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Camel Cup: The Yellow Menace
May 3, 2015 May 3, 2015 Lizzles
Brutus Rating: 2 daggers in the back out of 10
Pairs well with: One of those liqueurs you bring back from holiday that nobody wants to drink. Maybe cactus flavour, or ouzo. Raki is pretty rough too. Damn Greece, you got some terrible booze.
Note: our photographer insists that the bright glaring photographs are supposed to represent the sun in the camel-filled desert. This, we are assured, is definitely on purpose.
Disclaimer: In the interests of maintaining ethics in board game journalism we at the Misery Farm feel that it's important to make our audience aware that this post contains a high level of pro-yellow camelist propaganda. This does not mean that we aim to denigrate other colours of camel or beings who identify as camels. All camels are equal. Yellow camel is just slightly more equal than other camels.
There are several ways in which Lizzy is the villain of The Misery Farm. She wins too often, she's a little bit too keen to play the bad guy and she has a really awful smug face. These things might all make her seem like a kind of loveable rogue, but there's one thing that we've hidden from you all so far. The real reason she will strike fear into your heart. We're about to show you the inside of Lizzy's copy of Camel Cup. If you're of a nervous disposition, or there are children in the vicinity, look away now.
Urrrrgh. *shudder* That game even comes with baggies, guys. There's no excuse for that mess.
Anyway, now that horror is over, let's get onto Camel Cup.
There are two schools of thought on the name of this game. Some people think that it's actually called 'Camel Up'. Perhaps because of the stacking method, in which the camels go 'up' and stack on top of each other.
The camels lining up for a bit of pre-race chat
These people claim to be right because of silly little reasons like "that's what the instructions say", "that's what it says online" and "that's just the actual name, you guys".
The other school of thought says that the game is 'Camel Cup'. Because the camels, you see, are racing to win The Camel Cup. These people claim to be right because of excellent reasons like "there is an actual Camel Cup race", and "we just prefer this name so agree with us or get the hell out of our living room", and "shut up and play." The Misery Farm are a part of the latter school of thought.
Pyramid-scheme
Camel Cup won Spiel Des Jahres 2014 ("Game of the Year". Thanks Bob, that degree in German wasn't wasted after all.) When you first look at the game, running around a giant convention hall in Germany, then that fact can seem a little surprising. It looks a bit gimmicky: it has some sort of strange pyramid thing scheme going on.
It turns out that Camel Cup is almost certainly the best gambling, camel-racing game you'll play all year.
In Camel Cup you don't play as the camels, and you don't have much influence on how fast each of the camels race around the track. Instead, you're the Egyptian aristocracy. Your goal is to make as much money as you can by the end of the race, having gambled on which camel will be the final winner, the final loser, and which camels will win each 'leg' of the race.
The Egyptian aristocracy
It's fairly fast-paced, and (hopefully) everyone will do one of four actions quickly and move onto the next person. Two of these actions are gambling (betting on a camel for either the leg or the whole race), one is placing down an oasis or barren dessert sort of token (the one way in which you can almost sort-of influence the race) and the final is to move the camels. That is, make it so that the camels move themselves. You get limited choice in the matter.
"I BELIEVE IN YELLOW CAMEL!" (Lizzy bets on Yellow Camel to win, as is tradition)
"Green Camel is currently in last place… so I think I believe in Green Camel." (Generic male gaming buddy gambles on Green Camel)
"I think I'm going to move the camels!" (Everyone starts chanting 'move the camels' and banging on the table)
The game also features Nigel Thornberry
Of course, I say that hopefully everyone will do one of four actions quickly. Occasionally you'll get players trying to cheat. By 'cheat', of course, I mean 'actually trying to think about their turn logically before having it'. Don't do that, it's a terrible idea. You'll look like a dick, and it won't help. Camel Cup can be for up to eight players, so such behaviour is rightly discouraged in our circles, and hurried along by coughing and reminding guilty parties that "Ahem! This is Camel Cup! The fast-paced camel racing gambling game! Get your shit together" until they take their turn. Attempting to mathematically work out the winning and losing odds has no place in this game, for reasons which we will soon make clear.
The magical pyramid of camel-moving
To get any good picture of how Camel Cup plays, it'll be useful to mention how the camels actually move. At the beginning of the leg, the mysterious pyramid of camel-racing is placed in the centre of the board with five different dice inside it, one for each colour camel. The dice are all numbered 1-3. When some brave gambler chooses to move the camels (cue chanting) she takes the pyramid, tips it upside down and pushes open a little flap so that one single die will fall out. The camel of that colour will then speed that number of spaces along the board! The die is then put aside until the other four are out of the pyramid, so that each camel will get one turn at moving before the dice are all put back inside. When all of the camels have moved once, that's a leg of the race.
Once the novelty of a pyramid dice-shaker wears off, that can all seem very dull. Some dice are rolled, some camels race at that particular pace. *yawn*
But wait! This game didn't win Spiel Des Jahres 2014 just for some camels trundling along next to each other at a speed of 1-3 per leg! Oh no. I've left out the best bit. The camels… they stack on top of each other.
Yep. Apparently the race course is so narrow that there ain't no room for camels to be side-by-side. When a camel trundles onto an already-occupied tile, they'll just park their camelly behind on top of that first camel. This is a mechanism that makes Briony feel deeply uncomfortable – when she's claimed a certain spot on the board she expects not to share, or at least to swear at someone attempting to come near her. This is a particular problem in other games like Tigris and Euphrates as she strongly believes in keeping other civilizations out. Everyone else though? In awe.
BUT THEN! When that first camel moves, does she ask the second one to get the hell off? No! She races on with up to four camels on top of her. The implications that this has on the odds are staggering. Instead of moving a maximum of three places, a camel with some lucky stacking could move fifteen tiles.
Staring into the eyes of Yellow Camel
What looks at first like a simple race turns into a crazy one, where the odds a lot of the time are almost impossible to figure out. This is the essence of Camel Cup, and what makes the game so much fun to play. It's not uncommon to see a camel go from last place to first in one leg, ruining all of your bets and expectations. The game is made by the sheer improbability of it all. It's made by deciding which camel to bet on just by looking really closely into their souls and seeing which camel really has what it takes (Lizzy deeply believes that Yellow Camel has that X-Factor that'll take it all the way to the big leagues). It's made by having all of the enthusiasm in the world for the camel in last place, then actually seeing them win and getting to rub it in the faces of the non-believers.
Having said that, there are several things that Camel Cup is not. Camel Cup is not a lengthy game, nor one for much strategy. Not by board-gaming standards, at least. But that's ok, because most people's collections need a place for that kind of game. One that's fairly quick, fairly simple and doesn't involve too much thought if you've had a long day / are playing with some non-gamer friends / are a bit drunk already at 4pm and can't quite think straight. It also comes with a Totally Official™ side-game in which players should try to pull faces that match those of the camels on the box art.
As you can probably tell, it's important to play Camel Cup with the right kind of people.
The players need to be willing to get excited about some crazy odds and racing camels, and to not mind the lack of reliable strategy or planning ahead. You need to be able to place a wild bet on a camel just by what feels right. I mean I'm not necessarily saying that it's your fault if you don't love the game (you might just have terrible friends). But it might not work so well if everyone's incredibly quiet, or if everyone's just received some tragic news.
The game receives just 2/10 daggers-in-the-back since there aren't all that many opportunities to stick said daggers into your opponents' backs. There simply aren't many ways to encourage a lame camel to victory or stop the juggernaut momentum of Yellow Camel. You can sometimes place a tile which will make it better or worse to land on, but most of the screwing-over will just be done by the luck of the dice and the speed of the camels.
A great game, for its type.
The real winner isn't Lizzy. Nor, for once, is it board games. The real winner is Yellow Camel.
Tiiiiimbeeeeeerrrr
Credit for the photographs to Photographer-friend BA (Hons), MA, PhD.
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David Walker's Appeal, perhaps the most radical of all anti-slavery documents, caused a great stir when it was published in 1829 with its call for slaves to revolt against their masters.
Walker, a free black originally from the South wrote, ". . .they want us for their slaves, and think nothing of murdering us. . . therefore, if there is an attempt made by us, kill or be killed. . . and believe this, that it is no more harm for you to kill a man who is trying to kill you, than it is for you to take a drink of water when thirsty."
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Harriet Tubman (1820 – 1913) was an abolitionist and Union spy during the Civil War.
After escaping from slavery, she made thirteen missions to rescue more than 70 slaves using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. ."
How is Oberlin memorializing the Underground Railroad?
How will the memorial be funded?
Oberlin's participation in antislavery activity from the 1830s to 1860 took many forms.
The evidence of the action of individual participants can be gleaned from the sermons of Rev. Henry Cowles, accounts of missionaries who preached in the South about evils of slavery, the third-party references to safe houses built on the route of the Underground Railroad, and the correspondence that details the activities of slave catchers running down fugitives.
Some historians consider Oberlin to be the most important stop on the Underground Railroad.
On 13 September, 1858, citizens and students of Oberlin and citizens of Wellington (nine miles away) successfully rescued John Price, a runaway slave living in Oberlin, from slave catchers. As the story is told, Price had been forcefully removed from the outskirts of Oberlin to the Wadsworth House in Wellington, and faced a return to slavery in Kentucky.
A sketch of the young John Price from the front cover of The 1858 Oberlin-Wellington Rescue: A reappraisal.
The events that followed, including a 1859 trial of the Oberlin Rescuers in Cleveland and their eventual release from the Cuyahoga County Jail, represented one of Oberlin's most remarkable achievements in the peaceful fight against the institution of slavery and in the moral quest for freedom for black Americans.
Monument to the Oberlinians Who Participated in John Brown's Raid On Harper's Ferry.
"These colored citizens of Oberlin, the heroic associates of the immortal John Brown, gave their lives for the slave. Et nunc servitudo etiam mortua est, laus deo.
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Jason Day kept The Players field at bay
By Stephanie Wei under PGA Tour
If there were ever a question over Jason Day's position as the world no. 1 player, he certainly answered with his wire-to-wire victory at The Players Championship, which boasts the strongest field of the year, not to mention the richest, with $1.9 million to the winner. Day's commanding performance gave him a four-shot edge over the next closest competitor Kevin Chappell, who was also the runner-up when the 28-year-old Australian hoisted the trophy at Bay Hill in March.
Day, who has seven wins in his last 17 starts, has separated himself from the rest of the "Big Four" — Jordan Spieth (MC), Rory McIlroy (T12) and defending champ Rickie Fowler (MC) — as the most dominant player in the game.
Though Day looked a bit shaky at times on the front nine, he still led by at least two strokes the entire round and made several clutch putts. He said the most significant shot he hit on Sunday was the six-foot putt for bogey on the par-5 9th, after he had flubbed three chips. He actually said he had "too good" of a lie on the first chip and wished he had a worse lie because the ball was sitting up too nicely in the Bermuda grass. The next two poor chips were just mental errors.
"I walk away with a double bogey there, I let everyone in the field, and that gives them a boost of energy, boost of momentum their way to really say that, oh, okay, we're back in this tournament now," said Day, candidly. "He's not playing well, and obviously he's thinking about trying to win.
"Obviously I was right there next to the green in two and felt like an amateur chopping my way to the pin from only 10 yards off the green. That putt was probably the most crucial putt of this tournament for me."
He was admittedly tense on the front nine, letting negative thoughts creep into his mind.
"I was nervous starting the day," said Day, who posted a one-under 71 to get to 15-under for the tournament. "I told Ellie earlier this morning, this is probably the most nervous I've been before a tournament round. Look at it on Golf Channel, he's finished four of the last 54-hole leads he's had, and I'm sitting there going, don't choke. I mean, that would be the worst thing ever. Everyone would be talking about it."
Day composed himself on the back nine — where he went bogey-free for the week — telling himself on the 10th tee that he still was in control. He rolled in a 17-footer for birdie to kick off the back nine, which settled his nerves. Day added another birdie on nos. 12 and 16, but he still had to tackle the par-3 island green 17th.
"17, it's only a 52-degree wedge, but I was close to hitting it in the bloody water there," said Day, laughing.
Day now has 10 career wins on the PGA Tour. And as I mentioned earlier, seven of them in his last 17 starts dating back to the RBC Canadian Open last July. Speaking of which, Day's hot streak seems to have been fueled by his near miss at the Open Championship, where he had a putt to get into the playoff.
"It just flat-out sucks losing," said Day, referring to St Andrews. "It doesn't feel good. I don't like being on the receiving end of it, especially when I have the opportunity to get myself into a playoff. Walking in to see Tom Rinaldi and some of the other guys, straight after I signed my scorecard, having to talk to them about how I'm feeling. It's not fun.
"I like doing this, sitting next to the trophy and being able to tell you how great of a week I had.
"But once again, that week, something changed. I said to myself, I think you're ready to finally do this. Probably deep down mentally in my subconscious, I'm not sure, but the whole week I felt calm, and I played some great golf, but then from there it just kind of kicked on, and I haven't stopped. I've played nice, solid golf, but, yeah, I've just got to keep focused on trying to win as much as I can."
And indeed, Day has shown that he's learned from his past failures and inability to close out tournaments earlier in his career — which is what makes him a winner.
Day has now won three times in 2016, including the WGC-Match Play and the Arnold Palmer Invitational. This is also his second wire-to-wire victory of the year — he led from start to finish at Bay Hill in March, as well. If we're looking back to last season, he achieved the same feat at the BMW Championship, the third leg of the FedExCup Playoffs. Day joins Tiger Woods (2000, 2002), Tom Watson (1980) and Johnny Miller (1974) as players to win wire-to-wire twice in the same season dating to 1970. What's more, Day became the first player to go wire-to-wire at The Players in 16 years.
Fellow Australian Adam Scott called Day's performance as of late "Tiger-esque."
"It's that thing I always try to explain how good you feel after one win," said Scott, who finished T12. "And I try to imagine how good Tiger felt just playing about five years into his pro career having won like 50 events, and imagine how you'd feel confidence-wise, and Jason must be kind of feeling something like that at the moment, and that's incredibly nice way to walk out on the golf course, and you can see it with Jason.
"I played with him one day this week in practice. You can see there's that calmness inside him, calm confidence, and the way he's walking around, he's got that kind of unbeatable look about him."
Day, who was inspired by Woods as a kid to take up the game, has developed a strong friendship with the 14-time major champion over the last few years. Woods has taken Day under his wing as his protege, so to speak. The two exchange text messages frequently and Tiger sends Day words of wisdom and encouragement throughout the week during tournaments.
"Keep pushing, yeah, keep pushing, because Tiger says he's going to kick my butt when he comes back," said Day, laughing, when told that his average OWGR points are the highest as the world no. 1 since Woods in 2013. "So I'm going to try and extend that gap, so if he does come back and he's turned into Tiger Woods again, I've got to kind of watch my behind.
"That's the main goal and main reason why I'm trying to extend that lead, so that I stay on top, because at the end of the day, it's very stressful being the No. 1 player in the world. You're in the limelight a lot. You've got more things to do when you get to tournaments, more things to do off weeks. But I wouldn't change it in any way because this is exactly where I want to be, and I want to try and stay here as long as I can while I can, because nothing beats this feeling."
Some more impressive stats and records that Day has accomplished…
PGA Tour Victories (10):
2010 AT&T Byron Nelson
2014 World Golf Championships-Dell Match Play
2015 Farmers Insurance Open, RBC Canadian Open, PGA Championship, The Barclays, BMW Championship
2016 Arnold Palmer Invitational, World Golf Championships-Dell Match Play, THE PLAYERS
*Day becomes the third different player to win The Players while ranked No. 1 in the Official World Golf Ranking: Greg Norman (1994), Tiger Woods (2001 and 2013) and Jason Day (2016).
*Day now holds the second-most PGA Tour victories by players under the age of 30:
Rory McIlroy 11
Jason Day 10
Jordan Spieth 7
*Day becomes the fifth player since 1980 to win 10 or more times on the PGA Tour before his 29th birthday, joining Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, Phil Mickelson and David Duval.
*Since the start of the 2013-14 PGA Tour Season, Day has the most PGA Tour wins (8) by any player in that timeframe.
*After holding the sole lead after each round, Day earns his third career wire-to-wire win on the PGA Tour (2015 BMW Championship, 2016 Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard and 2016 PLAYERS Championship). Since 1970, six players have won wire-to-wire three or more times on TOUR: Tiger Woods (7), Tom Watson (6), Phil Mickelson (3), Nick Price (3), Johnny Miller (3) and Jason Day (3).
*Day joins Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Adam Scott and Martin Kaymer as the only players to win THE PLAYERS Championship, a major championship and a World Golf Championships event in their career.
*Records set/tied by Jason Day at THE PLAYERS Championship
Tied, low 18-hole score (9-under 63) with five players (including Colt Knost/R2/2016)
Set, low first 36 holes, (15-under 129) previously 14-under 130 by Greg Norman in 1994)
Tied, low start by a winner (9-under 63) with two players (Greg Norman/1994 and Martin Kaymer/2014)
Set, largest 36-hole lead, 4 (previously 3 by Lanny Wadkins/1979 and Greg Norman/1994)
*Day's 2015-16 PGA Tour Season starts-made cuts-top-10s-wins: 10-9-6-3
*Day led the field in Scrambling this week (17 of 20) at an 85 percent clip. Seven of the last eight PLAYERS Champions have ranked inside the top 10 for Scrambling en route to victory.
*Day's statistics by round:
R1: 8/14 fairways, 15/18 greens, 2/2 sand saves, 24 putts
R3: 10/14 fairways, 14/18 greens, 1/2 sand saves, 32 putts
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He is looking so solid at the moment, isn't he? Hard to see a weak area really. He obviously has that huge distance off the tee, but his putting has been so tidy too and even when he makes a mistake, he still holds it together.
Just need Rory to get his putting together and that could be a really good duel at the top!

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Arizona softball sweeps Hillenbrand Invitational with 2-0 record on Sunday
Four wins overall for the Wildcats during the weekend
Published Feb 18, 2018 7:40pm
Updated Feb 18, 2018 7:41pm
By Noah Auclair
Amy Bailey | The Daily Wildcat Arizona's softball team cheers on their teammate who just scored a home run during the game against ULM on Feb. 18.
Arizona softball went 2-0 in their second doubleheader in as many days, finishing off the Hillenbrand Invitational with two impressive wins.
In game one, the Wildcats beat Colorado State, 3-0. The second game saw Arizona blow past Bryant 14-0.
Junior Taylor McQuillin threw a one hitter in the first game, while also striking out 12 of the 22 batters that she faced. She was perfect through five innings, until the top of the sixth when a bloop single into left ruined her perfect game.
"I think I came out with a little bit of a different mindset today," McQuillin said. "Coming out here, I knew I needed to have a strong performance. Watching film, I knew that Colorado State's pitcher was pretty good, and would keep us on our toes a little bit, and I knew that I had to do the same for my team."
In the bottom of the fourth, junior Tamara Statman came in to pinch-hit with the bases loaded. She corked a double deep into right field, putting the first runs on the board to get the 'Cats up 2-0.
Later, in the bottom of the sixth, a single up the middle by senior Aleah Craighton scored freshman Ivy Davis, giving the 'Cats a 3-0 lead that would be the game's final score.
To finish off the Hillenbrand Invitational, the Wildcats took on the Bryant Bulldogs. The bats came alive for Arizona, as they won 14-0 after five innings.
Hannah Bowen got the start for Arizona, and finished the game with only one hit allowed through five innings, while adding eight strikeouts to her numbers.
Sophomore Dejah Mulipola got the scoring started for Arizona. She hit a double into left that drive in a run, giving the 'Cats a one run advantage.
To lead off the bottom of the second, junior Hillary Edior hit a solo shot, her first home run of the season, to give the Wildcats a 2-0 lead. In the same inning, senior Ashleigh Hughes hit a two-run homer to right, making it 4-0.
In the bottom of the 3rd, an Aleah Craighton RBI single tacked on another UA run. The next batter, freshman Ivy Davis, hit a double down the left field line that scored two. With a 7-0 lead, Hughes added another RBI to her total on the day, this time a single that made it 8-0.
The scoring outburst continued in the bottom of the fourth. This time sophomore Jessie Harper hit her sixth home run of the season, a deep shot to left center that made it 9-0. Then, in the game as a pinch hitter, junior Joelle Krist hit a two-run homer to make it 11-0 'Cats. Sophomore Reyna Carranco hit a two-run double to pour it on to 13-0, right before Harper hit an RBI single to make the score 14-0 in favor of the 'Cats.
"Today, I thought we took some good hacks, didn't look like we were defensive," head coach Mike Candrea said. "That's just part of the process, that's why you play games. The more at-bats you get, the more comfortable you get."
The next time the Wildcats are in action, they will be in Palm Springs, California for the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic, with games from Feb. 22nd to the 24th.
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The Addictive Nature of Games in Two News Items
Normally I don't talk about topics like this, but the juxtaposition of two news items when I went looking for game news just jumped right out at me.
Finding game news isn't always easy, particularly when you've got E3 coming up in another three weeks. So sometimes it takes a bit of looking, and what you find can be downright strange.
The first bit was a piece two days ago from ABC News and Go.com, detailing how a Michigan gamer who skipped school to play video games went through a treatment program. The young man in question built his own gaming computer at a young age, announcing to his parents that he was dropping out at 14. He ended up in a treatment program that put him in the wilderness for several weeks.
The second bit, which was almost shockingly contradictory, detailed an Alaskan gamer who landed a scholarship for his gaming, joining a collegiate e-sports team. A League of Legends jungler by trade, this young man landed three separate scholarship offers and ultimately selected Southwest Baptist University in Missouri. He too built his own gaming computer at a young age, and turned it into a focus on a particular game to produce some impressive skill.
No, seriously; the one was right next to the other. One kid's basically going through detox because he's hooked on games like they're heroin, and immediately next to that is another kid who basically got free money for college because he played enough games to get good enough at them to draw the attention of a comparatively new esports team.
Interestingly, there's difference between the two cases, though both play a lot of video games. The young man with the scholarship offers had some outside interests, including choral signing. The Southwest Baptist esports training routine actually includes physical training--actual exercise--three days a week.
Is the true measure of a gaming addict, therefore, not in the hours played, but rather in the hours not played? Both played large amounts of games, but the first left out everything else for the sake of the game, while the second had other interests besides gaming to occupy his time. Being able to break away from games like that could be a key point to preventing addiction regardless of the total time spent.
Gaming can be a great way to have fun in one's off hours, or it can be a disaster that takes away one's life in a pattern of addiction. Could the difference between one and the other not be total time spent gaming, but total time spent away from gaming? A young man with a scholarship for gaming certainly suggests that that's the case. The nature of addiction is difficult to understand at best, but looking at two fairly similar young men's differences does offer some insight.
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Implement the Marketing strategies of the company's product range in the Livestock business and ensure the commercial success in the Japanese market.
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Like I said, I'll spare you the word vomit. Vomit vomit, however, is another story entirely.
Much love to Ain't It Cool News for the HD trailer and I have seen the whole of the internet for the GIF.
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package solution;

import model.Stadium;
import org.apache.commons.lang.math.NumberUtils;

/**
 * Created by vmuser on 5/19/15.
 */
public class StadiumParser {
    public static Stadium parseStadium(String line) {
        String[] fields = line.split(",");

        Stadium stadium = new Stadium();
        stadium.setStadium(fields[0]);
        stadium.setCapacity(NumberUtils.toInt(fields[1], 0));
        stadium.setExpandedCapacity(NumberUtils.toInt(fields[2], 0));
        stadium.setStadiumLocation(fields[3]);
        stadium.setPlayingSurface(fields[4]);
        stadium.setIsArtificial(Boolean.valueOf(fields[5]));
        stadium.setTeam(fields[6]);
        stadium.setOpened(NumberUtils.toInt(fields[7], 0));
        stadium.setWeatherStation(fields[8]);

        // TODO: Change to enum
        //RoofType STRING COMMENT '(Possible Values:None,Retractable,Dome) - The type of roof in the stadium',
        stadium.setRoofType(fields[9]);
        stadium.setElevation(NumberUtils.toInt(fields[10], 0));

        return stadium;
    }
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There are exactly two things most moms can agree on: We love our kids like crazy. This sh*t ain't easy. It takes superhuman amounts of guts, energy, love, empathy, and so many other important qualities to raise kids. And in our ever-public world of social media where every single thing we do is documented, shared, agreed upon (or not!), it's easy to compare. But here's the thing: Lately I can't seem to get through a conversation or an article without hearing (or reading) about moms who have it "easier." And it's really starting to bug me.
I read a really cute blog post recently about what it's like to be a stay-at-home mom. The writer's depiction of a day-in-the-life was so spot-on, I was laughing out loud as I read it. But I couldn't share the post. Because right in the opening paragraph, she claimed that working moms have it easy, and that didn't sit well with me.
My mind went immediately to my friends with kids who work. The way they describe the feeling they sometimes get when leaving their homes in the morning, like they're leaving a limb behind. Some love their jobs and some just stay for the health benefits. None of them got enough maternity leave and I'm betting most of them don't get enough sleep, either.
For working moms, life is a juggling act. Their days start early and end late. If they're breastfeeding, many of them are pumping in supply closets or office bathrooms. Sometimes they miss bedtime. Working mommies feel the pressure of making the most of every evening and weekend; they might not be there for every meltdown, but they're also not there for all the good stuff, either. There are plenty of pros to be a working mom, too, of course. But let's not start an article about the trials of stay-at-home mom life by pretending our sisters who are working have it "easy." Because they don't. None of us do.
Then you have the stay-at-home moms, like me. I am a very calm person with an enormous heart, but every time someone asks me what I do all day, I want to punch them. Being a stay-at-home mom does not mean hitting up the Starbucks drive-through with hubby's credit card or hanging out watching Disney movies all day. Stay-at-home moms do drink a fair amount of coffee, but it's almost always cold. With only one income, a lot of us are on tight budgets. And even if there's room on the credit card for a splurge, alone time is not a thing.
And we aren't watching movies all day. To get ahead in today's crazy-competitive school system, stay-at-home moms spend the early years teaching ABCs and creating meaningful, exciting, sensory learning opportunities despite many of us not being trained to do so. And a lot of us do the bulk of the housework and errands for our families, meaning no breaks and no end to the to-do lists, plus no extra income to pay for help. Some SAHM'ers (like yours truly) get really shy and awkward in social situations because we're so used to being home with the kids — the natural camaraderie of office banter is a thing of the past.
I've been told that I'm lucky that I get to stay home with my daughter, and that we must be "rich." I know the first part is true, because staying home is something I enjoy. But the assumption about money is a real joke. For many moms, getting a job in our field would mean breaking even on commuting and childcare. Trust me, I've tried. The best offer I got would have left me about $60 a week to play with. This is not the case for everyone, but it is for us. That's the main reason I'm home.
Here's the thing, though: Even if you are a "rich" stay-at-home mom, so what? Maybe that means you're hitting up the Starbucks drive-through more than I am, in a fancier car than I drive, and wearing more expensive yoga pants than I am. But I know you don't have it easy. You're still a mom. Your lifestyle might afford certain luxuries someone else's doesn't, but who the hell am I to judge?
And as for the working moms, I bow down to you. Because you might have the opportunity to drink your coffee hot during the week and scroll the Internet shopping in peace on your lunch hour, but I know your hustle is real. Sure, it's nice to contribute to the family income and/or shoulder part or all of the healthcare burden, and I bet that boosts your self esteem in ways that my own has not been boosted in a long time. But I know there are times when you feel ridiculously overwhelmed, just like I do, so I'll say it again — we're both amazing, and neither of us gets a lower score at parenting to account for an "easier" life.
And when did we all start competing with each other anyway, and why? My mom-friends do all different things — stay home, work in corporate jobs, do hair for a living. Some work part-time, others full-time, and the ones who truly get my crazy do what I do — they work from home when their kids are sleeping or otherwise engaged. And even though our finances, parenting styles, and so much more about us is totally different, we aren't looking around wondering who's better off. We have empathy. We listen. We share.
I try really hard to get out of my bubble of home and close friends, but the rhetoric in the mommy community these days makes me want to just go hide sometimes. I don't understand why any mom assumes the right to question how much another mom is doing, or claim she has it easy. Can't we just ditch that tired, judgmental thinking and pat each other on the backs? We might be doing it differently, but we're all doing it. Isn't that enough?


However, this doesn't mean that there aren't some great lessens that entrepreneurs have learned along the way and that they can pass on to others. Sometimes learning from the regrets and mistakes from others is one of the greatest ways to move forward on your own journey without repeating some of the mistakes of others. Here are some of the most common regrets that entrepreneurs tend to have and why they end up being so detrimental to entrepreneurs on their journey towards success.
So many established entrepreneurs really regret not finding a mentor because with experience they realize just how beneficial a mentor could have been. A mentor really can be anyone who you trust and who has a career that you admire, even someone younger than you. If you have already started your journey as an entrepreneur and haven't found a mentor, there is no better time to reach out and find someone experienced to help you along the way.
One of the big things that all entrepreneurs from all walks of life tend to have in common is that they are risk takers. They like to make big moves, take big risks and they aren't afraid to jump in with both feet, without hesitation. This is why it should come as no surprise that one of the biggest regrets that so many entrepreneurs have is being too cautious.
Most entrepreneurs have learned by the peak of their career that the key to finding big success and making big money is to take big risks. For entrepreneurs that mostly played it safe, it should come as no surprise that one of their biggest regrets was being too cautious and not taking big risks that equal these big rewards. They always say that hindsight is 20/20 and it can be hard to look back on a situation and say "I should have done it this way," there are many who wish they wouldn't have been as cautious with their decisions. The entrepreneurs that make big risks and found big payoffs with them on the other hand, rarely regret the bold choices they made along the way.
This piece of advice doesn't mean that you need to necessarily go out and start making rash decisions. However, it does mean that you shouldn't be afraid to take a calculated risk from time to time.
Being an entrepreneur is one of the most time-consuming jobs on the planet. This is why it should come as no surprise that most entrepreneurs are self-proclaimed workaholics, working around the clock in order to get their company up and running. If you talk to any successful entrepreneur, chances are they won't tell you their biggest regret was not working enough. They will likely tell you it is that they didn't spend enough time with their family.
While it is important to be willing to put in the hours in order to become a successful entrepreneur, it is just as important to create a work-life balance. This means taking as much time out of your schedule to do things for yourself and to spend time with family and friends, so you can have a full, complete and balanced life. If you don't do this, what is the point of working all of the time? You want to make sure that you have friends and family around that you can enjoy your wealth with, so make sure that you are giving the other areas of your life the time and attention they deserve.
Finding this type of balance isn't easy and it doesn't come naturally to most people. It will take work, time and planning in order to achieve the balance and to make sure that you are allocating enough time to your personal life. In the end it can not only help you feel more fulfilled, but if can give you the rest and refocus that you need to take a break and put your attention back on your company.
There are so many entrepreneurs who find themselves in a state of constant stress or who find that they burn out rather easily, simply because they allow themselves to succumb to a negative mentality. No matter how difficult it is or how stressed you get, it is important that you continue to maintain a positive outlook and a positive attitude. Positivity and optimism are two of the best tools you can have on your side when it comes to handling the pressures of entrepreneurship. Don't let a negative attitude be your biggest regret in your career or something that brings you down so much you can't be as successful as you want to be.
There are many entrepreneurs today who have already made these mistakes and already learned first-hand that these mistakes can come with a number of obstacles and setbacks. However, if you are just getting started or even in the middle of your journey, one of the best things you can do is take a look at some of these regrets and make sure that you don't repeat these mistakes.
You can learn a great deal from these mistakes and the big regrets that so many entrepreneurs tend to have looking back on their careers. If you do whatever you can to stay away from these common pitfalls, you won't necessarily have a completely smooth journey ahead of you, but you can be certain you are defending yourself against a number of potential roadblocks that can seriously set you back along your way.
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Sahar Jalifa (en árabe سحر خليفة, en hebreo סחר ח'ליפה, en inglés Sahar Khalifeh) es una escritora palestina nacida en Nablus, Cisjordania, en 1942.

Tras estudiar en la Universidad de Birzeit, se le concedió una beca Fulbright para estudiar en los Estados Unidos. Allí obtuvo un máster en literatura inglesa en la Universidad de Carolina del Norte en Chapel Hill, y un doctorado en la Universidad de Iowa, antes de regresar a Palestina donde fue Directora de Actividades Culturales y Directora de Relaciones Públicas de la Universidad de Birzeit. En 1988 fundó el Centro de Estudios Femeninos en Nablus, del que creó una rama en Gaza en 1991. Ha dirigido ambos centros durante varios años antes de dedicarse por completo a su labor de escritora.

Khalifeh publicó su primera novela en 1974, We are not your slave girls anymore, y en 1975 su novela de reconocimiento internacional Cactus. Sus obras han sido traducidas a varios idiomas, entre otros al hebreo, inglés, francés, alemán, italiano y ruso.

Bibliografía
 We are not your slave girls anymore, 1974
 Cactus (Wild Thorns), الصبار , 1976
 Sunflower,  عباد الشمس , 1980
 Memoirs of an Unrealistic Woman,  مذكرات امرأة غير واقعية 1986
 El Saha,  باب الساحة, 1991
 The Inheritance,  الميراث, 1996
 The Picture, The Icon, The Covenent,  صورة وأيقونة وعهد قديم, 2002
 Hot Spring,  ربيع حار, 2004
 Roots and Branches, أصلٌ وفصل, 2006

Premios y reconocimientos
 Premio Alberto Moravia en 1996.
 Premio Qasim Amin de literatura femenina en 1999.
 Premio Naguib Mahfouz en 2006.

Fuentes
(en francés)Bio-bibliographie sur le site Samed consacré à la littérature palestinienne
(en inglés)Arab World Books

Escritoras de Palestina
Escritores en árabe del siglo XX
Escritores en árabe del siglo XXI
Feministas de Palestina
Alumnado de la Universidad de Iowa
Alumnado de la Universidad de Carolina del Norte en Chapel Hill
Naturales de Nablus

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Glycidol of 2,3-epoxy-1-propanol is een organische verbinding met als brutoformule C3H6O2. Het is een kleurloze, licht-viskeuze vloeistof. De stof wordt gebruikt als stabilisator in natuurlijke oliën en vinylpolymeren. In de organische synthese wordt 2,3-epoxy-1-propanol aangewend in de productie van glycerine, glycidylethers, esters en amines.

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In 2001, Thilo founded Pixomondo in Frankfurt. The company took on large-scale projects for international industry clients and made a move into feature film visual. Under Thilo's guidance and creative vision, Pixomondo expanded worldwide to set up a network over three continents with facilities in the United States, Europe, and Asia.
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Detainers, Detention and Deportation: From Presence to Personhood
By Ken Strutin, 29 Apr 2018
Ken Strutin's latest guide on criminal law is an expansive, extensively documented, expert work that provides researchers, scholars, lawyers, judges, advocates for criminal justice, librarians, students, and Americans, a timely and essential guide to seminal issues that are currently the subject of widespread debate – in Congress, in states and local communities across the country – and litigation – in America's courts, the court of public opinion, and on social media. Strutin takes up the immense challenge of these volatile subjects with his first statement: "There is no such thing as an "illegal" person. For the virtues of citizenship are not exclusive to law books, but found in the dignity of individuals. Ancient peoples who made the first journeys to new lands quickly discovered that humanity is a flower that can bloom anywhere. Since then, lines on maps have served to separate people from personhood. He continues – "Immigration laws and policies have the power to conflate race, ethnicity and national origin with lawbreaking, economic rivalry, and terrorism. A targeted noncitizen occupies an indissoluble bubble of isolation and obloquy that separates them from the moral force of state laws, the integrity of its officials, and the decency of its citizens. For them America is an inside out prison comprised of sensitive locations, sanctuary cities, and degrading confinement. If the immigration system bears a resemblance to criminal justice, it is because they share a forge upon which people are hammered out." Through the outstanding scholarship Strutin offers here, it is my hope that readers will engage with these issues that are intrinsically connected to Democracy and respect for human rights.
Subjects: Civil Liberties, Court Resources, Criminal Law, Government Resources, Legal Education, Legal Research, United States Law
An Exploration of WikiLeaks: What has Taken Me So Long!
By Sarah Gotschall, 29 Apr 2018
Sarah Gotschall explored WikiLeaks for a few hours and identified effective ways to search the site that include an efficient advanced search engine and search operators to target your research even further. She includes example of her searches and the results.
Subjects: Competitive Intelligence, Email, KM, News Resources, Search Engines, Wiki
Pete Recommends – weekly highlights on cyber security issues – April 29 2018
By Pete Weiss, 29 Apr 2018
Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health/medical, to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways our privacy and security is diminished, often without our situational awareness.
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Dayak – eBay for contingent recruiters?
Dayak is a new online presence developed to make communication between employers and contingent recruiters a lot simpler. Employers sign up with Dayak and submit jobs they would like contingent recruiters to source for them. When submitting the job, they enter a fixed price for what they will pay for the job. Contingent recruiters can then login to Dayak and search the jobs that have been submitted, see the fixed price, and submit candidates. Any number of contingent recruiters can submit candidates for the jobs. The employers then review the candidates and request to interview or get more information about the candidates. All communication between employer and contingent recruiter is through Dayak only. Once a candidate is hired, Dayak will handle the invoicing and payment to the contingent recruiter.
Benefits to contingent recruiters are that they can have access to a source of employers with no cold calling required. The benefits to the employers are that they can send all contingent recruiters to Dayak, allowing them to have a central place where they can communicate with contingent recruiters, and limit the amount of communication required. They can also set a fixed price for recruits, allowing them to get a better handle on cost.
We're brainstorming on how this best fits in with an applicant tracking system. An obvious connection is to allow employers to easily submit jobs to Dayak from the ATS. Another potential benefit to the employer is that Dayak can request contingent recruiters to push the candidates they submit through the employer's online application and into the ATS. The recruiter is tracked as the source of the candidate, and the employer's processes are followed (which the OFCCP likes too!). A not so obvious connection is what type of feedback should be pushed back to Dayak from the ATS. Should candidate status updates be automatically communicated to the contingent recruiter?
What are your thoughts? Is Dayak a service you would use? How would you ideally see it communicating with your applicant tracking system?
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'I Want a New Career'
Jessica Gregg
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Most Americans were homebound this spring. For some, it was a stressful time of waiting for unemployment or balancing child care with essential work. For others, it was that, but also a chance to reflect.
The result: Amidst the health and economic woes of this pandemic, there were parents contemplating a career change. Many had already lost their jobs, but others were considering their work-life balance.
"While not to minimize the current devastation, amid darkness, there are also opportunities," says Janet Ladd, a professional coach and consultant with Bounce-Forward Consulting Group. Ladd is also the senior director of corporate services and workforce development at Carroll Community College.
How to Fight Caregiver Fatigue
Disruption triggers innovation. Consider the advances made in telemedicine as well as in online learning because of the pandemic. "During crises, we are often forced to look at things differently, reinvent what's broken and appreciate what's most meaningful," Ladd says.
Time to Reflect
That's also true for ourselves. It's time to take an inventory of our interests, strengths, experiencers and areas for development, she says. The economy has been devastated, but parents can still make job changes.
"It's important to recognize the shock this pandemic has had—and will continue to have —on the economy," Ladd says. "While experts vary in their projections, it will take time for the economy to recover. People need to be patient, flexible and tenacious."
Expect for career options to shift, she says. Some jobs will disappear and new ones emerge. She recommends that workers keep an eye out for trends in our region, network and take advantage of online classes.
So Over This? Find Some Joy.
Talk with professionals, including financial planners, small-business counselors, college advisors or recruiters.
What if a worker likes his or her job right now? That's great, Ladd says. Stay engaged and look for ways to make yourself indispensable. Hone in on what's important, she adds, and work with colleagues toward organizational goals.
Overall, focus on "what you can influence in the present while keeping an eye on the future you'd like to invent," she says.
All workers should stay safe but engaged—practice physical distancing while maintaining social connection. "And, be realistically optimistic," she says.
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Andrew Needham discusses his new book, Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest.
Power Lines shows that we can't think of the modern southwest without the energy that makes such places possible. Through this, he knits together a metropolitan geography that connects Phoenix with the places where it got its electricity--most prominently, coal from the Navajo Nation.


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One generation of Notre Dame students later, the Rover analyzes the Moreau First Year Experience
Four years ago, a new course began here at Notre Dame, entitled the Moreau First Year Experience (MFYE), as a collaborative effort between First Year of Studies and the Division of Student Affairs. This two-semester freshman course (one credit in the fall and one credit in the spring) was inspired by Blessed Basil Moreau, founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross, as well as by similar courses taught at peer institutions across the country.
This First Year class replaced the physical education requirement which had existed for decades. According to the MFYE website, its goal is to help "new students to integrate their academic, co-curricular, and residential experiences." It is "organized around multiple themes, including orientation to University life, health and wellbeing, community standards, cultural competence, academic success, spiritual life, and discernment."
Moreau classes are comprised of about 20 first year students and led by about 50 different instructors, who are Notre Dame faculty and professionals. The syllabus focuses on student-based learning, integrating a flipped-classroom style and a discussion-based class period. Students are encouraged to think critically and independently about both the college experience and more broadly about life's challenges.
A hope of the MFYE is that "students come to understand the complexity and expectations of the Notre Dame community, take advantage of crucial academic and University resources, learn how to cultivate and maintain a healthy and well-balanced lifestyle, become aware of and engage with a variety of communities, heighten their understanding of diversity and inclusion, and think deeply about their academic, creative, professional, and spiritual lives."
Now that the first class to have taken "Moreau" graduates in the Spring, the Rover is launching a series of articles exploring the effectiveness of the Moreau First Year Experience and whether it has met its goal within the university. Our first interview is with Rev. Canon Hugh Page, Dean of the First Year of Studies.
The Rover: What is your role within the Moreau First Year Experience?
As Dean of the First Year of Studies, I work with Erin Hoffmann Harding (Vice President for Student Affairs), Lauren Donahue (Program Director for New Student Engagement – Office of Student Affairs), and Jennifer Fox (Assistant Dean – First Year of Studies) in providing general oversight for the Moreau First Year Experience (MFYE). I am also one of the instructors, having taught at least one section of the course in each of the previous four semesters. I currently teach two sections. Ms. Harding and I (as chair) were part of the Provost-appointed ad hoc committee in Academic Year (AY) 2013 – 2014 that developed the proposal for the creation of what would become MFYE.
The Rover: What would you say is the University's desire for the Moreau experience?
In many respects the University wants MFYE to help provide an extended welcome and orientation to on-campus life at Notre Dame as well as to the teleological foci of an undergraduate education shaped by the charism of the Congregation of Holy Cross.
By placing students into a small discussion-intensive environment, opportunities are created for sustained conversations with peers and course instructors about pivotal issues that impact our common life on campus and beyond. Moreover, the stage is set in such interactions for the establishment of enduring friendships. Our hope overall is that these two classes will contribute to a holistic education – i.e., one that engages the physical, intellectual, and spiritual development of students and is consistent with Blessed Basil Moreau's aim of, "bringing young people to completion."
My own desire is that MFYE enables first-year students to take advantage of three invitations issued by a Notre Dame education: i.e., to explore, to dream, and to become difference makers. Such, in my mind, is essential for students to become what I term compassionate intellectuals.
The Rover: What sort of changes has Moreau seen in the past four years?
During the past four years, we have seen: excitement about the course within our cohort of instructors grow; commitment to continuous improvement in class content and delivery increase; participation in the course design matrix by students intensify – i.e., with the creation of a Moreau Student Advisory Council; applied research derived from data mining on student work for MFYE intensify and gain international acclaim; and student perceptions of the course – as measured by Course Instructor Feedback (CIF) data – improve measurably each of the past three years.
During the initial phase of implementation, there was understandable concern on the part of students, alums, and others about whether this curricular innovation would add value to our undergraduate experience as successor to the Physical Education requirement. Those of us administering and working within MFYE have been heartened by the many ways in which it has complemented our efforts to enhance our nationally recognized first-year experience.
The Rover: Has the Moreau class been well-received in the university, by parents, by faculty, by students? Why or why not?
As noted above, the CIF information and anecdotal feedback we have received suggests that it is succeeding in its general aims. Members of the Congregation of Holy Cross (CSC), our Board of Trustees, and many others have been complimentary of its breadth, integrative focus, emphasis on both welcome and inclusion, and exposure of students to the "pillars" supporting an education in the CSC tradition – Mind, Heart, Family, Zeal, and Hope.
Many have reported that awareness of these foundational elements has significantly enhanced their appreciation of what Notre Dame offers undergraduates. In AY 2015 – 2016, the course was met with some skepticism and resistance on the part of students and others in our community. Such now appears to have lessened. Furthermore, requirements like MFYE, here and elsewhere, will likely always have detractors. However, if the recent article by Zach Klonsinski in the August 29, 2018 issue of Notre Dame Magazine is an indicator, there are those on campus that would place MFYE among the "cool classes" available to undergrads.
There is, of course, always work to be done. A course like MFYE must be subject to constant review and modification if it is to remain dynamic, relevant, and meaningful. Those of us charged with leadership of this initiative are committed to doing this important work.
Monica VanBerkum is a junior studying anthropology and theology. She is the proud McWell commissioner of Cavanaugh Hall, which mostly means she gets to plan overnight oats events whenever she wants free breakfast. Contact Monica at mvanber1@nd.edu.
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We also welcome Early Years Professionals, who are looking for motivations, ideas and interesting articles about toddlers.
How did Wonder Toddlers come to life?
I used to work as an Early Years Teacher and later Room Leader in a big and very busy nursery in London.
Parents often asked my opinion and advice, but unfortunately, we had limited time in the nursery and parents were busy as well, so we rarely had enough time talk about the problems and come up with solutions.
Therefore, I was thinking about creating a website for parents, where I share my ideas and tips that I used and worked, so whenever they have some free time, they can read and learn about them.
Being determined to help parents and children somehow, come up with the idea of Wonder Toddlers and with my husband's help and encouragement we built the website and we've been working on this project since then.
In the videos and eBooks and on some of the pages, you may come across with my illustrations, my little fingertips characters. Art is my other passion and I used to teach Art in primary schools at the beginning of my teaching career. Those funny characters are a reminder for me how joyful is to be with children and how wonderful they are.
Well, this is how it started and I wish to continue this journey with you to spread knowledge, experience, ideas and love for our children's brighter future!
What do you find on our website?
My articles are about toddler's development, behaviour, education and creative activity ideas to help parents and teachers understand their children better and give them inspiration and motivation.
The blog is absolutely free so why don't you head over there and make some change in your child's life by reading a post or two?
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Working as a teacher soon I had to realise, that most of the parents are struggling to find enough time to spend with their children and also to make that time a quality one.
The club offers 19+ video parenting lessons and eBooks for parents on the go, so I kept them short and simple. If you join our club, you will be also invited to our exclusive group to connect fellow parents by sharing your stories, experience and get free advice to your most burning questions.
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Eva is excellent. Working with her was very helpful. It gave me a tool-kit to better manage my child and to better manage myself. Also, email-consulting was quite convenient; it saved me time and money (didn't need to call for a babysitter, and I didn't need to be off from work).
The consultation session was amazing and all the techniques Eva recommended have made such a significant impact. All things that seem so obvious now but that I would just never have thought of myself. Being able to do the sessions via email was brilliant. I am a single full time working parent, and it was much easier to schedule around everything. My biggest problem with my son was handling his aggressive behaviour, and with Eva's techniques he is much calmer and everything day to day is now much more comfortable.
My husband and I had email-consultation with Eva, and we wholeheartedly recommend it to everyone we know. Eva has a knack for coming up with the right explanation that brings a clear understanding to complex ideas. She "gets" parenting and she is very easy to talk to.
Eva is very professional, open and real. The consultation with her helped open my eyes to how to listen, which has completely changed my relationship with my kids. Now I know more about their development and know how to help them channel their energy.
Thank you so much for being here and I wish you a happy parenting journey with your little ones!
Remember, we all know that parenting is not easy and so you should know that you don't need to do this alone.
Let's work for our children's brighter future together!
Do you have a hard time getting your child to listen?
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So I achieved an unbelievable, rarely achieved feat.
Be prepared, you may find yourself envious.
I got both of our kids, kids at very distinct and different levels of swimming competency, into lessons on the same evening, at the same time, at the same place.
Last night was the first lesson that they were both able to attend and where I was prepared enough to have actually located swimming suits that fit in time for the class (yes, Eight missed a night due to this sad fact).
Big is by far the youngest in his first on-his-own class and, although he is a thousand percent more composed than I expected him to be, I can tell that the teacher is slightly stressed by his, his, let's call it enthusiasm.
Last night while attending to one of the three other children in the course (how dare she!) he started demanding her attention by showing her a new "trick" which was to hold on to the ledge with his right hand, face outward, and quickly spin around in the water with the goal of then grabbing the ledge with his left hand before sinking like a stone in the shallow-end water in which he is still at least two inches too short to be able to inhale oxygen if standing on the bottom.
He achieved his goal in this trick only about eighty percent of the time, at which point the teacher had to quickly pull him up, leaving her current charge in the lurch for a moment or two and ultimately leading the teacher to tactfully lift him out of the water so that he had to sit on the ledge and watch the other kids do the task at hand.
He is literally fearless in the water.
When the time of the lesson came to an end, he turned to me and wailed, never wanting to leave the pool even to eat or drink.
WOW that IS an amazing feat! How hard was it for you to watch Big going down and not jump in after him yourself? I would like to get Matthew into swimming lessons, but the whole schedule thing isn't working so well for me.


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A collaboration between Georgia Tech and the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology (MPIN) has received a grant of $750,000 over three years from the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP). The award will allow research on the molecular and genetic encoding of complex behaviors.
The team is led by Georgia Tech's J. Todd Streelman and MPIN's Herwig Baier. Streelman is a professor in, and the chair of, the Georgia Tech School of Biological Sciences. Baier is professor and director at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology. "It remains incredibly difficult to identify the cellular basis and the genetic variants underlying complex behavior," Streelman says. "Understanding how behavior is encoded requires solving a dual problem involving neurodevelopment and circuit function."
To find answers, Streelman and Baier will develop a model system to chart the complex path from genome to brain to behavior in cichlid fish from Lake Malawi. Male cichlid fish build bowers to attract females for mating. The bowers are either pits, which are depressions in the sand, or castles, which look like volcanoes. Each type corresponds to a specific behavior encoded in a fish strain.
When the two strains mate, their male offspring display a remarkable behavior: First they construct a pit then a castle. This behavior indicates that a single brain containing two genomes can produce each behavior in succession. Moreover, gene expression in the brain is biased toward the pit variant of the genome – or pit allele -- when the fish are digging pits and toward the castle allele when they are building castles. "This phenomenon offers the chance to identify both the genome regulatory logic and the neural circuitry underlying complex behavior in one sweep," Baier says.
Streelman's group will use single-cell RNA sequencing to pinpoint the cell populations that mediate context-dependent, allele-specific expression in male bower builders. Baier's team will use genome editing and optogenetic tools to manipulate particular neurons in the brains of behaving bower builders.
The award is one of only 25 made from a total of 654 letters of intent HFSP received from around the world. HFSP provides funding for frontier research in the life sciences. The highly competitive program is implemented by the International Human Frontier Science Program Organization, based in Strasbourg, France.


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Today it has over 6 million printed volumes with extensive collections of journals, manuscripts, maps and music reflecting over 400 years of academic development. The most famous of its manuscripts, the Book of Kells and the Book of Durrow, were presented by Henry Jones, Bishop of Meath and former vice-chancellor of the University, in the 1660s. Other special collections include the Ussher Collection acquired in 1661 and the Fagel Collection of 1802.
The Library was endowed with Legal Deposit privilege in 1801 and continues to receive copies of material published in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
The Library supports the learning and research needs across all disciplines of the College; it is a major research library of international repute; it provides services to a wide range of external users and institutions; it contributes to the development of creative initiatives in information provision and its exhibitions of manuscripts and other treasures attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors to visit the Old Library each year.
Although an institution of great antiquity, the Library pioneers modern methods of resource discovery and developments in the teaching, learning and research processes.


Home A New Life Millionaires migrate, too.
The report, which explains "the country whose millionaires migrate most in 2016", of New World Wealth, a global market research company, has been released recently. With the report, it became clear that the millionaires' country choice to migrate mostly around the world.
According to the results of the New World Wealth report, only 64,000 million people were migrated in 2015 and 82,000 million people in 2016. It is expected that this number will be 100 thousand million in the next few years.
Australia, the United States and England were the countries most preferred by millions, get ahead the traditional destinations. Australia became the center of attraction for millionaires in 2016 with the "gold-ticket" investor visa program. The USA ranks second with 10 thousand millionaires after Australia. While Canada is the country that attracts Chinese millionaires most, Vancouver is the region of choice for millionaires in China. Millionaires from Europe used their preferences for Toronto and Montreal.
France was at the head of the most millionaire-lost countries. China followed by France and Brazil.
Millionaires, who avoid serious political and economic troubles, prefer to migrate from the regions, where the probability of terrorism, religious violence increases.


Florida A&M University is pleased to announce the new Content Management System (CMS) for the FAMU.edu website.
This new integrated website editing system will enable all Content Managers within Schools & Colleges, Departments, Offices, and Projects or Programs to manage, edit, create, and maintain control of their own website and webpage from within their own area.
The new FAMU.edu website framework will provide a consistent look and feel for building our own Florida A&M University Brand Awareness.
The Florida A&M University Brand has a very powerful awareness in the Academic Higher Educational Arena and was voted the 2006 #1 HBC University in the nation by Black Enterprise Magazine.
This new CMS system will be introduced to Content Managers during the training and credentialing classes scheduled to commence December 4, 2006. These classes will be done face-to-face with direct one-on-one training. You will be teamed with one of the Web Team CMS Subject Matter Experts (SME) and will actually construct your FAMU website and web pages.
The classes are scheduled for Mondays and Wednesdays with a class session time total of 4 hours, composed of 2, 2-hour sessions being conducted on the indicated daily schedule from 10:00am to 12:00noon, and 1:30pm to 3:30pm. Lunch is not provided.
The classes are being conducted at EIT Innovation Park, 2000 Levy Ave, Building A, Room 293 in the second floor training room.
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Formed in 1879 as The Institute of Bankers, we have been offering professional qualifications in banking ever since. Prior to the de-regulation of the banks in the 1980s, the vast majority of those wishing to work in the industry were expected to take our "banking" exams. We gained our Royal Charter in 1987 and were the first professional membership body to transform its training programmes into degree-level qualifications, which were then awarded by the University of Manchester. As the banking and finance industries changed and diversified, so did we and we extended our range of programmes to cover the breadth of the financial services industry, from mortgage and financial advice to trade finance and broader financial capability qualifications. We admitted our first cohort of full-time undergraduate students in 2012.
We are highly specialised in what we offer. Our students already know that they want to pursue careers in banking and finance and consequently are very driven towards that end goal. For them, the degree programme is more like a job and is treated as such. Students get exposure to the industry through the professional networking events we run for our members, many of our lecturers have industry experience as well as excellent academic credentials and we place employability at the heart of our programmes. Our campus is located within the square mile, a stone's throw away from many of the world's leading banks and our class sizes are small.
Being an alternative provider that is already 'in the club', so to speak, gives us a different perspective on the changes proposed in the Bill. We are living proof that alternative providers can offer high quality education and we have also been through the current, highly complex application process for gaining TDAP. From this position of familiarity, as we said in our response to the original white paper, we see positives in the proposals to simplify and streamline the application process and remove unnecessary barriers. We believe competition is a good thing, especially where new providers can fill gaps in existing provision and meet the needs of students whose requirements are not fulfilled by a traditional university experience.
However, none of this should be, or has to be, at the expense of academic quality. To protect the reputation of the UK education sector, we believe its vital that all organisations wishing to gain degree awarding powers – large or small, not-for-profit or privately funded - be subject to rigorous scrutiny and high standards.
Whatever the outcome of the Bill, its clear that alternative provision will have a role to play in the sector but it should be recognised that not all alternative providers are the same and that the focus of reform should be on 'simpler' not 'easier'.
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