Kidding... but no, not doing anything. I forget about it actually... which is kinda sad. Gets lost in the hustle & bustle of Christmas, which I'm now feeling guilty about.
For the most part, I hate quiet. I just had this conversation with someone this week. I hate total quiet. I have to have music or a TV on at all times... white noise. I think better with distraction. Call me the opposite of ADD.
.... its probably why I talk a lot too... my voice is a good substitute for white noise.
4. When you are administratively gifted, how often do you find yourself not trusting less gifted people to do what they've committed to do? If you are not so gifted that way, but are reliable, how do you feel when the stronger person (in that area) goes ahead and covers it before giving you a chance to come through?
I hate all the wrapping. It kills my back. There just isn't a good place to wrap. The kitchen table is too low. The bar is too high (though that's where I end up making wrapping central) - the floor is out of the question.
I was all about the Royal baby for sure. Any time there is a picture of Will or Kate on TV, I'm "sssshhh-ing" everyone around.
My treadmill... when my last one broke, I was in a panic. I mean, sweating until the next morning where we could get to the local Fitness Store to get a new one. And then I had to wait 2 weeks before it was delivered. I felt like my arm was cut off.
Winter & dark nights early... with hilly country roads with no street lights or side walks? A treadmill is a definite necessity.
I used to get them all the time as a teenager... can't remember the last one I've had as an adult. This morning? I remembered the feeling. Putting on my makeup this morning felt like torture. Tonight, I'm going to be sitting with a hot rag on my eye all night.
Oh wow-I used to get stys on a regular basis. Really bad ones too, I remember my eye being swollen shut. I'd soak them in the absolute hottest compress I could stand. Haven't had one in years, but I hope yours doesn't actually materialize. Ugh!
I love wrapping gifts, but it does kill my poor back! Yep...not as young and as limber as I used to be!
I haven't had one in years either. Hope it heals quickly for you.
I'm not much for wrapping either. I'm going to try to get the girls' gifts wrapped and then maybe I can talk them into wrapping the rest. Worth a try anyway.
#4…as I was reading it I was like "huh" and then your comment made me laugh (and feel relieved I wasn't the only one!)!
#8…random thought…funny, just recently I noticed my son had a stye on his eye. I still have my southern accent and my OH kids have taken on the more northern one, so when I told him "you have a stye on your eye"…he freaked out and said "what's a stiiii, what's a stiiii"…maybe you had to be there, but it was really funny! Hope it feels better soon…those can be painful! PS…put some Johnson's baby shampoo on it…seriously…it works!


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Magic Millions Racing Women Ignites Global Surge in Female Participation
Nov 29, 2018 | Articles, Magic Millions, Magic Millions Racing Women
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In just seven years, Magic Millions Racing Women (MMRW) has inspired thousands of women around the world to become actively involved in thoroughbred horse racing and has injected millions of dollars into the industry.
Nearly 1000 horses have been registered over seven years for the $500,000 Bonus on offer for all-female owned or leased horses in the $2 million 2YO Classic, now conducted on The Star Gold Coast Magic Millions Raceday, with more than $22 million invested alone in the purchase of horses targeting the Bonus for this coming January at Magic Millions Yearling Sales during 2018.
Introduced in 2012 as a way to encourage greater participation, recognition and development of women in the thoroughbred horse racing industry, Magic Millions co-owner Katie Page says the initiative has exceeded all possible expectations.
"Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine the Magic Millions Racing Women effect," Page said.
"It seems the lure of a $500,000 Bonus was just the trigger many women needed to step into active ownership. We knew the expertise and passion was always equal to men. You only have to go to the Magic Millions January Sales to see how well represented women are behind the scenes.
"Zara Phillips MBE signed on as MMRW Patron almost from the start, she had witnessed first-hand the inexplicable thrill that only comes from watching your horse finish first past the post. She was a big part of taking the MMRW message to the UK and Europe.
"We're particularly delighted to see the way word has spread and the impact Magic Millions Racing Women is having on the international racing scene. One of the most successful syndicates, 'It's All About the Girls', brings together 40 women from eight different countries. This means that these women now have connections to stud farms and trainers around the world and that they are at the cutting edge of developments in world racing.
"In the UAE, Phoenix Thoroughbreds has created the first female-only syndicate and Japan now has 'Umajo' – areas exclusively for female customers at racetracks.
"The Bonus was established in response to the women we knew were already horse-lovers, but what has caught us all by surprise is the growth in participation amongst women with no previous connection to the thoroughbred industry. Now they're catching up on a regular basis, making decisions about trainers, race schedules, designing colours and enjoying the thrill and fun of a day at the track.
"I think if you examined the data in each of the major markets, thoroughbred racing would come close to the fastest growing female participation sport in the world – granted it was coming off a low base."
Irishwoman Elaine 'Legs' Lawlor, who runs the Australian investments in 'It's All About the Girls' and is a Board Member of Ireland's Goffs Bloodstock, is one of the most influential women on the world racing scene and says MMRW was just what the industry needed.
"Women are brilliant when they get together. They make things happen," Lawlor said.
"For so long, women watched their husbands who were involved in the business, but weren't involved themselves. Those times are changing. When they've invested in their own horse, they bring so much energy, they have so much fun and the friendships we've all formed are just fantastic.
"Magic Millions Racing Women is the only incentive anywhere in the world specifically encouraging women to get involved and it has sparked something special in our industry.
"It's also highlighting the benefits of syndication which isn't very big in Europe just yet. Syndication gives more people more access to a horse without costing the world, it opens the industry up and gets more people involved."
Queensland racing identity Linda Huddy is keen to one day claim the MMRW Bonus and joined Katie Page at the official launch of the 2019 The Star Gold Coast Magic Millions Carnival.
"Magic Millions Racing Women is changing perceptions and changing the industry," Ms Huddy said.
"This isn't a man's world, women are very welcome. I'm noticing the changes in racebooks where there are more women listed as owners, on Racing Australia and at the track where more women are dressing up, enjoying a glass of champagne and cheering on their horses."
Fast Facts about Magic Millions Racing Women
This unique incentive has led to:
Increased female ownership: 998 2YO thoroughbreds being registered as solely owned (or leased) by women over the seven years the initiative has been in operation. Many of these contain first time owners – nearly 50% of the 170 registrations for the 2019 MMRW Bonus contain first time owners.
Increased sales: $22.6 million worth of yearlings purchased for the Racing Women's Bonus during the 2018 Magic Millions Yearling Sales Series. Investment that invigorates the breeding and syndication of yearlings.
Women competing: A total of 30 MMRW eligible 2YOs have competed in the $2 million 2YO Classic, since the 2YO race was first run with the MMRW Bonus on offer in 2013.
Women winning: MMRW syndicates have won three of the six $2 million 2YO Classics since inception of the Bonus – Real Surreal (2013), Le Chef (2015) and Sunlight (2018). Each win in turn creating the largest prizemoney payouts in Queensland racing history.
More jobs: 70 trainers from across ACT, NSW, QLD, SA, VIC and New Zealand have picked up extra work training MMRW horses.
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Karine Jean Pierre, a MSNBC contributor and spokeswoman for MoveOn.org, moderates a June 24 discussion on health care reform at Greater Mt. Nebo AME Church in Bowie, Maryland. (William J. Ford/The Washington Informer)
A health care forum Saturday in Bowie, Maryland, also became a rally to encourage relatives, friends and others nationwide to fight for the Affordable Care Act.
The discussion at Greater Mt. Nebo AME Church, led by Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland), was spurred by the June 22 unveiling of the GOP Senate's proposal to repeal and replace the ACA, also known as Obamacare.
The GOP proposal includes deep cuts to Medicaid, the repeal of most of the tax increases promised by the ACA, and the authorization for states to opt out of currently mandated insurance requirements.
Van Hollen said the Senate bill, similar to one passed by the House last month, also provides tax cuts to affluent Americans. He also stressed to the several hundred people in attendance that out of the 52 Republican senators on Capitol Hill, only three need to reject the GOP bill, which Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell sought to bring to the floor this week for a vote before deciding to delay it.
"These health care proposals are very bad for America. They are really about wealth-care," Van Hollen said. "In the coming days, [tell] anybody you know, in any state in the country … [to] call their senators from these other states and tell them to do the right thing."
Health care professionals told attendees at church stories of how some patients who can't afford quality insurance now must either choose between paying for medication and their rent.
Leana Wen, commissioner of health for Baltimore City, recalled when she worked as an emergency physician to treat a man who went into a coma after a grand mal seizure for nearly two hours. If the man had adequate health insurance, he may still be alive, she said.
"I think about his family … and why we need health care and why we need insurance," said Wen, who has worked in the city for 2½ years. "We treat people at a time when they are unconscious and they're dying, but what kind of system is it that doesn't allow us to treat people before they get so sick?"
George H. Bone, who practices internal medicine at Doctor's Community Hospital in Lanham, offered some advice: eat right, hang with positive people and "when [elected officials] call on you for help, you have to show up."
President Donald Trump and other Republicans have said the ACA remains too costly for insurance companies to provide coverage for millions of Americans. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said the House's health care bill would reduce the federal deficit by $119 million, but Americans who reside in states that request waivers from health requirements would pay more out of pocket.
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Main Wildlife Found Sambar, Indian Bison, Peacocks and many species of snake.
Towards north-eastern side of the state of Goa, is a sanctuary known as Bondla Wildlife Sanctuary. This sanctuary is comparatively smaller than other sanctuaries with only eight square kilometers of area. The place is thronged by the tourists and is also used for school excursions. There are animal species of varied range in this sanctuary like Indian Peafowl, Sambar Deer, Malabar Giant Squirrel, Indian Bison and some species of reptiles as well.
The sanctuary provides the shelter to the injured animals and animals that are shelter less like injured leopards, domesticated bears from circuses etc and snakes seized from the illegal declared snake charming business. There are two elephants getting shelter and good care here and also are also used for tourist's safari.
Bondla also has Hindu Carvings which were excavated during the construction of gardens at Bondla. These were supposedly hidden there intentionally to protect them from foreign inquisitors.
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Autumn and winter months are the best time to visit the Bondla Sanctuary in Goa.
By Air:The Bondla Sanctuary has an airport situated fifty kilo meters away called Dabolim Airport. The onward journey can easily be made on hired vehicles or cabs.
By Rail: The railway station of Margao is situated at some 35 kilo meters from the sanctuary. Regular Taxis and Buses are available from Margao to Bondla and back.
By Road: The Pondu Taluka of Goa, where the sanctuary is located is twenty kilo meters from Mollem and fifty kilometers from Panaji. These places are well connected with all nearby towns and cities by roads.
Visitors coming to Bondla Sanctuary find desired time spending place in the magnificent gardens here. Deciduous forests and evergreen forests are two main vegetations in this sanctuary. Animals like jackals, wild boar, gaur, peacocks, toddy, deer, cat etc can be watched in the small zoo in the sanctuary.
Reptiles are also present in the water bodies of the Bondla Sanctuary. The Sanctuary has a varied range of birds which make the atmosphere cheerful with their chirping and colorful wings. The visitors can enjoy elephant ride in this sanctuary as well.
eciduous Forests and Evergreen Forests occupy most of the vegetation belt in Bondla Sanctuary. Species like Saraca Indica, terminalia crenulata, Jamba, lagerstroemia, Kindall, Giant Lianas, Bamboo Bambusa Arundinacea can be found in these vegetations. Rose plants can be found in abundance in the sanctuary.
ild Beer, Wild Boar, Leopard, Monkeys, Deer, Langur, Bison, Gaur, Pythons and Jackals are found in this place around south-east hills. Bird watch spots are present in here where birds of various species can be observed. River Rangado and River Madhel flow through the sanctuary whose banks provide abode to the birds and serpents of varied kinds. Visitors can also visit a mosque (Safa Shahouri) built in sixteenth century by Adilshah at Ponda.
olden backed woodpecker, common grey hornbill and ruby throated yellow bulbul are among hundred odd species of birds found here.
Zoological Park: moat surrounded zoo is present in the sanctuary where lion, Sambar, panther, elephant, porcupine, deers, gaur, wild boar, sloth bear and reptiles can be seen.
Deer Safari Park: Spotted Deers and Sambar can be seen in the vehicle safari in this park.
Formal Gardens: Beautiful lawns with rose plants and other landscaping can be seen in the middle of the sanctuary.
Nature Education Centre: Visitors can fulfill their knowledge quest by visiting this centre of library, movies etc.
Birdwatch: Park Range Office can be contacted for the information regarding bird watching at Bondla Sanctuary.
Wild animals: Sambar, Wild Boars and Sambar can be observed from watch towers placed near water sources for animals.
Archaeological Exhibit: There are many Hindu religious exhibits present in this sanctuary as well like Gajalaxmi Goddess and others.
Hindu Carvings: Many Hindu Carvings have been discovered at this sanctuary while the gardens were being developed. These carving depicting different aspects of the Hinduism are presumed to have been hidden there from the foreign Inquisitors.
ambar and Spotted Deer can be watched from close proximity from vehicle safari in this sanctuary.
Visitors of this sanctuary do not have many options of stay apart from the excellent cottages and group shelters of forest department. These accommodations provide good place to stay for the tourists. However, booking has to be made in advance at Panaji's Main Range Office.
An entry fee of Rs. 5 and Rs. 2 for adults and children respectively.
Timings for visiting are 9 in the morning to 5 in the evening, except the off day of Thursday.
Visitors can take their vehicles inside at a very less charge.
Rs. 80 per four persons gives an excellent elephant ride in the sanctuary.


Neither VFO is ever set to the spot receive frequency -- where the DX is transmitting.
I\'ve learned how to monitor the data transferred between Win-Test and the radio using the logging feature in microHAM USB Device Router. For example, I can see problems in the sequence for the case of a QSX spot, which I\'ll be happy to document if it would be helpful.
Also, I have plenty of time and motivation to support testing Win-Test + microKEYER + Orion II if that would help.
Yes, please tell what is wrong in the current sequence.
-> means from WT to radio; <- means to WT from radio.
(1) \"maybe not needed\" applies if the software can check whether a mode or VFO assignment change is needed before issuing the commands. Omitting commands that don\'t change anything would make grabbing spots significantly faster.
(2) The requests for receiver bandwidth may be related to a very old bug fix that I saw in the release notes, which said that setting the VFO frequency was changing the bandwidth. However, WT is not resetting the bandwidth after setting the VFO frequency, so the bandwidth requests seem superfluous.
(4) [Aside] CTWin does polling more efficiently, by sending all requests first, then reading all the responses, then doing whatever processing is needed. The Win-Test polling sequence spans about 450 ms, while the CTWin polling sequence spans 63 ms. CTWin monitors one less parameter than WT, the sub receiver mode.
Bill, I\'m trying to repeat the problem. Can you confirm that the split mode was already ON before grabing the VQ9JC spot (see above)? 73 de Olivier / f5mzn.
Done some modification in order to correct the problem and to get QSX frequencies programmation a bit faster.
To be tested from the nightly snapshots starting from dec 29, 2007.
(2) ALT-F5 to set CQ frequency.
A = 14.007.000 B = 14.012.800 RX = A TX = A -- set wrong VFO A !
A = 14.007.000 B =14.007.000 RX = A TX = B -- correct.
In all cases, the VFO readouts and active VFO highlighting in the Radio 1 window match the actual radio settings.
I am sorry it is hard for me to test grabbing spots with QSX because there are so few of them, and self-spotting a split sets the wrong TX frequency (bug ID 182).
To be tested from the nightly snapshots starting from dec 29, 2007 @ 0500z.
Tested with 31 December snapshot.
(1) Double-clicking a spot with QSX (\"14082.0 PY0XX QSX 083.4\") works correctly, with radio initially in either transceive or split. The frequency change seems faster as well. Very nice!
Is it acceptable to always set VFO A (main VFO), regardless of the current active VFO on the radio?
I believe that it is always acceptable to set VFO A when QSYing to a spot, QSYing to the run frequency (Alt-F5), or changing radio frequency by typing numbers into the callsign field.
Next nightly snapshot will always set VFO A (Main VFO) regardless of the active one.
Tks in anticipation for your tests.
(1) Initially split, Alt-F5 to set CQ frequency, VFO A is RX on 14010000, B is TX on 14011000.
(2) Grab simplex spot on 14013000; VFO A jumps quickly (nice!) to spot frequency, VFO A becomes both RX and TX, VFO B frequency does not change. Correct.
(3) Alt-F4 to return to CQ frequency. VFO A remains RX, VFO B becomes TX. VFO A initially jumps to CQ RX frequency, then changes back to spot frequency. VFO B changes to CQ RX frequency (wrong) at the same time that VFO A is changed to spot frequency (wrong).
The duplicated commands above are really in the sequence. For example, the main receiver bandwidth is set 4 times in a row (and the sub receiver bandwidth is not set).
I have modified this but not tested. Can you give it a try please? Tks.
NB: Not yet included in the nightly snapshot ; this will be done in the next one (Jan 21, 2008).
Nearly all of the duplicated commands are gone -- very good detective work Olivier.
I also confirmed that the radio polling sequence is returning correct data for the split run frequencies to WT.


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On December 17, 2005, the researcher in question managed to record the transit of a luminous UFO in the eastern section of the Mexican capital, recording the precise moment in which other elements emerged from the larger structure.
Mr. Guerrero employed a Sony TRV-340 camera with a 25x optical zoom.
The witness states that he managed to observe up to five ejections of luminous spheres, and that the UFO subsequently turned into a red sphere until it vanished into the dark of the night.


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JCC Greater Boston Leadership
Mark Sokoll
Mark Sokoll is a lifelong Jewish community advocate, activist and educator. He became President and CEO of JCC Greater Boston in 2000. Prior to his tenure at the JCC, Mark was a Senior Educator at Alexander Muss High School in Israel and also worked as a licensed tour guide. During his service in the Israel Defense Forces, he served as an educator at the IDF Institute for Officer Training and Education.
Mark is a past Chair of the Board of Directors of the Lenny Zakim Fund, a nonprofit foundation that funds Greater Boston grassroots organizations involved in building a better society for all. He has been honored by Mayyim Hayyim and is a past recipient of the Myrtle Wreath Award from Hadassah, the Lester Gilson Award from the Solomon Schechter Day School and the Bernard Reisman Award from the Hornstein Program at Brandeis University.
A graduate of Boston University, Mark earned his Master of Arts in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University and received Rabbinic ordination from the Bet Din-Bet Achim in New York City. He stepped down from a part-time position at Temple B'nai Israel in Revere, Massachusetts, in 2010.
Louis J. Grossman
Chair, Governing Board
Louis J. Grossman had been President and Treasurer of The Grossman Companies, Inc. since 1980, when he and his father, Morton, purchased the family real estate business. In January 2015, he became Chairman and passed along the leadership to his sons, David and Jacob, who have been working with him for the previous decade. Under Louis' thoughtful guidance and leadership, the Company successfully developed and acquired a portfolio of more than forty commercial and residential properties, primarily located in New England.
Louis began his real estate career in 1973, when he joined Sonnenblick-Goldman Advisory Corporation in New York, serving as Mortgage Officer for two real estate investment trusts, North American Mortgage Investors and Mortgage Growth Investors. A graduate of Brown University with a B.A. in Economics, Louis earned his M.B.A. from Columbia University's School of Business with a major in Finance.
Louis has been active in numerous local and national civic and charitable organizations including Brown Hillel, Union for Reform Judaism, Temple Beth Shalom in Needham, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, The Rivers School, Hebrew College and JCC Greater Boston where he was installed as Chair in July 2019. Louis and his wife of 48 years, Patti, have 9 grandchildren and raised their four children in Needham. They currently live in Newton.
JCC Leadership
Louis J. Grossman, Chair
David Begelfer, Vice Chair
Sari Rapkin, Secretary
Dr. James (Jim) Snider, Treasurer
Standing Committee Chairs
Eric B. Brenman, Esq., Audit
Faith Kaplan, Facilities Committee
Charlie Popkin, Finance
Mara Riemer Goldstein, Governance & Leadership Development
Richard Scherr, Resource Development
Ginny MacDowell, Resource Development
Avi Almozlino
Jennifer Winn Aronson
Mark Barrocas
Steve Bearak
Marc Busny
Richard Cohen
Rebecca Diamondstein
Daniel Fradkin
Tamar Salter Frieze
Sasha Hartman
Mitchell Leiman
Joel Samen
David Shimoni
Gabrielle Sigel
Mark Sokoll - President/CEO
Gavin Andrews - Vice President, Chief Strategic Program Officer
Kait Rogers - Vice President, Chief Finance & Administrative Officer
Sami Sinclair - Vice President, Development
Matt Adwin - Assistant Vice President, Information Technology & Analytics
Nancy Dill - Director, People & Culture
Randi Federman - Senior Vice President, Finance & Audit
Indira Herscovici - Assistant Vice President, Early Childhood Education
Midge Merlin - Director, Family Engagement & Jewish Life
Brian Morris - Director, Facilities
Robin Rosenthal - Director, Human Resources
Lauren Roth - Assistant Vice President, Marketing
William Winer - Assistant Vice President, Health, Fitness & Membership


The Fab Empire creator Joi-Marie McKenzie (who's also an ABC News journalist and author of the memoir "The Engagement Game: Why I Said "I Don't" to Marriage and "I Do" to Me,") is coming to the historic 92Y (1395 Lexington Ave, New York, New York 10128)!
That's right! The same prestigious place that has welcomed Sarah Jessica Parker, Andy Cohen, Zadie Smith and Colson Whitehead!
She'll be talking her debut memoir and will be joined by panelists for a wide-ranging discussion on the evolving societal pressures and expectations of getting engaged, the myth of marital privilege, singlism and how/whether women can define their own happiness on their own terms.


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This video captures highlights of Cycle For Survival 2018 at Equinox West LA! Watch me take you behind the scenes at this fun event.
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On February 24th, I DJed at Equinox West LA for Cycle for Survival! I worked with the AV team on-site to provide the energy and music for all of the teams and riders at the event. I worked alongside an MC, instructors, dancers, and a full production team to create an amazing experience for all of the riders.
For gear, I only brought with me what I needed such as my DJ controller, laptop, music, headphones, laptop cable, and a power strip. Then the AV hooked me up with XLR cables. We tested out sound, and the whole room sounded amazing! There was a subwoofer in the room to help people feel the booming bass in the music. They also installed a disco ball on top to create a cool party effect.
As for music, I mostly played upbeat, high energy EDM. I liked to play songs that people would recognize with a danceable, motivating beat. Partying along with me are some dancers to help keep the riders motivated as they cycle on through.


Finishing an ultra marathon is an accomplishment in itself. The typical ultra runner is more concerned with beating cut-off times than running fast. Still, we are runners, and running faster is part of the fun. Once a trail runner has successfully completed a couple 100km or 100mi races the desire to go faster is unavoidable.
Would you like to run your next ultra marathon faster? Read on and learn how the ultra marathon speedsters are training.
Successfully covering ground at a faster rate is every trail runner's desire.
Jeff Pelletier explained the science well in his article, Speed Training Work for Ultra Runners – Is it Important? He rounds it off to two levels of effort: 1) at or around lactate threshold, and 2) at or around maximal aerobic capacity.
He goes on to explain that VO2 max acts as a ceiling under which all other zones are stacked up. VO2 max is said to be determined mostly by genetics, but can be improved by 10-30% through training. By practicing speed work you can improve your VO2 max score. Imagine improving by 10% and how this could affect your overall race performance.
Dylan Bowman, overall winner of the 2015 Tarawera Ultra Marathon, feels that as the sport continues to progress and get faster, that it will only be possible to compete at a high level with some form of speed work. He usually does three speed sessions a week.
Bowman is coached by Jason Koop, the director of Carmichael Training Systems, who, when it comes to training intensity, stresses timing and specificity.
Ruby Muir of New Zealand, who recently was the first place female finisher at the Tarawera, says: "I do a lot of running at faster paces and believe it is essential for anyone wanting to improve their performance. For ultras I think you can get massive benefits by targeting your lactate threshold." Notably, Muir does one structured speed work session a week, and two other faster paced runs.
Michael Wardian has represented the USA at the 50km and 100km World Championships and has a 2h 17min 49s marathon personal record. Wardian regularly takes first place in 50mi and 50km trail races. He races a lot — 54 times in 2014 alone — but he still finds time to get at least one good speed session a week.
The amazing speed of Ellie Greenwood has helped her set course records at the Western States 100 -Mile Endurance Run and the JFK 50 Mile. She has also won other well-known ultras such as the Comrades Marathon and the Ultra Race of Champions. Greenwood agrees that speed training is essential to doing well during ultras, especially road or less technical trail ultras. She includes speed work in her training year round.
There are as many approaches to speed work as there are trail races.
Many ultra runners base their training on a traditional marathon training plan. Muir believes that a marathon training system can give you almost all of the physiological adaptations required. She says "almost" because, "for very mountainous races I find you need more strength and muscular endurance than you can get from pure marathon training." This is why she adds in weekly runs that offer vertical gain.
Muir likes to incorporate one structured workout a week, one medium long run (16-20km) that increases pace to more of a marathon pace, and one of her two longer runs (27-30km) at a harder effort, ideally finishing the last few kilometres at marathon pace.
She also likes to mix it up and run repeats around a grass field, do fartlek workouts on easy trail or gravel roads, and do tempo or marathon paced runs on road.
Wardian does all kinds of speed workouts, from five 1mi hill repeats, to three 3min, or a 5km flat out. He also likes doing speed fartleks — going hard to the next tree to catch the person in front of you.
Greenwood's speed sessions vary but she says they tend to be longer intervals. She likes running five 1km or two 5km sets. She avoids the track and does her speed work on trails and road, at times flat terrain and other times on rolling trails.
"I do a lot of 2mi repeats (four reps) at around half-marathon pace. Other workouts include uphill tempo runs of 20-40min, and some fartlek surges during 20mi-plus long runs," says Canaday.
Running your next ultra marathon faster can be done with one speed session a week. Finding the motivation is the first step. Greenwood suggests, "commit to speed work once a week, at least to start with, as you will see the benefits with consistency." She also suggests finding a group to train with that will push you to run faster.
VO2 Max Intervals: 6-10 x 3min at 100% RPE (rate of perceived exertion) with 3min recovery. Usually done up hill.
Lactate Threshold Intervals: 5 x 10min at 80% RPE with 5min recovery. Also, usually done up hill.
Steady State Intervals: 2 x 30min intervals at 75% RPE with 15min recovery.
"Begin very easy and set up the routine. For example, once a week start running two or three 1k repeats with a big warm up and cool down. Keep them at a pace that makes you feel strong but is not at all a struggle, and this way you can remove the stigma of doing a speed workout," says Muir.
By starting out easy you will avoid risks of injury. After this Muir suggests to reduce the recovery time and increase the reps until it is more of a workout.
Intervals: 5 x 1.5km at 10km race pace with short recoveries.
Fartlek Session: 2min on, 2min off. High average pace with recoveries still at fast pace.
Pure Tempo Run: 6km at 1h race pace.
Tempo: This is the effort right outside of your comfort zone. It should be hard to carry on a conversation but you can still talk in short bursts. Your breathing should be heavy but not gasping. Like all speed sessions you start with a warm up and end with a cool down. Run at tempo for 20-60min.
Interval: These are quick, short, intense efforts that are followed by a full recovery. The difference between interval and tempo is that intervals are run at or above your red line. Having a conversation is out of the question and you will be trying to catch your breath. Run for 30s to 8min and then rest for the same or higher amount of time.
Fartlek: Swedish for 'speed play.' Fartleks are unstructured and all about playing with your speed. Warm up and then run fast for 10-30s. Race your trail runner partner to the next boulder or tree, and then run easy to recover. Repeat. The goal is to keep it lighthearted while gaining speed.
Clint is currently in Nicaragua engaged in volunteer work, writing, and ultra training. He plans on returning to the USA this summer to crew and pace his little sister in her first 50mi trail ultra.


Welcome to Galloway Quality Meats: Farm fresh foods, delivered to your door.
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The family run business was established over 30 years ago in 1982 by Keith & Joan Houliston after they spotted an opportunity travelling around the area selling frozen gateaux, chips and other frozen food. It soon became apparent there was a gap in the market for good quality fresh meats to the catering industry. Galloway Foodservice soon became one of the main frozen food wholesalers and catering butchers in the region, supplying hotels, restaurants, cafes and other food outlets throughout Scotland and Northern England.
Along side the wholesale business, Galloway Quality Meats was established, the retail arm of the company, providing a top quality High Street Butchers & Delicatessen in the heart of Dumfries.
The business is now run by one of Keiths three daughters, Melissa who took a keen interest in the family business after graduating from University back in 1998. Melissa along with managers Laura Straiton and Tom Steele, plus a fantastic team of skilled butchers and other key personnel (most of whom have been with the company since the 1980s) are now ready to push the business forward and offer our quality fresh meat products on a national level by delivering direct to your door.
Established in 1982 Galloway Foodservice provide a refrigerated food service throughout the South of Scotland and North of England with a full range of fresh meat, frozen food and dairy products.


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Fryderyk Chopin: Nocturne in B-flat minor, Op. 9 No. 1
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Now that I have successfully achieved my Master's degree, I am more than willing to improve my international experience and profile by joining your prestigious organization.
What drives me in life is to constantly improve my knowledge, extend my skills and cease opportunities. By doing so, I successfully found a great internship at the European Headquarters of Nissan Automotive Europe as a Marketing Assistant for Corporate Sales Department. Thereafter a short period of training, I was responsible of various tasks such as the communication to our major key accounts across Europe and towards our business units and marketing agencies. Immediately after completing my internship, I joined MSX International as a Business Analyst Consultant for Nissan Automotive Europe, After-Sales division where I currently manage the financial reports and the market analysis for the European Zone. My "can do attitude" fetched me the job which I am currently responsible for and I took over the position in After Sales even though I had limited knowledge of that domain, thanks to my manager who saw my potential and willingness to learn and recommended me during the time of my internship. Through these experiences, I have been able to improve my creativity and my communication skills which I believe that I could be a real added value to your esteemed company and at the end of the day, we meet our goals.
I have grown up in France, studied through various international and european programs. Once the national exam successfully achieved I have joined the European Business School of Paris, where I completed a 5 years english courses program and got my master degree. I am now graduated.
I speak French (mothertongue), English fluently and German with a limited knowledge.
Master's thesis theme: The differences of leadership practices between French and Vietnamese organizations.
I had the opportunity to teach french in a volunteering program in Chaiyaphum, North-East Thailand.
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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's rendezvous with controversies involving hooliganism and of having dictatorial tendencies seem to have no limits. A senior bureaucrat, chairman and managing director of the Delhi State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation (DSIIDC), K R Meena, wrote a letter to sought an apology from Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for his alleged misbehaviour during a meeting last week.
The officer claimed Kejriwal shouted "get out" at him in the meeting and he suffered "grave humiliation, embarrassment and anguish" during the interaction at Chief Minister's residence.
The episode relates to Meena's meeting with Kejriwal and Industries Minister Satyendar Jain at the Chief Minister's residence on November 10.
The meeting was called to ask Meena expedite the process of DSIIDC handing over alternative plots to an industrialist whose current property was needed to be acquired partly to build a colony pathway for residents of Raja Vihar near Badli industrial area in northwest Delhi.
Meena's letter allegedly accused Kejriwal of causing him grave embarrassment and humiliation, he further mentioned, "Worthy honourable CM lost his cool and shouted at me and directed me to leave his office. The literal word used by you was 'get out' in a highest possible tone with utter disrespect. CM shouted continuously and claimed that DSIIDC is not property of anybody's father, and they will utilise its assets in a manner best suited.
"With grave humiliation, embarrassment and anguish I left your room. The entire episode shows your desperation and utter disrespect to the system and senior officers. This has happened without any fault of mine as no one could release government or DSIIDC land to a private party on assurance," stated the letter.
The official also stated that the entire episode has "hurt him emotionally and disturbed him professionally". "I am not able to concentrate on my work since the event," Meena said.
This however, won't be the first time such allegations were raised against Kejriwal's behavior, from time to time many former AAP founding member have accused Kejriwal of mistreating his power while bringing ahead one man army. The leader have firmly believed that there isn't any place for democracy, further making a ruthless dictator.
Days ahead of AAP's rally in Surat, banners carrying his photographs with Burhan Wani, Hafiz Saeed and Osama bin Laden, terming them "heroes of Pakistan", appeared at different locations across the city on Thursday.
The posters were making a round all throughout Unjha, Gujarat Enunciating a clear link between kejriwal and Hizbul Mujahideen commander, Burhan Wani who was killed in Kashmir, 9/11 mastermind Osama bin and Hafiz seed, co-founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba, expressing where their loyalties lie.
However, as per the usual norms it didn't take our beloved chief minister to use this opportunity against his contenders after the incident. Kejriwal became immensely furious as he was supposed to meet and greet the families of those killed during the Patel agitation, immediately took refuge in blaming BJP for sabotaging his rally in Gujarat.
Once AAP's prominent ideologue and current president of Swaraj Party, Yogendra Yadav doesn't shy away from launching a scathing attack on our beloved power-hungry Arvind Kejriwal. Calling a spade a spade, Yadav allegedly accused Kejriwal for taking an undue advantage for government provided resources in the name of creating party's goodwill in other states.
The Swaraj India President, who was expelled from AAP for his "anti-party" activities after he crossed swords with the leadership last year, insisted on AAP having "minimum interest" in governing the capitol rather is more focused on capturing more and more states under their kitty, ultimately leaving the capital in a lurch. He allegedly claimed that AAP has always been ignorant of their duties, AAP ministers and MLAs for "often being outside Delhi" at a time when the city was struggling to cope with the vector-borne diseases.
He said the Swaraj group broke away from AAP as it "abandoned the basic ideology of internal democracy, financial transparency, swaraj, opposition to the new liberal economic policies".
Alleging that AAP was being run as a corporate, he further charged AAP with befooling people through the "new experiment of political marketing".
The Swaraj Party has announced its dsire to contest in MCD polls claiming free education, free medicine, employment for all and a debt-free Punjab. Party spokesperson Prashant Yadav said the party would contest all 117 Vidhan Sabha seats of Punjab.
Reaching The New Heights Of Low, Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP's 'secret unit' exposed!
The royal battle between Delhi's ruling party, AAP and center – Lieutenant Governor takes an even more appalling turn with recent unearthing of Kejriwal's "serect Intel" group, on Monday. With AAP imploding and exploding simultaneously efforts to conqour and remain in power from all nooks and corners, kejriwal has left no stone unturned vying for his political gains.
According to the reports, this special unit forces was specifically assigned to snoop on government employees' daily activities whether they were working or not. According to the sources, the unit comes directly under chief minister Arvind Kejriwal. And was delivering its dues of passing every minute information to him.
In the wake of coming in power with a brute majority in delhi assembly in 2015, Arvind Kejriwal began to put together a team that comprised serving and retired officials of the Enforcement Directorate, Police, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and other agencies, and offered them secret funds, perhaps with the intent to run a body of sleuths that would work in parallel with the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB). Shockingly, this effort was kept under wraps and made without securing the required approval of the Lieutenant Governor of the Union Territory of Delhi.
The unit was exposed by the news channel 'India Today' after that LG Najeeb Jung launched a probe against the team.
According to the channel, the team was constituted in August to snoop government officials. Now, the snooping angle is being probed.
The channel further stated that despite innumerable attempt any of Aam Admi Party (AAP) leaders could not be reached. They many times tried to contact Deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia but the efforts went in vain.
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Irish National Opera, registered as Irish Opera Transformations CLG, is committed to fully implementing the Governance Code. The company complies with recommended guidelines for financial reporting (SORP) and adheres to the Principles of Good Fundraising. The company operates in accordance with its Memorandum & Articles of Association and is governed by a Board of Directors. The Members of the company are the Directors.
Ino Memorandum Articles Of Association
Ino 2017 Audited Accounts
Disclosure Of Employee Annual Remuneration
Public Compliance Statement Ino 2018 09 27
Donor Charter Ino 2018 09 27
Feedback And Complaints Procedure Ino 2018 09 27
Gaby Smyth (Chair)
Gaby Smyth is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, and is principal of Gaby Smyth & Company Ltd.
He has been in practice for over twenty years, specialising in the literary, music, film and theatre arts – representing and advising many of the major Irish practitioners in these areas. Gaby has also been involved with many arts organisations in Ireland; he has been the chairman of the boards of Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Corn Exchange Theatre Company, and TEAM Educational Theatre Company. Until recently he was in the chair at Screen Producers Ireland, and animation company Boulder Media Ltd.; and he is currently chairman of the board of the Audi Dublin International Film Festival.
Appointed April 2017.
Jennifer Caldwell
Jennifer is a former managing partner of both Maples and Calder's Dublin office and Binchys Solicitors.
Admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales in 1980 and in Ireland in 1982 she has over 30 years experience, specialising in corporate finance and mergers and acquisition. She merged Binchys Solicitors, Dublin with Maples and Calder in January 2006, when she was the managing partner of Binchys. Maples was the first international law firm to set up in Ireland. Post the merger she was joint managing partner of Maples and Calder's Dublin office and from January 2006 until she retired from practise in 2010 she was head of corporate in the Dublin office Jennifer's expertise spans all areas of corporate law including mergers and acquisitions, takeovers, IPOs, joint ventures and debt and equity financing. For many years she represented a number of high net worth individuals, their investment vehicles and entities in which they invested. Since retiring from practise at the end of 2010 Jennifer has continued to work with Amnesty International, serving as a member of the Executive Committee of the Irish Section of Amnesty from 2005 until 2011, and now serving as a trustee of the Amnesty Foundation, she sat on the Board of Cantor Fitzgerald Ireland Limited (formerly Dolmen Stockbrokers) from January 2011 until the end of 2015 and she currently sits on the board of Irish National Opera.
Gary Joyce
Gary Joyce is co-founder and Managing Partner of Genesis, a leading management consultancy that specialises in customer, market and organisation strategy. Established in 1995, Genesis specialises in services, operates across all sectors and counts many of Ireland's leading public sector, not-for-profit, arts and commercial organisations amongst its clients. About one third of Genesis's business is conducted in international markets.
Prior to forming Genesis, Gary was co-founder and Managing Director of Dimension, Ireland's first multi-disciplinary marketing communications company. Dimension was acquired by McConnell's advertising in 1993.
Gary is a Fellow of the Marketing Institute of Ireland and the Institute of Management Consultants and Advisors.
She has extensive non-executive director experience including in the arts sector where she was a member of the board of Galway International Arts Festival (chair Brand Committee) and IMMA.
Gary has a Bachelor of Social Science from UCD with further qualifications in Internal Consulting and Women's Studies. She has an Advanced Professional Diploma in Executive Coaching from the Michael Smurfit School of Business, UCD. She is currently completing the Institute of Directors Chartered Director Programme.
Stella Litchfield
Born in Dublin, Stella Litchfield originally trained as an opera singer at the College of Music and worked with many opera companies across Ireland and the UK.
She spent fourteen years as a member of Chorus of Scottish Opera before embarking on a career offstage.
She is now Director of Development at National Theatre of Scotland.
Sara Moorhead SC
Sara Moorhead was called to the Bar in 1989 and practiced as a Junior Counsel from 1989 to 2004. She has been a Senior Counsel from 2004 to 2017.
She was a Member of the Bar Council between 1995 and 1999 and a Member from 2013 to 2017. In that role she was the Treasurer of the Bar Council and responsible with the Finance Director for the finances of an organisation involving two thousand three hundred members. She is keenly interested in the area of governance and is a director of a number of the companies operated by the Law Library. She was involved in the renegotiation of the debt of the Law Library and has extensive experience in the area of governance of boards.
Sara is a regular opera and theatre goer in Ireland. She also regularly attends opera and theatre in London and New York. She is a patron of Rough Magic and is also actively involved in the Irish Georgian Society.
She has a proven track record in relation to Volunteer activity. All the activities listed have been undertaken on a non-remunerative basis over a number of years.
Joseph F. Murphy
Born in Tralee, Joe Murphy is a Chartered Civil Engineer by profession and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers of Ireland. He is a graduate of University College Cork as well as having a post graduate qualification in Finance from the University of Limerick.
He was a founding director of PUNCH Consulting Engineers in 1974. He retired as a director in 2008 but continues to be active in the firm as a consultant. Joe lives in Limerick and together with his wife Mary are very supportive of music in that city. Otherwise, their particular interest is hearing live opera performed in the opera houses of the world. In the past Joe has been a corporate supporter both of the Limerick Music Association as well as music in Great Irish Houses. More recently he has been a Friend of the Irish Chamber Orchestra where his particular interest is baroque music. Joe currently holds a Board of Management position in a palliative care centre. In leisure time he is a keen supporter of Munster Rugby.
Appointed April 2017. Re-appointed October 2018 for one three-year term.
Ann Nolan
Ann Nolan is a former Second Secretary General of The Department of Finance.
Ann worked in financial services for nine years, before that she worked in both the expenditure and tax divisions of the Department. She has served on a number of State Boards including the Pensions Authority, the SBCI, the State Claims Agency and the Legal Aid Board.
Yvonne Shields
Yvonne Shields is Chief Executive of the Commissioners of Irish Lights. Irish Lights is responsible for the provision of safety and navigation services around the coast of Ireland to meet the Irish and UK governments obligations under the SOLAS – Safety of Life at Sea - Convention.
Yvonne has extensive experience in natural resource based policy, strategy, research and programme development in Ireland and Europe. She led the development and implementation of the National Sea Change Strategy 2007-2013 and in that context managed significant funding rounds under the National Development Plan, international peer and ex-ante evaluations and value for money audits and stakeholder consultations.
Yvonne has broad and extensive experience of corporate governance requirements (private, not for profit and public), department-agency relationships and Audit and Risk Committees. She is a Chartered Director and a member of the Institute of Directors (Dublin and London).
As a relatively new comer to Opera, Yvonne is particularly interested in future strategy, audience development and the outreach aspects of INO's work.
Yvonne has a Masters in Environmental Science from Trinity College and an MBA from DCU. She is currently a Board member of the Western Development Commission which focuses on the economic and social development in the west of Ireland and places a high value on creative industries. She has served on the Board of the National Research Council for Science, Technology and Engineering, BMW Operational Programme Monitoring Committee, Tourism Industry Confederation and has held numerous international appointments.
Michael Wall
Michael Wall is a practising barrister specialising in construction, planning and environmental law. He is chairman of the Irish Georgian Society and a member of the board of the Abbey Theatre.
Michael is a member of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland and the Irish Planning Institute and teaches at UCD on masters' degree programmes in planning, urban design and landscape architecture.
Since April 2010 he has served as a member of the NAMA Planning Advisory Committee and is a member of the board of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) since May 2015.
In addition to qualifications in architecture from DIT and TCD, he has a master's degree in planning from UCD, an MBA from the Smurfit Business School at UCD and BL from the Honorable Society of the King's Inns. Michael is also qualified and practises as a Mediator and Arbitrator. He is a board member/trustee of Simpson's Hospital in Dundrum, Dublin.
In July 2018 he was appointed to the board of National Asset Management Agency and has served as a member of the NAMA Planning Advisory Committee since April 2010. He is a member of the board of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) since May 2015.


Chantelle Houghton certainly has lot on her plate; juggling running her own business with being a doting single parent.
But the 31-year-old still somehow managed to squeeze in the time to make sure she looked her best when she headed out on Sunday afternoon.
The reality beauty oozed in glamour as she stepped out with her little girl Dolly to run a few errands in her native Essex.
Chantelle showed off her long toned legs in a pair of black skin-tight jeans.
She teamed the trousers with a black polo neck and a stylish fur-collared leather jacket.
Meanwhile, Dolly looked super cute in a shaggy woolen coat and a black beanie.
Chantelle completed her daughter's look with a pair of beige tights and brown boots.
The glamour model, who is currently single, recently revealed that Rob Kardashian is her ideal man.
She wrote in her new magazine columns: 'I watched Rita Ora's debut on The Voice and wasn't overly impressed,' the former reality star said.
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Last year she enjoyed a brief romance with former flame construction worker Neal Fox but has since been single, setting up her own dating website as a result.


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THE LOST CENT
I have the feeling that you had a big influence on the book, also in the design, how was your balance between you and Arthur Roeloffzen the graphic designer?
Years ago I saw an old American child book with a hole in it and I thought I really want to make a book with a hole in it as well. So it was already stuck in my head for a while, but the subject wasn't clear yet. I knew that it had to be a thick book, so that the hole would be very deep in contrast to the child book. So I started to make a lot of drawings with the design of the hole in my head. The publisher introduced me to Arthur Roeloffzen, and we started to talk. There was also another book that I'm really fond of, it's called Dreams from Jim Shaw it's a very solid book and nice to hold, so I showed it to Arthur Roeloffzen and told him that this had to be the feeling of the book. Further the colours of the drawings were already kind of fixed, because I work most of the time in these colours. We had very interesting discussions about where the hole had to begin, that was something I didn't really thought of before. So there was a lot already decided before Arthur Roeloffzen started designing. Even the one euro cent on the cover of the book was already thought of. The cent is there because the book is about the absence of it. Also, about the number 99, that you see a lot in the supermarket, where again the one euro cent is missing.
Can the hole be a metaphor for the absence of value?
The hole could be a metaphor for the absence of value, but there are many other metaphors in the book for it. The drawings are sometimes builded around the hole, but for me it was also very intriguing to ignore the hole totally. So that it's sometimes just a hole in paper and not really an important thing.
What made you choose to show the drawings next to each other and not like in the book on a pile? Isn't then the hole losing his function in your opinion?
In the exhibition of The lost cent, we hung the drawings next to each other but decided to have a space between the drawings and the wall, so that the hole would be still visible and still had a spacious feeling. But the drawings are specifically made for to be in a book, not on the wall. For me it's very important with art books that they can't exist in another way than a book. The lost cent couldn't be a website by example. It can only be an object that you can enter, this is the same for child books. Like in a pop-up book, you literally disappear in it. Art books can accomplish the same.
In the back of the book a dialogue takes place, it's designed in a very specific way, is there a reason behind it?
Arthur Roeloffzen wanted to make a very solid looking page, made for a reader and not like a theater piece with a lot of white space in between. To make it compact and give it even more the feeling of a concrete thing. We also searched for a long time to find paper that would be as voluminous as possible, so that it would be heavier.
How started the collaboration with Onomatopee?
The publisher came with the suggestion to collaborate with Olav Velthuis, he wanted to add an extra context. Olav Velthuis knows a lot about value and art, as a professor at the Universitty of Amsterdam. Onomatopee likes to have a literary link in books that they publish. So the story of Baudelaire came in, because it's also about a coin that also went in another direction than it normally would go.
Do you think that you gave the one euro cent a new value with The Lost cent?
A review of my book came on the financial page of the newspaper NRC, so I think that I gave a new value to the one euro cent. I think it's an accomplishment to be picked up by the editorial staff of the NRC. It felt like a big compliment. It means that people outside of the art world picking it up and form an opinion about it. You always have a kind of ideal outcome in thought as an artist and it really adds something if other people can do something with it, that the audience is changing.
Serge Onnen: The Lost Cent. designed by Arthur Roeloffzen, Rietveld library number: onn 3
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Credentialism
This post from the Carnival of Homeschooling led to this article about two Pennsylvania sociologists who decry our society's increasing emphasis on useless credentials:
Collins, for instance, marvels at the common notion that producing more degree-holders will help more people achieve the American Dream, claiming the concept "has a kind of dog-chasing-its-tail quality to it." Increasing the number of credentialed people competing for a finite number of jobs tends to ratchet up the educational requirements for those jobs without increasing anyone's income. "Imagine if we said we want every school in the country to have a championship football team, that every team should win 90 percent of its games," he says. "People would recognize the flaw in that thinking. But we say that about education all the time."
Says Berg, "More and more lower-income people are attending college at higher rates than they ever did before. And they are taking jobs way below what college degrees would have gotten them years ago." Graduates burdened by student loans discover that the job market is so glutted that they can't find work that pays well enough to discharge their debts. "It's a real menace," he adds. "These kids are mortgaged to the hilt."
The dirty secret in the article title is Collins' observation that credential inflation keeps universities flush with tuition dollars, which help to finance the livelihoods of senior faculty such as himself. "Most intellectuals in liberal society, we take it pretty much as an article of faith that we need to expand education," he says. "It's also for us a rather self-serving argument. It provides our positions."
That's no surprise. Professors and intellectuals are prone to the same cognitive error as every other business enterprise: What's good for them simply must be good for America.
I was especially intrigued by this paragraph:
The introduction of jet travel in the late 1950s gave Berg's team a unique opportunity to test whether cognitive skills are best honed in school or on the job. To run the nation's new system of air-traffic control, the Federal Aviation Administration hired and trained 507 men, half of whom had no formal education beyond high school. Years later, when Berg and his assistants evaluated the group's job performances by counting the numbers of awards the men had earned from supervisors, half the college graduates had earned no awards, while a little over one-third had earned two or more. Among high-school graduates, though, only 30 percent had earned no awards and 43 percent had earned at least two. Results were mixed among controllers who had some education past high school. "Education," Berg concluded, "proves not to be a factor in the daily performances of one of the most demanding decision-making jobs in America."
As Berg saw it, the "great training robbery" of the postwar years was the massive waste of government spending on an education system that does little or nothing to enhance worker productivity. At the time, annual expenditures on U.S. higher education stood at about $17 billion. Today, the figure is $270 billion, of which $55 billion is supplied by state appropriations, with another $81 billion coming from federally funded student financial aid.
So why do so many people pursue higher education? One word: signaling.
Education and Jobs sold surprisingly well when it was published, and it influenced a young Stanford economist named Michael Spence who would go on to win the 2001 Nobel Prize for his work on "market signaling." Spence was among the first to apply rigorous economic theory to Berg's notion that employers were using education as a simple screening device and not as an indicator that job applicants with more education possess superior skills. Spence's theory is that, even if education is devoid of any practical content, a high level of education can "signal" to an employer that an individual is productive enough to endure the costs in time, effort, and money to advance.
I wouldn't be surprised if blame-avoidance played some role as well. If a particular person doesn't work out on the job, it's easier to say, "How was I to know that an MBA wouldn't be up to snuff?," while if the person was a mere high school graduate . . .
The sociologists also point out that when society expects people to go to college in order to have a good job, this inhibits social mobility. This is because only the wealthier segments of society tend to be able to sacrifice 7 or 8 working years to pursue bachelors' and graduate degrees.
Bottom line: What our society needs is a cheaper way to signal intelligence and the capability for hard work.
The last thing that we need to do is increase access to higher education, as if a society that was 100% college-educated could survive by everyone doing each other's taxes or filing lawsuits against each other. (Compare G.K. Chesterton's great line: "We cannot all live by taking in each other's washing.")
Someone would have to do the manufacturing, the farming, the manual labor, the service jobs, etc. And even in the world of business, I'd bet that the vast majority of people end up using knowledge that they learned on the job. Most college graduates are going to end up under-employed or employed in a different field. Thus, increasing access to college means that, on average, you're putting more people in debt and increasing their under-employment.
Just throwing out an admittedly tongue-in-cheek idea here, but maybe Congress should ban all but the top 20% of students from going to college. (Or maybe 25%? I'm open to negotiation on the exact percentage.) Counterintuitive, no? But that might be the only thing that would work. There's a collective action problem here. If everyone else in a society is racing to get the best credentials, then you as an individual may well be worse off if you drop out of the race -- even though everyone in society would be better off if more people dropped out. Same for businesses: If you're the human resources director for a corporation, and you know that most hard-working and intelligent people in our society do in fact have a college education or a graduate degree, then it is only rational for you to demand those credentials too -- even if their formal education is going to be absolutely useless on the job.
But with a ban in place, you'd have a lot of people in America who would be hard-working, intelligent, and deserving of good jobs. And the people doing the hiring would recognize that fact. They would no longer be able to assume that if you lacked a college degree, you must be in the bottom 30%.
Thus, businesses would necessarily have to come up with some other way to find out whether someone is worth hiring. And I bet that whatever method that they come up with will be cheaper than requiring everyone to spend 4-to-8 years and many thousands of dollars (both in real costs and in opportunity costs), not to learn anything that they will actually use on the job, but just to signal that they are a decent person.
posted by Stuart Buck at 9:35 AM
Osvaldo said...
Part of the problem here is the case that made it difficult to use intelligence tests and other kinds of aptitude tests. Duke City Power, maybe.
Also, besides the collective action problem you point out, there's also an externalities problem: what a waste it is for someone to get 4 years of training at school and then 6 months on the job, instead of just 9 months of on-the-job training. But for the employer, hey!, that's three less wasted months. What you need is legal change that allows employers some way to capture the training they give to employees, who are often too mobile for the employer to want to invest much in training them. The solution is probably to do something like extending student loans to the workplace (you end up *paying* your employer for training) in return for a certain degree of openness among employers as to what they're teaching people, how much incomes have improved after the training, and so on.
Two other problems: Our high schools stink. Also, we want to put lipstick on a pig. Americans don't want to admit that income, intelligence, knowledge, and success will always be unequal. We'd like to think that if someone shows just enough gumption to go to college, they can be taught all four.
CatoRenasci said...
Does one go to college primarily to get an education in the traditional sense - that is to learn about our history, literature and culture, and to become at least literate in science and mathematics - or to obtain 'directly marketable skills' to get a better job.
Historically, gaining a traditional liberal education (which could include on focusing on the hard sciences as well as on the humanities) gave one a knowledge base and perspective on the world, and served as something of a proxy class indicator. That made the college graduate a more desirable employee for higher order jobs which required more knowledge of the world and society, and judgement.
Engineering was something of a special case, and was not taught in most traditional liberal arts colleges 100 years ago or so. Rather, it was the province of technical schools or insitutes - witness the names of some of the most famous from MIT and Cal Tech, through RPI and Rennselaer and the various state Polytechnic insitutes and colleges.
More job-oriented training programs, such as business and accountancy, had no place in the traditional liberal arts college or university, and were found only in state colleges and universities, along side teacher training.
Even when I went to college in the mid-1960s, the distinction was still around: if you wanted an education, you went to a liberal arts college, private university, or one of a few flagship public universities such as the universities of California, Virginia, Michigan, or Wisconsin, not to the state colleges which were still emphasizing teacher training and more directly applicable business skills. As my grandfather put it to me: "get an education in college, no one can ever take that away from you and you will never again have the leisure to get it it. You can always get training later, and it's only good for a few years anyway."
In our world of increasingly expensive higher education (I'm looking at two in college this fall with a combined total $90,000 plus sticker price), even students at traditional liberal arts colleges and private universities feel the need for immediately marketable job skills.
The solution is not to limit the number of college students, but to become clearer about what we want the credential to mean. If we were to return to the sort of traditional classical liberal arts and sciences curriculum of 1960, or even that from before WWII (suitably updated in the sciences), I would be all for limiting the colleges to that sort of work, and relegating what is really very expensive job training to either post-graduate or community college environments, depending on how difficult the skill set being taught really is.
Roger Sweeny said...
Ah, this brings me back. In particular to Charles Peters' old Washington Monthly and its many crusdaes, one of which was anti-credentialism. Peters also didn't like SAT-style exams for the civil service and other employment. He looked forward to people coming up with new kinds of pre-employment testing which would eliminate the need for a lot of school credentialing.
Alas, olvaldo is probably right that any possibility of this happening was destroyed by the Supreme Court in Griggs v. Duke Power (decided March 8, 1971).
Duke Power gave tests to its job appllicants. Whites did better than blacks on them. The Court held that this was a violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 UNLESS the company could prove that the tests were very good predictors of how well applicants would do on the job. Given the tone of the opinion, and the attitude of the EEOC, most lawyers figured that in practise this would be impossible.
On the other hand, the Court specifically refused to hold a college degree requirment in violation, even though it would weigh more heavily on black than white job applicants.
The alternative testing/certification movement basically died.
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Q: How to Use JSON Object to populate Knockout Form I have a form that i would like to populate using knockout data-binding from a JSON object. I have hard coded the values using knockout. What i am really after is since i have a JSON object how do i turn that into data that knockout can use to populate my form dynamically? Here is my FIDDLE

Hero Name:

Agent Writing Number:

Contact Phone:

var HeroDetails = $.get("GetHeroDetailsForVillianView", {
                HeroRequestIdForvillianDetailsView: HeroRequestIdForVillianDetailsView
            }, function (returnDataForDetails) {
                var results = JSON.parse(returnDataForDetails);

   $('#json').text(JSON.stringify({HeroName:'PeterParker', ContactPhone: '123456', HeroCode: 3 }, null, 4));

 function ViewModel() {
var self = this;

 self.HeroName = ko.observable("Peter Parker");
        self.ContactPhone = ko.observable("123456858");
        self.HeroCode = ko.observable("2455654");

 }

ko.applyBindings(new ViewModel());

A: Check out this page of the KO documentation for more details. You might also be interested in the mapping plugin.
Here is the pattern I use:
function ViewModel(data) {
  var self = this;

  self.HeroName = ko.observable(data.HeroName);
  self.ContactPhone = ko.observable(data.PhoneNumber);
  self.HeroCode = ko.observable(data.HeroCode);

}

var viewModel;
$.getJSON("/some/url", function(data) {
    viewModel = new ViewModel(data);
})

ko.applyBindings(viewModel);

A: There are a few ways to do this, but pretty simple with jQuery.
https://jsfiddle.net/2bwegmsv/4/
I added ids to each of the divs where you want the data and then added this to your javascript:
var myJson = {HeroName:'PeterParker', ContactPhone: '123456', HeroCode: 3 };

    $('#hname').append(myJson.HeroName);
    $('#agent').append(myJson.ContactPhone);
    $('#contact').append(myJson.HeroCode);

May not work precisely as you want, but should point you in the right direction.

A: Dynamically: Just binding JSON object.
var jsonDataViewModel = {HeroName:'Peter Parker', ContactPhone: '123456', HeroCode: 3};
ko.applyBindings(jsonDataViewModel);

http://knockoutjs.com/documentation/observables.html

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Skate away…
I hope all my fans, trolls and haters are enjoying the holidays! Here's a wonderful song to get you in the Christmas spirit:
This song is especially meaningful to me because I really do live on a river I can skate away on. Well technically it's a canal. It's literally the World's longest skating rink and I get to live on it.
Do I deserve to live here among the well-heeled and white bred; those who listen to Mozart and sip the finest Cabernet?
To quote the late great Daniel Seligman:
The connection between IQ and achievement has one positive implication. People who are at the top in [North American] life, are probably there because they're more intelligent than the rest of us, which is doubtless the way most of us think it should be.
I love skating as fast as I can under the full moon of a cold January night..
then getting a nice warm beaver tail, to give me just enough energy to skate home.
And then sticking in a nice atmospheric horror film as I sip my well-earned signature homemade hot chocolate.
I think I'm going to make some of that right now.
14 thoughts on "Skate away…"
illuminaticatblog said:
Merry Christmas Pumpkin Person
King meLo said:
Pumpkin, why are you so bored?
RaceRealist said:
I'd be bored if I were Canadian, too.
Damn. Shots fired.
Bruno said:
That looks very good PP. Hope you can buy one flat like that which is pretty cool :
https://ca.classifieds.eu.org/real-estate/houses-apartments-for-sale/amazing-views-of-lansdowne-park-and-rideau-canal-1035-bank-st_i89267
Happy Christmas to all !
PS : I couldn't live there, nor in Sweden, not because of the cold, but because of the mosquitoes. They love me. I can't be next to any swampy area. Weirdly, I have no problems in the mediterranean except when it's swampy (like south east of France Montpellier coast or certain areas of south west of spain like Huelva coast).
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PP, do you have a boyfriend?
pumpkinperson said:
why would a straight man have a boyfriend?
C'mon PP I know you are a woman. The way you write stuff, and your intense interest in oprah, and talking about hot chocolate of which you even shared a recipe if I remember correctly, posting song videos of female singers etc all of these indicate you may be a woman.
I also talk about statistics, evolution, IQ, hbd, slasher films. Not a lot of women obsess about those topics
There are more women who are interested in stuff you mentioned than men who are interested in stuff i mentioned.
GondwanaMan said:
Have a Happy Christmas season Pumpkin!!!!! ("Christmas season" versus Happy Holidays because we are a Christian nation. Although now we're coming to the end of the season).
Try some Kahlua in the Hot Chocolate.
I agree. I make it a point to say "Merry Christmas" when people say "Happy Holidays" to me. I start growing my winter coat (beard) in June every year and I've gotten some "Happy Hannukah" (sp?) comments. I look at them and say "Merry Christmas."
I understand that it's tough—if not impossible—for many "men" to grow beards. But a man with a full thick beard isn't always Jewish.
Pumpkin, on the Des Moines morning of the Ravens matrices, there's a huge difference between the 16 year olds and the 15 year olds, but on the Fort Bend norms, the difference isn't that large. What explains this? Are the Des Moines norms the correct norms or are they inflated?
Privileged Sanctimony said:
Someone is awfully proud: "I'm so lucky to be relatively good at math so I can live among upper-middle class people in an inconsequential country's capital."


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Q: Java EE: how to access local EJB from web module? I have created a local EJB that I want to access from a web module in the same VM. My code looks like this:
@EJB
private UserBeanLocal userBean;

public UsuarioManagedBean() {
     InitialContext c = new InitialContext();
     userBean = (UserBeanLocal) c.lookup("java:global/UsersApp/Users-ejb/UserBean!biz.users.beans.UserBeanLocal");
}

public List<User> getUsers() {
    users = this.userBean.listUsers();
    return users;
}

And this works fine. However, somebody told me that I don't need to do a lookup if I'm working with a local bean, I only need to make an injection like this:
@EJB
private UserBeanLocal userBean;

public UsuarioManagedBean() {

}

public List<User> getUsers() {
    users = this.userBean.listUsers();
    return users;
}

But if I try this I get a null exception on this.userBean.
The person who advised me works with JBoss and I'm using glassfish. Am I doing something wrong?

A: The @EJB annotation only works with application-server controlled classes like servlets, mdbs, other ejbs.
I'm guessing that UsuarioManagedBean is a pojo and hence the NPE because the resource never gets injected.

A: @Lucia looks like UsuarioManagedBean is a POJO. @Kal is right. You cannot inject ejb into a pojo.
If you really want to inject into a pojo consider using CDI.
Using CDI your code will look as below

@Inject private UserBeanLocal userBean;

Please publish more details like jvm version, Glassfish version etc..


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The Distillers playing 3 Texas shows on reunion tour
Andrew Sacher Published: January 17, 2018
The Distillers were recently announced on the lineup for Atlanta's Shaky Knees festival, their first announced reunion tour date since breaking up in 2006. They've been revealing more dates on Twitter (with teasers like the one pictured above), with shows currently announced in El Paso, San Diego, Santa Ana, Phoenix, and Dallas, with more TBA.
We'll keep you updated as more dates get added, but in the meantime, check out all currently announced dates below (most venues are still TBA). Hopefully they'll play NYC?!
UPDATE: Austin added and all venues revealed. Tickets for this run go on sale Friday (1/19).
When The Distillers teased the reunion, they posted a video that appeared to include new music. If a followup to 2003's excellent Coral Fang is on the way, that will be very exciting news.
The Distillers -- 2018 Tour Dates (more TBA)
4/25 The Casbah San Diego, CA
4/27 The Observatory Santa Ana, CA
4/28 Crescent Ballroom Phoenix, AZ
4/29 Lowbrow Palace El Paso, TX
5/1 Mohawk Austin, TX
5/2 Curtain Club Dallas, TX
5/4-6 Shaky Knees Atlanta, GA
Source: The Distillers playing 3 Texas shows on reunion tour
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Anka hrvatski je dječji igrani film iz 2017. godine. Film je snimljen prema romanu Mate Lovraka Anka Brazilijanka. Priča je to o snazi i moći dječje ljubavi, kroz bajku za djecu i odrasle gdje je prikazan lik djevojčice Anke koju iz sirotišta posvaja bogata rođakinja.

Radnja

Radnja je smještena u Europu 20. stoljeća, djevojčicu Anku iz sirotišta posvaja bogata rođakinja. Anka razočarana rođakinjom bježi želeći se vratiti u sirotište, ali je put odvede do ciglane u šumskom okruženju. Ciglari gorštačke vanjštine, ali dobra srca, smještaju je u sobu ciglara Brazilijanca koji je završio u zatvoru, također siročeta. Anka djevojčica bujne mašte u ciglani i njenom okruženju susreće se bajkovita šumska bića nevidljiva odraslima.

Uloge

 Cvita Viljac - Anka
 Eric Cantona - Brazilijanac
 Anđela Ramljak - Milka
 Rade Šerbedžija - bilježnik
 Linda Begonja - milostiva / Sena
 Vuk Kostić - Milan
 Nikola Kojo - vlasnik ciglane
 Žarko Savić - Marko
 Goran Grgić - sudac
 Jelena Lopatić - noćna Jagarica
 Petar Mirčevski - noćni Jagar

Zanimljivosti

 Film Anka ekraniziran je četrdeset godina nakon ekranizacije također Lovrakovog romana Vlak u snijegu
 U filmu se pojavljuje i francuski glumac, nogometna legenda Eric Cantona

Prikazivanje
Film se započeo prikazivati u kinima 23. veljače 2017. godine u distribuciji Blitz Film & Video, dok je televizijsku premijeru doživio kao trodijelna TV serija na Hrvatskoj radioteleviziji u prosincu 2017. godine.

Izvori

Dramski filmovi
Hrvatski filmovi 2010-ih
Televizijske serije iz 2017.


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