It's important to be resilient in our trust for ourselves, because our intuition really is such an incredible tool and it's a direct connection with our most loving and expansive core selves.
I want to share a couple considerations for you when it comes to rebuilding self-trust and faith in your intuition, and I want to share a few tips that I used to grow my own connection with my intuitive instincts.
First, I want you to think about when your intuition let you down.
How recent was it? If the incident was recent (or if your feelings around it are still tender and unresolved), I want you to consider this: what if it's not over yet?
Maybe your intuition actually was right, and it was guiding you toward an outcome you truly desire for your future… and maybe the scene just hasn't finished playing itself out yet. Maybe there's another conversation that needs to be had, or another epiphany in your near future that brings it full circle.
Maybe someone needs to walk into or out of your life in order for you to be able to see the situation clearly from the distance of someone who is looking back, rather than looking at it from the middle of the chaos.
Before you declare your intuitive decision a failure or judge your instincts based on the outcome of a specific situation, make sure the situation has fully resolved and come full circle. If it hasn't, you can't truly see if your intuition guided you well or not.
Sometimes it's just too soon to judge, so set it aside for a while and come back to reflect later. You might be surprised to learn that your intuition was spot on!
There are lots of ways you can work on rebuilding trust with yourself- or building that trust for the first time if you're pretty new to opening up to your intuition.
Write a letter to your future self, that version of you who is living your dream life, and let her know you've committed to following your intuition and that you are so grateful to her for all the years that she followed through on your commitment in order to create the life she is currently living. Imagine what her life looks like, and pull examples out of her life that prove she listened to her intuition to get there.
This is kind of like showing gratitude for what you want before you have it, and inviting it to fully manifest in your life. It's a lot of fun, especially if you like to daydream about an incredible future for your life.
It's time to hand the reigns back over to your intuition, even if only a little bit at a time. Start letting your intuition take over in easy ways that aren't likely to have major consequences.
As you gain confidence, increase the importance of the decisions you allow your intuition to decide on. This is especially helpful when you are first getting to know your intuition.
If you have a tough time knowing what voice or pull is your intuition talking, I have a tip for you there too.
Ask yourself: What is the most loving, purely ME thing I could do in this situation? What feels most expansive to me in this moment? Or, what would my very best self do in this situation?
I take a deep breath, close my eyes, put my hand on my heart, and as I exhale, I ask these questions. I usually ask just the first question, and if I don't get a clear response, I'll move down the list.
Over time, it gets a lot easier to tap into that intuitive response and, if you practice this every single day, it will quickly become your natural instinct to hear and apply your intuitive wisdom in every situation.
We are human beings. We are, by definition, imperfect. We are perfectly imperfect, in that our imperfections, flaws, and mistakes are a part of the journey of life that we each have the opportunity to live. Failure is a wonderful teacher, and sometimes there is abundance and beauty even in loss and wrongness.
If your intuition truly didn't serve you in a situation, I invite you to give yourself a loving break. Embrace your own humanness, soak in the fresh dose of humility, and get back on the path to living your best life. This world didn't stop turning because your intuition didn't have precisely the result you wanted, so don't let your whole life stop on account of that either.
You've got this! Shake it off and keep on goin' girl.


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Katy and I work with a lot of successful Recruitment Business Owners and Directors and one of the things we notice is that even when they're achieving great results, they never seem to be able to feel really truly happy and enjoy their achievements.
And that's because they are driven people and they're always trying to get better at what they do….but, the problem with this is because they're always focused on driving towards the future, they never stop to enjoy the journey and always feel like they've never quite achieved, they're never quite there… and generally feel unsatisfied.
There's a great book called 'Learning How To Avoid The Gap' by Dan Sullivan who owns and operates a great business called Strategic Coach that helps entrepreneurs.
What Dan Sullivan says in his book is that you can't have the horizon. The horizon is the place where the land and the sky connect. It's that vision of the future that we as business owners have that we are continually driving towards.
The problem is that the horizon is a mental construct; it's not real…. it's a bit like the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow – you can't ever reach it, because it doesn't exist. The frustrating thing for a recruitment business owner or anyone that has any sort of drive is that we're always looking towards this ideal that exists way out in the future – and as soon as we appear to be reaching it, it moves ahead of us again.
So we're left feeling that we haven't quite made it…and for those of you that have experienced this, you know it can leave you feeling unfulfilled, never quite good enough and de-motivated.
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Wired Magazine's alarmist article NASA's Plutonium Problem Could End Deep-Space Exploration argues that virgin production of plutonium-238 in nuclear reactors is needed, or U.S. space exploration is dead. Instead the nation's future Pu-238 needs should be met through accelerated nuclear weapons dismantlements and recycling/scrap recovery efforts.
Processing and encapsulation of Pu-238 currently takes place at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in northern New Mexico. [Having said that, all plutonium operations at the Lab have been shut down since the end of June because of nuclear criticality safety issues, which is a story in and of itself]. A Pu-238 scrap recovery line capable of recovering 2-8 kilograms per year was slated to start in 2005, but apparently has never become fully operational. In fact, LANL claimed in a 2008 site-wide environmental impact statement that it was capable of recycling/recovering up to 18 kilograms of Pu-238 per year, far more than needed to take care of the nation's needs.
LANL has a large existing inventory of Pu-238 scrap material. Moreover, the Pantex Plant was supposed to ship radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) from dismantled nuclear weapons to the Lab to harvest Pu-238. That hasn't happened either, we conjecture because the LANL's scrap recovery line hasn't been properly working (or perhaps never really started in the Lab's troubled Plutonium Facility-4). Indeed, the government estimated that approximately 3,200 RTGs would become available for recycling between 2009 and 2022 through nuclear weapons dismantlements. Significantly, increased dismantlements could also supply sufficient recycled tritium for existing nuclear weapons instead of current military production in civilian reactors, a big nonproliferation no-no. But unfortunately dismantlements at the Pantex Plant are substantially blocked by exorbitant "Life Extension Programs" that extend the service lives of existing nuclear weapons by three decades or more while giving them new military capabilities.
Before the U.S. resumes virgin Pu-238 production, the government should make LANL straighten out its Pu-238 recovery operations. Safely that is, because Pu-238 is a very energetic gamma emitter and therefore very dangerous to handle. But the nation's future Pu-238 needs should be met through accelerated nuclear weapons dismantlements (instead of Life Extension Programs) and recycling/scrap recovery efforts, not new virgin production in nuclear reactors.
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Title: Classification and synoptic analysis of subtropical cyclones within the Northeastern Atlantic Ocean
Authors: González-Alemán, Juan J.; Valero Rodríguez, Francisco; Martín León, Francisco ; Evans, Jenni L.
Keywords: Convection; Wave breaking; Cutoff lows; Subtropical cyclones; Extratropical cyclones; Tropical cyclones
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Citation: Journal de Climate. 2015, 28(8), p. 3331-3352
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00276.1
Abstract: Since more research is needed on subtropical cyclones (STCs) formed within the North Atlantic eastern basin, this survey analyzes them from a synoptic point of view, on a climatological basis, with the main aims of studying their common features, complementing other studies of these storms in the North Atlantic, and aiding the forecasting community. Fifteen cases of STCs were identified during the period 1979–2011 by applying a set of criteria from two databases. Composite analysis reveals that an extratropical depression acts as a precursor when it is isolated from the westerlies and then suffers a deepening when becoming subtropical instead of decaying through occlusion. This process is accompanied by an atmospheric circulation, within the North Atlantic, whose main feature is characterized by notable departures from the climatological pattern with a statistically significant anomalous high pressure to the north of the STCs. Three conceptual models of synoptic pattern of subtropical cyclogenesis are derived and show that these departures appeared because the westerly circulation moves poleward and/or the flow has a great meridional component, with the possibility of a blocked flow pattern occurring. Moreover, the identified STCs predominantly formed in a highly sheared (>10 m s−1) environment with low sea surface temperature values (<25°C), which differs from the dominant features of STCs in the North Atlantic, especially within its western region. Finally, a recent (2010) STC, identified by the authors, is synoptically discussed in order to achieve a better interpretation of the general results.
Sponsorship : This work was supported under a MECD Grant (Spanish government), the MINECO projects CGL2011-25327 and PCIN-2014-013-C07-04 (Spanish government), and by the U.S. National Science Foundation under Grant ATM1322532.
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Would it be bad if I deleted him off Snapchat? Sorry it's long. I need help? Your opinion?
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Delete that loser. He likes the attention he garners from you, that's it. He's just gonna waste your time, girl.
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Miami City has announced plans to launch a cryptocurrency this summer to assist fundraising for local projects. The city of Miami, Florida, has revealed that its own cryptocurrency will be launched in August. The coin, according to city officials, will help generate revenue and expand the regional economy. Since Miami has clearly become the Bitcoin capital of the globe, the city of Miami could wind up collecting millions of dollars as a consequence of the popularity of MiamiCoin ($MIA).
Miami will be the first and only city to have its own coin. It will be developed in collaboration with CityCoins. MiamiCoin was created by CityCoins using Stacks, a programmable blockchain (STX). People can begin mining MIA on August 3rd, a process that creates new money while also supporting the network. Individuals will be able to mine MiamiCoin with STX, with 30% of the proceeds going to Miami. The money will then be used for any cause the city wants, such as assisting the homeless or funding enforcement programs.
While the Mayor's resolution was unanimously approved, multiple reports suggest that several commissioners are skeptical about the CityCoin. Patrick Stanley, the founder of CityCoin, replied to officials' anxieties by assuring them that adequate software is in place to automatically send the digital currency to the city as US dollars. With things still in the nascent stages, it is tough to accurately predict the future of this project. If this model is successful, other states may also adopt it in the future.
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22 pushups a day. That's all it takes. Sweating for a good cause to raise awareness about a topic that not many talk about but should.
Mental health. It effects every decision you make, from how you breathe, to whether you get out of bed in the morning and go outside, to handling business at work. Mental health issues effect us all, but today I'm talking about how they effect our veterans.
I learned about the challenge through one of the looooooooves of my life Jax Teller.
He rarely posts anything on social media, but had something to say about the suicide statistic regarding veterans. On average about 22 veterans are killed by suicide a day. When I heard that I couldn't believe it! 22.
Raising awareness for mental health issues that lead to suicide is something I think is extremely important. Being able to educate ourselves, talk about it, and understand the problems and triggers that lead to thoughts of suicide can help someone change their course. Spreading awareness, education, and compassion can lead to change.
This week I became part of the initiative trying to spread the word about #22Pushups and help the organization reach 22 million pushups. Every little bit helps. All of this in order to honor those who served and raise awareness for veteran suicide prevention.
22 pushups a day … for 22 consecutive days.
Yet another reason to dig Charlie Hunnam. He's not a slave to social media AND he picks his spots perfectly when he does make an appearance.
Great cause, Cali. I'm not one for "challenges" usually, but this one is in my wheelhouse seeing as how I do push ups and sit ups already. So I'm in, and thank you, and Charlie, I mean . . Jax, rules. Kudos for bringing attention to a cause, a real and important one.
Duuuuuude he just keeps giving me reasons to love him. It's definitely a great cause, so feel the burn Cayman 🙂 and spread awareness. I knew you'd be up for something like this.
Cool! I'm down for the 22 day challenge! I used to work at the VA Hospital as an illustrator. Being mentally healthy means everything. That's a shocking statistic.
The only thing they're missing is a donation site to help vets.


At first I thought I don't need to go to Beverly Hills for Korean BBQ, but after going here, WOW. I will be back. You can get the choice of an appetizer, BBQ, and dessert as a Prix Fixe Menu for $35. Comes with Complimentary Salad, Radish, Beansprouts, Broccoli, and Steamed Rice. Good deal.
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Well, something today absolutely from the basics. Many times newbies wonder how to create maven based Dynamic Web Projects on eclipse. So, this article is in rescue for all such developers.
Assuming you've already setup Maven and Tomcat / Pivotal tc with your eclipse, let's move ahead.
Select workspace location and select "Next"
Select Archetype with Artifact Id as "maven-archetype-webapp" and click "Next"
Enter your "Group Id", "Artifact Id" for your project and click "Finish"
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Pablo Hernández moves to Celta
The Chilean international joins the Galician side from O'Higgins and has signed for the next four seasons.
Pablo Hernández, a 27 year old Chilean international, has signed with RC Celta de Vigo for the next four seasons. The midfielder has transferred from O'Higgins in Chile, the team where he was coached by the man who will be his new manager, Eduardo 'Toto' Berizzo, and where he won the club's first ever league title.
With the new signing, Berizzo continues to build his side in preparation for the 2014/15 season, after the arrival of Argentinian player Joaquín Larrivey and the renewal of centre-back Gustavo Cabral.


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The Andinia Plan () is a conspiracy theory that alleged plans to establish a Jewish state in parts of Argentina and Chile. It is partly based on an exaggeration of historical proposals for organized Jewish migration to Argentina in the late 19th and the early 20th century (which, however, did not include plans for a Jewish state there). The name and contents of the plan have wide currency on some circles of the Argentinian and Chilean right-wing, but no evidence of its actual existence has ever been brought up, making it, according to the US-based Anti-Defamation League and the Israeli research institute Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, an example of a conspiracy theory.

This alleged plan has been used in Argentina as a rhetorical device by far right circles to attack Jews and Jewish institutions. In 1971 a leaflet appeared among officers in the Argentinean army under the name "Plan Andinia," which accused international Jewry and Zionists of planning to take over southern Argentina. It has been circulating ever since.

Jewish migration to Argentina and early Zionist plans

Starting in 1880, Argentine governments had a policy of massive immigration, and the liberal tendencies of the Roca administration were instrumental in making European Jews feel welcome.

Maurice de Hirsch sponsored the Jewish Colonization Association, initially promoted by French rabbi Zadoc Kahn, for the support of agricultural settlements, and the idea was seriously considered as an alternative to Palestine by leading Zionists. It is unclear if Theodor Herzl seriously considered this alternative plan, however, these plans only included a local Jewish autonomy, rather than an independent Jewish state. The notion of a Jewish homeland, not in Palestine, but elsewhere in the world, such as a region of South America or in East Africa, eventually led to the schism of the Jewish Territorialist Organization. The actual early 20th-century Jewish settlement effort was rather focused on the other extremity of the country, Entre Ríos Province and surroundings, where it coexisted alongside other European settlements.

The Jewish population in Argentina grew and prospered in the ensuing years, though the community eventually became much more urban.

Conspiracy theory
The extreme right-wing had a strong foothold in the Argentine military, mostly through the teachings of Jordán Bruno Genta. In these circles, the Andinia Plan was sometimes assumed to be a fact, even though the Zionist movement had abandoned all plans related to Argentina decades ago, and Argentine Jewish institutions (headed by Delegación de Asociaciones Israelitas Argentinas) were recognized by (and conversant with) all Argentine governments, including military juntas.

Later versions of the Plan, as published in Argentine Neo-Nazi media in the 1970s, involved an alleged Israel with the intention to conquer parts of Patagonia in Argentina's south, and declare a Jewish state. This theory did not take hold in mainstream political discourse. Many Israelis tour South America, some of them immediately after their military service as a gap year experience, with Patagonia being a favored destination, this is believed by conspiracy theories to be attempts to carry out the aforementioned Andinia Plan. However, there are strong reasons to doubt the relationship of these facts with the materialization of a plot to make Patagonia a second Israel, of which there is no evidence according to academic studies and the facts.

During the 1976–1983 dictatorship, some Jewish prisoners of the armed forces, notably Jacobo Timerman, were tortured for information about the Andinia plan, and were asked to provide details regarding the alleged preparations of the Israel Defense Forces for the invasion of Patagonia.

Timerman recalled details of the interrogation about the Plan Andinia – and his response to the absurdity of such a concept – in Preso Sin Nombre, Celda Sin Número (Prisoner Without A Name, Cell Without A Number).

On December 27, 2011, Israeli tourist Rother Singer started an accidental fire in Torres del Paine National Park, Chilean Patagonia. The fire took several days to be extinguished and burned more than . Singer was taken into custody by Chilean police and entered a plea in which he agreed to pay 4.8 million Chilean pesos (US$10,000) to CONAF and leave the country. This caused rage amongst some Chileans, who expected a prison sentence, with some protesters gathering outside the courthouse. In 2015, Chilean Supreme Court ratified the sentence. This case was reported in national and international media, introducing the "Plan Andinia" concept into the common Chilean knowledge, leading that in 2012, some Chilean politicians including members of the National Congress from the Christian Democratic Party and the Party for Democracy alleged that the fire in the Chilean Patagonia was in some way connected to the Andinia plan, prompting condemnation from the ADL.
In a February 2017 interview, the director of Conaf Magallanes stated that according to park statistics for the past five years, Israeli tourists accounted for almost two thirds of expulsions from Parque Nacional Torres del Paine, resulting in local hostels not taking in Israeli nationals

In 2020, the documentary, Plan Andinia: A New Jewish State?, by Asela Villar, suggesting Israel is slowly planning to invade Patagonia, was aired on the Iranian channel HispanTV and replayed online, on Real Stories network, belonging to Little Dot Studios and All3Media, for which Pablo Iglesias Turrión, worked before co-founding Podemos, the left-wing political party he led from 2014 until his resignation in 2021.

See also
 Judeopolonia
 Proposals for a Jewish state

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Thorunna is a genus of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod mollusks in the family Chromodorididae.

Description
The genus Thorunna contains chromodorid nudibranchs with a distinctive radula, which is very small and has 17-25 teeth in a half-row. The lateral teeth are long slender shafts with bluntly bifid tips. Species in this genus rarely exceed  and wriggle or vibrate their gills rhythmically. Anatomically the buccal bulb is very small relative to most chromodorids and the oral tube very long.

Species
Species in the genus Thorunna include:

 Species brought into synonymy
 Thorunna decussata (Risbec, 1928) : synonym of Noumea decussata Risbec, 1928: synonym of Verconia decussata (Risbec, 1928)
 Thorunna lapislazuli Bertsch & Ferreira, 1974: synonym of Felimare lapislazuli (Bertsch & Ferreira, 1974)
 Thorunna scottjohnsoni (Bertsch & Gosliner, 1989): synonym of Ardeadoris scottjohnsoni Bertsch & Gosliner, 1989
 Thorunna speciosus Rudman, 1990: synonym of Thorunna speciosa Rudman, 1990
 Thorunna tura (Marcus & Marcus, 1967): synonym of Mexichromis tura (Marcus & Marcus, 1967)

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A 16-hectare site within the METRONET Malaga Station Precinct will be proposed as the home of Western Australia's first dedicated screen production facility.
Located off Marshall Road to the south of Whiteman Park, the site has been selected for its access to future public transport through the METRONET Morley-Ellenbrook Line Project, proximity to the Perth CBD and airport, scale of available land and direct access to major roads for travel to the State's regional areas.
The screen production facility project is currently progressing through the State Government's proposal process, which includes site investigations, final design and planning applications. A Creative Industries Hub at Victoria Quay's E Shed in Fremantle will also be considered as part of the proposal.
The project is part of the State Government's investment in WA's creative industries to diversify the economy through film, TV and screen projects in Western Australia.
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Current eligibility dates are listed in your wireless AT&T account, though we caution getting to worried about it at this time. Last year, AT&T modified the eligibility dates at the last minute to accommodate more customers.
Wow, 6mo on an 11-year contract? Imagine having the same phone now in 6/21, it would look ancient!
I seem to remember that the your contract is two years, but you are upgrade eligible earlier. It is so you are able to get a new AT&T phone before your contract expires, at which time you would be free to change carriers and get a new phone on another network. It is basically their way of keeping you in house.
I can't wait to upgrade from my 2g. This is just what I'm looking for. I hated the plastic 3G / 3GS. This will be a welcome follow-up to my little metal buddy.
I think I satisfy the upgrade time regardless.
Got my 3GS on launch day last June. If it's 99$ plus the cost of the new phone, I am down with that.
Eligible or not - ME GETTING!
Doubt 3GS purchasers will get an upgrade without paying extra.
I sent macrumors a screen grab of my upgrade eligibility page months ago, when all the hype was still around the ipad announcement... AT&T lists mine as being elibible 6/16/2010 for full upgrade - ordered iPhone 3GS for delivery on 1st day available. I would post screen grab but not sure how?
As a valued AT&T customer, we can offer you a discounted iPhone upgrade with a new 2-year commitment and an $18 upgrade fee.
I believe if your only eligible for the early upgrade price it's actually 199$ plus the cost of the phone. Which still isn't bad if one is planning to sell their current iPhone.
Why don't they just allow you to pay the price difference between your old phone and the new one, all while keeping the same contract? You would still be required to pay the monthly phone bill, only you would pay a one-off "upgrade" fee that would cover the cost of the new subsidised iPhone, wouldn't that work?
why is that? I'm eligible for upgrade on June 21st, like others in the article. I have a 3GS.
Oh I had forgot all about this, cue the flood of forum posts when the time comes!
Where on AT&Ts site can you find your specific upgrade date?
Not eligible now, but I was one of the ones that got changed at the last minute last year for the 3GS.
Where is the date on the att account page? the article just links to the att login page.
All I care about is the full price. I don't want a contract. It will probably be $599 and $699 for a phone they can't even build with out some pathetic defects.
If you had a first gen iphone, you could have upgraded way back in July 2008 to the 3G (without incurring any wait at all) IE purchase subsidize ATT phone on April 2008 (say HTC Tilt), than purchased first gen iphone and activated it. You could have upgrade on July 2008 for the 199/299 price and still be fully eligible for another upgrade in 2009 if you spend more than $100 a month.
Hopefully you used your full upgrade on a subsidze phone in the meanwhile and resold it for profit. Those who don't upgrade and still with ATT are really losing out on money by not reselling subsidized phones they don't want or need.
Well, this makes no sense ... my eligibility for upgrade is in 2011 ... what the hell gives !? They better allow me to upgrade to the new one, like I did for the past 2 years.
Woo hoo! 2 of my 3 family plan lines are eligble on 6/19/2010! Sweetness!
Sick. Moved up from November to July.
Now they want me to pay full price if I want a G4 day of release? Thats crap, the 3GS was unsubsidized. Come June it'll have been 2 years since my last subsidized device. (online says I'm not elligable for an upgrade until 11/20).


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Bobby Ocean & John Sebastian, "Position 93" KHJ Los Angeles | April 14, 1978
Jun 7, 2015 1978, Bobby Ocean, John Sebastian, Los Angeles
It's simple, we want to be YOUR radio station – KHJ
…Which they WERE, for a very long time. One has to wonder what line of thinking lead to the days of "Position 93". Top 40? Yes. Exciting? Not really, if you're judging the station by this aircheck.
The music, especially during Bobby Ocean's show, is mostly slow, Adult Contemporary fare – although that format name didn't actually exist in 1978. Osh is… well, himself. Perfect timing, that voice smooth as glass, but something seems missing. Perhaps the indicator of how dreadfully boring KHJ was under this 'new format' is just about 3 minutes in, just a singular, "KHJ" is spoken. Nothing else, no song intro. Nothing.
No jingles, either.
What were they thinkng?
So much has been written all over the web and this site about the possible reasons why KHJ removed the personality approach and went to less talk, more music. And still, we have few concrete answers. Its easy to look back and come up with reasons in our own mind, but then, we're reminded that the programmers at RKO General didn't have the benefit of over thirty years of history to look back and make an informed decision. In 1978, there was stiff competition from no less than three other AM stations, notably the one station with the most momentum at the time, 1020 KTNQ. Ten-Q had The Real Don Steele, Machine Gun Kelly and others, an exciting, rapid format and plenty of personality. KMPC had the older audience. KFI was Top 40 and just sitting there, waiting to pounce. What would you do, if you programmed KHJ at this point in time?
Of course, all of us would love to be armchair program directors, but history is just that. What already took place. KHJ doesn't sound BAD. It just sounds like mom and dad's station here. And this aircheck is merely a record of what happened, which would lead to other things happening. It is one piece of an enormous radio puzzle and like all investigators, we historians like to poke around the ruins of the great audio legends, which like the pyramids, stand as monuments to a time when the pulse of the entire radio industry was taken by observing the formatic gyrations of these once great institutions.
Given the state of radio, in the grand scheme of modern entertainment, the answers we seek may end up buried with the components of the transmitters of these giants. KHJ WAS the pulse of radio. And we present two more jocks from this great RF modulator for your enjoyment.
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Mucho Morales; Bobby Ocean, 93 KHJ Los Angeles | December, 1978
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21 thoughts on "Bobby Ocean & John Sebastian, "Position 93" KHJ Los Angeles | April 14, 1978"
I hate to say it, but it sounds this once great station had gone from cruisin' to snoozin'. The competition from 10Q and KFI beat this one-time powerhouse into submission. They must have been seeing the end of the road by this point.
I'd have to say, yes. Funny, in 1976, AM stations could make a blunder but recover, since the audience was still ALL on AM. By '79/80 however? No. The Rock audience had already moved to FM with KLOS/KMET doing the Album Rock format, Dees was either already there with KIIS-FM or about to be and AM 930 had signal issues as you went north and east. Nope, by the time "Position 93" toned it down, it was too late to bring KHJ back to what it was. And yes, RKO Knew that. They knew it in Boston, too, as they did the SAME THING to WRKO, and brought in Charlie Van Dyke to fix it. In '78, WRKO was "Boston's Album Station"… without jingles and with plenty of liners… and in a twist of irony, right down the street from where Sebastian took former sleeper WCOZ to all hard rock as "Kick Ass Rock N Roll". There's really too many ironic coincidences in radio's past, and apparently too many of the format moves that led to what we hear today were made by about two dozen people. What is it they say about 'six degrees of separation'?
KHJ … Boring 93 …
KHJ … Your juke box station
KHJ … With a liner card every three minutes
KHJ … 2015 radio … today
Maverick says:
We have to remember that MG Kelly actually was let go from KHJ while he was on the air because he didn't do what was dictated to him. So he packed his stuff and drove over to TenQ and was on the air there that very afternoon bring the great MG Kelly. AND won nighttime air personality of the year in 1978 while on TenQ.
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Gary Kerns says:
At 8:34, John Sebastian played Bob Welch's "Sentimental Lady". The Dodgers once had a pitcher named Bob Welch, who died last year. The singer Bob Welch died several years ago. The Pittsburgh Pirates had a player named Jim Morrison back in the mid-80s. I wonder if Bob Welch ever pitched to Jim Morrison.
Only if both were high at the same time.
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radiorob says:
A year later John Sebastian was gone claiming he couldn't be successful with an AM signal. Chuck Martin became PD and brought back life to KHJ with jingles, upbeat music and Rick Dees. But it was too late. Sebastian lives and breathes research so this was the result, a boring radio station. Ocean was a graduate of Bill Drake and Paul Drew so he could perform within a format and entertain. Here he's told to just read what is in front of him. Charlie Tuna couldn't stand it so he left. If there is a positive, this aircheck is a good example of their processing at the time.
The format name "Adult Contemporary" did exist then…and had been in increasing use for about 10 years prior. Sebastian wasn't looking at KTNQ, KFI or KMPC…he was trying to protect against KMET, which was taking teens and young adults away from AM in general and KHJ in particular.
And the result was like watching grass grow.
No, grass growing is more interesting.
Tony, I really got a kick out of your joke about Bob Welch and Jim Morrison. On a more serious note, I think I know why KHJ went country, and it had to do with what Calradiopd posted on 6-10-15 (incidentally, my 52d birthday, so now I guess I'm playing with a full deck, ha ha). The powers that were at KHJ saw the writing on the wall. It's well worth remembering that LA already had a country station, namely KLAC. I've never been farther west than Oklahoma City, so there was no way I could have heard LA radio. I was getting into country at that time (1978), so I'm guessing that I would've listened to KLAC, as KHJ didn't go country till about 1980. Beg your pardon if I was too wordy, but I felt it incumbent upon me to give my take on the situation. Again, so thankful for airchexx.com.
Plus, KMPC, while it did have the older listeners, was itself Adult Contemporary by then–and had been so for about a couple of years (the same full-service format it had since at least the '50's, but with its playlist made up entirely of soft rock). In fact, the 1977 through at least 1980 (?) issues of Broadcasting Yearbook list KMPC's format as Adult Contemporary (whereas the 1976 issue listed it as MOR), so KMPC presumably went AC in 1976. Granted, some of the stations at that time and even in the very early 80s at the latest that Broadcasting Yearbook listed as MOR were actually all-soft rock-hits versions of that format, but other rock MOR/Pop Adult/MOR Progressive/whatever you want to call it/wanted to call it then were already listed as Adult Contemporary.
Guy Oidar says:
Would like to hear what they sounded like at night. Didn't Sebastian later call it Car Radio, or was that another PD?
One of the things I'd like to find is a decent recording of "Car Radio". Not sure how long it lasted, but what I heard of it sounded pretty good, IF you were listening in 15 minute blocks. I remember lots of repetition, but the thing that struck me was how similar the clocks must have been to that of a news station. The top hits – RECURRENTS, at that, seemingly every hour, and traffic every (was it 10 or 15?) minutes. Only heard it a couple of times, so I can't go into great depth about it. And yes it would be interesting to have heard it at night.
Under Sebastian, all the dayparts, day and night, used the same formatics and the same (lack of) energy.
Car Radio was five years after Sebastian…and was after the switch to Country and back. Gotta disagree with Steve. Car Radio was brutal. Traffic every 10 minutes, so the format was traffic, 2 burned to a crisp recurrents, commercials, traffic, 2 burned to a crisp recurrents, commercials….repeated endlessly.
You're probably right about that. I didn't hear Car Radio continuously as you did, just hit and miss on weekends. I'm sure burnout was a big factor.
Car radio would have someone in the back seat climbing over the front seat to reach the dial.
Like someone hitting your head with a hammer repeatedly. A kid screaming all day and night. A leaf blower running constantly.
You get the drift. Calradiopd had it right.
Brutal.
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birtchjim says:
the last show on khj had robert w morgan on lots of calls from listeners he cut that station up real good that night later died of cancer too many smokes as well as the real don steele
Rocco Henderson says:
I tried to talk my girlfriend into position 93, but she liked a lot better the position associated with XTRA.
Was XTRA effort required?
John Sebastian says:
As the Program Director of KHJ and the Position 93 concept, a little clarification for posterity. KHJ had an inferior signal compared to all its Top 40 and AOR competition. Yet, Position 93 beat all our AM and FM Top 40 competitors. It was a radical approach but it did delay the inevitable demise of Our legendary AM Top 40 station. It was the same fate that all the other CHR stations across the nation fell victim to.
Sebastian speaks the truth. KHJ beat KFI, KTNQ and KIQQ until a few months after John left. And, truth be told, Les Garland did a lot of the same things at KFRC in San Francisco that Sebastian did at KHJ (less jock talk, no jingles, LP versions, cold segues) and didn't take anywhere near the heat.
As I said in another post, KHJ's last truly strong year (top 3 and a 5 share) was 1976. And that was weak compared to Ron Jacobs' last book at KHJ…#1 with a 13 share. It was a game that couldn't be won in L.A. in the late 1970s. Even KFI, with its monster signal and no AM competition after KTNQ went Spanish and KHJ went Country, only had a strong year and a half or so.


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What to do after the first fatal shark bite in Massachusetts since 1936: 3 experts respond
Posted on October 1, 2018 by David Shiffman
Two weeks ago, tragedy struck in New England as a boogie boarder was killed by a great white shark. Though shark bites* in general and fatal shark bites* specifically are incredibly rare (Mr. Medici was the first person killed by a great white shark in Massachusetts waters in 82 years), emotions are running high. Some Cape Cod residents are explicitly calling for a cull (targeted killing) of great white sharks.
Such a cull would be devastating for a recovering but still protected shark species, has been shown not to effectively reduce shark bites, and is opposed by shark experts around the world, but what, if anything, should local governments do instead? I've written in the past about alternatives to lethal shark control here and here, but not every solution is applicable for every location; local oceanographic conditions vary, as well as local laws and cultural norms. I reached out to three experts to ask what, if anything, they think should be done here. Here's what they had to say:
Cynthia Wigren, Chief Executive Officer & Co-founder of Atlantic White Shark Conservancy
" In the aftermath of such a horrible tragedy — even one as rare as what happened over the weekend— there's an understandable reaction to ask 'what more can be done.' We've spent the last five years working to facilitate the study of white shark behavior in their natural habitat and to share that research with public safety officials so that policies or measures considered are based on sound scientific understanding.We don't take this situation lightly. We, our family and friends, go to Cape Cod beaches impacted by the presence of white sharks. This is not just where we work, this is our community."
– Cynthia Wigren
Dr. Gavin Naylor, Director, Florida Program for Shark Research, Florida Museum of Natural History
"The best solution is the long term solution: We need to invest in public education. We also need to invest in infrastructure to monitor shark activity so we can provide efficient responses when required.
(1) The public needs to understand when it safe to venture into the water and when it is not.
(2) The public needs to be made aware of the value of having healthy steady state populations of sharks, seals and all of the unsung organisms lower in the trophic hierarchy.
(3) Resources need to be made available to monitor shark activity (Some have suggested a system of statically tethered weather balloons with CCTV cameras constantly transmitting images to monitor when sharks are in the area)
(4) There needs to be training and coordination among emergency responders, ocean rescue people (life guards etc), fishermen and local scientists to develop efficient and effective ways to deal with situations when sharks are spotted close to beaches.
(5) Beaches need to be posted with signs so that the public are informed of the risks
I believe Cynthia and The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy is doing a pretty good job on all these fronts. … But it takes time to penetrate the collective conscience of the public. Shorter term solutions such as culling seals/sharks, while possibly effective in the short term, will likely cause bigger problems (both politically and ecologically) in the long term."
-Dr. Gavin Naylor
Dr. Christopher Pepin-Neff, University of Sydney lecturer and shark bite researcher
"The Wellfleet beach used public education as its chief action. The sign noted that White Sharks are in the shoreline area, that people should swim close to shore, and that they should avoid seal populations. Outside of banning swimming, surfing and boogie-boarding (which is what happened in this tragic incident) there is little that would have been effective in my opinion.
One important environmental context to note is that Cape Cod is presents one of the only locations in the world where people, sharks and seals share the same water at the same time. Seals live on shore, not on an offshore island."
– Dr. Christopher Pepin-Neff
After a fatal shark attack on Cape Cod, will the reaction be coexistence or culling? By Carlos G. García-Quijano, for the Conversation.
Here's how communities around the world are trying to prevent shark attacks. By Michael Levenson, for the Boston Globe.
Emotions run high at Wellfleet shark meeting. By Doug Fraser, for the Cape Cod Times.
Shark Expert urges caution in the wake of fatal attack. By Susan Tran for NBC Boston
Responding to the Risk of White Shark Attack: Updated Statistics, Prevention, Control Methods, and Recommendations. Textbook chapter from the book "GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE BIOLOGY AND LIFE HISTORY OF THE GREAT WHITE SHARK," with lead author Dr. Tobey Curtis.
*Please note that I am using the terms "shark bite" and "fatal shark bite" from a revised typology by written by colleagues Chris Neff and Bob Hueter, instead of the more inflammatory term "shark attack." I wrote about this proposed terminology change here.
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Dennis · October 2, 2018
the stories from my friends in the surf community indicate the threat is real and growing and an everyday problem. Mr. Medici is the first but not the last. Just last week one surfer was circled six times by a shark, which left then returned and circled him again. Another group of surfers left the water only to see two whites breach and then to see a small school of shark fins they counted as ten. So, this is real data-what doe sit say to you?
David Shiffman · October 2, 2018
Hi Dennis, and thanks for commenting! Sharks are indeed returning to the Cape, due to a combination of recovering populations and shifting migration patterns due to the recovery of seals. There's no doubt about this. The risk of negative shark-human interactions remains very low, but public education efforts are vital to reduce risk even further.
dave-i respectfully disagree about the risks. The time for shark education and platitudes has passed. The concentration of these beasts has skyrocketed in the preceding decade if not five years and is only getting worse as each year ticks by.
We have had three shark attacks in the trailing thirteen months, one that ended with a death before the young man hit the beach ten yards away. Yes, it was ten yards offshore, not thirty nor three hundred as the NYTimes reported. A second attack a mere month prior came less than an inch from the same outcome-certain death before landfall- as the victim was spared due to preservation of the femoral artery by less than an inch of flesh. That attack was in five foot waters. The third attack was in three feet of water, albeit murky/mungy water. All occurred mid-day, exactly the so-called 'safe time' to swim according to educational materials.
It is easy to see with increased concentrations that there will be more attacks and they will happen more regularly. We may not have seen the last of this year as TS Leslie is throwing consistent surf our way for another week or more…and people will be on it…but i hope we have seen the last of it all for 2018.
To put the issue in perspective, I understand there are somewhere between 1000 and 2000 whites in and around cape cod. (I have heard this number and done my own math and those numbers hold up). This over 24 miles of coastline facing the Atlantic. That is 40-80 per mile. Now, they are not lined up nor restricted in location, but this is just a rough figure. My friend who is a knowledgeable lifeguard saw on average more than one per day this summer from his perch. Numerous people report breachings. They are also now stealing stripers and other fish being reeled in from fishing boats left and right.
The public education that I see on these beaches advises exactly what the young man who died did-close to shore, mid day, with friends. So I advise those interested to reconsider the so-called rules or facts around sharks, at least as they apply to an exploding and hungry population so close to shore as on Cape Cod.
Furthermore, this will become not only a cape cod problem but a New England coast problem in due time. The issue in some regards is the food source of the seals, obviously, and they migrate from Sable Island to Muskeget to the Cape and in between. With over a quarter million seals as I understand out there, they will soon and already are populating new niches to bring sharks into waters where humans swim more regularly than the back shore of cape cod. Such can only have tragic endings for us humans and will soon enough.
This is no longer a low risk situation and these facts support this. Cape cod is rewriting the rule book on shark attacks. Sharks attack-that is what they do for food/survival. And the numbers are growing rapidly. The sharks are close to shore, where people also play, mingle, swim and recreate. They attack in three four five feet of water, not always from below in deeper waters.
The time to feel good about the academic distance is passed for this situation. More people will die, more will be permanently maimed. Academic solutions/education will not suffice as they already have not. Not that such matters in comparison to loss of life, but the economy is also already taking a hit. Worse, the littoral region was many folks' refuge from the encroaching world that has taken so much already and now this blow to their sense of peace and to their economic fortitude.
The Cape is now a slow motion disaster sowed decades ago and we are paying for it today and tomorrow. We will pay even greater prices in the coming years, as the population of white sharks increases even more and these tragedies increase in number as invariably will happen; any assertion to the contrary is naive.
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Introduction & Top Questions
Black heritage and American culture
The question of "Negro art"
Causes and Effects
Richard Powell, cocurator of the exhibition "Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance," comparing the Harlem Renaissance to the Italian Renaissance.
Courtesy of Steven Watson, author of The Harlem Renaissance, Pantheon
This interest in Black heritage coincided with efforts to define an American culture distinct from that of Europe, one that would be characterized by ethnic pluralism as well as a democratic ethos. The concept of cultural pluralism (a term coined by the philosopher Horace Kallen in 1915) inspired notions of the United States as a new kind of nation in which diverse cultures should develop side by side in harmony rather than be "melted" together or ranked on a scale of evolving "civilization." W.E.B. Du Bois had advocated something like this position in his The Souls of Black Folk (1903), a defining text of the New Negro movement because of its profound effect on an entire generation that formed the core of the Harlem Renaissance. As various forms of cultural-pluralist thought took hold, a fertile environment for the blossoming of African American arts developed. Moreover, the effort on the part of some American intellectuals to distinguish American literature and culture from European cultural forms dovetailed with African American intellectuals' beliefs about their relationship to American national identity.
Du Bois and his NAACP colleague James Weldon Johnson asserted that the only uniquely "American" expressive traditions in the United States had been developed by African Americans. They, more than any other group, had been forced to remake themselves in the New World, Du Bois and Johnson argued, while whites continued to look to Europe or sacrificed artistic values to commercial ones. (Native American cultures, on the other hand, seemed to be "dying out," they claimed.) African Americans' centuries-long struggle for freedom had made them the prophets of democracy and the artistic vanguard of American culture.
This judgment began unexpectedly to spread as African American music, especially the blues and jazz, became a worldwide sensation. Black music provided the pulse of the Harlem Renaissance and of the Jazz Age more generally. The rise of the "race records" industry, beginning with OKeh's recording of Mamie Smith's "Crazy Blues" in 1920, spread the blues to audiences previously unfamiliar with the form. Smith, Alberta Hunter, Clara Smith, Bessie Smith, and Ma Rainey—who had been performing for years in circuses, clubs, and tent shows—found themselves famous. Frequently ironic and often bawdy, the music expressed the longings and philosophical perspectives of the Black working class. Black writers such as Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, and Jean Toomer valued the blues as an indigenous art form of the country's most oppressed people, a secular equivalent of the spirituals, and an antidote to bourgeois Black assimilationism.
Alberta Hunter.
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Out of the blues came jazz, migrating to Northern urban centres such as Chicago and New York City during and after World War I. In the 1920s jazz orchestras grew in size and incorporated new instruments as well as methods of performance. Louis Armstrong became the first great jazz soloist when he moved from King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band in Chicago to Fletcher Henderson's band in New York City in 1924. Henderson's band soon had competitors in "big bands" led by the likes of Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, Chick Webb, and Jimmie Lunceford—not to mention such "white" bands as Paul Whiteman's. Once associated with brothels and traveling circuses, jazz gained respectability as a form of high art. Moreover, dance forms associated with jazz, most famously the Charleston (also a product of the 1920s) and tap dance, became international fads as a result of hugely popular all-Black musical revues.
The popularity of jazz among whites helped spark a "Negro Vogue" in cities such as New York and Paris in the mid- to late 1920s. Simultaneously, European dramatists extolled the body language of African American dance and stage humour (descended from the blackface minstrel show, the most popular and original form of American theatrical comedy). The best-known white man to bring attention to the Harlem Renaissance was undoubtedly Carl Van Vechten, whose music criticism trumpeted the significance of jazz and blues and whose provocatively titled novel Nigger Heaven (1926) helped spread the Negro Vogue. It served virtually as a tourist guide to Harlem, capitalizing on the supposed "exotic" aspects of Black urban life even while focusing, primarily, on the frustrations of Black urban professionals and aspiring writers. Although vilified by some, Van Vechten became a key contact for several Black artists and authors because of his interracial parties and publishing connections. Nowhere was the Negro Vogue more evident than in nightclubs such as the Cotton Club and Connie's Inn, which became especially popular with whites in the late 1920s. Both of these nightclubs excluded Blacks from the audience; others, called "black and tans," catered to "mixed" audiences, while still others excluded whites so as to avoid the police raids to which Black and tans were often subjected.
Duke Ellington's original 14-member band
Duke Ellington's original 14-member band included such musicians as cornetist Rex Stewart, trombonist Lawrence Brown, baritone saxophonist Harry Carney, and alto saxophonist Johnny Hodges.
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The international appeal of jazz and its connection to common Black life, accompanied by the sheer virtuosity of its musicians, encouraged Black intellectuals in other fields to turn increasingly to specifically "Negro" aesthetic forms as a basis for innovation and self-expression. The tendency appeared in concert music, choral programs, and Broadway musicals as well as literature. Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle's musical revue Shuffle Along opened on Broadway in 1921 and established a model that would shape Black musicals for 60 years. Florence Mills, a sprightly dancer and phenomenal singer, achieved enormous fame across racial lines in the United States and Europe before suddenly succumbing to appendicitis in 1927. Josephine Baker, who began as a chorus girl in a popular revue, became an international star when La Revue nègre opened in 1925 in Paris, where she ultimately settled as a celebrity and played a variety of "exotic" roles exploiting the glamour of the "primitive." Popular revues and vaudeville acts drew all-Black audiences throughout the United States in cities on the Theatre Owners Booking Association circuit. In the 1920s, Black-produced shows came to Broadway again and again, and many white-produced shows featured Black casts. The success of such shows helped fuel the optimism of the Harlem Renaissance. Amid worsening socioeconomic conditions in Harlem itself and political setbacks in what was a very conservative and racist era—it was during the 1920s that the Ku Klux Klan reached its peak in membership and political influence in the South and the Midwest—some Black leaders hoped that achievement in the arts would help revolutionize race relations while enhancing Blacks' understanding of themselves as a people.
Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle
Eubie Blake (left) and Noble Sissle, 1926.
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Important new publishing houses opened their doors to Black authors. These publishers—particularly Alfred A. Knopf, Harcourt Brace, and Boni & Liveright—were breaking away from an earlier emphasis on British literary tradition. They were publishing translated Modernist works from a variety of nationalities previously unread in the United States except by immigrants in their native languages. Interested too in the notions of American cultural pluralism—in some cases influenced by left-wing thought, in others involved in the drive for Black civil rights—and aware of the vogue of primitivism, they saw a market for Black-authored books on "Negro" topics. Their interest was accelerated by the efforts of African American magazine editors who organized literary prize contests and other events showcasing Black literary talent. The most often cited event of this sort was a banquet at the liberal Civic Club in downtown New York organized by Charles S. Johnson, editor of Opportunity, in 1924. The event had the effect of announcing what had come to resemble a "movement"—a cohort of talented African American writers ready to be noticed. In 1925 appeared the ultimate result: The New Negro: An Interpretation, edited by Alain Locke, which sold well and garnered positive critical attention in addition to inspiring Black readers and would-be authors.
Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life
Cover of Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, January 1925.
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Locke attempted to direct the "movement" he announced in The New Negro, stressing a turn away from social protest or propaganda toward self-expression built on what he termed "folk values"—a movement, in other words, akin to the Irish literary renaissance that had slightly preceded it. Yet the writers of the Harlem Renaissance were not unified in artistic aims or methods. Disagreement helps account for the renaissance's importance. Locke believed that Black authors and artists should develop distinct aesthetic tendencies inspired by African American folk sources and African traditions. The satirist George Schuyler lampooned the very idea of "Negro art" in America as "hokum" artificially stimulated by white decadents.


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If it is felt that the entry clearance officer has made an error when assessing your application you may wish to submit an administrative review and we will provide as much support as we can during this process.
There is no right of appeal if you apply for a Tier 4 visa outside the UK and your application is refused, but you can ask for an administrative review of the decision if you think an error has been made. We would strongly encourage you to apply for an administrative review if this is the case as it is important to have any incorrect visa refusals removed from your immigration record. You must apply for this within 28 days of receiving your refusal notice. The process is explained in Annex 3 of the Tier 4 Policy Guidance.
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We will have requested that you bring your BRP into the University for us to verify it and keep a copy. If there are any errors please let us know by emailing internationaladmission@hope.ac.uk. You also need to report any errors to the UKVI within 10 days.


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Robert Gies (* 7. April 1904 in Hilden; † 29. April 1980) war ein deutscher Politiker und Landtagsabgeordneter (SPD).

Leben und Beruf
Nach dem Besuch der Volksschule war er als Arbeiter und kaufmännischer Angestellter tätig und bildete sich an der Fernschule Berlin fort. Ab 1947 war Gies Arbeits- u. Sozialdirektor der Kronprinz AG, bei der er insgesamt 40 Jahre tätig war.

Von 1919 bis 1925 war er Mitglied der Freien sozialistischen Jugend. 1925 trat er in die Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands ein und wechselte 1928 zur SPD. Er war in zahlreichen Parteigremien aktiv und seit 1919 Gewerkschaftsmitglied.

Politisches Leben
Bei der Wahl zum Hildener Stadtparlament am 12. März 1933 stand er auf Platz 1 (von 15 Kandidaten) der Liste der SPD und wurde als einziger Vertreter gewählt.
Er verzichtete auf das Mandat des Stadtverordneten am  24. März 1933 "aus gesundheitlichen Gründen". Vom 18. bis zum 31. August 1944 war er im Zusammenhang mit den Ereignissen des 20. Juli 1944 inhaftiert.

Am 29. September 1945 wurde er Vorsitzender des neugegründeten Ortsvereins Hilden der SPD. Von 1946 bis 1970 gehörte er dem Kreistag des Kreises Düsseldorf-Mettmann an.

Von 1952 bis 1969 war er Bürgermeister der Stadt Hilden.

Politische Vorgänge während dieser Amtszeit:
 Zusammenarbeit mit den britischen Besatzungssoldaten in der Waldkaserne
 Errichtung der Städtischen Knabenrealschule ab 1955 (ab 1960 Wilhelm-Fabry-Realschule)
 Patenschaft der Stadt über den ehemaligen Landkreis Wohlau in Schlesien (1957)
 Schaffung von Wohnraum u. a. für Flüchtlinge im Norden und Süden der Stadt durch die Neue Heimat (ab 1957)
 Umstellung der Straßenbahn auf Busbetrieb (1961/1962)
 Aufbau des Schulzentrums am Holterhöfchen (ab 1961)
 Anlage neuer Friedhöfe im Süden und Norden der Stadt (1966, 1968)
 Aufbau des Landesinstitutes für öffentliche Verwaltung am Kolksbruch (1968)
 Begründung der Städtepartnerschaft mit Warrington in der englischen Grafschaft Cheshire. Unterzeichnung der Partnerschaftsurkunde am 22. Mai 1968
 Bau des ersten Hildener Hallenbads (1968)

Von 1966 bis 1970 war er Angehöriger des Landtages NRW und arbeitete im Arbeitsausschuss und Justizausschuss mit. 1971 wurde er Mitglied der Kommission für Kommunale Neugliederung. Am 8. Juli 1970 trat er aus gesundheitlichen Gründen vom Ratsfraktionsvorsitz der SPD zurück.

Ehrungen
 1962 Verleihung des Fabriciustellers der Stadt Hilden
 1971 Ehrenoffizier der Civil Division of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
 1972 Verleihung des Bundesverdienstkreuzes 1. Klasse
 1. März 1979 Die Altenwohnanlage der AWO Hilden am Clarenbachweg erhielt den Namen Robert-Gies-Haus
 1987 wurde eine neue Straße zwischen Klotzstraße und Schulstraße nach Robert Gies benannt

Literatur
 Zum 100. Geburtstag von Robert Gies am 7. April 2004 – Festschrift zusammengestellt vom Stadtarchiv Hilden 2004

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Bürgermeister (Hilden)
SPD-Mitglied
KPD-Mitglied
Landtagsabgeordneter (Nordrhein-Westfalen)
Träger des Bundesverdienstkreuzes 1. Klasse
Officer des Order of the British Empire
Politiker (Hilden)
Deutscher
Geboren 1904
Gestorben 1980
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Nickelodeon's AddictingGames, which provides plenty of free, browser-based games, on Tuesday announced the availability of three of its titles on the App Store for US$0.99 each: the arcade game iPark It!, the strategy game World Wars, and the edutainment release 50 States.
In iPark It!, players guide a car through a parking lot to the flashing space, trying to get there as fast as possible without running into other vehicles or various obstacles. The game features 40 levels and requires iPhone OS 2.2.1.
World Wars puts players in charge of one of four armies as they battle up to seven other opponents for control of the world in a Risk-like game that uses dice rolls to determine victory. iPhone OS 2.2 is required.
Finally, in 50 States, players must correctly place states on the map; they can shake their handheld for a new state of they're stumped. Scores are based on how quickly they place states. iPhone OS 2.2.1 is required.
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So today was my last day off before my parents arrive. When they are here I'll pretty much be spending all my time with them and I've even scheduled what I'm doing on each day, so it was the last real free day out. It was also a chance to have a day off with my uni mate, Joe and my roommate Dan. Where's the perfect place to go? Universal of course.
We all got the i-ride trolley instead of a cab because it's so cheap. Just 25 cents for cast members ($1.50 for the public) versus $8 each for a cab. It does take about an hour total instead of 20 minutes, but we left early. I thought we were getting there for park opening at 9am but it turned out the park was open for 8am which was a bit disappointing.
We rode Hulk to begin the day at Islands of Adventure - it was a 35 minute wait and the single rider line was closed which was annoying. Then it was Spider-Man which I still love - it was a walk-on as we single-ridered it instead of waiting another 35 minutes. These single rider lines are a godsend!
I said we should do the water rides before they got busy and it was due to rain in about an hour. Surprisingly all the water rides had a 15 minute queue or less. However, we soon found out that the lockers are NOT free for water rides - the place where you need them most. Being cheapskates and not wanting to pay $4 for a locker there was a simple solution - we trekked across to Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey and put our bags in the lockers where we had 1h 10m minutes of free locker time which we though would have been enough.
We rode Jurassic Park first with the aim of doing rides in ever-increasing wetness. We got pretty wet on Jurassic but it was nice in the heat. Surprisingly, we got on in just 5 minutes which was great. Dudley Do-Right's Ripsaw Falls was next. If you've never seen this ride, it's like Splash Mountain on steroids - it has a huge drop and you get soaked.
The Dudley water ride - great times!
It was a 15 minute wait...we thought. After walking around a line that must have been over a mile long, 15 minutes later we got to where the queue of people was and then queued for another half an hour or so - the total queue time was closer to 45 minutes. The ride was fun and we did get soaked. I thought I wasn't wet after the big drop but then as I begun to laugh at the others water jets next to us soaked us to the core. It felt great, until it started to rain torrentially seconds later. We were now late for our lockers and drenched - the locker attendant was hardly going to believe us when we said we had waited in line too long if we were that wet - especially considering the Harry Potter queue is covered.
Joe went ahead to get our things from the locker as I and Dan got the on-ride photo added to my photo connect card (I highly recommend this!). He managed to sweet talk his way into getting the locker unlocked for free which I hugely appreciated and we had our stuff! Result!
Joe didn't have the 2-park annual pass as he had bought the power pass so he went off for the rest of his day as I and Dan ate near the Jurassic Park ride and then moved over to Universal Studios. Well that was what we were going to do but we were still soaked through so had to find a way to dry off. We did the Caro-seuss-el first hoping it would act as a tumble dryer with the spinning. It didn't. But whilst in line I got to hear this hilarious line from a little kid: "Mom, be careful that water is wet."
We then rode the Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey ride and single-rider from the top of the steps to the front took 30 minutes which we were prepared to do considering the regular line was 90 minutes. We then did the Castle Tour so I could get some good photos. Then to continue to dry us off we did Dragon Challenge - first the blue dragon and then used the shorter re-ride queue to ride the red dragon in 20 minutes. Both are cool; the blue one has cooler inversions but the red version felt faster.
We went over to Universal Studios as there were still a few rides I had never done, but we had to hit the headliners first - Rip Ride Rockit claimed to be a 60 minute single-rider queue and even though the ride was down for 10 minutes, we still got on in half an hour. Mummy single-rider was 20 minutes versus 30 minutes in regular so next time I would just wait in the regular line as it moves faster. Terminator was a very cool show and the Horror Make Up Show was fun though I was glad I wasn't picked to participate.
We saw the parade which, like the fireworks I had seen last time, wasn't great. We only waited a couple of minutes and I wouldn't do the same again personally. The Simpsons Ride was next and we got on in 30 minutes. The queue is actually quite fun as you just watch clips from episodes of the Simpsons plus I'm a big fan of their humour. I really enjoyed the ride and the screen is huge!
We checked the wait time for Men in Black: Alien Attack and it was a shocking 45 minutes so we skipped it with the possibility of coming back later. The park was packed with tour groups which didn't help things. I hope they aren't here when my family is over.
We went to watch the Beetlejuice show next which was alright but wildly out of date and that's how we ended the day after walking around and seeing how busy it was.
For reference of course the two busiest rides (which we skipped) were Transformers with a 100 minute wait and Despicable Me with a 120 minute wait. ET had a shocking 30 minute wait instead of the walk-on it usually is. The Seuss Train was 45 minutes and the One Fish, Two Fish ride was 35 minutes. It was a busy day but we did a lot. We left around an hour before park close. Now, 9 days of work in a row to look forward to!


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University staff strikes: UCU confirm dates for February & March as 70,000 prepare to walk out - full list
7 ways to save on gas and electric ahead of Ofgem energy price cap rise
The worst cost of living crisis for decades is eating into household budgets up and down the UK.
By Henry Sandercock
30th Mar 2022, 6:09pm - 5 min read
Better insulation means you won't need to reach for the thermostat as often (image: Adobe)
Supermarket food prices as well as fuel costs have already risen sharply over the past six months, while energy prices are set to rocket from Friday (1 April) due to the 54% increase in Ofgem's energy price cap.
Boris Johnson's Government has sought to intervene by providing an energy bills loan and a council tax rebate, but has been urged to go further as the Russia-Ukraine war is set to send inflation even higher.
So, given it does not appear as if any extra meaningful state support is on its way, what can you do to cut your household energy bills?
We have sought out some of the best tips for how to save money ahead of the price cap rise.
Energy bills quick wins
These are the things you can do right now to make a quick saving on your energy bills.
Top up your electricity prepayment meter before Friday
If you have a prepayment electricity meter it could be worth topping it up before the Ofgem energy price cap increases on Friday (1 April).
Most prepayment meters for electricity and gas are on tariffs governed by the price cap, which means households who have them will be fully exposed to the 54% increase and could see typical usage costs soar to more than £2,000 per year.
Gas prices have been driven up because Russia is a key producer of the fossil fuel (image: Adobe)
There had been suggestions consumers would be able to temporarily get around the rise by adding the maximum top up possible to their electricity meters before the new cap comes in - therefore, delaying when the new rate would apply from.
Money Saving Expert Martin Lewis has sought to clarify with Ofgem and the major energy suppliers whether consumers will be able to continue to pay the existing rate after 1 April if they do this.
However, Mr Lewis has had a mixed response.
Major supplier Scottish Power will apply the new energy price cap rates from 1 April regardless of whether you have topped up beforehand.
The other major suppliers have been less clear, although Martin Lewis said he thinks the trick could still work for British Gas, Octopus, Shell Energy and Bulb customers.
Prepayment meters are often found in the homes of the UK's most vulnerable people (image: Adobe)
Essentially, you stand to lose nothing if you try it (unless you need to keep hold of money for cashflow reasons - in which case, the best advice is not to do it).
But you could cut a third off your energy bills if the trick works out.
It's key to note that this hack will only apply to electricity prepayment meters and NOT gas prepayment meters (unless your gas is supplied by Octopus energy).
Martin Lewis also recommends taking a picture of your meter and e-mailing it to yourself to ensure you have evidence with which to fight back against your supplier if they overcharge you.
Money Saving Expert Martin Lewis has had mixed messages about maxing out your prepayment meter to beat the new price cap (image: PA)
For more in-depth advice on this, visit the Money Saving Expert website.
Turn off your devices
It's the bit of advice we're always given but forget to follow.
According to the Energy Saving Trust - an independent organisation that promotes energy efficiency and sustainable energy use - turning devices like TVs and games consoles off completely rather than letting them idle on standby could save you £55 a year.
This estimate, and all the other estimates from the organisation included in this article, are based on the new energy price cap.
Properly turning off your TV could save you a lot of money off your annual bill (image: Adobe)
Watch your shower time
Keeping your shower time to four minutes - the equivalent of a long pop song - could also lop money off your annual bill.
By doing this and ditching your one bath per week, you could stand to save yourself £35 per person in your household, the Energy Saving Trust says.
If you want to make an even bigger saving and hold a gym membership, it's worth showering after your workout or swim.
Keep tabs on your appliances
Appliances, especially 'wet' ones like dishwashers and washing machines, are notorious for burning through energy.
The Energy Saving Trust reckons you could shave £28 off your annual energy bill by keeping your washing machine to 30-degree washes and reducing the number of washes you do per week by one.
If you have a dishwasher it also recommends only running it once it's full.
Draught proofing
Getting rid of those pesky jets of cold air you often get from windows, doors and chimneys means you're less likely to need your heating on as much.
And there's likely to be a financial benefit in doing this too, according to Norton Finance.
It says draught proofing your home using specialist excluders could save you £215 over five years - and can cost under £3 to do.
Draught excluders can get rid of those pesky jets of cold air and save you money at the same time (image: Adobe)
With this hack, getting it done professionally is likely to be more effective.
However, this would cost the average two-bed flat occupant an estimated £110 (with the Energy Saving Trust saying the average annual saving on energy bills could amount to £55) and the average three-bed semi-detached occupant £240 (with a £95 annual saving).
So, opting for the professional route means you will make a greater saving over the longer-term - but you won't immediately save money.
Medium-to-long term energy bill savings
These hacks will all require professional work and so you will not make an instant saving on your energy bills.
Instead, you will be likely to see positive results in your energy bills over a longer-term period.
Invest in insulation
Better insulating your home means you will lose less heat in colder months, and will therefore not need to reach for the thermostat as often.
There are two types of insulation the Energy Saving Trust recommends:
According to the organisation, a third of the heat lost from an uninsulated home passes through the walls.
If you've got a cavity in your wall - a standard building practice that's a feature in most UK homes - you can fill it with insulation that'll stop heat escaping like this.
While it will set you back around £1,200 if you live in a standard three-bed semi-detached house, you could stand to save £285 per year.
For a bigger four-bed detached house, the cost could be in the region of £2,500 and might see you save £480 per year.
If you live in a flat, you will have to run the project by your fellow flat owners or the building's landlord, but it is likely to have a better cost-to-annual savings ratio.
Loft insulation will have a long-term benefit on your energy bills (image: PA)
Loft insulation
The Energy Saving Trust estimates that a quarter of the heat from an uninsulated home is lost out of the roof space.
Getting at least 270mm of insulation into your loft will therefore help to reduce your energy bills.
But don't expect a dramatic overnight saving.
For a standard three-bed semi-detached house, it'll cost roughly £465 but will only deliver a £25 annual saving.
If you have a four-bed detached property, the cost could be £1,100 and will only deliver an average saving of £40 per year.
If you live in a flat that's not on the top floor, or is but hasn't got a pitched roof with loft space above it, you will have to rely on those living above and below you for insulation.
Being less reliant on fossil fuels means you will be better shielded from the kinds of price shocks we're currently seeing on global energy markets.
But investing in things like solar panels carries a large up-front cost, meaning it's a measure many people will be unable to afford.
If you can do it, the Energy Saving Trust says a typical solar panel installation will set you back £6,500.
However, it will save you a significant amount of money - £505 in London, £475 in Manchester and £450 in Stirling, the Energy Saving Trust says.
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INGREDIANTS TO USE:-2tbsp. Minutes Chef Korma Masala Paste, 2tbsp Butter, 400gm Paneer, 1 Medium Size Onion Chopped 1 Medium Size Tomato chopped, 20ml Fresh Cream, 1/2tsp Sugar ,200ml water.
INGREDIENTS:- Onion, Fresh Cream, Butter, Fresh Curd, Ediblie Oil, Cashew nuts, Melon Seeds, Wate, Garlic Paste, Ginger Paste, Spices and condiment, salt.
Storage Instruction:- Stir well before use. Refrigerate after opening.
COOKING SUGGESTION (BHUNA PANEER)- 1 Heat up the butter in a medium saucepan 2Add paneer and aute until it is sealed. Take it out of the pan 3 In same pan saute chopped onion with tomato. Add sautéed paneer in to the pan. 4 Add Minutes Chef Red Masala paste, korma masala powder and water over the paneer stir well simmer for 15 to 20 minutes or until the gravy and paneer thoroughly cooked and sauce has thickened. 5 Add the cream and mix it well. Cook for another 4 to 5 minutes 6 Garnish with chopped coriander. Serve with cooked basmati rice and naan bread.


In fact, there are plenty of simple methods that exist which simplify the entire process. In fact, there are plenty of simple methods that exist that simplify the entire process. Or, at least, like your grades do. While nothing replaces good old fashioned hard work, every little bit helps when it comes to increasing your efficiency in college because we know it can be overwhelming at times.
The following study hacks make student life simpler by helping to increase productivity levels, boost focus, help concentration and eliminate distractions. The act of chewing gum is actually a brain booster. It will help, but for shorter periods of time, so save this hack for the harder parts of your material.
You can literally block yourself from getting distracted by websites, email or anything else computer-related with the apps like, SelfControl for MacCold Turkey for PC. There are also similar options for Android users. Yep, you read that correctly — we made a list that included one of the basic human needs on it.
Because we know that some students need to be reminded to eat. Eat healthy, nutritious and, hopefully, delicious meals. This is kind of a given seeing as your brain needs food to function. Search outside study resources via the web. Google your subject — there are often great resources from other colleges that may have practice quizzes, for example. There are endless channels offering free tutorials, like CrashCourseKhan AcademyBrightstormBozeman Science — just to name a few.
A quick search will likely lead you to a wealth of resources! Jazz up your notes. Add visual prompts and colors to your notes to help you recall important details, both of which can aid in your memory recall.
Texting, emailing, and posting on Facebook and other social media sites are by far the most common digital activities students undertake while learning, according to Rosen.
This idea stems from mind mapping conceptswhich are basically thought diagrams, said to be much more effective in terms of learning than text-based notes.
There are even mind mapping programs for those interested but creativity, pens and paper, work just fine, too! Try using different memory aids like notecards, etc.
These aids come in handy for memorization techniques. You can easily remember key concepts, sequences and whatever else you need to learn by creating your very own relatable story. Come up with something you know you can remember and stick with it. It will actually help!
Organize your materials, categorizing them by subject or chapter. This will help you sort the material by subject matter, visualizing which aspects go together. Rewrite your notes by hand.
Go old school and rewrite your notes by hand.
Studies show that when you take the time to rewrite them by hand, you actually learn more effectively than when using your computer, tablet or laptop. Choosing the right type of music to listen to while studying can enhance your productivity, motivation and focus levels. It should never be counterproductive or distracting — no matter what genre you decide on.
Doing so helps you recognize what you need to learn, and rewriting what you need to learn helps you remember it. Get plenty of rest while studying and before the test or quiz. Your body needs to sleep to think properly. Sleep affects your cognitive functionthus, your test-taking abilities. Start studying early, instead of your usual cramming session. Poor planning tends to cause the domino effect — other bad habits start to follow suit because of time constraints, convenience, necessity, etc.
Vary your study settings — literally. Studies show having a dedicated study area no longer works in your favor. Avoiding a standard space actually benefits you because the mind makes subconscious pairing between your atmosphere and the material. This means, if you constantly in the same space, you would perform best taking the exam in that space. If you change up your space, your mind will associate all of the spaces you are studying in and adapt more easily to your test-taking surroundings.
Teaching is the best test before the actual test to know whether or not you know the concepts. Why do you learn through teaching? Turn on the lights.
Light helps your brain focusaffects visual clarity, psychological factors and the wrong types of lighting can contribute to off task behavior.
The best type of lighting for maximum productivity which you obviously want for studying is soft and natural, though still as bright as possible so you can see clearly. If your lighting is too dim, it will affect focus and visual clarity.
Lighting that is too bright like fluorescent lighting, for example can contribute to getting off task. Need Money to Pay for College? Every semester, Fastweb helps thousands of students pay for school by matching them to scholarships, grants, and internships, for which they actually qualify.


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