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Weighted Student Funding Is On The Rise. Here's What We Are Learning.
May 9, 2019 Blog Editor NCER
Weighted student funding (WSF) is a funding method that aims to allocate funding based on individual student needs. While large districts are increasingly using WSF systems, little research exists to assess their effectiveness. In this guest blog, Dr. Marguerite Roza, Georgetown University, discusses her team's ongoing IES-funded research study that seeks to document and understand WSF designs and features as implemented in the field, and to gauge the extent to which WSF designs are associated with reducing achievement gaps. The study's initial findings chart the WSF landscape across 19 U.S. school districts that used WSF in 2017-18.
Over the last two decades, dozens of big districts (including those in New York City, Boston, Denver, Houston, and Chicago) have shifted to using a weighted student formula to distribute some portion of their total budget. Instead of distributing resources via uniform staffing formulas, these districts use a student-based formula to allocate some fixed sum of dollars to schools for each student based on need (for example, allocations are typically higher for students with disabilities and students with limited English proficiency). The 2015 Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) authorized a WSF pilot, allowing up to 50 districts to incorporate key federal program dollars into a district's formula.
As WSF systems now serve millions of K–12 students—and the number of WSF districts continues to grow—our research begins to document the range of these WSF formulas and gather details around how they are being implemented in school systems around the nation.
Why do districts adopt WSF?
Our study of school board and budget documentation indicates that nearly all districts identify equity (89%) and flexibility for school principals (79%) as a key rationale, with nearly half also citing a goal of transparency (49%). Interestingly, not one of the 19 districts cite "choice" (whereby families choose their school) as a driving factor in the rationale for using WSF even though much of the literature links choice and WSF. Despite the goal of transparency, only a third of the districts actually post their formulas online (like this posting from Houston ISD)—a finding that surprised us and them. In fact, after we shared the finding with our study districts, several updated their online budget materials to include their formulas. Whether districts are meeting their goals of equity and flexibility will be more fully investigated in Phase 2 of the project.
Is there a typical WSF model that districts are using?
No. We find that there is no standard WSF: Each district has developed a home-grown formula and differences are substantial. On one end of the spectrum, Prince George's County deploys only 20% of its total budget via its WSF, while Orleans Parish deploys 89%. Most districts deploy some 30-50% of their annual funds via their WSF formula, indicating that they are adopting a hybrid approach. They deploy the rest of their funds via staff allocations, program allocations, or in whatever ways they did before moving to WSF.
Districts define their "base" allocations differently, and no two districts use the same student weights. Most commonly, districts use grade level as a student weight category, but they do not agree on which level of schooling warranted the highest weight. Seven districts give their highest grade-level weight to elementary grades, four give it to middle school grades, and four give the highest weight to high schoolers.
Two thirds of districts use weights for students identified as English Language Learners (ELL) and as having disabilities, while half use weights for poverty. Even the size of the weights differs, with ELL weights ranging from 10% to 70%. Several districts use tiered weights.
We also found a range of unique weights designed within the districts for categories of locally identified need (for example, Boston uses a weight for students with interrupted formal learning, and Houston uses a weight for students who are refugees).
What other trends exist in districts implementing WSF?
We found that non-formula features and exemptions reflect local context. Small school subsidies, magnet allocations, and foundation amounts are common examples of non-formula features that several districts use. Some districts exempt some schools from the formula, grant weights for school types (vs student types), or fund selected staffing positions outside the formula. Districts seem to be layering their WSF formulas on top of long-standing allocations, like subsidies for small schools. Clearly, it is difficult for most districts to deploy a strict formula, and these exemptions or adjustments have the effect of mitigating the formula's effects on some schools.
We also found that nearly all districts continue to use average salaries in their budgeting, likely limiting their goals for equity. In this practice, schools are charged for their teaching staff based on district-wide average salaries, not the actual salaries of teachers in the building. Districts in Boston and Denver have experimented with the use of real salaries for a subset of their schools (allowing for roughly one-third of their schools to budget and account for spending based on actual salaries). Both the formula exceptions and this continued reliance on average salaries may be limiting the extent to which WSF is making progress on equity. Analysis in Phase 2 of the project will quantify the effects of these formula adjustments on spending.
What kinds of budget flexibilities do principals have?
With WSF, districts give principals flexibility in staffing, stipends, and contracts, but not base compensation. In virtually all WSF districts, principals had at least some flexibility in choosing the number and type of staff in their buildings and in awarding stipends. Interestingly, most principals had power to issue contracts with their funds, and half could carry over funds from one year to the next. Despite these flexibilities, base teacher compensation is generally off limits for principals and continues to be controlled centrally.
How difficult is it for districts to design and implement their own versions of WSF?
Changing district allocations is hard work. At each point in our study, we find districts building "homegrown" approaches to WSF that reflect their own spending history and local context. We could see this as a practical transition of sorts between old and new allocation strategies, where district leaders straddle both the desires to change allocations and the pressures to keep allocations the way they are.
What are the next steps in this research?
Future analysis in this project will explore the degree to which WSF is delivering on the goal of increasing equity and outcomes for poor and at-risk students. However, the homegrown nature of WSF makes it tough to generalize about the WSF model or its effects. Undoubtedly, the variation poses problems for research. Clearly there's no way to analyze WSF as a single model. Also challenging is that districts use different definitions (even on formula items such as the "base" and what constitutes a student weight). Perhaps this is unsurprising as there is no common training on the WSF model, and no prevailing terminology or budgeting procedures for district leaders to use in their work.
We see our study as a first step in a broader research agenda that will explore the scope and range of implementation of WSF in U.S. school districts and offer deeper analysis of the extent to which WSF is helping systems meet commonly cited goals of greater equity, flexibility and transparency. Meantime, we hope WSF systems and those considering shifting to WSF will be able to learn from this work and what peer systems are doing, perhaps with the ultimate effect of creating a common vocabulary for this financial model.
Career Technical Education is Growing; Research Must Follow
February 3, 2016 Blog Editor NCER
By Corinne Alfeld, Program Officer, NCER
February is Career Technical Education (CTE) month and there is certainly cause to celebrate for those who value CTE. After years of being marginalized in K-12 education and education research, CTE programs and offerings are growing across the country.
Once known as "vocational-technical education," CTE has undergone a transformation in the last decade that keeps pace with changes in workforce. High schools now offer elective CTE courses such as agricultural science, business entrepreneurship, computer graphic design, culinary arts, communications, health care, and mechatronics. High school CTE courses have the ability to provide a context for students to explore possible careers, test their interests and abilities, apply academic knowledge and skills to real-world problems in a more project-based, hands-on way, and learn a useful skill. In other words, CTE can answer the question that many students ask: Why do I need to learn this?
Due in part to employer interest and involvement, CTE has become more of a focus for policymakers and education leaders as a way to ensure students are "college and career ready" when they graduate from high school. In 2015, the Association for Career and Technical Education documented 150 new and revised CTE laws or policies across 46 states. CTE programs are undergoing transformation with newfound vitality and momentum, with new delivery models, such as career academies, in which the entire curriculum is focused on one career area; programs of study that link high school and college courses with workplace experience; and regional CTE centers, which contain specialized equipment shared by multiple schools or districts and focus solely on CTE.
This means that CTE learning opportunities for students may range from a single introductory course in a traditional high school setting to a highly coordinated curricular experience of classroom- and work-based learning, culminating in a capstone project.
As CTE becomes a larger part of the current education landscape, policymakers and practitioners need better evidence to guide their decision-making, especially given limited resources. For example, more research is needed on the following:
The relationships between specific career-focused school, program, or curricular features and student education outcomes;
Longitudinal pathways and outcomes for students enrolled in K-12 CTE programs (e.g., postsecondary education and employment);
Development of effective career-oriented programs or policies designed to support students' career readiness outcomes;
Rigorous evaluation of existing career-focused schools or programs, including career technical programs of study, career academies, and other K-12 CTE delivery models;
Rigorous evaluation of state or district policies or reforms to support career technical education at the K-12 level, including the awarding of vocational diplomas, the use of career readiness measures, career academy models, awarding academic credit for CTE courses, and CTE teacher certification requirements; and
Development or improvement of measures of technical, occupational, and career readiness skills.
There are certainly challenges in studying CTE. In addition to the wide variety of CTE courses being offered, the range and quality of instructional CTE offerings can vary within and across schools.
Researchers must struggle with questions, such as what is the treatment? How does one account for self-selection bias? Who are the counterfactuals? What are reliable and valid (and meaningful) outcome measures? How soon can effects be seen? As CTE expands in our K-12 education system, the field is in need of creativity and perseverance from researchers to overcome these challenges and build a robust body of both descriptive and causal evidence on which education leaders and policymakers can make decisions.
If you have ideas for CTE research projects, NCER would love to hear from you. Please contact Research Scientist Dr. Corinne Alfeld (corinne.alfeld@ed.gov or 202-245-8203) to share your thoughts or ideas.
The Month(s) in Review: September and October 2015
November 2, 2015 Blog Editor General, NCER, NCSER
By Liz Albro, NCER Associate Commissioner of Teaching and Learning
New Evaluation of State Education Programs and Policies Awards Announced
Congratulations to the recipients of our Evaluation of State Education Programs and Policies awards. These projects examine a range of topics: low-performing schools, college- and career-readiness standards, and teacher effectiveness and evaluation.
Building Strength in Numbers: Friends of IES Briefings
The Friends of IES, a coalition of research organizations working to raise the visibility of IES-funded studies, asked three IES funded researchers to participate in briefings for Department of Education leadership and for the public on Capitol Hill. Sharing findings from their IES-funded studies, the researchers highlighted how providing high quality mathematics instruction to children as young as three-years-old, and providing systematic and sustained opportunities for those children to learn more mathematics in subsequent instructional years, can substantially narrow achievement gaps at the end of preschool and how those gains can persist over time. What to know more? Read our earlier blog post or the AERA news story for additional details.
Congratulations to Patricia Snyder on receiving the 2015 DEC Award for Mentoring
Congratulations to Patricia Snyder, recipient of the 2015 Division for Early Childhood (DEC) Award for Mentoring. DEC, a division of the Council for Exceptional Children, awards this honor to a member who has provided significant training and guidance to students and new practitioners in the field of early childhood special education. Snyder is a professor of special education and early childhood studies and the David Lawrence Jr. Endowed Chair in Early Childhood Studies at the University of Florida. She is also the Principal Investigator (PI) and Training Program Director for a NCSER-funded postdoctoral training grant, Postdoctoral Research Training Fellowships in Early Intervention and Early Learning in Special Education at the University of Florida. She has also served as the PI and co-PI on several other NCSER-funded awards.
Thanks to all of our IES Postdoctoral Fellows: Past, Present and Future!
Did you know that the third week of September was National Postdoc Appreciation Week? While we tweeted our appreciation for the postdocs we support through our NCER and NCSER Postdoctoral Training Programs, we thought you might like to learn a bit more about what some of our postdocs are doing.
Publishing: Postdocs are busy publishing findings from their research. For example, David Braithwaite, a fellow in this Carnegie Mellon postdoctoral training program recently published Effects of Variation and Prior Knowledge on Abstract Concept Learning. Two postdoc fellows, Kimberly Nesbitt and Mary Fuhs, who were trained in this Vanderbilt postdoctoral training program, are co-authors on a recent publication exploring executive function skills and academic achievement in kindergarten. Josh Polanin, another Vanderbilt postdoc, recently published two methodological papers: one on effect sizes, the other on using a meta-analytic technique to assess the relationship between treatment intensity and program effects.
Receiving Research Funding: Previous postdoc fellows who trained at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign have recently been awarded research funding. Erin Reid and her colleagues were recently awarded an NSF DRK-12 grant to adapt and study a teacher professional development (PD) intervention, called Collaborative Math (CM), for use in early childhood programs. Former fellow David Purpura was recently awarded a grant from the Kinley Trust to delineate the role of language in early mathematics performance. Dr. Purpura is also co-PI on a 2015 IES grant, Evaluating the Efficacy of Learning Trajectories in Early Mathematics.
Congratulations and good luck to all of our recently complete postdocs! Sixteen fellows have completed this year with 10 completing in the past two months. These fellows bringing their expertise to the community as full-time faculty, directors of research programs, and research associates at universities, non-profits, government agencies, and other organizations.
What have the Research Centers Funded? Check Out Our New Summary Documents
NCSER has funded research in a variety of topics relevant to special education and early intervention since 2006. Recently, NCSER staff summarized the work on several topics, with more to come in the future.
Research supported by both Centers is also described in our Compendium of Mathematics and Science Research, which was released in October.
Updated IES Research in the News
Curious to know what other IES-funded research projects have gotten media attention? We recently updated our IES Research in the News page, so that's your quickest way to find out!
NCER (116)
NCSER (58)
SBIR (20)
College and Career Ready
developmental education
Early Career Scholars
ECLS
ED Games Expo
Foster Children
highly mobile students
IESfunded
intensive intervention
military-connected students
Month-in-Review
NCER Commissioner
PIAAC
research use
socialemotional
socioemotional
study registration
technical working group
USAJobs
An Example of the Unquantifiable Effect of Research on Practice
IES Celebrates Computer Science Education Week and Prepares for the 2020 ED Games Expo at the Kennedy Center
Measuring Social and Emotional Learning in Schools
IES Honors Dominic Gibson as Outstanding Predoctoral Fellow
What Do State CTE Directors Want to Learn from the Research Community?
Partnering with Researchers Can Help State Leaders Build the Case for CTE
Updates from the CTE Research Network!
Calling All Students to the Mars 2020 "Name the Rover" Contest
IES at the Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies
Building Partnerships to Support Mental Health Needs in Diverse Rural Schools: The National Center for Rural School Mental Health


Back in May Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott signed into law a measure to punish so-called "sanctuary cities," despite pleas from some of the police departments of cities like Austin to halt the bill they said would hinder their ability to fight crime. You know, because enforcing laws tends to 'hinder' the crime-fighting process.
Per Reuters, the Republican-dominated legislature passed the bill on a party-line vote. Among other things, the bill was designed to punish local authorities who refused to abide by requests to cooperate with federal immigration agents. Police officials found to be in violation of the law could face removal from office, fines and up to a year in prison if convicted.
The measure also allowed police to ask people about their immigration status during a lawful detention, even for minor infractions like jaywalking.
The League of United Latin American Citizens challenged the Texas law in May on behalf of the city of El Cenizo, a small and largely Hispanic border town. Several other jurisdictions, including the state's four largest cities—San Antonio, Austin, Houston and Dallas—quickly joined the case.
The ruling temporarily blocks provisions of the law that allow for disciplinary action against law-enforcement officials who don't comply with federal requests to detain illegal immigrants.
It also halts a provision that would prevent municipalities or police agencies from crafting policies that limit cooperation with federal immigration agents and endorsing such policies.
Of course, some law enforcement officials, like "Sanctuary Sally" Hernandez of Travis County (Austin), fought Abbott's legislation from the start and applauded Garcia's decision saying that "local communities are safer and stronger when justice and security are a reality, not for some, but for all."
"The Texas legislature has a reliable history of ignoring the Constitution when writing law, and we're thankful the court blocked SB4 before it could do irreparable damage to our communities," said Terri Burke, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas.
"Because of this ruling, gang members and dangerous criminals, like those who have been released by the Travis County sheriff, will be set free to prey upon our communities," he said.
We apparently missed the part in our Civics 101 class where we discussed police departments and their ability to unilaterally pick and choose which laws they're going to enforce...hopefully someone can explain how that works?


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Hull's £200m power plant nears completion
It's been a project of "passion"
The £200m Energy Works power plant in Cleveland Street, east Hull.
A derelict site next to the River Hull has been totally transformed as a huge £200m power station nears completion.
The Energy Works complex in Cleveland Street is due to start generating electricity next April, despite the numerous hurdles it has had to overcome since building started two years ago.
The largest facility of its type in the UK, it will convert domestic and commercial waste into sufficient energy to power 43,000 homes.
Using a process known as fluidised bed gasification, it is expected to divert around 250,000 tonnes of material from landfill every year.
An aerial view of the Energy Works complex
Richard Burgess, deputy managing director for the Hull-based Spencer Group, said the civil engineering company had overcome a host of hurdles to get the project off the ground. "We are stubborn, we are entrepreneurially-led and we love a challenge," he said.
"We deployed the best resources we have within the business to get this over the line."
Digital Awards 2017 to showcase best in Hull: Nominations open
Mr Burgess described Energy Works as "a project driven by passion", reflecting group executive chairman Charlie Spencer's desire to deliver a significant scheme to benefit his home city.
"We did a lot of work into selection of a technology that was both novel and at the level of readiness that we could raise finance behind," he said.
"Energy Works will be the only power station of its type that is developed by a private developer and funded with the mix of finance that we have in place.
"We have got there when many others have failed. The ability to understand the technology all the way through has been critically important to achieving that.
"One of the challenges is to ensure our environmental impact is minimal. We don't want anything that is in any way harmful to the environment."
Spencer Group chief executive Charlie Spencer with a model of the Energy Works development
Government subsidy, support from private investors and a £20m grant from the European Union's regional development fund has helped finance the scheme. Mr Burgess said: "The ability to glue it all together was very important.
"We have excellent partners – a great contractor on site, a great financial team, a great operations and maintenance provider – and they have stuck with us and helped us through every step of the way."
Renewables growth brings boost for Hull firm Pearson Electrical

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Flashing - Flashing is thin metal material used to finish a roofing job and offer protection in areas where shingles cannot be used. The most common areas of a roof that require flashing are around chimneys, vents, protruding wires and pipes that emerge from the roof.
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Gutters - Gutters are the channels that are installed around the perimeter of a home, at the base of the roof. Gutters are installed to carry rainwater and melted snow safely away from the foundation of the home. Without gutters, a home's foundation would be subjected to persistent damage from falling water.
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Gutter Pitch - The pitch is the angle that the gutter is installed at to insure that water runs down the gutters and into the downspouts. Without a slight pitch to a gutter, the water would simply collect in the gutter and never be moved safely away from the home.
Platform Deck - A platform deck is a single-story deck that sits low to the ground. In most cases, the floor of a platform deck is no higher than 18 inches from ground level. These decks work well in level areas.
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DCAS to investigate formal protection of the Griqua Kranshoek Monument
Posted on September 10, 2014 by Daisy Myburgh
Dr Nomafrench Mbombo
Western Cape Minister of Cultural Affairs And Sport
On Monday, the Minister of Cultural Affairs and Sport, Dr Nomafrench Mbombo and the Mayor of Bitou Municipality, Mr Memory Booysen, met with members of the Griqua community in Plettenberg Bay to discuss issues around the recognition of Heritage Sites in the province.
This meeting was extremely successful with the cultural leaders engaging with me and my department officials extensively.
It was decided that the Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport will investigate how we, under the National Heritage Resources Act of 1999, can protect the Kranshoek Monument which is central to the Griqua Culture. I am committed to ensuring that this site is not only recognised but is to be protected under legislation so that it can be officially registered.
The National Heritage Resources Act makes provision for different types of protection for heritage sites that are applicable to the Kranshoek sites.
Formal protections are applied to sites that have been identified as being conservation worthy and around which a formal process of nomination for protection takes place. If the nomination is successful there should be a formal publication of the protection either in the government or provincial gazette or in a municipality's Spatial Development Plan or zoning scheme.
In order to formally protect a site it first has to be graded. The grading requires that it be assessed either as a grade I, II or III site, equating to being of national (National Heritage Site), provincial (Provincial Heritage Site) or local (register or heritage area) significance.
Regarding the Kranshoek Monument we will request that the Heritage Western Cape Council investigate the possibility of grading it so that it can be given formal protection should this community wish to do so.
As we go through Heritage Month, it is essential that far beyond the festivities, Government plays its role with the different cultural groups, to ensure that places of cultural significance are given the requisite recognition and protection.
The Western Cape Government is committed to doing just this.
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CHRISTMAS IN MY HEART® MEANDERS
"Meander" is the most apt verb I can think of to describe the journey of the last nineteen years. Nothing about it can remotely be classified as being predictable (perhaps the most exciting and frustrating aspect of turning over the navigational role of one's life to God).
If I ever doubted the confusion generated by this meandering, the reactions of those who stop to look at the blur of Christmas-related titles and publishers at book-signing tables would set me straight. Goodness, sometimes I get confused myself just trying to explain all the twists and turns. But let's try anyhow.
Christmas in My Heart
First of all: what I've come to call the "core series." Fortunately, Review and Herald Publishing's commitment to the series was unwavering (for a decade and a half); this provided the stability the series needed in its formative years. Unbeknownst to me, that very first year, I was locked in to what became the series' defining template: old-timey Currier and Ives covers (horizontal rather than vertical format), old-timey woodcut illustrations inside, and old-timey (even when stories are new ones) stories that touch the heart. As time passed, and more and more Christmasaholics bought into completion (keeping their own series complete by buying the new collection every Christmas season), the template became so iconic I couldn't have altered it even had I wanted to do so.
Focus on the Family's involvement began early, and has continued with unbroken commitment ever since. Indeed, well over half the time, the Focus Christmas story of the year has been taken from the pages of Christmas in My Heart®. Most years, the books have been offered as premiums to ministry supporters, as part of seasonal mailouts reaching millions every Christmas.
Because of Focus on the Family's involvement and because the first four books were a GOLD MEDALLION Finalist in 1995, the series rapidly expanded into Evangelical Christianity.
Which led to the seven-year partnership with Doubleday/Random House, beginning in 1996. Their books were re-scrambles (some stories taken at random from each of the first four collections), with old-timey (but not Currier and Ives) covers, woodcut illustrations (but different from those in the core series), vertical format rather than horizontal, and hardback with dust jacket rather than trade paper. With the entry of Doubleday, the series was marketed in chain stores everywhere, thus becoming a staple in the broader secular market.
Concerned that someone else might try to steal the title, Doubleday insisted that we Trademark it (which we did, after considerable legal choreography, effort and money). We renewed that Trademark at the end of five years, and again after ten years. Fortuitously, it turns out, for during the last 24 months, someone (a major player in today's marketplace) moved in on the title. Only the Trademark saved us.
Christmas in My Soul
Doubleday/Random House published four Christmas in My Heart® Treasuries (1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999); at the end of that period, they moved on to a new series title, Christmas in My Soul for their gift books over the next three years (2000, 2001, and 2002), each book a re-scramble of stories taken from the first six books in the core series.
In 1998, Tyndale House co-published with Review and Herald the core edition of Christmas in my Heart® 7 (both publishing house imprints on the title page). In 1999 Tyndale House joined forces with Focus on the Family to publish a vertical trade paper edition of the core series (with different cover and introduction, but otherwise remaining the same content and illustration-wise).
But when Doubleday switched series titles in 2000, Focus on the Family and Tyndale House pounced on the hardback rights to the core series. Those vertical hardbacks with dust jackets were also beautiful works of art, just as Doubleday's were, with old-timey non-Currier and Ives covers; but otherwise, inside, the same stories and illustrations as those used by Review and Herald in the core series. These editions continued to be published through 2006 (Christmas in My Heart® 9 – 15).
The 12 Stories of Christmas
In 2001, RiverOak/David C. Cook published The Twelve Stories of Christmas (the first twelve Christmas stories I wrote personally); for the only time, I also told the story behind the story—how I happened to write each one.
In 2006, storms assailed Christmas in My Heart®. Review and Herald wavered in its commitment to continuing the series, thus opening up the possibility of Focus on the Family/Tyndale House taking over all markets for the core series. Needless to say, Focus on the Family and Tyndale were delighted. But, at the last minute, Review and Herald decided to publish Christmas in My Heart® 16 after all. Result: Tyndale House and Focus on the Family ceased publishing their hardbacks of the core series. But then, even though they were still selling the same number of books as before, Review and Herald decided that Christmas in My Heart® 16 would be a nice number to conclude the series with. Not sharing this perception that the series had reached its terminus, I asked Pacific Press Publishing if they were interested in picking up the series with Christmas in My Heart® 17. The answer, in only hours, was a resounding, "In a heartbeat!" Same format, same Currier and Ives covers, same woodcut illustrations as before—all agreed upon. Thus the series has continued; this year with Christmas in My Heart® 19. The manuscript for Christmas in My Heart® 20 has already been sent in.
In 2007 and 2008, Howard/Simon & Schuster published three beautiful retrospective collections (rescramblings from Christmas in My Heart® 1 – 16): The Best of Christmas in My Heart® 1, Christmas in My Heart® 2, and Candle in the Forest and Other Christmas Stories Children Love.
Christmas in My Heart® 1 was published in Spanish and the first six books were published (rescrambles) in Norwegian.
St. Nicholas: A Closer Look at Christmas
Besides this, I edited Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol and Abby Farwell Brown's Christmas Angel for Focus on the Family/Tyndale House in 1997 and 1999. I partnered with Canon James Rosenthal for our book St. Nicholas: A Closer Look at Christmas for Thomas Nelson in 2005; just off the press is another St. Nicholas book, my Saint Nicholas, part of Thomas Nelson's Christian Encounters biography series.
This incredible story would have been much more difficult without the steadfast support and innovative placement of our collections by my cherished agent and friend, Greg Johnson, president of WordServe Literary Group, Ltd.
A special note: because of editorial differences of opinion (as to specific story-inclusion) in Review and Herald and Focus on the Family/Tyndale House, those who wish to acquire the complete core series of stories—so far—would need to secure the following:
Review and Herald Christmas in My Heart® 1 – 16.
Focus on the Family/Tyndale House Christmas in My Heart® 13 and Christmas in My Heart® 15.
Pacific Press Christmas in My Heart® 17, 18, 19.
So this blog brings all these meanderings up to date. Connie and I have no idea as to how long the series may last—we leave all that up to the good Lord. We take no credit for the first nineteen years of its story: we've only been taking orders from our Commander in Chief. When it is His will that the last Christmas in My Heart® book rolls off the press, then it will be time to write "Finis" to its story.
But not until then.
I'll conclude this blog with a line from one of James Dobson's many personal letters to me, "You're right, Joe: Neither of our ministries belongs to us—but isn't it a great ride?"
That it has been—and continues to be.
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Memorial Register, Germany 4, WW1, Berlin South Western Cemetery, Stahnsdorf, Germany
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CROSSEN PRISONERS OF WAR CEMETERY 3 kilometres East of Crossen on the river Oder in the Province of Brandenburg contained the graves of 66 sailors and soldiers from the United Kingdom one from Australia and one from South Africa all of whom died in 1918. DOBERITZ PRISONERS OF WAR CEMETERY about 19 kilometres West of Berlin in the Province of Brandenburg contained the graves of 38 sailors and soldiers from the United Kingdom who died in 1914-1918. H A SEN H E ID E GARRISON C E METER Yon the South side o f the city of Berlin contained the graves of 369 Russian 125 French and 58 Belgian, American Italian Rumanian Portuguese or Serbian soldiers 63 sailors soldiers and Marines from the United Kingdom and one Indian soldier. H E IL BERGS PRISONERS O F W ARC E METER Yin Ostpreussen (East Prussia) contained the graves of 50 soldiers and one Marine from the United Kingdom who died in 1917 and 1918. Only twelve were brought to Stahnsdorf the remainder are still buried at Heilsberg. KLEIN WITTENBERG OLD CEMETERY 3 kilometres West of Wittenberg in the Prussian province of Saxony contained the graves of 23 soldiers one Marine and eight civilians from the United Kingdom and one soldier from India all of whom died in 1915 the NEW (or PRISONERS OF WAR) CEMETERY those of 71 soldiers and three civilians from the United Kingdom two soldiers from Canada and one from Australia, who died in 19151917 and 1918 and WITTENBERG OLD SMALL CEMETERY those of two soldiers from the United Kingdom who died in 1914 and 1915. The first and third of these cemeteries are associated with the outbreak of typhus at the Wittenberg camp in December 1914. LAMS ROD F PRISONERS O F W ARC E METER Yin Schlesien (Silesia), contained the graves of 81 soldiers from the United Kingdom one from Australia and one from New Zealand who died in 1917-1919. (It was used for French burials in 1870-71). MAGDEBURG MILITARY CEMETERY in Prussian Saxony contained the graves of 24 soldiers and one Marine from the United Kingdom who died in 1915-1918. MERSEBURG TOWN CEMETERY in Prussian Saxony contained the graves of 12 soldiers from the United Kingdom who died in 1914-1917 and the PRISONERS OF WAR CEMETERY those of 33 soldiers from the United Kingdom who died in 1917-1918. OPPELN TOWN CEMETERY in Upper Silesia contained the graves of 41 soldiers from the United Kingdom who died in 1921-22. They belonged to the British force stationed in Upper Silesia during the Plebiscite. Thirty of them who died after the legal termination of the war are still buried at Oppeln.
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Crown Prince of Dubai Will Visit the Gold Coast
Tom Tate, Gold Coast Mayor, has met with the future ruler of Dubai during a trade mission to the United Arab Emirates and the Prince has accepted an invitation to visit the Gold Coast.
According to a recent article on goldcoast.com.au, Crown Prince Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, received Tate warmly during his 45-minute audience and agreed to visit Dubai's sister city on the Gold Coast, Surfers Paradise.
Tate is keen to encourage further relations with Dubai and believes we can learn a lot from them in terms of development, tourism and education. He said Surfers Paradise is well known there and he would like to build on that relationship in the future.
The Crown Prince also invited Tate back to the UAE as his guest and Tate said he had committed to going back twice a year and to instigating new council projects with Dubai.


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Żary (výslovnost , , , česky Žarov) jsou město na západním okraji Polska v Lubušském vojvodství ležící mezi dvěma přítoky Odry, Bobrem a Nisou, zhruba v půli cesty mezi Berlínem (180 kilometrů na severozápad) a Vratislaví (140 kilometrů na jihovýchod). Ke konci ledna 2014 mělo město 38 527 obyvatelů. a je největším městem polské části Dolní Lužice.

Historie
Żary jsou jedním z nejstarších měst na území Polska. Poprvé jsou zmíněny v kronice Dětmara z Merseburku v roce 1007. Okolní kraj byl osídlen původním slovanským kmenem, jejž Dětmar uvádí vedle Lužičanů a Slubjanů pod jménem Žarované. Okolo roku 1030 bylo spolu s celou Lužicí za vlády Měška II. Lamberta z dynastie Piastovců se stalo součástí Polska. Tímto místem procházela solná stezka. To mělo od středověku značný vliv na rozvoj města i celého regionu. V roce 1207 byly postaveny hradby s baštami.

V roce 1260, kdy byla oblast pod vládou rodu Děvínů, město figurovalo jako sídliště na solné stezce z Lipska do Vratislavi. V roce 1274 zde vznikla pobočka řádu menších bratří. Do roku 1364 bylo pod vládou Piastovců. Během spanilých jízd husitů (taboritů a sirotků) do Horní Lužice bylo město roku 1427 vyrabováno.

Do roku 1635 patřilo k území ovládanému českými králi. Město vyhořelo v letech 1424, 1619, 1684 a 1701. Od roku 1635 patřilo Sasku. Na základě výsledků Vídeňského kongresu připadlo město roku 1815 Pruskému království a součástí Pruska bylo do roku 1945.

Po druhé světové válce připadlo v rámci rozhodnutí z postupimské konference Polsku. Zde náleželo k Zelenohorskému vojvodství (1950–1998), od roku 1999 k Lubušskému.

Zámek
Jedním z nejzajímavějších objektů ve městě rozlehlý zámecký komplex, jenž napovídá o jeho dlouhé a bohaté historii. Zámek však byl během spojeneckého náletu roku 1944 zasažen a vyhořel, a přes veškerou snahu, se zámek do dnešního dne nepodařilo dostat do původního stavu.

Jeho historie sahá nejpravděpodobněji do 13. století. Vládl zde saský rod Děvínů/Devin (polsky Dewinowie). S jistotou se dá tvrdit, že poslední z rodu Děvínů, Albrecht, zemřel roku 1280 a v té době již stál kamenný hrad, čemuž odpovídá severní křídlo zámku. Dům byl třípatrový (1. patro/suterén kamenné, další 2 patra cihlová) a vstupní brána na východní straně.

Oblast přebírá rod Pačků (polsky Paczkowie, německy von Patschkau) a hrad dále rozšiřoval. Mezi lety 1320–1329 se přistavělo západní křídlo a jižní věž. Postaveny jsou také ochranné hradby a spojeny s městskými.

V roce 1355 získal rod Biberštejnů zámek jako věno. Východní křídlo se staví počátkem 15. století v gotickém stylu. Stejně jako během předešlé výstavby je přízemí kamenné a vyšší patra cihlová. Další úpravy se zámek dočká během první poloviny 16. století během vlády Jeronýma z Biberštejna a jeho bratra Kryštofa, které je již v renesančním slohu. V nádvoří jsou přistavěny arkády v jižní a východní části. Dále vnitřní klenby s lunetami, malířské a štukové výzdoby a další úpravy.

Významné osobnosti
Osoby spojené s městem:
 Basil Farber (okolo 1520–1576) německý filolog, luteránský teolog
 Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767) německý skladatel
 Erdmann Neumeister (1671–1576) německý luteránský pastor a hymnologista
 Christoph Friedrich Richter (1676–1711) německý hymnolog, entomolog, evangelický duchovní
 Christoph Christian Sturm (1740–1786) německý kazatel a spisovatel
 Friedrich von Wendt (1738–1818) německý lékař
 Ernst Kummer (1810–1893) německý matematik
 Maximilian Gritzner (1843–1902) německý heraldik
 Johann Crüger (1598–1662) německý skladatel
 Gustav Fechner (1801–1887) německý filozof, fyzik a psycholog
 Willy Jähde (1908–2002) německý velitel Wehrmachtu
 Friedrich Schoenfelder (1916–2011) německý herec
 Tadeusz Ślusarski (1950–1998) polský atlet, olympijský vítěz
 Jósef Tracz (* 1964) reprezentant v řecko-římském zápase, olympijský medailista

Partnerská města
  Weißwasser, Sasko, Německo
  Longuyon, Grand Est, Francie
  Gárdony, Fejér, Maďarsko

Externí odkazy

 Městský úřad Żary

Města v Lubušském vojvodství
Okresní města v Polsku
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Smyth, one-time Maryville leader, accused of child sex abuse
The Rev. John Smyth has been accused of sexually abusing minors during the end of his tenure as leader of Maryville Academy in Des Plaines, Archdiocese of Chicago officials said Friday. Daily Herald File Photo, 2003
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The Rev. John P. Smyth, a well-known Chicago-area priest and one-time leader of Maryville Academy in Des Plaines, faces allegations of sexual abuse of minors, Archdiocese of Chicago officials said Friday.
The allegations, which pertain to the 2002-2003 span during the end of Smyth's tenure at the academy, were received by the archdiocese's Office for Child Abuse Investigations and Review, according to a statement from the archdiocese.
Jeanine Stevens, the attorney who represents the two men making the allegations, said one was 13 and the other was 14 when they were molested.
One of the boys came forward shortly after the molestation occurred, Stevens said.
"Nobody believed him and nobody did anything about it," she said.
Both boys had been placed at Maryville's Scott Nolan Center by a judge, she said.
"They were permanently harmed," she said. "Both of these men came from unstable households. This significantly compounded issues they already had to deal with."
She said the boys eventually shared their stories while both were incarcerated years later. One is still incarcerated, she said.
She said both boys, who grew up on the South and West sides of Chicago, came into contact with Smyth when he visited the Nolan facility and also had them over to Maryville to play basketball. Smyth would also take them on such activities as whitewater rafting, she said.
Smyth, 84, couldn't be reached for comment at a Des Plaines-based nonprofit that bears his name and where he is executive director -- the Rev. John P. Smyth Standing Tall Charitable Foundation. However, his attorney, Frank DiFranco, told the Chicago Tribune the allegations were false and that the accusers were looking for a payout from the Catholic Church.
"What really happened is they have two guys sitting in the penitentiary thinking of ways to make money, and this is what they came up with," DiFranco told the Chicago Tribune.
Cardinal Blase Cupich asked Smyth to step aside from ministry after the allegations were received, and his faculties to minister in the archdiocese have been withdrawn, the archdiocese's statement said.
The archdiocese said the allegations were reported to the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services and the Cook County State's attorney's office, in accordance with the archdiocese's child protection policies.
Tandra Simonton, a spokeswoman for the state's attorney's office, said she could neither confirm nor deny there is an investigation.
Smyth continued living on the Des Plaines campus of the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe next to Maryville after his departure as academy superintendent in 2003 and as a board member in 2004, and until recently he presided over 11 a.m. Sunday Masses in the shrine's Marian chapel.
Smyth will live away from the campus while the archdiocese investigates the allegations, officials said.
Marcy Jensen, a Maryville spokeswoman, said Smyth has had little contact with the Des Plaines-based child care organization since he stepped down from its board, but for two public occasions officials there can recall.
Smyth, a first-round NBA draft pick in 1957 who chose the priesthood instead, is inextricably linked to the history of Maryville, where he arrived in 1962 for his first assignment as a priest. He served as assistant superintendent until his appointment as superintendent in 1970, where he became known for his networking skills and hosting fundraisers that made the institution financially solvent.
And though at the time he reformed the care of children with the establishment of small group homes on the site, critics in later years pointed to Smyth's refusal to embrace modern clinical methods for treating troubled youths. In September 2003, the state pulled all of its wards from the 272-bed campus after the suicide of a 14-year-old girl, two sexual assaults, repeated violence and problems with youths running away. The FBI also opened a probe into potential federal health care fraud, though no one was ever charged.
Amid mounting pressure, Smyth stepped down as director in December 2003 but later railed against the Department of Children and Family Services, accusing it of "turning off the faucet" on child welfare.
Smyth also worked as president of Notre Dame College Prep, an all-boys high school in Niles, from 2007 to 2014.
After leaving Maryville, Smyth established his charitable foundation in 2005 to raise funds for educational and vocational training scholarships, and still remained involved with that in recent months, attending luncheons, golf outings and other fundraisers, according to the organization's Facebook page.
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Only 25% to 30% of business transformation initiatives are successful over the long term according to various studies made by Towers Watson , Harvard Business Review , McKinsey & Co  and others. One of the reasons why the transformation success rate is so low for so many transformation projects is the fact that business architects, enterprise architects, business analysts, project managers, process managers and product managers work in silos. Thus they cannot take into account easily the output of their peers and communicate their work between each other in an orderly fashion. This makes it difficult for any reconciliation between different disciplines which yet all have the same ultimate objective of transforming their businesses successfully to strive in a highly competitive environment.
After a brief overview of Business Architecture's, BPM's and Requirement Management's definitions, this article will explain how the convergence of Business Architecture, BPM and Requirement Management can help align your corporate strategies. It will also show a pragmatic perspective on how Business Architecture could easily become the practice allowing top level stakeholders, process experts, requirement people and enterprise architects of a same company to stop working separately in silos and achieve their tasks knowing what others are doing to enable higher synchronization between everyone.
Before delving into the heart of the subject, it is important to take a look at the various disciplines that are involved in delivering strategic initiatives for the business.
Business process management (BPM) is a field in operations management that focuses on improving corporate performance by managing and optimizing a company's business processes. BPM is often described as a "discipline involving any combination of modeling, automation, execution, control, measurement and optimization of business activity flows, in support of enterprise goals, spanning systems, employees, customers and partners within and beyond the enterprise boundaries ." Process people involved in BPM are usually Business Analysts, Lean or BPM consultants, who are involved in redesigning business processes and who would operate any Business Process Center of Excellence established in an organization.
Requirements management is the process of documenting, analyzing, tracing, prioritizing and agreeing on requirements and then controlling change and communicating them to relevant stakeholders. It is a continuous process throughout a project, a product (or a service) development.  Requirements people involved in Requirements management are usually project managers, product managers and program managers.
Without knowing the most current business strategies, the odds of defining and meeting requirements and optimizing processes successfully are very low. This is where Business Architecture comes into play. Business architecture is defined as "a blueprint of the enterprise that provides a common understanding of the organization and is used to align strategic objectives and tactical demands. " People who develop and maintain business architecture are business architects or sometimes enterprise architects. From Capability, Value, and Strategy maps, business architects capture business strategies from key stakeholders and then communicate it to Business Analysts, Lean or BPM consultants by linking Value Streams to detailed Processes (Process maps) or to project managers, product managers and program managers by using product and requirements maps. Furthermore, Business Architecture, when well executed, can even insure that the requirements and process experts communicate with each other constructively.
"Business architecture/process mapping delivers insights into business transformation as it relates to value delivery", etc.
In a pragmatic perspective, most corporations have implemented BPM, Requirements and Enterprise Architecture software tools in silos. There is very limited interaction between these 3 different types of systems. There is a need today for an equivalent system focused on Business Architecture allowing not only capability and value maps, but also a multitude of other maps, including process and requirements mapping derived from the BPM and the requirements disciplines.
The landscape of software application tools to execute BPM and Requirements Management is mature. Among BPM tools, Gartner  mentions the following companies in its top tier IBM, PegaSystems, Progress, Apian and Software AG. Within the Requirements Management space, vendors are also numerous. According to Butler Analytics , they include among others TechExcel, IBM, HP, Borland, CA and a bunch more. Neither BPM tools nor Requirement management software products offer any descent business architecture features. Furthermore, no BPM tools allow to link process elements to requirements elements. The reverse is also true. No Requirements Management tools allow to match easily requirements elements to process elements. This is despite the fact that on top of making sure to align requirement and process mapping to top level business strategies using business architecture, the odds of success of a transformation initiative will increase significantly if the process people can match their process elements to requirements and/or the requirements people can match their requirements to process elements. This fact is also the case of vendors that offer a product for each practice. Even the products from the same vendor do not allow to link easily process elements to requirements.
The situation is very similar with Enterprise Architecture tools. Most EA tools listed on the Gartner Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture Tools , like MEGA, Troux, Software AG, IBM, etc., have a business architecture module. As pointed out by Atul Bhatt in the Architecture and Governance Magazine  in 2013, "While the related fields of Business Process Management (BPM) and Business Rules Management (BRM) have fairly mature tools, generic Business Architecture tools are still not there in functionality, usability, and maturity. At best, the current Enterprise Architecture tool vendors (Sparx Systems EA, TROUX, etc.) have been extending their existing tool sets to cover some of the BA aspects." Still today, enterprise Architecture tools cannot take into account easily process mapping and requirements mapping while tying it to business strategies using business architecture.
In brief, Process experts, Requirement people and even Enterprise Architects tend to work in silo basically ignoring each other's work, often limited by their respective tool.
This could change soon with the arrival of specific easy to use business architecture tools, like IRIS Business Architect , that follow the BIZBOK guide principles to take into account not only capability and value maps, but also other maps, including process and requirements mapping. Such tools offer the ability to link all the content together, allowing for advanced analysis. With tools like IRIS Business Architect, Business Architects in 2015 can now finally stop the silo effect within corporations and tie the knot between key top level stakeholders, process experts, requirement people and enterprise architects to insure that they can work in respect of each other while aiming the same ultimate objective of transforming their corporation successfully to keep striving in a highly competitive environment.
 Source from the article entitled "New Study Explores Why Change Management Fails - And How To (Perhaps) Succeed" written by Victor Lipman in Forbes on Sept. 4, 2013.
 Source from the article entitled "What Customers Want from your Products" written by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott Cook and Taddy Hall on Harvard Business School's web site; January 16, 2006.
 Source from the article entitled "One Common Definition for BPM" written on Thinking Matters on January 27, 2014.
 Source: Requirements Management definition in Wikipedia.
 Source: Business Architecture definition in the BIZBOK Guide (version 4.1.141028L) on page 5 of 523 pages.
 Source from the whitepaper entitled "Business Architecture and BPM – Differentiations and Reconciliation", written by Lloyd Dugan and Neal McWhorter (with the assistance of the following Business Architecture Guild reviewers: Sue Alemann, Yojana Ganduri, Whynde Khuen, James Rhyne, Mike Rosen, William Ulrich, Elaine Wong) and (with the assistance of the following BPM Community reviewers: Paul Buhler, Roger Burlton, Tom Dwyer, Peter Fingar, Jim Sinur, Shelley Sweet, Keith Swenson, Dennis Wisnosky) on October 31, 2014 on page 5 & 6 of 23 pages.
 Source from the section 3.4 in the BIZBOK Guide (version 4.1.141028L) entitled "Business Architecture and Business Process Modeling and Management" on pages 263 to 274 of 523 pages.
 Source from the whitepaper entitled "Leveraging Business Architecture to Improve Business Requirements Analysis", written by Alex Randell, Eric Spellman, William Ulrich, Jeff Wallk and reviewed by Mike Clark, Eric Elliott and Whynde Kuehn in March 2014 on pages 2, 7 & 8 of 15 pages.
 Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, 2008.
 Source from the section 3.8 in the BIZBOK Guide (version 4.1.141028L) entitled "Business Architecture and Requirements Alignment" on pages 313 to 326 of 523 pages.
 Source: this article about the 2010 Gartner BPMS Magic Quadrant published on November 2, 2010 on Agile Elements blog.
 Source: this article entitled "20+ Requirements Management Tools" published on July 17, 2014 on the Butler Analytic's blog.
 Source: the article about the "Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture Tools 2014" published on Mega International's website.
 Source: this article entitled "Business Architecture – A Pragmatic Perspective" published in the Architecture and Governance Magazine on January 15, 2013.
 View additional information about IRIS Business Architect on this website .


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Christian Academy of Guatemala (C.A.G.) traces its origin to September 1974 when five missionary families opened the school in a rented facility in the part of Guatemala City called Zone 11 as an educational service to evangelical missionary families. The original purpose for the school's establishment continues in our present existence and mission, "Providing a Biblically based, quality English education, to prepare lives for Christian service."
In the first year, there were over twenty students in grades 1-8, with one monitor and two full-time teachers. One of the teachers also served as the principal. After the earthquake in February of 1976, C.A.G. grew dramatically as missionary families came to help with short and long-term relief and reconstruction efforts. More classrooms, office facilities, and a chapel were constructed at this time on the rented, Zone 11 property. C.A.G. also gained students and staff from Huehue Academy in the fall of 1987 when CAM International closed their missionary children's school.
In 1987, due to the inadequacy of the Zone 11 facility, it was decided to purchase land and build a new facility. In January 1989, nearly five acres of land was purchased in San Cristóbal on the outskirts of Guatemala City.
Although classes remained on calle Mariscal, students and parents continue to anticipate the opening of the new school facilities in San Cristobal in Fall of 1991. Mr. Glenn Ager came on staff to coordinate fundraising and other aspects of the construction. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Thomas came down from California to oversee on-site construction. Everyone joined in the effort through mailings, prayer, and personal offerings. Many also help with on-site construction by clearing the property.
Since then, the administration building, elementary building, middle/high school building, two homes, gymnasium, workshop, and developed grounds have been constructed debt-free through visiting work team and one-time construction fees.
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We're stoked to be hitting the road this summer on a co-headline run with Flogging Molly. Along for the ride will be The Devil Makes Three and Le Butcherettes. Tickets go on sale this Friday, April 26th at 10 am local time at www.socialdistortion.com/tours. A limited # of VIP Packages are available for each show April 23rd at http://bit.ly/sdfmvip.
Stay tuned... BIG news coming April 22.
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The EPIX 'PUNK' docuseries screening was a blast.
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ARMI Alumni in Industry: Harriet Manley
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Postgraduate studies at ARMI can open up a number of potential career pathways. With the Institute's strong focus on deepening ties with both the local and global biotechnology industry, it is no surprise that we find ARMI alumni scattered across the world, working in organisations and companies that vary in size, research field, and role in the discovery and translation pipeline. One such ARMI alumna is Dr Harriet Manley, who is currently a Patent Scientist (Trainee Patent Attorney) in biotechnology at FPA Patent Attorneys in Melbourne.
Harriet joined ARMI during the third year of her undergraduate degree, continued studying at ARMI until she finished her PhD, then was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute for a short period. "I would say I essentially became a scientist at ARMI," said Harriet, "ARMI helped me to develop myself as a scientist, not just from a technical side, but also in developing the creative thought processes of how to take a hypothesis and design experiments to find an answer. It was challenging, but extremely rewarding, too."
As a curious person, Harriet has always been open minded about what she would study and do in the future. "I participated in and went to a lot of events and mentoring programs during my time at ARMI to get exposure to different ideas and pathways. Listening to people talking about their bright scientific ideas and turning them into commercial products really sparked an interest."
For her, it was the translation of innovative technology and a multidisciplinary approach to biomedical research in the form of patent law that piqued her interest most. "As a patent attorney, clients come to us with their ideas for inventions in the biotechnology space, such as a new drug or therapy, and we advise them on how to best protect that idea in a legal sense along its commercial trajectory. It is actually a perfect spot for me because we are always talking about new ideas and being a part of the commercialisation pipeline really excites me." Harriet continued, "ARMI prepared me to develop crucial expertise and knowledge for this current role, as well as provided me exposure to lots of different, fundamental science that underpins new and innovative therapies."
To that end, Harriet is undertaking a Masters course in Intellectual Property Law part-time to become a registered patent attorney. She comments, "It is a very steep learning curve as it is a new space for me, but I think everything that I have done up to this point prepared me well to go into something that was challenging."
When it comes to Harriet's time at ARMI, Harriet smiled, "I was there for a very long time, it is hard to say what I enjoyed the most in a nutshell, but I really genuinely enjoyed the people I worked with. Everyone was enthusiastic about their projects, and was thinking about their scientific questions in very interesting ways, which made ARMI an inspiring place to be."
The biggest piece of advice Harriet had for ARMI students? "Follow your interests. Even if I'd tried to plan out my whole future to get to this point, I'm not sure it would have happened the way I thought it was going to happen. I really just followed the subjects and science I was interested in because if you are really interested in something, that is what you will do best at."


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Bitter taste: Get ready to pay at least Rs33 more for a bottle of wine
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IF the additional excise duty hike proposed by the Excise Department gets the government nod, starting Friday, wine lovers will have to pay at least 233 more for a 750 ml bottle.
The government, on June 22, notified that there will be a 177 per cent increase in excise duty and an additional excise duty on wine that will come into effect from July 1. After grape growers and wineries opposed the steep hike on additional excise tax on fortified wines, the government decided to slash the rates.
Excise Additional Commissioner Vishwaroop A S said they had proposed a hike of 279 per litre, but after growers and others requested, they reduced it to Rs45 per litre. "We have sent the proposal to thegovernment and are expecting approval by next week. However, the new rate will be applicable from Friday (July 1)," he said. "We had last increased the tax about four years back. We have now increased it from Rs29 to Rs45 per litre," he added.
P L Venkatarama Reddy, president of Karnataka State Wine Producers' Association said, "With the proposed hike of 745 a litre, customers will have to pay around 233.75 for a 750 ml bottle. Each case contains nine litres of wine in 12 bottles," he said.
According to Reddy, there are 18 wine manufacturers and more than 15,000 grape 'growers in Karnataka. "We are the only state to grow blue grapes which are grown on 23,000 acres in Chikkaballapur, more for Devanahalli, Doddaballapur and Kolar. As many as 10,000 tonnes of blue grapes are crushed to make wine," Venkatarama Reddy said.
"These grapes are available throughout the year. If the government increases tax, it will affect many families," he said. "We will approach the state government after three months." he concluded.
Source: New Indian Express
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New Zealand's Chief Ombudsman, Mr Peter Boshier, is visiting Tonga for three days, from 11-13 October to establish a close working relationship between his office and his Tongan counterpart, Tonga's Ombudsman, 'Aisea Taumoepeau. Peter aims to persuade the New Zealand Parliament to finance the establishment of a part of his office to work closely with the Pacific Islands. "Doing training and secondment." Peter meanwhile represent Tonga at the International Ombudsman Institute IOI.
The Commonwealth Secretary-General says the Pacific and other regions could benefit from greater collaboration in response to natural disasters. According to Patricia Scotland, there is a new phenomenon where multiple regions of the world are being hit by natural disasters simultaneously. Speaking in Washington where a Commonwealth Finance Ministers meeting is underway, she said there's a need to get "smarter" and more systematic in response to disasters.
Police in Papua New Guinea say unrest has abated in the Southern Highlands capital Mendi. Violence has lingered in the province since the general election began in June, and surged again this month amid delayed results. Rioting forced many businesses in Mendi to close two weeks ago after the death of two policemen in election-related violence.
Due to the many concerns from members of the House Agriculture, Marine & Wildlife and Forestry Committee, on the issues of Federal regulations that affect fisheries in American Samoa, the director of the Department of Marine Wildlife Resource, Va'amua Henry Sesepasara, asked House members to make sure they voice all questions and frustrations to members of the Western Pacific Fishery Management Council (WPFMC) when their annual conference convenes next week.
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Business rates replaced by VAT hike – proposed pie in the sky A Tory MP is calling for business rates to...
The scheme features a new hotel lobby and breakfast area
Augur maps expansion for Adagio Liverpool
Sarah Townsend
The 126-room aparthotel in the grade two-listed Lewis's Building would be expanded to occupy two more floors, under proposals from the property's owner.
Investor-developer Augur Group, headquartered in London, has lodged an application to change the use of 2,600 sq ft of vacant retail space on the ground and mezzanine floors of the seven-storey building in Liverpool city centre, in order to provide additional hotel space.
Adagio Liverpool currently occupies space on the first, third, fourth, fifth and sixth floors of the 400,000 sq ft building, but it would exit the space its holds on the first floor under the proposals designed by Colman Architects.
A refurbished ground floor and mezzanine level would accommodate a relocated reception and breakfast area, while revised internal layouts on the fifth floor would provide two additional meeting rooms, with the building's heritage features retained.
The Lewis's Building is also home to a Pure Gym, Post Office and an office scheme called The Department.
Augur Liverpool said in a statement accompanying the application to Liverpool City Council: "The proposals are part of the long-term strategy to sensitively restore the grade II-listed Lewis's Building and deliver a meaningful mix of uses.
"[The scheme] will achieve an efficient use of existing floorspace, while responding to a need to better satisfy modern requirements and expectations of hotel operators."
Augur acquired the property in 2017, along with the surrounding land to make up a five-acre mixed-use scheme now under development, called The Circus.
Once complete, The Circus is planned to provide 275,000 sq ft of retail and leisure space over five floors.
Sigh. One day they will wake up and say, hey let's break the status quo and build some offices.
May 05, 2020 at 3:25 pm By Michael McDonut
The Wirral, with its much superior beaches should be doing more. It`s as if Liverpool is trying to take everything it can. supposedly for the benefit of the whole city region.
May 05, 2020 at 3:30 pm By Heswall
And 20 years down the line it will go into public consultation. Yawn!!
May 05, 2020 at 3:50 pm By George
The building in question is next to central station, which is one stop or around seven minutes to 'the Wirral', couldn't get any closer to the city centre without being in it… often wonder whether these type of comments are from people who live here or from elsewhere who are still peddling old opinions that no one under 40 cares about?
May 05, 2020 at 4:53 pm By @ Heswall ...
Heswall, you're a broken down record, and a strange and dull one at that. What have beaches got to do with this?
May 06, 2020 at 9:21 am By ST
@Heswall back with the usual tripe… Private company wants to expand city centre hotel = Liverpool taking everything it can. Barmy
May 06, 2020 at 11:26 am By LiverMan
I think Heswall is trying to say that Wirral should be doing more to encourage leisure development on Wirral to take advantage of leisure opportunities. You know like that leisure development planned around by West Kirby marina that all the over 60's rounded on and the golf course that they protested outside the town hall against. Even the whispers of a Waitrose in Heswall town center saw local Councillors being lobbied against it….. oh dear
May 07, 2020 at 11:13 am By Cynic
I think it would be a good idea to construct really big tall buildings in Telegraph road along with factories lots of PRS apartment blocks for the working classes and all the ammenities they would need , pubs, social centres that sort of thing, the whole areas demographics are ageing and it needs this type of boost before it becomes a ghost town. It would also be an easy commute from the nearby affluent Pensby for work and social inter mixing with the less fortunate in life? ;)
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// Problem 13. Count words

// Write a program that reads a list of words from the file words.txt
// and finds how many times each of the words is contained in another file test.txt.
// The result should be written in the file result.txt and the
// words should be sorted by the number of their occurrences in descending order.
// Handle all possible exceptions in your methods.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;

class CountWords
{
    static void Main()
    {
        var streamReader = new StreamReader(@"..\..\words.txt");
        var secondStreamReader = new StreamReader(@"..\..\test.txt");

        string words = streamReader.ReadToEnd();
        string text = secondStreamReader.ReadToEnd();
        string[] word = words.Split(' ');
        string[] textWords = text.Split(' ');
        var result = new Dictionary<string, int>();
        for (int i = 0; i < word.Length; i++)
        {
            result.Add(word[i], 0);
        }
        foreach (string item in textWords)
        {
            if (result.ContainsKey(item))
            {
                result[item] += 1;
            }
        }
        var streamWriter = new StreamWriter(@"..\..\result.txt");
        foreach (var item in result)
        {
            streamWriter.Write("word: \"{0}\" had occured {1} times\r\n", item.Key, item.Value);
        }

        streamReader.Close();
        secondStreamReader.Close();
        streamWriter.Close();
    }
}

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Q: Acess Denied. Reading and writing the file. Grant reading permission After installation the application gives error

access denied to the file PathName\\BLsms.ocx

Here PatheName is complete path.
Advance installer is used to create the installer.
Then application is installed in C Drive.
How can I make these files read and writable?
I am using this code.
try
{

    this.brlmfc = new BinaryReader(new FileStream("BLsms.ocx", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.ReadWrite,FileShare.Read));
    this.brocx = new BinaryReader(new FileStream("BLrpi.lfc", FileMode.Open,FileAccess.ReadWrite));

    this.brlmc = new BinaryReader(new FileStream("rpcgh.lfc", FileMode.Open,FileAccess.ReadWrite));
    this.passkey1 = this.brlmfc.ReadString();
    this.passkey2 = this.brocx.ReadString();

    this.passkey3 = this.brlmc.ReadString();

}
catch (Exception e13)
{
    MessageBox.Show(e13.Message);
    i = 0;
}

I have also tried the following code in Form Load method.
FileIOPermission f2 = new FileIOPermission(FileIOPermissionAccess.AllAccess, Application.StartupPath+"\\BLsms.ocx");
f2.AddPathList( FileIOPermissionAccess.Read, Application.StartupPath+"\\BLrpi.lfc");
f2.AddPathList( FileIOPermissionAccess.Read, Application.StartupPath+"\\Brpcgh.lfc");
f2.Demand();

A: I assume you are installing the program into C:\Program Files or C:\Program Files (x86).  Don't write in those directories.  Use C:\ProgramData or the User's home directory instead.

A: I have set read/write permissions of the files from Advance Installer. And works fine.
http://www.advancedinstaller.com/user-guide/permission-dialog.html
Thanks for everyone.

A: By default Users group doesn't have write access in per-machine locations like Program Files. This is a Windows standard which is not related to installations. However, during install you can set any permissions you want.
Windows Installer does support custom permissions, but Visual Studio doesn't offer a way for setting them. So the only solution in Visual Studio is a custom action.
Unfortunately Visual Studio doesn't support attached custom actions. So using XCACLS.EXE to set permissions would work only if you include it in your package (it will be installed on the target machine along with your files).
A cleaner, but more complex solution is to write a custom action yourself (using custom code) to set the permissions you want.
The fastest and cleanest solution would be to use a different setup authoring tool which offers more control over permissions.

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Wedding Guest Sends List Of"Rules" For Bachelorette Weekend in Vegas
A list of rules to follow for a Las Vegas bachelorette party is going viral online… because the writer was only a wedding guest and not even in the bridal party!
A bunch of women were getting ready to head to Vegas to celebrate a bride-to-be when they got an emailed list of rules to follow from a one of the attendees. The writer, who was originally not invited to the wedding for reasons you'll figure out, started the letter by saying "I know Vegas is known as 'sin city,' but despite this, I still have to uphold the moral code our Father inscribed in my heart."
She proceeded to lay out these six ground rules: First, she set up a church service for Sunday at 7:15 am for all to attend."I think it'll be a nice way to cleanse us of our sins from that week," she writes before going on to rule two, which bans all "hard liquor." "I don't want to be tempted by these foul drinks. I'm not sure how I'll react to 'rum' or 'tequila' or 'vodka' and I'd like to test these in more controlled environments. Please stick to light beers and red wine."
Taylor continues with rule three, which says there will be no premarital sex taking place in the hotel rooms and that men are not allowed to be invited back to the suite: "I don't want to be robbed!" Another rule is for the girls to send her $50 each so she can buy groceries for the room. No one asked her to! And the final one was "absolutely under no circumstances – no drugs." "[Redacted] please leave your Adderall at home. I understand you have a medical condition, but as we will not be studying, there's no need for you to take your methamphetamines."
We can't even! Apparently, social media feels the same way. The common theme is that only a bride can be that demanding.
By the way, the writer is threatening to sue the bridal party member who posted the email for slander.