Omnislash, becuase you can cure in the middle of it. If you're having trouble against that move, raise your defense or use Strike Raid during it. Save your game before fighting: Unless you have 99 Elixers, you aren't going to want to waste them and not kill him. Load your item slots up with Elixers, get your abilities you want, equip the stuff you want, then save. If you die, just reset, so you still have your Elixers in tact.
After you defeat him, you'll gain a great deal of exp. 18,000 to be exact. Sephiroth will just stagger back, float up, and disentegrate into particles of energy. Whether or not you killed him, or he just teleported away is up for debate. Also, you'll gain his biographical information in Jiminy's Journal.
"Once known as the greatest of swordsmen, his wehereabouts have been unkown for some time. He challenged Sora to a on-on-one duel. No one knows why he has suddenly returned. Apparently, he and Cloud have crossed paths before."


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Fifteen gurus are invested in Quest Diagnostics Inc. (DGX). The provider of diagnostic testing, information and services, has a market cap of $14.72 billion. Its revenue of $7.67 billion has increased 4.70% over a 10-year period.
The stock is trading with a price-book ratio of 2.81. As of Wednesday, the price of $107.69 is 7.60% below its 52-week high and 19.47% above its 52-week low. Over the last 10 years, it has returned a gain of 115%.
The company's largest shareholder among the gurus is Jim Simons (Trades, Portfolio) with 0.18% of outstanding shares, followed by John Rogers (Trades, Portfolio) with 0.18% and the Pioneer Investments (Trades, Portfolio) with 0.13%.
Seven gurus have positions in Charles River Laboratories International Inc. (CRL). The provider of drug discovery and development services has a market cap of $6.34 billion and its revenue of $2.02 billion has grown 7.90% over the last 10 years.
The stock is trading with a price-book ratio of 5.34. The current price of $131.95 is 2.82% below its 52-week high and 33.14% above its 52-week low. Over the past decade, it has returned a gain of 133%.
Simons is the largest guru shareholder of the company with 3.15% of outstanding shares, followed by Rogers with 2.74%, PRIMECAP Management (Trades, Portfolio) with 0.88% and Ken Fisher (Trades, Portfolio) with 0.76%.
Five gurus are invested in T2 Biosystems Inc. (TTOO). The supplier of rapid in vitro diagnostic tests has a market cap of $319 million. Its revenue of $9.01 million has increased 46.90% over the past decade.
The stock is trading with a price-book ratio of 9.95. The current price of $7.3 is 27.05% below its 52-week high and 102.22% above its 52-week low. Over the past decade, it has returned a loss of 49%.
The company's largest guru shareholder is the Julian Robertson (Trades, Portfolio) with 2.3% of outstanding shares, followed by Simons with 1.88%, Steven Cohen (Trades, Portfolio) with 0.77% and Leon Cooperman (Trades, Portfolio) with 0.33%.
Seven gurus have positions in Exact Sciences Corp. (EXAS). The company, which focuses on the early detection of some types of cancer, has a market cap of $9.67 billion. Its revenue of $353.17 million has increased 127% changed over the past five years.
The stock is trading with a price-book ratio of 12.97. The price of $78.86 is 2% below its 52-week high and 110% above its 52-week low. Over the last 10 years, it has returned a 8,788% gain.
With 2.92% of outstanding shares, PRIMECAP Management (Trades, Portfolio) is the company's largest guru shareholder, followed by Pioneer Investments (Trades, Portfolio) with 0.35% and Joel Greenblatt (Trades, Portfolio) with 0.08%.
Ten gurus are invested in IDEXX Laboratories Inc. (IDXX). The company, which supplies services for companion animal veterinary, has a $20.97 billion market cap. Its revenue of $2.11 billion has increased 11.80% over the past decade.
The stock is trading with a price-earnings ratio of 70.73. The price of $242 is 5.27% below its 52-week high and 66.14% above its 52-week low. Over the last 10 years, it has returned a gain of 737%.
The company's largest shareholder among the gurus is Ron Baron (Trades, Portfolio) with 5.04% of outstanding shares, followed by Simons with 2.51%, Chuck Royce (Trades, Portfolio) with 0.17% and Columbia Wanger (Trades, Portfolio) 0.14%.


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It's not all about you
May 31, 2013 by Karen Ingala Smith
Last week, the Office of the Children's Commissioner released a report on the impact of pornography on young people. Tweets about this report from the perspective on an organisation working with women, young people and children elicited responses including the following:
"so improve porn. Don't ban young people from seeing it. Porn is a healthy aid to masturbation. It's just badly done."
"Telling women they're debased by sex. Feminism."
"I'm sick of people shaming porn. I've been watching porn since I was 11. It's a healthy part of my life."
Since then, the voices of so-called pro-porn, pro-sex-work and tory-feminists have started to sound increasingly similar to me. The young woman defending porn as a healthy aid to masturbation, the sex-worker celebrating her mastery of her craft or the former-tory politician describing that hard work that she had to undertake to reach the lofty heights of power, to my ears they're all 'me, my needs, my achievements, my just rewards'.
Starting with Louise Mensch, her own words really do it best:
"Aged 14 I had big glasses, was nerdy, feminist, ambitious, idolising Thatcher, and determined to be famous, to be an author, and to be rich. I was at private school my parents couldn't really afford because I bust my ass and won a 100% academic scholarship. I always believed in myself and I had and have no intention of checking my privilege for anyone. I earned it. I hope the next generation of young women feel the same."
That's lovely, Louise. But no matter how hard you busted your arse, it might not be so easy for someone who doesn't have a family descended from Roman Catholic gentry, who doesn't get that scholarship and 'earn' a place at Oxford.
It's clear that some groups have power and advantage where others do not. No one should deny that inequality, injustice, disadvantage and privilege exist. No one should deny that some experience multiple oppressions that others do not. This powerful blog by Reni Eddo-Lodge is a kick in the guts illustration to anyone who ever doubted it that that Sojourner Truth, Bell Hooks, Audre Lorde and Angela Carter are as relevant to feminism today as Karl Marx's thoughts about economic exploitation, alienation and the opium of the people. But from recognising the effects of class, race, age, sexuality, of life choices, life chances, of biologically determined or socially constructed differences, feminist identity politics has developed. Identity politics has become a sort of cultural nationalism, emphasising differences between those who share or do not share certain characteristics of identities whilst blurring what they may share.
Somewhere along the way 'the personal is political' became – not about the way that patriarchal society shapes the detail of women's lives, not about the commonalities of experiences and certainly not about the social and political forces defining and constraining what it is to be a woman – but about identity, the individual, empowerment, the freedom to choose, the freedom to excel, to achieve.
The conflation of empowerment and the personal – as an individual, not social being – as the political undermines collective action to dismantle the structures upholding inequality. Emphasising self-determination and personal achievement is conservative, it protects the status quo if it stops us from recognising or caring about the barriers that others face. Autonomy, choice, agency, empowerment are at best tools, political means not ends. If we confuse them with our goals then we might as well watch the chance to create a fairer and more just society for all slip through our fingers.
Can we create autonomy for ourselves as consumers? Does the young woman enjoying her healthy aid to masturbation see this outside of the global porn industry? Is her masturbation not influenced by the big business of the market, competition and profit? Feminists have historically and continue to fight for women's sexual liberation, but on our terms; not a plasticised, eroticisation of power inequality defined by men and their profits. Can her freedom to enjoy porn be separated from the exploitation of women and girls? How easy is it to separate her 'ethical feminist porn' from that which produces images of violence against women and girls created by actual violence against women and girls? What about the women and girls who suffer sexual abuse, violence and coercion from men and boys whose expectations have been shaped more by the pornography they have seen than their own experiences?
Do we want the freedom to gain economic advantage from commodifying women, packaging our sexuality, whether through lap dancing, pornography or selling sex, to appeal to the male gaze? If we can see the relationship between cheap clothing, the Rana Plaza Bangladesh Factory collapse and international economic exploitation, why can't we see the connection between buying and selling women, exploitation of women and girls through prostitution and trafficking and inequality between women and men? If we want better and fair working conditions for people in Bangladesh factories (the largest sector of women's employment and creating over 75 per cent of the country's export income), do we not equally recognise that a gendered employment market with economic inequality and the low paid, dead end jobs being disproportionately held by women in the West creates the conditions that make selling sex a viable (lack of) choice?
Or do we only care when it suits us?
Empowerment is all well and good, but how will it change the world? Feminism for me is not about focusing on the individual. It's about transcending the politics of the individual. I want a better world for all of us.
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Hecuba says:
Feminism is about womens' liberation from male domination not the right for a tiny minority of women to gain 'cookies' from men, because these women are condoning/colluding with the male oppressors.
Men have always sought to keep women divided and thereby maintain male domination over all women. Accepting that women in certain countries are being exploited is fine because this in no way challenges how white men in so-called 'more progressive countries' maintain their male domination over women.
By the way prostitution is male sexual violence against women but don't tell the menz this because they prefer to believe women want to enter prostitution because it is supposedly just a 'job' just as working in McDonalds is a job! I wonder why then men are not rushing en mass to become prostituted males?
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Recognizing that it's about "us", not about "me". That's what makes some of us radical, and some of us liberal or libertarian. It's not enough to slap a bit of liberal feminism on our radical leftist politics. If you're going to be a radical, then BE a radical.
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I can't 'like' this enough. Well said.
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Bulatlat Contributors December 16, 2017 At Ground Level, martial law extension, Martial law in Marawi, Philippine Congress, President Duterte
On Dec. 13, on its last session day before the holiday break, the 17th Congress of the Philippines, dominated by the "super-majorities" of President Duterte's political allies, took two controversial actions both of which will have negative impacts on the lives of the Filipino people, particularly the vast number of the poor and marginalized.
The first was the approval, in a joint session by the Senate and the House of Representatives, of the president's second request to extend – throughout the year 2018 – his May 23, 2017 Proclamation 216, imposing martial law and suspending the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus for 60 days in the whole of Mindanao.
Aimed at quelling the siege of Marawi City by the Maute and Abu Sayyaf extremist groups allegedly to set up an Islamic State province in Southeast Asia, the proclamation was first extended, with the approval of Congress, for five months until Dec. 31, 2017. Although the siege was ended in October with the Maute and Abu Sayyaf leaders and fighters wiped out, the state security forces cited various justifications for the year-long extension. These were not in accord with the requisites set by the Constitution ("in case of invasion or rebellion").
The second disputed measure was the ratification, separately by each chamber, of the final version of the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion bill (TRAIN), which was adopted Monday by the bicameral conference committee. TRAIN is touted to reduce personal income tax, but imposes higher taxes on fuel, petroleum products, and other commodities. That means basic goods and services will be more expensive — which inevitably will further burden tens of millions of low-income families already hard up as they are.
The year-long extension of martial law in Mindanao came fast and swift.
On Monday, Duterte sent his letter-request separately to the Senate and the House leaderships. On Tuesday, security officials briefed key members of each chamber on the situation in Mindanao. (After the three-hour briefing, House majority leader Rodolfo Farinas was quoted in media as saying his colleagues "overwhelmingly" favored extending martial law.) Then on Wednesday, after four hours of questioning executive officials in the joint session, the voting was called. Result: 240 for the extension, 27 against. (Among the senators: 14 for, 4 against; among the House members, 228 for, 23 against.)
Duterte sought the extension on the following grounds: the remnants of the Maute group are actively recruiting members among the Muslim youths; 185 Moro rebels in the government's martial-law arrest order remain at large and "in all probability are presently consolidating their forces"; the Turaife group was monitored as "planning to launch bombings, possibly in Cotabato"; the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters continue to defy the government, and the Abu Sayyaf remnants remain a serious security concern; and the New People's Army "took advantage of the situation by intensifying their decades-long rebellion against the government… purposely to seize political power through violent means and supplant the country's democratic form of government with communist rule."
The "super-majorities" in the 17th Congress accepted these justifications. But there are opposing views from the people of Mindanao, both Muslims and Christians. Specifically, I note the sentiments of the Marawi residents as publicly expressed by Macabangkit Lanto, lawyer, former congressman, ambassador, and cabinet undersecretary.
"Many residents of Marawi City are lackadaisical toward, if not wary of, the issue of extending martial law in Mindanao, maybe out of despair and hopelessness," Lanto wrote in a commentary. He added, wryly: "Such an extraordinary presidential power reserved by the Constitution for extreme crisis did not save their city from being flattened into rubble. In fact, it might even have emboldened military planners into carpet-bombing Marawi and unleashing military might. Martial law neither protected their houses from ruin nor accelerated the city's liberation from the jihadists."
"The alleged 'significant violent activities' and continuing threat by extremists to security, upon which the military and police base their recommendation to extend martial law," Lanto pointed out, "are way off the constitutional requirement of persisting rebellion or invasion or when 'public safety requires it.' The fact that there is no ACTUAL rebellion and invasion in Mindanao stares us in the face." But then, he lamented, "cases are often decided, not on legal grounds, but on other factors, not the least of them politics."
About the NPA's intensified military actions cited as rationale for the martial-law extension, a Philippine Daily Inquirer editorial called the government tack "misleading" because "the intensification comes as a direct result of the administration's withdrawal from the GRP-NDFP peace negotiations." (It was also a response to the martial law imposed in Mindanao and the AFP's "all-out war" against the NPA). Pointing out that the communist insurgency was not part of the original rationale for the imposition of martial law, the editorial asked, "How can it suddenly become part of the rationale for its extension?"
A cause for graver concern was Duterte's remarks to reporters on Wednesday that if the NPA further intensified its recruitment and stepped up its attacks against government forces, he would consider declaring martial law nationwide. And mind this: he would leave it to the military and police to say when he would do so.
As regards the ratification of the TRAIN bicameral report by the House plenary, media accounts show that it was rammed through – or railroaded, without voting and with no copies of the report given to the legislators – late at night when there was no longer a quorum, as required by the House rules for such final action.
The presiding officer, Deputy Speaker Raneo Abu, responding to the motion to ratify the report, ignored ACT-Teachers Rep. Antonio Tinio's shouts, "Mr. Speaker, objection! Objection!" as he hastily declared, "Any objection? There is none. The motion is approved!"
That's how many unpalatable administration legislations have been passed in the House.
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Calgary's The Bow: a new skyline symbol
Nathan VanderKlippeU.S. correspondent
This article was published more than 11 years ago. Some information may no longer be current.
Groundbreaking at the Bow took place on June 13, 2007, and the building is expected to be finished in September, 2011, with a final price tag of $1.5-billion.Chris Bolin Photography Inc.
More than 200 metres above Calgary's streets, a crane swings a long metal beam atop the West's new architectural crown.
The five-tonne length of steel is designed to support the upper reaches of the Bow, a building that is a study in superlatives: the largest building in the Canadian West and the biggest steel project in Canadian history.
Kerry Gillis watches the beam move, and shrugs.
"Piece of cake on this job," says the chief operating officer of Ledcor Construction Ltd., which is building the Bow and has hoisted steel pieces three times as heavy.
Earlier this month, Ledcor finished assembling the building's steel. The building's diamond-shaped "diagrid" supports will be completed by year's end; the walls of glass will be installed by late spring. The Bow, the largest North American construction project outside of New York's Freedom Tower, will then be externally complete.
There is a certain hubris that comes with building a two-million-square-foot tower that, long before workers had so much as dug the first spadeful of earth for its parking garage, was expected to become the new calling card of Calgary. Even competitors say the Bow is an icon for the city, a glass-covered fist thrust in the face of the recession.
It did not escape the downturn unscathed - financing problems by owner H&R Reit resulted in the suspension of plans for a second building. But construction on the main tower never stopped, and the money issues were eventually resolved with a $425-million financing deal last April.
Now, the building's upper reaches are taking shape at a time of resurgence for Calgary, which has profited from a new wave of development in the oil sands, driven by sustained strength in crude prices.
As some of the final beams are lifted into place, Mr. Gillis glances across the skyline - or, more properly, down on it, from the lofty heights of what will soon be the new headquarters of Encana Corp. and Cenovus Energy Corp. Several blocks away, crews have pushed another huge new tower, the million-square-foot Eighth Avenue Place, high into the sky. It, too, is a construction monument in a city that is nearing completion on two new landmarks.
But Mr. Gillis scoffs at that tower, too.
"Piece of cake over there. This," he says, casting a glance around the complicated work of erecting the Bow's curving structure 58 storeys into the sky, "is real construction."
The Bow contains 45,000 tonnes of steel connected with 45 tonnes of welding and 800,000 structural bolts, some of them so big they barely fit in a man's hand. It has 40 elevators and is so tall workers talk about the different climate at its summit. From the ground, its enormous walls of glass - which span an area the size of 14 CFL fields - swallow the sky.
For its builders, all of those attributes have combined to make the Bow Canada's most prominent billboard - a building that remains on budget, although it may be completed slightly later than expected. It's a feather in the cap that Ledcor's most ardent competitors have acknowledged.
"I would call the Bow a signature building in Calgary," said Roger Dootson, the vice-president and district manager for PCL Construction Management Inc., who also chairs the Alberta Construction Association. "And signature and iconic buildings do help out a company's résumé for future projects."
Ledcor has a long history in Alberta. Founded in 1947, it has grown into one of Canada's largest construction companies, with $2-billion a year in revenue. But in Calgary, the Bow has been a coming-out party of sorts for Ledcor, whose efforts in Western Canada have focused largely on the less-glitzy work of building pipelines and oil sands projects. For Ledcor, the Bow has become something of a marketing exercise for its bread-and-butter business of putting together industrial structures.
Standing on top of the Bow, the reason is obvious. In its nearly-complete shadow stand the head offices of much of corporate Calgary. Suncor Energy Inc. is a next-door neighbour. TransCanada Corp. is so close that Ledcor once received a call from a safety executive at the pipeline company, who had spotted a lapse on site through his office window. The problem was quickly fixed.
Ledcor has toured all of its major corporate clients through the construction site, in hopes of creating a profitable halo effect from the building.
"It's expertise. They can see that we're not just a one-line company," said Bob Scott, the Ledcor senior project director who has led the Bow project.
And there is little denying the scale of the Bow construction effort. Because it was building in the middle of a crowded urban environment, Ledcor had little spare space to work with - and has had to warehouse most of its construction materials at a large offsite yard. The company was obligated to turn delivery timing into an art form.
Another unique aspect: To save time and costs, each of the restrooms in the building was built in Ontario as a fully-finished, fully-furnished unit inside a container. Each container was then shipped, lifted into place and connected to plumbing, ready for use. Even the light bulbs were screwed in several thousand kilometres away.
Ledcor also had to contend with hiring up to 1,250 staff - the Bow's peak labour requirement - in a province that was, when construction began, suffering from an overheated economy. But it got lucky: The downturn came just as construction ramped up. Suddenly, workers from Fort McMurray became available.
That doesn't mean the Bow has been Ledcor's most profitable endeavour.
"These big trophy assets are difficult, and at the end you say, 'I could have made more money building 10 smaller towers,' " said Greg Kwong, regional managing director for CB Richard Ellis in Calgary. "But at the same time, you need these big trophy assets as far as stars on your chest are concerned, to help promote your company."
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LifeLine Music Coalition
Promoting jazz and the arts
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FRIDAY NIGHT JAZZ @ WOODMERE ART MUSEUM- Celebrating 10 years!
JAZZ – UP, DOWN, AND AROUND
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OUTDOOR PRODUCTIONS
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WOODMERE ART MUSEUM SATURDAY NIGHT JAZZ …OUTDOORS
LifeLine Music Coalition, Inc. (LMC) is a 501 c(3) non-profit organization dedicated to preserving and promoting jazz and the arts in Philadelphia.
Since 2003, LMC has presented 15 jazz festivals and hundreds of concerts and workshops throughout the Delaware Valley and abroad, including at the Dominican Republic Jazz Festival, and coming soon – China! For 8 years, LMC was the music producer for the West Oak Lane Jazz and Arts Festival, which took place literally in the neighborhood of Ogontz Avenue. The 3-day festival consisted of non-stop music on four outdoor stages which ran simultaneously. In keeping with LMC's mission to promote Philadelphia's homegrown talent, 80% of the artists hired for the festival were from the Philly area. LMC also included The O'Jays, Teena Marie, Chaka Khan, Ashford and Simpson, Parliament Funkadelic, Benny Golson, Esperanza Spalding, Sun Ra Arkestra, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Dave Sanborne, George Duke, Kevin Eubanks and many others. Everyone was a headliner!
Following the West Oak Lane Jazz and Arts Festival, LMC produced the Philadelphia United Jazz Festival (currently in its fourth year) outdoors on South Street in Philadelphia. www.philaunitedjazzfestival.com
For the past ten years, with the support of the William King Foundation, LMC has produced its signature series Jazz Up, Down and Around , which showcases the many directions jazz can take. LMC has also been presenting "Friday Night Jazz" at the Woodmere Art Museum in Chestnut Hill for the past five years as has produced outdoor jazz concerts in several center city parks for the Center City District. "ON TIME…ON STAGE …ON BUDGET"
For the past nine years, LMC has been presenting "Friday Night Jazz" at the Woodmere Art Museum in Chestnut Hill. Friday Night Jazz at Woodmere
LMC is often called to produce special music programs which range from a Chinese New Year's celebration to pop-up jazz concerts in the park.
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What does jazz look like? Tell us what you think on July 31st while taking in the sounds of Arpeggio Jazz Ensemble. Free Admission!
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The 2019 Philadelphia Jazz and Soul Festival rocked South Street! Thank you for supporting jazz and the arts in Philadelphia!


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Committee of the Whole 9:10 am – 4:14 pm
Evening Meeting 7:00 pm – 8:34 pm
All members of Council present
CONFIDENTIAL / CLOSED SESSION 1:50 pm – 4:14 pm
PARKING STRATEGY: Council continued its review of possible changes to parking policies for the 2003 summer season. Among the proposals discussed: whether a fee should continue to be payable for season parking permits; whether parking permits should be transferable between vehicles; whether day pass dispensers should be installed in shoreline areas; whether season permits should be made available for sale by mail. None of these proposals were discussed extensively or approved by Council. Discussion was deferred to a subsequent meeting of Council, to give members of Council an opportunity to consider the proposals put forward; and to provide interested members of the public with an opportunity to provide input to Council.
TOWNSHIP NEWSLETTER: A new Township newsletter is to be created and distributed on a regular basis to all Township residents, to supplement the Township website and current mailings with tax instalment mailings.
SHORELINE WATER QUALITY: Council continued its discussion of shoreline water quality (from the October 15 Committee of the Whole). It was noted that the Township's storm water management practices should be reviewed for possible improvement, particularly in areas where storm waters are currently channelled to concession ends.
DISCUSSION RE TOWNSHIP-OWNED SHORELINE PROPERTIES: Councillor Hughes stated his view that the Township is not doing enough to make Township-owned beaches attractive to residents. He provided, for information, to Council, a partial listing of Township-owned shoreline properties, including the five major parks. Mayor Klug stated that the major parks could be made more attractive by improving their facilities, and that this could help to take pressure off neighbourhood beaches at concession ends. No motions were made to initiate any action.
OFF-ROAD MOTORIZED VEHICLES COMMITTEE: A resolution was passed to create an Off-Road Motorized Vehicles Committee, to consist of one member from each of the Tiny Trails Committee, the Community Policing Committee, a beach association executive, and a member of the public who is an off-road motorized vehicles user. Councillor Frank Hughes will act as chair of the committee. The committee's mandate is to collect information concerning the use of all terrain vehicles (ATV's) and off-road motorized vehicles and to provide recommendations to Council by the end of January, 2003 concerning possible regulations for the use of such vehicles.
SAVE THE BEACHES DEPUTATION: Donna Ebers and Muriel Barker of the "Save the Beaches" organization presented a deputation to Council, supporting "traditional peace and harmony, neighbourliness and sharing" of the Township's beaches, and referring to the proposals set out in the Fall 2002 Interim Report of the provincially-appointed Mediators (Paul Torrie and James McKenzie) as "a first step towards sustainable solutions". Mayor Klug stated that he was pleased to hear that "Save the Beaches" supports the "legal ceasefire" concept set out in the Mediators' interim report.


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High Court blocks Ian Brady burial ceremony amid fears ashes scattered on Saddleworth Moor
IAN Brady's body must be disposed of with "no music and no ceremony" amid fears his ashes would be scattered on Saddleworth Moor, the burial site for his murdered victims.
By Helen Barnett Helen Barnett
PUBLISHED: 10:49, Fri, Oct 13, 2017 | UPDATED: 12:31, Fri, Oct 13, 2017
Ian Brady's ashes will not be scattered on Saddleworth Moors
The decision was announced in London on Friday by the Chancellor of the High Court, Sir Geoffrey Vos.
Sir Geoffrey ruled Ian Brady's body must be disposed of with "no music and no ceremony".
He also ruled that an officer from Tameside Council would carry out the burial, and not his lawyer, Robin Makin, who had planned to keep his final resting place secret.
The sick killer had wanted to be buried to Hector Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique - a piece of music that the composer said comprised a "witches sabbath, where hideous monsters gathered to laugh at a funeral".
Brady, who used the name Ian Stewart-Brady, died aged 79 on May 15 this year but his remains have not yet been disposed of.
Sir Geoffrey had been asked by two local authorities to make decisions relating to the disposal of the serial killer's body so that it can be "lawfully and decently disposed of without further delay".
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Sir Geoffrey said in his ruling that Oldham Council and Tameside Council were concerned that, five months after Brady's death, his executor, Mr Makin, had failed to make proper arrangements for the disposal.
He said: "I am satisfied also that it is both necessary and expedient for the matter to be taken out of Mr Makin's hands if the deceased's body is to be disposed of quickly, lawfully and decently.
"Even after a hearing that has lasted for one and a half days, the parties have not been able to agree precisely how the deceased's body should be disposed of.
"Section 116 of the Senior Courts Act 1981 and the court's inherent jurisdiction over estates allows it in this case to give directions as to who should dispose of the deceased body, and as to how it should be disposed of."
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Moors Murderer Ian Brady pictured Myra Hindley and her younger sister Maureen
The judge added: "Taking into account all the competing positions, the overwhelming factor in this case is the public interest.
"The deceased's wishes are relevant, but they do not outweigh the need to avoid justified public indignation and actual unrest. It was not doubted that Mr Makin could be trusted.
"The claimants were right to seek to ensure that there is a lawful and decent disposal of the deceased's body without causing justified public indignation or unrest.
"Mr Makin has not been justified in being so secretive about how he was intending to dispose of the deceased's body.
Brady's killing spree in the 1960s shocked the public, he buried four victims on Saddleworth Moor
"Had he discussed the matter openly with the claimants and with Sefton Borough Council and given clear undertakings that he was not intending to scatter the deceased's ashes in their areas, these proceedings might have been avoided.
"Even now, he has refused to say what he intends to do with the ashes if he is allowed custody of them.
"Mr Makin cannot, therefore, be entrusted with the ashes for disposal.
"Although he said he only intended to tell one other (unidentified) person how he would dispose of the ashes there remains the possibility that his plans would be discovered, and there could be public disorder if a member of the public sought to stop Mr Makin doing what he wanted to do with the ashes.
"It is unfortunate that Sefton Council is no longer able to arrange their disposal, but instead an officer of Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council has said that she will do so, and I am satisfied that that this is the best proposal available."
Brady and Hindley tortured and murdered five children in the 1960s
A spokesman for Tameside and Oldham council told Express.co.uk: "Tameside Council and Oldham Council sought the assistance of the High Court to ensure the body of 'Moors Murderer' Ian Stewart Brady is disposed of in a manner that does not to cause offence and distress to the public, and particularly the relatives of the victims who reside in our boroughs.
"We know that the relatives and residents alike found even the suggestion that his ashes may be scattered over Saddleworth Moor to be abhorrent and distressing, especially because 13 year old Keith Bennett has never been found, despite his mother's best efforts to locate him to give him a proper burial.
"The Court has supported our duty as local authorities to ensure that public order is maintained and the wishes of the families of his victims and our local communities are respected to ensure Ian Stewart Brady's body and remains are disposed of expediently in a manner compatible with the public interest and those of the victim's relatives. "
Ian Brady
Brady, who used the name Ian Stewart-Brady, died aged 79 on May 15 this year
Brady and Myra Hindley, who died in prison in 2002, remain two of Britain's most hated criminals, after they tortured and murdered five children in the 1960s.
He and his female accomplice Hindley were jailed for life in 1966 for torturing and murdering John Kilbride, 12, Lesley Ann Downey, 10, and Edward Evans, 17.
Four of the victims were buried on Saddleworth Moor in the south Pennines.
They later admitted murdering Pauline Reade, 16, and Keith Bennett, 12.
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The serial killer died from a cor pulmonale, a form of heart failure, secondary to bronchopneumonia and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or lung disease in May.
The killer's body was kept under police guard until it was released to his lawyer, Mr Makin, on May 18th.
The media has been banned from showcasing details about the murderers funeral until a week after it has taken place.
Christopher Sumner, senior coroner for Sefton, had refused to release Brady's body before he was given assurances the killer's ashes would not be spread on Saddleworth Moor – where the remains of four of Brady and Hindley's five child victims were found.
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Alan Bennett, whose brother Keith is the only victim of the couple who was never found, said that it was important that Brady was not buried anywhere near the hallowed ground.
He said: "The further away from Saddleworth Moor that his body is disposed of, the better.
"Certainly the ashes should under no circumstances be scattered on Saddleworth Moor, as directed by the coroner."
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Brazil: Managing An Ageing Workforce
by José Carlos Wahle and Evelyn Pontes Rolo
Veirano e Advogados Associados
Managing an increasingly aging workforce is one of the key socioeconomic trends of our times and a crucial issue for many of the world's enterprises. Private practice lawyers across Latin America outline the laws in their respective countries concerning an older demographic in the workplace as well as a number of recent updates across the region.
According to a study by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), the life expectancy of the Brazilian population increased 30.3 years between 1940 and 2016 while the birth rate declined 31% between 2000 and 2015. It is no wonder that the increase in the number of elderly people in Brazil has drawn the attention and efforts of the government to resume the debate and proposition to reform the country's social security programme. There is now a legislative bill pending approval by Congress, providing for, among other initiatives, an increase in the minimum age for retirement and the standardisation of rights and benefits including special pension rules for public servants.
The fact is that the public pension scheme scarcely provides enough to support the cost of living in big cities. Consequently, Brazilian workers often postpone their retirement. In Brazil, retirement, which is understood as the granting of the pension scheme, does not lead to the automatic termination of the employment agreement in effect and few employees apply for a termination of the contract (severance pay is also a disincentive). The attempt to extend the employment contract length in such cases is also because it is very difficult for senior workers to find new jobs and to re-enter the labour market as employees or self-employed. The Brazilian Federal Constitution and the law n. 10,741 provides for general protection and equal rights for the elderly, including protection against discrimination, however, there is no specific regulation or official guidelines on what this constitutes and it is up to the companies to have their own policies.
While there certainly is a need for more guidance on the topic, there are several bills currently being debated in Congress that aim to address some of the gaps. Bill n. 142/2017 provides for the possibility of executing a special employment agreement with individuals over 60 with a limit of 4 hours of work per day and the payment of a reduced Length-of-Service Guarantee Fund (FGTS) rate of 2% (the FGTS provides account-based cash benefits to employees on termination of employment for any reason, including retirement). Another bill (n. 688/1999) would grant a tax incentive for employers who hire elderly employees. The government is also looking at the possibility of implementing the so called RETA Regime (Special Retirement Work Regime) in which retirees may work as independent contractors without receiving certain labour benefits such as holiday and sick pay, and whereby companies are not required to contribute to social security. It is unpredictable, however, when and if Congress will make a decision on these bills anytime soon.
For the time being, due to the lack of effective statutory protection, many collective bargaining agreements provide for the next best thing: protection against involuntary dismissal (without cause) of individuals who are close to the statutory retirement age (usually 24 months) and who have worked with the company for a certain time period (usually 5 years).
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EOMYS organizes a special 3-day training sessions on electromagnetic Noise, Vibration, Harshness (e-NVH) in its office in Lille, France (1 hour from Paris). Training dates, content, and registration details are available on EOMYS training webpage. The training is held in English and is suitable for both NVH engineers and electrical engineers.
As shown in our skewing validation case, MANATEE software electromagnetic models based on subdomain modeling technique enables to quickly calculate the effect of any stator/rotor skew pattern on electromagnetic performances.
Skewing NVH 3D effects can also be considered by coupling MANATEE with third party structural software such as Altair Optistruct and Ansys Mechanical and using Electromagnetic Vibration Synthesis algorithm.
EOMYS presented at the Eighteenth Biennial IEEE Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computation (CEFC 2018) in China its article about how to rigourously use the Maxwell tensor estimated in the middle of the airgap to calculate the effective local magnetic stress at stator bore radius for e-NVH calculations. The poster and the article can be accessed at EOMYS publication webpage.
In this work, the author derives in particular analytic expressions of harmonic current and magnetic forces due to PWM based on Permanent Magnet Synchonous Machines Electrical Equivalent Circuit (EEC). This modelling effort shows that e-NVH simulation approaches fully based on numerical techniques is not appropriate due to large computational time at variable speed when including high frequency switching harmonics.
MANATEE software also uses this approach to speed-up e-NVH calculations. An Electrical Equivalent Circuit can be used to quickly calculate PWM force harmonics at variable speed, and current/voltage harmonics can be estimated analytically.


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Blueline tours, inc., operates tours throughout the united states
P12-18 Blueline tours, Inc., operates tours throughout the United States. A study has indicated that some of the tours are not profitable, and consideration is being given to dropping these tours to improve the company's overall operating performance.
One such tour is a two-day Historic Mansions bus tour conducted in the southern states. An income statement from typical Historic Mansions is listed below:
Ticket Revenue (100 seat capacity X 40% occupancy X
$75 ticket price per person) ………………………………… $3000 100%
Variable expenses ($22.50 per person) …………………………… 900 30
Contribution Margin ……………………………………………. 2100 70%
Tour expenses:
Tour promotion …………………………………………………… $ 600
Salary of bus driver ……………………………………………… 350
Fee tour guide …………………………………………………….. 700
Fuel for Bus …………………………………………………………. 125
Depreciation of bus …………………………………………….. 450
Liability insurance, bus ………………………………………… 200
Overnight parking fee, bus ………………………………….. 50
Room and meals, bus driver and tour guide ……….. 175
Bus maintenance and preparation ………………………. 300
Total tour expenses …………………………………………………………… 2950
Net operating expenses ……………………………………………………. $ (850)
The following additional information is available about the tour:
a. Bus drivers are paid fixed annual salaries; tour guides are paid for each tour conducted.
b. The "Bus maintenance and preparation" cost above is an allocation of the salaries of mechanics and other service personnel who are responsible for keeping the company's fleet of buses in good operating condition.
c. Depreciation of buses is due to obsolescence. Depreciation due to wear and tear is negligible.
d. Liability insurance premiums are based on the number of buses in the company's fleet.
e. Dropping the Historic Mansions bus tour would not allow Blueline Tours to reduce the number of buses in its fleet, the number of bus drivers on the payroll, or the size of the maintenance and preparation staff.
1. Prepare an analysis showing what the impact will be on the company's profits if this tour is discontinued.
2. The company's tour director has been criticized because only about 50% of the seats on Blueline's tours are being filled as compared to an industry average seat occupancy could be improved considerably by eliminating about 10% of its tours, but that doing so would reduce profits. Explain how this could happen.
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The flaw in the fingerprint plan… how secure is Touch ID?
From making payments with Apple Pay, to accessing online banking apps or highly secure password locker apps, the use of fingerprints as a convenient and reassuring security measure has become part of normal daily life for millions of people. But what you might not realise is that fingerprint security is actually only as strong as the passcode we use to unlock our iPhone or iPad.
Do you still use a 4 or 6-digit passcode to unlock your phone? Do you guard that passcode as tightly as you would your PIN when withdrawing cash from an ATM? Or do you tell it to your kids/friends/colleagues who ask to borrow your phone? Could someone looking over your shoulder in the pub or on the train see your PIN as you type it in?
Because once someone has got their hands on your iPhone and passcode, they only need a few seconds to go into your phone's settings and replace one of your fingerprints with their own. Yes, the only security Apple uses to manage the fingerprints on your phone is the humble passcode. Once the person has added their own fingerprint to your phone they can do anything you would do with your own fingerprint - and that may include spending your money or accessing all the passwords in your password locker.
So, how do I make Touch ID safer?
It sounds obvious, but don't share your passcode. With anyone. And never let anyone see you unlocking your phone. Also make sure that your passcode isn't something easy to guess, such as 0000, 1234, your date of birth, or the last four digits of your phone number. You wouldn't give your cash card PIN to anyone you don't completely trust, so as smartphones effectively become mobile wallets, you should treat your passcode with the same respect.
For the most security conscious, the best thing you can do is change your passcode to a passphrase. A passphrase is essentially a password that can be as long as you like. It could be a quote, or a short saying, or three unrelated words - mix in a few numbers or special characters and you have a passphrase that is infinitely more secure than a 4-digit pin. Yes it may be tiresome to unlock your phone with a long passphrase every time you switch it on having run out of battery, but for the most part you can still unlock with the convenience of your fingerprint. But if the idea of having to remember a long passphrase is too much, then a 6-digit passcode is still a better option than 4-digits.
Congratulations, you're now much safer than you were before, but don't forget your new passphrase! If you need to write it down somewhere, then make sure you disguise it so that it's not obvious to anyone else.


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About ADH
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Portrait of Mushapo
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Vitamins for the Heart
With the school project in Mushapo ADH wants to ensure a good education for the students in order to give them and the village a better future. ADH offers the schooling for free, so that also children from poorer families can attend the school. With a proper teaching staff ADH tries to establish a good teacher ratio, so that the children can be treated according to their needs. The curriculum of the officially recognized school is based on national guidelines, but already in the first grade, the language is French.
Building Bridges to our Neighbors
We invited all school principals from the surrounding villages to discuss with us about issues that we may have inadvertently caused by the free education in our school. Since the schools of neighboring villages are dependent on school fees and thus on the number of pupils, we need to ensure in the future that we do not accept children in our school who would otherwise have attended another school. A good cooperation with neighboring schools is necessary in order to enable all children in the region the best possible education. Football unites and creates the first opportunity for dialogue: On Saturday, 31.05. We held a football tournament between the school team of Mushapo and the team of a neighboring village. So that his team could prepare for the tournament, the director of the neighboring school asked us if they could borrow our football.
New subject matters: Informatics and English
Currently Jos is also working as a teacher. He is teaching English for levels five and six. English is an important added qualification, becoming more and more relevant in the Congo as English skills improve the chances for a good job in the children's future. Jos is also teaching the teachers how to work with computers. He teaches basic informatics on his and Jean's laptops.
Employment of New Teachers
Because the number of pupils has –unexpectedly, nearly doubled, we are facing new challenges. The great demand is not surprising: our classrooms are more spacious than in the schools of the neighbouring villages, and our pupils are taught French from the beginning and there is no tuition fee, something rather unusual for the Congo. Because of the increase in student numbers, we urgently need more classrooms and teachers. We will enlarge our school with four new classrooms and employ four more teachers from the surrounding areas. Thus, having altogether 10 classes with approximately 30 pupils each, we can supply quality care.
More Pupils, Lack of Teachers and a new School Principal
For this school year, we were counting on 180 pupils. But because the local people in the surrounding villages saw our progress, they also wanted to send their children to our school. Even though we tried to limit the number of students, it was impossible. We are now having six classes with 314 pupils from Mushapo and the surrounding villages of Kakondo, Shamubenzi and Kamupafu. The school committee is counselling about this unexpected situation. We will have to expand the school with added competent teachers in order to ensure quality lessons. The committee also decided to dismiss our school principal, his work had been inadequate for some time. Fortunately, we have found a good replacement, already confirmed by the committee.
Establishing a School Committee
We establish a school-committee to help us to supervise the project in Mushapo. The Members of the committee are: Jean, the farm manger; the school principal; both of the chiefs of Mushapo, and a representative of the parent association. Important school matters are on the agenda. The committee also discusses how our farm project can be better protected against theft so that steady long term income can be guaranteed to support the school and keep the children's attendance tuition free. Our school is also visited by a school inspector from Tshikapa. He was satisfied with our progress, but advised us to reduce the size of the classes as soon as possible.
School is Expanding to 6 grades
Many parents of the three surrounding villages, Kakondo, Shamubenzi and Kamupafu want to send their children to our school. The amount of pupils increases and we have expanded to six classes. Consequently, our school has developed into an overall primary school. In light of this, we urgently have to think about how to reduce the number of pupils in each class in order to ensure good lessons with smaller classes.
Lessons Begin in the New Brick Building
The construction of our first brick building is finished. The two classrooms are furnished and the lessons are now taught there. The teachers and children are enthusiastic, they love the bright classrooms and enjoy the pleasant teaching and learning condition.
Government Recognition of the Mushapo School
The Ministry of Education in Kinshasa has accepted our application – the school is officially registered. Gilbert was a big help in seeing through the application process so quickly. Andre had also offered his help, because he knows the Secretary of Education personally, who, by the way, is from Tshikapa. Even though our school is now recognized by the government, the official salary payments for our teachers haven't happened yet. But that is business in the Congo. In the remote regions, the paying of salaries by the government can take up to one year. Receiving government-paid salaries is viewed rather sceptically by many Congolese, but then, obtaining official registration of the school was also viewed sceptically – yet, it happened! It makes us all the more thankful for our friends in Kinshasa, Gilbert and Andre, who are helping us to see the governmental salary payment through for our teachers.
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Now let's have some fun ladies. Its cocktail time. This is so easy to make and so hard to resist. Remember all those jolly ranchers we ate back in high school? I sure do. These flavored vodka are all the rage now, so I thought why not make our own. You can make this one of two ways, either with full bottles or you can grab ya a few smaller glass bottles here in the store. These make wonderful gifts, especially if you choose to use the smaller bottles. Which every you choose., I will give you the recipe for both. Have fun ya'll!
Separate your jolly ranchers by flavor.
For the 8.5 once bottles put 12 jolly ranchers in each bottle.
For the 1.75 liter bottles put all the jolly ranchers by color in each bottle.
Fill the bottles with vodka to the neck. If using the liter bottles you will have some left over.
Place the caps on the bottles and let sit about 12hrs.
Shake bottles then place in freezer overnight.


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