For Ursula Daly, Executive Officer in the Dept. Education & Science the year 2000, the Millennium, will always be remembered for the extraordinary events that shook her life to its very foundations.
Her agenda up until March of 2000 was already pretty loaded. Working her usual day in the Department of Education and Science, she was also busy as the Chairperson of Athlone Musical Society - her great love and hobby since 1983 - for their upcoming annual production.
She had thrown herself whole-heartedly into the role, her third time since 1990.
Ursula had joined the PSFS in 1997, on the advice of the Employee Assistance Officer in her department. "My marriage was breaking down and I needed some extra support and help," Ursula says. "Little did I know what a role the society would play in my future" she added.
"My involvement in Athlone Musical Society was serving as an enjoyable distraction from my problems but in 1998 my marriage had irretrievably broken down and I had left my home with my eight year old son. I was now progressing through the legal steps to secure my separation, which was inevitable. It had been a painful and difficult time with many upsetting and trying days but family, friends and work colleagues stood firm and shouldered me through my dark hours which were numerous" says Ursula.
The 2000 musical production of the Athlone Musical Society was a resounding success: Ursula's confidence and self esteem was returning rapidly. It was something that had been seriously dashed due to the difficulties of the previous few years but she felt she was on her way back now, so that had to be positive.
These feelings were short lived however and in July 2000 as she went through the Court proceedings and got on with what had to be done to give herself a future and a new life, all her worries returned and her new found confidence seemed to drown once more in a sea of sheer stress with the awful pressure that came at that time. "It was a few short months later in October after this extremely vulnerable time, when once again I was trying to pick up the pieces that the biggest shock of my life struck - and it struck in the form of a tiny lump in my breast" says Ursula.
"I had found it myself, ignored it for some weeks through sheer fear but in the end common sense prevailed. A visit to my G.P. led to an appointment at the Breast Clinic in St. Vincent's Hospital, in Dublin. The mammogram and biopsy confirmed it all; a malignant tumour" she says.
She added "My world fell apart and I honestly felt I could take no more".
So with all strength gone and nowhere else to turn, she entrusted herself to the care and expertise of St. Vincent's and St. Luke's Hospital in the hope that they would see her through. "And that too was the time when I began to really appreciate the Public Service Friendly Society" says Ursula. Her first contact came by phone the morning she was preparing to make the trip to Dublin for her surgery - in response to a letter to the Society about the possibility of some small assistance with a legal bill. In a very rushed phone call with former Chairperson, Mr. Pat Fitzgerald she explained her current plight and asked him to get back in touch again at a later stage.
"It was so great to be able to talk to someone who could understand and empathise with all your worries" says Ursula.
She had a successful operation, which contained the cancer, and this had to be followed by radio and chemotherapy treatment which in all would take about six months.
Ursula was now 43 with a ten year old who totally depended on her so she knew she had to do everything that was needed to recover. A serious infection after the surgery set her back several weeks but she fought on.
Her dilemma, financially, was that she knew she would be at least a year out of work and with no other form of income would have to manage at all costs. Half pay was looming and she was too ill to return to work and as she had never joined an Income Continuance Fund she did not know what would face her when her three months of half pay ran out.
Ursula returned to work fulltime in September 2001 weak and tired from the chemotherapy. However, with the support of management and work colleagues in Primary Administration she began to improve in leaps and bounds and life began to take on a normal appearance.
The constant contact, support and some financial assistance from the Public Service Friendly Society reassured Ursula that they would give her every assistance they could in trying to help her rebuild her life. "They have done just that in a kind and caring fashion" Ursula says.
Ursula succeeded in securing a new home in April 2003 and she and her son are very happily set up there now. There have been many things that have come up since but she has been able to contact Declan O'Brien or Adeline Meagher in the Society without feeling uncomfortable and discuss things in a friendly and confidential way.
"Little did I know when I joined the PSFS myself that my small salary deduction might be helping someone else to combat a major problem or indeed that I myself might one day benefit significantly from my membership of it" she says.
As regards her health, Ursula has come through each check-up with flying colours.
"There is so much that can be done particularly with the early detection of breast cancer and every woman should be vigilant and aware that regular checking is vital and there is great help and support available" Ursula says.


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Q: "You might/should have told me" A:  I'm sorry I didn't attend  the meeting yesterday.
B:  You _______ have told me you weren't coming for the meeting.
a. might
b. should
c. both a and b

A: We would usually say, "coming to the meeting", not "coming for the meeting".
Yes - you can use either word.
Using might suggests that the speaker feels a little hurt. Using should suggests the speaker is a little angry.

A: Either option can be used, but they have quite different tones.
"You should have told me" is clearly an admonition, a reproach. The person did not tell you, but you think they ought to have told you. You are upset that they did not.
When spoken, no word in this sentence would be given any particular emphasis.
"You might have told me" is, in a strictly literal interpretation, not an admonition. It is a simple statement: It is possible that you could have told me. It is also possible that you could have not told me. Either one could be true.
But in actual usage, this sentence is also an admonition. When spoken we often emphasize the word "told:" You might have TOLD me. It would not be emphasized or set off in any way if the sentence was written down, but when reading the sentence it would be understood that the person was saying it in a huffy or offended manner.
Despite the literal interpretation of the two sentences, usually a person saying "might" is more upset/frustrated/offended than if they used "should." It is a more passive-aggressive thing to say. But if the person is very upset then they might use "should" again! It all depends on the context, and in particular the tone and volume the speaker uses.

A: This depends entirely on what kind of english you're using and what you mean.
In the USA, "You might have told me" would only be used to acknowledge that B is possibly in the wrong, that B may have been informed but don't remember it if they were.
In the UK, "You might have told me!" can be used to mean the same thing as "you should have told me", except with more frustration that you failed to do it.

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#include <loganon/str_anon.h>
#include <loganon/random.h>
#include <openssl/evp.h>

/*
 * Test Funcion
 */

void loganon_str_test_all(char *arg){
	//A Function to test all methods of string anonymization
	char *md5Value = NULL, *sha1Value = NULL;

	printf("%s\n",arg);
	md5Value = (char *) loganon_md5_digest(arg, strlen(arg)*sizeof(char));
	printf("\tMD5SUM = %s \n",(char *)  md5Value);
	sha1Value = (char *) loganon_sha1_digest(arg, strlen(arg)*sizeof(char));

	printf("\tSHA1 = %s \n",(char *)  sha1Value);

	free(md5Value);
	free(sha1Value);

}

/**
 * \brief Give a string and get your md5 digest as result
 * \param String
 * \param len of string
 * \return string digest pointer
 */

char * loganon_md5_digest (const void * text, int len){
	EVP_MD_CTX holder;
	unsigned char mdvalue[EVP_MAX_MD_SIZE], *temp=NULL;
	unsigned int mdlen;

	EVP_DigestInit(&holder, EVP_md5());

	EVP_DigestUpdate(&holder, text, (size_t) len);

	EVP_DigestFinal_ex(&holder, mdvalue, &mdlen);

	temp = (char *) return_as_hex(mdvalue,mdlen);

	EVP_MD_CTX_cleanup(&holder);
	return temp;
}

/*
 * \brief Give a string and get your md5 digest as result
 * \param String
 * \param len of string
 * \return string digest pointer
 */
char * loganon_sha1_digest (const void * text, int len){

	int i;
	EVP_MD_CTX holder;
	unsigned char mdvalue[EVP_MAX_MD_SIZE], *temp=NULL;
	unsigned int mdlen;

	EVP_DigestInit(&holder, EVP_sha1());
	EVP_DigestUpdate(&holder, text, (size_t) len);

	EVP_DigestFinal_ex(&holder, mdvalue, &mdlen);

	temp = (char *) return_as_hex(mdvalue,mdlen);
	EVP_MD_CTX_cleanup(&holder);
	return temp;
}

char * return_as_hex (const unsigned char *digest, int len) {
  int i;
  char *hex,buffer[EVP_MAX_MD_SIZE]="\0",current[2];
    for(i = 0; i < len; i++){
       		 sprintf (current,"%02x", digest[i]);
		 strcat(buffer,current);
		 }
   hex = strdup(buffer);
   return hex;
}

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No African player was among FIFA's 11 best players of 2019, here's the full list
The International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) has named its 11 best players for 2019.
Interestingly, no African player was able to make the list.
Even top forwards who play for Liverpool Football Club, Mohammed Salah (Egypt) and Sadio Mane (Senegal) were sidelined in the list.
Although the duo helped their team to win the UEFA Champions League, they still couldn't make the list.
Mohammed Salah was named the African player of the year while Sadio Mane was part of the team that led his national team to the grand finale of the ended 2019 African Cup of Nations (AFCON).
Virgil van Dijk (The Netherlands, Liverpool), Matthijs de Ligt (The Netherlands, Ajax/currently Juventus), Marcelo (Brazil, Real Madrid) and Sergio Ramos (Spain, Real Madrid) were FIFA's defenders of the year.
The midfielders included Eden Hazard (Belgium, Chelsea/currently Real Madrid), Frenkie de Jong (The Netherlands, Ajax/currently Barcelona) and Luka Modric (Croatia, Real Madrid).
FIFA's forwards for the year were Kylian Mbappe (France, Paris Saint-Germain), Lionel Messi (Argentina, Barcelona) and Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal, Juventus).
Meanwhile, Lionel Messi was on Monday, September 23, 2019, named the winner of FIFA's best men's player of the year.
The Best Goalkeeper honour was given to Alisson Becker while Jurgen Klopp was named the Best Manager of the year.

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Q: in what scenarios should we select java bio or Java nio in networking programming when implementing a messaging server with java, should we select Java bio or Java nio? what factors need to be considered?

A: NIO allows you to manage multiple channels (network connections or files) using only a single (or few) threads, but the cost is that parsing the data might be somewhat more complicated than when reading data from a blocking stream.
If you need to manage thousands of open connections simultanously, which each only send a little data, for instance a messaging server, implementing the server in NIO is an advantage. Similarly, if you need to keep a lot of open connections to other computers, e.g. in a P2P network, using a single thread to manage all of your outbound connections might be an advantage (BIO)
If you have fewer connections with very high bandwidth, sending a lot of data at a time, standard BIO server implementation should be your choice.
Read this tutorial for more details
Java NIO vs. IO


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C Spire Wireless Launches Personalized Wireless Services Tailored For Individual Customers
Wireless Provider Changes Name And Focuses Attention On Industry-First Strategy
Ridgeland, Miss. (Sept. 26, 2011) – C Spire Wireless officially launched operations today as the nation's first and only wireless provider to introduce personalized wireless services. By recognizing that customers are individuals with their own interests and wireless needs, the company, formerly Cellular South, is offering unique and game-changing products and services that adapt to customers, understand who they are and are designed just for them.
"Today we are starting something new that has never been done before in the wireless industry," said Hu Meena, president and CEO of C Spire. "Our focus on personalized services recognizes that we've entered a new era in wireless where customer needs are centered on data, broadband networks and mobile computing devices."
Meena said C Spire's focus on personalized services allows the company to deliver on its mission to understand and adapt to customers' wireless communications needs like no other service provider. Customers will see this unique personalization in apps and content that fit who they are, services that anticipate their needs, and rewards they'll get just for using their phone in new ways. C Spire's industry-leading personalization capabilities are powered by Pulse, a proprietary system that enables the company to understand and develop a closer relationship with its customers. In turn, C Spire recommends and provides the right selection of technology experiences tailored for each customer – giving them unmatched wireless personalization.
"Our new brand and strategy reflect what today's consumers really want – truly personal experiences based on their individual desires and needs," said Kevin Hankins, chief operating officer of C Spire. "At C Spire, we don't believe a wireless provider should just 'serve the masses' without recognizing each and every customer as being unique. We are taking the vastness of all the technology, devices, content and apps that are available to wireless users and enabling customers to experience them in much more meaningful and rich ways. At the end of the day, it will be a more productive, inspiring and rewarding experience to engage with C Spire."
Personalized Wireless
Personalized wireless at C Spire is a combination of a number of different services, systems and programs that combine to offer an unmatched wireless experience that directly reflects and serves each customer's unique needs.
Scout: C Spire is creating an optimum, personalized app experience not available at any other wireless carrier. The company is providing our customers, and others interested in personalizing their app experience, unprecedented access to the best and most relevant apps specifically for them. C Spire gets to know each customer in a more intimate way and gives them app recommendations that fit who they are.
Percs: C Spire personalizes the wireless experience through a one-of-a-kind Percs program, which gives customers and non-customers rewards just for the things they do with us. Current and prospective C Spire customers will get "percs" for things like sharing their views on our community social forum, joining our Scout program, and for being a loyal customer.
Social Media Integration: As a wireless communications provider in the social networking space, C Spire integrates into customers' lives. In order to personalize each customer's interaction with C Spire on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, C Spire has developed programs that directly interact with customers on a personal level, including personalized app recommendations, daily prizes and gaming, insider information, the unique ability to share with friends as well as an industry-first customer care live chat.
Circle: Delivering a truly personalized wireless experience requires understanding what customers want and need. In order to gain that understanding and knowledge, C Spire is engaging its customers in a two-way conversation and listening to what they have to say through online panels, focus groups, user generated initiatives and more. This gives the company valuable information and tools needed to create unique experiences for its customers, who will help shape the future of their experiences. C Spire's close relationship with its customers, through Circle, is how we're delivering the right services and information to the right customer at the right time – that's personalization.
Pulse: C Spire is on a mission to get to know our customers and understand their wireless preferences and needs. To achieve this closeness with our customers, C Spire has developed a series of proprietary systems that enable us to discover new ways to interact and give customers a personalized wireless experience. Pulse is "the brains" behind the company's ability to provide its customers with a truly unique experience at nearly every point of brand engagement.
Customers will find that discovering and managing apps and digital content, social platforms integration, the retail store service experience, online customer care, sharing with and influencing others and determining the direction of future C Spire experiences all will be uniquely personal. All of this will be done in an industry-first fashion, with customers being in complete control of if and when they want to share information and how it will be used to drive their own personal experiences.
The system uses algorithms and groupings to make recommendations and offer education and advice to customers, who double opt in to use the service. Users are grouped according to their habits and usage daily.
These groupings are very specific and from that information, the company makes personalized recommendations to customers.
Converged Services: C Spire is not just a wireless service company. It is a multi-media technology provider that is seamlessly connecting all of our customers' devices for an optimum, converged experience. The company's Converged Services connects consumer electronic devices to easily access and share media content. With C Spire, customers will be able to control a variety of devices wirelessly, including computers, TVs, DVRs, digital cameras and even cars and refrigerators in the near future – creating the total multi-screen experience.
"Households today are filled with a variety of advanced electronic devices that work great on their own, but can't talk to each other," Hankins said. "Our customers want seamless device integration so everything works better together. That is C Spire's Converged Services."
State-of-the-Art Website: C Spire's new website (cspire.com), which is like nothing else in the industry, offers a personalized experience specific to each individual customer. The interactive and colorful site features an
app-like experience that is home to several of C Spire's personalized services offered to its current customers and future customers. Specifically, C Spire's Genie tool follows each customer as they journey throughout the site and seamlessly injects personalization into each user's unique experience with cspire.com.
"In addition to C Spire's personalized wireless services, another important part of the wireless equation is to provide plans that also allow users to get more out of their devices by eliminating the guesswork and limitations surrounding data usage," Hankins said.
Personalized Plans with Infinite Data: With personalized options built around customers' wireless needs,
C Spire offers a variety of individual, family and business voice and data plans that give users the freedom and flexibility to use their phone how and when they want. C Spire understands that when customers have to measure and limit their data, they aren't getting the optimal experience with their wireless provider. That's why the company is introducing Individual and Family Choice Plans that offer customers the ultimate in choice and flexibility, and access to infinite data.
C Spire recognizes that a wireless experience designed around each individual customer requires one of the most advanced and reliable high-speed wireless networks in the nation. Our advanced network provides the speed and capacity needed to support the many smartphone devices and tablets the company offers, as well as the apps, content and data wireless users want to access. The C Spire network is built for data devices, supporting the highest percentage of customers with smartphones in the nation.
As a company focused on and committed to the customer, C Spire also is dedicated to investing in the markets we serve by supporting educational initiatives through the C Spire Foundation, scholarship and endowment funding, corporate contributions and more.
C Spire supports and creates unique original programming that directly aligns with our customers' passion for sports and other personal interests.
C Spire's Bright Lights Football program, formerly known as Y'all Vs. Us, showcases the drama, passion, community pride and human interest stories around some of the most famous high school football rivalry programs.
Additionally, the company's Bright Lights Music program, formerly known as Emerge: Mobilize Your Music, combines advanced wireless technology with our customers' passion for music. The program gives music fans a new way to discover and share original music from some of the best emerging artists with compelling original content and specially designed music apps that they can't get anywhere else.
"Ultimately, C Spire is moving forward strategically so that we can continue to be an industry leader that revolutionizes the personalized wireless experience for our customers, while holding on close to our core values – putting our customers first," Meena said. "We're truly excited about what the future holds for our company and the customers we serve."
C Spire Wireless is a diversified mobile communications company passionately committed to helping customers by personalizing wireless services designed just for them. The nation's largest privately owned wireless communications provider personalizes customers' experience by offering apps that fit who they are, services that anticipate their needs, and rewards they receive for using their phone in new ways – all with seamless ease and at amazingly fast speed. This news release and other announcements are available at www.cspire.com/news. For more information about C Spire products and services, visit www.cspire.com or follow us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/cspire or Twitter at www.twitter.com/cspire.
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Bill S.1028
SECTION 1. Notwithstanding chapters 30B and 41 of the General Laws or any other general or special law to the contrary, the town of Andover may convey to the Andover Village Improvement Society, subject to a permanent conservation restriction as approved by the executive office of energy and environmental affairs, certain parcels of land in said town identified as follows: (i) assessors' map 207, parcels 57 and 58, containing 2.01 acres, more or less; (ii) assessors' map 5, parcel 92, containing 0.33 acres, more or less; (iii) map 94, parcel 1A, containing 10.93 acres, more or less, except for a portion of the parcel described as Parcel D in the Order of Taking recorded at the Essex North district registry of deeds in Book 863, page 237 containing 0.18 acres as shown on plan 3561, bounded 100 feet by the southerly line of Andover Street, 72 feet by land of Sidney P. White, 100 feet by the Boston & Maine Railroad Right of Way and 82.5 feet by land of James F. and Kathleen Townsend; provided, however, that the town shall retain the right to develop a well on map 94, parcel 1A; and provided further, that the Andover Village Improvement Society shall grant access and utility easements over said parcel 1A to develop the well. The total land conveyed to the Andover Village Improvement Society shall be 13.27 acres, more or less.
SECTION 2. In consideration for the conveyances authorized in section 1, the Andover Village Improvement Society shall convey to the town of Andover certain parcels of land identified as follows: (1) assessors' map 148, parcels 7, 8, 9, 10A, 11, 11A, 12A and 13, and paper streets contained therein, totaling 16.21 acres, more or less; and (ii) a portion of assessors' map 171, parcel 1, which portion is shown as Parcel A on a plan titled "Plan of Land located in Andover, Massachusetts, prepared for Town of Andover and Camp Dresser & McKee, Inc." dated March 9, 2010 by Richard F. Kamiski and Associates, Inc, containing 5.2 acres, more or less. The total land conveyed to the town shall be 21.41 acres, more or less. The Andover planning board may endorse the plans as "Approval Not Required". Upon a vote of the town meeting, the land acquired by the town under this act shall be transferred to the care, custody and control of the Andover conservation commission.
SECTION 3. The conveyances authorized in this act shall be made free and clear of all encumbrances unless otherwise authorized in this act, but may be subject to existing utility easements, restrictions and other easements and rights as may be acceptable to the board of selectmen of the town of Andover and the Andover Village Improvement Society. The conveyances shall be subject to such other terms and conditions as the board of selectmen deems advisable in the interests of the town.
SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage.


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Q: Powershell calling enable-remotemailbox giving an error I am working in a hybrid environment so I need to setup the onprem contact card to sync to Azure AD in the cloud for the exchange online. When I try to do this in powershell, it give me an odd error:
Exception calling "GetSteppablePipeline" with "1" argument(s): "Cannot bind argument to parameter 'TokenExpiryTime' because it is null."
At C:\Users\ajimmy\AppData\Local\Temp\tmp_jyaph0hf.fd5\tmp_jyaph0hf.fd5.psm1:7395 char:13
+             $steppablePipeline = $scriptCmd.GetSteppablePipeline($myI ...
+             ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [], ParentContainsErrorRecordException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CmdletInvocationException

Here is how I am calling to connect to on-prem:
Function Connect-Exchange {

    $Credentials = Get-Credential -Message "Enter your Exchange admin credentials"

    $ExOPSession = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri "serverURL/powershell" -Authentication Kerberos -Credential $Credentials

    Import-PSSession $ExOPSession -AllowClobber

    }

Connect-Exchange

When I try to Enable-RemoteMailbox is when it pops the error up top.
Enable-RemoteMailbox -identity "$FirstN $LastN" -RemoteRoutingAddress "$UserN@server.mail.onmicrosoft.com"


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Top 5: hotels in New York City
HOTELS IN NEW YORK CITY
New York City has close to 300 hotels in total, ranging from massive hotels with more than 1,000 rooms and suites, to smaller, boutique hotels. Here is a list of top five hotels in New York City with their descriptions and available offers.
Four Seasons Hotel New York
Location: Midtown East, New York City
Belongs to hotel chain: Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts
Great for: Solo travelers.
Price range: $1,000 and up for a night
Located in New York's Tribeca district, Four Seasons Hotel New York Downtown is 300 meters from One World Trade Center and 400 meters from Ground Zero. The on-site bar is open to guests. All rooms have a flat-screen TV. All rooms are equipped with private bathroom. Extras include bathrobes and toiletries free of charge.
This Four Seasons Hotel features a lap pool, spa and fitness center. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are served at the on-site restaurant Cut by Wolfgang Puck. There are also private and in-room dining options.
Four Seasons Hotel New York Downtown is 400 meters from the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, while Trinity Church is 600 meters from the property. LaGuardia Airport, 13 km from the property, is the nearest airport.
Location: Broadway, New York City
Belongs to hotel chain: Sydell Group
Great for: Couples or small groups.
Price range: $390 and up for a night
The NoMad Hotel is located 644 meters from the Empire State Building and Herald Square, featuring a French decor and free WiFi. Madison Square Park is located 161 meters from the property.
Each room has an atrium or New York City view. All rooms at The NoMad Hotel include a Mahogany work desk, iHome docking station and in-room safe. Turndown service is provided at night. Enjoy a fitness center workout or read the daily newspaper. Also available on request are laptops and iPads.
The subway station is 50 meters from the property and 483 meters from The Museum at FIT. It is 1.2 km from Times Square.
Location: Fifth Avenue, New York City
Belongs to hotel chain: Fairmont Hotels & Resorts
Price range: Starting from $700 for a night
Located next to Central Park and 5th Avenue, this internationally renowned Manhattan hotel is a step away from famous shops such as Bergdorf Goodman, Louis Vuitton, Chanel, and Saks Fifth Avenue.
The luxurious and spacious rooms at The Plaza offer the latest technology of in-room iPads and boast modern bathrooms with 24-karat gold platted fixtures and separate rain showers.
The Plaza Hotel offers world class restaurants and bars such as the elegant Champagne Bar, the famous Rose Club, the Plaza Food Hall with its gourmet international cuisine and The Palm Court which is one of New York City's finest destinations for Afternoon Tea.
The Plaza's amenities include The Plaza's world-class shops with exclusive boutiques and fine food shops, as well as health and wellness facilities including a Guerlain Spa, Warren-Tricomi Salon, and La Palestra gym.
Mandarin Oriental New York
Location: Upper West Side, New York City
Belongs to hotel chain: Mandarin Oriental
A 2-minute walk from Central Park, this hotel is located at the top of Time Warner Center. Offering a 75-foot indoor pool, it offers rooms with Manhattan panoramic views.
There are floor-to-ceiling windows in every room at Mandarin Oriental, New York. The 55-inch flat-screen TV is available to guests. A minibar is included and every day there is a chocolate and a bottle of water.
A full-service spa with sauna and massage rooms is available at the Mandarin Oriental, New York. The spa features a Tea Lounge where before or after treatment guests can relax. The hotel also has a fitness centre on-site. Tourist information and ticket services can also be found in New York City.
Located on site, Restaurant Asiate serves contemporary cuisine and Manhattan's wall-to-wall views. Chef Grant Achatz's Aviary NYC bar provides guests with an interactive journey where inventive cocktails and small food dishes complement the experience. The Office NYC, a speakeasy-style bar adjacent to The Aviary NYC, offers traditionally inspired food and cocktails.
This hotel is a 10-minute walk from Fifth Avenue shopping and 350 meters from the Art and Design Museum. The Modern Art Museum is 1.1 kilometers away.
The Langham, New York, Fifth Avenue
Belongs to hotel chain: Langham Hospitality Group
Offering rooms with iPod docking stations, this hotel is located in Midtown Manhattan, between Bryant Park and Empire State Building.
During turn-down, the rooms at Langham, New York, Fifth Avenue include an espresso maker and bottled water. All the rooms also have WiFi access. Guests staying in the suites have access to bottled water and sodas free of charge.
For convenience of guests, concierge services and a 24-hour front desk are provided. Free ironing services are also provided for up to 5 items upon arrival (only once per stay).
Guests can dine at Ai Fiori, The Langham, New York, Fifth Avenue's on-site Michelin-star restaurant. The restaurant serves contemporary Italian cuisine inspired by the Riviera of France and Italy. At Bar Fiori, you can enjoy drinks and small dishes.
The Empire State Building is 322 meters away from the Langham, New York, Fifth Avenue. The hotel is 805 meters from the Grand Central Station.
Quick facts about New York City
Name: New York City
Area: 468.484 sq mi (1,213.37 km2)
Known as: The Big Apple, The City of Dreams
New York City is a global center of culture, art, fashion and finance and the most populous city in the US. The city is made out of five boroughs sitting on the Hudson River's entry into the Atlantic Ocean.
Manhattan, with iconic skyscrapers such as the Empire State Building, its green core of Central Park and bustling Times Square and Broadway; Brooklyn, diverse borough with areas featuring indie music, art and nightlife and beachfront amusement parks; Queens with Flushing Meadows, featuring Unisphere; Bronx, in the north of NYC, hosts Botanical Gardens and Bronx Zoo; Staten Island in the south offers great panoramic views of a city and iconic Statue of Liberty.
NYC is a massive city and it will take a week or two to fully explore it or at least to visit all major landmarks. But don't worry, once you visit it, you will always come back for more!
Read more: United States country spotlight
Main attractions in New York City
Statue of Liberty. A symbol of New York and the US in general, this iconic statue is located in New York City Harbor on Liberty Island. Opened in 1886, it offers tours, museum and panoramic city views. Central Park. An urban oasis in Manhattan, most visited city park in the US. Features pedestrian paths for walking and jogging, ballfields, a zoo, carousel and boat rentals. Empire State Building. Iconic office tower, offering observatories and exhibits, located in Manhattan. Built in 1031, this art deco style building is the fifth tallest structure in the US and 28th in the world, standing at 1,454 ft (443.2 m) height.
Times Square. Iconic intersection in Midtown Manhattan, known for bright lights and Broadway shows. Famous tourist selfie location in New York. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Also known simply as 'the Met', this world class art collection is a third museum in the world by number of visits per year. Features art collections from ancient to modern. Brooklyn Bridge. Iconic bridge spanning East River and connecting New York City and Brooklyn.
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Theatre District. In the heart of Manhattan, area of Broadway and Times Square, center of thatre plays and entertainment, plus dining and shopping. One World Trade Center. The tallest bulding in the US, built on the place of destroyed twin towers on 9/11 attack. Offering dining and drinks on the 101st floor with panoramic views. 9/11 Memorial. Plaza with pools and exhibits commemorating victims of 1993 and 2001 twin towers terrorist attacks. Free, time limited, admission available.
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You should visit all mentioned attractions if you have enough time and budget allows it, and we recommend also several other sightseeing activities: helicopter tour – see all the main landmarks from above; Brooklyn Bridge bike tour – enjoy relaxing ride over the bridge with wonderful views; Boat cruise – enjoy city skyline from the waterfront; Foodie tour – enjoy genuine NY pizza in various locations; Harlem gospel or hip-hop tour – listen and learn about music from the neigborhoods and its roots; Hop-on/Hop-off NYC bus tour – ride around main attractions with audio guided tour.
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Interesting facts about New York City
More than 800 languages are being spoken in New York.
The average rent for a one-bedroom in Manhattan is us $3,400.
The first European settlers in New York City were Dutch.
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Thoughts from the Talis Cohodo engineering team on software development and operations
July 2, 2010 / cohodo
Two Planes, an IT-related Sitcom, and a Shuttle-related Ruckus (a Shuckus?)
After setting off from Digbeth coach station some 25+ hours earlier, 2 tired Talisians (Matt and me) finally arrived at the Hyatt Regency, Santa Clara, California for O'Reilly's Velocity 2010 conference for Web Performance and Operations. We first flew from Heathrow to Dallas Fort Worth on a surprisingly cramped American Airlines flight, then onto San Francisco; by the time we hit SFO we were looking forward to getting to the hotel to freshen up and sleep. Night had fallen as our plane approached SFO which made a nice change after nothing but daylight since waking up in Birmingham well over a day ago. Not a journey for vampires, I can tells ya.
On the flight from Dallas to San Francisco I sat next to Patrick Wilson, CEO of http://www.vitalsignstechnology.com/ who was on his way back from a conference in Florida. The Valley and Bay Area are chock full of people involved in one area or another of the Tech industry; you can't swing a cat without hitting a developer, an ops guy and a couple of venture capitalists. And probably doing some damage to the cat.
Patrick has a pretty extensive knowledge of the area and served as a high altitude tour guide of sorts as we made our approach over the lights of San Francisco ("There's the Googleplex. That complex there is Sun" and so on) . He also revealed a recently acquired taste for the Channel 4 sitcom "The I.T. Crowd", even going as far as to fire up his laptop and share an episode. I was more than happy to help him with his query as to the "exchange rate between pounds and quid?", given his obvious delight at one of our most surprising cultural exports.
We knew a cab from SFO to Santa Clara would run us well over 100 dollars; Irish genes kicked in and we started looking for a cheaper alternative, despite our by now zombie-like state of fatigue. At this point we discovered the magic of SFO "Shuttles". These are basically big truck-like minivans that provide a (relatively) cheap way to get from the Airport to anywhere in the general Bay Area. When enough people want to go in roughly the same direction, you jump in and off you go. Cheaper than a cab and organised to cover broad geographical regions e.g. South Bay area, there is an element of pot luck controlling how long it will take you to reach your destination depending on the route the driver chooses in order to encompass all stops.
SFO employees are on hand to ensure fair play from Shuttle drivers. The lady we spoke to attempted to find a way to tactfully express the fact ("…it depends on…err… the… size of the people…") that a family of very large Americans waiting expectantly inside the shuttle we needed meant there should really be 2 spare seats, but realistically there was now only 1 seat with access to a seatbelt. This was causing a problem. Presumably potential litigation in the case of an accident was a worry. A brief Mexican (or at least Californian) stand-off ensued. SFO lady went to find a supervisor.
The driver attempted to slyly squeeze us in anyway now SFO lady's back was turned. Oversized family took immediate exception to this blatant disregard for their safety (if only they showed the same concern for their health when passing a Dunkin' Donuts). Dummies were spat, rattles were thrown, they retrieved their baggage and stormed (actually more like waddled) off in a huff ("You ****** up, Buddy! **** you!"). Too tired to find this episode as amusing as we really should have, we slid into the space vacated by their ample collective bulk and an hour or so later we were in Santa Clara, via Oakland. The driver was relying heavily on his sat nav, which caused some concern when it failed spectacularly. He switched it for an identical one that worked, prompting lame, tired jokes from us about redundancy and switching to a warm standby. First performance lesson of the trip: geek humour degrades dramatically after 26 hours without sleep.
A Serendipitous Meeting between Scribes
On Sunday we had dinner with fellow Velocity attendees Patrick Debois, and Torben Graversen. Matt met Patrick at Puppet Camp a few weeks ago. Patrick is the originator of the term "Devops"; his blog is highly recommended. As we chatted in the bar afterwards, Sean Power approached and asked if we were here for Velocity. He introduced himself and his friend Tracy Lee.
We chewed the fat for a while and talked lean start-ups, performance monitoring, Silicon Valley, and Sean's upcoming talk at Velocity. Sean mentioned that he had contributed to an O'Reilly book that was due out any day now; Patrick asked which one. It turned out to be "Web Operations"; this book contains a chapter on Monitoring written by non other than one Mr. Patrick Debois! You could have knocked us over with an O'Reilly "In a Nutshell" book, such was the strength of the minor coincidence.
Lack of nerve scuppers a tour of Twitter (or possibly just a beating from security)
Since the conference didn't start until Tuesday, we hired a car on Monday and drove to San Francisco. Whilst there we met with a couple of friends of Patrick, one of whom was something of a veteran of the Bay Area Tech scene. He told us he had calculated that there were at least 400 tech companies in a 3 block area of San Francisco; pretty mind blowing when you think of it. He also informed us the Twitter offices were just around the corner and suggested we should go in, ask at reception for his friend John Adams, tell him we were here for Velocity, ("Mike told us to ask for you") and see if he would give us a tour.
We were all pretty surprised to find we were able to stroll into the Twitter building unannounced, take the lift up to the 6th floor, wander into reception and hang around without anybody once challenging us; I kept expecting to be thrown out any second. Ultimately, we were all far too European and reserved to ask for someone we didn't know, tell him we were friends of somebody else we didn't really know ("Does anybody know that guy Mike's surname?"), and cheekily ask for a tour of Twitter, so we just hung around for a bit looking goofy and then left. So much for the meek inheriting the Earth; we couldn't even blag a tour of Twitter.
Down to Business
Velocity traditionally covers two broad areas:
performance of Web applications
At first glance some folks may not see the connection between these two topics, but they are increasingly intertwined as engineers seek to build highly available, scalable and fast applications that operate at Internet scale. Here in Platform Engineering & Operations, our development and operations functions work together closely in the same team, so it made perfect sense to us that these tracks had been combined into a single conference looking at performance in a holistic way. It also seemed fitting for us to send one developer and one ops person.
The conference was sold out, with over 1200 people in attendance, and up to 3 tracks at once at various times. Between the 2 of us, we tried to arrange our schedules to cover as many of the presentations and sessions as we could. Some of the sessions were billed as "workshops", but in reality they were way too big to be anything other than long presentations; 400 people is far too many for anything "workshoppy". Nevertheless, the content was generally of a very high standard; informative and well presented.
DO go chasing waterfalls…
Quite a number of sessions focussed on optimisation of applications that are delivered to the browser. Although not a problem we face directly in delivering the Platform (which is an API); this is an area that has come on in leaps and bounds over the last couple of years and it was interesting to see the current state-of-the-art. Annie Sullivan of Google gave a very good presentation covering many of the techniques engineers turn to when tuning performance of their web pages from the point after server-side processing is complete.
Waterfall charts are a common tool for analysing performance; during the course of the conference we saw many variations created by assorted tools including Webpagetest, Google Page Speed, DynaTrace, WebKit, Gomez, and a host of others. In fact, Steve Souders mentioned that there are twice as many of these type of tools as there were this time last year, which underlines the growth of this area of performance tuning. Performance is arguably more important now than ever before, even Google page ranking is now partially dependent on the speed of your site.
Techniques mentioned by Annie and others included various ways to optimise and minify JavaScript, CSS & HTML, including getting JavaScript into a build system to help you identify dead code, code that can be modularised, and code that could be loaded asynchronously. Asynchrony, along with progressive rendering techniques to ensure the most important parts of the page load first also featured heavily in an exploration of how Facebook made their site twice as fast.
Engineering for the win!
One of my favourite presentations came from Theo Schlossnagle. Theo's "Scalable Internet Architectures" was 90 minutes of wisdom covering a vast array of material, from analysing network packet size, to choosing between SQL and NoSQL databases, to version control, caching, monitoring, service decoupling, mastering tools and the importance of engineering maths. A truly wide-ranging and ambitious presentation, skilfully delivered. Unfortunately there appears to be no video, so you can't really appreciate the moments when Theo worked himself into a righteous engineering rage as he dismissed various bone-headed architectural decisions. However, the slides are still well worth a look.
How do they do that?
Undoubtedly the most over-subscribed session of the week was "A Day in the Life of Facebook Operations" by Tom Cook; I literally had to watch this one while standing in the doorway to the lecture theatre. The room was full to bursting point and Tom did not disappoint. The sheer scale of the job at Facebook is daunting; more than 400 million users, 10s of thousands of servers, 300+ TB of data served from RAM alone via Memcached, and multiple software releases and configuration changes every single day across this gigantic stack. A great example of operating on a massive scale and yet still moving quickly and keeping risk small.
Similarly popular and insightful were John Adams' "In the Belly of the Whale: Operations at Twitter", John Allspaw's "Ops Meta-Metrics: The Currency You Use to Pay For Change" and Paul Hammond's "Always Ship Trunk: Managing Change In Complex Websites". All of these presenters have real, in-the-trenches experience of managing development and operations in very large, very fast moving Web applications, servicing mind-boggling numbers of users via staggering amounts of code and infrastructure. Much can be learned from them.
Dev what now?
I have become increasingly aware of the Devops movement over the last few months. I believe this kind of thinking has the potential to change the face of Operations the way agile approaches have changed Software Development over the last 10 years, so it was good to see it well represented at Velocity. I particularly enjoyed Andrew Shafer's "Change Management: A Scientific Classification", which sounds almost like it could be espousing a very buttoned-down, paperwork and process heavy approach to managing change, but in fact stresses the importance of agile thinking (high-bandwidth communication, version control, small changes deployed regularly and monitored heavily, automation and configuration management tools) in safely managing change. Adam Jacob also touched on Devops during his innovative "Choose Your Own Adventure" session.
Wedged in amongst all the good stuff on performance in the browser there were a couple of sessions that took different approaches to looking at performance. Firstly, there was Yahoo Search's Stoyan Stefanov with "The Psychology of Performance", offering fascinating insights into how humans perceive the duration of various things and what that means for web applications.
Secondly, Neil Gunther and Shanti Subramanyam used performance testing analysis of Memcached in "Hidden Scalability Gotchas in Memcached and Friends" to introduce Neil's Universal Scalability Law and explain what mathematical modelling can do to help performance tuning in the Brave New World of multi core machines. This was truly eye-opening stuff; the material was accessible enough to pull you in, but deep enough that I will be digesting bits of it and delving into this further for a long time to come. It was also good to see that server-side performance was being addressed at Velocity, albeit on a much smaller scale than the browser-side.
A recurring theme for me was the additional material Velocity has pointed me towards; the performance-related blogs of Neil and Shanti being great examples.
What has all that got to do with the Platform?
Common high level threads amongst all these cool kids on the Tech block were being process light but review heavy and making frequent small changes with enough testing, automation and monitoring around them to keep the risk of change minimal, yet keep the pace punchy. I found it encouraging to see how much of this stuff we already do in Platform Engineering & Operations, e.g.:
version controlling everything (Subversion and Git)
always shipping trunk
using configuration management tools (Puppet)
stressing peer review
extensive automated testing (J-Unit, Grinder)
monitoring and alerting (Ganglia, Nagios, Cacti, etc.)
Continuous Integration (Hudson)
dark deployment
service decoupling
using switches in code to enable/disable features
frequent small releases
appropriate use of asynchrony
judicious use of cloud technologies (EC2, S3 and various other bits of AWS)
having ops and devs work closely together.
We don't yet face the problems of scale that have led Facebook and Twitter to turn to BitTorrent as a means to roll out software quickly to thousands of servers (that would be one of those "nice" problems to have, given what it would represent in terms of take-up of the Platform), and we have some way to go before we can truly say we deploy continuously. However, I left feeling confident in the way we work, primed with new areas for us to explore, and inspired at having gained an insight into how some of the leading lights of Internet-scale engineering make it all hang together.
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Michael Fitzmaurice / Jul 8 2010 3:06 pm
Nice summary of some of the content of velocity focussing on performance graphs and charts of various kinds: http://www.webperformancetoday.com/2010/07/01/the-best-graphs-of-velocity/
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Earlier this week, I decided to challenge myself to make a salad from ingredients in our San Diego garden.
I found lots of kale, small golden beets and plenty of flat-leaved parsley. The orange tree is still loaded with fruit and our older Meyer lemon tree is at the height of its season.
Inspired by Ina Garten's recipe for a winter slaw, I opted for my version of a slaw rather than a salad.
At the last minute, I "cheated" and threw in some red cabbage and a handful of Brussels sprouts from the fridge.
Everything came together quickly and easily, and it was fun to prowl around the garden and come up with a slaw for our supper – in February, no less.
TIP: Assemble the slaw, toss it with the vinaigrette, then allow it to sit for an hour or two in your fridge. This step will allow the slaw the absorb the vinaigrette and slightly soften the vegetables.
A winter slaw made (mostly) with ingredients found in our San Diego garden.
Combine the kale, cabbage, sprouts, beets, oranges and parsley in a medium-sized non-reactive bowl. Set aside.
Whisk together the oil, lemon juice, mustard, salt and pepper in a small, deep bowl or measuring cup.
Toss the slaw with the vinaigrette, cover and refrigerate for an hour or two before serving.
Liz, thats a gorgeous slaw/salad and lucky you having all those fruits and vegetables growing in your garden.
I always am appreciative of living here, Suzanne, and never take it for granted, drought and all!
This is a lovely salad – not only is it pretty, but I can imagine how well the flavors go together.
Thanks, Lynda, it was fun to "shop" in our own garden.
What a beautiful salad! I love a happy and colorful salad, especially during the winter time, when I'm not so inclined to enjoy a salad.
Thanks, Wendy – it was fun.
Liz, this sounds so refreshing and delicious and perfect for the Springtime in Winter weather that we are having in CA! I have a few of those ingredients in my garden and know where to find the rest.
You are so welcome, Mare – hope that coyote of yours hasn't eaten all your vegetables!
Adore your idea of creating a salad out of your own garden! Shop the backyard, indeed! It is seriously pretty, too.
Thanks, Dorothy – I got a kick out of making it.
This is new for me, Greg, to grow winter vegetables – I started last year with rainbow chard and we were up to our ears in chard.
I also envy you your garden AND your green thumb! I can barely keep mint alive. What a fresh, light salad!
Thanks, Lisa – my mint died too – LOL.
I love this, it's so colorful and healthy!
I love the vibrant colors – the golden beets contrast beautifully with the purple cabbage! Reading your garden posts makes me really miss the garden we used to have. Have a great week, Liz.
Thanks, Priscilla – and a big hug to Tank.
What a perfect salad for winter! It celebrates the freshness of citrus, greens, and beets. All favorites of mine. Definitely making. And another lovely photo!!
I love kale and Brussels and golden beets! All of these things in one place sounds wonderful! How amazing that you are able to pick so many of the ingredients for this salad from your garden at this time of year!
It was so much fun to gather from our garden, Jayne – harvesting for kale pesto tomorrow.


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through the pages of Holy Writ.
appearance to those who saw Him.
appropriate that it should be so!
the Psalms were being written.
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encourage one of the Old Testament saints.
are standing is holy.' And Joshua did so.
nner to win battles under His leadership!
but may we not tempt Him as they did!
withdrew and went behind them.
the angel of His presence.
s, Jesus Christ was with Moses in the long ago!
face, as a man speaks with his friend.
her, or the One Who bestows life.
nothing was made that has been made.
Who created all the vast universe?
down who could fix the machine.
down, in the first place!
ll eternity! He had no beginning.
of man to grasp such truths.
Him through the ages, if our faith is in Him.
of the world. But what of His relation to us?
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be God Himself in human form…Jesus.
Romans 8:3; and 1 Timothy 3:16.
into the human race)…Christ's humanity began.
Jesus also claims that Abraham saw him, and that he existed even before Abraham was created which explains how it was that Abraham could see someone who had walked this earth nearly 2,000 years after him. No wonder the Jews sought to stone him!
Not only did the Lord Jesus exist before the world itself, he was also the Agent whom God used to actually create every created thing, which makes him an eternal Being and he therefore existed before the angels. In fact, he created the angels according to John!


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Everything Coming to Amazon Prime in February 2020
Matt Singer Published: January 18, 2020
The big titles coming to Amazon Prime's streaming service in February include A24's critically acclaimed The Farewell, starring Golden Globe winner Awkwafina, and Amazon's own Honey Boy, with Shia LaBeouf starring as his own father in a story he wrote based on his own life as a child actor. Older titles include Ghost, Dick Tracy, and The Cabin in the Woods. (And boy, would that be a wild triple feature.)
Here's the full lineup of new shows and films on Prime Video in February:
Beat the Devil (1953)
Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
Buffalo '66 (1998)
Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter (1974)
Cheech & Chong's Still Smokin' (1983)
Crashing Through Danger (2016)
Dick Tracy (1990)
Earth Girls Are Easy (1989)
Emergency Landing (2018)
Father Steps Out (1941)
Guess What We Learned In School Today? (1970)
High Voltage (2018)
Judgment Day (1999)
Little Tough Guy (1938)
Lord of War (2005)
National Lampoon's Dirty Movie (2011)
National Lampoon's Dorm Daze 2 (2006)
North of The Border (2009)
People Are Funny (1946)
Posledniy Bogatyr (2017)
Precious (2009)
Southie (1999)
Taken Heart (2016)
The Big Lift (1950)
The Fabulous Dorseys (1947)
The Last Stand (2013)
The Little Princess (1995)
The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959)
The Spy Next Door (2010)
Touched with Fire (2016)
Counterpart: Seasons 1 & 2
Escape at Dannemora: Season 1
Tyler Perry's a Madea Family Funeral (2019)
Jallikattu (2019)
Warrior (2011)
Disaster Movie (2008)
*Honey Boy (2019) – Amazon Original movie
*All or Nothing: The Philadelphia Eagles – Amazon Original series
*Clifford: Season 1B – Amazon Original series
*If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Valentine's Day Special – Amazon Original series
*Pete the Cat Valentine's Day Special – Amazon Original series
Alive (2019)
The Farewell (2019)
American Ultra (2015)
Danger Close (2019)
47 Meters Down: Uncaged (2019)
Ice Princess Lily (2019)
*Hunters – Amazon Original series
Run the Race (2019)
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Dr Pauline Polkey Undergraduate Bursaries - School of Arts and Humanities
Thanks to the generosity of the Ellis family and Excel Computer Holdings Ltd, we are pleased to be able to offer the Dr Pauline Polkey Undergraduate Bursary in memory of Dr Pauline Polkey, a valued and inspirational lecturer in the School of Arts and Humanities at NTU.
The award will support talented students with exceptional academic potential who need help with meeting the costs of studying at university.
These prestigious awards are open to applications from students who will be enrolled on a full-time undergraduate course in the 2023/24 academic year within the School of Arts and Humanities (students may be enrolled on any year of an eligible course).
This scholarship scheme is competitive, and we award scholarships to the applicants who most closely meet or exceed the criteria for the award. The scholarship decision is made by an awarding committee and all decisions of the committee are final.
Each award is worth up to £1,000. The scholarship will be paid as a cash bursary at the start of the academic year.
Please note that this is one of a number of awards offered by Nottingham Trent University and details of the range of available awards can be found here. Prospective students can apply for more than one named scholarship/award/tuition fee reduction, however you will only be awarded a maximum of one in your first year of study (the highest award that you are eligible for).
Terms and conditions for the Dr Pauline Polkey Undergraduate Bursary
1. To be eligible to apply for the Dr Pauline Polkey Undergraduate Bursary, applicants must:
have been offered a place on an eligible Arts & Humanities undergraduate course
have United Kingdom as country of nationality recorded on the course application, and
be classed as a Home student for tuition fee purposes.
2. Applicants are eligible to apply for a scholarship if they are due to enrol on the first, second or third year of a course in September 2023. You can reapply for the scholarship once for each academic year of your course.
3. If applying for the first year of an eligible course, please do not send your scholarship application before, or with, your application to study at NTU. You must have received an offer of a place on an eligible course and been allocated an NTU ID number before submitting your scholarship application.
4. This scholarship is open to UK national applicants only. Please visit www.ntu.ac.uk/internationalscholarships for information on scholarships available for international students.
5. Students who receive sponsorship (i.e. some or all of your tuition fees are being paid for) from their employers, government or a funding body are not eligible to apply for this scholarship award.
6. Applicants may only apply for this scholarship once per academic year per offer. The offer of a place must be on an eligible course.
7. Applications received after 16:00 BST(4pm) on the deadline date will not be considered.
8. This application form is for eligible undergraduate courses only. Please do not use this form to apply for postgraduate scholarships or research funding.
9. If you have been made an offer of a place to study on an eligible full-time course, scholarships of up to £1,000 are available. This scholarship is not available for students on sandwich courses.
10. The scholarship will be awarded as a cash bursary, which will be paid at the start of the academic year.
11. It is expected that any money received as part of the scholarship will be spent helping to meet the costs of studying at university, and receipts may be requested.
12. Prospective students can apply for more than one named scholarship/award/tuition fee reduction; however, you will only be awarded a maximum of one in your first year of study (the highest award that you are eligible for).
13. The scholarship is not transferable and will not be awarded if you choose to defer your entry to a different start date, or if you choose to transfer to a different course at NTU. Students may re-apply for the scholarship should it still be available.
14. Applicants will be informed whether they have (or have not) been awarded a scholarship (and of the value of the award) within four weeks of the application deadline date.
15. The scholarship will be awarded when an applicant accepts their scholarship offer, accepts and meets the conditions of their course offer, and is eligible to enrol on the course. If you do not formally accept the scholarship by the given deadline, then NTU reserves the right to withdraw the scholarship and award to another candidate.
16. Scholarships are competitive and selection is based on the information provided on the scholarship application form. It is, therefore, of great importance that you give your scholarship statement careful thought and preparation, and that you refer to the criteria provided on the application form.
17. If your scholarship application is successful, we may ask you to become a student ambassador, or appear in online and / or printed marketing materials for NTU, such as the Alumni Magazine. For example, providing a student profile, quote, case study and photograph which may be used to promote NTU and NTU's scholarship schemes and courses. Your name and course will be printed in the annual Donor Report. If you do not wish for us to use your data in this manner, please notify us as soon as possible by emailing NTU.scholarships@ntu.ac.uk.
18. As a recipient of a donor-funded scholarship, you are expected to be involved in the following activities to assist the University in thanking donors for their donation and to demonstrate the impact that donor-funded awards have on students and NTU:
o Write a thank you letter to your donor which introduces yourself (providing your name and subject of study);
o Write an end of year report which will be shared with your donor to explain the impact that the scholarship has had on your studies and your university life – within the report you will be expected to provide your name and subject of study;
o Attend an introduction event during your studies at NTU, where you will:
Meet other scholarship winners and members of NTU staff;
Get advice on how to write your thank you letter and end of year report.
o Attend other University events, from time to time, to meet and thank donors.
19. In the event that a student who has been awarded a scholarship fails to complete the academic year, suspends their studies or withdraws from the course and chooses to retake the course or undertake another eligible course then the scholarship will not be applied again, regardless of the reason for doing so. Students must re-apply for the scholarship should it still be on offer.
20. If a student is required to repeat an academic year of study (either in full or in part), the scholarship will not be applied again.
21. Students are obliged to inform NTU immediately of any change in their circumstances which may affect their entitlement to receive the scholarship. In the event of failure by a student to notify NTU promptly of any such changes, NTU will be entitled to recover any payments made or adjust (as appropriate) the scholarship amount.
22. If a student makes a false or materially incorrect declaration that results in NTU awarding them a scholarship/bursary, then the scholarship will be cancelled, and no payments will be made. Depending on circumstance, NTU may attempt to recover some or all of any payments already made.
23. NTU's decision in all matters relating to the scholarship is final.
To be eligible to apply, applicants must:
be studying an undergraduate course within the School of Arts & Humanities
Preference may be given to those living in disadvantaged areas - including those with low participation in HE - as defined by Office for Students POLAR data.
Deadlines for applying
Applications received after 16:00 BST (4pm) on the day of the deadline will not be considered.
Timings are in BST:
Course start date: September 2023
Deadline for scholarship application: 26 April at 4pm
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