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Dear Friends of Life,
I trust this letter finds you well.
As for me, I am experiencing mixed feelings. On the one hand, President Obama re-election has me worried about the fate of the unborn, both south of the border and wherever U.S. policies extend. On the other hand, my faith assures me that I am on the right side as the following passage from the book of Proverbs asserts:
in all your ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct your paths. (Pv. 3)
On the first point, Lila Rose outlines five points about which the President has failed to safeguard protection for the unborn.
President Obama voted against the Born Alive Infant Protection Act four times, horrifyingly voting against protecting babies who survived abortion and voting in favor of leaving them to die. A vote against this legislation was a vote for infanticide.
On his third day in office, President Obama repealed the pro-life "Mexico City Policy." By doing this, President Obama made groups that perform and promote abortion eligible for U.S. foreign aid funds.
Planned Parenthood's funding jumped from 33% publicly-funded to nearly 50% – over $487 million in taxpayer funding now goes to the abortion giant (under Obama and his administration). This is almost half a billion dollars that American families are forced to pay in tax dollars to the nation's largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood.
President Obama refused to sign an emergency budget, putting funding the military at risk, until Planned Parenthood funding was included in the budget. This was following Live Action's Sex Trafficking Operation, showing Planned Parenthood aiding and abetting the sex-traffickers of underage girls.
The president has pushed for his "pet legislation," The Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare), which would help fund "community health centers" (Planned Parenthood is their prime target). Additionally, the HHS mandate would force all Americans to fund abortion and contraception, with no exceptions for religious institutions or religious individuals who are vehemently against abortion and contraception.
Hence, my worry is not unwarranted.
Yet, as Susan Michele Tyrrell adroitly put it in a post-election commentary, we are called to put our trust in our Lord and not in men.
Though pro-lifers are disappointed, grieved and even angry, we must remember that our call to LIFE and prayer has never changed. This isn't a time to spew negativity or fight with natural weapons. Never have we needed to pray as we do in this critical hour. No man is our answer apart from Jesus, and He wasn't the least bit surprised. Before the foundation of the world, He knew we'd re-elect President Obama tonight. We absolutely cannot forget the word of the Lord in Romans which says:
13 Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. Therefore whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same.
And so we continue in faith. We believe that the unborn child has value and deserves to be protected. This cause has permitted us to hold eight 40-day prayer vigils in one of the most liberal area of Montreal if not Canada. Faith spurs us on to defend life at of its stages, from conception until natural death. Faith sustains us as we continue to build via organizing conferences, helping pregnant women, comforting those who have experienced an abortion. We believe that we can change hearts.
Thank you for supporting us on this journey, both spiritually and financially.
Yours in Christ Jesus
Quebec Life Coalition


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Analysing sperm quality from the mobile: reality or fiction?
We spoke to one of our leading experts to assess the possibilities that have been opened up thanks to the development of a new device enabling us to analyse the quality of a sperm sample from home by means of a mobile app. Nobody knows the tests carried out in an assisted reproduction laboratory better than Dr. Aïda Pujol, who with over 15 years of experience, is in charge of one of the Eugin group's assisted reproduction laboratories.


Gallant Waif ended up being one of those books that I had a somewhat difficult time rating. The writing itself is excellent and well-deserving of having been a. Read "Gallant Waif" by Anne Gracie with Rakuten Kobo. Kate Farleigh was absolutely stunned when her refusal to accept Lady Cahill's offer of "charity" resulted. Gallant Waif [Anne Gracie] on *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers . The story of Major Jack Carstairs, recently returned from the Peninsular.
All of this has left him understandably cynical, so when Jack's grandmother brings Kate to his home, he is trying to hide away from the world and drink himself into oblivion. Ships with Tracking Number! This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. Overall, this was an engaging albeit angsty way to pass the time. He was grumpy and I didn't mind it much until his grumpiness turned to meanness. I also really liked Carlos and the coffee-pot throwing!
And so Jack shuts himself off from the world at his country estate. His caring protective personality jus Two likable mcs and an entertaining romance. Somehow, we were always warm, clean, well fed and happy. I will admit that it made them perfect for one another in some aaif, because they were both willing to say what needed to be said when the other one needed a kick in the pants.
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So very happy you liked Gallant Waif! She's pretty amazing, my mum. Books by Anne Gracie. SUCH a tender moment, in the old cabin. She deserves better than to be besotted to the likes of him. If you need a comfort read, this would be it. Gallant Waif was as good a waid as I have read in a long time.
Why, if he wasn't careful, Kate just might succeed in her attempts to make him want to rejoin the human race! The most beautiful rescue ever, actually.
Cover shows some wear to edges, corners and spine tips. While it often takes a wounded person to understand a wounded person, I think I tend to prefer that one character be strong and understanding while also being less angsty. Jack and Kate carry about equal baggage, so they are both very emotionally intense while also both being incredibly stubborn.
Un libro sumamente simple. It is very clear that she has done her gallatn and the quality of her prose is excellent. Better World Books Galpant My first book of this year and it was good.
Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Of course, she initially doesn't realize that she's having a desirable effect of a different sort on Jack. I liked the dichotomy of her struggling to face what she believed was the reality of her future and still dreaming of getting a Cinderella-style HEA. You just knew an epic humiliation was coming for our gallant Kate; she was just eaif good and nice and humble to escape a horrible public degradation.
Seven Minutes in Heaven. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. I also liked Jack's grandmother, Lady Cahill. Aug 10, Julianna rated it really liked it Recommends it for: Indeed, this fact alone had me adding a star to an otherwise two star read. One of my favorite Anne Gracie books and I snapped it right up when I found it finally available digitally at Amazon earlier tonight. It's interesting to see how each have handled their trials so differently. In all honesty, I'm not really used to both the hero and heroine being so emotionally damaged.
But what made this a more delightful light read was their constant banter, it reminded me of a couple in book 3 of the Dragon Kin series by G.
The one good thing about Jack and Kate's obstinate natures was that it created a situation that was ripe for sharp, witty bantering. Once she is safely ensconced in Jack's country home, she energetically throws herself into righting not only Jack's household but Jack himself.
And of course the meanness gqllant because he loved the h but was unable to express his love since he knew what was good for her and wanted to make her hate him.
Also, as a side note, this story has no love scenes at all or any other particularly objectionable elements which should make it suitable tallant a wide range of romance readers. I'd have wanted Jack to be her first, y'know. In case you imagine we were a filthy rich horse-owning family, let me assure you we weren't.


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Mohamed is an English instructor and the tutorial lead at the Higher Institute of English (HIE) in Nouakchott, Mauritania. He grew up in Nouakchott, and as a student at Nouakchott University, he earned an Associate Degree in English Literature in 2009. Mohamed later travelled to the United States as a Fulbright scholar. In 2013 he completed his BA in TESOL and Communication at Goshen College, Indiana. Two years later, he was awarded an MA in International Studies (African Studies) by Ohio University, Ohio. Mohamed has taught various subjects including English, Communication, and African Studies. He has worked as a graduate assistant at Ohio University and as an instructor at both Nouakchott University and the Lebanese International University in Nouakchott. Mohamed has also worked as an interpreter (Arabic-English). In May 2016, he crowned his teaching credentials with a Pass B in the CELTA (the Certificate of English Language Teaching to Adults) awarded by the Cambridge University ESOL examinations board.
One of his favorite quotes:
"I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole."
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Hamilton College appears in these rankings:
50 Best Value Engineering Schools
Top 25 Liberal Arts Colleges with the Best Return on Investment
Hamilton College was initially founded in 1793 as Hamilton-Oneida Academy, a boy's school, by Reverend Samuel Kirkland. Named in honor of the Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, the academy was officially chartered in 1812 as New York's third college. In 1978, Hamilton College merged with the women's Kirkland College to begin offering co-educational education. Today, Hamilton stands as a preeminent private, non-profit "Little Ivy" liberal arts institution. Hamilton College is located on a vast 1,300-acre rural campus in Clinton along Root Glen just 48 miles east of Syracuse. Noted for its rigorous academics, Hamilton educates around 1,850 students from 45 states and 47 countries.
According to the U.S. News, Hamilton College is the 14th best national liberal arts college, 18th top value school, and 11th best school for military veterans. Given a financial grade of A+, Hamilton is ranked the 68th top private college nationally by Forbes. Kiplinger's Personal Finance lauded Hamilton as America's 14th best liberal arts value. The Princeton Review honored Hamilton College for offering the 11th "Most Accessible Professors" and 17th "Best Classroom Experience." Newsweek magazine crowned Hamilton the 22nd most desirable small school in the United States. Hamilton was also named the 60th best liberal arts college for civic engagement by Washington Monthly.
Hamilton College Accreditation Details
Reaffirmed in 2011 for the maximum 10 years, Hamilton College is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE) to award bachelor's degrees. This regional accrediting agency is approved by the U.S. Department of Education for Title IV funding. Hamilton is a member of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU). The college is also licensed New York State Department of Education (NYSDOE).
Hamilton College Application Requirements
Getting into Hamilton College is tough with its "most selective" acceptance rate of 26 percent. Admissions counselors conduct a holistic review that values academic achievement, leadership, extra-curricular activities, and diversity. First-year applicants must have graduated from a licensed secondary school with a Regents diploma. Homeschooled students can be accepted with at least four years of English, four years of math, three years of science, three years of history, and two years of foreign language. The majority of freshmen rank in the top 20 percent of their class. On average, admitted students will have a GPA of 3.95, SAT score of 2071, and ACT score of 31.
High school graduates who have previously enrolled in degree-granting programs at accredited colleges or universities can transfer to Hamilton. Transfers must complete at least one full-time semester for the equivalent of 15 semester hours. Only 20 to 30 transfers are accepted each year, so being in good standing is required. Successful applicants typically earn a cumulative GPA of 3.3 or better. Credit isn't awarded for online courses or collegiate coursework graded less than "C." International students are also welcomed and comprise five percent of Hamilton College's community. Non-U.S. citizens must have studied English for three full years or score above 700 on the SAT verbal/critical reading.
Whether applying for Early Decision by November 15th or Regular Decision on January 1st, students should submit the following to Hamilton College:
• Common Application form
• $50 non-fundable fee or waiver
• Hamilton's member-specific questions
• Official high school and college transcripts
• At least one major subject teacher evaluation
• Guidance counselor recommendation
• Standardized test scores (SAT or ACT)
• Common Application personal essay
All full-time undergraduates at Hamilton College are billed $50,730 each year for tuition. There's an additional $510 student activity fee charged. On-campus housing is estimated to cost $7,110 yearly for double-occupancy dorm rooms. Standard meal plans add $5,900 each year. Students should budget at least $1,000 for textbooks, $1,000 for personal supplies, and $1,500 for travel expenses. Annual cost of attendance for Hamilton students is $64,250. Four-year Bachelor of Arts programs come with a price tag of approximately $257,000. However, the average yearly net price is $20,755.
Around 60 percent of beginning, full-time students at Hamilton receive assistance. The average financial aid package is $41,300. To minimize debt, Hamilton College caps borrowing Federal Perkins, Federal Direct Subsidized, and Federal Direct Subsidized loans at $3,500 per year. Some students qualify for the Federal Pell Grant, FSEOG Grant, TEACH Grant, or Iraq and Afghanistan Service Grant. In-state students should apply for the Tuition Assistance Program (TAP), New York State Educational Opportunity Program, or NYS Regents Awards. Federal Work-Study (FWS) is available for 20 hours per week and bi-weekly paychecks. Hamilton provides matching contributions of $5,000 to veterans with GI Bill benefits. Scholarships are also numerous, including the Bement Scholarship, John G. Green Scholarship, Frances E. Ludlow Scholarship, and Alan P. Savory Memorial Scholarship.
Degrees Available at Hamilton College
Hamilton College strives to nourish students' intellectual development and creative spirit with an "open" liberal arts curriculum. Students can earn a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in 51 majors. There's also a self-designed Interdisciplinary Concentration for flexibility. Pre-professional advising is offered in business, education, engineering, law, and medicine. Students must pledge to Hamilton's Honor Code, which includes unproctored exams. Beyond the Clinton campus, the college has programs in New York City, Washington DC, China, France, and Spain. Two example degrees granted are:
Bachelor of Arts in Economics
As the most popular major at Hamilton, the Bachelor of Arts in Economics program trains students to analyze the effectiveness of policies in improving today's globalized economy. The 120-credit curriculum will include coursework on microeconomics, financial decision theory, accounting, poverty, statistics, public economics, globalization, international trade, public policy, and banking. Housed in the Kirner-Johnson Building, the program takes place in four-tiered "case study" classrooms to encourage student interaction. In the senior year, students conduct thesis research pertaining to important economic issues.
Bachelor of Arts in Geoarchaeology
Hamilton's Bachelor of Arts in Geoarchaeology program is lesser-known but highly regarded for giving undergraduates the specialized training to interpret the archaeological record of past societies. Consisting of 120 total credits, the science-based program includes coursework in archaeology, geology, paleontology, diagenesis, geochronology, landscape evolution, stratigraphic succession, and thermoluminescence. Within the state-of-the-art Taylor Science Center, students have access to a sedimentology lab with organic carbon analyzers, rock cutting equipment, transmissivity recorders, and more. There's also a paid Summer Undergraduate Research opportunity.
With an ideal student-faculty ratio of 9:1, Hamilton College also awards unique degrees like the B.A. in Cinema and Media Studies, B.A. in Hispanic Studies, B.A. in Neuroscience, B.A. in Russian Studies, and B.A. in World Politics.


GRAND RAPIDS (WZZM) -- Precious, the Komodo dragon at the John Ball Zoo, has died.
Zoo officials released the news Wednesday morning that Precious died in his sleep Monday morning. Preliminary exams show the reptile died of natural causes.
Precious came to John Ball Zoo in Dec. 2003 from the National Zoo in Washington, D.C.
According to the zoo, President Ronald Reagan was presented with a pair of Komodo dragons from Indonesia during a visit to Bali in 1986. Those dragons stayed at the National Zoo and produced 13 eggs, which were the first Komodo dragons that hatched in the western hemisphere. Precious was the smallest of the first clutch.
Komodo dragons are considered the most intelligent reptiles. Zoo officials said that Precious responded positively to a variety of behavioral enrichment and regularly participated in training program with his keepers, even though Komodo dragons are skilled predators. They are highly endangered and only exist on Komodo Island and a few other small islands in Indonesia.
There are no immediate plans to replace Precious.


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360-degree views of education and professional opportunities in STEM
Published December 11, 2022 By : USBE Online
Since 1987, Black students have seen thousands of high achievers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields walk on to the stage at the Black Engineer of the Year Awards (BEYA) gala.
Some common threads running through all BEYA winner stories are that someone made them feel excited about their abilities, or helped them see the relevance of STEM fields for a job or career. Others say someone encouraged them to keep striving in these subjects. Taken together, the majority of BEYA winners in STEM fields say they had at least one of these positive experiences.
However, according to recent data from the U.S. Department of Education, Black students earned no more than 9% of the STEM degrees awarded in 2018 across the bachelor's, master's and doctoral levels – figures that have changed little since 2010.
The findings of a Pew Research Center survey published in 2022 also show that there has been little progress in the share of Black graduates from collegiate or higher-level STEM training programs over the past decade.
Asked what would help attract young Black people to pursue STEM degrees, a majority of Black Americans think it would help a lot if people saw more examples of high achievers in these areas who were Black. About three-quarters of those with a college degree or more education think this would help a lot. The findings also point to Black adults' beliefs about the factors that would do the most to increase representation in STEM fields.
Slightly more than four-in-ten say that someone made them feel excited about their abilities in these subjects (44%), helped them see how these subjects could be useful for their job (44%) or encouraged them to keep taking classes in these areas (43%).
Among high school graduates, similar shares of Black adults (58%) and U.S. adults (59%) say they had at least one of these three positive experiences in their STEM schooling.
Roughly six-in-ten (59%) say that someone encouraged them to keep taking more classes in these subjects. Taken together, 81% of Black college graduates working in STEM fields say they had at least one of these positive experiences.
By comparison, Black college graduates working in other kinds of jobs are far less likely to recall positive experiences in STEM classes. The share of Black STEM workers with a college degree or more education who recall a positive experience in their most recent STEM schooling is about the same as the share of all college graduates working in STEM who say this (81% vs. 82%).
However, a larger majority of college-graduate STEM workers in the general population say that someone encouraged them to keep taking classes in these subjects (68% compared with 58% of Black STEM workers).
About four-in-ten Black adults say they have had at least one of the following negative experiences: being treated as if they couldn't understand the subject matter, made to feel like they don't belong, or receiving repeated negative comments about their race.
About three-in-ten Black adults say they had someone treat them as if they could not understand STEM subjects (29%) or who made them feel they did not belong in STEM classes (27%). Two-in-ten among this group say that someone made repeated negative comments or slights about their race or ethnicity in their most recent STEM schooling. A third of all high school graduates say they had at least one of these negative experiences.
Ebony O. McGee, a scholar focused on diversity in STEM higher education, finds that Black people pursuing a higher degree and career in science or another STEM field face an array of obstacles such as stereotyping and implicit biases.
Though not a causal effect, Black representation among a person's high school teachers is associated with more positive experiences with STEM schooling.
Among Black adults with a high school degree or more education, 49% say they had at least one same-race high school teacher in a science, technology, engineering or math class.
Those who did are more likely to recall positive experiences in their STEM schooling. For example, 52% of those who had a Black high school STEM teacher say that they have had someone encourage them to keep taking STEM classes, compared with 34% of those who did not have a STEM high school teacher who was Black.
Both groups are about equally likely to report negative experiences in STEM schooling. See Appendix for more details. Half or more Black Americans see mentors as especially influential to how many young people pursue STEM degrees
Half of Black adults say the lack of a mentor or other adult encouraging young people to pursue these fields is a major deterrent, while a third consider this a minor reason why more young people don't pursue college degrees in STEM.
The same share (50%) says lack of access to quality education is also a major reason that more young people do not pursue STEM degrees. (Note that these questions reference young people, generally, without specifying their race or ethnicity.)
In addition, 45% of Black adults say a major difficulty comes from young people thinking that STEM subjects are too hard and 39% say disinterest in these subjects is a major reason behind STEM enrollment figures for young adults.
About three-in-ten Black adults (31%) think young people not seeing the usefulness of these subjects for their careers is a major reason many young adults don't pursue college-level STEM degrees; another 41% say this is a minor reason.
Views among Black adults on these questions are generally similar to those of the overall U.S. population. However, all U.S. adults place somewhat greater emphasis on the difficulty of the subject matter as a major reason for why more young people do not pursue STEM college degrees.
Black adults with higher levels of education are particularly likely to point to the absence of a mentor and the inaccessibility of quality education as major reasons more people don't pursue STEM college degrees.
Majorities of Black adults with a postgraduate (65%) or college (62%) degree say the lack of a mentor or other adult encouraging young people is a major reason behind this pattern.
About six-in-ten Black adults with a postgraduate degree (61%) and 64% of those with a college degree say that the lack of access to quality education is a major reason more young people do not pursue STEM degrees in college.
A majority of Black Americans think more young Black people would pursue STEM studies in college if they saw examples of high achievers in these areas who are Black
The Center survey also asked about views on specific factors that could encourage more young Black people to pursue STEM college degrees.
A 54% majority of Black Americans say that more visible examples of high achievers in these fields who are Black would make young Black people a lot more likely to pursue college degrees in STEM, while 27% say this would help a little and 16% say this would not make a difference.
Four-in-ten Black Americans think having more representation among students in STEM programs would make young Black people a lot more likely to pursue college degrees in STEM. A similar share (38%) says young Black people would be a lot more likely to pursue college degrees in STEM fields if they had a high school teacher in these subjects who was Black. (This view was about equally common among those who had and did not have a Black high school teacher in a STEM class themselves.)
The importance of visible examples, which some people equate with mentors or role models, also came to mind in focus group discussions on this topic.
For example, 75% of Black adults with a postgraduate degree and 73% of those with a college degree say that seeing more examples of high achievers in STEM fields who are Black would help a lot to attract more young Black people to these fields. By comparison, 60% of Black adults with some college education say this would help a lot and 39% of those with no more than a high school diploma say this.
There are similar patterns by education when it comes to the impact of having a same-race high school teacher in STEM classes and the typical college or university having at least several Black students in STEM degree programs. Compared with other professions, fewer Black adults see people of their race at highest levels of success in science, engineering.
To measure perceptions of Black achievement, the Center survey asked respondents if they thought Black people had reached the highest levels of success in each of nine professional groups. At the top of these ratings were professional athletes and musicians; scientists and engineers were ranked lowest.
Overall, 84% of Black adults say Black people have achieved the highest levels of success among professional athletes and 80% say this about Black professional musicians.
Majorities of Black adults say Black people have reached the highest levels of success in law (68%) and as religious leaders (58%). Medical doctors are rated in the middle of these nine professional groups, with 55% of Black adults saying that Black people have reached the highest levels of success in medicine.
In contrast, scientists and engineers are rated lowest among this set; 36% say Black people have reached the highest levels of success in science and 43% say this about engineers. Majorities say this is not the case. Views of Black achievement in these STEM professions are similar among older and younger Black adults.
Across levels of educational attainment, those with a high school diploma or less are somewhat more likely to say Black people have reached the highest levels of success in science and engineering than Black adults with more education.
Black men are more likely than Black women to say Black scientists have reached the highest levels of success (44% vs. 31%). However, there are no gender differences in views of engineers. The relative lack of visible examples of Black achievement in science and the allied fields of technology, engineering and math is one factor that could deter Black people from deciding to pursue STEM education and careers.
Just 17% of Black Americans see business executives as very welcoming to Black people in these jobs; 45% consider business executives as generally not too or not at all welcoming to Black people in these jobs.
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Jim Cambridge, superintendent of SD 62 (Sooke), Allan Cahoon, president of Royal Roads University, Jamie Cassels, president and vice-chancellor of University of Victoria, Sherri Bell, president of Camosun College, Piet Langstraat, superintendent of SD 61 (Greater Victoria), and Dave Eberwein, superintendent of SD 63 (Saanich) sign a formal agreement Monday to create Education Victoria, an initiative to promote the region to international secondary and post-secondary students. Wolf Depner/News Staff
Greater Victoria schools reach out to the world
School districts and post-secondary institutions targeting international students
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Representatives of three post-secondary institutions and three local school districts have formalized an agreement that promotes the region to international students, an increasingly important part of the provincial economy and local school district budgets.
"Our focus is to have the southern Vancouver Island [region] as a destination for international students to come, learn, work and perhaps stay, after they have finished post-secondary," said Sherri Bell, president of Camosun College.
She made those comments Monday after Allan Cahoon, president of Royal Roads University, Jamie Cassels, president and vice-chancellor of University of Victoria, Piet Langstraat, superintendent of SD 61 (Greater Victoria), Dave Eberwein, superintendent of SD 63 (Saanich), and Jim Cambridge, superintendent of SD 62 (Sooke), had joined Bell at the Lansdowne campus of Camosun College to sign the agreement.
The five-year agreement formalizes Education Victoria, an informal agreement that Camosun College, UVIC, RRU and SD 61 reached in 2013 and adds SD 62 and 63 along the way.
"It will help us co-ordinate our actions, and make sure that we are working in sync with each other rather than at cross-purposes," said Eberwein, whose school district SD 63 includes Saanich's Claremont secondary.
The recruitment of international students – whether they are K-12 or post-secondary students – is becoming an important part of B.C.'s economy.
Just over 130,000 international students attended provincial post-secondary institutions and K-12 schools in 2015 – a 44 per cent increase in the number of international students in B.C. from 2010, according to the British Columbia Council for International Education. This international student body spent over $3.5 billion to pay for their tuition and fees and day-to-day living expenses in 2015, according to the organization.
International education service was the fourth most important export of British Columbia, since it attracts revenues.
International and out-of-province students attending SD 61 account for almost $13.29 million in revenue – or 7.1 per cent of total revenue, according to the budget ending June 2018. Five years ago, offshore tuition fees accounted for $8.04 million – just under five per cent of total revenue.
SD 63 offers a similar picture. For the budget ending June 2018, it shows $4.52 million in international and out-of-province tuition – about 6.1 per cent of the total budget. Five years ago, offshore tuition accounted for $3.01 million – or 4.59 per cent of total revenue.
The growing presence and importance of international students comes against the backdrop of demographic and political changes that have led to stagnant local enrolment figures and budgets.
Eberwein acknowledged this aspect. "It does help to keep our enrolment numbers up. So as our enrolment fluctuates up or down, we can adjust our international enrolment projections to help match that."
This said, Eberwein said the primary goal of having more international students is to expose domestic students to students from other cultures. "By exposing our students to other students around the world, there is that cross-cultural exchange," he said. "It brings a nice flavour in our schools, for sure."
If local boards welcome international students, international students have come to appreciate the region. "We live in a somewhat isolated, very safe corner of the world, tucked away, and that comes with all kinds of advantages," said Langstraat.
SD 63 currently educates 333 international students from 22 countries, with one-third coming from China. Students from Italy, Spain and Germany come next, followed by students from Japan and Brazil.
Eberwein said Education Victoria will allow school boards to diversify this catalogue of countries against the backdrop of potential economic changes, and other developments, including development in the United States. SD 61 earlier this year announced that it would not be planning trip to the United States.
"We are trying to cushion from many of those unexpected or unknown international events that might be happening," he said Eberwein.
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Francesco Falcioni (pno); Dave Parker (bs); Rob Bates (dms); Ray Johnson (tpt/flug).
Turn of the year saw new tenants take over the running of the downstairs bar and with it a choice selection of real ales. Upstairs, the ale situation is improving… Incidentally, next time you're at a jazz gig in the Globe, get there early and take in our man Ken Drew's great photos of some of the previous gigs here.
Tonight, however, the emphasis was rather more on the ground floor grooves rather than the disciples in the upper room. Nevertheless, the room had the ambience required with no empty tables and, bang on time, the musicians were up and running. This was their first public gig, indeed, the Italian pianist confessed that this was the first gig he'd ever done with a non-Italian group.
It didn't matter, having heard Falcioni sitting in at jams I knew he could cut it and the others were no mere passengers.
Being their first gig, it was inevitable that there were moments of uncertainty but, so what? Bands who have been playing for years also have moments of uncertainty!
The set list was varied: Recorda Me (Joe Henderson); Beautiful Love (Johnson on flugel); Blue on Green (Johnson tightly muted); Ma Cerise – a tune composed by Falcioni and dedicated to someone special who was also in the room. Why didn't everyone go Aaah? Another original, Blue Marine, then a couple of Herbert's [Hancock] – Dolphin Dance and The Maze.
It was a good set: Johnson full-toned, Parker animated, Bates, becoming a contender and Falcioni no longer just a guy who drops in at jam sessions.
Interval time and, downstairs, The Palominos were taking Buddy Holly's That'll Be The Day for a gallop which was when I decided that I'd reluctantly forego FF's second set.
Francesco Falcioni Quartet: A work in [positive] progress.


Who is it that corrects the word piece / its limits / separations / its flight of roots? Where now is the hand that conjoined its looks? The pieces of itself no longer ensemble in song / versions of that unity / the shade of the clouds. Foregone the parties where reason raised a toast to the arithmetic of the lip. In a seat of honor, legitimate beasts wield reality without so much as a warning.
The poem I wish to write for you, amouramour, has not yet a word. It travels in its negations and disasters like the yesterday in today and its plot is a flame. No one can extinguish it, guarding its secret when your face fills with wonder, opening doorways to the subject, sacrifices of the when, two circles with no original scribe.
Juan Gelman's Selections from Hoy can be read in the print edition of The Arkansas International 1.
Argentine poet-in-exile Juan Gelman (Buenos Aires, 1930-Mexico City, 2014) published more than twenty books of poetry in his lifetime, and his numerous awards include the Pablo Neruda Prize (Chile, 2005), the most prestige Spanish-language literary award, Cervantes Prize (2007), and the Premio Leteo in 2012. His last book, Hoy, was published in 2013 and the present selection comes from this volume.
Lisa Rose Bradford teaches Comparative Literature at the Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina. She has published poems and translations in numerous magazines and edited various books on translation (Traducción como cultura, La cultura de los géneros) and of translations into Spanish (Usos de la imaginación: poetas latin@s en EE.UU. Los pájaros, por la nieve. Antología de la poesía femenina contemporánea de los Estados Unidos). Also, four of her bilingual volumes of Juan Gelman's verse have appeared since 2010: Between Words: Juan Gelman's Public Letter (National Translation Award), Commentaries and Citations, Com/positions, and Oxen Rage. She is currently translating Gelman's last book of poems, Hoy.


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Family Of Man Allegedly Put In Illegal Chokehold By NYPD Officers Says System Fails People With Mental Illness
Man's Sister-In-Law Says Family Has Tried To Get Him Help: 'If It's Not Mandated, They're Not Willing To Take Him' August 7, 2020 at 6:08 pm
Filed Under:Aundrea Cline-Thomas, Local TV, mental illness, New York, NYPD
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A man prosecutors say was put in an illegal chokehold by NYPD officers is now behind bars in a different incident, but his family says it's all because the system failed him.
Ricky Bellevue was introduced through viral videos showing NYPD officers piling on top of him on June 21.
One officer is facing charges after being accused of using an illegal chokehold during the arrest, causing Bellevue to lose consciousness.
RELATED STORY: NYPD Officer Arrested, Charged For Alleged Chokehold Arrest On Rockaway Boardwalk
Officers knew Bellevue had a mental illness that his family said, after this, got much worse.
"The most he sleeps is five minutes. He wakes up out of his sleep talking about they're trying to kill him, they're trying to choke him to death," said Judith Ceno, Bellevue's sister-in-law.
Ceno took him to Lincoln Hospital. She says she pleaded with doctors, fearing he posed a risk to himself and others.
"I even had to be demanding and tell them I'm going to bring his lawyer in here to demand y'all to let him stay here because he cannot be out in the street," Ceno said.
Still, days later the 35-year-old was released. Since then, Bellevue has been arrested twice for robbery, including allegedly stealing from a 14-year-old girl.
Bellevue is hardly alone. The NYPD responds to more than 175,000 calls for emotionally disturbed people each year.
Like for Rashid Brimmage, who had at least 100 prior arrests before police say he violently shoved a 92-year-old woman to the ground in June.
RELATED STORY: Questions Raised After Revelation That Suspect In Assault On 92-Year-Old Has Been Arrested 101 Times
Attorney Sanford Rubenstein represents Bellevue in his civil case.
"Society needs to have the proper treatment of those with mental illness so that when they return to society, they are not a threat," Rubenstein told CBS2's Aundrea Cline-Thomas.
For some, going to jail provides the best chance of having access to clinicians and therapeutic units, which means an innocent bystander may first have to become a victim.
"We've been trying to get him help," Ceno said. "We've been trying to put him in programs, but if it's not mandated, they're not willing to take him."
Programs for Bellevue worked in the past, giving his family hope.
"My biggest fear is that I get a call saying that somebody killed him because he don't have the help that he needs," Ceno said.
A fear that's intensified since his family says they first noticed Bellevue's decline after his father died nearly 10 years ago.
Bellevue is now back at Rikers Island. Because of patient confidentially, Health and Hospitals could not comment on why he was released.
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Q: Padding or other reason code fails to fit, when placing variable at absolute address {C, Keil, ARM} Trying to figure out why keil is failing to link program with variable placed at absolute address. If same program is being compiled without that variable being placed at absolute address - all is OK.
Failing to link:
const uint16_t CRC __attribute__((section(".ARM.__at_0x1FDFC"))) = 0xAE20;

Error: L6985E: Unable to automatically place AT section main.o(.ARM.__at_0x1FDFC) with required base address 0x0001fdfc. Please manually place in the scatter file using the --no_autoat option.

All same, just CRC placed not in absolute address:
const uint16_t CRC /*__attribute__((section(".ARM.__at_0x1FDFC")))*/ = 0xAE20;

Program Size: Code=116924 RO-data=11352 RW-data=1536 ZI-data=14808

Moving absolute address a bit further:
const uint16_t CRC __attribute__((section(".ARM.__at_0x1FE2C"))) = 0xAE20;

Program Size: Code=116924 RO-data=11356 RW-data=1536 ZI-data=14808
End of bin file with last example:

When seeing bin content it seems like CRC could be placed in original location, also there is more free space after CRC. So even program is on limit of not fitting in, it should fit. Question why Keil fails to link it and how I could fit it in?
compiler:

ArmClang.exe --version
Product: MDK-ARM Cortex-M0/M0+/M23 5.36
Component: ARM Compiler 6.16
Tool: armclang [5dfeb700]
Target: unspecified-arm-none-unspecified


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Mark Allen (I) (1920–2003)
Known for Dark Shadows (1966), The Wild Wild West (1969), The Gambler Wore a Gun (1961), Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
Apr 16, 1920 (died May 21, 2003) | 6' 1½" (1.87m)
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Earth Observation and Spatial Analysis
A research collaboration within the Environment & Society Research Group at the University of Edinburgh
Is Shetland a cartographic compromise too far?
Posted on Tuesday 20th March, 2018 by bgittings
MSP Tavish Scott intends to introduce an amendment to the Islands Bill currently before the Scottish Parliament, which would compel public bodies to "accurately and proportionately" depict Shetland in relation to the rest of the country. He point out the the cartographic tendency to place the archipelago in a box somewhere off Scotland's east coast is annoys island residents, as they feel like their home is an afterthought on maps. Great for inclusion, exactly what the Islands Bill intends to do one would think.
But what are the implications? The Shetlands Times describes the placing of Shetland-in-a-box as a geographical error. It is plainly not, it is a cartographic compromise. And there are always implications to a compromise. To include the Northern Isles in their actual geographical location, separated from the mainland by almost 100 miles of water, would reduce the scale at which the country can be displayed by around 40%.
Paradoxically, not only does this mean that Shetland is displayed in much less detail, but also Scotland's smaller Council Areas (eg Dundee) effectively disappear, reduced from any kind of area to an insignificant point, or major features such as the Firths of Tay and Forth lost under text-labels for Dundee and Edinburgh. We are left having to put the Central Belt in a zoom-box because of the loss of detail in areas where most people live, or having to use two sheets of paper rather than one for maps of Scotland. Just as well we don't live in Chile, that narrow but 2653-mile / 4270-km long country is almost impossible to viably display on a single sheet of paper.
The circumstance of Shetland-in-a-box (and indeed Orkney-in-a-box-too) is a feature of maps intended to display our entire country with a reasonable level of detail. It is neither a feature of Ordnance Survey mapping, which divides Scotland into numerous sheets, nor of modern online maps such as produced by Google or Bing, where detail can be displayed dynamically depending on levels of zoom. Even the BBC weather map is zoomed and panned to display details, so can include all parts of the country. But traditional maps are, and have always been, replete with cartographic compromises, whether it be omitting details unneccessary to what the map is trying to portray; projections which show Greenland as twice the size of Australia or diminish the importance of equatorial regions; or scale which displays the world's mega-cities as insignificant dots rather than immense polygons or displaying streets as two or three times their actual width so they can be seen at all. We may be uncomfortable with some of these choices, but the professionalism of the cartographer should ensure appropriate use. Maps are by their nature gross simplifications of the real world. Each individual map has a purpose and it is crucial that cartographers are not hampered by political correctness. It is important that Tavish Scott raises this issue, and reminds us of the value of inclusivity in terms of some of our most topographically-stunning and economically important islands, but it is equally important that cartographers are not muzzled in the maps they produce.
(Map images from Google)
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Self-bounded controlled invariant subspaces are shown to play a key role in the synthesis of minimal-order dynamic regulators attaining model following by output feedback with stability. The approach, completely embedded in the geometric context, provides insight into the internal eigenstructure of the minimal self-bounded controlled invariant subspace, thus leading to an effective treatment of nonminimum-phase systems.
Abstract: Self-bounded controlled invariant subspaces are shown to play a key role in the synthesis of minimal-order dynamic regulators attaining model following by output feedback with stability. The approach, completely embedded in the geometric context, provides insight into the internal eigenstructure of the minimal self-bounded controlled invariant subspace, thus leading to an effective treatment of nonminimum-phase systems.


Christmas box depicting Snow Maiden and Santa Claus. Could be used either as a gift container or to hold a regular bottle of champagne (0.7 l volume). Imported from Moscow, Russia. Ships within 7 business days.


Truax proposed a rocket that was capable of placing 1.1 million pounds (550 metric tons) into a 306 nautical-mile circular orbit — about four times the payload of a Saturn V. With a gross liftoff weight of 40 million pounds, Sea Dragon was so large that it could not be launched on land but would have to be towed out to sea. (An advantage, in Truax's view, since it would eliminate the construction of an expensive shore-based launch concept.) The rocket itself was 75 feet in diameter and 500 feet tall, not including the ballast platform needed to launch it at sea. A capsule and escape tower would have added another 50 feet.
To reduce costs, Truax proposed the use of relatively simple technologies. Turbopumps were eliminated in favor of pressure-fed engines. Each stage had only one engine. Propellants were similar to the Saturn V. First-stage propulsion was an RP-1 kerosene / liquid-oxygen engine with 80 million pounds of thrust — 50 times the size of the F-1 engine used on the Saturn first stage. Second-stage propulsion was a liquid-hydrogen / liquid-oxygen with 14.12 million pound— 60 times the size of the J-2 engine used on the Saturn's upper stage. These would have been the largest RP-1 and LH2 engines ever built, by far.
The drawing below shows a Sea Dragon and Saturn V to scale.
Truax was an advocate of strong structures with very large design margins to reduce costs. Aerojet proposed building Sea Dragon in a shipyard, using shipyard materials rather than expensive aerospace materials. This low-cost industrial approach to manufacturing became an anthem for later engineers who formed a school of rocket design called "big dumb booster" (BDB) or "minimal cost design" (MCD). According to BDB/MCD advocates, the way to reduce launch costs is not to reuse hardware but to build very simple expendable hardware with large margins that can be mass-produced at low cost. These ideas are enshrined in the book in the book LEO on the Cheap by Lt. Col. John London (USAF-ret.), which has become something of a bible for BDB/MCD designers.
Here's where Truax diverged from his later disciples, because Truax did not advocate mass producing large numbers of Sea Dragons and throwing them away. He recognized that low launch costs would require reusing hardware. Sea Dragon was intended to reenter passively, using giant air bags to help decelerate it, and splash down at sea for recovery and reuse. This is an important aspect of the design which BDB/MCD designers rarely mention when they cite the Sea Dragon study as a design precedent.
There's another problem with the Sea Dragon study, however, which the BDB/MCD school has failed to notice. No one seems to have looked closely at the engineering economics of Sea Dragon. The numbers in the design study show that it would not have been as cheap as the legend claims.
In general, the study has confirmed that large, simple, recoverable vehicles can be highly effective from a cost standpoint. A total system development cost of $2.836 billion is forecast. The direct flight related cost is $10 to $20 per pound of payload. Amortizing the research and development cost over 240 flights gives a total cost effectiveness of $20 to $30 per pound of payload. No elements of the original concept have been shown to be technically unfeasible; how- ever, the technical feasibility of a completely passive recovery system has not been demonstrated.
Here's where the study falls down. Aerojet General amortized the R&D costs over 240 flights, which it assumed would occur over a 10- to 20-year period at a rate of 12-24 flights per year. Unfortunately, they amortized by simply dividing the total cost by 240 and forgot to include the cost of money.
Ten to twenty years is a long period to amortize over, and interest over that period of time would be significant. Even if Sea Dragon was built as a government project, as was intended, interest cannot be ignored. The project must "borrow" money from the government treasury, which needs to be accounted for and repaid at the prime rate.
Prime borrowing represents an artificially low interest rate, however, which does not reflect the degree of risk inherent in an aerospace project. Government projects can get away with that because they simply transfer the risk, invisibly, to the taxpayers. That's called "funny accounting." Private investors, however, won't let a project get away with that. As a rule of thumb, they expect an internal rate of return (IRR) of at least 50% for a risky project like this.
That means a $21.55 billion must generate an annual return of $10.78 billion to pay back the initial investment and compensate investors for the risks they have taken. That's equivalent to $449 million per flight, based on 24 flights per year, or $898 million per flight, based on 12 flights per year. This adds $408 per pound to the launch costs, based on 24 flights per year, or $816 per pound, based on 12 flights per year.
So, the total launch costs would be $483-558 per pound, based on 24 flights per year, or $891-996 per pound, based on 12 flights per year. That's significantly more than the $150-300 per pound which the original study predicts.
Here's where the study really falls down. Even 12 flights per year is an unrealistic launch rate for a vehicle this big. That's the equivalent of 48 Saturn V missions per year. At the height of the Apollo program, NASA never launched more than two Saturn V missions per year. The Sea Dragon study was predicated on a very large government Mars program, which never materialized (and frankly, was never in the cards).
To put it into modern terms, the entire International Space Station has a mass of just under 1,000,000 pounds. Sea Dragon would have to launch the equivalent of 12 International Space Stations per year just to meet the lower bar. There is not enough demand to sustain Sea Dragon, even at the lower launch rate. And if the target launch rate of 12 flights per year is not met, the economics get much worse. Based on six flights per year, the costs go to $1,707-1,782 per pound. Based on four flights per year, costs to $2,574-2,599 per pound.
Even four to six flights per year might be optimistic, given the total world demand for launches.
Big Dumb Booster enthusiasts will point out that demand can be expected increase, once a lower-cost launch system is available. That's true, but the increase will not be instantaneous. There will be a time lag, as new payloads and markets are developed to take advantage of the lower launch costs. That's especially true for government payloads, which must go through a lengthy political funding cycle. The investment clock does not stop ticking, however. The cost of money continues to grow, even as investors wait for new markets to develop.
Sea Dragon suffers from what Max Hunter, another old-time rocket pioneer, called "the tyranny of trivial flight rates." Even the highly optimistic 24 flights per year which Aerojet hoped for are not enough to efficiently utilize a reusable vehicle. The economics of reusable vehicles really demand hundreds, preferably thousands, or flights per year. Such flight rates are not compatible with million-pound payloads, now or any time in the near or medium-distant future.
For anyone who's interested in learning about the technical details of the Sea Dragon, two volumes of the original design study are available from the NASA Technical Report Server. Volume I can be downloaded here. Volume III is here. Volume II is apparently lost.
I found this article very interesting. Like most I followed the news on NASA during the 60's and 70's but did not get directly involved until 1982 when I worked on the seat design and manufacture. That contact showed me how fast costs can escalate from the design to the actual finished manufactured costs. I continued to work on various NASA projects thru out the 80's and into the early 90's. In all cases manufactured costs far exceeded those listed in the initial design package. These increases where caused by many factors but in all instances the cost still increased.
This is an interesting article, and your point about the cost of money is very well taken — however, I think you're way off base in suggesting that a 50% IRR would be required for a project like this.
50% is the sort of IRR that VCs look for when they invest. This kind of IRR is only ever undertaken in the context of a broad portfolio of risky investments. The assumption is that 90% of their investments will fail, 9% will be low performers, and 1% will turn into multi-billion-dollar companies. In other words, if you have an investment opportunity with a substantial risk of failure, you seek a high IRR, and hedge your bets by also making other investments with uncorrelated (or anti-correlated) risks. On the other hand, if you have an investment opportunity which does *not* have a substantial risk of failure, then you don't need to seek a high IRR. Seeking a high IRR from a single, un-hedged, high-risk project is something that simply isn't done.
For a mega-project like Sea Dragon, the finance would be structured into a number of different stages. The highest-risk elements — which could potentially cause the project to outright fail — would have to be financed with a relatively high IRR. But as those risks are retired, the required IRRs for the subsequent stages of investment and/or lending would fall dramatically. By the time you got around to the second $10B of the development programme, there should be very very little risk of project failure, and so the IRRs or interest rates would likely have fallen to somewhere around 6%-10%.
Together, all these different sources of capital would form the "Weighted Average Cost of Capital" (WACC), which is the dictates the IRR that you need to meet. I'd be very surprised if the WACC for something like Sea Dragon came to more than 25%. This has fairly substantial implications for the launch costs.
The rest of your points are entirely valid, and I don't think this would fundamentally change the argument that you make. But it does change the numbers pretty dramatically.
Thank you for making this point. I am so tired of people taking the "we need heavy lift for current payloads" statement as a truism. If medium or light lift become significantly cheaper due to reusable vehicles, payloads will adapt to take advantage; whether it be through swarming, lower orbit constellations, or on-orbit assembly and refueling.


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