There were six entries in the competition and here Shayla is with the second place winner. She was the only "kid" and Aunt Marty insists, with the exception of paring the apples which Uncle Jeff did, Shayla really did it all.
Grandma Nonee and Paw Paw Joe went to the festival with Aunt Marty and Uncle Jeff and it looks like they all had a grand time!
If every child in the world was a loved as Shayla is, what a glorious world this would be!
Aunt Marty has used this recipe since she was in high school (must have been about 2005 perhaps, hee hee. She has so much energy!). I probably shouldn't give away Marty's "secret", but she felt the strategy would be for Shayla to use a homemade crust and to deliver her pie to the judges while it was still warm. Gotta love that Aunt Marty!!!
Mix first 3 ingredients together until crumbly. Add water and stir with a fork just until mixed.
Roll out and put in pie dish.
Pare apples. Cut in eights and arrange in pastry lined pie dish. Sprinkle apples with ½ cup sugar and 1 tsp of cinnamon mixed. Mix 1 cup flour, ½ cup sugar, and 1/3 cup butter until crumbly. Sprinkle over apples. Bake in a hot oven at 450 degrees for 10 minutes. Then lower oven to 350 degrees and bake for another 40 to 50 minutes until tender and bubbling.
There was also a lot of horse riding going on back at "the ranch". Once again Marty and Shayla competed against each other in the "trail division" where they set up a variety of obstacles they each had to take a horse over. This time Paw Paw was the judge. Of course he wasn't bias (cough, cough). No one was surprised (except Shayla) when she once again won First Place in the family horse competition! (wink) And gee how this would all be so different if Christi were alive! I'm thinking there would be TWO first places, smile, or maybe she would have always been the judge.
We spent Sunday bike riding with Marty and Jeff. They also took us to an Equine Rescue Center which was fascinating to tour. The Humane Society has about 25 horses they rescued or which were dropped off. It really was interesting. Shayla was so glad to know the horses were alive, getting proper care and not being made into dog food. I know Shayla wishes she lived closer so she could volunteer there.
Shayla asked me to post a thank you from her. We sat down after dance class tonight and read each and every sweet vote and comment regarding her glasses decision. I often think if Christi's journey with cancer was to teach me just one thing it is that God's people are good and this little "vote" idea of Shayla's certainly proved it to me again - thank you!
Much to our surprise and delight, in less than 12 hours there were just over 122 votes coming in via blog posts or emails.
Shayla tallied every single one on paper and will take that with her back to the eye doctor's office to make her big decision. (she is leaning toward "C".) I have to wonder what pair Christi would have preferred and if Shayla would have just gone with whatever Christi said, as she most often did (looking up to Christi so much). I'll let you know what Shayla decides. Thanks so much for your help!
(PIC: Leopard Print) I also received a couple of messages regarding the high price of glasses (which is why, even though she had a prescription change, I needed her to wait until our insurance would pay for a portion of them - October 1st). However, due to those emails, I must share if you're looking for kids' glasses right now I think Wal-Mart is having the deal of the year! Until October 1st, they are having frames, lenses and a hard glasses case for $40.00 total.
(Pic: hot pink) I was very surprised that I could actually get her a whole pair of glasses for $40 so last week I got her prescription from her eye doctor and we went to Wal-Mart. Their selection was so much larger than at the eye doctor's. I really couldn't believe it! She narrowed it down to two and then asked me to make the final choice for her because she just couldn't decide. Well, I'm embarrassed to admit, but "Shayla's mother" (cough) bought both of them. They were just so cute and at $40.00 a pair - wow! Six (yes s-i-x, 6 days later they were ready and she's now wearing her "fun and funky" pairs. We'll order the "serious pair" from the eye doctor's October 1st and we're both very appreciative of your selection help - THANK YOU!! So, if you need kids' glasses, give your Wal-Mart a call and check with them as the sale ends VERY soon! I wish I would have known about it sooner.
I know this isn't a big election of any sort, and the duration will be only two years, not four; however, Shayla needs some help in picking out her new glasses and she thought if she put it on the blog she could go with the pair that most people voted for. She's had a prescription change and has needed new glasses since March, however, to make a long story short we've needed to wait until October 1st to order them. Therefore, it's now time - yipee! Last week we went to select the frames and this week she'll need to tell them which ones to order. Please let her know what you think by voting for "A", "B", or "C". THANK YOU!!
Here's some insight from Lori: Shayla wanted them to ask questions, and THE STUDENTS were being kind of shy. She told them they weren't very good at asking questions and proceeded to CALL on individuals to speak up! It was hilarious! Of course, she had quite a lot to say! I was telling Shayne how thankful I am to know that she has very vivid memories of times with Christi. It was so nice to have her there, as she brought some vitality back to the lemonade stand!
She insisted on pouring every cup, amidst playing with the Bridges students. She was like the social event leader and organized games on the lawn. What many people commented to me about was the "noise of children" on the campus lawn, which I feel provided the perfect backdrop for an education dept. event! It was as if we staged that with kids running around, laughing, screaming, etc.
I hope you like the pictures I took for you. If you see one of the sky, it's because there were two jet streams in the sky, like a sign - Christi & Alex. Also, as I was talking to Jill, a bee landed on her arm. She both got chills and tears immediately! It wasn't like "Ooh a bee!" but more like "Lori, there's a bee on my arm!" with this smile! Shayla was never hungry, as she was having too much fun! I am going to have my students reflect in class on Monday morning, so I will certainly share those with you.
I was able to tell Lori that I will be dropping off some doughnuts and juice for Monday morning to thank the students for their efforts. I also asked her to remind the students to apply for the $1,000 Christi Thomas memorial scholarship for a Heidelberg Junior Education Major this spring and that we've decided to make another $500 donation to Heidelberg's Education Department in Christi's memory. They always made Christi feel so special and I know there are items that they need for their students that they do not have the funding for so we hope this helps!
Shayne told me how Christi's Bridges friends all came to the stand and were so sweet playing with Shayla. He said he wondered how "odd" it was for them because the last time they were with Christi she was Shayla's size. He said at one point, one yelled to Shayla, "Christi!.......oh, I mean Shayla!" He said another went over and carefully examined the plaque with Christi's picture on the ground by the tree and then came running back to play. He said he knew they knew Shayla wasn't Christi, but yet it was almost like Christi was back and they could play as they once did.
We've yet to be able to muster up the courage to really return to that wonderful place - with fabulous staff and friends - where Christi attended on Fridays for her gifted instruction. It was so special to her, they always treated her incredibly well and we have great memories. One of my sister's friends is an artist and she, with the help of Christi's Bridges friends, painted a mural there with Christi's favorite things. While I've seen pictures, I've yet to be able to go as that is just "over the top" and will be so hard to see. Shayne thinks he's now ready to go back, I'm not so certain I can do that - yet.
We continued on with our weekend dropping Shayla off at Aunt Marty and Uncle Jeff's and proceeding down to Ohio State to the College of Education's Scholarship Tea where over $1 million in scholarships and fellowships were awarded late Friday afternoon. I received the Harold C. Miles Graduate Fellowship - a $1,000 award for a doctoral student studying early or middle childhood education. This will help with my tuition this year and I'm incredibly thankful! We were hoping that we'd be able to meet the donor's family and to learn more about Harold C. Miles; however, they were not in attendance.
From there, Shayne dropped me off at my conference for National Board Certified Teachers for Friday night and Saturday morning and he met up with his cousin and attended a film festival on campus late Friday night. Saturday afternoon's game was a lot of fun! (And now that our seats for the rest of the season are in a much better location, that is grand too!) Also, Christi's friend that moved to Columbus shortly after her death was at the game with her mom so I was happy to catch up with both of them. And you won't believe what happened to Shayla during her time with Aunt Marty! We received a call during the game and quite frankly, we're still shocked!
I had planned to post this information prior to Michele's walk for the Jimmy Fund, but I forgot! The race was Sunday, September 21st. Michele has a fundraiser page set up, and she added Christi's picture to it.
She also wrote a little blurb on why she's walking for her, but they don't post it on that page. She wrote, "I am walking for Christi because she was my biggest inspiration in getting involved with fighting childhood cancer, and that I was with her during one of the last weeks of her life, which I will never, ever forget." We thought the timing of the weekend was perfect! Thanks, Michele!
I went to the cemetery after school today, always hard but perhaps today even more so as it was on this day two years ago I last saw her beautiful face.
Throughout the day I tried not to remember today's date. Any time a student would ask, or I had to fill out a form I said to myself, "Just a day in September, don't think about it!" and that helped me a lot.
What brought me great comfort tonight was learning that Matt's mom will let me get a thumbprint necklace made for her. I know I treasure my Christi necklace and really wanted to do that for her. She has Matt's baby thumb print and I pray she loves her necklace as much as I love mine! One wouldn't even know what comfort this gives me, but it's huge! We simply could not go to Matt's visitation, nor his funeral due to our own emotions. I feel terrible about that, but just knew - especially at this time of year - watching parents suffer over the loss of their child would not be something we could endure. Learning tonight's news makes me feel a bit better. I've imagined many times in my mind since Matt's death that he is carrying back to Christi's little spot in Heaven all of the library books she checked out, but couldn't carry - just like I saw Matt do for Bryce so many times at school. What a guy! In front of our school it says, "We Miss You Matt, RIP", so true, so true, so true!
Shayla wanted to return to the Heritage Village on Sunday so that she could show me what she did with her class on Friday. I really wasn't feeling the best, but wanted to go and watch her having a good time on a gorgeous day. I couldn't help but reminisce about past festivals where we were able to take both of our daughters. Despite coming home and having to take a two hour nap, it was a wonderful afternoon. Now I'm feeling great! I think by tomorrow I'll be 100%.
REMINDER: Lemonade Stand at Heidelberg, in front of the Education Building (across from the dining hall on Greenfield Street) Friday, September 26th from 11-1. Come get some lemonade and donate to a great cause "Alex's Lemonade Fund". Thank You!
When I reflect upon Christi's "journey" I believe that she taught me a few main lessons, specifically the three "L's". This would be how to live, how to laugh and how to love. On Friday morning, the second "Angelversary" of her death, I tried to wrap myself around her teachings instead of the heartache that seemed to be enveloping me. I knew I had a doctor's excuse to be out of school through Tuesday, but I really felt ok except for being tired and some stomach pain. Christi wouldn't have wanted me to stay home and to cry over her death, but instead to live my day doing what I love to do so I went to school telling myself to give my students all of the love I could and that something funny would undoubtedly happen which would remind me of Christi and make me laugh.
As the 9:00 hour approached, I was busy teaching, but occasionally I checked the clock and told myself not to as soon as I realized I had let my mind do that. It's like your right back "there" when it "hits". Thankfully, due to a misunderstanding about who had the laptop computers signed out for first period, another teacher and I quickly decided before class to just share them and therefore at 8:58 I was busy helping my students shut down their computers and carry them back to the other teacher's classroom. That distraction wasn't planned, but it was great. I looked in the hall and it said 9:02 and I thought to myself, "I made it, now quit looking at the time and thinking." While I believe Christi's death was a gradual shutting down of her body over time, something about that time - 9:00 AM - is something I can actually pinpoint and know. I checked my phone at lunch and was touched to find a couple of text messages sent around 9AM by sweet blogger/friends. After school it was comforting to come home and read my email and to see the cards that had arrived in the mail from people remembering Christi, a couple of donations made to her memorial fund, "Tasty Cakes" arriving from Philly friends, a candle being lit in Florida and an 8 AM Mass being said in NYC. I think as a "angel parent" what one worries about is of people forgetting their dead children. Friday's display of love reconfirmed to me of what compassionate and thoughtful people there are in the world - THANK YOU!
After my teachers' meeting in Columbus late Friday night, I was finally hungry. (I'd just not been able to eat much, or normally, prior to then due to last week's operation.) Shayne drove us up and down High Street trying to find a place with an outside table and where he could just pull over and help me get out since I still wasn't walking the best. Finally, we found the perfect spot! We sat at an outside table at a cafe enjoying a late dinner on High Street, definitely living and loving as I believe Christi would want us to be. When we were told we were at a "gay bar" I was laughing to myself thinking Christi must have sent us there to lighten our evening knowing we'd been reflecting about our life with and without her. My deepest thanks to everyone for helping to get us through a challenging time!
I really don't know how he did it, but Shayne spent Friday volunteering as one of the parent chaperons on Shayla's fourth grade field trip to the Heritage Village set up at the Heritage Festival, just like he did for Christi's.
(PIC: Christi's 4th grade field trip, 2005, age 8 - nearly one year to the date of her death) I noticed a text message came in at 8:48 a.m. which said, "This is really hard, isn't it?". However, it sounds like they both had a fabulous day on the field trip. We didn't believe Shayla needed to know that it was the date of Christi's death so we didn't tell her. When she's older, she'll know, but we didn't feel there was a need to bring her down too. We were already low enough ourselves!
Shayla also had a most wonderful overnight spent with her great Aunt Marty (and her Godmother) on Friday. When we came back after the OSU game on Saturday they were out riding horses. Our sweet relatives/friends also have four 3 week old kittens in addition to the two dogs so Shayla was in all her glory and said we didn't need to come back and pick her up so soon. They made a pie for us to share from the apples on "Christi's tree". Aunt Marty and Uncle Jeff planted an apple tree around the time Christi was born. Never had apples appeared on the tree until two days after she died. Wild! They turned that little garden area into their "Christi Garden" shortly after her death and we love it as it's the spot where Christi used to stand and watch the horses, or sit and sketch them. We thought the pie tasted especially wonderful on September 20th.
This morning Shayla really took our breath away. While we were both sitting and getting some paperwork done, Shayla brought up a new toy from the basement and started playing with it on the floor without saying a single word. It was sent to Christi in mid-September 2006 at CHOP and Christi longingly eyed it, but was never able to play with it. She'd ask for it, but then didn't have the energy or strength to even touch it, much less play as it would sit at the foot of her bed. I hadn't been able to donate that toy and therefore I tucked it away in the basement not really knowing what to do with it. Somehow, today, Shayla found it. Shayne and I both stared at each other when we saw what she had because that toy would have been a favorite of Christi's and we knew Christi wanted to feel better and play with it so bad, but just could not. Now I have to believe Christi wanted Shayla to go find that this morning and she's having a ball playing with it. Wild!
I feel like someone has taken a knife to my chest and ripped out my heart. I will leave for work in just a bit and will try my best to ignore the time and block out my thoughts when 9:00 a.m. arrives. May God continue with me.
This photo of Christi and Shayne is one of my favorites. It was taken at my sweet cousin Lora and Chris's wedding in Tiffin on September 19th 1998.
Please lift up the sweet Mason family in your prayers. Matt (seated, left, dark tee shirt) one of our Seniors was killed yesterday morning on his way to school as his car rear ended one of our buses. The sun was so terribly bright; it was incredibly hard to see yesterday as many teachers omplained BEFORE receiving word this accident occurred. He was wearing his seat belt and I cannot believe this fine young man was anything but a careful driver!
I had the pleasure of being Matt's kindergarten and his 8th grade reading teacher and I work with his dad who is our janitor. Matt, who would have turned 18 tomorrow, was one of the most polite students I've ever taught. In fact, he would always carry a handicapped boy's books to class for him.
Ironically, because it's so hard for this special needs boy to get on the school bus, (and because they were great friends) Matt would drive him to school. Matt was on his way to pick up that boy when the accident happened. The bus was stopped to pick up a preschooler who thankfully boarded the bus and just sat down the the crash occurred. The last time I saw Matt was on the way to church last week. I remember thinking, "That's Matt! Not out racing on a dirt bike or playing video games like many 17 year olds, but out working in someone's yard." When they say only the good die young, I must agree! May God give his family comfort during this horrendous period of their life. Please hug your loved ones today and tell them how much they mean to you! Matt's family has a strong faith and I'm afraid it is only that which will get them through.


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As someone who's donated their hair several times, I can honestly say there's nothing better! With a simple snip the weight you've been carrying for years is gone and you have the perfect opportunity to reinvent/ reevaluate yourself.
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The Inca Empire of the 15th and 16th century was the largest indigenous empire ever created on American soil. With Cusco and Machu Picchu in Peru as the centres of power, it stretched almost 5000 km along the Andes of Columbia to Chile. The exhibition in co-operation with Lokschuppen Rosenheim is the first to be fully devoted to this magnificent culture. The exhibition followed the evolution of the legendary pre-Hispanic culture, from its origins in the mid 11th century, right up to colonial times. The exhibition focused on the imperial phase. Inca Viracocha, Pachacutec Yupanqui and Topa Inca Yupanqui were not only responsible for creating the Inca Empire, but also for building Cusco, Machu Picchu and other world-famous sites.


As noted in class today, I forgot to post the handout on English compounds. It's now linked to the Course Materials page and available here.
Do the sample final exam (available here) and distributed in class, before class on Friday, 29 April 2016.
Assignment extended to Friday, 22 April.
Please remember to turn in the last page on Regional Dialect handout so we can discuss the results in class on Friday.
The semantics homework is linked on the Course Materials page and here and due in the Class Dropbox before class on Wednesday, 6 April.
The next quiz is scheduled for Monday, 28 March. It will consist of the same kind of questions as those on the last homework assignment.
The first syntax homework is available here and on the Course Materials page.
The next quiz is scheduled for Friday, 4 March.
Morphology Assignment #2 is now due before class on Wednesday, 2 March 2016.


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Eric Davis: Vaccines and promoting vaccines
Dec 29, 2020 | Op/Ed
By Eric Davis
More than 5,000 Vermonters have already received the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Another 21,000 doses of the vaccine have arrived in Vermont, and the supply will ramp up in the weeks ahead.
The priority now is to vaccinate persons who work in health care, and the residents and staff at long-term care facilities. Once these groups have received two doses of the vaccine, the program will focus on other higher-risk sectors of the population. This group is likely to include people over 75, those with underlying medical conditions, and additional groups of key workers who are in frequent contact with the public.
Health Commissioner Dr. Mark Levine has said that most Vermonters who are covered by Medicaid, Medicare, and private insurance should be able to receive their vaccinations through their primary care providers. State officials have said Vermonters should not try to schedule appointments to be vaccinated. Providers will reach out to their patients when their priority group in the vaccination schedule has been reached.
Dr. Anthony Fauci and other medical experts have said that "herd immunity" will likely be attained once 70% to 90% of the population has been vaccinated. Under current plans, there should be enough vaccine supply available to reach this target sometime in the summer.
One of the major questions about the vaccine rollout is whether, once the immunization program begins distribution to the general population, enough people will actually be vaccinated to reach the goal of herd immunity.
Recent polls indicate that more people say they will be vaccinated than was the case a few months ago. However, the percentage who say they will take the vaccine as soon as it is available — somewhere between 50% and 70%, depending on the poll — is lower than the numbers needed to achieve herd immunity.
One of the biggest challenges for public health officials in the months ahead will be convincing people to be vaccinated as soon as possible. This challenge involves overcoming several different types of concerns and, in some instances, misinformation.
First, officials must stress that none of the vaccines currently in use or under development in the United States uses the live virus that causes COVID-19. Rather, the vaccines are designed to stimulate the body's immune system to recognize and combat the COVID-19 virus.
In some instances, this process of stimulating the immune system causes side effects, such as muscle aches or fever, which almost always go away within a few days. Part of the vaccine education program will involve stressing that people need to receive two doses in order to develop the highest level of immunity. Even if they have side effects from the first dose, recipients should definitely come back for the second dose a few weeks later.
Second, the public health community must combat the misinformation about the vaccine that is spreading in some parts of social media. Some of these false statements are being put forward by long-time anti-vaccination activists, such as claims that the COVID-19 vaccines contain toxins, or that vaccines cause autism.
Some of the most virulent anti-vaccine misinformation can be found on some of the same social media and Web sites that amplify Donald Trump's false statements that Joe Biden's victory in the presidential election was the result of massive fraud, and that Trump really won in a landslide. Some of these sites claim that the government encouraging vaccination is a form of tyranny, or that the vaccination program is an underhanded effort by Bill Gates and others in big tech to control the minds of the American people.
Polls show that self-identified Republicans are less likely to want to be vaccinated soon than self-identified Democrats and independents. One of the best things that President Trump could do before he leaves office in three weeks would be to be publicly vaccinated and convince his followers to be vaccinated as well.
Eric L. Davis is professor emeritus of political science at Middlebury College.
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After nine years of EDEN'S CURSE band history, multinational hard rock/melodic metal band now presents their first Live album. Formed as a studio project, after a while EDEN'S CURSE turned into an excellent and ambitious live act. U.K. tours with Stratovarius and Dream Theater were just the beginning. In the past two years, EDEN'S CURSE became more and more busy playing festivals and even making the step to play headlining tours in the U.K.
So, with four fantastic and widely celebrated studio albums under their belt, it was probably time to thin k about releasing a Live album anyway, but actually the source of ignition came from the fan's side. One of those situations was after EDEN'S CURSE' London gig. They came off stage on a high and the feedback and comments coupled with fan pressure to re-record old material with Nikola made them think of a Live release more extensively.
Even former drummer Pete Newdeck (still a close friend to the band) admitted: "That's the best I've ever heard the band with or without me", right after the London show.
, 2014 at an EDEN'S CURSE headlining show in in Glascow.
Fans from whole Europe and even Japan came over to Scotland to be part of this special event. And what more does it need than a euphoric crowd, a nice club and a highly motivated band?
The setlist of course contains fan favorites and classics from all four EDEN'S CURSE albums: 'Eden's Curse' (2007), 'The Second Coming' (2008), 'Trinity' (2011) and 2013's 'Symphony Of Sin'.
Mix and mastering of the Live recordings were handled by the band's long-time engineer Dennis Ward, who managed to capture the concert's energy and vibe perfectly. The cover artwork was again created by artist Thomas Ewerhard, who also works with EDEN'S CURSE since the times of their debut album.
'Live With The Curse', packed with 100 minutes on 2CDs, will be released on March 13.


I always enjoy taking maternity photos, because I love reliving the excitement and anticipation of first babies, second babies, ALL BABIES! Well, this gorgeous Mama-to-be didn't disappoint, and she even impressed me with her ease and grace in front of my camera. Even when I kept requesting that she trek through wet grass, mud, and muck! What a gorgeous trooper! Daddy took all my teasing in stride and was also a champ. When their sweet little girl is born in June, she is going to be loved (and dressed!) supremely. Thanks for a great morning, guys, and enjoy your sneak peek!


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CHRIS BONNOR and LYNDSAY CONNORS A school funding horror story: special deals are back
By Chris Bonnor | On 15 March 2018
Almost a year ago we thought that peace had been declared in the school funding wars. True, the Turnbull government's 'Gonski' school funding changes fall well short on many fronts but the government did try to bury the special deals that have dogged school funding for decades. After less than a year Labor has resurrected them in a planned gift of $250 million to Catholic schools in the first two years of a new Labor government.
In what is becoming a side-show of dueling media releases and ever more curious alliances, Education Minister Birmingham instantly attacked Labor – and for his troubles earned a broadside from Catholic Education Commission of Victoria Executive Director Stephen Elder. Elder is no shrinking violet, as the ongoing Catholic Vs Independent sector skirmishes would attest. This show isn't going away!
The reality is that both sides of politics have done these deals in the past and they have always corrupted whatever fair school funding plan has been designed.
Recent special deals for the Catholic sector actually began in 1998 with a political decision to re-categorise Catholic systemic schools for funding purposes. In 2001, Catholic systemic schools were given a 'deemed' score of their socio-economic status, to avoid the funding cuts that would have resulted from their actual score
John Howard certainly formalized the idea that no school, however well-funded, should lose a dollar. In 2004 he introduced a 'Catholic funding maintained' category that prevented cuts to the 60 per cent of systemic schools that would have resulted from the Coalition's own formula. School funding became so risible that the first Gonski review was almost inevitable. Then the Rudd and Gillard governments placed the same 'no losers' restriction on the Gonski review panel. While Labor did introduce a Schools Resource Standard, Gonski's suggestion of a National Schools Resourcing Board ended up in the too-hard basket.
To get a picture of the chaos that has emerged all you need is a computer and an internet connection to log onto the My School website. Find your local public school and add together its combined Australian and State government recurrent funding per student. Then go to the NAPLAN section, find a Catholic school enrolling similar students and check their combined government funding. In a surprising number of cases around Australia it is almost as high, if not higher than the public school – the one which must be open to all students. Oh, then add the extra Catholic school fee income.
As the My School data soon revealed, the special deals done over those years shifted Catholic systemic schools closer to their target resource standard relative to public and independent schools, schools which had not enjoyed the same preferential treatment.
In dollar terms, the craziness unleashed by the special deals now reveal that if the Catholic school students in the New South Wales town of Goulburn went to the local public schools Australian taxpayers would almost certainly come out financially ahead. Why is Goulburn interesting? That is where state aid to church schools symbolically began back in 1962, after the Bishops threatened to close their schools and send their flock to the local public schools.
Around Australia the vast majority of Catholic schools receive between 90% and 100% of the recurrent public per-student funding received by public schools. In financial terms Catholic schools, and large numbers of Independent schools, have become public schools.
It might make some sense if they had to meet the same (and often expensive) obligations as public schools, but they fall well short. They choose where and who they serve, their fees ensure that in almost every community they enrol students who are more advantaged. That's easy to check on My School. While many Catholic schools do their very best, as a system they aren't obliged to enrol or continue serving any student who might pose an extra challenge. They effectively have a deal which is as good as that available to their equivalents in New Zealand, but without the burdens. In quiz show parlance, they got the money AND the box.
And the Labor party wants to hand them an additional $250 million.
Maybe Labor has forgotten how the fairness and equity of the first Gonski review was received with a collective sigh of relief by educators, commentators, and even by most politicians. When not enough of it was implemented there was very evident rising concern about unresolved old problems. This was new and game-changing: even the Coalition felt the pressure to go back to some of Gonki's original recommendations.
Most significantly, the Turnbull Government adopted the recommendation to establish a National Schools Resourcing Board. This Board is due to provide advice by mid-year on the measure of private 'capacity to pay' by non-government school communities. The current calculation based on socio-economic status has been a bone of contention with the Catholic sector.
The Board has a highly credible membership. Its report is seen as a potential threat by some sections of the Catholic school sector. The Shorten announcement positions the Labor Party as having been pressured by Catholic sector interests into pre-empting the Board's report; and as preferring to play sectarian politics behind closed doors than to engage in an open policy development process.
Labor has apparently not been able to learn anything new. The difference this time around is that they might get an unwelcome judgment from an electorate that has, and expects something better.
Chris Bonnor is a Fellow of the Centre for Policy Development. Lyndsay Connors has held senior education policy positions at both Commonwealth and state levels.
A shorter version of this article was first published in The Guardian. Both writers have been regular contributors to Pearls and Irritations.
Chris Bonnor
Chris Bonnor is an education researcher and writer.


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What does an insurance claims adjuster in El Indio do?
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Glenmark Pharmaceuticals is a pharmaceutical company headquartered in Mumbai, India that was founded in 1977 by Gracias Saldanha as a generic drug and active pharmaceutical ingredient manufacturer; he named the company after his two sons.
Glenmark has focused on developing branded and generic formulations for over 3 decades positively impacting lives globally. In branded formulations, we are focused on developing innovative products for markets such as India, Russia & CIS, Brazil, Asia and Africa.


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Q: Didn't understand relationship in FROM part of query call I am trying to query the child record using the parent record id. I understand that we have to use the child relation name in the inner query to get the child records.
select id, (select id from child_relationshipname__r ) from parentobjt__c

In my case I use the same way to query but I get the error :
ERROR at Row:1:Column:28
Didn't understand relationship 'cyx__r' in FROM part of query call. If you are attempting to use a custom relationship, be sure to append the '__r' after the custom relationship name. Please reference your WSDL or the describe call for the appropriate names.

I am not sure why it is throwing error I doubled checked whether the child relationship name is correct.
select id, (select id from  namespc.Impacted_Products__r) from MC_Product_Complaint__c

A: Where searching for the Child Relationship, you must use the Plural name of the Child Relationship object.  For instance, if searching for the child Contacts on an Account it would be:
SELECT Id, ( SELECT Id FROM Contacts ) FROM Account;

In your specific case, try cyxs__r (I am assuming the plural of the cyx object is cyxs).

A: The syntax for a child relationship is:
[namespace__]relationship_name__r

So if the relationship_name is Impacted_Products and the namespace is MC, your sub-query would be:
(SELECT Id FROM MC__Impacted_Products__r)

It looks like you used [namespace.] instead of [namespace__].
Note that you can always run this script to get the verbatim value you need to use in place of MC__Impacted_Products__r above:
for (ChildRelationship relation : SObjectType.Parent__c.getChildRelationships())
    if (relation.getChildSObject() == Child__c.sObjectType)
        system.debug(relation.getRelationshipName());

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Home » Effect of Insertion Site on Radial Line Patency
Effect of Insertion Site on Radial Line Patency
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In a randomized trial, 169 patients admitted to a cardiovascular-surgical or medical-surgical ICU were assigned to 4 groups: 1) fast flush as needed and waste blood sampling; 2) fast flush as needed and nonwaste blood sampling; 3) fast flush every 4 hours and waste blood sampling; and 4) fast flush every 4 hours and nonwaste blood sampling. Patients were followed for 72 hours or until their radial artery catheters became nonpatent. All received nonheparinized, isotonic sodium chloride as the flush solution. Arterial catheter patency was evaluated by 2 criteria: acceptable results on a square waveform test and free back-flow of blood within 1 second. When waste sampling was used, 1 mL of blood was withdrawn to waste before obtaining the needed blood sample. When nonwaste sampling was used, 5 mL of isotonic normal saline was withdrawn and reinfused after the sample was obtained. To ensure uniform test conditions, inflation pressure was maintained at 300 mg Hg and corrected if insufficient or too high before testing catheter patency. The patients were 62.0 ± 13.3 years of age and most (64.5%) subjects were men.
In total, 23 (13.6%) catheters became nonpatent. Of these, most (62%) became nonpatent within 32 hours of placement. Duration of patency did not differ between catheters maintained with a fast-flush q 4 hours or flushed as needed or between catheters according to the method of blood sampling. However, patients with catheter insertion sites ³ 3 cm above the radiocarpal joint were 4.23 times (P = 0.01) more likely to have nonpatent catheters within 72 hours of insertion. In addition, women were 3.05 times more likely than men to have nonpatent catheters (P = 0.02). With insertion sites ³ 3 cm above the bend of the wrist, nonpatency was 7.3 times more likely in women than in men (P < 0.001). Most patients (84%) received anticoagulants or thrombolytics at least once during the 72 hours of monitoring. Those who did not receive these medications were 2.8 times more likely (P = 0.05) than patients who received these drugs to have nonpatent catheters (Kaye J, et al. Patency of radial arterial catheters. Am J Crit Care. 2001;10[2]:104-111).
Comment by Leslie A. Hoffman, PhD, RN
Radial artery catheters are routinely used in critically ill patients to monitor blood pressure and to obtain arterial blood gas samples. Maintaining catheter patency is important because readings from these devices are used to titrate vasoactive drugs and to regulate blood pressure and heart rate. In prior studies, problems linked with loss of patency have included the size, length, and duration of use of the catheter and gender of the patient.
The major finding of this study was that placement of the catheter relative to the radiocarpal joint had a significant influence on the duration of patency in the first 72 hours after insertion. Site location was measured as the distance in centimeters from the radiocarpal joint at the base of the thumb to the insertion site of the catheter. Kaye and colleagues speculated that movement of the wrist may have caused a pumping action that aided blood flow and, therefore, contributed to keeping the catheter patent. This finding is particularly noteworthy because the catheters were used for a relatively short time. Mean duration of use was 30.7 hours, with a range of 3.7-72 hours. In contrast, neither the flush method (q 4 hours, as needed) or blood-sampling method (waste, nonwaste) had a significant effect on catheter patency. As previously reported, women were more likely than men to have nonpatent catheters, presumably due to smaller vessel size.
Findings of this study suggest that a simple strategy—placing radial artery catheters as close to the bend of the wrist as possible—may minimize the risk of losing patency. The study deserves replication to verify this finding in other sites and a larger sample of patients with varying underlying conditions.
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I don't have a problem with enhancing your looks if you have the money.... Cause God knows I would, but she's ONLY 17.... "17" !!!
Kris Jenner says that Kylie makes her lips look bigger by applying a natural Lipliner and a matte lipstick !
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Jim Dramis
From TI-99/4A-Pedia
Jim Dramis from 99'er Magazine
Software Programmer
Jim Dramis was a computer software programmer for Texas Instruments (TI) programming some of the most memorable video games for the computer including Car Wars, Munch Man, and Parsec. Along with Garth Dollahite and Paul Urbanus, Jim created the company Sofmachine, Inc in March of 1983. The company produced three games, Spot-Shot, Barrage, and Jumpy. However, due to Texas Instruments exiting the home computer market and a lack of capital funding, Sofmachine was unable to publish and market these titles.[1]
1 Interview
1.2 Questions and Answers
2 Game Credits for Jim Dramis
3.1 External links
The following is from an interview done by Gary M. Kaplan that appeared in the January 1983 issue of 99'er Magazine, page 26-27 and 38-39:[2]
An Interview with Jim Dramis - Game Designer and Programmer Extraordinaire
Jim Dramis, a 32-year-old programmer with Texas Instruments, is not the kind of person who you'd picture as a whiz-bang arcade game designer. As a former high school math teacher and insurance agent, the mild-mannered Dramis was far removed from the fantasy world of space ships, lasers, racing cars, and hungry video creatures. An Ohioan by birth, he completed his B.S. in mathematics at Kent State University and went on to a brief stint as a manufacturing supervisor at TI. From there, Dramis worked for a couple of years as a special agent for an insurance company. After another two-year Interlude, 1979 found him back at TI, this time working as a programmer analyst on minicomputers being used for the calculator and watch repair system. From this support environment, Dramis transferred to TI's Consumer Products Group, where he got involved in some Extended BASIC educational software development. But it wasn't until a year-and-a-half ago, when he started work on his first game, Car Wars, that Dramis began to explore his real creative potential - as evidenced by follow-up work with Munch Man, and the new TI smash hit, Parsec.
GMK: What influence does your mathematics background have on your present work as a game designer and programmer?
JD: I think that the logic and thought process that one develops in going through the rigors of mathematics certainly does help in game design and the programming of computers. They seem to go hand in hand.
GMK: What about your experience as a teacher?
JD: My teaching experience has helped me instruct other programmers here at TI. In designing the games, the educational background helps to a certain degree, because I'm constantly thinking, "How is the audience going to perceive what I'm doing?" You try not to make the game too complex, but rather interesting and a good experience.
GMK: How do you feel about games as a form of entertainment and enrichment?
JD: Well, I think games add more to your enrichment and learning than just hand-eye coordination and skills. We're just now starting to observe the effect of game playing on the entire learning and educational process. Motivation and involvement have a lot to do with it.
GMK: How do you feel about yourself playing games all day for a living. . . and what about the children who play your games?
JD: Actually it might sound kind of funny, but to me, writing the game is more fun than sitting down and playing it for hours. There's a lot more that goes into designing a game then meets the eye. As for children, there was one girl I was talking to who told me she played Munch Man hours each day and scored 294,000 points. It's a good feeling to know that someone out there likes the product that you've created.
GMK: Did you play a lot of games as a child?
JD: I played cards a lot. Board games too. This interest and intrigue with numbers and logic from an early age might have contributed to my interest in games. I think that - especially in the environment that I'm working in-is interesting because you're trying to push the machine at its ultimate limits. You're trying to muster everything graphically, speed-wise, logic-wise - out of the machine that you possibly can. The limit there sometimes is just the limit of the programmer's imagination and skills. It's pretty challenging.
GMK: Is the process of designing a game a game in itself?
JD: Yes, there's a certain tension, a certain risk-reward, and there's a goal. Son1c of these key elements you find in the actual game that you produce - you have a certain tension about doing a game because in your mind there are four or five obstacles that you know have to be overcome, and you're not sure you can; it's kind of exciting each day - you never know, how far you're going to get. There's a certain risk because you could spend six months on a project, and it could very easily be a total disaster. Sometimes there's a fine line between a great game and a total wipe-out. There's also a goal - finishing the project - that means making sure it is a marketable, bug-free product. So you're right - there is a game in creating games.
GMK: How much of Car Wars and Munch Man did you actually do?
JD: Car Wars and Munch Man were basically my own - games that I was responsible for and did the programming on. Car Wars, my first game, was one GROM; that was all programmed in GPL. Prior to actually starting work on the game, I attended GPL classes here and took a couple of weeks just to familiarize myself with the GPL manual and the architecture of the Home Computer. Basically I learned the GPL language by doing the programming for Car Wars. Similarly, with Munch Man, I learned 9900 code [Assenbly Language].
GMK: Can you give us an account of the evolution of Car Wars from idea to finished program?
JD: In a lot of these games, we don't just go off in a corner and dream them up. We get good suggestions, help, and ideas from a lot of different people - even systems programmers on how to improve or write a subroutine. I had the basic game design idea, and the first thing I wanted to make sure was that GPL had enough speed to handle the motion, or whether I would have to use automotion. In this program, I did not use automotion of sprites. Those cars are double-sized, magnified sprites. I moved them one, two and four-pixel increments myself.
One of the main problems in the game was the logic. For instance, the track has all different characters that tell me whether the car can turn left, right, or change lanes. Once I got that programmed and working well, the rest of the game was really just polishing up - making the track look better, adding scoring and color, extra computer cars, etc. The whole effort took two and a half to three months of programming.
GMK: Now, let's get into Munch Man. Why did you decide to do a game like that?
JD: I wanted to take advantage of our machine's color graphics and sprites. A maze-type game seemed to offer interesting possibilities. The logic in Munch Man is similar to Car Wars, where I was moving the sprites pixel by pixel; I needed the logic to recognize special characters in the maze that determined whether I could go left, right, up or down. This was the same obstacle I had in Car Wars, so I took the main Car Wars routine and converted it from GPI to 9900 code. That took about a month. Then I tried to design some type of maze that was interesting and would take advantage of our graphics and color.
GMK: Did you run into any major problems where outside help was needed?
JD: There weren't any major problems. I only needed help on a few subroutines. No one can be expected to know everything about the machine, so when someone runs into a problem, he'll take a lot of suggestions from fellow programmers because often they have gone through the same thing in another project. In fact, they may already have a subroutine that you can take and just modify. I used at least three or four subroutines that were in TI Invaders.
GMK: During the final polishing and testing of Munch Man, a lot of your fellow programmers must have offered their criticism - how did you take this?
JD: Well, there was a first slightly unfavorable reaction because of the blood, sweat and tears already put into the game - I tended to take it personally. But there are a lot of us that have gotten used to criticism. In fact, many of us now enjoy the interaction. You can take others' ideas or not - it's ultimately up to you. It doesn't hurt to have someone be very critical. Most of the time it will help you. There was a lot of what we call "tweaking" the final process of the package - the five or six parameters of Munch Man that had to be human factored. It certainly did help to have people critical of the fairness, speed, difficulty, and risk-reward factors in the game, so that I could successfully fine tune it.
GMK: Were there any major changes from what you thought was the finished version to the actual game release?
JD: Some of the programmers felt that the learning curve as relating to the beginning difficulty of the game was not quite fair. Following their suggestions, I made the game less difficult at first. It kind of gives the player a bit of a break - a toehold for learning and improving skill in the game.
GMK: How well do you do when actually playing your own game?
JD: Well, like I said earlier, I get more enjoyment from programming than actually playing the games. Because of this, I really haven't tried to get high scores. In Car Wars my top score is about 33,000; Munch Man is about 122,000; and Parsec, about 77,000. So I haven't even broken 100,000 on Parsec yet! They're good scores, but not even close to the top scores. One of the problems is that we have a debugger here, and I can easily cheat my way through the games. And you get so used to boosting yourself up to the higher levels...you've already been there, and it's so easy to do that you don't really want to take the time to get there legitimately.
GMK: Can you give us a little background on how Parsec evolved?
JD: We started Parsec in the middle of February and completed it in the middle of July, so that was five months. But that was with two of us working on it. Paul Urbanus, my partner, was a summer student here; he worked on Parsec for two months. The game therefore really took a total of seven man-months to complete. Paul certainly did help tremendously in getting it done; he wrote several of the major subroutines such as the speech interrupt-driven part of it, and helped speed up the scroll subroutine. Paul also modified the line-drawing subroutines that he had already been through [the LINES demonstration program that comes with Mini Memory-Ed.] for use with Parsec.
GMK: What was the major technical problem you had to overcome?
JD: Well that would have to be the scrolling routine. There was heavy access of VDP RAM. And any time you do that, you run the real risk of slowing the whole thing down tremendously. Paul used the trick of loading some of the program code into the fast CPU RAM on the 16-bit bus. This gave us about a 20% boost in speed of the scroll routine.
GMK: We understand that Parsec is the first TI game to be released that used the high-resolution graphics mode of the video processor chip in the TI-99/4A. Can you tell us something about how sprites work in this mode?
JD: The problem with using the high-resolution graphics mode is not only being unfamiliar with it, but also understanding the constraints. First, it uses up so much of the VDP RAM that there's only 2,000 bytes of RAM free for the programmer to use. Also, at the time, we felt we could not use sprite automotion in this mode. The problem we had was that the scroll used up so much processor time that in order for me to move sprites on the screen, I had to use automotion. If I were to move the sprites pixel by pixel as I did in Munch Man and Car Wars, it would be way too slow. I had to go to automotion or else the project would have been killed.
At this point, Paul remembered that the 99/4A's newer architecture would allow us to do our own interrupt processing; this meant that we could do our own sprite automotion if we relocated the sprite attribute table from where it normally was to the unused area of high-VDP RAM that I mentioned earlier.
GMK: Where did the idea for the tumbling asteroids come from?
JD: Paul Urbanus actually developed the different patterns in LOGO to get the tumbling effect. It was very easy to see the animation, and change the shapes accordingly. Then, it was a simple thing for me to just load the data for the different shaped into my program, change the coincidence a little bit, and away it went. . .
GMK: It appears that the speech doesn't slow down the play of the game at all. . .it comes through as being a simultaneous process. How did you achieve this breakthrough?
JD: Well, because we were already using our own interrupt processing for the sprite automotion, it made sense to also try interrupt-driven speech. This worked out extremely well; there was apparently no slow-down at all - even though there was 200 bytes of logic in the speech interrupt routines that had to be processed 60 times in a second.
GMK: How did speech fit into the overall game design?
JD: The idea behind the speech was to have a female onboard computer warning you of things that are coming - like when fuel is low and a fueling tunnel is up ahead, or that there's an attack on its way. So speech can be important in that it gives you some signals of what's coming up so you don't have to read the written messages at the bottom of the screen. You can still play the game without the speech; it was important, however, to make sure that speech wasn't totally integral to playing the game, because if someone doesn't have a Speech Synthesizer they would be out of luck.
GMK: What were the reasons for simulating a female voice?
JD: We wanted something different from the basic Speech Syntheiszer's voice, and also we were intrigued by the TV shows and movies that used a female voice as a spaceship's onboard computer. It seems to have a sort of mystical effect. Also, somebody told us that you couldn't digitize female speech because of things like high-frequency patterns. So, we just had to go off and do it. . .
GMK: What are some of the obstacles in producing games for the Home Computer at this point in time?
JD: The limitation is that you are working with an under-$200 computer with certain hardware architecture limitations that are built in. The only way to possibly overcome some of them is with software tricks. It's hard to create the tension and excitement of some of the commercial coin-op $3,900 arcade games - hard to compete with their special screens designed for each specific game, and hard to compete with their fancy remote controls.
GMK: Do you feel that with Parsec you've just scratched the surface in what this machine can do, or have you already pushed the machine to its limits?
JD: Well no - I think with Parsec it was just the beginning. With other games, I was becoming familiar with what I could do; but with Parsec, I'm now getting a feel for what the machine can do. It's a kinds o launching and testing of some of the good points of the machine, and taking advantage of some of the speed of 9900 code. There are many other things that are really still out there that we would like to explore and exercise.
GMK: So what you're saying is that the best is yet to come. . .We can expect whole new generations of sophisticated games coming from TI.
JD: Definitely. Because of the speed of the 16-bit 9900 processor, many exciting things are possible. To give you an example of its high speed, in Munch Man we had to put a substantial delay in between each pixel movement of the monsters and you Man - not counting the almost 4K-bytes of ROM code that must also execute in that period. If that delay was taken out, those monsters and your Munch Man would move around the screen so fast that they would look like they were twenty instead of four or five! This will give you some idea of just how incredibly fast the 9900 processor is.
GMK: What strategy and tips can you give players of your games?
JD: Definitely memorize patterns in Car Wars to get through on higher levels. In Munch Man, you have to pay close attention to the energy levels. On the higher screens, 15 and above, you have to make sure the chain gets completely laid down in one area before moving on. In Parsec, the big factor is gettings used to flying the craft instead of just laying on the fire button. Get used to moving the craft up and down, and changing the vertical lift speed at the appropriate time. Becoming a good shot, where you can hit a craft within one of two bursts, is a big factor in getting through the attack waves and making it over to the higher levels. If you can do this, you're well on your way to becoming immortalized in the 99'er Hall of Fame.
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Whether you order the okonomiyaki, or go for the teppanyaki or the set lunches, Chibo Okonomiyaki promises a true taste of Osaka with every bite.
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There's nothing quite like okonomiyaki in the world of food. It's a savory pancake that somehow reminds of an omelet or even our very own ukoy. It's that odd dish that combines a hodgepodge of ingredients held together with a flour-based batter, grilled on a teppan, and topped with even more ingredients to deliver a truly filling meal in one.
Believed to have originated in the Kansai region, this Japanese original is associated with the city of Osaka where one can find it most anywhere, either at DIY grills or diner-style eateries. One such restaurant, Chibo Okonomiyaki, is famous for cooking its okonomiyaki on a teppan grill. Established in 1973 at Sennichimae in Osaka, this restaurant is one of the most prominent okonomiyaki and teppanyaki restaurants in the city, with its six-story flagship dominating the celebrated Dotonbori food and shopping arcade.
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Looking for a fun family activity? Here are 10 different DIY Christmas ornaments that you can make with the kids! From Cookie Monster and minions to Santa, and even a melted snowman, these easy crafts are fun and make great gifts, too.


Last night was another successful Twin Cities Women In Digital event. Our most successful, in fact. We are one of the newest chapters in the nation, but last night 87 women attended our event at Industrious North Loop, and more than 10 women signed up to join the organization, making this our biggest turnout yet. It was a night filled with honesty, vulnerability, advice, and badassery. I had a lot of fun.
We heard from Margaret Murphy, Founder and CEO of Bold Orange, and Laura King, Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant at Thomson Reuters, about how to negotiate salary, initiate difficult conversations, and—most importantly—stand up for yourself.
Be your badass self and demand what you deserve.
That's a message I can get behind.
"The first person you have to influence and convince that you're worth it is yourself."
"Communicate your wins EARLY and OFTEN."
"If what you're saying is impactful, I don't notice how you're sitting."
"You're gonna learn more when it's tough—guaranteed."
"Try not to stress out about things as much as you probably are."
What first encouraged me to join Women In Digital were the board members (who are now some of my best friends). After attending the first event, I received a personalized email from Caitlin, welcoming me and letting me know I could reach out with questions. That simple act made a world of a difference. At the next event, everyone greeted me by name, asked me about work, and voiced their excitement that I'd come back to attend a second event. It felt like people actually cared, and I wasn't just another number.
It's this sense of community that I've heard other members express gratitude toward as well. In a short amount of time, we in the Twin Cities chapter have created a space where women can let go of the stress of the workday, pop open a bottle of champagne, kick back in a safe space and soak in a bit of wisdom, and—perhaps most importantly—get to know their peers. Someone once told me, "Never burn a bridge in Minneapolis. It's a small city; if you stay in the same industry, you're bound to run into—about probably work with—that person again." I love that Women In Digital provides a space for me to get to know others, so I can continue expanding my network and fostering this community.
That's it for this recap! Thanks for tuning in!
If you're interested in joining Twin Cities Women In Digital, join our Facebook group! We host events like these every month.


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Students become archaeologists as they learn about burial practices and beliefs from ancient China. By investigating replicas of works of art from the Asian's collection, students compare the dynastic traditions from the Shang through the Tang dynasties.
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Police have released a CCTV image of a man they want to trace in connection with an indecent assault on a teenager on board a bus from London to Glasgow.
The 18-year-old woman was attacked while the overnight bus from London Victoria was between Hamilton and Glasgow on 31 October.
Police believe the man, who got off in Glasgow, can help the inquiry.
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I've been posing questions and exploring the idea of home a lot lately. And with my impending move, that won't stop. But, what does it mean to go home?
I understand the feeling of anxious patriotism, of displacement that T.S. Eliot knew so well. I know too that I will never be able to look at a situation in any country without an awareness of having been an outsider, an immigrant, the xeno. So too, I am now unable not to see cultural nuance, and an awareness that my way of seeing the world is very culturally conditioned and that even when you're moving between cultures which have the same base language – english – this does not mean you will be understood.
The culture shock of moving from Australia to the US surprised me. The shock I felt while living in France for a summer did not. We mustn't underestimate our differences even as we seek to understand – words, phrases, concepts, are not always the same. The ways of describing churches, denominations, especially when using shorthand is often sloppy ignoring the geographical specificity of some of them. Universities and educational expectations are similar but different. The way of asking for assistance, for making your requests, concerns or appreciation known differs subtly even between english speaking cultures.
I've learned to accept and appreciate those tensions. It's made me more careful, more patient, more willing to acknowledge and even expect differences in the way I understand what's happening in comparison to how it is intended. So too, I've learned to recognise that being me sometimes allows me to speak where others cannot for cultural expectations; there is already an expectation of how i will speak and behave as an Australian, and as a woman, so the offence caused is lessened, and often taken in a light spirit. If they already think you are brash, then sometimes it's okay to live up to that expectation. Sometimes the outsider can speak truth in a situation that those within know but cannot speak or cannot find the words for.
spoken like a fellow inbetweener! 😉 It's a good word. I wonder whether I'll still feel this way when i'm living in australia again!


The Office of Student Activities within the Division of Student Affairs is seeking nominations from faculty, staff and students for the 44 Stars of Excellence Awards and Gala Celebration by April 2 at noon. Nominations can be submitted online at http://syr.orgsync.com/GalaAwards.
The 44 Stars of Excellence Awards and Gala Celebration is a semi-formal dinner and awards ceremony that recognizes and honors the hard work and dedication of Syracuse University's undergraduate students and student organizations. Approximately 44 awards are given out, ranging from the Division of Student Affairs Award for Collaboration to the Senior Vice President Award for Outstanding Senior Leadership.
The event is sponsored by Macy's and Bloomingdales, and will be held on April 17 at 5:30 p.m. at the Goldstein Auditorium in the Hildegarde and J. Myer Schine Student Center.
Highlight of last year's winners included: Jerk Magazine for the Public Affairs Award for the Most Outstanding Media or Publication; Justin Cole for the Class of 2011 Citizenship Award; Orange Seeds, SOPHE, Comm.UNITY and Sierra Fogal for the the Mary Ann Shaw Center for Public and Community Service Award; and the Muslim Student Association and Phi Iota Alpha for Outstanding Philanthropy Programming. For a complete listing of the 2011 award winners, visit https://news.syr.edu/2011/04/21/office-of-student-activities.
For more information on the 2012 awards and celebration, visit http://syr.orgsync.com/GalaAwards, or contact the Office of Student Activities at 315-443-2718.


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Open the FAWEB User group for teachers.
Highlight Registrar's Office under Group Privileges.
Highlight Records under Registrar's Office and click Options.
On the Security Options screen, select Students.
Next to Students, mark the View and Edit checkboxes.
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WASHINGTON—Hudson Institute launched its new Center on Europe and Eurasia, which will be dedicated to advancing American interests and revitalizing our alliances for today's era of great power competition.
Under the direction of Senior Fellow Peter Rough, the center's work will focus on checking Russia's military aggression in Ukraine, countering China's subversion of the continent, extricating Europe from strategic vulnerabilities, forging key links in Central Asia, and modernizing our transatlantic military posture and economic ties.
"Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine marks the funeral of the post-Cold War era. This is the most propitious moment to launch a Center on Europe and Eurasia since the end of World War II," Rough said. "The invasion of Ukraine today could be followed by China's coercion of Taiwan tomorrow. It is crucial to America's success that Europe is prepared to oppose both Russian and Chinese aggression. Leveraging our allies will require creative leadership from the United States."
Rough, a native German speaker, specializes in European politics and security. He served in the U.S. Agency for International Development and in the White House's Office of Strategic Initiatives in the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush. He was also the director of research in the Office of George W. Bush.
"For almost three-quarters of a century, Europe and North America have stood together in NATO in defense of our people and our values. I thank the Hudson Institute for its commitment to forging an even stronger transatlantic bond," NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said. "You are demonstrating vision and leadership in launching your new center, and I wish you all the best in this important effort."
Rough will be joined by Hudson Senior Fellow Luke Coffey, a renowned expert on European security issues and Central Asian affairs who previously served as senior special advisor to then-British Defence Secretary Liam Fox and previously directed the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy at the Heritage Foundation; Hudson Adjunct Fellow Matthew Boyse, a former deputy assistant secretary of state in the Bureau for European and Eurasian Affairs with decades of experience in Central and Eastern Europe; Distinguished Fellow and former Hudson President and CEO Dr. Ken Weinstein; expert in political economy and Senior Fellow Dr. Tom Duesterberg; and military analyst and Senior Fellow Dr. Can Kasapoğlu, who is based in Turkey.
"Europe remains a critical partner for American security and prosperity. We need to revitalize our alliance structure in light of current threats," Hudson President and CEO John Walters said. "Under Peter's stewardship, Hudson looks forward to offering policy leadership for this crucial region of the world."
For the official launch of the center, Rough is interviewing Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa to discuss the importance of U.S. alliances in Europe on December 2 at 10:00 a.m. EST.
Read Rough and Kaspoglu's latest piece in The National Interest on the Biden administration's strategy of confinement for Ukraine and Coffey's case for supporting Ukraine in National Review. For more information on the center and its activities, visit the center's webpage.
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--Surely you've heard by now that in the year-end issue of VIBE, T.I. finally addressed 50 Cent (and others) who believed his wife, Tameka "Tiny" Cottle should have taken the rap for him when the couple was charged with the possession of a controlled substance in September 2010. You may recall that at the time of the arrest, T.I. was rehabbing his career and had only been out of jail since March 2010, after a 10-month prison stint for gun charges. He was on probation at the time of the drug arrest.
Though the drug charges were dropped, T.I. served 11 months in prison for violating his parole. T.I. told VIBE that his wife taking the fall was never an option.
Media outlets scrambled to hear what 50 would say in response—cause everyone knew he wasn't going to say something— but they were overlooking the most important aspect of the interview: TI had just kicked the long upheld idea of being a ride or-die chick off her pedestal. Frankly, it was about a damn time.


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The works of artist Kostas Argyros who died in October 2001 at the age of 84 years highlight the wonderful talent and the relentless quest of man, for real integration.
The sculptor was inspired from everyday rural life and immortalize his sculptures with a serious, simplistic and monumentally. As he walked to work the chisel started touching matters of religious and national traditions of our country, with archangels and heroes.
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