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Students who have failed to complete financial arrangements by the Thursday prior to the first day of classes will be charged a $50.00 late fee. Students who have not made payment arrangements by the Friday of the first week of class will be charged another $50 deferred payment/administrative fee. New students who register on Friday, General Registration day will not be charged a late fee if they make payment arrangements by the end of the day.
Students may arrange to pay their registration bills in full at the time of registration or by the end of the day on the Thursday before the first day of the trimester to avoid late payment fees. New students registering on the Friday prior to the beginning of the trimester will not be charged a late payment fee if payment arrangements are made by 5 p.m. We accept cash, personal or business checks in the office. Online payment is available through the student portal, Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express, as well as check payments, are accepted online. All credit/debit card payments made on student accounts will be assessed a processing fee of 2.5% of the total payment made.
Deferred Payment Plan
The "Deferred Payment Plan" allows the flexibility of splitting your balance due into three payments. A $50.00 administrative fee is assessed each trimester if one chooses to use this plan. The balance due is the amount owed after adding all tuition, fees, room, board, and any other miscellaneous fees and subtracting all pending financial aid awards for the trimester. To use this plan, one-half of the balance due must be paid by the Thursday prior to the first day of the trimester. See the attached schedule for payment due dates. Delinquent monthly payments will be assessed a $30.00 late fee.
Deferred Payment Due Dates
Payment #1 Half down August 18, 2022
Payment #2 One quarter September 9, 2022
Payment #3 One quarter September 30, 2022
Payment #1 Half down November 3, 2022
Payment #2 One quarter December 2, 2022
Payment #3 One quarter January 13, 2023
Payment #1 Half down February 16, 2023
Payment #2 One quarter March 10, 2023
Payment #3 One quarter April 7, 2023
Payment #1 Half down May 18, 2023
Payment #2 One quarter June 9, 2023
Payment #3 One quarter June 30, 2023
Important Billing Notice
Billing statements are not sent through the mail, students must access their ledger on the student portal to check on the balance due. An email will be sent approximately a week before the due date for each trimester to the student email accounts as a payment reminder.
Contact the Business Office for payment arrangements required for J term classes
Remember that you must make payment arrangements or have financial aid in place by the Thursday prior to classes starting in order to avoid being automatically charged a $50 late payment fee. All classes will remain "Unofficial" on the class rosters until payment arrangements are made.


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Smartphone app may help diagnose rare genetic disease: Researchers
Scientists have developed a smartphone application which they say can help diagnose early symptoms of a rare genetic disorder.
PTI | May 23, 2019, 12:02AM IST
London: Scientists have developed a smartphone application which they say can help diagnose early symptoms of a rare genetic disorder. The Neural Impairment Test Suite app created by researchers at the Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) in Lithuania provides its user with a series of tests in order to check the presence of the symptoms.
If the probability of symptoms is detected, the user is informed and encouraged to contact medical professionals for further advice.
Huntington's disease, caused by an inherited defect in a single gene, is a progressive brain disorder that causes uncontrolled movements, emotional problems, and loss of thinking ability.
If a parent has the gene, each son or daughter has a one in two (50/50) chance of inheriting the disease.
Adult-onset Huntington's disease, the most common form of this disorder, usually appears in a person's thirties or forties.
Individuals with the adult-onset form of Huntington disease usually live about 15 to 20 years after signs and symptoms begin, researchers said.
A less common form of Huntington disease known as the juvenile form begins in childhood or adolescence. It also involves movement problems and mental and emotional changes, they said.
Early signs and symptoms of the disease can include irritability, depression, small involuntary movements, poor coordination, and trouble learning new information or making decisions. All these are difficult to notice.
"Our app is aimed at the early detection -- we are attempting to diagnose the disease when visually there are no symptoms," said Andrius Lauraitis, KTU doctoral student.
According to Professor Rytis Maskeliunas of KTU, the app provides additional information and allows automatisation of the process, but is not trying to replace medical diagnosis.
The app is one-of-a-kind, as the technological devices in the context of this disease have not been investigated yet.
"Due to the hereditary nature of the disease a person might know that he or she is in a risk group, but it is not known when and if the disease will strike," Maskeliunas said.
"When the early symptoms are detected, the person is advised to contact a physician. Although there is no known treatment for Huntington's disease, it is estimated that a patient can gain 3-16 years of healthy life if the disease is diagnosed early," said Maskeliunas.
The app is a collection of various tests available to smartphone users on Google Play. The tasks on the app are designed to evaluate the user's motor, cognitive skills, to detect voice and energy consumption disorders.
The app can also be used for the evaluation of other neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's or dementia.
According to KTU scientists, usually in medical practice similar diagnostic tests are provided on paper, but this is the first attempt to digitalise the instrument.
Depending on the degree of risk of developing the disease, the user can take the test once a week or more often; his or her data is being stored in the user's profile.
The model developed by KTU scientists is counting the values and predictions according to the indicators of the progress of the disease.
"For example, the test of a 3D figure construction (a cube or a cuboid) is digitalised with the application of graph theory. The algorithm is comparing two graphs -- one exemplary and one formed by the patient - in order to evaluate the metrics of similarity," said Lauraitis.
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Leading travel forecasters estimate that this summer will set more records for Americans taking leisure trips. With gas prices low and consumer confidence on the rise, that means more people on the road – and more potential customers for you. Are you and your staff prepared for your store to become a vacation station?
While out-of-town travelers might not become long-time customers, they do provide unique marketing and sales opportunities. People on vacation tend to make more impulse buys, so now's the time to make your merchandising promotions pop. Cleanliness really counts for people just passing by, too. Keep the outside area as clean and inviting as possible. You may have a lot to offer travelers, but people from out of town won't even slow down if your exterior isn't up to par. A little preparation for the summer travel season will make this year one to remember!
Your customers have high expectations for cleanliness in your store, and you must have that same level of expectation for your staff. Not only does a clean store look welcoming to customers, it also creates a safe environment where customers feel confident in buying food and drinks. This workshop is relevant to employees of all levels.
Mentoring. The strategy of mentoring focuses on growing an employee's overall skill set, fostering a positive attitude, and setting the employee up for success in general, not with just a specific task.
Coaching. The role of a coach is to ensure employees have the information, skills, and support they need to complete a task or set of tasks.
Job Shadowing. There are elements of both mentoring and coaching for employees who are put in the role of having another employee shadow them. In addition to teaching valuable job skills, this strategy can promote the culture of the company and foster teamwork.
Solid Follow-up. As a manager of learning, trainers have the responsibility to track on-the-job training efforts and record them as part of an employee's overall training plan. Incorporating the use of our OJT and Manager Sign-offs, will allow your trainers to integrate on-the-job-training with your online training curriculum.
The Security Awareness Specialist Online Training Workshop helps employees of all levels understand the security risks convenience stores face in this digital age.
The modules in this workshop are designed to educate managers and team members as to the daily dangers they face and the steps they can take to help protect themselves and the company. This workshop is critical for employees as their career progresses into higher level positions, and also serves as a review for managers at all levels.
Click here for a preview of the Security Awareness Workshop.
The condition of your store affects how well you and your team perform. Think of it this way – your success depends on the perceptions customers form about your operation. Like the saying goes, you never get a second chance to make a positive first impression. With effective training and proper maintenance, you can make sure every first impression is a good one.
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Ayaka Kikuchi (菊池 彩花 Kikuchi Ayaka; Minamiaiki, 28 juni 1987) is een voormalig Japans langebaanschaatsster, en schaatscoach.

Biografie
Kikuchi nam twee maal deel aan het Aziatische allroundkampioenschap, in 2011 veroverde ze de bronzen medaille en in 2012 behaalde Kikuchi het zilver. Deze resultaten leverde haar beide keren een deelname aan de Wereldkampioenschappen allround, met als beste resultaat een dertiende plaats in de eindrangschikking in 2012.

Op zaterdag 14 februari 2015 werd Kikuchi samen met de zussen Miho Takagi en Nana Takagi wereldkampioene ploegenachtervolging.

Tijdens trainingen voor seizoen 2016/2017 viel ze samen met Misaki Oshigiri en raakte daarbij dusdanig zwaar geblesseerd dat gevreesd werd voor het vervolg van haar schaatsloopbaan. In het seizoen 2017/2018 keerde Kikuchi voor één seizoen terug in de internationale competitie waar ze goud behaalde op de Olympische ploegenachtervolging samen met de zusjes Takagi en Sato. Hierna werd ze assistent-coach van Johan de Wit voor het nationale schaatsteam.

Persoonlijke records

Resultaten

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ACE accumulates 4 top volunteers on a Community Action Day to join David at Buzz Lockleaze to help with their current landscaping and gardening project.
The importance of Buzz is grand. They are a non-profit organisation that have developed a garden that helps teach individuals how to utilise their own garden patch and rural space on how to tend and nurture it to grow their own resources. In a day and age where we are becoming much more health conscious than we've ever been before; many of us can sympathise with just how difficult it can be to afford healthy nutrition. So, if we all took advantage of our garden spaces and learnt how to develop our own harvests, we could end up being at a significant advantage.
On top of this, the produce developed from the gardens is served at their café to offer fresh, domestic, homegrown food for customers to take advantage of.
It doesn't stop just there though. Our team of 4 from ACE will carry on their mission to monitor on the development and progression of the crops, ensuring a vigorous and steady growth for all the seeds planted.


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Mystics Pull Away in 4th, Beat Fever 76-62
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tayler Hill had 11 of her 16 points in the second half and the Washington Mystics beat the Indiana Fever 76-62 on Wednesday night.
Washington (7-7) never trailed after scoring the first points of the second half and pulled away with a 15-5 run to start the fourth quarter.
Emma Meesseman and Ivory Latta added 12 points each and Stefanie Dolson scored 10. The Mystics — No. 5 in the AP WNBA power poll — have won five of their last six, including back-to-back victories at home after dropping five straight at the Verizon Center to start the season.
Lynetta Kizer scored 18 to lead the eighth-ranked Fever (5-9). Erica Wheeler and Tamika Catchings had 10 points each.
Indiana had its largest lead at 27-18 on Catchings' basket with 6:45 left in the second quarter. Washington scored the next 10 and the teams went back-and-forth for the rest of the half.
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We have Oarsome O'Fare coming up next Friday!
It is a really important fundraiser for the rowing squad - and a really fun evening even if you are just watching the auction chaos and having a few nibbles!
My latest decision is about: I allowed scientists to bring back extinct animals but under tight control.
The effect of my last decision was: Hasn't come up yet .
What I like best about my nation: My national animal .
My latest decision is about: Members of Parliament operate under a PAYE scheme.
My latest decision is about: A small religious group is lobbying the government to allow them to take multiple wives.
1.) We should be allowed more than one wife/husband.
2.) Marriage is one man, one women, should not have more than one wife/husband.
3.) yes let people marry as many people as thay want, and have gay marriages, even let people marry their cat if they want.
I chose number 2 because it would be weird being married to your cat!!!


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Today I am liking.... Nicola Cornick
So why Nicola Cornick? It isn't just that her books are well written. It is her whole approach to writing regency romances that I admire. I like that her writing is fuelled by a passion for history, framed in a lifestyle and set of interests which provide endless inspiration. And I like that she tells her readers enough about herself that we know how her writing is fuelled!
I like that at the heart of each of her novels, lies a kernel of historical interest, ranging from the emergence of the cult of celebrity in Lord of Scandal, to the enforcement of random medieval laws as in the Brides of Fortune Series (I have yet to read them all, but I will). By aligning historical points such as these with strong characters and pacey storylines, Nicola's readers become immersed in the society of the era she is exploring without even noticing.
I like that Nicola's books are well written with realistic, likeable and delightfully imperfect characters. Her linked series don't have that irritatingly cosy clique-mentality which can sometimes be found in books which draw repeatedly on the same set of characters. The happily married couples don't stay frozen in amber in subsequent novels, stiff rumped people don't stay appallingly prudish and staid, unhappy people learn to be happy. The characters learn from their mistakes and are shaped by the events of the books. There is character development, there is motion, and it enables to the reader to feel involved with the progress of their lives.
Today I finished Unmasked, which is the prequel to the Brides of Fortune series. I always enjoy novels where the heroine has A Past - and preferably where the other characters have A Past too! I enjoyed the way that Unmasked touches upon the international scene and explores the human aspect of serfdom whilst still telling a fast paced, emotionally charged story. The novel subtlely explores the role of women in the regency, the choices they might have to make and the shades of grey in the freedoms permitted them. All the female characters in Unmasked are outside of regency convention as we understand it, and the novel is richer and more complex for that. Without verging into chick lit territory, Nicola's story-telling and characterisation is contemporary and immediate and brings alive the regency era for her readers, drawing strong parallels between the early 19th century and our own society.
I can't wait to read more!
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Public corruption in Illinois is nothing new. In fact our Governors have been making our license plates since 1974. In case you were just born yesterday or you don't know your Illinois history: OTTO KERNER — Governor from 1961-1968. Resigned to become judge, then was convicted of bribery related to his tenure as governor. Sentenced to three years in prison………….. DAN WALKER — Governor from 1973-1977. Pleaded guilty to bank fraud and other charges in 1987 related to his business activities after leaving office. Spent about a year and a half in federal prison………….. GEORGE RYAN — Governor from 1999 through 2003. After leaving office, was convicted of racketeering for actions as governor and secretary of state. In November 2007, began serving a 6 1/2 year sentence in federal prison………….. ROD BLAGOJEVICH — Governor from 2002 through 2009, when he became the first Illinois governor in history to be impeached. Convicted of numerous corruption charges in 2011, including allegations that he tried to sell or trade President Barack Obama's old Senate seat.
This version of our logo was drawn by local tattoo artist Don Will.
We have been so busy moving the shop around that we have been slacking on posting new arrivals at the shop. But we have some new DECKS (Baker, Birdhouse, Black Label, Scram, Welcome, $lave, Prime, Deathwish, Pizza, Coda, Bacon and Zero) and we also have new WHEELS, BEARINGS and more.
As some of you already know THE SHOP IS MOVING! Don't worry, we aren't going very far. We are just moving the skate shop back over to our original location at 305 North Illinois Street. Yeah, thats right, we are going to be cramming as much as we can from the skate shop over into our print shop. As you can imagine we are not going to be able to take everything with us over to our new space so in order to accomplish our objective we need your help in getting rid of some product.
NEW BUSINESS HOURS for 2019!
We will be taking Sundays off and changing our hours on Friday and Saturdays. *With that being said, if you need to stop by the shop on any day that we are closed (Sundays and Mondays) just get a hold of us during regular business hours and we can schedule an appointment that works for you.
We are usually closed on Mondays but we will be open on Christmas Eve from NOON to 4:00 for any last minute shoppers. *Everything in the shop will be on sale because sometimes it pays to procrastinate.


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Is RCEP a door-opener or just another acronym to learn?
From The Detail, 5:00 am on 25 November 2020
Prime Minister Ardern with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and China's Premier Li Keqiang during a RCEP summit in Bangkok last year. Photo: AFP
New Zealand has signed onto the world's largest trade deal – which sounds great as a headline – but exactly how we'll benefit is less clear.
This month, 15 countries - nearly a third of the global population - signed the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement, also known as RCEP.
Ten members are part of ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations): Brunei-Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam.
South Korea, Japan, China, Australia and New Zealand make up the rest of the group.
The New Zealand government says the deal holds "significant strategic value", but we already have trade deals with all the countries in RCEP, seven of which are also in the controversial and renamed Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).
Sam Sachdeva is the political editor at Newsroom.co.nz and today on The Detail he talks to Jessie Chiang about the ins and outs of the new agreement. He says RCEP does set out common rules and standards for all 15 members.
"At the moment if we want to send a coffee cup that's made here to China or Malaysia or Indonesia, we will have low tariffs but the rules around what sort of inspections the coffee cup has to go through...those can be very different for each country," he says. This deal simplifies things.
But it's taken eight years to get it signed and India, which is the only country New Zealand doesn't have a trade deal with, pulled out at the last minute.
"In terms of the deal itself, it's not fantastic and I think probably everyone would admit that …. even the government, if you talk to ministers privately, it's not as good as it could have been," he says.
Sachdeva breaks down the impact of India pulling the plug, what the deal actually means for New Zealand and whether FOMO (fear of missing out) might work to our advantage.
Chiang also speaks to Stephanie Honey, a former trade negotiator for the New Zealand government who now runs her own trade consulting firm.
She explains why trade deals are so important in the first place and the reason for longwinded acronyms.
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Priti Patnaik is an independent journalist who has written for Bilan Magazine and The Wire.
Weeding out good speculation from bad is good in principle, but difficult to implement. The initiative to ban financial speculation of agricultural commodities in Switzerland did not get enough support this week, but it certainly drew attention to the role of financial speculators in contributing to volatility that ultimately impacts food prices. Greater regulation, including imposing position limits, is always a more appropriate solution than the outright ban on financial speculation.
The stakes were high. Nearly 60% of voters turned down the initiative, but as many as 40% voted in favour of it on Sunday (28 February). The commodity business in Switzerland contributes nearly 4% to Swiss GDP, with nearly 550 companies in the country.
The youth wing of the Social Democratic Party that called for the vote believes that, financial speculation on commodities contributes to artificially-created demand, resulting in increased food prices. This, they say, increases the burden on the poor in developing countries who spend a substantial part of their incomes on food.
The industry and the Swiss government have said that there has not been enough definitive evidence to link financial speculation to increases in food prices, even though they claim there is evidence to show there is no link.
The reason why there is not enough evidence yet is also because it is very difficult to measure the effect. However, there is unequivocal evidence that volatility in prices is caused by financial speculation. It is this volatility that has some impact on food prices. Financial speculation exacerbates booms and busts in the cycle and volatility is a major problem for farmers and agro industries. There is thus a clear need to reduce volatility and to control speculation even if the effect on prices cannot be measured.
Volatility impacts prices in the short term. But mostly, prices in the long term are still determined by actual supply and demand. Just as there are studies that show that future prices have no impact on spot prices, there are also studies that prove that commodity futures market can have an impact on spot prices. On balance, there is enough evidence to think about ways to address excessive financial speculation.
The link between speculation and prices has also been hard to pin down for other reasons. Notable experts have pointed to the shifts evident in the 2007-2008 crisis, including the role of energy speculation and the link created by biofuels between food and energy markets.
To illustrate how integrated commodities can be, one needs to consider mixed indices that contain both food and non-food items. (Consider the direct link between corn and ethanol or soy and biodiesel.) Experts believe that factors other than food supply and demand are affecting prices and possibly changing production decisions in ways that do not respond to food security needs.
To be sure, speculation serves the purpose of ensuring liquidity and aiding price discovery. There is recognition that not all speculation is bad – including those for risk insurance purposes and physical traders who want to hedge their exposure to protect against price fluctuations. Speculation does provide liquidity to hedgers.
The initiative did make the distinction between hedging and pure financial speculation. However, one cannot distinguish a hedging transaction from a speculative trade – apart from intent or motivation for a trade, which is hard if not impossible to tell.
There is no way to make a distinction between the trades, except, perhaps, by categorising traders as those who have commercial purposes (physical traders) and those who do not (non-commercial actors like banks).
The volumes of financial transactions are now a multiple of the real volumes. The initiative sought to prohibit investors such as investment funds, banks and financial arms of commodity companies to indulge in financial speculation. Supporters of the initiative believe that such investors have huge power to influence the markets and hence prices.
There is not enough information on the extent of speculative activities that these actors undertake. The Swiss government acknowledges this. The aim of the initiative was to discourage index funds, over the counter derivatives linked to agriculture commodities.
Critics of the initiative, who now stand vindicated, believe that banning speculation cannot address food prices. The government and the industry were wary of the legal uncertainty and costs that could result, in addition to potential job losses. Industry feared that the initiative would result in creating more difficulties for the physical players to access the futures market, to prove they were really hedging for physical trading and not merely speculating.
The government feared that the commodity business could shift to kinder jurisdictions. These fears were possibly overstated. After all, Geneva is also a major centre of trade finance that lubricates capital intensive commodity transactions. Apart from trading companies, there is a web of insurance companies, law firms, banks, accounting, forwarding, surveillance and security firms, and shipbuilders, around this industry.
The Financial Market Infrastructure Act (FMIA), entered into force on 1 January 2016 in Switzerland, seeks to put the Swiss regulatory environment in line with regulations in the US and the EU. Firms located in Switzerland who trade in agri-derivatives over platforms in the US or the EU must comply with the rules in these jurisdictions.
Position limits have been suggested as a crucial tool to prohibit major financial actors from influencing the price variations by the sheer ability they have to mobilize huge funds (that they do not own) to bet on price variations. But it is not entirely clear whether the Swiss government has imposed position limits, although the act has already come into effect.
To be sure, the position limits prescribed in EU's Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II, scheduled to come into effect in 2018, is also seen as not being effective enough to curb financial speculation.
Furthermore, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has also set up the Agricultural Market Information System (AMIS) to "enhance food market transparency and encourage coordination of policy action in response to market uncertainty".
The leading position of Switzerland in the commodities sector cannot be understated. Some of the commodities traded in the Geneva region include – 35% of the world's cereals and oilseeds, 50% of the world's coffee, 50% of the world's sugar, 35% of the world's rice, 35% of the world's oil, as well as natural gas, ethanol and cotton.
Increasing development aid to fight hunger – as the government said after the Swiss rejected this initiative – is not the same as increasing regulation on the commodities sector. It is time the government paid more attention to what the Berne Declaration referred to as Switzerland's most dangerous business.
The original article was published first in French by Bilan.


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What is an MDP?
Why is an MDP needed?
Why does the region need an updated MDP?
What's the difference from the 2011 MDP?
What is a community-based approach?
What are the goals?
What are plan policies?
What has been done so far?
What changes have been made since the last engagement?
How will the plan effect people of our region?
Can I win a prize?
An MDP is a blueprint on how a region will evolve, thrive, and expand for the next 20 years. The plan's structure includes a vision statement, goals, and policies that support implementation of the plan.
The Municipal Government Act of Alberta establishes that every community in Alberta must have a Municipal Development Plan.
The RMWB is replacing the previous MDP from 2011 due to numerous changes in the local environment including social, cultural, and economic factors. Many things have changed in the region to support an updated MDP including population growth, truth and reconciliation, community priorities, and changes in global oil economy.
The 2011 MDP had numerous priorities including planning for exponential growth in population, high demand for land development, and singular engine economy. With the many changes to the local environment the updated MDP is different in numerous ways, including:
Gradual population growth, compared to the exponential growth projection from current MDP;
Enhancing livability, safe and secure region, community ownership, and health and wellness, inclusive and equitable and diverse community, accessible and safe community;
Expansion of economic resources, diversification, balanced resource development, future innovations and technology, research and technology hub;
Establishing roots within the region, and accessible social services;
Responsible and conscious growth and development, strategic urban, rural and regional development, disaster management, emergency response services, and social infrastructure;
Maintaining current infrastructure, transit services, roads, parks, trails, neighborhood land uses, servicing capacity, and public amenities;
Prioritizing Truth and Reconciliation, recognition, partnerships, opportunities, values, traditional land uses and practices;
Local and regional tourism, industrial tourism, green and blue network recreational opportunities, winter games, and traditional sports;
Regional connection to nature and water bodies: boat launches, marinas, cottage industry, and forest cabins;
Building regional pride through community and culture; festivals, events, public art, community gardens, multicultural participation, facilitating interactions through community services;
Emergency management and preparedness: FireSmart community plans, buffers, firehall, and flood management; and
Implementation of the MDP: key indicator, timelines, responsibilities for departments, evaluation/review.
The new place and community-based approach to the MDP reflects a people-first focus that considers local values, opportunities, and challenges in an intentional way. This approach is guided by the understanding that development should focus on community and respond to the various social, environmental, and economic contexts that exist throughout the Region. Embracing communities where they are at, will make Wood Buffalo a great place to live.
The goals support the overarching themes that are prioritized to support the region's future. These include:
Home & Belonging: Wood Buffalo strives to be a place for all, a place where people help and support one another, with compassion at the heart of every community. This goal identifies opportunities for Wood Buffalo to reinforce its unique sense of place, improve community safety, and foster belonging by meeting the needs of all.
Economic Growth and Innovation: Economic diversification and development bring vibrancy to the local economy and prosperity throughout Wood Buffalo, all while not forgetting the core industry. As a global centre for excellence in oil sands extraction technology and innovation, the Region will grow to serve as a global hub for the exchange of this industry knowledge.
Reconciliation: Wood Buffalo's First Nations and Métis are rich in collaborative spirit and historical, cultural, and economic importance. The Indigenous community call lands throughout Wood Buffalo their ancestral homes and have individual needs and interests as distinct as the region's many changing landscapes. From Fort McMurray to the most remote communities, continuous dialogue and relationship building with the entire Indigenous community that calls Wood Buffalo home is central to how the MDP must move reconciliation forward.
Celebrating Community and Culture: Brimming with community pride it comes naturally that Wood Buffalo celebrates its unique past, vibrant arts, rich culture, and diverse population. These are things that not only make Wood Buffalo an amazing place to live but also contribute to an everyday vitality rarely found elsewhere. Quality of life for all is enhanced through opportunities to celebrate these unique cultures, while the promotion of and participation in diverse arts and cultural activities provide educational and growth opportunities that bring people together and foster community.
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The RMWB has been conducting ongoing engagement with residents, community stakeholders and Indigenous partners since 2020 to prepare the new MDP. Throughout engagement different objectives have supported gaining important feedback from the region.
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Die Autovía A-73 oder Autovía Burgos–Aguilar de Campoo ist eine Autobahn in Spanien. Die Autobahn soll nach Fertigstellung in Burgos beginnen und in Aguilar de Campoo enden.

Der Abschnitt Quintanilla-Vivar – Quintanaortuño mit 8,5 km Länge wurde 2013 fertiggestellt, der Abschnitt von Burgos – Quintanilla-Vivar mit 1,5 km Länge im Jahr 2015. Im Bau befindet sich der 17,7 km lange Abschnitt von Pedrosa de Valdelucio bis Aguilar de Campoo (Anschluss an die Autovía A-67), der 2020 eröffnet werden soll. Alle weiteren Abschnitte der Autobahn sind in verschiedenen Planungsstadien.

Streckenverlauf

Abschnitte

Streckenführung

Größere Städte an der Autobahn
 Burgos
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Autobahn in Spanien
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Phase IV és una pel·lícula de ciència-ficció de terror del 1974. L'únic llargmetratge dirigit pel dissenyador gràfic i cineasta Saul Bass, està protagonitzat per Michael Murphy, Nigel Davenport i Lynne Frederick.

Els interiors de la pel·lícula es van rodar als Estudis Pinewood a Anglaterra i les ubicacions exteriors es van rodar a Kenya, tot i que la pel·lícula està ambientada al desert d'Arizona als Estats Units. Va ser produït per Alced Productions i Paramount Pictures.

La pel·lícula va ser un fracàs de taquilla, i com a resultat, aquest va ser l'únic llargmetratge dirigit per Bass. Des de llavors, ha guanyat un seguit de culte, a causa de les emissions de televisió que van començar el 1975 i també es va mostrar a Mystery Science Theatre 3000 durant l'era KTMA.

La pel·lícula es va inspirar en la narració curta de  H. G. Wells  "Empire of the Ants" del 1905. Una novel·lització del guió, escrita per Barry N. Malzberg, es va publicar com a  Phase IV el novembre de 1973.

Argument
Després d'un esdeveniment còsmic espectacular i misteriós, les formigues de diferents espècies experimenten una ràpida evolució, desenvolupen una  ment rusc entre espècies i construeixen set estranyes torres amb dissenys geomètricament perfectes al desert d'Arizona. Llevat d'una família, la població humana local fuig de l'acció estranya de les formigues. Els científics James R. Lesko i Ernest D. Hubbs van instal·lar un laboratori informatitzat en una cúpula segellada situada en una zona d'activitat important de formigues a Arizona. La colònia de formigues i l'equip científic es barallen, encara que les formigues són els agressors més efectius.

La narració fa servir l'equip científic com a protagonistes principals, però també hi ha protagonistes formigues que fan les seves funcions a la colònia. Les formigues s'immuneixen a les armes químiques dels humans i aviat s'infiltren al seu laboratori. Equips de formigues penetren els ordinadors del laboratori i els escurcen. Després que Lesko descodifica un missatge de formigues, Kendra Eldridge (una jove que s'ha refugiat amb els científics), es convenç que les seves accions han enfurismat les formigues. Buscant salvar els dos científics, abandona el laboratori i aparentment se sacrifica.

Hubbs i Lesko comencen a tenir plans diferents per fer front a les formigues. Mentre Lesko creu que pot comunicar-se amb les formigues mitjançant missatges escrits en matemàtiques, Hubbs planeja eliminar un turó que creu que és el rusc central de les formigues. Delirant per una picada de formiga verinosa, Hubbs amb prou feines pot posar-se les botes, però està decidit a atacar el rusc i matar la reina de les formigues. En canvi, Hubbs cau literalment en una trampa: un pou profund que les formigues omplen de terra. Incapaç de salvar Hubbs i convençut que les formigues aviat es traslladaran a zones desèrtiques on el seu creixement superarà la capacitat de l'home per controlar-les, Lesko decideix seguir el pla de Hubbs. Se'n va cap al rusc amb un recipient d'insecticida. Baixant al rusc, en Lesko busca la reina, però en lloc d'això troba la Kendra que s'estén des de sota la sorra. Els dos s'abracen i en Lesko s'adona que, lluny de destruir la raça humana, el pla de les formigues és adaptar la raça humana i fer-les part del món de les formigues. En una veu en off, Lesko afirma que ell i la Kendra no saben quins plans tenen les formigues, però estan esperant instruccions.

Repartiment
 Nigel Davenport - Dr. Ernest D. Hubbs
 Michael Murphy - James R. Lesko
 Lynne Frederick - Kendra Eldridge
 Alan Gifford - Mr. Eldridge
 Robert Henderson - Clete
 Helen Horton - Mildred Eldridge
 David Healy - anunciant a la ràdiu (veu, sense acreditar)

Producció
Ken Middleham, el fotògraf de vida salvatge que va filmar les seqüències d'insectes de la Phase IV, també va rodar les seqüències d'insectes del documental The Hellstrom Chronicle. Tots dos fan un ús extensiu de la fotografia de primer pla d'insectes.. Els ordinadors utilitzats per Lesko no eren jocs de llums intermitents, sinó ordinadors de la vida real, com el GEC 2050.

La idea de Phase IV sembla que va sorgir amb un còctel l'any 1971, quan Peter Part a Paramount va sopar amb Raul Radin i li va preguntar què s'estava cuinant. Radin va respondre a una història de formigues, encara que en realitat no tenia res. Posteriorment, Radin va trucar en Bass, que tenia un amic que treballava amb formigues i ràpidament van acceptar treballar junts.  Durant la producció, Saul Bass es va preocupar per la figura de Lynne Frederick, de 20 anys, ja que interpretava a una jove de 16 anys. Es va veure obligada a portar una cotilla de ferro especialment dissenyada i dolorosa per lligar-se els pits (per fer-la semblar més jove) durant tota la producció. Bass també va intentar persuadir a Frederick de restringir la seva dieta a brou de pollastre i cafè negre.

Segons el llibre Future Tense, "Bass va filmar originalment un muntatge espectacular i surrealista de quatre minuts de durada, que mostra com seria la vida a la "nova" Terra, però això va ser tallat pel distribuïdor." El muntatge pretenia suggerir que els dos personatges supervivents van ser alterats per la creació de les formigues del següent pas en l'evolució de la humanitat i insectes. Els plans de la seqüència de muntatge original apareixen al tràiler cinematogràfic, que probablement es va preparar abans que es fessin els talls de la pel·lícula.

A principis de 2012, es va trobar una impressió esvaïda de la seqüència final original a la col·lecció Saul Bass de l'Academy Film Archive en una versió prèvia de la pel·lícula, que es va mostrar originalment per provar el públic el 1973. El juny de 2012, aquest fragment es va projectar al públic a Los Angeles a la cinemateca Cinefamily després de la projecció de la versió cinematogràfica.. L'Academy Film Archive va poder trobar els elements originals de la pel·lícula per al muntatge, un conjunt de màsters de separació, als arxius de Paramount Studio. El personal de l'arxiu va recombinar les separacions, les va temporitzar en color per presentar-les i les va escanejar digitalment. Aquest  muntatge final recuperat, juntament amb una nova impressió de 35 mm de la versió per sales, es va estrenar a l'Alamo Drafthouse a Austin, Texas, com a part d'un dia sencer de pel·lícules de Saul Bass el desembre de 2012, abans de ser projectades en cinemes selectes d'arthouse d'altres ciutats.

La novel·lització del guió de Mayo Simon, escrita per Barry N. Malzberg, dóna una pista de la versió final de Bass, ja que utilitza la versió sense tallar del guió de Simon.

Vídeo domèstic
La pel·lícula va ser estrenada en VHS per Paramount Pictures, l'estudi que va fer la pel·lícula. Legend Films va llançar un DVD el 2008 i un DVD i un Blu-ray Olive Films el 2015. Tots aquests llançaments són versions senzilles i no inclouen cap característica especial, com ara el tràiler cinematogràfic original o les escenes retallades de la versió original de la pel·lícula.

El final alternatiu de la pel·lícula durant molt de temps va romandre fora de distribució fins que va ser descobert i restaurat per l'Acadèmia de les Arts i les Ciències Cinematogràfiques. Arxiu de pel·lícules. Ja està disponible a iTunes Extras per celebrar el 45è aniversari de la pel·lícula. El 2020, el segell de vídeo del Regne Unit 101 Films va llançar Phase IV en un conjunt Blu-ray d'edició limitada de dos discos que inclou el final original restaurat com a extra, juntament amb diversos curtmetratges dirigits per Bass.

Banda sonora
Brian Gascoigne va ser el compositor en cap i Stomu Yamashta va ser el responsable de la música de la seqüència de muntatge final, que va ser tallada de l'estrena al cinema. David Vorhaus i Desmond Briscoe van compondre la música electrònica. Waxwork Records va llançar la banda sonora en vinil el març de 2015. No inclou la música del muntatge de la seqüència final tallada per Stomu Yamashta. Va ser el primer llançament de la banda sonora en qualsevol format.

Recepció
A la seva estrena inicial a les sales, la pel·lícula va tenir crítiques diverses. En una ressenya generalment positiva, Jay Cocks de Time va veure la pel·lícula com "un entreteniment bo i inquietant, amb interludis d'una intensitat visual tan embruixada que esdevé, en el seu millor moment, un malson encarnat". En una ressenya negativa, Variety va escriure que aquesta pel·lícula de monstres ecològica "no va resoldre els errors abans del llançament".  Time Out London va escriure que el els efectes especials tenien prioritat sobre les idees.  A. H. Weiler de The New York Times va escriure, Per totes les seves bones intencions, científiques i humanes, 'Phase IV' crida per a una Phase V d'explicacions més completes."

El lloc web d'agregació de ressenyes Rotten Tomatoes va donar a la pel·lícula un 53% basant-se en 19 crítiques amb una puntuació mitjana de 5,7/10.  Ignatiy Vishnevetsky de The A.V. Club la va descriure com a "dissenyada més que dirigida i editada al voltant dels principis de color i línia, més que al voltant del rendiment o la trama".  Bill Gibron de PopMatters, la va puntuar amb 7/10 estrelles i va escriure que "per a cada moment de perforació manida hi ha un abast atractiu millorat per les meravelles visuals de la pel·lícula".  David Cornelius de DVD Talk la va puntuar amb 4,5/5 estrelles i va escriure: "Mireu-ho a última hora de la nit amb els llums apagats i us deixarà esglaïats".

Phase IV va guanyar el Grand Prix Award de 1975 al Festival Internacional de Pel·lícules de Ciència Ficció de Trieste, Itàlia. Amb el pas del temps, la pel·lícula ha guanyat seguiment de culte.

Llegat
Aquesta és la primera pel·lícula que representa un agroglif geomètric, en aquest cas, creat per formigues superintel·ligents. La pel·lícula és anterior a dos anys dels primers informes moderns dels agroglifs al Regne Unit i s'ha citat com una possible inspiració o influència en els bromistes que van iniciar aquest fenomen.

La pel·lícula ha tingut una influència significativa en una generació recent de directors de cinema de ciència-ficció i altres artistes de mitjans visuals. En una entrevista, el director argentí Nicolas Goldbart va descriure que Phase IV va tenir una profunda influència cinematogràfica en ell. En la seva pel·lícula de ciència-ficció Fase 7, Phase IV es reprodueix en un televisor a l'apartament dels protagonistes. L'escriptor/director Panos Cosmatos va descriure Phase IV com una influència molt significativa en l'aspecte i la sensació de la seva pel·lícula de ciència-ficció Beyond the Black Rainbow.

El vídeo musical de Radical Friend per la cançó de Yeasayer de 2009 "Ambling Alp" és un homenatge a Phase IV i les imatges del vídeo estan inspirades en alguns dels elements visuals de la pel·lícula.

El gener de 1989 Phase IV va aparèixer en un dels primers episodis de Mystery Science Theater 3000.

Referències

Enllaços externs

Pel·lícules del Regne Unit del 1974
Pel·lícules de terror del Regne Unit


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Q: What is IP address on a subnet I'm reading the requirements for a virtualized environment from here which says:

IP Address
- One IP address on a subnet for the host.
- One IP address on a subnet for each VM Guest.

I want to know if a normal home network (router connected to the Internet) would meet this requirement?

A: Sure. Your home router will NAT so all IPs behind it are presented to the internet as coming from your ISP-allocated public IP.
Check the range (normally 192.168.x.y) that your router uses and create static IPs for the hosts on this range. (Not sure if you're using DHCP - I expect you are - in which case you'll want to add these static IPs as exclusions to the DHCP range so it doesn't try and allocate the same IPs to something else.)

A: From the current system find out the IP address. (ifconfig -a in *nix and ipconfig /all on windows).
If your netmask to 255.255.255.0 (default class C mask) and IP address something like 192.168.1.xx, then you would need to decide one IP address in same range (here between 192.168.1.2 or 3 up to 192.168.1.254) for the host. Then each VM guest will need one IP in the same range.

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We had a wonderful workshop this year in Medford. ONCO and 4 Hawk Winery provided a nice evening social for anyone who wanted to go. It was very nice, and a beautiful place to go to unwind. I want to thank all of the people who volunteered and made the workshop a success. We brought in $1,232.00 from the raffle this year.
I have enjoyed working with my fellow Executive Committee members this year. I would encourage everyone to run for an office next year, or volunteer on a committee.
Providence, and the State Associations; Oregon, Washington, and California have been working on getting a Regional together for next year. It will be in Burbank California August 8-10, 2018. (The Regional can replace the NCRA conference. The closest it will come to Oregon is 2019 in Denver Colorado). Keep tuned for more updated information in upcoming Newsletters.
I also wanted to thank our incoming officers who will be our Executive Team in 2018.
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Michelle Galusha from Roseburg will host the 2018 Fall Education Conference. Thank you, Michelle, on behalf of your OCRA friends.


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Q: tableView show content just in one sometimes in two rows I want to implement a simple tableView in my Viewcontroller but the output is not complete. The content is just visible in one sometimes in two rows.
The classic things:

*

*The class use this:
class MealOfWeekView: UIViewController, UITableViewDelegate, UITableViewDataSource  {...}

*I set the delegates
override func viewDidLoad() {
   super.viewDidLoad()
   self.tableViewFood.delegate = self
   self.tableViewFood.dataSource = self
   self.tableViewFood.reloadData()
}

*I use the right identifier:
func tableView(tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
   let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier("foodIdent", forIndexPath: indexPath) as! FoodTableViewCell
   cell.dayLabel?.text = "\(day[indexPath.row])"
   return cell
}

*return 1 section and return 7 rows
=> I use the first time the Tab Bar Controller, in my first tab there is already a tableView. This one works perfect.
The tableView shows as far as I know the days tuesday, saturday or sunday... don't know, whether the info is important :)
EDIT
So with your help I figured out, that my daylabel is nil.
My FoodTableViewCell
class FoodTableViewCell: UITableViewCell {
 @IBOutlet weak var dayLbl: UILabel!
}

I add to my viewDidLoad this line:
self.tableViewFood.registerClass(FoodTableViewCell.self, forCellReuseIdentifier: "foodIdent")

But it doesn't work.
If you need more code, give a sign.
Thank you!
Looks like this:

A: Your issue is with your custom class FoodTableViewCell, but I would verify the following first.

*

*Confirm that the label is being set with the day of the week for the row index. You can do this by setting a breakpoint or printing out statements such as where you create your cells.

print("dayLabel: (cell.dayLabel?.text)")
print("day[indexPath.row]: (day[indexPath.row]")

*Confirm you are registering the FoodTableViewCell with the table view.

*Confirm that your subclass FoodTableViewCell's dayLabel property is  setup correctly. Try changing the background color so you know it is least being displayed in the UI.

*Check that your subclass of UITableViewCell is overriding and setting up the dayLabel for reuse correctly.prepareForReuse()
Background information for working with table views

A: SOLUTION
I found my answer here
When you use Tab Bar Controller you have to use viewDidAppear or viewWillAppear
this lines worked for me:
override func viewWillAppear(animated: Bool) {
    self.tableViewFood.delegate = self
    self.tableViewFood.dataSource = self

    dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), {
        self.tableViewFood.reloadData()
    })

}


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California graduate students on wildcat strike
By Evelyn Rios
Beginning Monday, a group of graduate students at the University of California, Santa Cruz began a wildcat strike demanding a cost-of-living wage increase. The graduate students are demanding an end to their precarious financial situation, which many students report results in regularly skipping meals, spending some 50-80 percent of their income on housing in one of the most expensive rental markets in the US, and overall heightened stress levels in struggling to meet basic needs.
The group of UC Santa Cruz graduate students is striking in defiance of their union, the United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2865, and have announced that they plan to withhold students' grades until they are given a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) raise of $1,421 per month. The strike coincides with the end of the fall quarter, with students' grades due on Wednesday, December 18.
The UAW is hostile to any genuine struggle by graduate students and has distanced itself from the strike and not made comments to media agencies. UAW officials are no doubt working behind the scenes with university officials to shut down the strike as soon as possible. Striking students have lashed out at the UAW on social media for presenting them with "a contract that didn't serve us and ignored the fact that 85% of UCSC students voted to reject the contract and strike then!"
Striking UCSC grad workers and supporters (Credit: Twitter @bananaslums)
All UC unions, including the UAW, have negotiated a "no strike" clause for the duration of contracts, and verbiage that if a strike is planned the UC administration must have 10 days' notice, giving it ample time to hire scab labor and lessen the impact.
The clash between the UCSC grad students and the UAW should serve as a warning to 4,500 striking Harvard grad students, who are members of the Harvard Graduate Student Union–United Automobile Workers. The UAW has isolated the two-week strike while promoting Democratic politicians whose party has waged a war against educators no less viciously than the Republicans.
Grad students must be prepared to defy back-to-work orders by the UAW and expand their independent initiative through setting of rank-and-file strike committees to extend the struggle to all university workers and reach out to teachers and other sections of the working class for support.
Running their strike primarily via social media and Twitter, the UCSC grad students announced that they are demanding "A COLA for every graduate student, regardless of residence, visa, documentation, employment or funding status, to bring us: 1. Out of rent burden; and 2. To parity with grad students at UC Riverside. At current rates, this amounts to $1,412 a month."
Graduate students across institutions of higher learning face burdensome workloads, teach a large part of the university's curricula, and perform the vast majority of grading for professors. For many students, their compensation for this work goes to covering tuition costs, while many are forced to take numerous additional jobs to meet basic needs.
The decision to engage in wildcat action Monday came after nearly three months of negative and unfruitful interactions with the UC Santa Cruz administration.
The students outline on their Twitter that "as early as September 2019, organizers as part of the [Graduate Student Association] GSA, UAW 2865, and from across campus have been calling for a Cost of Living Adjustment. The demand has been presented to UCSC administration without equivocations."
A demonstration was called on November 7 when 200 students marched to Kerr Hall to deliver their verbal and written demands to Chancellor Cynthia Larive and Campus Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Lori Kletzer.
The next week, on November 12, nearly 80 students met to strategize. Following the meeting, a graduate student sent an email to Chancellor Larive and Executive Vice Chancellor Kletzer urging the administration to meet their demands. The striking graduate students noted that Kletzer responded with intimidation and charged that the actions of students were in violation of the student conduct handbook.
All graduate students were copied on the email exchanges, which "flooded the inboxes of administrators and fellow students. It was in these mass email exchanges that calls for a strike began," according to their social media. The same evening six out of seven elected UAW graduate student representatives resigned from their positions to support the more militant action.
Within the next two days, the students circulated a straw poll on a decision to strike. The overwhelming response was in support to "strike NOW" and within 24 hours, a Strike Assembly was convened with "over 250 students attending (in person and via zoom) who in turn also voted to strike NOW and withhold grades."
Since Monday, the students have taken up residence in the McHenry Library where they have received an overwhelming amount of support from undergraduate students, who the University is seeking to pit against them. There is widespread support for the UC Santa Cruz graduate students, with messages of solidarity flooding into their pages from undergraduates on campus to graduate students and staff at other universities from striking grad students at Harvard to the University of Reading, in London, UK.
Tuesday morning the UCSC administration sent a note to undergraduates insinuating that the grade strike was an imposition to the academic progress of the undergraduates and threatens their focusing on studying and finals.
Striking graduate students invited administrators to meet with them Tuesday afternoon, but were refused in an email from Quentin Williams, Acting Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies, who responded that the administration is refusing to meet with students. "While you are under contract," he said, "we are unable to negotiate the terms and conditions of our employment with you. We will not meet with you during an illegal work stoppage, but will be willing to meet with you after the work disruption is over..."
UC graduate students must fight to link up with other UC workers, temporary, and subcontract workers who face the same conditions to prevent the isolation of their strike. Their wildcat action comes less than one month since 25,000 AFSCME workers were called to engage in their sixth 24-hour stunt strike. AFSCME is working overtime with UC to wear down workers and prepare them for a concessionary contract.
The conditions facing Santa Cruz graduate students are the same for millions of other workers throughout the state. A report by USA Today in June of this year found that Santa Cruz ranked as the least affordable city in the country, followed by San Jose, San Francisco, Honolulu and Santa Rosa. The report noted that a teacher making $63,000 would have to spend two-thirds of their salary to afford the median rent in the city.
The giant UC system reported global assets of at least $109.8 billion. Additionally, it is the largest public institution of higher learning in the world, comprised of ten campuses, five medical centers, 16 health professional schools, three national laboratories and numerous satellite facilities.
UC actively works with the unions to balkanize the workforce by bargaining with at least 15 different unions to keep the workers from organizing and linking their similar struggles for a living wage, health and retirement benefits, and safe staffing levels for both patients and workers.
Conditions within the entire UC system are overripe for a mass strike to unite the largest nongovernmental workforce across the state including administrative staff, nurses, graduate and undergraduate students, food service dining and housekeeping staff.
A 2016 study by Occidental College found that 70 percent of all UC clerical and administrative employees face food insecurity, with 45 percent reporting "very low food security" stating that they often skip meals and go without food because they cannot afford it.
Among UC students, 42 percent report food insecurity, and within that 23 percent report at "very low" levels. Five percent of UC students reported in surveys that they experienced homelessness, and among students without the support of family or parents—the number is twice that, ten percent.
As the WSWS has stressed, the selection of Janet Napolitano, the former secretary of homeland Sscurity under President Barack Obama, as President of the UC system is part of preparation by the financial oligarchy in anticipation of upheavals among workers and students.
UC graduate students must be warned that they face a brutal enemy in the UC Regents, which is bound to the highest levels of the Democratic Party ruling elite. Only rank-and-file committees—organizations that are independent of the unions and democratically controlled and elected by workers—can break through the isolation imposed by UC Regents and the trade unions.
The 11,746 graduate students (UAW) throughout the UC System must link up with 25,000 housekeeping, janitorial, and food service staff (AFSCME), with the 11,363 clerical employees (Teamsters), with the 4,961 research support professionals (UPTE), with the 353 librarians (AFT), and with 14,599 registered nurses (CNA).
In order to realize their power, workers must begin organizing together and discuss the formation of rank-and-file workplace committees with their coworkers to break through the isolation of each section of workers by the unions and expand their struggles.
Youth and the Social Crisis
US students and youth speak out against the threat of war with Iran
Homeless in San Diego, "America's Finest City"
UC Santa Cruz graduate students wildcat strike enters critical phase
Report highlights social crisis confronting Australian youth on welfare
Drastic cuts to Rochester, New York schools
New UAW Ford director part of union's narrow inner circle
Snowplow operators in northeastern Minnesota begin strike over benefits
Delta workers poisoned by toxic work uniforms file class action lawsuit
Mass abstention as union pushes through New York City transit contract
The Defense of Public Education
An Open Letter to fellow Educators: Take a stand with Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning
Thousands of Florida educators rally to demand increase in pay and school spending
Rank-and-file teachers in San Diego County initiate fight against layoffs and school cuts
Widespread opposition among South Australian teachers to union-government sell-out agreement
San Diego teachers notified of looming pink slips and layoffs
Oakland, California: With guns drawn, police evict homeless mothers from house
With support from Governor Newsom, California utility PG&E finalizes settlement with fire victims
Education in the US
Boston area professor fired after anti-Trump Facebook posting
Florida teachers to rally January 13 against attacks on public education


The boy in the high castle.
A world, broken at the hands of technological progress, decays in silence and darkness. Cowed and enslaved people shuffle mindlessly through the streets. Overseers dressed in masks and black clothes stand at the corners, waiting for one of the slaves to fall out of line, watching the soulless masses as they are forced to jump and dance. A featureless boy in the midst of it all walks through this dystopia wearing a red shirt, one of the only touches of color in this oppressive world.
This is Inside, the second game from Limbo developer Playdead. Like Limbo, the gameplay is simple: you have to walk, jump, and grab objects in order to solve puzzles and overcome obstacles. Ultimately, however, the game is about your journey through a tyrannical, unknowable, and apocalyptic world. Over the course of a few hours, you descend ever deeper into the heart of a malicious and immense construct that threatens to suffocate agency and humanity.
Limbo followed a character moving through a strange and primitive land. Death came easily to the character, but it rarely felt like murder. Inside, on the other hand, exudes violence, cruelty, and artifice. The game highlights the old and shattered parts of a society that you discover has been dragged into a hell of human experimentation.
As you progress through Inside, you experience stretches of quiet and calm punctuated by flashes of complete absurdity. The game encourages you to relish these often shocking or brutal twists, which incite feelings of revulsion and confusion. They make you want to know more.
These moments remain vivid in my memory even a few days after completing the game. A mindless horde of figures followed me off a cliff only to slam into the ground, creating a squelchy pile of flesh. A wispy, feminine creature tenaciously stalked me through underwater regions. I led my character to many deaths that were immediate and gruesome. I loved the game most during its quiet lulls when the oppressive feeling of the world was most apparent, but the in-your-face moments showed a different and darkly comedic side of Inside. I sometimes couldn't help but laugh at the sheer ridiculousness of what it threw at me.
Solving puzzles can be as simple as moving a box up to the base of a high ledge in order to jump up to the top, or as complex as synchronizing multiple automatons to flip switches, lift objects, and move carts so that you can open a door. Some early puzzles rely more on cautious movement than logic as you attempt to avoid murder or abduction at the hands of masked figures. Later puzzles, on the other hand, require more patience and thought. Some make you open sequences of doors to move objects through a room, while others require delicately timed jumps or switches to complete.
There comes a time when Inside leans too heavily on its puzzles to keep you engaged. In these moments, I felt that my driving motivation had shifted from exploring the world to simply flipping the right switch. It's a problem that plagued Limbo, and Inside nearly falls into a similar trap in its middle act when it takes you deep underground. You must complete the game's most time-consuming puzzles during its most narrative-light sections, and the suspense that the game worked so hard to build nearly falls apart.
Fortunately, this issue evaporates as the game enters its final act, when the world and puzzles again form a cohesive bond. Inside is at its best when it doesn't feel like you're doing puzzles at all, but rather avoiding obstacles and finding paths through a dangerous space. As Inside nears its conclusion, the puzzles strengthen the sense of exploration that defines the rest of the game.
Much of Inside's success in storytelling comes from its visual design. The game is gorgeous, with a simple but evocative art style defined by muted colors and featureless figures. Gone are the indistinct backgrounds of Limbo; Inside's environments are richly detailed and full of motion and secrets. For example, you might find smoke still wisping from a candle in a recently abandoned room, a truck full of automatons departing right as you enter a new screen, viewing platforms used to watch slaves dance, or the massive shadowy shapes of the compound's machinery looming far off in the background.
Inside's use of sound and music is occasionally breathtaking. You never hear voices, but each setting has its own unique noises. As I moved through a forest, pine trees rustled, rocks clacked against each other, and leaves crunched under my feet. In the compound, a pulsing, rhythmic noise accompanied my journey, a constant and unsettling reminder of the world's heartlessness. Music is used sparingly, but when it swells, even minor events like exiting a building became points fixed in my memory.
All of it--the setting, the sound, the beautiful art--builds to the discovery of the secret of this compound, but what I found at the end almost ruined the entire experience. Subtlety was thrown out the window and I was left reeling, unable to process the turn. The oppressive, quiet, slow-moving, and mysterious story that dominated most of the game changed in a flash of complete absurdity. I didn't know whether to laugh or yell in horror as Inside twisted in on itself. When the credits began to crawl, I sat in silence for a few minutes, unable to decide what to make of it.
But as time passed, those final moments grew on me. I still find the ending somewhat odd, but upon playing through Inside a second time, I found endearing elements that fit with the overall story more effectively than I first thought. The ending is self-aware in a way that is simultaneously overwrought and humorous, poking fun at itself and at Limbo. It's also cathartic, releasing all of the tension that built over the rest of Inside in one scene.
This is a beautiful, haunting, and memorable game, a worthy follow-up to Limbo. Its puzzles, although rarely difficult, are engaging complements to the story. The real achievement of this game, though, is the way that it crafts its narrative: detailed environments convey the bizarre world that you travel through; introspective moments are filled with minimalist sound design and just the barest touches of music; and the things you must do to complete your journey force you to confront the realities of humanity, freedom, and existence. The puzzles might not bring you back to play it again, but the opportunity to learn more about the world alone is enough motivation to return to Inside's dystopia.
Alex Newhouse is a big fan of dystopian and post-apocalyptic fiction, and Inside's a great entry in the genre. He completed the game twice on Xbox One for this review with a copy provided by the developer.


Two controversial authors debate the nature and methods of science, its dogmas, and its future. Rupert Sheldrake argues that science needs to free itself from materialist dogma while Michael Shermer contends that science, properly conceived, is a materialistic enterprise; for science to look beyond materialist explanations is to betray science and engage in superstition. Issues discussed include: materialism and its role in science, whether belief in God is compatible with a scientific perspective, and parapsychology. Michael Shermer is Editor-in-Chief of Skeptic magazine and the author of numerous books including Skeptic.Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and author of ten books including his most recent, Science Set Free, which challenges scientific dogma.
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Foot and mouth disease is a disease of primary economic importance both as a direct consequence of its effects on agricultural productivity and for its indirect influence on the wider economy. This 4-year project investigated how choices made during an epidemic and the post epidemic exit-phase impact on the economic consequences of the disease. The work used techniques from epidemiology, economics, and simulation modelling.
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March 6 Book Swap at 6:30-7:30 p.m.
March 14 STEAM Night at 6:30 p.m.
March 16 Spring Fling 6:30-10:30 p.m.
Another great week for our students. I spent time in Kindergarten this week and was very impressed with student writing. We enjoyed our curriculum coffee in that grade as well and the children loved sharing their reading with parents. We are all looking forward to another fine production tonight as our Pee Wee stars take the NSS stage!
Erin Lopez & Kelly McWhinnie for all their hard work on Drama Performance "Everyone Gets Eaten by Sharks". WHAT A WONDERFUL SHOW!!
It's time to order your NSS Yearbook for 2018-2019! Don't miss out on this great memory for your student! We are only fulfilling pre-orders this year. Follow the link and you can order online OR through backpack mail using the form.
Yearbook sales are open through February 16th.
Start saving books your kids are done reading! The NSS PTA will be hosting our fourth annual Book Swap on Wednesday, March 6th from 6:30-7:30 in the APR! Books will be collected on Monday 3/4, Tuesday 3/5 and Wednesday 3/6 in the classrooms. One book donated earns a "new" book at the Book Swap.
See the attached flyer for further details!
Calling all North Stratfield Girls! Girl Scout Troop #33221 invites you along with an influential adult to the annual Sweetheart Dance on Friday, March 8th from 6:30-8:30 in the NSS APR. Bring your dancing shoes, along with donations of crayons and small containers of play-doh for the benefit of children in local hospitals in collaboration with Brady's Smile.
It's time to break out your bowling shoes! Mother & Son Bowling Night is back! Show off your skills and play with (or against) each other! Flyers will be coming home soon in backpack mail, or you can print the attached. This event sold out quickly last year as Nutmeg Bowl only allows 6 bowlers per lane. A week before the event, we'll send out a link to everyone who's registered and paid to pick those lucky lanes! And of course, if Mom can't make it, bring an aunt, grandma, or another special bowler! It's going to be a blast!
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See flyer here for all the details!
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Matt Turk, a soulful combination of teacher, worship leader and mensch, will co-lead the service with Rabbi Cooper.
*This will be the only Shabbat service offered Saturday morning.