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Your Course Load
How challenging were your high school courses?
I took what was needed to graduate.
I took some tough classes but didn't go crazy.
I took a couple of APs/Honors but only in my strongest subjects.
I took the hardest classes my school offered.
What size college do you think you'd like?
I want to see all my options.
The bigger the better.
Something in the middle: not too big and not too small.
A small school where kids and professors really know each other.
How important is keeping college cost low?
Somewhat important.
Other factors matter more to me.
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Work Load
What's your ideal work load?
Not too much. College is about a lot more than just the books.
A good balance. Enough to keep me challenged and engaged.
Bring on the books. I'm all about rigorous academics.
It's a Saturday evening on campus. What are you most likely doing?
Making sure I can fit all the parties I want into one night.
Having a dinner with a few close friends.
Reading a good book and finishing up homework.
Sports on Campus
To tailgate or not to tailgate: do you want a school where sports are big on campus?
Definitely! Mascots and face paint all the way!
I'll probably go to some games, but they're not a big deal.
No way. Sports are not my thing.
How do you feel about fraterities and sororities?
I can't wait for pledge week! I like a campus with an active Greek life.
I will probably pledge, but I'm keeping an open mind.
I don't really care one way or the other.
I want a school without Greek life.
Is it important to you that your classmates come from a diverse range of nationalities, ethnicities, beliefs, and backgrounds?
Yes, a school's diversity is very important to me.
Yes, it would be nice.
Other factors are more important to me.
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Clubs & Leadership
Did you participate in clubs, community service, or student government?
I didn't participate in clubs or activities.
I participated but wasn't overly involved.
I was pretty active, with a few leadership roles.
My leadership was recognized at the state or national level.
Were you involved in music, fine arts, or the performing arts?
Yes, but only for fun.
I was accomplished and plan to major in the arts.
I'm very accomplished, one of the best in the country.
Did you play sports during high school? How seriously did you participate?
I didn't participate in high school sports.
I played in high school but mostly for fun.
I think I'll qualify for a college varsity team.
I'm ranked among the top nationwide.
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For 2011, qualifying in the Formula 1 series had been dominated by the talents of the the reigning World Champion Sebastian Vettel. Vettel's Red Bull-Renault race car has been effective in resisting the best efforts of McLaren-Mercedes and even team rival Mark Webber through the first 4 races of the season. Landing in Spanish capital city of Barcelona to compete at the 4.655 kilometer (2.892 mile) Catalunya circuit, the fifth qualifying session of the season's tour presented a new opportunity to unseat the German Red Bull Racing driver; a chance one driver used to his advantage.
Snapping Sebastian Vettel's undefeated record in 2011 Formula 1 qualifying, Red Bull Racing teammate Mark Webber emerged from Q3 as the pole sitter for the Spanish Grand Prix. Recording a top qualifying time of 1 minute, 20.981 seconds Webber is devoted to matching the pace of Vettel. Despite a sluggish start to the 2011 Formula 1 campaign, Mark Webber has recorded to podium finishes to the previous two events. "It was a good session. It was clear going into qualifying that we might have had a bit of a margin and would be battling for pole between ourselves today." Webber said realizing the ability that two Red Bull-Renault race cars should be able to compete for grand prix wins just like last season.
Defeated but not disappointed, German Sebastian Vettel put his 2/10th of a second slower. "I made it on the primes. In Q2 I felt much happier on the soft compound tyres, but unfortunately in the last qualifying I lost a little bit too much and I wasn't entirely happy with my lap." Vettel said. With lingering beliefs of an inner-team feud, Sebastian Vettel appears to accept his teammate as a worthy challenger. "Mark did a good lap and a better job today. Let's see tomorrow, it's a long race and we saved a set of tyres."
In row two, Lewis Hamilton is continuing to show Formula 1 crowds the McLaren F1 team is prepared to lead a fight to Red Bull Racing's grand prix mastery. In 4th place on the Spanish Grand Prix starting grid is Ferrari's Fernando Alonso. Experiencing a slow start to the 2011 season, Ferrari and Alonso have turned their luck around with a podium in the Turkish Grand Prix early this month.
With Mark Webber's pole being big news, one story in the back of the Formula 1 grid for this Grand Prix of Spain is from Lotus/Renault GP. While Vitaly Petrov performed well enough for a 6th place start in qualifying, the other team car driven by Nick Heidfeld was affected by a fire in the paddock area during the race weekend. While no one was reported hurt, the fire did burn the rear portion of the R31 race car. As the suspected cause of the fire is thought to be an exhaust failure, the Lotus Renault GP team needed the whole qualifying session to replace the race car. Despite being unable to log a time, Formula 1 officials basically overlooked the recently-reinstated 107% rule in qualifying permitting the second Lotus/Renault GP car to start the 2011 Spanish Grand Prix. Heidfeld will be starting in the back with a newly-rebuilt race car.
The Formula 1 Spanish Grand Prix is slated to roll off at 8 am Eastern time.


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J Teens bring home a lot more than medals from JCC Maccabi Games
Posted by: Sarah Foster
Team Houston had an awesome time in Birmingham, Alabama at the JCC Maccabi Games and Arts Fest earlier this month. The J took 68 athletes from Houston to participate in seven different sports and one arts program.
Team Houston medal breakdown: The soccer team had a tough loss in the game for the bronze medal. The volleyball team had an incredible win in their bronze medal game and the girls were extremely proud. The 14U baseball and basketball teams both had tough losses in their gold medal games, but we are very proud that they came away with silver medals. Our 16U baseball players were on a mixed team with Dallas, San Diego and San Jose and won the bronze. Our girls' basketball players were also on a mixed team with Dallas and had an incredible win over Israel in the last 17 seconds for the gold medal. We also had individual athletes playing tennis (where one Team Houston member won a bronze), swimming (where our athletes won several silvers and golds) and track (where our athlete won five gold medals in all five of her races.)

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Where do you meet your prospects? I've met some of my best prospects at my son's sporting events.
Year's ago when my son played Little League baseball, I hated sitting through those long games, especially when it was freezing cold outside. But like you, I went to most of the games and cheered his team on to victory. At the time I never would have told you that I went to the Little League games to network because I didn't, but it's definitely in my nature to meet people and get to know them. I was just doing what I do and at each game I sat with someone different and chatted in between plays and before I knew it, I knew all the parents and what type of work they did. By the same token, they knew me and what kind of work I did.
Did I walk up to people at the game and put out my hand and say, "Hi, I'm Alice Heiman and I will help you increase sales." Of course not, the parents would have run the other way. But what I did let them know that inadvertently. I wasn't thinking, "If I go to the baseball game and sit with a different parent each week I will surely meet some new prospects." No, I was genuinely interested in getting to know all of the parents.
During one of those seasons, one of the parents did happen to have a company that needed my help and because I had taken the time to get to know him he felt comfortable to call me. I did end up providing sales training for his company and it worked out great.
Looking back, I realize this was a great place to network. But I didn't go about it the same way I would if I was attending a business event designed for networking. I did what came naturally.
I recommend you look around and find some opportunities to network at your children's sporting events. Don't go around selling your products and services to the other parents. But do sit with different parents and get to know them. Build relationships that can lead to sales, in the event that person is ever in need of your services. Be genuinely interested in others and don't worry about talking about yourself, your chance will come if you are a good listener and get to know people.
Building your network is a lifelong process, look for opportunities at every point in your life, even your kid's baseball games.
I love this article. I always say my friends with children have a great advantage when it comes to networking and business. Thanks for speaking about the right way to approach it.
Thanks, Kevin. Taking a genuine interest in those around us has great potential to lead to good things.


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Inside India's ambitious mission to put its astronauts in space
Great spectacle.
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Sullurpeta, in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh is an average Indian town with a busy local market area, rudimentary tea and coffee shops, and an occasional cow roaming the streets.
Located on the country's eastern coast, a little over an hour's train journey north of the bustling city of Chennai, Sullurpeta is the gateway to the Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) main rocket launch facility: the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, or the Sriharikota Range.
Those employed here might live a dull countryside life, but are keenly aware of the importance of the work they do, a man in his fifties, who introduces himself as a space engineer tells me.
Their work itself is not conspicuous, though—one must look closely for the unimpressive mural of a shooting rocket near the town's entry point.
The main road to the launch centre leads through a causeway on a now half-dry Pulicat Lake. Near the facility's main gate, construction workers—all local villagers—have just finished refurbishing the vehicle park; others sluggishly work on three rocket miniatures newly placed in front of the gate.
But all this is merely the deceptive calm before the storm.
In August, prime minister Narendra Modi announced that, in about four years, India will launch Gaganyaan, its first manned space mission. If successful, it would make India only the fourth member (after Russia, the US, and China) of an elite club of nations with indigenous manned space programmes.
Sullurpeta's scientists and engineers have been preparing for a decade for this historic mission.
Why a manned mission?
Gopalan Madhavan Nair, ISRO's former chief, says the idea of a manned space mission works from a long-term perspective.
"(Human spaceflight) is not a prestige-building mission. It will enable ISRO to achieve higher levels of reliability in launch and satellite technology. This will enhance the capability of observing galactic phenomena and the earth. Spin-off benefits, especially in medical science, will be of significance," Nair says.
It is a natural evolution of what the country has achieved so far, according to Mylswamy Annadurai, the man behind several satellite and planetary missions, who has served as director of the ISRO Satellite Centre in Bengaluru. It will let India contribute to international spaceflight as space exploration needs to be a collaborative effort among nations, he says.
"Globally, there is a need for several national crewed vehicle programmes. Since the American Space Shuttle is grounded, the Russian Soyuz is the only vehicle capable of carrying humans to space. Human spaceflight would cease without it," Annadurai argued.
In the future, he believes, India should take part in the construction of an international lunar base, an idea promoted by both NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA).
Wing commander (retired) Rakesh Sharma, the only Indian citizen to have been to space till date, agrees.
"Humans will go back to the Moon anyway. Only a handful of nations will take us there. If India becomes a full-fledged space power by having all the capabilities of the developed space-faring countries, then its voice cannot be ignored while international policies dealing with space governance issues are being drawn up," Sharma says.
50 years in the making
On a calm morning in early July this year, a 14-tonne unmanned prototype capsule flew down on parachutes to safely land some three kilometres into the sea. The entire test, from lift-off to landing, lasted just under five minutes, but for the engineers managing it, this was a great deal: the emergency escape system, a critical technology for a manned spaceflight, worked almost flawlessly.
This, however, wasn't the only key technology to have been tested for Gaganyaan (Sanskrit for "sky craft"). The ISRO team has, among other things, tested prototypes of the crew module, a space suit, and the launch vehicle, the GSLV Mk3 rocket.
The decade-long preparations—and Rs173 crore (about $23.5 million) spent so far—apart, the manned spaceflight programme marks a milestone in ISRO's evolution over 50 years.
India's space ambitions sprouted in the 1960s. Vikram Sarabhai, the father of the country's space programme and ISRO founder, formulated its main objective: self-reliance in space technology to meet national development goals.
By the 1980s, ISRO had constructed two satellite systems: the Indian National Satellite System (popularly INSAT) that served mostly telecommunications, broadcasting and meteorological purposes; and the Indian Remote Sensing (IRS) satellite system that monitors resources, does Earth science and reconnaissance.
The programme has dozens of real-life applications: weather forecasting, monitoring the borders, crops, and forests, mapping resources and fishing zones, urban planning, ATM connectivity, search and rescue operations, anti-terrorist and anti-spy missions, disaster warning, and telemedicine.
Given India's size, building the national space programme was a necessity, as all these services are as basic as air, water, shelter, education, and food, says Susmita Mohanty, CEO of Earth2Orbit, a Bengaluru-based consulting firm and space startup. "In a world of constant political bullying and embargo regimes, it makes perfect sense for countries to be technologically independent and self-reliant," Mohanty says.
ISRO says it has received around 270 patents and transferred over 300 technologies to industries. This includes electronic systems, speciality polymer materials, and mechanical equipment.
Vikram Sarabhai had stressed that India didn't fancy competing with advanced economies in manned spaceflight.
"Materials used in rocketry have applications in medicine. And I am not talking about developed countries; it happens here, in India," says Arun Ram, a space journalist and the Chennai resident editor of The Times of India newspaper.
Ram cites the example of APJ Abdul Kalam, a rocket scientist and former Indian president, who helped develop a new type of a coronary stent, a device placed in arteries to supply blood to the heart. The material used for its production was high-grade rocket steel. Kalam's work on military missiles also led to the development of ultra-light callipers, which helps polio-affected patients walk.
Thus, for a long time, India used its space capabilities for the benefit of common citizens. "Nobody in India questions the need of launching satellites anymore," says Ram.
Yet, India's space programme failed to fire people's imagination. After all, Sarabhai had stressed that the country didn't fancy competing with the advanced economies in planetary exploration or manned spaceflight.
However, in recent years, ISRO has begun rewriting its founder's vision.
In 2008, it put a probe, Chandrayaan-1, on the lunar orbit. It became the first spacecraft to discover water on Moon. It was a breakthrough for ISRO's ambitions, too. "We graduated from a regular space-faring nation to the prestigious league occupied by NASA, ESA, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)," says Annadurai, the mission's project director.
Six years later, ISRO's Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) hit the headlines not just because of its effectiveness but also because it was the first time a probe was placed in Mars's orbit in the very first attempt.
The mission was also praised for its low cost: an equivalent of $74 million, compared with the $671 million NASA spent on the MAVEN orbiter launched around the same time. (To be fair, Mangalyaan was primarily a technology demonstrator while MAVEN was far more technologically advanced.)
Now, Chandrayaan-2 is scheduled to launch early next year after being delayed twice. Two other projects, a sun study spacecraft and a Venusian orbiter, are also in the pipeline.
Challenges galore
ISRO chief Kailasavadivoo Sivan has said that conducting two unmanned and one crewed mission, taking three astronauts to a low-earth orbit for about a week, would cost around Rs9,000 crore (around $1.2 billion). This is higher than ISRO's entire annual budget of $1.1 billion (for 2018).
Clearly, it won't come as cheap as MOM.
Sivan's figure, though, is just a little lower than what China spent on its early Shenzhou missions.
Before any flight happens, ISRO will have to put all the technologies to work together and test them to reach the desired accuracy. The most important pieces it still doesn't have are the life support system and heat shields for atmospheric re-entry. And modifying the launchpad in Sriharikota, building a mission control centre plus selecting and training the crew seems to be the easy part.
According to the plan, the astronauts will have to be ready by 2022. "I feel it is all doable with a slight time overrun, if at all," Sharma says.
ISRO's Gaganyaan astronauts will be initially trained abroad. Sharma agrees it is a sensible way to crunch time schedule before building indigenous infrastructure. "Final training, specific to spacecraft systems, can then be done in India," says Sharma, who flew aboard the Soviet Union's Soyuz T-11 on April 02, 1984.
Meanwhile, India's space engineers are not losing their focus on good old satellites either. "We will have to place new generations of hardware up on the orbit. The government alone will require us to send over 40 satellites in the next three years. Previously, we made two or three per year. Now it has grown to about 10," says Annadurai.
The agency lacks human resources for all these, so it badly needs the industry to step in.
Recently, ISRO announced it will let private companies integrate 27 large orbiters. It is the only way to get enough manpower, says Mohanty. "ISRO should have begun privatising routine activities such as satellite fabrication and PSLV rocket assembly at least a decade ago. It should focus on R&D and new areas such as planetary exploration and human space flight. Plus, some of its budget should be allocated to providing a robust financial ecosystem to support entrepreneurial ventures leading to job creation and innovation."
Meanwhile, attempts to monetise ISRO's expertise have borne fruit, too. Antrix Corporation, the agency's commercial arm, has found favour in the global satellite launch market and kept the revenue counter ticking. Since 1999, it has placed in orbit 239 foreign satellites for customers from 28 countries. For the financial year that ended March 31, 2017, Antrix reported an income of Rs1,991 crore (pdf).
Launching manned missions is just the beginning of a new chapter for ISRO. It opens up interest in space that could help attract more youngsters to its fold and help the agency find its apogee.
Sullurpeta, then, might finally outgrow its small-town status.
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Aqaba Medical University is ready to receive students: Sayegh
Michael Al-Sayegh, the Chairman of the Sayegh Group and Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Aqaba Education Company, said that three universities have come out from the company, including the Aqaba University of Technology.
In an interview with Roya's Helwa Ya Donya, Sayegh spoke about the Aqaba Medical University – the first private medical university in Jordan. It will start receiving students this upcoming academic year.
This university seeks to attract students from Palestine, Egypt, and the Gulf states, in addition to Jordanian students, according to Sayegh.
He indicated that there are about 8,000 Jordanian students studying medicine regularly abroad and that the absorptive capacity of universities that teach medicine in the Kingdom does not exceed 1,000 students over a period of five years, hence the idea of establishing the Aqaba Medical University, which accommodates 200 students annually.
He pointed out that the university is ready to receive its students for the new academic year, and is awaiting the Ministry of Higher Education to obtain the necessary approval.
Sayegh also spoke about the university's hospital, which accommodates 200 beds, and serves the southern region of the Kingdom.
The hospital is on an area of 50,000 square meters and has 35 outpatient clinics. The hospital has a center for treating cancer patients.
He pointed out that the Aqaba Medical University and the hospital employ nearly a thousand people.
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He called on the groups of society, especially the youth, to join political parties.
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Home News The breakdown of the 2018 Co-op Education fee raise
The breakdown of the 2018 Co-op Education fee raise
Alexandra Hanrath
As of 2018 the co-op fee has increased to $729.00 which is almost as expensive as the cost of one course in the Faculty of Arts. Despite the number of students in co-op increasing by 12.4 per cent since 2014, the co-op fee has since increased from $634 to $709 to 2017.
So, why the co-op fee raise? Ross Johnson, the executive director of Co-operative Education (formerly known as CECA) answered, "it's … the ongoing running of our core business, which is supporting students in co-op and obviously finding credible work term positions for them. So, in doing that every year we run incremental costs in terms of being able to run our business."
In an investigative piece by the Iron Warrior in 2014 writer Christina Shum broke down what the co-op fee covered. In 2014, the Co-op Education department used 67 per cent of the fees to pay 140 salaried employees, 11 per cent for non-salary expenses such as traveling and marketing, and 22 per cent for indirect expenses such as employee benefits, tech support, and building financial capital and finance cost. The Co-op Education department accumulated, from co-op fees in Fall of 2014, $12.2 million, with most of that coming from engineering students whose co-op fee is mandatory.
In 2018, the breakdown of the co-op fee is found on the deep dive website: uwaterloo.ca/co-operative-education/your-co-op-fee. The deep dive project was launched in July of 2017 in response to student questions and concerns due to the increase of fees from 2014-2017. The investigation aims to improve the transparency of Co-op Education's actions as proposed by the Federation of Students. It aims to create new principles for the fee expenditure model and constantly strives to improve Co-op Education's services. There are six distinct categories that the co-op fee funds: the employment process; student advising support; programming; employer relationship management; faculty and institutional relations; new business and infrastructure; and administration. Instead of 140 employees, Co-op Education now consists of 150 employees. The Co-op Education income in Fall of 2017 was $15.3 million, approximately a 25 per cent increase since 2014.
On the Co-op Education's website they state that the co-op fee starts a term or two before a student's first co-op placement and continues to be charged until the student's last academic term. If this is true, as of Winter 2018, paying the co-op fee until 2021 at the current price of $709, a student would end up spending more than $7,000 on top of tuition. Co-op Education fees are not covered in the money that OSAP gives Ontario students either. On top of the $709 is the work-term report marking fee that each student also has to pay in order to receive a credit for their work term. The website also states that the co-op fee can be readjusted on a regular basis.
Students have taken it upon themselves to question why fees have increased twice in four years. Two students, Lenny Cheng and Marcus Abramovitch, created the change.org petition that's gaining traction with Waterloo students. As of Jan 30, the petition has more than 2700 signatures, representing $850,000 in one term of Co-op Education fees.
Their largest concern was that students weren't being given a choice or a voice in this decision. Cheng stated that, "[Co-op Education] proposes to raise student co-op fees to $729 a term, roughly a 2.8 per cent increase that is 1.33 times higher than national inflation." To Cheng and Abramovitch this is unacceptable as, "it would only be used to increase [Co-op Education]'s salaries."
Executive Director Johnson clarifies the 2.8 per cent increase, stating that it, "relates to staff incremental salary costs … We follow Policy 5 from the university relates to staff salaries and how they're reviewed on an annual basis." For clarification, Policy 5, according to the University of Waterloo's website, is about paying competitive salaries within the limits of its financial situation.
It maintains equity among peers and must be approved by the Provost's Advisory Committee on Staff Compensation (PACSC) and the Vice President, Academic, and Provost (VPAP) after extensive research and presentable data. All staff salaries are increased annually based on merit or job performance, and individual salaries may also be increased on top of that.
Cheng and Abramovitch stated their qualms with this recent fee raise: "our problem is that students weren't informed about the fee raise, there are more than 20,000 students in co-op programs. Feds and the co-op student council weren't even informed. The Co-op Education council was only informed 24 hours before the meeting where this information was made public."
Cheng said that, "Students would be happy to pay the fee if
they weren't already dissatisfied with [Co-op Education]'s existing services and that they're not certain that this fee increase would be used to benefit student services." Co-op Education, on their website, states that throughout the deep dive they're working on improving current student services and adding new ones. However, the deep dive is incomplete.
There is no thorough break down of finances, no future plan, and it is lacking in information to make it more than a shallow dive. Cheng and Abramovitch state that, "talks of raising the [co-op] fee should be put on hold until this investigation is complete. Co-op Education has denied this request and we don't think that's fair."
The university's Federation of Students heard the outrage of students at another co-op fee raise at the student council level and at the executive level. At the executive level a motion was presented based on the work of the science student council members, including Seneca Velling and speaker, Elizabeth O'Sullivan. Velling stated, "the fee raise is disingenuous to students and kind of a violation of fundamental trust of what an investigation like that [the deep dive] is built on. When you agree with the students to go down route X and you turn around and do something else it's a little bit disingenuous and the motion was really just targeting that." The motion, proposed by the Federation of Students against Co-op Education, itself addresses the need for a freeze on raising any fee until all information is made public about what exactly the Co-op Education fee is funding. The deep dive had been promised since the Summer of 2017, six months later students want finite numbers, not a fee raise.
As a member of the student council, Velling feels as though he has a responsibility to the students to make their voices heard so that they're not, "screaming into the void. Student council, especially Hannah Beckett, hears what you're saying and we want to help you, we want to help empower you to make change."
While the deep dive is in progress, no one wants to willingly have the Co-op Education department run on an empty budget. Velling proposes that, "the University of Waterloo foots the bill for the costs of the Co-op Education department while the investigation is ongoing. We really shouldn't be addressing fees." The council is well informed of Co-op Education's pleas for a fee increase but to them the numbers just don't add up, "It really doesn't make sense [to increase the fee again] when co-op enrollment numbers are at an all time high and the derivative enrollment is increasing too … and they have only hired on an additional ten staff members in four years. This only implies that they have a negative economy of scale."
When Co-op Education was asked about their economy of scale they referred back to Policy 5 as the source for their need to raise fees. Based on this logic, Co-op Education would have to continually raise fees with no cap in sight. They cannot say for certain where or when the fee can be capped, they still need to keep their operation running and a cap could potentially interfere with that. Velling doesn't agree with the information on Co-op Education's website about there being no true economy of scale for things like co-op: "if student numbers increase then you have to become less efficient to need more money per capita." Essentially saying that Co-op Education needs to take more responsibility in order to ask for more money.
Andrew Clubine, the Federation of Students' VP of education echoes the same sentiments of the students he represents, "right now we're in a transition period where students are asking questions and there are no answers but the Co-op Education department is asking for a fee raise. It's a frustrating time and it's understandable why the students would be upset." He continued on to speak on how the increase in the co-op fee was introduced, "there was a proposal put forward by Co-op, it was lacking information, it was lacking data, it was last minute, it was insufficient, not the sort of clarity that students expect when they're being told that a fee is going to be increased. Costs are increasing nonetheless." Clubine has pushed the Co-op Education department to be more transparent in future Co-op Education Council meetings. He agrees with councilor Velling that, "students should not be expected to pay the difference while we're reviewing the fee but at the same time the other option is that the gap to be paid by students is to be paid by the university and where does that money come from? Tuition." Meaning that instead of students in co-op paying the fee, all students pay the fee. As for the petition, "there are wins available but costs will continue to go up and someone has to pay them. Which is really why the fee review is so important. In the interim this is an opportunity for students, student groups, students on student council, Feds executives … all of us to say the current model is unsustainable, the increases that are being made are not fair and not clear, and that's why this fee review is so important."
Federation of Students Vice President of Education Andrew Clubine will be taking the motion and the petition to the board of governors on Feb. 6 where there will be a vote on the Co-op Education fee raise.
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Join us as we celebrate WESAK 2019 in New York City on May 12, 2019 at the Alchemical Studio and on May 17, 18, 19, 2019 at the Gaiaville Retreat Center in the Catskill Mountains.
We are holding the 2019 Wesak celebration this year in the heart of Manhattan on Sunday, MAY 12, 2019, from 10:00am to 5:30pm at the Alchemical Theater Laboratory, 104 W. 14th St, NYC (14th St & 6th Ave) (access to all major subway lines and the Path trains).
On the following long weekend, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, May 17th to 19th, 2019, the festival continues again this year in Long Eddy, NY, at the new Gaiaville Retreat Center, 14439 State Highway 97, Long Eddy, NY 12760—on Friday from 10:00 AM to 7:30 PM; Saturday from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM; Sunday from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM.
It is indeed with joy and happiness that I take this opportunity to welcome and support you in this ascension effort. You are responding to the call of Spirit and you are fulfilling promises that you made long ago. It is in a group ascension effort that the salvation of the earth is assured. One individual ascending will not be able to transform this planet into the next dimension, but where 12 stands a decisive difference can be made. You are called to create a gateway, doorway or bridge allowing others to follow. Understand that you are architects and engineers fabricating a vertical tunnel toward the heavens. You are to become the armature and structure that will hold this piece of architecture toward heaven. In collectively refining your consciousness and re-programming your negative ego, you are creating a doorway, opening and a gate through which others will follow. The entire heavenly hierarchy is supporting this effort for this gateway is to connect to a similar structure at the ascended planetary level which them connects to a part of this system at a solar level and this in turns connects to a similar structure at a galactic level and so on all the way back to Source. You are creating a means by which all life form in your geographical area will find a sizable pathway where light can ascend and descend the heaven and bless everyone in your earth chakra location.
We are here to support you. We are here to guide you and I and the entire hierarchy want to make sure that this work happens in the simplest and easiest manner and with love and peace. We say unto you sparks of Divinity: we are proud to watch our own essences and aspects of ourselves generating a motion back to the beginning. This is as it should and very encouraging to us. The vortex and ascension column that you are creating will be so big that it will be a means by which lots of others will connect heaven to earth. You are not ascending for yourselves. You are ascending so that the planet will move into the light, love and peace of the divine. This work cannot be done by one individual. It is to be done by a team that will assemble at every earth chakra locations. There need to stand at a minimum 12 at these locations to become the main beams, armature and structure that will create this network and open the gates of heaven.
In conclusion, we bless you and say unto you this is nothing more them the first wave. There will be additional waves coming through the chariot and pathway that you will leave behind.
I am Lord Melchizedeck, the soul that animates this Universe. Blessings my children and may the love of the divine be always with you and thank you for this opportunity to share.
God Goddess, Spirit and the Masters have gifted us with one the most important spiritual technology and opportunity to descend from heaven in a long time; the ability to re-grow our 12 strands of DNA in physical from. This is not an etheric activation, but the spiritual technology to physically regrow the 10 shadow stands of DNA, resulting in 12 fully-grown DNA strands. Having done this, man will regain his Divine Gifts, Abilities and Powers to receive and send data to and from anywhere and to anyone in the omniverse.
At the express request of my advanced students, I developed this comprehensive, fundamental how-to ascension manual for all Lightworkers, Starseeds, Healers and Truth seekers, who are serious about the mastery of life and need support in their spiritual journey toward ascension. Available on Amazon in paperback or Kindle edition.
I decided to explore the process of ascension from the point of view of someone who has walked the path and traversed the territory in order to bring into focus the achievements, pitfalls, landmarks, and signposts that you need to watch for but that other teachers usually do not talk about. Along with many groundbreaking self-healing tools, the personal examples that I share are intimate and genuine, and intentionally thought-provoking at times, to bring you compelling and profound practical insights.
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Don Giovanni is on at the Arts Centre, Melbourne from 2 - 17 December 2012: Click here for more information and tickets. Nicole Car sings the role of Donna Anna for the final two shows.
Ever since Don Giovanni's world première in the 18th century, opera companies have found it tricky to cast the piece's main female protagonist, Donna Anna. Opera Australia Young Artist Nicole Car (pictured right), the dark-haired, fair-skinned young singer selected (along with Korean soprano Hyeseoung Kwon) to perform the role in OA's revival of Don Giovanni, which opens at the Arts Centre, Melbourne in December, confirms that Donna Anna is "a difficult sing". But she's thrilled at having been given the opportunity to tackle the role.
"The problem with Donna Anna is that you really need two different voice types to perform the role," says Car, in the rehearsal room at Sydney's Opera Centre where we meet. "Mozart expresses the different sides of her character in two very different arias: the first highly dramatic and the second ending, after a seven-minute sing, in a fiendish coloratura." Cultivating a voice that can do justice to both the drama and the vocal gymnastics, is very hard work. "Basically, you need a dramatic soprano who is also able to sing with the lightness and flexibility of a bel canto singer."
And the trouble does not end there. In Don G, Mozart wrote three important soprano roles – Donna Anna, Donna Elvira and Zerlina – and each has to sound distinct from the other two. Add to that the fact that Donna Anna's tessitura is very high ("She sings between D and F at the top of the stave pretty much all night, which is very tiring in itself"), and that she is part of several ensemble pieces, and it's clear that the soprano taking on the role has a huge sing on her hands. As Car says: "The challenge lies in working out where to hold back. Because you just can't sing full volume all night."
For young singers, the trend is to specialise in either dramatic or coloratura repertoire. Yet for Car such an approach would be far too limiting. "It's very rare to find a singer who can do both well, and yet, if you can't, you'll never be able to sing a role like Lady Macbeth. It would be hard to do Traviata too, as the Violetta of Act III is so different from the Violetta of Act I. I sing a lot of bel canto to keep the voice flexible, even though I'll never perform it in public."
Having originally trained as a jazz singer, Car later discovered that jazz technique comes in handy when negotiating operatic repertoire. "Coloratura has never been that much of an issue for me because I'd already mastered the turns and appoggiaturas required for scatting and improvising. Jazz has given me flexibility and freedom."
Mozart's operas are also challenging in that, with a selection of ensemble pieces at their core, they demand considerable rehearsal time. Car considers this one of the composer's strongest attractions. "I'd hate to reach a stage where I walk into a show two days before opening night. It's important – and so satisfying – to develop a relationship with the people with whom you're doing the show," she says.
Next year, she will be singing Pamina in OA's staging of Julie Taymor's The Magic Flute production. She's also been cast as High Priestess in Aida and Valencienne in The Merry Widow. Grateful for the opportunities that come with being part of OA's Young Artist program, she dreams of one day getting her teeth into "all the Verdi and Puccini repertoire, especially Tosca and Madama Butterfly".
It was during a Tosca performance at the State Theatre that the opera bug first bit Car. A jazz student at the time, and three months from sitting her Year 12 exams, a friend who was studying classical music persuaded her to come along to an opera performance. "We were in the back row of the State Theatre; you could hardly see anything," she remembers. "The music started...and I was transformed. I fell in love with every single part of what I saw and heard that night. I went home and asked my mum if I could have some singing lessons."
As a result of that fateful Tosca performance, Car's entire family have become opera enthusiasts. "Initially Dad was concerned because he wanted me to have a proper job with guaranteed pay," the singer laughs. "But last year he and Mum came to the opening night of Carmen [in which she sang the role of Micaëla], and afterwards Dad came backstage and said to me: 'I know I've encouraged you to do other things, but I can see now, how happy you are'."
She's delighted that her family has been travelling on the opera journey with her. "That can only be a good thing for opera."
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Decisions of the Comptroller of the Treasury, Svazek 11
Od autorů: United States. Comptroller of the Treasury
It has always been held that Labor Day and Inauguration day, since they were made public holidays by statute, were public holidays within the purview of this statute not requiring work by the clerks or other employees of the Executive Departments proper on those days.
On January 8, 1904, by Executive order the hours of labor in the Executive Departments were fixed for every day in the year, except Sundays and legal holidays and holidays declared by Executive order, at from 9 a. m. to 4.30 p. m., except during the months of July, August, and September, and fixed for each Saturday in said months at from 9 a. m. to 1 p. m. This order reads:
"Departmental Order No.
DEPARTMENT,
Washington, January 8, 1904. "The act of Congress of March 15, 1898, provides as follows: "That * it shall be the duty of the heads of the several Executive Departments, in the interest of the public service, to require of all clerks and other employees of whatever grade or class, in their respective departments, not less than seven hours of labor each day, except Sundays and days declared public holidays by law or Executive order: Provided, That the heads of the department may, by special order, stating the reason, further extend the hours of service of any clerk or employee in their departments respectively; but in case of extension it shall be without additional compensation.'
"In order more effectually to comply with the above provision of law, it is hereby ordered:
"1. On and after Monday, January 11, 1904, the hours of labor for all clerks and other employees of whatever grade or class in this department will be from 9 a. m. to 4.30 p. m., with an allowance of one-half hour for luncheon.
"2. The foregoing provision will apply to all Saturdays except during the months of July, August, and September. During these months the hours of labor on Saturdays, unless otherwise ordered, will be from 9 a. m. to 1 p. m., without any allowance for luncheon."
No hours of labor were fixed for Sundays or legal holidays or days made holidays by Executive order, for the reason that by the express terms of this statute clerks and other employees in the Executive Departments are exempt from labor.
It is clearly apparent that this statute affects only the clerks and employees in the Executive Departments proper.
The navy-yard and gun factory in Washington are under the Navy Department, one of the Executive Departments referred to in the law, supra, but are not a part of this Executive Department, and their employees are not governed by this law requiring that the heads of the several Executive Departments shall fix the hours of labor of their clerks and employees at not less than seven.
By the express terms of the act,. supra, the President is authorized to declare, for the purposes of this act, any day in the year he sees fit to be a public holiday, and on such days as he does declare a legal holiday the clerks and other employees of the several Executive Departments are not required to labor.
It was not, in my judgment, within the power of the President, under this provision of law, to reduce the number of hours below seven of labor required of such clerks and other employees of the several Executive Departments on days other than Sundays and legal holidays and such other days as the President might declare to be legal holidays for the purposes of this act. He could, through the several heads of department, under the provisions of this act, extend and lengthen the hours of labor on working days beyond seven, but this extension of hours would be without additional compensation to the clerks and employees.
The legal effect of the Executive order, supra, was to make Saturday afternoons after 1 o'clock in the months of July, August, and September legal holidays in the Executive Departments here in Washington, and such order has been so treated. The President, in so declaring such Saturday afternoons legal holidays in the several Executive Departments, within the purview of said act, clearly acted within the letter and the intent of the law. But said Executive order did not cover or pretend to cover the employees of the Government situated in Washington or elsewhere not a part of the Executive Departments.
On June 13, 1904, the Acting Secretary of the Navy, acting for and on behalf of the President, issued the following order: "The Commandant, Navy- Yard, Washington, D. C.
"SIR: The President having under consideration the matter of having a half holiday during the summer months for the employees of the yard under your command, the superin
tendent of the Naval Gun Factory has recommended, if such a holiday be granted, that it be done in the following manner: Such employees as are present on Saturdays during the months of July, August, and September, whose services can be spared, will be excused for the last half of the day, and those whose services can not be spared and who are required to work the full eight hours will be allowed the one-half day on such other Saturdays when, in the discretion of the superintendent of the Naval Gun Factory or heads of their respective departments, their services can be spared.'
"You are therefore directed to grant such half holiday in the manner above set forth."
If such order is not in contravention of law it is quite apparent that whose services can be spared, and who are excused from labor on Saturday afternoons in July, August, and September, are entitled to pay for such afternoons the same as if they had performed their usual tasks.
Cry the 18-noyees of the navy-yard and gun factory
If I were of opinion that such order was in violation of law I would feel it my sworn duty, however unpleasant the task, considering the source from which it emanated, to hold that employees who were so excused from labor would not receive pay therefor, and disallow these items in the account of the disbursing officer who should make them; for it is my duty under the law, in so far as I am advised, to see that no illegal payments are made from the appropriations made by Con
gress.
The question for determination is, as regards payment to these employees for Saturday afternoons as aforesaid, Was the President acting within the scope of the law and within the powers inherent in his high office when he promulgated through his Secretary of the Navy said order?
Cabinet ministers are, in the language of the courts, simply the hands and instruments of the Chief Executive, through and by which he administers and executes the law and keeps the Government moving. Their acts of government are his acts if not repudiated.
This Executive order of June 13, 1904, excusing the employees of the navy-yard-that is, such of them as can be spared from labor-on Saturday afternoons in July, August, and September, is in line with many other Executive orders of like character promulgated and acted upon for more than
twenty years. Such orders have been issued and obeyed when the former Presidents have made by Executive orders special days legal holidays in the District of Columbia and elsewhere on occasions such as the deaths of our Presidents and ex-Presidents, and other special occasions.
Such has been the practical construction of these orders necessarily involving the authority of the President to make and execute them. But, regardless of such practical construction, let me for a moment consider his power and authority in the premises.
Before the act of March 15, 1898, supra, fixing the hours of labor for clerks and other employees in the Executive Departments, what must have been necessarily the power and authority of the heads of the several Departments acting for the President in fixing the hours and time of labor of their clerks and employees? Congress had not before fixed either. The power to so fix must have necessarily rested somewhere. It rested with the President of necessity, because he is responsible for the conduct of all the Departments and every branch of the Government service.
Congress has not fixed the hours of service required, in so far as I am advised, or relieved the President from the full measure of his responsibility on account of the service outside of the Executive Departments. This being the case, the President necessarily has the discretion to so fix. I know of no safer or better person to exercise this power, in the absence of legislation on the subject by Congress, than him who is the head of the Executive Departments and all under them, and who is responsible for the conduct and efficiency of all.
I have therefore the honor, in answer to the several questions raised by your communication, to say that in my judgment you are not legally authorized to pay the per diem employees of the navy-yard at Washington their several compensations for Labor Day or Inaugural Day unless they work on said days, in the absence of an Executive order excusing them from work on said days.
That under the terms of the said Executive order of June 13, 1904, you are authorized to pay all such employees for the Saturday afternoons who are excused thereunder from work.
That no distinction should be made between those serving in a clerical capacity and those working in the shops.
RATE OF EXCHANGE BETWEEN ENGLISH AND UNITED STATES MONEY.
Under section 3565, Revised Statutes, and paragraph 585, Consular Regulations of 1896, United States consuls in all countries are required to make reductions from English money to United States money at $4.8665 to the pound sterling.
(Decision by Comptroller Tracewell, August 19, 1904.)
On April 12, 1904, Alvin Smith, United States consul at Trinidad, British West Indies, appealed from the action of the Auditor for the State and other Departments in the final settlement of a number of accounts of the consul under various appropriations, upon which action has been suspended pending the receipt of information necessary to the intelligent settlement of the several questions raised by the appeal.
The only difficult question presented relates to a small disallowance made by the Auditor in the final settlement, per certificate dated February 6, 1904, of claimant's account for the quarter ending September 30, 1900, under appropriation "Contingent expenses, United States consulates, 1901."
Claimant in the rendition of his accounts converted English money into United States money, and vice versa, at $4.80 to the "sovereign or pound sterling" instead of $4.8665, as fixed by section 3565, Revised Statutes, and paragraph 585, Consular Regulations of 1896. The Auditor settled and adjusted the account upon the basis fixed by section 3565, debiting claimant with the difference on his receipts and crediting him with like differences on his disbursements, the disallowance referred to being the net difference between such debit and credit.
Respecting this action of the Auditor claimant submits the following statement:
Regarding the charges against me for exchange, occasioned by computing the pound sterling at $4.80 instead of $4.8665, I inclose herewith copy of a proclamation made October 28, 1853, wherein the value of English sterling was fixed at $4.80 to the pound and United States gold at the following values:
The eagle, or United States $10 gold piece, is valued at..
The one-half eagle, or United States $5 gold piece, is valued at
The one-quarter eagle, or United States $2.50 gold piece, is valued at.
The United States $1 gold piece is valued at


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Rhynchodeminae ist eine Unterfamilie der Landplanarien, die weltweit verbreitet ist.

Systematik
Aufgrund morphologischer Merkmal, vor allem dem Vorhandensein von einem Augenpaar, umfasste die Unterfamilie Rhynchodeminae zunächst ausschließlich Arten des heutigen Tribus Rhynchodemini und wurde als Schwestertaxon zur Unterfamilie Microplaninae geführt. Für die übrigen Triben wurden aufgrund der vielen Augen entlang des Körpers eine nahe Beziehung zur Unterfamilie Geoplaninae vermutet.

Molekulargenetische Untersuchungen zeigten, dass diese Klassifikation unpassend war und Rhynchodeminae näher mit der Unterfamilie Caenoplaninae verwanft ist. Aus diesem Grund wurde die vorige Definition für die Unterfamilie Rhynchodeminae für den neu eingeordneten Tribus Rynchodemini übernommen. Auch die vorherige Unterfamilie Caenoplaninae wurde in den Tribus Caenoplanini überführt. Des Weiteren wurden die Triben Anzoplanini, Eudoxiatoplanini und Pelmatoplanini in die Unterfamilie aufgenommen. Die Einordnung dieser Unterfamilie wird durch Ergebnisse der Phylogenetik unterstützt, es gibt jedoch auch Synapomorphien innerhalb der Gruppe.

Triben und Gattungen
 Anzoplanini:
 Anzoplana Winsor, 2006
 Marionfyfea Winsor, 2011 (Name ersetzt vorherigen Gattungsnamen Fyfea Winsor, 2006)
 Caenoplanini:
 Arthurdendyus Jones, 1999
 Artioposthia von Graff, 1896
 Australopacifica Ogren & Kawakatsu, 1991
 Australoplana Winsor, 1991
 Caenoplana Moseley, 1877
 Coleocephalus Fyfe, 1953
 Endeavouria Ogren & Kawakatsu, 1991
 Fletchamia Winsor, 1991
 Kontikia C. G. Froehlich, 1955
 Lenkunya Winsor, 1991
 Newzealandia Ogren & Kawakatsu, 1991
 Pimea Winsor, 1991
 Reomkago Winsor, 1991
 Tasmanoplana Winsor, 1991
 Timyma E. M. Froehlich, 1978
 Eudoxiatopoplanini:
 Eudoxiatopoplana Winsor, 2009
 Pelmatoplanini:
 Beauchampius Ogren & Kawakatsu, 1991
 Pelmatoplana Graff, 1896
 Rhynchodemini:
 Anisorhynchodemus Kawakatsu, Froehlich, Jones, Ogren & Sasaki, 2003
 Cotyloplana Spencer, 1892
 Digonopyla Fischer, 1926
 Dolichoplana Moseley, 1877
 Platydemus von Graff, 1896
 Rhynchodemus Leidy, 1851

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The campground is in the Baker Dam Recreation Area and is located 17 miles due north of St. George, Utah, just off State Route 18. Camping, reservoir fishing, boating, and picnicing are some of the activities available at this site. Much of the land surrounding the reservoir is private except for the southern end, which is public land. Please view the land ownership map and respect private property. Potable water is not available at the campground, so be sure to bring your own.
Note: Campsites can NOT be reserved; they are first come first serve.
A picnic table is available at each campsite.
Take State Route 18 north out of St. George. Between mile markers 24 and 25 turn right onto a paved road marked with a sign "Baker Dam Reservoir."


But We're Only Thinking About the Grandchildren.
Kelly said $31,000 sounds like a lot of money, but to put it in context he asked a reporter how much they think the chair they're sitting on costs. Kelly said it's probably worth hundreds of dollars but it will last a long time. He rationalized Carson's $31,000 outlay by saying the table could last for 80 or 100 years.
Trump's administration isn't always big on long-term planning when it comes to things like climate change, where the 100-year picture is not exactly foremost on anybody's mind. But at least they're thinking long term about the executive dining needs of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Our grandchildren may lose some coastal cities we currently enjoy, but they can rest assured they will never need to fund another dining set for the HUD secretary.
"One former official said that, under normal circumstances, the White House would have run a name check on Porter as he was joining the administration, which would have surely turned up record of a protective order that one of Porter's former wives, Jennifer Willoughby, filed against him in 2010.
"If there was a court record about this, they should have known about this immediately," the former official said.
Porter, who has denied the allegations of abuse, would have also been required to disclose the record of the restraining order on an SF 86, a standard form that government officials in national security positions are required to fill out.
…when men were men and women didn't mind being smacked around.
Didn't Trump say something similar about "I'm sure there are good people on both sides" when he was talking about the Charlottesville white supremacist march?
And it seems to me, but I may be wrong here, that "the lack of an ability to compromise" was not the biggest problem leading up to the Civil War. Either one believes that "all men are created equal" or one doesn't. There is no compromise on that, Gen. Kelly.


Regular watchers of the stunt world will not have missed the fact that Volvo Trucks has suddenly become rather active in their self-promotion.
We've seen a sequence of stunning pieces of content – the hamster, the tightrope walkers and, most recently, a truck doing the running of the bulls.
There are (at least) five things that are fascinating here.
First of all that Volvo is sinking quite so much cash into content. In fact they've taken the sum total of their marketing spend and have humped it into a series of shareable "ads" to get people talking.
And secondly that they've believed that people will talk about them. It's a helluva bet after all – "let's spend X million making these films but not buy any media at all because people will want to watch them" is a pretty ballsy argument to advance by either an ad agency OR by a client selling that as a strategy internally. It's a job on the line moment that, in this case, appears to have paid off.
Thirdly I thought it was significant of a wider shift that an ad agencies (generally known for hammering the message home about a functional product such as a truck and saying whatever they want because the space has been paid for) are getting used to an editorial (or entertainment) approach. Showing handling with a hamster, showing manoeuvrability with some bulls and demoing straight line driving with a tightrope is a novel approach. It may not deliver the message direct but it sure does deliver the message.
Fourth I thought that the Volvo work was an object lesson in integration. Once upon a time, adland wanted to work with PRs but didn't know how to. Now, with campaigns like this one, adland HAS to work with PRs. We are the masters of the media they need for their crafted content to achieve its aim – getting people talking and sharing. This could be wildly optimistic if course, but a world in which marketing teams need PRs and the expertise we offer is only good news for those of us plying our trade in the latter corner of the marketing industry.
And finally, I'd observe, the fact that content had become digital and that digital content has meant that it is intrinsically social means that we are all consumers now. Once upon a time, a marketing campaign for trucks would've done trade, decision maker DM, a few trade shows and some trade advertising. Hum drum. But practical.
Now we are all consumers. The trade media is slowly dying – changing for sure but the long term tide is not great. The small and medium business media has diminished to next to nothing.
So we are all just people. Not business owners or PRs or (as in this case) truck purchasers. Punters first, foremost and only. The rise of digital means that adland doesn't pay wastage anymore and, while they may need a bit of luck to hit their audience square on, the fact that they aren't paying to reach plebs like us means they can spend more on the content.
So the conclusion? That once again this is a campaign that points to an interesting but unsettling future. One in which content rules and in which those who make the content has shifted too.
But one thing should give everyone hope … if PR becomes the discipline that holds the access to an audience then we've a bright future. Because if we can position as the media "earners" rather than buyers of the future, we become even more central to the mix. And that can only be a good thing.


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Dentsu Aegis Network's Out-of-Home agency – Posterscope, is pleased to announce the expansion of its dynamic digital content arm, Liveposter, in Asia Pacific today. Liveposter is a web-based platform that helps brands create dynamic content for digital out of home that are increasingly becoming more relevant, engaging and effective. It has been launched in Posterscope's offices in the UK, US and Australia and now from Singapore serving Southeast Asia.
The platform puts focus on context and relevance to gain and retain customer attention. With the strategic use of data, the platform creates, changes and schedules messages and advertisements that change over the course of a day, a week or an ongoing campaign. In doing so, brand communication remains relevant, guaranteeing appeal and effectiveness.
Anchoring its footprint in the region, the launch of Liveposter also marks the first campaign for Ninja Van – Southeast Asia's fastest growing last-mile logistics company, in Thailand. In collaboration with Dentsu Aegis Network's sister agencies – Vizeum and gyro, the campaign will showcase the flexible qualities DOOH provides via multiple creatives on digital billboards, targeted with specific data overlays such as time of day and weather triggers such as rain.
The deployment of targeted digital OOH will help potential customers understand the range of benefits within Ninja Van's services and demonstrate these services to consumers at the right moment in time. The campaign is launched this week till the end of October in Bangkok.
Virachai Chusakulporn, Country Head of Ninja Van Thailand, said "As a tech-enabled logistics company, Ninja Van is committed to innovation. For the launch of our we needed an innovative Out-of-Home advertising solution to communicate our added value to sellers and precise delivery date for shoppers. Liveposter gives us an innovative way to communicate with our customers that Ninja Van will do whatever it takes to guarantee deliveries, just when they most care about it, such as in the morning rush hour or when bad weather strikes."
"Dynamic Out-of-Home is changing the way brands communicate with consumers on the move in real time. While traditional Out-of-Home is forecast to show steady growth in the Asia Pacific region, ahead of global, digital OOH is forecast to outpace all media growth in the region with 17.3% annual growth. Liveposter delivers opportunities for our clients to create greater relevance through dynamic content, linked to multiple envirnonmental triggers. We're looking to further deploy this strategically in the work that we do across the region," said Sean O'Brien, CEO of Posterscope Asia Pacific.
Pei Xuan Lim
Regional Communications Associate Director, APAC
E: PeiXuan.Lim@dentsuaegis.com
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