Traditionally, timber beams, spanning from one party wall to the other, support the second floor. However, the designers opted to hide the structural beams (still wood) inside the ceiling. The ones seen on the first floor's ceiling are hollow. The designers decided to install them to recall the original interiors.
An open plan and courtyard ventilate this 1920s residence and make family time a breeze.
17 Blair Road with its abundant ornamentation, Corinthian pilasters, and French windows with internal balustrades is of the Late Shophouse Style prevalent in the 1920s -1930s. Bolted half-length doors called pintu pagar fronting the entrance allow residents to keep the main doors open for ventilation without sacrificing security.
Blair Road is a quintessential row of shophouses, macaron-colored façades ornamented with relief and ceramic tiles showcasing the affluence of their first owners. The government made sure today's walk through the district would not differ from one in the 1920s, when the terrace houses were built. However, the interiors of these heritage buildings have been adapted to contemporary living. We enter shophouse number 17. From the front door, one can see the black spiral service staircase at the very back of the house.
"The client requested for a really open space. The transparency allows him to watch his kids play in the courtyard while he's in the living room or the kitchen, or even upstairs," says project lead Tomas Jaramillo of ONG&ONG. Connecting spaces also meant connecting family life.
The client knew they needed special places in the house to mount their art collection. "They gave us the dimensions of the artworks which allowed us to create coves that are just the right size such as the ones here in the dining area," says Jaramillo.
Before renovation began in 2010, the shophouse was used as an office and fell into disrepair—steel roll ups shuttered the ground floor fenestrations, and the inner courtyard was sealed to maximize the space for pencil-pushing. Turning the building into a family residence involved restoring 80 percent of the exteriors based on archival photos. The team also rebuilt granite brackets on the residential front. "One of the advantages of this typology is you can leave the main door open, but there's still security from the half length swing doors in front called pintu pagar. It allows air to flow through," says Jaramillo.
The courtyard and kitchen in the rear volume as seen from the front volume of the shophouse. A retractable awning installed below the eave of the front volume covers the courtyard when it rains. A gutter at the top edge of the rear volume catches the water.
The courtyard was uncapped, and 37 square meters of turf replaced traditional granite floors. With a vertical garden covering the entire left wall and a tree thriving to the right, this verdant center is now the stomping grounds of little feet. It also serves as an exhaust and natural light source for the entire house. Other sources of indirect light and ventilation are the carved openings (similar to Filipino calado vents) above the front windows. All living spaces and bedrooms have ceiling fans because, on an average day, those are all the residents need to stay comfortable.
The traditional program in which service areas are at the rear of the shophouse is retained, amplified even. The client, an avid cook, asked for a large kitchen. The designers decided to stack the maid's quarters, laundry room, and storage; all of which utilize the back wall. A small pool, which the kids enjoy on weekends, was built on the top deck. The rest of the volume is dedicated to the 6-meter-tall kitchen whose doors frame the tree and activity in the courtyard. "The kitchen is another portal from which you can enjoy the house," says the architect.
The hallway between the kids' bedrooms on the second floor incorporates extra storage and shelving as the client requested. Teak screens, painted white, above the shelves conceal an air condition unit and cabinets.
Shophouses were designed narrow and 17 Blair Road, at 4.9 by 35 meters, is no exemption. Getting natural light in long volumes with party walls is a challenge. Of course, the courtyard is a big help but today's residents may find a traditional shophouse still too dim. Besides a horizontal row of spaces imposed by the shophouse shell, the designers employed vertical transparency to resolve the issue of light. The team decongested the area near the entrance by removing the damaged timber staircase by the left party wall. Access to upper doors was moved to the center, right below the roof pitch. This transfer made room in the living area and emphasized the means of connectivity. It now occupies a more prominent, not to mention the tallest, part of the home. Also, the height allowed for a dramatic staircase.
From the top floor, one can see the interiors of the jack roof. Remote-operable windows are situated below the eaves to let heat escape and light in. Additional light is let in by glass panels in the narrow gables.
"The staircase also works as a visual feature, like a sculpture," says Jaramillo. "You can see how the whole house is connected by the void of the staircase." Operable windows at the very top provide essential ventilation for hot air rising the void. Sunlight cascades to the ground floor where a smiling Mao statue in the heart of the stairwell basks with arms raised. When dinner's ready, little heads peer from the upper landing as names are called out for meal time.
Shielding the daughter's bedroom facing the courtyard and the master bath on top is a large teak screen, 4.8 meters tall, extending towards the roof. Bedroom sliding doors and bath windows can be le open without risking privacy. Low-e glass is used on the portion of the roof covering the bath's terrace with plants. The screen is mounted on a sky blue glass overhang, easily mistaken for a re ection pool, that extends from the second- oor level. Given the materials used and with the skylight above, this small balcony lters light to the area below it.
Unlike the ground floor beams, the exposed rafters in the master bath are load-bearing. While the rest of the house utilizes wood for structural support, the bathrooms make use of concrete waterproofing. A wall of floor-to-ceiling sliding windows provide ventilation.
Facing the street, the son's bedroom maximizes a double volume dictated by conservation regulation: the designers were not permitted to build all the way to the front wall. "We proposed to have the master bedroom here with the view, the height, and the nice casement windows. However, they wanted to take the loft , which still benefits from the natural light," says the architect. On days when the young boy is practicing piano, music fills the volume, and his parents can listen in by simply opening their loft windows.


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For the first time in Collegiate's history, participating alumni have the opportunity to see their names permanently displayed by class within the school! In September, the Alumni Association jump-started the Community Phase of Collegiate's Second Century Campaign with a pledge of $30,000 (from their general fund), towards an overall goal of $100,000 for Alumni.
Achieving this goal will give the alumni the naming right to The Alumni Crossing. The Alumni Crossing is a wide, second-floor corridor that connects three buildings at the heart of campus. The Alumni Crossing forms the intersection of the original Glenmary Campus, now housing the Lower School, the Speed Middle School, and The Brown Arts Center, which serves all three divisions. The Alumni
Crossing also serves as an entrance to the new Speed Commons and The Terrace, overlooking the campus field. This space is a prime location not only for student-centered activities but also for Alumni meetings, gatherings, and special presentations.
While Alumni may no longer be on campus daily, they are an important part of both Collegiate's history and future. As a bridge between Collegiate's first and second century-buildings, The Alumni Crossing will display a class-by-class listing of alumni who make a $100 or more gift to honor Collegiate's second century. By making your $100 or more donation today, we will be one step closer to naming The Alumni Crossing, and your name will be on the permanent display.
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6th August 2010. Membership has reached an all time high - now at 2412 active Members. August Challenge - can we get to 2500 Members before 1st September?
... you'll see this counter on the Home Page. So welcome to all our new members and thank you to all that continue to renew. You certainly contribute to making ExplorOz more viable.
It's a great question and it was discussed in the Forum a few days ago in Thread 80358 and makes great reading.
The nomadic instinct to travel is strong in some of us, but for others the trappings of our modern world have overshadowed these basic instincts. You know the type - they're the ones that shake their heads in utter confusion when you enthusiastically share your most joyous momements - sleeping under a star-lit sky, preparing meals over the campfire, enjoying the challenges of no hot running water, switching off from the media, overcoming obstacles, and getting reacquainted with yourself and your camping companions. They can't think of anything more confronting, you can't think of anything more appealing! That's what makes the ExplorOz community special ... we're that rare breed that get it!
Our current promotion aims to see more people join up or renew Membership in August to help us achieve a target of reaching 2500 Members by end August. You'll feel better when you "act, belong, and commit" to something that holds relevance to you.
Who's a part of it?
ExplorOz site visitation is around 1 million (that's 1 million times someone visits the ExplorOz.com website in a month). Whilst that sounds impressive, it really means nothing unless there is a purpose to it. Our purpose in being the publisher of ExplorOz.com is being viable as a provider of an online community where people engage in the collaboration and sharing of resources to enrich one another's adventures. It also means our No. 1 goal is to make your online experience relevant to your needs as travellers.
Unlike almost any other community-based website, we encourage people to get off the computer and into the outdoors, so whilst ExplorOz will continue to publish trek notes, technical articles, and more, our future also looks towards providing web-technology to mesh with your mobility. That's why we've focussed our latest developments, on tools that have relevance when you're actually on the road travelling, rather than sitting on the computer at work or at home.
Our new online tracking service now has 82 subscribers - proof enough that we are heading in the right direction with EOTrackMe. Blogs - another Members only feature, have also taken off in popularity, since adding the facility toblog by email , with many days seeing 10 new entries published. Everyone seems to be reading blogs, with many receving more views than the average Forum post! When viewed in conjunction with the live map showing your position through EOTrackMe in your profile, blogs made during your trip with your photos and stories can be very informative for family & friends that often want to follow your trip live. NEW TODAY: Member Profiles now have "MyMap" - a new area in your Member Profile. All your previous updates to Places will be stored here (ie. your photo/text updates) and when you continue to update Places (either by the new email service or online) you'll find each entry added as a point on the map which you can click and see the photo you took along with your comment. See our profile for a profile with lots of points loaded!
August Membership Challenge Let's aim to reach 2500 active Members before the 1st September. To encourage you to help us reach this goal, we are waiving the $20 joining fee immediately for all new Memberships making the fee just $40 to become a Member if you sign up in the remainder of August. And because renewals are just as important, we are offering anyone that pays their $40 renewal in the remainder of August a $10 gift voucher in your Member Money account upon renewal. There's never been a better time to JOIN !
Our current poll is bringing in surprising results. We've put out the option for you to consider offering visitors the opportunity to enter comments into blogs. It would enable Member's family and friends to freely register to chat in their blogs, and for those Members that are seeking more opportunities to discuss topics that are considered OffTopic in the Forum, this brings an opportunity for you to open up the discussions through your blogs to a wider audience. As with all Member tools, you would have the option on each blog you submit to choose which ones you want to receive comments in, and from which user-group. Voting is open to everyone so don't miss your chance to vote on this. To vote, go to the Forum and click on the Poll tab.
Whilst the ExplorOz site might appear to be run by a massive media publisher, our office is just a small team of 4 with a few part-time contractors and volunteers. Whilst we have always managed with a few hard workers, we are certainly restricted in what we can accomplish. If you have some spare time and a passion to see ExplorOz move forward (and even fix up some redundancies), think about becoming an ExplorOz volunteer !!
Some of the available tasks that can be done by people using their home computers are: Places (basic database text entry); Road Conditions data management (good for people that know names of roads/tracks and have confidence using digital mapping); and Forum Moderation. In each of these areas you would be given "administrator" level access to the site and expected to contribute regularly to your task area. Contact us direct if you're interested.


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So let's talk Halloween. I'm sure you can guess from my previous posts how I feel about it. But you might be surprised to find out that my biggest problem with Halloween is not the candy, costumes or themes of evil and death…although I could go on for hours about these. My biggest problem with Halloween is the church adopting this pagan holiday and trying to make it into something good.
I have seen pictures and messages all over social media advertising church parties and gatherings for Halloween. To be really honest, those disturb me more than seeing non-believers in gruesome face masks, gory makeup, hyper-sexualized or even devil costumes. Why?
Because we are supposed to be set apart for God.
While it's true the Bible doesn't speak directly about Halloween, or most modern Christian holidays for that matter, which should really make you pause and wonder why, the Bible is very clear about the separation between good and evil, right and wrong, the holy and the profane.
Now let me be clear. I am not saying celebrating Halloween in any way makes you a bad person or you'll go to hell or will be punished.
I do, however, believe what the Scripture says…that we should discern what is pleasing to our God and strive to be perfect as He is perfect. The Word of God is clear that YHVH desires us to be set apart and to not mimic the practices of the peoples around us. That means that we cannot take any part of the things that keep us separated or divided from God.
This is how the enemy does trick-or-treating.
He gets his treats from tricking us into believing we can change the meaning of Halloween into something acceptable to God.
This is my concern with the Church celebrating pagan holidays, including Halloween. We take something that was never meant to be part of the ways of YHVH and make it into something that allows us to take part with the nations around us. We ease our conscience by giving it a new name, of course, but it's still the same. "A rose by any other name" as Shakespeare put it.
But these "Harvest Festivals" and "Trunk or Treating" and "Harvest Carnivals" are still Halloween. The enemy of God doesn't care what you call it, just as long as you celebrate it. That's because taking part of the unclean makes us unclean. If we are unclean, we are separated from God.
The point is, no matter how much we try to change the original intent of Halloween and dress it up and give it a "church message," there will always be some amount of poop that remains.
I recently saw a post on social media inviting people to a church on Halloween with the words "Hell Night" written in bloody letters across the top. I've seen young children on their way to church events with their faces plastered with gory, slasher-movie make up to make them look like zombies or monsters. The disturbing part are the crosses hanging prominently in the background of these families' homes.
We are not to mix the holy and the profane. We shouldn't be teaching our children that we can live in both the heavenly and the worldly realm. We CANNOT be like the world. No matter how much we try to change the common things, we will never be able to make them holy.
If we truly want to celebrate the harvest season, YHVH appointed the seasons of Sukkot — the Feast of Tabernacles — and First Fruits for this purpose. Both are feasts of the LORD and allow us to celebrate the seasons of life. But if we can't bring ourselves to line up with YHVH's instruction, then perhaps we need to reassess the motives of our hearts.
What is most important to us? Fitting in with the world or fitting in with our Father?
If we intend to live in the Father's house, then we will never look like the rest of the world. That has to be ok with us; it can't just be words that come out of our mouths. We have to be totally committed to living a set apart life and not fitting in with the rest of the world.
So this Halloween, don't be fooled by the tricks or treats of the enemy.


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With all of the recent jockeying over the stalled New York City teacher evaluation deal, little has changed in the last several weeks. The governor's threat to withhold state aid has been temporarily enjoinedwhile the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) and mayor, also prevented from implementing the State cuts, still seem at loggerheads. And has anyone noticed that the State Education Department's sword rattling deadline for withholding federal funds has come and gone? That possibility vanished because John King was blindsided when Arne Duncan blinked.
King, New York State's Education Commissioner, had previously threatened to suspend or redirect over a billion dollars of federal education aid, including our entire Title I allocation, if New York City and its teachers union did not agree to a formula for job-threatening teacher evaluations by February 15. This unilateral dictate -- holding over three million students as financial hostages to force a supposedly voluntary contract agreement -- was demolished when the U.S. Department of Education headed by Secretary Duncan, stated on February 1 that the agency "had no plans to withhold grant money," as reported by the Wall Street Journal and the city DOE issued a rehashingof its so-far incomplete teacher evaluation efforts that King had already criticized.
The pressure being put on the City and the Union to agree to a set of standardized test-based teacher evaluations is absurd. City schools' potential loss of approximately $250 million in State funds based on Governor Cuomo's decision to punish districts that failed to agree to his January deadline is threatened as contrary to the State's obligations to adequately fund City schools. In a counter-move, Cuomo has reeled in Senate and Democratic leaders to propose repeal of the collective bargaining provision that gave rise to the evaluation impasse.
Most district unions caved to Cuomo's threat since they are more dependent on State money than New York, which is routinely shortchanged by Albany and can withstand this deprivation -- while very serious -- without core instructional impact. Besides, the teachers probably reasoned, it remains to be seen if any are eventually fired as a result of the new evaluation system. Termination hearings are notoriously complex and questions over highly-variable test results may even protect teachers with poor principal evaluations. So it is understandable that union locals would take this calculated risk -- certain money now in exchange for few possible firings later -- in agreeing to Cuomo's now-suspect conditions.
These evaluation funding follies have been perpetrated by politicians, policy wonks, and their deep-pocketed patrons to solve an imaginary problem through an untested solution. Even the conservative TNTP emphasizes that our greatest need is to retain good teachers (however that may be defined) since most teachers of any stripe leave the system early in their careers. In addition to King and Cuomo, Mayor Bloomberg has damaged whatever little education credibility he has left by denouncing a sunset provision in the potential UFT agreement, though almost every other State-approved plan contains that element. Even Duncan's Pollyanna pronouncement that New York has made "notable gains" toward implementing its Race to the Top promises is fallacious. As King has noted, we are far from meeting the goals set forth in our RttT and No Child Left Behind waiver (formally, "ESEA Flexibility") proposals. Just as no knowledgeable participant thought there was truth in the phrase "No Child Left Behind" so we are caught again in a duplicitous series of false promises and gamed results.
The next steps? First, King should lose his job, having put the ideological purity of the accountability movement ahead of a billion dollars critical to the education of millions of mostly poor children in his charge. His legal arguments are wrong since, under his own Department's Regents Rule 30-2.1(c), interpreting his statutory powers regarding a teacher evaluation system, no evaluation system is permitted unless there is union signoff. As important, his letter to Chancellor Walcott presumes to speak for the federal Education Secretary in threatening "suspension and/or redirection of federal funds and/or determination that NYC DOE is a 'high risk grantee'" under federal regulations. When Arne Duncan pulled that rug out from King's empty pronouncement, he proved that the commissioner is less interested in kids than in unproven evaluation mechanics.
Second, the new commissioner should renegotiate our RttT and ESEA Flexibility agreements to provide for a more realistic implementation schedule, with substantive changes to student, teacher, and teacher prep evaluation systems more consistent with current research. The Department of Education has never walked away from a RttT or ESEA deal and is unlikely to do so now.
Finally, the governor, having at least temporarily failed to punish New York by withholding funds this year, should keep his powder dry and await results from the teacher evaluation plans already in place before re-imposing cuts next year, as he recently announced. Real cuts = real kids, Governor. Don't do it again without more information.
No one is arguing against hard-headed teacher evaluation and removal of poor performers, tenured and untenured. I have repeatedly written that the probationary period be extended from three years so that principals and teachers alike have time for evaluation and improvement without the premature attachment of increased due process through tenure. I teach my Leadership grad students that it is God's work to terminate a bad teacher. But the current use of student test scores for such decisions is so fraught with unknowns that we do a disservice to all when we pretend they have any statistical utility in personnel decisions. The chief myth underlying this set of political follies is that we know enough to do no harm. Our leaders are jeopardizing scarce funds for children in need to hide their basic ignorance.
David Bloomfield, Esq. is is Professor of Educational Leadership, Law, and Policy at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of American Public Education Law, 2nd edition, praised by Diane Ravitch as "a user-friendly guide to education law that will prove extremely helpful to parents, teachers, and all others concerned about public education." Teachers College Record called it "a useful and distinguished school law text."
A former teacher and graduate of Columbia U. School of Law and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs at Princeton U., he served as law clerk to Hon. Robert L. Carter (USDJ, SDNY) prior to joining Hogan & Hartson, a prominent Washington, DC law firm, where he practiced Education Law. He also served as an Assistant Corporation Counsel for New York City before becoming General Counsel to the New York City Board of Education. He was also General Counsel and Senior Education Adviser to the Manhattan Borough President and Executive Director for public education initiatives at the New York City Partnership.
Greetings. Federal court records show that Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits challenging federal government secrecy by news groups have declined, according to an analysis by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC).
This slump in the number of media suits does not seem to indicate that there is less government secrecy. In fact, the overall number of FOIA suits by individuals and other organizations has increased under the Obama administration.
Among the reasons cited for the decline are slashes in newsroom budgets and the development of alternative organizations ferreting out more and more government information that was previously unavailable.
Included in the short list of the most active news organizations using the FOIA were the New York Times, the Fox News Network and the Associated Press. Among those who did not file a single suit during the last term of President Bush and the first term of President Obama were USA Today, the Wall Street Journal and the Huffington Post. The report also examined usage of FOIA by reporters submitting requests to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over the last two years.
Syracuse, NY — A search by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) of thousands of federal court records indicates that media organizations as a whole appear to be challenging government secrecy at the federal level less often than in the past.
For example, during the last four years of the Bush administration (FY 2005 – 2008), news organizations filed a total of 22 lawsuits asking the federal courts to order the release of withheld government records under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). By contrast, during the first four years of the Obama administration (FY 2009 – 2012), that number had fallen to 18 FOIA court actions.
A range of different reasons are offered for the decline. "Newsroom budgets have been slashed so it is no surprise that there is less time to pursue freedom of information litigation and less willingness to put time into stories where government may delay responding for long beyond the statutory limits," said David Cay Johnston, now president ofInvestigative Reporters and Editors.
Thomas M. Susman, now director of the American Bar Association's Government Affairs Office, has been a leading figure in the development of the FOIA since the late 1960s, when he was in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel and then became a staffer on the key Senate subcommittee on FOIA matters.
TRAC compiled figures on the media's FOIA record by harnessing the detailed information on FOIA lawsuits it has gathered and makes available on FOIAproject.org. Case details and documents are available for each lawsuit classified by the federal courts as a Freedom of Information Act suit and filed since October 1, 2004.
To locate suits filed by media organizations, TRAC reviewed the names of plaintiffs in each suit. A total of 40 lawsuits were identified as filed by media requestors during the eight year period of FY 2005 – 2012. See Table 1.
Except for an upward bump in filings during the year immediately following a presidential election, the number of lawsuits filed by the media appear quite modest as compared with the total of 2,562 FOIA lawsuits that were filed during this same period. These 40 media lawsuits represent only 1.6 percent of total filings. See Table 2.
A year-by-year examination is more revealing. During the last four years under President Bush, 1.8 percent of FOIA filings originated from the media. By comparison, during the first four years in President Obama's first term, media cases slid to 1.4 percent of the total. In the last year of Mr. Obama's first term only 3 FOIA matters — 0.9 percent of the total — were filed by news organizations.
A very small number of news organizations were responsible for filing these 40 cases during the two presidential terms. Dominating this list, with 12 filings, was The New York Times. Second with five filings was the Fox News Network. Third with four court complaints was the Associated Press. And with just two cases each were Bloomberg, The Los Angeles Times, the Reno Newspapers and the Washington Post.
- Covers all lawsuits filed from October 1, 2004 to March 1, 2013 whose "nature of suit" was classified by federal courts as a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.
- Media counts are based on a manual search among the plaintiffs for media organizations. All large print, broadcast and online media groups were searched by name. In addition, a lengthy list of words that often appear within media organization names was searched to identify plaintiffs with those words in their name.
Almost as noticeable as those on the list of most active media in this area were the well-known news groups who were absent. They included USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, McClatchy Newspapers, Reuters, Time, Newsweek, ABC, CBS and NBC. Also missing were new media organizations such as the Huffington Post.
There is some irony in the fact that among those leading the battle for the passage of the original Freedom of Information Act in 1966 and later amendments — against a reluctant executive branch — were organizations like the American Society of News Editors (ASNE) and the editorial boards of hundreds of news organizations.
The court records show the media are not the most active when it comes to filing FOIA lawsuits. But news organizations are using the FOIA in other ways. Under the law, the process starts at the administrative level by making a written request asking for federal agency records. To address the wider issue of FOIA usage, one needs data on how often the media submit FOIA requests to federal agencies.
Information on the actual FOIA usage by the news organizations is hard to come by partly because of the sheer number of these requests: 640,000 in FY 2011 alone. Several years ago, however, the former Coalition of Journalists for Open Government — an alliance of more the 30 journalism-related organizations — made an attempt to answer a part of the question by analyzing 6,439 FOIA requests made to 11 cabinet-level departments and six large agencies in September of 2005. The coalition found that news organization accounted for only 6 percent of these requests.
For this study, a different approach was adopted that began with obtaining and studying the details of over 30,000 FOIA decisions that were made by a single agency — Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — from October 2010 to August of 2012. These records, based on the agency's augmented FOIA logs, have just been added to FOIAproject.org. Since these decisions relate to requests that were sent to a single agency they obviously cannot be generalized to the whole government. Given that immigration matters have figured prominently in the news during this period, however, the results from this one agency may be illuminating.
TRAC analyzed a total of 32,913 FOIA matters handled by ICE in the study period. Of this total only 233 — less than one percent (0.7%) — could be identified as coming from the news media. At first glance this is an even lower proportion of media-related FOIA activities than was seen in the federal courts.
However, the requests that ICE receives are overwhelmingly dominated by individuals and their lawyers seeking agency files on that individual. Indeed, fully 31,368 out of the 32,913 FOIA requests acted upon by ICE involved an alien's files ("A-Files") and similar records on named individuals (see Table 4). Because of privacy protections, such files are not open to reporters. Thus it is not surprising that the media make few requests for the files on named individuals.
But, as suggested above, FOIA requests for information on mattersother than individual files were much rarer: amounting to only 1,545 of the total. Thus, relative to this much smaller number, the total of 233 requests submitted by media organizations suggests the media during the past two years for this one agency were relatively active.
At total of 27 media organizations accounted for over two-thirds (160) of the 233 requests. Each of these had made two or more requests. The list of media organizations with multiple requests are shown in Table 5, where the method used in identifying these is also described.
- Covers request-by-request information from ICE files released to FOIAproject.org in response to FOIA requests for augmented logs on all FOIA decisions made by ICE during the preceeding month.
Topping the list was the Associated Press with 23 requests. Next, with 17 each, were the Center for Investigative Reporting and the Houston Chronicle. Then came Muckrock Communications with 14 and SAE Productions with 9.
There was a much larger list of news organizations that accounted for the remaining third (73) of all media requests. Each of these had submitted a single request during this two-year period. Their names are listed in Table 6. While quite a number of national media are on these two lists, it is also interesting how many smaller papers and local TV stations are also represented.
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In an interview, Ted Bridis, head of the AP's investigative team, attributed the relatively large number of administrative requests aimed at ICE to a formal and informal effort by the organization to teach its reporters and editors how "to file them and how to do it better." In addition, he said, AP has developed a series of templates to help reporters improve the wording and relevancy of their initial filings.
However, in contrast to the AP, the story behind the large number of FOIA requests submitted by media organizations who tied for second place is quite different — the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) and the Houston Chronicle (HC). In each of these cases, a single reporter — Andrew Becker (CIR) and Susan Carroll (HC) — was responsible for submitting all or virtually all requests from each organization. These two reporters stand as great examples of what many more reporters could be doing but currently aren't: using FOIA requests to ferret out important news stories.
 These figures may have missed some lawsuits filed by media groups. TRAC may have failed to identify some plaintiffs as media organizations. Further, the original list of FOIA lawsuits relies upon the federal court's classification of cases by their nature of suit. This court classification undoubtedly does not encompass every suit where the Freedom of Information Act was one of several causes of the action in the litigation.
 These figures are likely to somewhat underestimate the number of media requests. TRAC was undoubtedly imperfect in identifying media organization from among those submitting the 32,913 requests reviewed. Further, while TRAC had asked for information on every FOIA request the agency had acted on during this period, ICE appears not to have located a significant number of these, presumably because of deficiencies in its search procedures. For example, TRAC found a number of its own FOIA requests not included among the records ICE released. In addition, a comparison of the number of FOIA cases it reported in its FY 2011 and FY 2012 FOIA annual reports shows a significantly larger volume than the agency released, even adjusting for these covering just a 23-month rather than a 24-month period.


i am from Baker Tilly Karachi, and want to switch in any other firm where learning opportunities are available.. please help me guys..
<br />i am from Baker Tilly Karachi, and want to switch in any other firm where learning opportunities are available.. please help me guys..
Its a harsh reality that switching from one firm to another is not that much easy for some reasons like the firm u belong to might not allow to do so and secondly getting into other firm is not that much easy however ICAP does allow the trainee students to switch to other firm.
Hint Try to get articles in some good firm without leaking this thing to the present firm and then request the relevant partner.
thanx... but if icap has given a provision in contract , then i think if i get a chance in better firm, then icap would help me if my present firm wont give me NOC. right ?
Hopefully ICAP will help you in this regard.
I would suggest you to complete your training in the firm you are at the moment. you have spent 2 years already, its just a matter of 1.5 years..I say this because nowadays, there is a lot of monopoly among firms. unless you have a good reference in bdo or gt, you will not be inducted (they make induction for new/fresh students so hard..compitition is great). and IF they do induct you, they will make it hard for you to stay (because you are unwanted for them-ie a person who has changed the firm etc.. they may have many issues against you) .. so you may be kept as an internee or something until they are satisfied.
Since icap is a regulatory body, it has a provision of changing firms, but its not that easy. something like noc would be required, which your present firm would not provide you with..and you will also get in the bad books of your current firms partner or whatever..
i think 'learning' is a subjective issue.. every person learns something or the other at any place he is. having done 15+ clients in 2 years is a good average..and in any other firm, you may get big clients, but the learning will be the same..you will deal with the same issues..and most of all, its about satisfaction. 2 people can not have the same learning..your learning will be different from my learning..even if we go to the same client (for example you go to audit, i go for review), your dealing and my client dealing, your learning and mine will be different..so it can not match with anyone..
the advantage for you would be to give more time to your studies and pass papers- that is the most important thing..


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require "test_helper"

class InactiveUsersSuspensionReminderMailingListTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase
  def suspension_reminder_mailing_list
    InactiveUsersSuspensionReminderMailingList.new(User::SUSPENSION_THRESHOLD_PERIOD).generate
  end

  context "generating suspension mailing list" do
    setup do
      @in1  = create(:user, current_sign_in_at: User::SUSPENSION_THRESHOLD_PERIOD.ago)
      @in3  = create(:user, current_sign_in_at: (User::SUSPENSION_THRESHOLD_PERIOD - 2.days).ago)
      @in7  = create(:user, current_sign_in_at: (User::SUSPENSION_THRESHOLD_PERIOD - 6.days).ago)
      @in14 = create(:user, current_sign_in_at: (User::SUSPENSION_THRESHOLD_PERIOD - 13.days).ago)
    end

    should "select users whose accounts will get suspended in 1 day" do
      assert_equal [@in1], suspension_reminder_mailing_list[1]
    end

    should "select users whose accounts will get suspended in 3 days" do
      assert_equal [@in3], suspension_reminder_mailing_list[3]
    end

    should "select users whose accounts will get suspended in 7 days" do
      assert_equal [@in7], suspension_reminder_mailing_list[7]
    end

    should "select users whose accounts will get suspended in 14 days" do
      assert_equal [@in14], suspension_reminder_mailing_list[14]
    end

    should "select users who signed-in more than suspension threshold days ago" do
      signed_in_48_days_ago = create(:user, current_sign_in_at: 48.days.ago)
      assert_includes suspension_reminder_mailing_list[1], signed_in_48_days_ago
    end

    should "exclude recently unsuspended users from the mailings" do
      recently_unsuspended = create(:suspended_user, current_sign_in_at: 48.days.ago)
      Timecop.travel(2.days.ago) { recently_unsuspended.unsuspend }

      assert_not_includes suspension_reminder_mailing_list[1], recently_unsuspended
    end
  end
end


The national team lost 2-0 a friendly match to Italian Serie B side Pescara in a friendly match in Roccarso on Saturday afternoon. The game was part of the national team's one-week pre-season training camp in Italy.
Marco Sansovini converted a penalty five minutes from the end of the first half to put Pescara ahead and Angelo Corsi doubled the score two minutes in added time.
The starting line-up for Malta: Andrew Hogg, Jonathan Caruana, Carlo Mamo, Gareth Sciberras, Massimo Grima, Roderick Briffa, Jamie Pace, Kevin Sammut, Shaun Bajada, Andrew Cohen, Michael Mifsud.


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The Centennial Finale: Highlights from the Basilica's 100-year Celebration
When Bishop Thomas Shahan first presented the idea of the National Shrine to Pope Pius X in 1913, he hoped to create a building that would enhance sacramental life and serve as a "National Monument or testimony" resting "on a national devotion to the Blessed Virgin." Now, over a century after the placement of the foundation stone on September 23, 1920, the National Shrine embodies this vision in a "distinctively American" style, serving as a place of worship, pilgrimage, evangelization and reconciliation. Through the generosity of generations of American Catholics, it stands as our nation's preeminent Marian shrine and patronal church, rivaling the great sanctuaries of Europe and the world, not only in size and stature, but also in beauty, dignity and sanctity.
As our centennial year comes to a close, we invite you to take a look at the special posts celebrating our 100 years as America's Catholic Church.
100 Years in Pictures at America's Catholic Church
See some of the most significant events in the life of the Basilica with this collection of historic photos. From the blessing of the land to the dedication of the Trinity Dome, this post gives you a bird's-eye view of many significant events that have taken place at the National Shrine.
The National Shrine: Then and Now
Built by generations of faithful American Catholics to honor the patroness of our nation, the National Shrine has been 100 years in the making. Its Romanesque-Byzantine style made it possible to use the building long before it was completed. Take a look at the construction process of the National Shrine and the completed spaces today.
What makes the National Shrine America's Catholic Church?
Read personal stories from the faithful as they share their favorite memories of the Basilica and what it has meant to them. From serving as a sanctuary of prayer and pilgrimage to a place of celebration for major events such as papal visits and the first canonization on American soil, the National Shrine holds a special place in the hearts of American Catholics.
Watch the Basilica's Centennial Mass
On September 20, 2020, the National Shrine held a special Mass in honor of the 100th anniversary of the placing of the foundation stone, inaugurating a year-long celebration of the Centennial Jubilee of America's Catholic Church. His Eminence Wilton Cardinal Gregory, Archbishop of Washington and Chairman of the National Shrine's Board of Trustees served as the principal celebrant and homilist. If you were unable to attend the Centennial Mass in person or watch it live, we invite you to watch it now!
100 Years in Video at America's Catholic Church
Join us on a journey through the life of America's Catholic Church as captured on film. From the resumption of construction following World War II, to Pope John Paul II's visit in 1979, and the first canonization ceremony to take place on American soil in 2015, the National Shrine has been at the heart of countless historic moments for American Catholics. See the most significant events captured on film in this commemorative post highlighting historic videos from the National Shrine.
"Distinctively American": The Architectural Vision of the National Shrine
When Bishop Thomas Shahan first guided the construction of the National Shrine, he sought an aesthetic that would reflect the patristic understanding of beauty and eternal truth. He strove to create a building that would enhance sacramental life and serve as a "National Monument or testimony" resting "on a national devotion to the Blessed Virgin." Today we invite you to learn more about the history and development of the architecture and art of the Basilica.
10 Things You Didn't Know About the Basilica
Maybe you've only come to the Basilica for special Masses, or perhaps you even visit daily. But how well do you know America's Catholic Church? Did you know that the Basilica's Knight's Tower is the second-tallest building in Washington, D.C., surpassed only by the Washington Monument? Do you know how many annual visitors the Basilica receives? Learn the answers to these questions and more in this post.
Bishop Thomas Shahan: Founder of America's Catholic Church
While the name Thomas Shahan may not be familiar to many American Catholics, without him, America's Catholic Church would not exist as we know it today. It was Thomas Shahan who first presented a plan for a national church in honor of the Blessed Mother in Washington, D.C to Pope Pius X in 1913, and guided it from conception to construction.
Basilica Insider: Making the Trinity Dome
Did you know that the Trinity Dome was made with 14 million pieces of tesserae? Featuring the Holy Trinity, the Immaculate Conception, and a litany of saints, this breathtaking mosaic is known as the "crowning jewel" of the Basilica. Get an inside look into the intensive two-year process that brought this stunning work of art to life – see footage of the artists at work creating the mosaic, behind-the-scenes photos, and more in this Basilica Insider post.
Celebrating a Century as America's Catholic Church
The United States has long been considered the great melting pot, where people from many diverse lands make their home. As America's Catholic Church, the Basilica is proud to honor this rich heritage with over 80 chapels and oratories dedicated to the Mother of God and representing peoples from every corner of the globe. We are proud to celebrate the variety of cultures and traditions of the faithful, embodying the ethnic and cultural diversity of the United States and the unity and universality of the Catholic Church.
Thank you for being a part of America's Catholic Church. May the Basilica of the National Shrine of Immaculate Conception continue to serve as a place of hope and devotion for the faithful for centuries to come!
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Download the Fall-Winter 2021 Edition of the Mary's Shrine Newsletter


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Omas Gegen Rechts—Grannies Against the Right!
German feminists prove that "Gray power!" can be more than just a slogan—and that activists come in all ages.
By Linda MannheimTwitter
A woman wears a face mask and holds an umbrella of the Omas gegen Rechts (Grannies Against Right Extremism) initiative of the civil society as she takes part in a demonstration organized by the "#unteilbar" (indivisible) movement on June 14, 2020, in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. (John Macdougall / AFP via Getty Images)
The first time I saw Omas gegen Rechts (Grannies Against the Right) in action at a demonstration in Berlin, I was startled, then thrilled. Here was a group of older women bringing attention to the fact that they were older women, distinct from yet allied with other protesters on the street. Simply by being there, by carrying signs that said Omas gegen Rechts, they seemed to be confronting the dismissal of older women while also drawing on the mythologies of grandmothers who sort things out. And they explicitly identified which side they were on: countering the far right.
Omas gegen Rechts was founded in November 2017 in Vienna. The conservative People's Party had just formed a coalition with the far-right Freedom Party and would soon be governing Austria. "Everybody was very worried about this," recalls Jenny Simanowitz, "because it was really an extreme-right party that had a lot of power." Monika Salzer, who is one of the founders of Omas gegen Rechts, phoned Simanowitz to invite her to a meeting. Six of them sat around a table discussing their strategy and aims.
"We talked about the name: Omas gegen Rechts—if this was a good name?—and we were also thinking: Should we really call ourselves Omas? Isn't that kind of a bit derogatory? But we said, No, we are Omas." While Oma literally translates to "granny" in English, the word is used more generally in the German-speaking world to refer to old women. They were determined to take back the word Oma, to subvert it, to redefine it, says Simanowitz.
"The elderly woman as a public political force does not exist in our collective consciousness. That's why we women have to appear in public, not as individuals and exceptional figures, not as stars, but as a group that stands out," reads the statement on the Omas gegen Rechts website.
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Within weeks the group had over 3,000 followers on Facebook, Simanowitz recalls. Today there are more than 70 Omas gegen Rechts groups active across Austria, and more than 100 groups in Germany. Omas gegen Rechts groups are present at almost every major protest in these countries. In Austria, they hold weekly Thursday protests, perform in street theater, and have daily vigils outside the chancellor's office calling for the admission of refugees stuck in camps on Lesbos. In Germany, they protest against the far-right AfD party, participate in rallies to counter racism, and join climate justice protests. Their policy program for Europe calls for "a fair social balance between rich and poor countries" and "the rejection of racism and anti-Semitism on all fronts."
With over 30,000 Twitter followers and almost 20,000 on Facebook followers, they also have a strong presence on social media. They are generally greeted with warmth and support by the younger protesters, have been the subject of news features across Germany and Austria, and were awarded the 2020 Paul Spiegel Prize for Civil Courage by the Central Council of Jews in Germany.
A "goal for any activist group is that they get attention," Austrian author and digital expert Ingrid Brodnig told BBC Trending. "And they are kind of hijacking a part of the debate. And I think that in itself is a success."
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The Omas are not the only activist organization led by older people: the Gray Panthers launched in 1970 in the United States, and the Raging Grannies were founded in Canada in 1986. All of these groups have roots in the protest movements of the late 20th century. The Omas, however, came of age in countries that historically and politically are very different places than the United States or Canada. Germany and Austria were just emerging from fascism when the Omas were younger, and the youth rebellions of the 1960s in those countries repudiated the politics and structures of an older generation that participated in fascism. Some of the Omas, too, had parents who went into exile then returned after the war because of that fascism.
"These memories are specific to our generation," Betina Kern, a member of Omas gegen Recht's Berlin group, told Women's Media Center. "So, maybe we know better about the dangers fascism brings about and are more alarmed when we see it spread in Germany. Consequently, we feel the responsibility to act."
Some of the Omas gegen Rechts activists are veteran political activists, while others are protesting for the first time. "We welcome all interested and supportive people, grandmas, grandpas, children, grandchildren and friends. Everyone can take part at any time." Sometimes they're asked why they haven't organized Opas gegen Rechts (Grandpas Against the Right). "Well, why don't you start it?" Simanowitz has answered.
Older men, however, are not invisible at public level: They're everywhere, and have always been invited to speak about their experiences and voice their opinions. Omas gegen Rechts, on the other hand, is repeatedly addressing and subverting what it means to be an older woman in public space: taking the stage at large protests to talk about the long fight for social justice, confronting Covid denialists at right-wing rallies, and, when they sense violence might break out between police and other protesters, trying to avert it by emphasizing that there are old ladies nearby. They wear brightly colored hand-knit hats and Omas gegen Rechts buttons. They also have an Omas gegen Rechts song they sometimes sing together. Their activism combines fun with fierceness, audacity with outrage. At a far-right rally in Halle, Germany they appeared as a flash mob with white Omas gegen Rechts umbrellas and whistles that they blew to drown out a right-wing extremist who had threatened an Oma.
Grandmothers are often depicted as having no identity beyond being a grandmother: they're shown only in relationship to their children and grandchildren. But many of the activists who have chosen to call themselves Omas have been highly visible for many years. Susanne Scholl, a cofounder of Omas gegen Rechts, is an acclaimed author and journalist who has written about her Austrian-Jewish family (her parents met as refugees in England and returned to Austria after the war). Monika Salzer is a well-known columnist, psychologist, and pastor. Betina Kern, from the Berlin group, is a former German diplomat. Gertrud Graf, a longtime educator and activist who organized the first meeting in Berlin, spent a month driving around the country to visit and forge links with other Omas gegen Rechts groups. Irmela Mensah-Schramm, one of the Berlin Omas, has been celebrated in Germany for years because of her work removing Nazi stickers on lampposts.
The Omas also deal with backlash online and in real life. Some have received death threats or found themselves on far-right "enemy lists." In Halle, Germany a group of Omas were surrounded by far-right extremists who physically attacked one of the women. The Omas, when they returned to a rally by the same extremists at a later date, chanted: "Alerta, Alerta, Omas sind härter!" (Warning, warning, grandmas are tougher!")
"We are the postwar generation—we know firsthand that societies can change and that there is power in speaking up," Salzer and Scholl wrote. "We want to be a megaphone for others. By going out into the streets and opening our mouths, we are challenging the cliché of the old, defenseless granny. No one reckoned on assertive old women like us."
Linda MannheimTwitterLinda Mannheim is the author of This Way to Departures, Above Sugar Hill, and the Kindle Single "Ghosts: Managua 1986." Originally from New York, she lives in London.


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See Patrick Forrest's "10 Tips for Prescribing Early Intervention Seating", presented at the Auckland 'Know Your Products' Expo in June.
Click on the link below to get your copy of Patrick's 10 Tips for Prescribing Early Intervention Seating, presented at the Auckland 'Know Your Products' Expo in June.
Here are some quick points to consider when starting the processes of selecting seating and mobility options for the very young (under 1 – 3 yrs of age). As we all know; if the critical indicators are gone through early on then hopefully the process of implementation can be expedited sooner.
1. What sort of lifestyle does the family lead? Do they understand the benefits of trying a modular seating system that is transferrable between bases for both indoor and outdoor use? Consider what is the home environment like? Upstairs living? Small house? Access issues?
3. What is the child's sitting ability? Is there any indications that child might sit independently? Does he/she need full support? Is tilt in space seating going to be beneficial? Are there any asymmetries?
4. Consider the shape and position of the child's head – will it need specialised support or custom shaping?
5. What complexity of seating is required – does this need referral to access clinic?
7. Now you have these measurements consider the best fit of product – it could be different to what you anticipated.
8. What colour upholstery would this family like? Or would the carer prefer something that is easily wipe-down?
9. For some kids, standard upholstery can be a bit firm for them – would you need to consider upgrading to soft foam in the cushion and backrest? Do the covers need to be extra stretchy?
10. What considerations are there to allow the child to be as active as possible? Is 2-point hip belt enough? Will harness affect function or feeding tube access?


This is the end of the forty eighth chapter Of the book of Kishkinda of the holy Ramayana composed by Valmiki as the first epic.
This is the end of the forty ninth chapter Of the book of Kishkinda of the holy Ramayana composed by Valmiki as the first epic.
After having reached that location they saw a forest shining like blazing fire dispelling the surrounding darkness. They saw Sala, Tala, Tamala, Punnaga, Vanjula, Dhava, Champaka, and Naga trees and also saw blossoming plants of Karnika, bunches of beautiful golden flowers, and tender leaves radiant like the rising Sun. They saw golden trees with creepers entwining them. These trees bedecked with golden ornaments shined like the rising Sun. There were structures encrusted with sapphire and Vaidoorya stones for reclining. Those golden trees were shining brightly. There were lotus creepers of the colours of Sapphires and Vaidoorya s. The ponds surrounded by birds were filled with golden lotuses.
They saw all over rich collection of beds, seats and vehicles wonderfully decorated with gems and gold. They also saw a large collection of wonderfully shining utensils made of gold, silver and bronze.
The monkeys saw here and there collections of pure Gold which were glittering like a raging fire.
This is the end of the fiftieth chapter Of the book of Kishkinda of the holy Ramayana composed by Valmiki as the first epic.
After saying this again Hanuman addressing that great lady saint dressed in deer skin and said to her.
This is the end of the fifty first chapter Of the book of Kishkinda of the holy Ramayana composed by Valmiki as the first epic.
This is the end of the fifty second chapter Of the book of Kishkinda of the holy Ramayana composed by Valmiki as the first epic.
53. The Monkeys were perplexed as time limit has been exceeded.
Then they saw the horrifying sea which was the home of Varuna and which was endless and dreadful .
This is the end of the fifty third chapter Of the book of Kishkinda of the holy Ramayana composed by Valmiki as the first epic.
"I am directly and frankly telling you that all the monkeys are not going to be obedient o you .Neither Jambhavan, Nala, the great monkey Suhothra , nor even myself agree with your opinion and it is not possible for you to influence any of these monkeys using Sama, Dhana, Bhedha and Danda methods .
This is the end of the fifty fourth chapter Of the book of Kishkinda of the holy Ramayana composed by Valmiki as the first epic.
All of them surrounded Angadha, who has decided to fast under death , blamed Sugreeva, praised Vali .
This is the end of the fifty fifth chapter Of the book of Kishkinda of the holy Ramayana composed by Valmiki as the first epic.
This is the end of the fifty sixth chapter Of the book of Kishkinda of the holy Ramayana composed by Valmiki as the first epic.
This is the end of the fifty seventh chapter Of the book of Kishkinda of the holy Ramayana composed by Valmiki as the first epic.
This is the end of the fifty eighth chapter Of the book of Kishkinda of the holy Ramayana composed by Valmiki as the first epic.
This is the end of the fifty ninth chapter Of the book of Kishkinda of the holy Ramayana composed by Valmiki as the first epic.
This is the end of the sixtieth chapter Of the book of Kishkinda of the holy Ramayana composed by Valmiki as the first epic.
61. Story of how Sampathi burnt its wings.
This is the end of the sixty first chapter Of the book of Kishkinda of the holy Ramayana composed by Valmiki as the first epic.
This is the end of the sixty second chapter Of the book of Kishkinda of the holy Ramayana composed by Valmiki as the first epic.
This is the end of the sixty third chapter Of the book of Kishkinda of the holy Ramayana composed by Valmiki as the first epic.
When the Monkeys stood round Angadha holding a flag , it looked the army of Gods surrounding Indra.
This is the end of the sixty fourth chapter Of the book of Kishkinda of the holy Ramayana composed by Valmiki as the first epic.
This is the end of the sixty fifth chapter Of the book of Kishkinda of the holy Ramayana composed by Valmiki as the first epic.
66.Jambhavan tells Hanuman that he can do it.
This is the end of the sixty sixth chapter Of the book of Kishkinda of the holy Ramayana composed by Valmiki as the first epic.
When he expanded to a great size his face was shining a frying pan and like a smokeless burning fire.
Then that son of Wind God , who was eminent as wind god and the crusher of enemies ascended the great mountain Mahendra which was inhabited by deer and on grassy lands full of trees, fragrant vines bearing flowers thickly grown ever in bloom with flowers and fruits where lions and tigers wander, proud elephants frequent, intoxicated birds make sounds of different kinds and full of waterfalls.
This is the end of the sixty seventh chapter Of the book of Kishkinda of the holy Ramayana composed by Valmiki as the first epic.


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No definite news from Greece. All one knows is that a Greek army, or part of a Greek army, or possibly the whole Greek army, has capitulated. No indication as to how many men we have there, what sort of position they are left in, whether it will be possible to hang on, and if so, where etc., etc. Hints thrown out in the Daily Express suggest that we have practically no aeroplanes there. Armistice terms drawn up by the Italians evidently aim at later using Greek prisoners as hostages, with a view to blackmailing the British into giving up Crete and other islands.
No indication of Russian attitude. The Germans are now close to the Dardanelles and attack on Turkey evidently imminent. The Russians will then have to decide definitely whether to make a stand against Germany, put pressure on Turkey not to resist and perhaps get Iran as the price of this, or sit still and watch the whole southern shore of the Black Sea pass into German hands. In my opinion they will do the second, or less probably the third, in either case with public orgies of self-righteousness.


Runner's World editor-at-large Amby Burfoot will be honored with the New York Road Runners' George Hirsch Journalism Award at Friday's New York City Marathon conference, and damn it, we want people to know about it.
You're no doubt familiar with Amby's great work on all things running. Those of us who work with him know that his formidable talent and knowledge are exceeded by his graciousness and all-around swell-guyness. But don't take our word for it: This recent interview with Amby by his colleague Peter Gambaccini will help you see what we mean.


India tops the first time property buyers list in Dubai.
Last week Indian Property Show 2013 was conducted at La Cigale Hotel in Doha. The property show attracted the takers and the NRI investors. Non-resident Indian (NRIs) who live in Doha participated in Indian Property Show 2013 which was conducted at La Cigale Hotel last week. Thousands of NRIs visited the show.
Relief for Buyers of Patwari Village.
Developers Commits Refund with Interest to Buyers of Noida Extension Flats.


Intelligent power networks are urgently required to integrate the growing number of distributed energy sources and generators into our energy system. Under the leadership of AIT, 18 of Europe's top research institutions have joined forces in order to pool together their know-how and improve research infrastructures within the smart grid sector.
Power grids, in their current form, will soon be unable to cope with the increased use of distributed and renewable energy sources. Since fluctuating wind and solar power generation seldom correlates with actual demand, better coordination between generators and consumers will be required in the future in order to secure both the power supply and quality. Continuous energy management can be achieved through the use of intelligent networks. The envisioned complex system of "smart grids" integrates sophisticated and diverse automation, information and communication technologies in order to provide new solutions for overcoming the enormous challenges for the future energy supply. Up to now, research has primarily focused on developing and monitoring specific and singular aspects of smart grids, while a holistic analysis and evaluation was often impossible due to the lack of suitable infrastructure.
In response to this situation, 18 European research institutions from across 11different countries, and under the leadership of AIT, have joined forces in the transnational ERIGrid project (European Research Infrastructure supporting Smart Grid Systems, Technology, Development, Validation and Roll Out). The ERIGrid project is scheduled to run for 4½ years and it is aimed to provide access to concentrated know-how and European research infrastructure to scientists and companies involved in the development of smart grid concepts and components.
"We intend to make the innovative methods, concepts and processes developed within this top-class network available to other interested researchers, industrial enterprises, system operators and standardisation institutions," explains Thomas Strasser of AIT. This unique pan-European research infrastructure will be supplemented by the provision of optimised research services for the analysis and validation of new smart grid configurations.
"By networking European smart grid research infrastructure through the ERIGrid project, we are driving technological developments and the creation of intelligent networks in Europe," stresses Strasser, who was responsible for initiating and launching this pioneering project. Currently, several demonstration projects are already in execution within Europe so as to test smart grid concepts in the field. However, in future it will not be possible to validate all innovative approaches in the same manner, which is time and resource intensive. "That makes it all the more important to make the relevant research infrastructure available, including improved validation methods," says the expert. "As the ERIGrid project brings together Europe's best research institutions, the resulting dynamic should serve to further strengthen Europe's pioneering role within the energy sector."


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John Foraker
Co-Founder and CEO of Once Upon a Farm
John Foraker is the Co-Founder and CEO of Once Upon a Farm, a leading children's nutrition brand driving industry change through their commitment to organic, clean, nutritious, and delicious products. Prior to the brand, John spent more than 30 years in the natural and organic food industry running businesses with a sharp focus on sustainability and social responsibility. John was the longtime leader of Annie's, Inc., a leading natural & organic food brand, in the US from 1999 to 2017. As CEO of Annie's, he took the company public in 2012 under the symbol BNNY before General Mills acquired the business in 2014 for $820 million. For the following three years, John ran the Annie's operating unit and also advised General Mills' small business incubator 301, Inc. He was recognized as an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year® 2015 in Northern California. Foraker received a B.S. in agricultural economics from UC Davis and an MBA from UC Berkeley.
Episode #1611 John Foraker: Purpose as an Invitation to do More
"You can't assume that you've got all the time in the world to make the impact you want. You've got to make it happen now."
A pioneer of the organic food movement, John Foraker is widely respected for his leadership of Annie's, where he led their $820 million acquisition. Yet, once you sit down with him, you quickly learn that more than an industry leader, John is a devoted father striving to create a world where all children have the nutrition they need to thrive; A mission he continues to advance as Co-founder and CEO of Once Upon a Farm.
We explore John's perspective that purpose is an invitation to do more and that even when our contributions feel small, change happens through sustained action. Our responsibility is to begin and keep trying.
John's goal is to be better every day. He shares his favorite philosophy that the truth will set you free, the epiphany that led him to stop worrying, and how he grows from failure. This equanimity is driven by a desire to be present and live his values. We hear how he follows his heart making decisions, maintains a sense of urgency around his priorities, and the lessons he's learned from fatherhood.
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IN THE BUILD UP TO PLAY EXPO MANCHESTER MARIO, LUIGI AND FRIENDS ARE WREAKING HAVOC RENAMING MANCHESTER'S METROLINK STOPS!
Led by Mario, the horde of video games characters wreaked havoc on tram stops, replacing signs with famous game locations and names.
The activity was in celebration of the North's biggest gaming event PLAY Expo which takes place at Manchester Central on May 4 and May 5.
games industry guests and even careers advice for those looking to work in the world of gaming.
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Nike to stop selling golf equipment
Vicky August 5, 2016	News
According to the media reports, Nike will stop selling golf clubs, balls and bags after years of falling sales at its golf division. But the company said it would "accelerate innovation" in golf footwear and clothes.
Nike invested huge amount in golf during the late 1990s with its sponsorship of Tiger Woods, giving him his first five-year contract in 1996, worth $40m.
But the winner of 14 of golf's major tournaments has been struggling with a loss of form in recent years. In 2013 Nike signed a sponsorship deal with Rory Mcllroy, reported to be worth $100m over five years.
But despite that hefty spending on marketing, Nike has been struggling in the golf business. Last year sales at Nike's golf unit fell by 8% to $706m, the third year of declining sales.
Earlier this year Nike's rival Adidas announced its intention to sell most of its golf business. It put its TaylorMade, Adams and Ashworth brands up for sale.
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El retorno sobre capital empleado (en inglés, Return On Capital Employed o ROCE) es una ratio de contabilidad usada en finanzas, valoración y contabilidad. Es una medida útil para comparar la rentabilidad relativa de las empresas después de tener un cuenta la cantidad de capital usado.

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(Expresada como un porcentaje)

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Counter-policy urged as China targets teachers
By Lee Hsin-fang and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer
The Ministry of Education should have a standing policy and administrative measures to combat the increasingly severe cultural and literary "united front" tactics employed by China, a national security source said.
The pro-China Administration of Cultural Heritage and the Shaanxi Provincial Bureau of Cultural Heritage is commissioning the Taipei-based Sheen Chuen-chi Cultural and Educational Foundation to host a "Zhonghua History and Culture Workshop" in July, the source said, citing Mainland Affairs Council sources.
High-school teachers in the subjects of Mandarin and history would be invited to give talks at the workshop in China's Shaanxi and Gansu provinces, with Beijing providing room, board and transportation, the council said.
A copy of a letter distributed to teachers around Taiwan by the Taipei-based Sheen Chuen-chi Cultural and Educational Foundation, inviting them to participate in a "Zhonghua History and Culture Workshop" in China in July.
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While the commission is legal, it is nonetheless a move to influence high-school teachers with "united front" tactics, the source said.
The ministry should tell teachers that attending such events is not advised, as China has ulterior motives for covering their expenses, the source said.
These efforts are on the rise as restrictions for Chinese individuals coming to Taiwan grow stricter, while Taiwanese citizens going to China are relatively unhindered, due to freedom of movement as guaranteed by Taiwan's democratic form of government, the source said.
The ministry should consider subsidizing academic-based travels or interaction to countries other than China, the source added.
The ministry should also adopt measures such as requiring all teachers to log a report to the ministry if they are going to China or disallowing teachers from taking a day off citing official business if they have accepted Chinese offers to pay for expenses, they said.
Taiwanese citizens must be aware that China will do everything in its power to attempt to subvert the nation's sovereignty, particularly after the Chinese Communist Party issued Chinese President Xi Jinping's (習近平) "five points" in January this year, the source said.
Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Lee Chun-hsien (李俊憲) on Saturday criticized the workshop as a cover for "united front" tactics as the administration is headed by Chinese National Cultural Heritage Administration Director Liu Yuzhu (劉玉珠).
The Sheen Chun-chi Cultural and Educational Foundation said the workshop aims to promote cross-strait interaction and the history of the "Zhonghua" people.


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The Washington Post wants to figure out the best places to put ads in your favorite podcasts
Plus: Crooked Media goes audio doc, Maximum Fun goes scripted fiction, and The Pub goes the way of all flesh.
Nicholas QuahSeptember 20, 2016
Hot Pod: There's a new (and problematic) way to measure which podcasts are the most popular
Plus new leadership at NPR One, CNN and Fox News expand podcast programming, and a new Bay Area tech company to keep and eye on.
Quah, Nicholas. "Hot Pod: There's a new (and problematic) way to measure which podcasts are the most popular." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 20 Sep. 2016. Web. 20 Jan. 2020.
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Eating the Dog Food at Udemy
June 14, 2016 By Patricia Witkin
Culture | Instructors
The expression "eating your own dog food," popularized at tech companies, refers to employees using their company's own products and services. At Udemy, it means that, but it also speaks to the way we embrace lifelong learning as one of our foundational company values.
We talk a lot here about the power of learning as a way for people to unlock opportunities and build the lives they imagine for themselves. We also talk about the personal responsibility we all have for upskilling ourselves if we want to continue advancing in our careers and growing as professionals. One of the most visible expressions of how Udemy puts substance behind these values is when employees become instructors. Seijin Jung is just the latest example.
Seijin works on our growth marketing team and has been with Udemy since August 2015. He has a rich background in tech and business, but he's also been passionate about education for a long time. He was a part-time tutor while in high school in Korea and still runs individual and small-group sessions to help students with subjects like math and science.
When he first got to Udemy, Seijin managed all the paid marketing campaigns directed at existing Udemy students, otherwise known as retargeting. Now he's managing our merchandising efforts too. This isn't just his job but a personal interest as well. One of the perks of working at Udemy, of course, is having access to our vast course library, and Seijin has taken advantage of this to learn more about SEO, web development, app development, and other topics in support of his entrepreneurial side.
Discovering his instructor calling
Seijin has always loved learning and describes himself as self-motivated, but it wasn't until he started at Udemy that he got to thinking about creating a course that would let him "share what I know and connect with millions of students around world." He also was curious about getting a first-hand look into the instructor experience on our platform.
As any instructor will attest, however, "it's one thing to think about it but another dimension to actually do it." The idea of making his own Udemy course stuck in his head, and he kept thinking about his topic and how to approach it as an instructor. His catalyst to "just make it happen" was committing himself to it as a 2016 New Year's resolution.
The way Seijin tells it, "creating a course was a learning process of its own." Even if you have years of experience in your subject area, you have to think about the best ways to structure your course content and how to take all that knowledge and make it clear and concise. Like most Udemy instructors, Seijin turned to the Teach Hub for guidance and resources. Sure, Seijin could've walked across the office and found someone to hold his hand through the process, but "I wanted to go through it like an actual instructor would and do it on my own and do it as quickly as possible." He didn't even use our in-house studio to shoot his lectures, preferring the authenticity of recording video at home. "It tends to drag along if you think about it too much," he advises.
Just make it happen
On February 10, 2016, Seijin published "The Complete Facebook, Google, YouTube Retargeting Course" to great acclaim around the Udemy office. But "the wow moment" came when his first students signed up, including people from as far away as Australia and Malta. "It's an awesome feeling to know there's someone out there thousands of miles away benefitting from what I've created and making changes in their lives because of this," Seijin says. "Getting connected to someone in need of this knowledge is powerful and meaningful."
Lots of us at Udemy have been thinking for months (or even years!) about the courses we could create, so it's always a huge inspiration when one of our own takes the plunge. To anyone who's been stuck in the imagining phase for too long, Seijin urges you to just give it a shot because "you're going to find infinite possibilities." He's already contemplating what his next course might be about — maybe another marketing course, maybe something in his native Korean.
Seijin's a perfect example of how we live our values at Udemy every day. Here are a few other Udemy employees who are also published instructors in the marketplace:
Product Manager Adam Triester (co-instructor with Udemy alum Pablo Stanley): "User Experience Design: Complete UX Fundamentals"
Director of Customer Support Alex Mozes: "PowerPoint Animation Deep Dive: Office Ninja Training," and "Excel Deep Dive: Pivot Tables Workshop"
Market Analyst Peter Sefton and International Marketing Specialist David Kim: "SQL for Newbs: Beginner Data Analysis"
Account Manager Meg Evans: "Speaking Your Mind About Global Warming" and "Designing Your Future — STEM Careers"
Student profile: Tina Ferguson
From humble beginnings to a promising career path