In early 2017 the National Association of Online Investors Research Division changed the way investing works at a fundamental level. It did so by releasing a new approach to investing called Dynamic Investment Theory and the specifications for a next-generation investment type called Dynamic Investments. This revolutionary approach and investment type are described on this page. They are the future of investing.
Dynamic Investments (DIs) are the result of 5+ years of research, development and testing. They are designed to automatically change the Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) they hold based on a periodic sampling of market trends. By doing so DIs enable investors to capture the positive returns that are available somewhere in the market at all times and in any economic condition.
As verification that Dynamic Investments work, during the ten year period from 2007 to 2016 the simplest DI possible, one that automatically rotates only between stocks and bonds, earned an average annual return of over 30% without excessive risk and with complete market crash protection.
An unlimited number of unique and powerful Dynamic Investments can be created. And there are an unlimited number of ways in which DIs can be combined to create even more powerful dynamic portfolios. You will learn how below on this this page and elsewhere on this site. But first let's take a quick look at the catalysts that prompted the NAOI to create a new, outside-the-box, approach to investing.
Allow me to introduce myself as Leland Hevner, President of the National Association of Online Investors (NAOI) and chief architect of Dynamic Investment Theory. As a teacher of personal investing at the college level for over two decades, I know that the world of investing does not work for average individuals with money to invest. It is so complex, overrun with information and filled with subjective judgments that individual investors have little hope of navigating it on their own. Thus, they are forced to work with financial advisors and to simply accept the investment recommendations they are given without question. It is unacceptable that today's investors have little option but to entrust their financial security to salespeople.
The root of the problem is not hard to identify. Virtually all investment portfolios today are designed using an approach called Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT). It dictates that portfolios be created to match the risk tolerance of each investor. This is done via asset allocation primarily between stocks and bonds, and then the portfolio is meant to be held for the long-term.
One of the problems with MPT is that it creates "static" portfolios that have no sensitivity to market movements. They neither enable investors to take full advantage of market uptrends nor to avoid market downtrends. As a result, MPT portfolios provide mediocre returns at best with high risk and virtually no protection from market crashes.
MPT is seen by the experts today as the "settled science" portfolio design approach. Yet in today's markets this simply makes no sense. Just look at the chart presented nearby. You can see that MPT was introduced to the market in 1952 when the market was a far different place than it is today. While markets have evolved significantly since then, the methods we use to cope with them have barely changed at all. And they no longer work in 21st century markets. It is way past time that the world of investing evolved to cope with modern markets. The NAOI took on this challenge following the market crash of 2008.
The seeds for the development of significant change were planted in 2008 while I was teaching a college course in personal investing in the Washington, D.C. area. As I had done since 1997, I was showing students how to create buy-and-hold, asset-allocation portfolios based on an approach defined by Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT). When the market crashed I watched in dismay as these portfolios crashed right along with it.
At that point, after over a decade of teaching MPT methods, I finally had to recognize that this approach was dangerously outdated and putting the wealth of my students at risk. This was unacceptable. I cancelled all future classes and redirected NAOI resources to the daunting task of finding a better approach to portfolio design and investing in general.
The state of investing research today - hitting the MPT "wall"
I began my search for a new approach to investing by looking at current areas of research and development. I found "new" products but not the "evolutionary" products that were needed. I looked at developments such as robo-advisors, intelligent portfolios, life-income funds and smart beta products among others. I saw each as sideways, not forward, developments. Each was little more than "putting lipstick on the MPT pig." None challenged the supremacy of MPT portfolio methods. My research revealed to me that investing today is stuck in 1952. My search for a better approach to investing in areas of current research hit a brick wall.
My goals for a new investing approach were simple and few. I wanted an approach that was easy to understand, produced high returns with low risk and gave investors absolute protection from market crashes. I wanted the approach to dramatically reduce, or even eliminate, the need for the error-prone, subjective human decisions that are rife in the investing process today. And I wanted an approach that created portfolio "products" that worked for everyone - not the customized creations dictated by MPT today.
To meet these goals, I started with the ONLY thing that we know about equity markets with a high degree of probability - that asset classes, total markets and markets segments have prices that are cyclical and that they move up and down in price at different times. This led me to the hypothesis that at all times and in any economic condition there exist in the market positive returns. My goal then became to design a new investment type that could seek out positive returns where ever and whenever they exist in the market and capture them automatically based on empirical observations of market trends, not on human judgments.
After 5+ years of research, testing and development we succeeded in meeting our goals with the creation of Dynamic Investment Theory (DIT) as an alternative to, or replacement of, Modern Portfolio Theory. DIT sets forth the logic and rules for creating Dynamic Investments - a next-generation investment type that will define the future of investing.
When designing Dynamic Investments, our first major decision was to use Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) to power them. They gave us the trading ease needed for the buy-and-sell strategy required of a dynamic investment and there exists at least one ETF that tracks virtually every asset type and area of the market where we would want the new investment type to search for positive returns. We then turned to the task of finding an optimal structure and rule-set that could fully exploit the power of ETFs.
Testing of this dynamic structure showed performance results that amazed even us! One example is shown below.
To test the effectiveness of the Dynamic Investments we used the simplest design possible, one that rotates only between a stock and bond ETF depending on which was trending up most strongly at a quarterly review. We called it the "NAOI Basic DI."
The table below shows the test results for this ultra-simple DI for the ten year period from 2007-2016, a full decade of data. It compares the DI performance with that of each standalone ETF in the DI's Dynamic ETF Pool (DEP) and with that of a buy-and-hold MPT portfolio with the allocations shown. It is important to note that the MPT portfolio and the NAOI Dynamic Investment use the same ETFs. Only the structure and management of the investment type are different. The MPT portfolio is "static", completely blind to market fluctuations. the Dynamic Investment is "dynamic", automatically changing the ETF it holds based on periodic samplings of market trends. Static vs. Dynamic - therein lies the difference.
Note that the Sharpe Ratio shows the amount of return achieved for each unit of risk taken, the higher the better. Any Sharpe Ratio greater than 1.0 is seen as a superior investment.
These results are astounding. No MPT-based portfolio, no matter how sophisticated, can come close to matching the performance of this simple Dynamic Investment.
Our tests also showed that even higher returns are possible by adding more ETFs to the DI's Dynamic ETF Pool (DEP), giving the investment more areas of the market to search for positive returns. This is a game-changing development in the world of investing. MPT says that higher returns come only with higher risk. DIT proves this assertion wrong. By removing this false constraint, the entire world of investing is free to evolve into the 21st century.
DI Theory opens the floodgates to the creation of an unlimited number of standalone DI "products" that can be created simply by combining different ETFs in the DEP of a new DI. And there are also an unlimited number of ways that DIs can be combined in DI portfolios as well as with other investment types in DI / MPT hybrid portfolios. The introduction of NAOI Dynamic Investments opens a massive new world of powerful investment product development - all without the need to create a single new ETF! Go to this link to review several examples of DI Portfolio Products.
As we worked to develop Dynamic Investment Theory we soon realized that we were accomplishing nothing less than the "productization" of investing. This is the Holy Grail of the financial world. Dynamic Investments are consumer products! And when investing becomes productized, everything changes!
A universal goal. An investment product must have a goal that works for everyone. DIs have that in seeking maximum returns with minimum risk in all market conditions. MPT portfolios are not products. Each is a customized creation designed to match the investor's risk tolerance.
A comprehensive product. DIs not only specify the ETFs to work with but also how they will be automatically managed on an ongoing basis. There are no human judgments involved. This is key to making a portfolio a "product." MPT portfolios show the equities to work with but provide no guidance on how they are to be managed other than "buy and hold."
The best of two management styles. DIs are the market's first and only active investment with passive management. Thus they can be bought and held by the investor while the DI automatically signals the trades to be made based on periodic sampling of market trends - not on error-prone, human judgments.
Dynamic Investments can thus be bought "off-the-shelf" from a variety of vendors and simply held by an investor for the long term. Certainly an advisor can help in selecting the right DIs for an investor, but the DIs themselves are standardized portfolio products. This is investing evolution at its finest.
Dynamic Investments are more than just a laboratory creation. They came out of our test lab in 2012 and the temptation was strong to release them to the public immediately. But that's not how the NAOI works. They were not ready for release to the public without first being extensively field tested. Of course the NAOI was using DIs in our corporate portfolio, but this wasn't the same as watching how average people with money to invest would work with them.
Fortunately the NAOI has access to hundreds of individuals, NAOI members and students, who were willing to volunteer to put DIs into their portfolios under the close supervision of the NAOI. While we in no way assumed the role of a fiduciary advisor during these tests, we did provide the education that enabled our testers to clearly understand the DI investment type in order to make their appropriate decisions for their unique goals. And we showed them how to manage the DI using an online broker.
Our field testers were obviously very pleased with these results. But more important to the NAOI was their feedback related to their total experience of using DIs. None had a problem with the quarterly review process and making the few trades signaled by the DI during this test period using an online broker. All were very please with not only the higher returns but also with the fact that they didn't need to worry about the DI portion of their portfolio. While they were constantly concerned about how economic and world events were affecting the MPT portion of their portfolio, they knew that their DI was automatically changing the ETF it held to both take advantage of market uptrends and to avoid market downtrends. All student testers continue to use DIs and some increased the allocation to it.
Only with this input from the public did we feel confident in releasing NAOI Dynamic Investments to the public at large which we did in mid-2016 with the release of The Dynamic Investment Bible (see below on this page), and to a wider audience via press releases at the start of 2017.
Dynamic Investments (DIs) have the power to affect virtually every area of the investing world. As a result, new opportunities abound. I have illustrated some of them in the chart just below. Let's look at how each entity in the chart will benefit in a world of NAOI Dynamic Investments.
ETF Developers will be able to design and create an entire line of new products simply by combining existing ETFs in the Dynamic Investment structure. Thus, the value of an ETF organization's product line can double, triple or more virtually overnight without the need to create a single new ETF! And each DI is a portfolio "product" that can be marketed and sold to an expanded market as illustrated in the chart by the red arrows.
Dedicated DI Developers will arise in this new world of investing. When DIs become well-known and widely used, organizations (or entities within existing organizations) will form that are dedicated to DI design, development, creation and sales. Such entities will be able to select ETFs from multiple developers in order to construct optimal Dynamic ETF Pools and powerful, proprietary DIs. And startup costs are minimal - all that's needed to become a major DI developer is training by the NAOI via a consulting contract as discussed below on this page.
Advisors, Portfolio Managers, Asset Managers will all benefit greatly from the arrival of Dynamic Investments. Each DI is a standardized portfolio product that can either be used as a standalone client portfolio or as one component of either a multi-DI portfolio or an MPT / DI hybrid portfolio. And each DI will provide exceptional returns with low risk. These are very powerful resources for any person or company that creates or manages client portfolios. Those that use them will have a tremendous competitive advantage over those that do not.
In today's buy-and-hold world of MPT portfolios the fact that ETFs are easy to trade is no great advantage. As a result, today the public sees ETFs as little more than a "quirky" mutual fund if they have even heard of them at all. In the new buy-and-sell world of DIT investing, ETF advantages are fully exploited and their superiority over mutual funds is clear and evident.
With the increased use of Dynamic Investments, the sales of ETFs will explode and they will become a mainstream investment with the potential to surpass mutual funds as the industry's primary investment vehicle.
Dynamic Investments will not only increase ETF sales and expand the market reach of ETF developers as shown above on this page, they will also benefit ETF developers in other ways. For example, DIs unlock the value inherent in ETF combinations that is currently lying dormant in a developer's product line. To see more incredible advantages that Dynamic Investments will bring to the world of ETF Developers, click here.
A significant change in how investing works today does not need to be a bad thing for Financial Advisors. Certainly business plans that today rely on clients passively accepting whatever investments an advisor recommends will need to be scrapped, as they should be.
Using Dynamic Investments, new, better and even more profitable advisor business plans can be built. With the onus of trying to create a customized portfolio to meet the risk profile of each investor removed, advisors can concentrate more of their time on investor education and financial planning topics.
Education and information are what the investing public today needs, not recommendations based on expensive market analysis that is correct about 50% of the time. And, of course, using DIs the market signals trades as needed, not financial "experts." You saw on this page that the performance resulting from market signals are far higher than those signaled by market analysts.
Any advisor who offers DI investment products in conjunction with a full range of financial planning education and advice will hold a major competitive advantage over advisors who insists on the continued use of portfolio design methods that are decades old and no longer work.
Go here to learn more about how DIs will change the world of investment advice.
Virtually all financial organizations will benefit and gain a massive competitive advantage by integrating Dynamic Investments into their strategic plans. Different companies will utilize DIs in different ways and a wide variety of opportunities exist in this new world of investing.
To fully exploit the potential of using NAOI Dynamic Investments in a manner that gives you a massive competitive advantage in a crowded market, the NAOI offers customized consulting services that can be reviewed by clicking here.
Of course the whole intriguing story of why and how Dynamic Investments were developed cannot be told on this Web page or this Web site. It is told in the recently released book entitled The Dynamic Investment Bible. You can read about it by clicking here and purchased by clicking here.
I am the President of the National Association of Online Investors (NAOI), an organization that I founded in 1997. The organization has grown to become the market's leading provider of objective, college-level investor education.


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Tracy Liu, a faculty member in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Cell Biology and WVU Cancer Institute researcher, is a Chinese Canadian who brings her diverse experiences to the lab and classroom each day.
Liu had never heard of West Virginia University before searching for assistant professor positions, but the job description, qualifications and research were a great fit, so she applied. Following the interview process, she had a number of offers and wondered how she would select an institution. Her research mentor advised that finding the right place will feel right, and she found that in Morgantown. WVU felt like home.
Liu grew up in a small town. There were not many Chinese children in her school, but her family was heavily involved in the local Chinese Association, and she attended many cultural festivals. From a young age, she prided herself on being welcoming and inclusive and has practiced this through leading research symposia and volunteering in the clinic, supporting cancer patients and caretakers.
Liu is an advocate of diversity and the different perspectives it brings to team science and other creative endeavors. She advises her students that research can be a big part of their life but not their whole life - they must take care of themselves - physically and emotionally. She believes WVU provides a supportive and collaborative culture where students can learn and grow.
Liu was given many opportunities during her training to fail and succeed and she shares with her students that there are many different aspects of science and research to explore. It's okay to change your mind. Find what you are passionate about, and it will lead you to your future career.
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Big Train walk-off T-Bolts in season opener
By:Ian Decker
Trailing by a single run in the bottom of the ninth, the Bethesda Big Train needed some magic on opening night of the 2022 Cal Ripken Collegiate Baseball League season. And with the 512 fans in attendance at Shirley Povich Field in full voice, the 2021 champions won via walk-off against the visiting Silver Spring-Takoma Thunderbolts, winning 3-2 Tuesday night.
With Bethesda holding a narrow one-run lead in the top of the ninth, the Thunderbolts sent two players home on Todd Mozoki (James Madison). Mozoki, who looked comfortable through the seventh and eighth, put away six straight batters before loading the bases in the ninth and giving up two runs.
The Big Train struggled to string together offense all night long but showed why you need 27 outs to go home.
"We got a lot of guys on base," said Sam Bender, the team's hitting coach, who led the dugout in the absence of manager Sal Colangelo. "We were just missing that one big hit tonight, and that'll come. These guys showed some resolve tonight and very happy to see that."
With Silver Spring-Takoma needing three outs to ice the affair, Trey Winget (St. Mary's(CA)) started the comeback with a leadoff double. Sean Lane (Maryland), who came in as a pinch hitter, lobbed a shot to deep left, and what looked like a routine out turned into an error, and Lane advanced to second while Winget moved to third.
After Jason Schiavone (James Madison) popped up to third, the Thunderbolts gave Garrett Felix (Nicholls State) a free pass to load the bases and give themselves a double-play opportunity. Emilien Pitre (Kentucky) then launched a sacrifice fly to left to even things up and pick up his second RBI of the night. And with the score tied and men on second and third, Peyton Schulze (Long Beach State) cracked a walk-off single just inside the left-field line to send the home faithful into a frenzy.
"We were fighting all game," Schulze said. "We had good at-bats, but we just weren't getting the big hit. We kept getting runners on and just going nowhere. And finally, just put it together today in the ninth inning."
Schulze, who is coming off a productive season at Long Beach where he batted .270 in 36 games, had three hits Tuesday evening.
"I'm just here to get at-bats and keep doing what I'm doing," Schulze said. "I had a good freshman year, so just got to keep advancing."
An exciting end to the match overshadowed the pitching from both sides. It took the Big Train 104 pitches to solve the riddle that was Thunderbolts pitcher Evan Rishell. Rishell worked 6.2 scoreless innings with six strikeouts while mixing off-speed pitches with high heat to carve through the Big Train lineup before getting hooked after giving up the game's first run in the seventh.
And while Silver Spring-Takoma left Rishell on the mound for most of the night, Bethesda used a pitcher-by-committee to get the win.
"Our pitchers did a heck of a job throwing strike one tonight, getting ahead and working ahead," Bender said, "and it showed throughout the whole night."
Brayden Jones (Ole Miss) got the starting nod, and after battling command issues early, the Madison, Mississippi, native finished with five strikeouts, two walks and one hit through three with no earned runs.
Jordan Little (East Carolina) followed Jones and took care of the Thunderbolts in the middle frames; of his nine outs, Little punched out eight batters and gave up just three hits.
Even though Bethesda was missing several players — the College World Series runs through late June — the players opened the season in style.
"Just to not let the moment be too big, you know, a lot of opening day jitters," Bender said on what he told his players before the game. "[I told them] to stay within yourselves because that'll be good enough to get the w."
And on Community Heroes Night, a rainy evening in Bethesda did little to deter the home fans.
"The people out here are great," Schulze said. "We have good crowds in California, but these guys are something different."
The Big Train head to Vienna, Virginia, on Wednesday to face the Metro SOCO Braves, with first pitch scheduled for 7 p.m.
Game Notes: Two time All Star and former Washington National Gio Gonzalez, attending the game with his son's youth team, spoke with both teams before the game…Each fan received an Opening Night "Together Again!" Big Train t-shirt presented by our game night sponsor Community Radiology Associates...The 8U Kidball Cardinals enjoyed a pre-game picnic and were introduced and ran out on the field with the Big Train players for the National Anthem performed by the Capital Accord Chorus…Montgomery County Council President Gabe Albornoz presented certificates of appreciation to the funders of the Big Train Community Heroes of the Night program — Jim and Carol Trawick Foundation, Sebrechts Family and Luc Sebrechts/Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, and Melanie Fostad/RBC Wealth Management. Each Community Heroes of the Night nonprofit organization gets 25 free tickets, meals, and drinks…Tonight's Community Heroes of the Night were from Kids Enjoy Exercise Now (KEEN), an organization empowering kids with disabilities (www.keengreaterdc.org)…To kick off this season's Community Heroes program, representatives of each Community Heroes organization this summer held a pre-game picnic to express their appreciation to the funders…Big Train founder Bruce Adams presented Carol Trawick of the Trawick Foundation with an individual Community Hero award for her decades of leadership supporting Montgomery County's social services and arts organizations…The Big Train raffle raised $194 to support the Big Train's community service initiatives…Attendance was 512.


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Cincinnati Bengals: Geno Atkins to miss the Pro Bowl
The Cincinnati Bengals may not have a player in the Pro Bowl after starter Geno Atkins dropped out due to injury.
Cincinnati Bengals: Geno Atkins to miss the Pro Bowl The Cincinnati Bengals may not have a player in the Pro Bowl after starter Geno Atkins dropped out due to injury. Check out this story on cincinnati.com: https://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/nfl/bengals/2019/01/16/cincinnati-bengals-geno-atkins-miss-pro-bowl/2590860002/
Fletcher Page, Cincinnati Enquirer Published 6:35 a.m. ET Jan. 16, 2019
Cincinnati Bengals defensive tackle Geno Atkins (97) returns to the sideline after a Ravens drive in the second quarter of the NFL Week 2 game between the Cincinnati Bengals and the Baltimore Ravens at Paul Brown Stadium in downtown Cincinnati on Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018. The Bengals led 28-14 at halftime. (Photo: Sam Greene)
Geno Atkins will not participate in the Pro Bowl later this month due to an apparent injury, leaving the Cincinnati Bengals without a representative in the annual all-star game.
Atkins had a team-high 10 sacks and 13 tackles for loss in 2018, earned his franchise record (for defensive players) seventh Pro Bowl nod and was named a starter on the AFC team via vote among fans, coaches and peers.
Brandon Williams of the Baltimore Ravens.will take Atkins' place.
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Atkins played in all 16 games this season and didn't appear on the injury report during Week 17 before the season-finale at Pittsburgh.
There's still a chance a Bengals' player participates.
Third-year safety Clayton Fejedelem was a first alternate as a special teams nomination, wideout Alex Erickson was voted a third alternate as a returner, Joe Mixon was voted a third alternate at running back and A.J. Green (sidelined after surgery on his injured toe) was voted a fourth alternate at wide receiver.
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Our Visiting Research Fellowship Program provides a supportive environment for researchers to undertake research related to the Museum's collection, education, conservation and museum practice. The fellowships enable researchers to access the Museum's resources to support their research for a short period of time. The visit will initiate and develop collaborative research and facilitate interaction with, and training of, MAAS staff. Visiting fellows are expected to make a tangible contribution to the Museum during the period of their stay, for example, through presenting work-in-progress or research outcomes to MAAS staff or through the public programs offered by the Museum, professional development for MAAS staff, contributing to object statements, writing articles for publications, or by making a broad contribution to the Museum's public programs.
We are particularly interested in supporting projects that are interdisciplinary and address intersections between the art and science.
The Museum is unable to fund salary or travel expenses at the present time. Transport and living costs are funded by the researcher. Applicants from outside Australia will need to arrange their own visa, however, MAAS may assist by providing written documentation about your fellowship commitment.
Applicants seeking to visit the Museum from an Australian or overseas organisation may apply.
Proposed length of stay. It is expected that fellowship periods will be from 2-4 weeks. The minimum length of stay is two weeks. For each week spent during the fellowship recipients are required to spend a minimum of 3 working days physically located at the Museum's premises.
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There are a variety of reasons. Typically, your doctor may have only written the prescription for 30 day or a prepackaged medication may not be packaged as a 30, 60, or 90-day supply. Remember to ask your doctor to write a prescription for up to a 90-day supply, with up to three refills, if your doctor determines it is appropriate.


We are all fond of the "legendary" Mercedes-Benz vehicles, from the S-Class S550 to the Maybach series, even an AMG version can satisfy your craving for performance. Mercedes even tops the AMG series with the S65 series. It's sports a 6.0-liter twin-turbo V12 engine that pushes out 621 horsepower and an amazing 738 pound-feet of torque. But still Brabus thinks it still needs more, they take the 850-hp Mercedes S63 coupé and turns it into the Rocket 900. Brabus plans to showcase this supped up behemoth to the Geneva Motor Show, starting this week.
To start the transformation to the Rocket 900, Brabus bored out the cylinders to total 6.3 liters and fitted larger turbochargers, a new exhaust system, intake module and more. The result gives an increased output to 887 bhp and 1,106 lb-ft of torque. Brabus has even upgraded the limited slip differential to handle the extra muscle, taking this rocket even further up a notch to 62 in just 3.7 seconds, on to 124 in 9.1 and at a top speed of 217 Autobahn mph.
This supremely modified Mercedes tuner also comes equipped with a fitted carbon-fiber aero kit to keep it from flying away along with 21- or 22-inch wheels, a re-tuned air suspension that lowers your ride height and newer, upgraded brakes to keep the ride secured. Brabus offers a full range of interior enhancements also.
The Mercedes-Benz S65 starts at $222,000, but the Brabus Rocket 900 goes for $390,000.


I've partnered with Google for Education in an effort to help families be safe online and to create a better internet for everyone, especially our children.
As a parent, it's essential to teach your kids to be safe online. The very traits that make our kids so precious — their innocence and optimism — are the traits that make them vulnerable to internet dangers.
With five kids of my own, each with their own cell phone (we recently got one for my youngest) and a house full of technology like computers, laptops, tablets, and smart TVs, my home is filled with opportunities to engage on the internet.
I appreciate convenience and benefits the internet has to offer (my job relies on the internet after all!) so to keep my kids safe online, I don't want to prevent them from using it. Instead, I want to teach my kids how to be safe online so they can enjoy its benefits without exposing themselves to danger.
Have you had the talk with your kids about "stranger danger"? If so, you know how tricky it is to navigate conversations about their safety without scaring them too much. We want them to take our safety advice seriously, but without making them afraid to engage with the rest of the world.
Consider introducing the topic of online safety with activities that are lighthearted and non-threatening. For example, the movie Ralph Breaks the Internet covers topics like online auctions, viral videos, the dark web, and computer viruses.
Of course, these topics are just backdrops to the plot, but the movie is a great way to introduce your child to the terms. You can talk to your child later about some of the terms and how they apply in the real world.
Download the Ralph Breaks the Internet Activity Book if you want an opportunity to talk about the movie after you've seen it. You can chat about the movie while your child works on the activities (or as you work on them together).
I'm also a big fan of the Interland game on the Be Internet Awesome website. I wrote all about it in my post Teach Your Child to be an Upstander if you want more details.
Essentially, Interland is a series of games that teach kids important skills and concepts that will help them online. The games enforce behaviors that not only keep our kids safe online but also make the internet a better place overall.
In addition to the Interland game, you'll also find a very helpful Family Guide on the Be Internet Awesome site that you can download and/or print. It's full of tools and resources that will help you cover online safety and citizenship as a family.
For each category above, the guide includes goals, background information and tips for talking and learning, vocabulary and family activities.
The Family Guide also has a section titled "Family Link Guide for Families" to help you set digital ground rules for your family.
If you want to start with something easier, look for the Internet Awesome Tips on the Be Internet Awesome site. There's one page for each of the 5 pillars of the Internet Code of Awesome with tips to help you practice each principle.
Ready to take action? Come Together for a Better Internet with your family by using Be Internet Awesome starting with the program's NEW Family Guide and then encourage your kids to put their skills to the test with Interland at g.co/Interland.
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The Congo Free State was a large area in Central Africa which was privately controlled by Leopold II, King of the Belgians. Its origins lay in Leopold's attracting scientific, and humanitarian backing for a non-governmental organization, the Association internationale africaine. Using first the multi-national AIA, then the "Committee for Studies of the Upper Congo" (Faranse: Comité d'études du Haut-Congo), and finally the International Association of the Congo (Faranse: Association internationale du Congo), Leopold secured control of most of the Congo basin. Unlike the multinational AIA, the AIC was Leopold's personal vehicle. As the sole shareholder and chairman, he increasingly used it to gather and sell ivory, rubber, and minerals in the upper Congo basin (though it had been set up on the understanding that its purpose was to uplift the local people and develop the area). He gave the AIC the name Congo Free State in 1885. The state included the entire area of the present Democratic Republic of the Congo and existed from 1885 to 1908. The Congo Free State eventually earned infamy due to the increasingly brutal mistreatment of the local peoples and plunder of natural resources, leading to its abolition and annexation by the government of Belgium in 1908.
Under Leopold II's administration, the Congo Free State became one of the greatest international scandals of the early twentieth century. The report of the British Consul Roger Casement led to the arrest and punishment of white officials who had been responsible for killings during a rubber-collecting expedition in 1903 (including one Belgian national for causing the shooting of at least 122 Congolese people).
The loss of life and atrocities inspired literature such as Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and raised outcries, even from such upholders of the colonial mission as Winston Churchill. One view is that the forced labour system directly and indirectly eliminated 20% of the population.
European and U.S. reformers exposed the conditions in the Congo Free State to the public through the Congo Reform Association. Also active in exposing the activities of the Congo Free State was the author Arthur Conan Doyle, whose book The Crime of the Congo was widely read in the early 1900s. By 1908, public pressure and diplomatic manoeuvres led to the end of Leopold II's rule and to the annexation of the Congo as a colony of Belgium, known as the Belgian Congo.


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Hypno Psychotherapy
Unlike the majority of comparable therapies, hypno psychotherapy measures its history not in years or decades but centuries. Therefore, if the provenance of a therapy is to be determined by its longevity, hypno psychotherapy has stood the test of time.
Throughout much of that history, the discipline has been hampered by the absence of a single theory to explain the medium through which it works – hypnosis. The usually acknowledged forerunner of modern hypno psychotherapy, Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815), believed in the existence of a universal fluid – animal magnetism – an imbalance of which in the human body caused illness. He, and others trained by him, sought to control the distribution of this fluid, restoring balance, and health, to those who sought his help. Mesmer was careful to confirm whether any given presenting problem were organic or functional, and worked with the latter, functional psychosomatic illnesses. (This same caution is observed by competent practitioners today.) Mesmer was convinced that a cure might only be achieved when a patient experienced a crisis, typified by convulsions and related phenomena. In 1784, a Royal Commission in France, where Mesmer was then resident, decided against the existence of magnetic fluid. The Commission attributed Mesmer's undoubted successes to his manipulation of a patient's imagination; that is, by suggestion.
In an age not familiar with the power of suggestion alone, outside of a religious context, the significance of the Commission's findings was overlooked. But if there were no universal fluid, with nothing physical being transmitted between Mesmerist and subject, related phenomena must be psychological in origin. The blind regained their sight, for instance, through the power of imagination and suggestion, rather than animal magnetism. Since Mesmer would not allow his theory to be displaced by such a concept, and the Commission discounted it, the emergence of modern psychology and hypno psychotherapy was postponed. Discredited by the findings of the Commission and other enquiries, and the bizarre nature in which he chose to conduct therapy sessions, Mesmer eventually returned to his native Austria.
These events, along with the convulsions of the French Revolution, Napoleonic and post-Napoleonic Europe, scattered Mesmer's followers throughout Europe and abroad. Attempts to carry forward Mesmer's medical applications met with considerable opposition. British doctors who advocated the use of Mesmerism, for instance, made little progress because of the attitude of the medical and scientific establishments. John Elliotson (1791-1868) was obliged to resign his post as Professor of Surgery at University College, London. James Braid (1795-1860), who substituted the word "Hypnotism" * for Mesmerism, was refused permission to read a paper on the subject to the British Association for the Advancement of Science. James Esdaile (1808-1859), who performed over 300 major surgical operations in India using hypnosis as the anaesthetic, was denied access to the medical press to publish his findings. (* From Hypnos, Ancient Greek god of sleep, since Braid thought a form of sleep was involved. The name persists, though the sleep theory has been discarded.)
The often legitimate suspicions aroused by the extravagant claims and behaviour of mesmerists and hypnotists – some of whom exploited, and exploit, related phenomena for "entertainment" – relegated the legitimate applications of hypnosis to the fringe of respectability. The advent of chemical anaesthetics and growth of the drugs industry impeded the study and use of hypnosis in medicine. In much the same way as chemical agents had served to displace hypnosis in the practice of medicine, so Freudian psychoanalysis tended to displace it in psychotherapy. Despite sporadic revivals of interest, such as after and during the First and Second World Wars when short term psychotherapy was needed, its present popularity is comparatively recent. Mesmer's student, de Puysegur (1751-1825), had quietly relegated the importance of the crisis in favour of the trance-like state typical of his therapeutic practice. Modern therapy, too, recognises the significance of the trance and, when we speak of somebody being "mesmerised", we do not suppose that person to be convulsed. Although emotion may be released – most particularly when the technique of hypno-analysis is used, based on the Freudian view that repressed material may be recovered from the unconscious mind – it is a sense of calm detachment, rather than crisis, which typifies the great majority of hypnotherapy sessions.
A typical modern hypno psychotherapy session, influenced by research and refinement in numerous countries since Mesmer's day, comprises induction, treatment strategy, and termination. In the induction, the therapist may, for example, speak slowly to the subject about the subject's becoming imaginatively involved in an experience of focussed awareness, whilst peripheral distractions fade – hence the subject may, with eyes closed, concentrate upon the progressive relaxation of his/her muscles to the exclusion of external events and stimuli. A good subject, well-motivated, optimistic about the therapy and confident in the therapist (criteria in which he/she may be educated in and out of hypnosis) is then ready to engage in any therapy intended to change inappropriate behaviour, thought or feeling. This means that virtually all, if not all, psychological techniques may be delivered via the medium of hypnosis. Because imaginative involvement, selective attention, and suspension of the critical process are all characteristic of the hypnotic state, hypno psychotherapy may often be the treatment of choice. The subject may move forward or backward in time, rehearse coping techniques, learn to correct types of thinking and feeling prejudicial to emotional well-being, and behaviour prejudicial to physical health, confront, but not exaggerate, life's problems whilst reappraising its potential, develop the ability to use self-hypnosis and perform "homework" tasks emphasising modern hypno psychotherapy's stress upon a subject's active involvement in the desired therapeutic outcome. At the termination, cues for subsequent positive thoughts, feelings or behaviour (post-hypnotic suggestions) may be introduced or re-iterated. Finally, the subject is gently returned from what has been described as an altered state of consciousness – the hypnotic state – to the everyday state of consciousness with its diffuse and distracting stimuli. Now discussion takes place (possibly an extension of dialogue whilst the subject was in hypnosis) and the hypnotic experience is examined in order to inform and enhance future therapy sessions i.e. the therapist defers to the source of expertise and control which lies not with the therapist, but with the subject.
Given a comfortable environment, a sympathetic and empathetic therapist who inspires confidence, and the subject's optimism about a realistic outcome, that outcome may be achieved. Because hypnosis is so fundamental, and universal, even if not recognised as such, it should not be withdrawn from the public domain, either in terms of training or availability as therapy. Rather, we should be aiming to widen such training and availability. Whilst hypnosis can stand alone as a form of therapy or form an adjunct to any other profession, it should become the property of no single profession.
Virtually any book on the subject deals with the numerous theories of hypnosis. Essentially, the debate centres upon whether or not hypnosis is a special state. "State" theorists might argue that the subject's appearance and subjective reports of the hypnotic experience alone would support their theory. "Non-state" theorists might argue that hypnotic behaviour is the result of motivation, attitude and expectancy resulting in the subject's willingness to follow the therapist's suggestions. Perhaps the outcome will be some sort of compromise: 'Hypnosis is an altered state of consciousness, the achievement of which is greatly influenced by factors such as the subject's motivation, attitude and expectancy promoting a willingness to follow the therapist's suggestions'.
Related Links: www.hypnotherapyuk.net
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Multimodal Approach
Neuro-Linguistic Psychotherapy
Personcentered Psychotherapy
Psycho-Organic Analysis
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Acorn TV offering up best of British television
Take your first look at Season 5 of 'Peaky Blinders'
Everything is about to go to hell in 'Narcos: Mexico' Season Two
The fangs come out in 'Dracula'
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You only get one chance to save the galaxy….twice. So says the brand new TV spot for James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2, which is amped up with a rocking beat and plenty of kick ass footage. Check it out below: Not only do we get to see some great new fooatge including Dave Bautista's Drax […]
The universe's biggest misfits are back for 'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2'
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2 is THE film we're looking forward to seeing in 2017, and after months of fans badgering him for a proper taste of the flick, director James Gunn has now unleashed the first full length teaser trailer. Here's the synopsis: Following their initial defeat of Ronan and their encounter with an Infinity Stone, […]
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Just when you thought the idea of Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt teaming up was as good as it gets, along comes Imagine Dragons and their new song "Levitate" to bring a bit of extra punch to Passengers' soundtrack. Check it out the clip below: Here's the official synopsis: Set in the future, Passengers follows the Starship Avalon on […]
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Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt are stepping out into the unknown in director Morten Tyldum's engaging science-fiction drama Passengers, and the new trailer highlights the all too real dangers of their cosmic journey. Here's the synopsis: Set in the future, Passengers follows the Starship Avalon on its 120-year journey to reach the distant colony planet […]
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A sign notifying customers of a closed terrace is shown at food court in Montreal, Wednesday, March 18, 2020, as COVID-19 cases rise in Canada and around the world. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes
Why the feds aren't closing the door on non-essential businesses
Some say a national message might still be more helpful, even if it leaves room for exception
Mar. 19, 2020 7:55 a.m.
While Canada's response to the COVID-19 outbreak has taken off drastically in the last week, some have found it lopsided across the country.
In Ontario and Alberta, dine-in restaurants and bars are closed by provincial decree, while Quebec and B.C. have shut down bars and ordered restaurants to limit the number of customers.
Other provinces have made no such order.
Even in a single city like Ottawa, there's variation between which businesses have stayed open and which have shuttered to the public.
Businesses need more federal direction to avoid confusion, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce said Wednesday.
"One of the things businesses are looking for is more coherence," said Perrin Beatty, president of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce.
Right now in Canada, the Public Health Agency of Canada and federal health minister provide advice to the provinces, but each province and territory is ultimately responsible for making its own decisions.
Beatty said the situation can be particularly vexing for companies that operate across jurisdictions.
"As rate of infection is growing, the same rules increasingly should apply across the board," he said.
READ MORE: B.C.'s top doctor orders bars, some restaurants to close over COVID-19
For some, without specific advice from the federal government, it can be a difficult financial proposition to voluntarily shut their doors, he said.
Federal authorities say that have been co-ordinating with provincial counterparts, but that local context is important.
"We very much recognize … that there are specific conditions in specific cities, specific provinces," said Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland.
"That's why we have public health officers also at the provincial and the city level."
The provinces' decisions about whether to close non-essential businesses comes down to the reality on the ground, including the number of cases of COVID-19 in the region and whether the area is seeing community transmission.
Chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam said it may also come down to a particular health system's ability to deal with an outbreak. A weaker health system may take a more cautious approach, for example, she said.
Beatty suggested a national message might still be more helpful, even if it leaves room for exceptions. At least then the information would be coming from one source, he explained.
He did complement the federal government though on its open lines of communication with the business community.
And to some extent, he said it will be up to businesses to do the right thing for their customers and employees.
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As the evening sky fades from orange and pink to deep blue, twinkly lights from the festively dressed noble fir illuminate the room. Spirited laughter and the jingle of cocktail glasses are heard above Bing Crosby's croon. Good cheer is served over ice. Warm smiles appear. Winter rose and pine-scented candles dance to White Christmas. Savory, sticky-sweet hoisin-glazed vegan meatballs soak into thick cocktail napkins as trays are passed and first bites are taken. Guests are filled with glee.
Putting the finishing touches on your holiday soiree should be simple, straightforward and delicious. ⏰ Ready in just 30 minutes, these fuss-free hoisin-glazed vegan meatballs ring all the holiday bells. They're made using a mixture of toasted walnuts, tempeh, garlic and scallions—then baked to golden perfection and brushed with a bbq-like hoisin-glaze. Perfect for grabbing with a party toothpick, dipping into extra hoisin glaze or devouring on the spot, these protein-packed "meatballs" are rich, tangy, sumptuous crowd-pleasers.
Topped with toasted sesame seeds and fresh scallions, hoisin-glazed vegan meatballs are the ultimate holiday party hors-d'oeuvres!
Pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Add all vegan meatball ingredients to a high-speed food processor. Pulse (do not grind) about 20-30 times until the vegan meatballs are coarsely mixed.
Wet your hands and use a 1/2 tbsp measuring spoon to scoop out vegan meatball mixture. Roll the scooped portion with your hands into a round "meatball." Place rolled vegan meatballs onto the parchment lined baking sheet (an inch or so apart) and bake for 15 minutes; flipping the meatballs half-way through (to avoid burning on one side and flattened meatballs).
As the meatballs are baking, make the hoisin glaze. Start by adding cornstarch to warm water in a small bowl. Stir to dissolve.
Add all remaining glaze ingredients to a saucepan or skillet. Bring to a low simmer over medium-low heat. Add the cornstarch/water mixture. Stir frequently and cook until the hoisin glaze becomes slightly thick (about 3-5 minutes). Set aside to cool.
Remove vegan meatballs from the oven and let cool ever so slightly. Brush the hoisin glaze onto the meatballs (or carefully roll the meatballs in the glaze).
Top with sesame seeds and scallions. Serve warm.
If you're a sauce lover, consider doubling the hoisin glaze recipe and serving on the side as a dipping sauce!
These look delicious, Shannon! I can't wait to try them!
Does serves 20 mean 20 meatballs?
Great question, Jeff! Yes, the recipe makes roughly 20 meatballs.
This looks so yummy and I just so happen to have all the ingredients on hand! I will be trying these out, hopefully, I can serve them as a nice appetizer for my Christmas feast!
Thank you oh-so-much, Johan! Discovering that a recipe calls for many of the ingredients I already have on hand always makes my day. 🙂 Wishing you a delicious feast!
Can these me made in advance and reheated?
Excellent question! These vegan meatballs are best served fresh. However, if you wish to make them a day or so in advance, simply skip making the glaze/glazing them until you're ready to enjoy!


http://zazensuite.com – Tour of Zazensuite Meditation and Mindfulness Timer for Android or iPhone. A short tour of what you can do with this meditation and mindfulness app.
How to change the meditation timer settings.
How to set the timer to go off at however many minutes you select. How you can also use 4 different kinds of bell sounds for the free version of the app.
How to set the timer to ring a bell at a certain time of the day that you select, like an alarm.
How to set the timer to go off every so many minutes, like a mindfulness bell.
How to set the meditation timer to go off randomly, like say 3 times per hour after a random amount of minutes go by.
EP 28 – Silent Illumination – What is the function of serenity and stillness?
In this episode I offer some thoughts on what it means to me to meditate and how it brings about a stillness and settling of mind. I also mention this imprint (Guidepost; Inscription) of Silent Illumination (Shikantaza or Just Sitting) which is recited in some Zen meditation practice centers.
Clear and vivid, it appears before you.
When one realizes, time has no limits.
When felt deeply, life becomes vibrant.
In shadows, it shines with a splendid light.
In this brightness all striving is forgotten.
Vision penetrating into radiance is weaving gold on a jade loom.
Yet the two mutually interact.
Killing and bringing to life is a choice to make.
At last, through the gate, one emerges.
Only this Illumination, the universal response.
And the response is without effort.
And each expounds the Dharma.
And accord in dialog responding in perfect harmony.
Then distinctions will be seen and harshness will arrive.
All will become wasteful and dull.
The thousand mountains face the highest peak.
It penetrates from the most subtle to the greatest.
The body, sunyata and the arms, mudra.
though expressed in 10,000 shapes and forms.
hits the mark straight and true.
without a wish for gain.
This is the practice called Silent Illumination.
I've never seen a 100% white or 100% black person. Have you?
I have however all my life seen so called "whites" clearly showing a multitude of colors on their skins.
Just as TV technology started out as black and white, and is now millions of colors and pixels in resolution, so do I think to a large extend our world views, went from two-dimensional (earth is flat, that person is white, or black) to 3-dimensional with many shades of colors.
There has been an increased interest in seeing reality more fully in higher and higher definition. The higher resolution, the better and clearer we can see things as they really are.
As I mentioned on Episode 25 when chatting with Charlie, it really helps to slow down in order to process that higher resolution of life.
If you're rushing from one thing to the next thing, it will prevent you from fully seeing what is right in front of you though! So does thinking or worrying about the past or the future. Or playing tapes and records about what should be or how good or bad we are.


The Mustang's blind spot mirrors use wide-angle convex mirrors mounted in the corner of each side view mirror to reveal objects that may be in the driver's blind spots. The Corvette doesn't offer a system to reveal objects in the driver's blind spots.
Both the Mustang and the Corvette have standard driver and passenger frontal airbags, front side-impact airbags, side-impact head airbags, front seatbelt pretensioners, plastic fuel tanks, traction control and electronic stability systems to prevent skidding.
The Mustang's corrosion warranty is unlimited miles longer than the Corvette's (unlimited vs. 100,000 miles).
For smoother operation, better efficiency and fewer moving parts, the engines in the Mustang have an overhead cam design, rather than the old pushrod design of the engines in the Corvette.
J.D. Power and Associates rated the Mustang first among midsize sporty cars in their 2013 Initial Quality Study. The Corvette isn't in the top three in its category.
For better traction, the Mustang's optional tires are larger than the largest tires available on the Corvette (255/40R19 vs. 245/40R18).
The Mustang V8 has a standard space-saver spare tire so you can replace a flat tire and drive to have the flat repaired or replaced. A spare tire isn't available on the Corvette, it requires you to depend on its run-flat tires, which limits mileage and speed before they are repaired. If a run-flat is damaged beyond repair by a road hazard your vehicle will have to be towed.
The front and rear suspension of the Mustang uses coil springs for better ride, handling and control than the Corvette, which uses transverse leafs springs. Coil springs compress more progressively and offer more suspension travel for a smoother ride with less bottoming out.
The Mustang's drift compensation steering can automatically compensate for road conditions which would cause the vehicle to drift from side to side, helping the driver to keep the vehicle straight more easily. The Corvette doesn't offer drift compensation steering.
For better handling and stability, the track (width between the wheels) on the Mustang is 1.2 inches wider in the rear than on the Corvette.
For better maneuverability, the Mustang's turning circle is 4.3 feet tighter than the Corvette's (33.4 feet vs. 37.7 feet).
The Mustang has standard seating for 4 passengers; the Corvette can only carry 2.
The Mustang Coupe has 31.3 cubic feet more passenger volume than the Corvette Coupe (83.3 vs. 52). The Mustang Convertible has 29 cubic feet more passenger volume than the Corvette Convertible (81 vs. 52).
The Mustang Coupe has .6 inches more front headroom and .1 inches more front shoulder room than the Corvette Coupe.
The Mustang Convertible has .9 inches more front headroom and .1 inches more front shoulder room than the Corvette Convertible.
In case you lock your keys in your vehicle, or don't have them with you, you can let yourself in using the Mustang's available exterior keypad. The Corvette doesn't offer an exterior keypad entry system, and its OnStar ® can't unlock the doors if the vehicle doesn't have cell phone reception or the driver can't contact the service.
The Mustang's power mirror controls are mounted on the door for easy access. The Corvette's power mirror controls are on the dash, hidden behind the steering wheel, where they are awkward to manipulate.
Insurance will cost less for the Mustang owner. The Complete Car Cost Guide estimates that insurance for the Mustang will cost $355 to $3755 less than the Corvette over a five-year period.
The Ford Mustang outsold the Chevrolet Corvette by over four to one during 2013.


The half day Staff Disability Equality Conference at LSE on 28 November 2013 will feature a performance, 'I Could be Anyone', by a group of actors from the University of Malta. The actors will be performing at several universities in the UK and their performance starkly brings out the frustrations and realities of the experience of dyslexia. The performance will be followed by a discussion and aims to raise awareness and sensitivity about experiences of dyslexia in the academia.
If you'd like to attend the Staff Disability Equality Conference on 28 November, please register on http://lsestaffdisabilityequality.eventbrite.co.uk/.
October is Black History Month in the UK – to celebrate, LSE has a range of programmes and resources on offer, including a film screening and a conference in addition to mentoring programmes and our BME staff network. Details in the post below.
Would you like to learn how to communicate and work effectively with deaf and hard-of-hearing colleagues and students? Open to LSE staff and PGR students, this workshop will provide practical information and specialist advice from trainers and help you experience 'Deafness' first hand. For more details, please read the post.
The 'Balancing Work and Being Dad' workshop offers practical tools and advice on balancing work and family as well as an opportunity to meet other fathers from across the School. If you are a dad or dad-to-be, book your place on the workshop today.
If you are interested in attending a lunchtime workshop (lunch provided) on 'Residential life and inclusivity' on 20 May (Monday), please book your place soon. For details, read the full post.
Are you a member of an equality and diversity network at LSE or interested in joining one? Do you want to find out more about other networks and how you could work together? Or you may be leading a network and interested in exploring what support the School can offer you. If so, come along to the lunchtime session on 29 April – 'Belonging – the role of equality and diversity networks at LSE'.


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Biografia
Riri Riza ha studiato e si è diplomato nel 1993 al Jakarta Arts Institute. Il suo primo  progetto film è stato Sonata Kampung Bata (Sonata of the Brick Village), con il quale si è classificato al terzo posto al Oberhausen short film festival di Oberhausen nel 1994.

Grazie alla collaborazione con la produttrice Mira Lesmana, ha intrapreso anche la carriera di produttore cinematografico. Con il film Ada Apa dengan Cinta? (What's Up With Love?) diretto da Rudy Soedjarwo ebbe un grande successo, tanto che due milioni di persone lo videro nei cinema indonesiani.

Riza ha studiato anche sceneggiatura in Inghilterra.

Filmografia

Regista
Petualangan Sherina (2000)
Eliana, Eliana (2002)
Gie (2005)
Untuk Rena (2005)
3 hari untuk selamanya (2007)
Laskar pelangi (2008)
Takut: Faces of Fear (2008) - il segmento "Incarnation of Naya"
Drupadi (2008)
Sang pemimpi (2009)
Paranoia (2021)

Sceneggiatore
Eliana, Eliana (2002)
Gie (2005)
Laskar pelangi (2008)
Sang pemimpi (2009)

Produttore
Ada apa dengan cinta? (2002)
Eliana, Eliana (2002)
Rumah ketujuh (2003)
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Fortis College-Centerville
Baccalaureate/Associates Colleges
100% Full-Time
Fortis College-Centerville is a higher education institution located in Montgomery County, OH. In 2016, the most popular Bachelor's Degree concentrations at Fortis College-Centerville were Registered Nursing (2 degrees awarded).
In 2016, 378 degrees were awarded across all undergraduate and graduate programs at Fortis College-Centerville. 81.7% of these degrees were awarded to women, and 18.3% awarded men. The majority of degree recipients were white (168 degrees), 1.25 times more than then the next closest race/ethnicity group, unknown (134 degrees).
The median undergraduate tuition at Fortis College-Centerville is $17,862, which is $5,062 more than the national average for Baccalaureate/Associates Colleges ($12,800).
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In 2016, the cost of tuition at Fortis College-Centerville was $17,862. The cost of tuition at Fortis College-Centerville is $5,062 more than than the overall (public and private) national average for Baccalaureate/Associates Colleges ($12,800).
This chart compares the tuition costs of Fortis College-Centerville (in red) with those of other similar universities.
In 2016 Fortis College-Centerville had an average net price — the price paid after factoring in grants and loans — of $26,821. Between 2015 and 2016, the average net price of Fortis College-Centerville grew by 2.74%.
This chart compares the average net price of Fortis College-Centerville (in red) with that of other similar universities.
The average yearly cost of room and board at Fortis College-Centerville was of $9,396 in 2016. During the same period, the average yearly cost of books and supplies was $1,258. The cost of room and board decreased by 1.04% between 2015 and 2016. The cost of books and supplies decreased by 2.86% during the same period.
This chart compares the average student costs at Fortis College-Centerville (in red) with that of similar universities.
85% of undergraduate students at Fortis College-Centerville received grants or loans in 2016. This represents a decline of 3.41% with respect to 2015, when 88% of undergraduate students received financial aid.
This chart compares the average award discount at Fortis College-Centerville (in red) with that of other similar universities.
In 2015 the default rate for borrower's at Fortis College-Centerville was 15%, which represents 347 out of the 2310 total borrowers.
Fortis College-Centerville received N/A undergraduate applications in N/A, which represents a 0% annual growth. Out of those N/A applicants, N/A students were accepted for enrollment, representing a N/A% acceptance rate.
There were 861 students enrolled at Fortis College-Centerville in 2016, and N/A% of first-time enrollees submitted SAT scores with their applications.
Fortis College-Centerville has an overall enrollment yield of N/A%, which represents the number of admitted students who ended up enrolling.
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This chart compares the acceptance rate of Fortis College-Centerville (in red) with that of other similar universities.
N/A% of enrolled first-time students at Fortis College-Centerville in N/A submitted SAT scores with their applications.
Fortis College-Centerville has a total enrollment of 861 students. The full-time enrollment at Fortis College-Centerville is 861 students and the part-time enrollment is 0. This means that 100% of students enrolled at Fortis College-Centerville are enrolled full-time.
The enrolled student population at Fortis College-Centerville, both undergraduate and graduate, is 30.4% White, 15.1% Black or African American, 0.813% Hispanic or Latino, 0.232% Asian, 0.232% Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders, 0.232% Two or More Races, and 0.232% American Indian or Alaska Native.
Students enrolled at Fortis College-Centerville in full-time Undergraduate programs are majority White Female (24.5%), followed by Black or African American Female (12.4%) and White Male (5.92%). Students enrolled in full-time Graduate programs are majority N/A, followed by N/A and N/A.
The total enrollment at Fortis College-Centerville, both undergraduate and graduate, is 861 students. The full-time enrollment at Fortis College-Centerville is 861 and the part-time enrollment is 0. This means that 100% of students enrolled at Fortis College-Centerville are enrolled full-time compared with 44.9% at similar Baccalaureate/Associates Colleges.
This chart shows the full-time vs part-time enrollment status at Fortis College-Centerville (in red) compares to similar universities.
Retention rate measures the number of first-time students who began their studies the previous fall and returned to school the following fall. The retention rate for full-time undergraduates at Fortis College-Centerville was 55%. Compared with the full-time retention rate at similar Baccalaureate/Associates Colleges (63%), Fortis College-Centerville had a retention rate lower than its peers.
This chart shows the retention rate over time at Fortis College-Centerville (highlighted in red) compares to similar universities.
The enrolled student population at Fortis College-Centerville is 30.4% White, 15.1% Black or African American, 0.813% Hispanic or Latino, 0.232% Asian, 0.232% Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders, 0.232% Two or More Races, and 0.232% American Indian or Alaska Native. This includes both full-time and part-time students as well as graduate and undergraduates. By comparison, enrollment for all Baccalaureate/Associates Colleges is 47.2% White, 23.1% Hispanic or Latino, and 14.6% Black or African American.
Any student who is studying in the United States on a temporary basis is categorized as a "Non-Resident Alien", and the share of those students are shown in the chart below. Additionally, 453 students (52.6%) did not report their race.
In 2016, 240 more women than men received degrees from Fortis College-Centerville. The majority of degree recipients at Fortis College-Centerville are white (168 degrees awarded). There were 1.25 times more white graduates than the next closest race/ethnicity group, unknown (134 degrees).
The most common Bachelor's Degree concentration at Fortis College-Centerville is Registered Nursing (2 degrees awarded), followed by N/A and N/A.
The most specialized majors across all degree types at Fortis College-Centerville, meaning they have significantly more degrees awarded in that concentration than the national average across all institutions, are Health (185 degrees awarded), Business (150 degrees), and Mechanical Technologies (19 degrees).
The most common jobs for people who hold a degree in one of the 5 most specialized majors at Fortis College-Centerville are Registered nurses (1,301,226 people), Accountants & auditors (1,081,987 people), Miscellaneous managers (757,669 people), Financial managers (422,567 people), and Chief executives & legislators (318,984 people).
The most specialized majors at Fortis College-Centerville are Health (185 degrees awarded), Business (150 degrees), Mechanical Technologies (19 degrees), Legal (9 degrees), and Protective Services (10 degrees).
The highest paying jobs for people who hold a degree in one of the 5 most specialized majors at Fortis College-Centerville are Physicians & surgeons, Sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing, Firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers, Chief executives & legislators, and Dentists
The most common industries for people who hold a degree in one of the 5 most specialized majors at Fortis College-Centerville are Hospitals (1,695,869 people), Elementary & secondary schools (628,733 people), Insurance carriers & related activities (597,764 people), Banking & related activities (481,126 people), and Justice, public order, & safety activities (476,691 people).
IPEDS uses the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) standard, so the categories may not match the exact concentrations offered by Fortis College-Centerville.
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In N/A, the most common bachelors degree concentration at Fortis College-Centerville was Registered Nursing with 2 degrees awarded.
This visualization illustrates the percentage of degree recipients from bachelors degree programs at Fortis College-Centerville according to their major.
In 2016, 69 degrees were awarded to men at Fortis College-Centerville, which is 0.223 times less than the number of degrees awarded to females (309).
This chart displays the gender disparity between the top 5 majors at Fortis College-Centerville by degrees awarded.
In N/A, 20 degrees were awarded to men at Fortis College-Centerville in Office Management & Supervision, which is 0.278 times less than the 72 female recipients with that same degree.
In N/A, 94 degrees were awarded to women at Fortis College-Centerville in Registered Nursing, which is 8.55 times more than the 11 male recipients with that same degree.
In 2016, 16% of students graduating from Fortis College-Centerville completed their program within 100% "normal time" (i.e. 4 years for a 4-year degree). Comparatively, 28% completed their degrees within 150% of the normal time, and 28% within 200%.
The following chart shows these completion rates over time compared to the average for the Baccalaureate/Associates Colleges Carnegie Classification group.
Hispanic or Latino Male
Highest Graduation Rate (100%)
The student demographic with the highest graduation rate at Fortis College-Centerville is Male and Hispanic or Latino (100% graduation rate). Across all Baccalaureate/Associates Colleges, Asian Female students have the highest graduation rate (67.2%).
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) categorizes any student who is studying in the United States on a temporary basis as a "Non-Resident Alien", and the graduation rate of those students is shown in the chart below. Additionally, 65.6% of graduates (80 students) did not report their race.
The most common race/ethnicity at Fortis College-Centerville is white (168 degrees awarded). There were 1.25 times more white recipients than the next closest race/ethnicity group, unknown (134 degrees).
35.4% of degree recipients (134 students) did not report their race.
The most common race/ethnicity and gender grouping at Fortis College-Centerville is white female (139 degrees awarded). There were 2.53 times more white female recipients than the next closest race/ethnicity group, black or african american female (55 degrees).
Fortis College-Centerville has an endowment valued at nearly $N/A, as of the end of the 2015 fiscal year. The return on its endowment was of $16.9k (N/A%), compared to the 0.934% average return ($83.5k on $8.94M) across all Baccalaureate/Associates Colleges.
In 2015, Fortis College-Centerville had a total expenditure of $22.7M. Of that $22.7M, they spent $8.6M on salaries and $22.7M on benefits.
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The most common positions for non-instructional staff at Fortis College-Centerville are: Librarians, Curators, Archivists, and Academic Affairs and Other Education Services, with 27 employees, Sales and related, with 23 employees, and Management with 21 employees.
Fortis College-Centerville has an endowment valued at about $N/A, as of the end of the 2015 fiscal year. The endowment of Fortis College-Centerville stayed 0% from the previous year. The value of their endowment was $N/A approximately the same as than the median endowment of Baccalaureate/Associates Colleges according to the Carnegie Classification grouping.
This line chart shows how the endowment at Fortis College-Centerville (in red) compares to that of some similar universities.
The small bar chart below shows the endowment quintiles for all universities in the Baccalaureate/Associates Colleges: Associates Dominant Carnegie Classification grouping.
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As of 2015, Fortis College-Centerville received $0 in grants and contracts from the federal government, $0 from state grants and contracts, and $0 from local grants and contracts.
The bar chart shows the share of the primary expenses at Fortis College-Centerville over time, and the line chart shows the expenditure for solely salaries and benefits over time compared to the median for the Baccalaureate/Associates Colleges Carnegie Classification grouping.
This tree map shows all of the primary expenses of Research at Fortis College-Centerville as a share of total expenditure.
In 2015, Fortis College-Centerville paid a median of $8.6M in salaries, which represents 37.8% of their overall expenditure ($22.7M) and a 36.9% decline from the previous year. This is compared to a 0% growth from 2013 and a 0% growth from 2012.
The median for similar Baccalaureate/Associates Colleges is 3.29M (34.3% of overall expenditures).
In 2015, Fortis College-Centerville paid a total of $1.24M to 18 employees working as instructors, which represents 14.4% of all salaries paid.
This is compared to a median of $672k (20.4%) for similar Baccalaureate/Associates Colleges.
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In N/A, the most common positions for non-instructional staff at Fortis College-Centerville were Librarians, Curators, Archivists, and Academic Affairs and Other Education Services with 27 employees; Sales and related with 23 employees; and Management with 21 employees.
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This chart shows the gender split between each academic rank present at Fortis College-Centerville.
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Date(s): Sep 1st 2016 to Jun 30th 2017
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May 25, 2017, at 5:30 pm
As part of the New Media Creation Grant for Young Artists, Frossard will develop a new installation that combines video and animation. The work will explore the dynamics of control and influence between individuals: the impact others have on us and that we have on them.
On a screen, a character bearing a neutral expression will face the viewer. The viewer's presence will gradually affect the character's mood, whose expressions will change while being inundated with all kinds of abstract and graphic shapes. Frossard will combine video clips, drawn animations, and sound to represent the character's moods in this video animation.
The work of multidisciplinary artist Martine Frossard is centred on illustration, animation, and interactive installation. She explores the quest for identity and the way in which individuality gets fragmented and reinvented across time and experience. Going beyond illustration, she uses video animation as a medium to animate the metamorphoses of her characters' identities. At the same time, she creates participatory installations in which viewers are invited to undertake their own identity quests.
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Netflix Reportedly Happy With 'The Witcher,' May Order Multiple Seasons Already
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News and opinion about video games, television, movies and the internet.
Netflix may be making progress with its quest to find its own Game of Thrones. According to DC insider KC Walsh, Netflix is "very happy" with its upcoming live-action adaptation of The Witcher, and may be considering greenlighting multiple seasons of it before it even airs season 1 in 2019. The DC angle here is that it means Man of Steel star Henry Cavill may be tied up even longer, so his return to playing Superman in the DCEU may be very delayed, if it ever happens again at all.
The Netflix show is adapting the original books, featuring a younger, beardless Geralt that was shown off in a bit of promotional material that had everyone comparing Cavill's portrayal unfavorably to Legolas. Before that, the show was mired in controversy as the showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissirch was constantly confronted by fans demanding perfect faithfulness to the books, the games or both, and for a while there was a rumor that Ciri would be played by a non-white actress, which caused further anger among a similar crowd (Ciri was ultimate cast as white).
But all these various dust-ups have nothing at all to do with the quality of the show, and if Netflix is already expressing confidence in what they're seeing this early, that's certainly good to hear. The video game industry has been searching for a truly great movie adaptation endlessly, so perhaps it will be a TV show that finally breaks through (yes, yes, it's adapting the books, not the games, but it still counts).
It does seem like The Witcher has a lot of potential to be a solid fantasy series given how much the series is already beloved, and what a great character Geralt is in particular. Cavill always felt like a bit of an odd choice for the role, but he's reportedly a big fan, so I'm sure he'll be bringing his all to the portrayal.
I'm curious about the budget of this. Rival Game of Thrones is one of the most expensive pieces of media ever made, and The Witcher shares its fantasy setting and will need a large budget for either practical or digital creature effects, with all the monsters Geralt will need to be hunting. But I suppose we don't know huge-scale battles in the show like Thrones, but I really am dying to see a trailer at the very least. I'm not going to fully judge the show based on a single screen test and a bad wig.
We still have no actual premiere date for The Witcher, which should be out some time in 2019. If the rumors are true, this could end up being a Netflix staple for several years to follow, and I'm really looking forward to seeing what they've come up with here.
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Every day, countless children attend school and are ruthlessly harassed. Untold others bring weapons to school, threatening to harm their peers. Still other innumerable youth attempt suicide. And sometimes, disregarded threats become terrifying reality.
We'll never have precise statistics to assign to these unsettling truths. Even more sobering are the questions we ask after tragedy strikes: Could it have been prevented? In times of grief, it becomes easy to assign blame. Yet the root of the problem is much simpler than a flawed system or a lack of oversight: the problem is silence. The majority of violent offenses committed in schools—as well as knowledge of violence to come—goes unreported.
Studies examining patterns of school violence reveal that an offender's peers are often aware of an incident before it occurs. They overhear a student's threat, or learn the time and place an attack will occur. Yet embarrassment, reluctance to betray friends' trust—or fear of being targeted themselves—means that this knowledge is seldom reported. Police, teachers, and other authorities lack crucial, potentially life-saving information until it's too late.
Schools must help students break their silence. But how can students be encouraged to speak up—and still assured of their safety? One measure is to give a school community access to a free, confidential hotline. Callers' identities are protected, and administrators can take immediate action in response to tips.
One such service is the Safe School Helpline, provided to schools nationwide by Security Voice, Inc. Students, parents, staff, and community members can call regarding any threat to student safety, from weapon possession to sexual harassment, vandalism to drug use and cyber bullying. Security Voice also provides a live, 24-7 suicide helpline, which students can use to speak with trained, certified counselors to get the support they need.
The Safe School Helpline serves more than 6,000 schools, representing more than 1 million students across 15 states. It has recently added Internet and text reporting capabilities, and can translate tips provided in any language.
Of course, a system is only as good as those who use it. That's why One Call Now is offering Security Voice's Safe School Helpline access to all of our clients for less than $1 per student or employee each year. In doing so, we hope to help break the cycle of silence, not just in our schools, but also in churches, businesses, and other facilities across the country.
We can't wipe out violence completely—and we can't predict the future. But when the unthinkable happens, this is a tool communities won't want to be without. When people have confidence to speak freely, we're all safer for it.


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Keywords: Adverse patient outcomes, closed claims research, hypoventilation, respiratory complications, standard of care.
Anesthetic Management of a Patient With Type 1 von Willebrand Disease and Uterine Placental Abruption: A Case Report Von Willebrand disease is the most common inherited blood disorder, occurring in about 1% of the population. This article examines the anesthetic management of a parturient with a known diagnosis of von Willebrand disease who presented to the labor and delivery unit in active labor and with a suspected uterine placental abruption.
Keywords: Abruption, anesthesia, placenta, uterus, Von Willebrand.
Reexamining Metoclopramide's Role in the Prevention of Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting: A Secondary Analysis Postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) continue to be among the most undesirable and distressing complications following general anesthesia, affecting up to 70% of patients with multiple known risk factors. This study reexamines the effectiveness of metoclopramide in the prevention of PONV when stratified by PONV risk scores.
Keywords: Metoclopramide, nausea and vomiting, postoperative, prophylaxis, risk.
Subanesthetic-Dose Ketamine to Decrease Emergence Delirium in the Surgical Patient With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Recently, emergence delirium (ED) has been associated with patients with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Currently, no research exists to support best practice in this population. Identification of the pathophysiologic alterations that occur in ED and PTSD can guide pharmacotherapy. Emerging evidence suggests that glutaminergic dysfunction plays a role in ED and PTSD.
Keywords: Emergence delirium, glutamate, ketamine, NMDA antagonist, posttraumatic stress disorder.
Investigation of the Anxiolytic and Antidepressant Effects of Crocin, a Compound from Saffron (Crocus sativus L), in the Male Sprague-Dawley Rat Finding alternative treatments to reduce the personal and financial burden for patients with anxiety and depression, while maintaining patient safety, is vital. The purposes of this study were to determine if crocin produces anxiolytic and/or antidepressant effects using rat models for anxiety and behavioral despair and to determine the effects of crocin at the benzodiazepine site on the γ-aminobutyric acid type A receptor.
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Maternal and Fetal Outcomes With Early Neuraxial Engagement in Obese Parturients Research indicates the combination of obesity and pregnancy is correlated with increased morbidity, mortality, and healthcare costs. The clinical inquiry of this study was: Does early neuraxial placement in obese parturients decrease the rate of cesarean delivery, decrease use of general anesthesia, and improve fetal Apgar scores?
Keywords: Anesthesia, neuraxial, obesity, parturient.
AANA Journal Course: Update for Nurse Anesthetists—Herbal Medications and Anesthesia Case Management Herbal medicine use in the United States has increased substantially. Despite this upward trend, patients often fail to disclose use of these medicines to their healthcare provider. Because herbal medicines have the potential to adversely react with medications used in the perioperative period, anesthesia providers should be aware of the purported uses of common herbal supplements, potential drug interactions with these medicines or possible contaminants, and the anesthetic implications for patients who use these medicines.
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