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The Trump administration's blueprint for mass removals, with a streak of cruelty
Protesters rally in opposition to President Trump's immigration order in New York on Jan. 29. (Kathy Willens/Associated Press)
Opinion by the Editorial Board
IN THE fiscal year that ended last fall, the number of undocumented immigrants apprehended on the southwestern border was just a quarter the number in 2000 and less than half the annual count during most of George W. Bush's administration. Although last year's apprehensions in the Southwest rose from the previous year — largely because of unaccompanied minors and families from Central America seeking refugee status — the overall number was among the lowest since the turn of the century.
Nonetheless, Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly has somehow conjured what he called a "surge of illegal immigration at the southern border [that] has overwhelmed federal agencies and resources and created a significant national security vulnerability to the United States." Mr. Kelly's unfounded rhetoric is contained in a memorandum, released Tuesday, that provides an inventive rationale to justify the Trump administration's overbroad expansion of deportation efforts. The effect of the new DHS guidelines is to sharply expand the pool of immigrants designated as priorities for deportation.
[Trump's mass deportations have arrived. But will Republicans pay for them?]
They do so by various means, including widening the targets of expedited deportation proceedings, until now limited to undocumented immigrants in the country for no more than two weeks and living within 100 miles of the border, to people who entered in the past two years and live anywhere in the nation — a cohort estimated at 800,000 to 1.1 million people. They also target not only people convicted of serious crimes but also those convicted of minor infractions, such as using a false Social Security number to get a job.
The guidelines' subsidiary effects are just as concerning. They compromise law enforcement efforts in counties and cities nationwide by expanding efforts to deputize local police to act as federal deportation agents. That could chill cooperation between local law enforcement agencies and immigrant neighborhoods. The document sends a message of fear through many of America's immigrant communities — not just the estimated 11.1 million unauthorized immigrants, but also their spouses, children and other relatives living legally in the United States.
[Mr. President, don't break America's promise to 'dreamers']
Administration officials sought to ease such concerns by offering assurances that some enforcement measures will be implemented gradually, including an effort to return Central American refugees to Mexico as they await hearings on asylum claims. That will rely on coordination with Mexican authorities, whose cooperation may be dimmed by Mr. Trump's hostility and his insistence that Mexico will pay for a wall it vehemently opposes.
Sean Spicer, the White House spokesman, likes to echo Mr. Trump's comment that he has "a big heart," the supposed evidence being that the DHS guidelines do not, for now, aim deportation efforts at "dreamers" — the 750,000 young people given work permits and temporarily shielded from removal by the Obama administration. While that is welcome, in other respects a streak of cruelty runs through the new policy. For instance, it seeks to deter the entry of unaccompanied minors by threatening to prosecute parents if they paid smugglers to help their children cross the border. Deterrence is a fair goal if achieved by humane means. In this case, the administration's policies will break up families and harm people leading peaceable lives.
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Steven Stoll giving a lecture at Yale University entitled "The Captured Garden: Substance Under Capitalism" in 2013. The lecture is available as a video on the Yale University Website.
Professor Stoll questions the notion of progress, his views are in direct opposition to what most of his students and readers learned growing-up in Western society. Walt Disney World's Carousel of Progress celebrates progress without any critical examination and perpetuates the idea that each new technological advancement is an inevitable improvement to society. However, Stoll argues that there is no "spirit of progress embedded in human history" driving technological change. He explains that technological progress "occurs for very specific reasons, but always because someone invents something that fulfills a social goal." What constitutes progress depends on who benefits from technological change, he says. Stoll encourages his students and readers to step outside of their lives and experiences to critically examine the world.
He laughed good naturedly while saying, "My courses are about how everything we know comes out of the past, just like any other historian." His course on North American environmental history is not just abstract topics (like the nature of progress) but covers people, inventions, and events like the Erie Canal, the construction of American railroads, the fate of the passenger pigeon, the Ice-Age migration of American-Indians, and the history of industrialization. He explores the interaction between capitalism and the environment in his two books The Fruits of Natural Advantage: Making the Industrial Countryside in California and Larding the Lean Earth: Soil and Society in Nineteenth- Century America.
Stoll is currently working on his fifth book, which focuses geographically on the Appalachian Mountains. "At first, I didn't really know what I wanted to say about it, honestly. It's a big and complicated place. But I knew I wanted write about how the people who lived in the mountains lost their land, how mountain people who lived in log cabins became coal miners, not necessarily by choice, but how the industry and the state transformed their environment and forced them into wage work as the only way to make a living." In his book on Appalachia, Stoll examines how 'mountain people' lived independently with their own system and means of survival and the factors led to the destruction of this way of life. He also explores aspects of mountain society itself, like population growth and environmental erosion, and also how society changed when "capital came into the mountains." The book covers Appalachia between the Whiskey Rebellion and the Great Depression.
Long after speaking with Dr. Stoll my brain was stuck on the slice of avocado I had with my lunch. Who grew this avocado? Who owned the land it was grown on? Who, if anyone, owned the genetic code in the seeds? Who picked and packaged this fruit? What are the conditions under which they work? If it was a California avocado, how much water did it take to grow this fruit? Who has the 'right' to water during a shortage,? It was just an avocado, which I had eaten so many times before but now it was so much more than that.
If you're interested in Steven Stoll's work you can read his article "No Man's Land" published online in the Orion Magazine, as well as his two books The Fruits of Natural Advantage: Making the Industrial Country Side in California and Larding the Lean Earth: Soil and Society in Nineteenth-Century America. And, of course, be on the look-out for his upcoming monograph on Appalachia.
"Passover and Easter: A Polemical Encounter" is an exhibit currently open at Walsh Library in the O'Hare Special Collection room, mounted by Dr. Magda Teter Shvidler Chair in Judaic Studies and Professor of History. This exhibit explores the history of Easter and Passover through manuscripts, books, and ephemera, with a particular emphasis on the biblical texts related to the holidays and several Haggadot, the sacred text read during the Passover Seder. Among the items on display are engravings from two editions of the famous 15th century world chronicle that portray the bleeding of a child, with images of Jews as grotesque characters, the Easter issue of an Italian magazine, La difesa della razza (The Defense of Race), from 1940 that once again return to the theme of blood libel; German currency from 1922 that celebrates burning Jews, and an 1884 parody of the Haggadah by German artist Carl Maria Seyppel. Tom Stoelker wrote an in depth article about the exhibit which can be read by following this link to the Center of Medieval Studies Venerable Blog.
Dr. Magda Teter will be involved in Burning Words: A History Play, offering scholarly commentary during the multimedia reading. The play is about about zealotry, censorship, and religious tolerance, and recounts the moment in history when "Johannes Reuchlin, a humanist Christian jurist, clashed with Johannes Pfefferkorn, a Jewish butcher converted to Christianity and a willing tool of the Dominican Order in their quest to burn Jewish books. " Dr. Teter recently gave a lecture entitled "From Friendship to Hatred: The Catholic Church and the Jews" at the University of New Mexico as part of the AJS Distinguished Lecture Series.
We encourage members of the Fordham community to attend and support Dr. Teter during this exciting innovative performance. More information about The Center for Jewish History and the play can be found on the center's website.
Both of these events are excellent opportunities for students studying Christian-Jewish relations, like those currently taking Dr. Alex Novikoff's Medieval Interfaith Relations graduate seminar.
Historian of American foreign policy and junior faculty member Chris Dietrich discusses how the current US policy toward drone strikes relates to the history of US foreign policy in southeast Asia.


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The Stony Brook men's soccer team huddling during a game last year. The team won its home opener Monday night for its first win of the season. JOCELYN CRUZ/THE STATESMAN
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Security survey results: Six information security myths dispelled
A rose is a rose is a rose, but Information Security magazine and SearchSecurity surveys bust six security myths, proving infosec is maturing as a profession and a practice.
Andrew Briney and Frank Prince
"There is no there there."
Gertrude Stein's famous quip about Oakland, Calif., also characterizes traditional executive attitudes toward infosecurity. Managers know it's there; they think it's necessary; and they'll spend money on it, since the auditors and regulators tell them to. But corporate executives have no idea what the security guys really do.
Exacerbating this perception is infosecurity's immaturity as a product/service industry and, more importantly, as a profession. In the IT world, mature practices are characterized by standardized operations, metrics-based decision-making and proactive measures in the face of change. Historically, infosecurity practitioners have adopted few, if any, of these practices.
But some of that is changing, according to recent surveys conducted by Information Security and SearchSecurity, the magazine's sister site. Taken together, the surveys offer an in-depth look at the practices of nearly 4,000 security professionals, including statistics that point to a more disciplined, mature approach to security operations.
For instance, the surveys reveal that IT security managers are becoming more aggressive about evaluating emerging threats and aligning their security strategies against identified risks; that organizations of all stripes and sizes have standardized on a common set of data defense technologies; and that most security pros are ahead of the regulatory curve, implementing security changes in a proactive manner before the government forces them to.
Greater security awareness has its rewards, too. Organizations are spending more on security, according to the surveys, and executive management and business unit managers are embracing security's role in operations and project decision-making.
Information security still has a long way to go before it's institutionalized into every organization's business process and culture. But the surveys show that some of the roadblocks are disappearing, and that last year's conventional wisdom has become this year's security myths.
For security, finally, there's some "there there."
Figure 1: ISM survey graph, percentage of IT budget devoted to security by company size
Figure 2: Budget Changes Since 9/11
Myth #1
Everybody talks about the importance of security, but nobody puts their money where their mouth is.
REALITY: Security budgets are growing, particularly in larger companies.
What's your number one obstacle to effective security? Betcha said lack of budget. Death, taxes and a lack of security budget are the three universal constants in this business.
"If we had the budget, we might be able to do things we aren't now doing," says one survey respondent, a CIO at a state government agency. "Knowledge isn't enough; resources are important."
There's a big difference between what you want and what you need to secure your enterprise. Unless you work for the NSA, there will never be enough money to fund what you want. However, the Information Security Annual Survey shows that in coming months you may have better success getting the funding you need.
After a recession-induced drop last winter, security budgets steadily rebounded in Q2 and Q3 2003, accounting for more than 13 percent of overall IT spending (see Figure 1). Even if general IT spending remains flat, as some reports indicate, security budgets should increase. Budgets in large and very large organizations increased the fastest, as companies funded long-delayed upgrades and, in some cases, new infrastructure solutions.
The uptick in security spending mirrors that of early 2000. In the second half of 1999, organizations routinely froze security budgets to focus on Y2K remediation. In January 2000, with Y2K behind them, many organizations restored funding for 1999's held-over projects and allocated new budget for 2000's security initiatives. The survey suggests that a similar "double-up" phenomenon may be under way now.
Figure 3: Threat Response
But don't start celebrating just yet. While the purse strings may be slowly loosening, rigorous financial accountability and intense scrutiny on the bottom line will continue to be the rule for IT security, even in organizations that "get it." And for many companies, security still doesn't register on the radar screen. Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the slight majority of organizations (51 percent) have increased their security spending (see Figure 2), according to the SearchSecurity users survey. But another third have flat budgets, and 5 percent have experienced an overall budget cut. Thirteen percent don't know which direction security spending is headed.
"Security budget is a difficult question, since such items are buried into other projects or operations," comments a telecom data/network engineer.
Most security is reactive. Organizations don't implement security measures until it's too late.
REALITY: Organizations are increasingly proactive about risk management and mitigation.
The annals of infosecurity are filled with stories of "closing the barn door after the horse has escaped." Oft-cited examples include Citibank, which spent millions shoring up IT security after hackers breached a customer database in 1995; and the Department of Energy, which opened the security checkbook (for both physical and IT security) following the Wen Ho Lee fiasco.
Old habits die hard, and some companies still won't pay attention to (or spend money on) security until they've been hacked. According to the Information Security Annual Survey, 13 percent of surveyed organizations "mostly" or "always" wait to implement security changes until after they've been compromised (see Figure 3).
Figure 4: Proactive vs. Reactive
However, the majority of corporations and government agencies have adopted a proactive approach to security, according to the survey. Eighty-four percent say they implement security changes as soon as a risk is identified. For example, these organizations begin testing a Microsoft patch or workaround as soon as they catch wind of a serious vulnerability. What's more, nearly 78 percent of respondents act when a risk is demonstrated -- for instance, when they discover the presence of a rootkit on a file server.
Put another way, only one-quarter of companies are mostly or always reactive to security incidents -- waiting to implement changes until after a breach, or until they're forced to do so by law or regulation. Eighty-one percent are mostly or always proactive, implementing changes as soon they become aware of a vulnerability or exploit (see Figure 4).
Figure 5: Regulatory Impact
A proactive approach in the face of emerging threats is a double-edged sword, however. Companies that rush to install patches without adequately assessing the risk to their systems -- or without testing their impact on server functionality before rolling them into production-may create more problems than they solve.
New security regulations are the primary drivers of security change.
REALITY: Most organizations are motivated to adopt security measures for other reasons.
HIPAA, GLBA, Sarbanes-Oxley, Basel-II, the California Security Breach Information Act (SB-1386) -- it's commonly assumed that these and other security-related laws and regulations are driving companies to ramp up their data security and privacy controls. While that's partially true, it's not the whole story.
Previous Information Security surveys show that most infosecurity managers support the government's involvement in mandating fundamental practices. Sixty-one percent of security pros say they'd support a law requiring minimum security practices, according to a January 2003 "Information Security survey."
Indeed, in some organizations, regulations are the only weapon security has to convince management that they must implement data security controls. As the saying goes, the executive suite doesn't care about "good" security; it cares about "good enough" security -- good enough to keep the auditors at bay.
For most security managers, however, "good enough" isn't good enough, and government regulations, while useful in many ways, are not a primary driver of security activity. According to the Information Security Annual Survey, only one in three organizations said they'll wait to implement security changes until they're required to do so by law or regulation. Forty-five percent of respondents said regulations "never" or "rarely" drive security actions (see Figure 5). The majority of respondents are motivating security change through more proactive security strategies and activities -- when budget permits, of course.
Figure 6: Risk Assessment Trends
"Most security measures implemented are because I am trying to be proactive for as little cost as possible," says one survey respondent, a network specialist in retail.
Only well-funded security departments and three-letter government agencies do formal IT risk analysis.
REALITY: Most organizations conduct some form of risk measurement.
At its heart, infosecurity is about determining the value of data and implementing appropriate safeguards. Risk analysis is the process of aligning security spending with identified risk, preventing you from spending a dollar to protect data worth a dime. All of which is great, except who has the resources, time or wherewithal to conduct formal risk assessments?
Turns out that 85 percent of organizations do, according to the Information Security survey (see Figure 6). More than half of surveyed organizations conduct qualitative assessments, which involve informal risk ratings, consultations with data owners and scenario-based risk modeling.
Figure 7: Risk Assessment by Organization Size
Surprisingly, 40 percent conduct more difficult quantitative assessments, which attempt to assign numeric values to assets and present potential losses in terms of actual dollar figures. Almost as many organizations say they perform benchmarking, a comparison of their security policies and practices with that of similar organizations.
"The only way to know your risks is to measure them," says the CTO of an IT consulting firm. "Periodic and on-demand testing helps us know our risks. Independent verification testing helps us with perspective."
Not surprisingly, the level and depth of risk analysis corresponds with company size. Larger organizations measure risk up to 25 percent more often than smaller organizations (see Figure 7). And almost twice as many very large organizations do benchmarking as small- or medium-sized companies.
Security procedures and technology adoption are hit and miss.
REALITY: Organizations implement a common set of "must-have" security measures.
Organizations often struggle with institutionalizing security "best practices" because they've discovered that what's best for someone else -- even a peer organization in the same industry facing similar challenges -- isn't what's best for them. Idiosyncrasies in network infrastructures combined with unique business demands make security best practices extremely difficult to codify.
Figure 8: Security Activities
However, organizations of all stripes and sizes have standardized on a set of basic technologies required for data security, according to the survey. Antivirus, perimeter security (e.g., firewalls) and network authentication are risk mitigation techniques that are almost always implemented in organizations (see Figure 8).
On the other hand, the survey also shows that some organizations still have a long way to go before they achieve "security maturity." While it's fashionable to talk about the importance of employee awareness programs and a defense-in-depth security architecture, organizations by and large don't consider these must-have security practices.
The increase in employee/contractor fraud, intellectual property leaks and corporate espionage has prompted organizations to change their focus from hackers and viruses to "insider security" issues.
REALITY: Mitigating external risks still consumes most security resources and time.
The boundary between "internal" and "external" risk continues to erode, as virtual networks, a mobile workforce and partner/supply-chain extranets replace traditional castle-and-moat infrastructures. It's never been more difficult to pinpoint exactly who's an insider, and who's not.
As the line between good guy and bad guy blurs, security pundits have predicted that organizations will devote more attention to risks posed by those closest to the data: their employees. But according to the SearchSecurity survey, that's not that case. When it comes to the security of Internet and intranet Web sites, 22 percent more security managers are concerned about outsider attacks than about insider security breaches (see Figure 9). Similarly, 26 percent more managers were concerned about an outsider attack on the network, data systems or applications. And despite the potential for huge loss, only one-quarter of respondents were "very" or "greatly" concerned about intellectual property theft or espionage by a corporate competitor.
Figure 9: Security Emphasis: Insider vs. Outsider
Maturing, But Not Mature
Taken together, the Information Security Annual Survey and SearchSecurity users survey show that IT security is becoming more professional. Bolstered by an increase in security spending, enterprises across the economic spectrum have adopted a set of security technologies and risk mitigation practices. Most organizations are making security decisions on the basis of measured risk, not on industry hype or FUD. And security departments have become proactive in their response to identified threats, as the interval between the announcement of security vulnerabilities and public exploits becomes shorter and shorter.
All of these trends point to a maturation in infosecurity practice and a continued acceptance of IT security as a part of doing business.
But there's still a long way to go. While budgets are up dramatically, security spending isn't driven by identified threats to the organization, but rather by the size of the installation base of computing equipment -- more equipment, bigger budget. What's more, budgets are up in large part because of the endless barrage of viruses and worms, prompting most companies to adopt a standard set of defensive technologies: firewalls, AV and network authentication. In the background, areas of higher risk -- damage from insiders, corporate espionage, user ignorance and apathy -- receive less attention.
Bottom line: security's not the pimply adolescent it once was, but neither is it ready take over the family business.
Andrew Briney, CISSP, is Information Security's editorial director.
Frank Prince is an independent IT consultant and former security analyst at Forrester Research.
This was last published in October 2003
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A: You could create a macro which would go through the entire document and apply the spaces after your style. Here is a sample:
   Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
   Selection.Find.Style = ActiveDocument.Styles("DescriptionItem")
   Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting
   With Selection.Find
       .Text = ""
       .Replacement.Text = "^&  "
       .Forward = True
       .Wrap = wdFindContinue
       .Format = True
       .MatchCase = False
       .MatchWholeWord = False
       .MatchWildcards = False
       .MatchSoundsLike = False
       .MatchAllWordForms = False
   End With
   Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll

You can do the same thing through the Find/Replace function (Ctrl+H)

A: In Microsoft Word 2010 (for Windows) you can insert typographical spaces from doing the following:
Insert --> Symbol --> More Symbols --> Special characters tab.
You can create your own shortcut keys from there too.
Otherwise, an en dash is approximately two regular spaces and an em dash is four regular spaces. You can look up editorium for more information (I am not affiliated). They have a tool under freebies called SpaceCadet, which was good for older versions of Word up to and before 2000 but I am not sure if it works now.

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Recently, NHS Digital has published two public consultations that are of broad public interest and deserving of comprehensive feedback. They are looking to define principles and standards for the use of NHS technology and data.
I've summarised and linked to them below in the hope that you will take a bit of time to take part.
It's positive that these consultations are out there for public input but sometimes they don't get the breadth of audience, and depth of attention, that they need to be effective.
The policy paper has received strong support from across the system, but to make these principles work for us we need to start "baking them in" to the way the the NHS works – at that point a bit more attention is required.
NHS Digital has published a draft of a new framework that will set out the core standards on technology and data by which all IT systems and digital services in the NHS must abide.
NHS Digital have prepared a set of 10 high-level principles for the management of data throughout the health and care system. They will guide national approaches to data management and the design of national services. They also inform the design of new data collections and updates to the NHS Data Model and Dictionary.


I am more than aware that we are coming up to the end of November so at this point, flip flops and summer weather have long gone and in some minds, feet have gone into hibernation for the winter, but not for me.
The ridiculous amount of walking I did in Florida last month has resulted in some rather unattractive hard skin, let's call a spade a spade here! I've had my Microplane Colossal Pedicure Rasp for around 18 months now and after converting from a few various other foot accessories, it blows my mind how good this bad boy is - its incredibly satisfying!
These rasps would make a good retail product as almost every client tells me 'they need one of those!' They do do a retail version which I haven't used. To be brutally honest, it's smaller and although I'm sure it would do just as good a job, the price difference really isn't that much so I would probably just retail the full sized version.
Anyway, I know this is a totally random post but after doing my own feet with it last night and it's likely that there are a few followers who are currently doing a pedicure course at this time of year, I figured I'd mention is anyway.
Sidenote: If you're not a pink fan it is also available in brown here.


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English I Pre-AP Teacher - IDEA Tres Lagos College Prep (20-21) Job Listing at IDEA Public Schools in Mc Allen, TX (Job ID o3BFbfwe)
Company: IDEA Public Schools
Location: Mc Allen, TX
Industries: Government, Nonprofit, Education
Position at IDEA Public Schools
About IDEA Public Schools:
At IDEA Public Schools, we believe in college for ALL and we are committed to ensuring that all our students graduate from college. IDEA Public Schools has grown from a small school to the fastest-growing network of tuition-free Pre-K-12 public charter schools in the United States sending 100% of our students to college. 50% of our students graduate from college in 6 years – that's 8 times the national rate for students in our communities!
IDEA was founded in 2000 as a single school with 150 students in the Rio Grande Valley. When interest exceeded building capacity, to meet the demands, IDEA's co-founders committed to serving more students in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas and beyond. We now serve nearly 53,000 students across Texas and Louisiana. By 2022, IDEA will serve 100,000 students. Be on the lookout for IDEA schools opening near you—with continued growth in our current regions and new launches in Houston (2020), Permian Basin (2020), and Tampa Bay (2021)!
When you choose to work at IDEA, you are part of our IDEA Team and Family. You will work alongside team members who set and reach ambitious goals every day, are excited to continue to grow with IDEA, and work relentlessly to make college for all a reality.
To learn more about IDEA, check out this video .
About the Rio Grande Valley:
Since 2000, IDEA Public Schools has grown from a school of 150 students in Donna, TX to the fastest- growing family of tuition-free, public charter schools in the United States. In the Rio Grande Valley, we are a nucleus of four counties (Cameron, Hidalgo, Starr and Willacy County) that work as one unit to support our children academically and holistically.
RGV is home to a population of just over 1.3 million residents. Children across the region truly benefit from IDEA's mission of college for all as only 1 out of 17 students' graduate college ready. Our mission holds true as we have 2,400 IDEA alumni that currently attend, or have graduated from, 150 colleges and universities across the country.
Join our passionate team of changemakers in south Texas as we prepare to expand our home region to 55 schools, serving over 38,000 students in 2022.
Role Mission:
IDEA ELA teachers are responsible for ensuring that every IDEA student masters the academic and social skills necessary to succeed in college, while also embodying IDEA's values daily. IDEA ELA teachers set ambitious goals for student achievement and diligently track student data to inform dynamic and effective daily lesson plans. IDEA ELA teachers seek feedback and continue to develop their teaching practice to better serve IDEA students. We strive to accomplish goal in two ways: by giving students the chance to experience rigorous and challenging material in high school and by giving them the opportunity to gain college-credit through dual-enrollment, AP, or IB courses.
Implement state learning standards and IDEA curricula and assessments to meet ambitious academic expectations
Learn, master, and deliver content and grade level curriculum, core content objectives, and texts
Submit weekly lesson plans two weeks in advance for feedback
Implement formal and informal assessments to track each individual student's progress and learning needs, adjust lesson plans accordingly and update gradebook weekly
Communicate students' progress with student and family on a weekly basis
Effective facilitation and personal use of technology as a communication and educational tool to improve student achievement and manage work related tasks.
Implement a clear and consistent behavior management system that aligns to campus- wide initiatives while developing students' character and sense of community in the classroom
Help shape and develop a school wide culture that fosters a productive and enthusiastic learning environment for each student
Establish and maintain a cooperative working relationship with students and families based on trust, understanding and respect for the communities in which they identify.
Host necessary tutoring sessions to meet all students' needs
Participate in weekly manager check-ins, grade-level meetings, before and after-school duties, and school wide meetings and functions
Engage in summer and year-long district, school and personal learning and development
Minimum of 40+ hours spent at school per week
Additional responsibilities may include: after-school tutoring or Saturday school and are based on the needs of our scholars
We look for Team and Family who embody the following values and characteristics:
Believes and is committed to our mission and being an agent of change: that all students are capable of getting to and through college
Has demonstrated effective outcomes and results, and wants to be held accountable for them
Has a propensity for action, willing to make mistakes by doing in order to learn and improve quickly
Works with urgency and purpose to drive student outcomes
Thrives in an entrepreneurial, high-growth environment; is comfortable with ambiguity and change
Seeks and responds well to feedback, which is shared often and freely across all levels of the organization
Works through silos and forges strong cross-departmental relationships in order to achieve outcomes
We believe in education as a profession and hold ourselves to high level of conduct, professionalism and behaviors as models for our colleagues and students.
Education: Bachelor's Degree from an accredited four-year educational institution
Experience: Experience in a classroom setting preferred
Licenses or Certifications: State certification preferred but not required
Knowledge and Skills:
Aligned or relevant coursework that indicates experience or exposure to the ELA content
Knowledge of core academic subject assigned and ability to pass a grade level aligned IDEA content assessment
Basic knowledge of curricula and instructional practices or implementation
Ability to instruct students and manage student behavior
Strong organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills
Ability to adjust and adapt to a multitude of situations in the school environment
Click here for the Teacher Salary Schedule.
This role is also eligible for various stipend opportunities and incentives through our Teacher Career Pathway. For more information about our total rewards, visit our benefits page.
Additional hourly compensation is provided for after school tutoring or Saturday school as assigned
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* Reference for the view.
* The game instance being controlled.
* Current piece being held by the mouse.
* X value of the piece being held, used to show possible moves.
* Y value of the piece being held, used to show possible moves.
* Flag to show possible moves when updating board.
* Event handler for button presses.
* @param e the ActionEvent captured.
* Helper function to process resigning.
* Helper function to process a confirmed takeback/undo.
* Launches a new window, resetting all statistics.
* @param type type of game.
* Get player's names and set them into view.
* Game over, add a point to the winner and start a new game.
* @param winner the player who won the game.
* Read in the model from gameManager and call public functions in View to set up the board.
//Highlight squares where the player can move with his currently selected piece.
* Helper function used to find the X and Y values representing the piece in the model of Component c.
* Get's model's x and y coordinates for the Component c. This function works by comparing all components to the current piece held by the mouse.
* @param c component to get coordinates for.
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John Fogerty Reveals Woodstock 50 Plans … If It Goes Ahead
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John Fogerty said he was planning to recreate Creedence Clearwater Revival's performance at Woodstock in 1969 if the 50th anniversary event goes ahead in August.
There's some doubt now whether or not Woodstock 50 will actually take place, after the main financier announced that the event had been canceled, leading promoter Michael Lang – who co-created the original festival – to insist it would go ahead and would be "a blast."
Fogerty, who last month took part in a press event announcing the anniversary show, said alarm bells had been going off for some time.
"They postponed announcing the tickets, and I remember reading a while ago that they didn't have some of the permits," he told Rolling Stone in a new interview. "That just blew my mind. You'd think it would be the first thing you'd do and not the last thing. You got the sense there was some shakiness to this whole thing. But the first Woodstock happened more by people wishing for it to happen than any effort of great organization."
He also said he was planning to play the 11-song set delivery by Creedence in 1969, and that he'd play the RIckenbacker guitar he had at the time after his wife located it in a collection and bought it back for him. Creedence were forced to go on later than expected after the Grateful Dead's show ran long, but Fogerty said he was "actually looking forward" to seeing Dead & Company at Woodstock 50.
Watch Creedence Clearwater Revival at Woodstock in 1969
"I was looking forward to seeing how [the festival] would get reworked 50 years later," he said. "What the young people would think about it and what the younger artists would think. It's not every day you get to go back to a 50-year reunion."
He added that he believed he was paid in advance, and if the festival didn't go ahead. he'd donate his fee to military veterans. "I'm from old-fashioned America," he explained. "I hate to be paid for doing nothing." Noting that he was still "ready to show up," he said. "For Woodstock 75, we can all still get together and sing 'Kumbaya.' They should start working on getting the permits right now."
Meanwhile, a TMZ report suggested that financiers Amlifi Live, a part of Dentsu Aegis Network, pulled out after the capacity for the event at Watkins Glen International Speedway in Watkins Glen, N.Y., was cut in half. The original intention was to sell 150,000 tickets, but city officials ruled that land had to be allocated for camping, meaning space was available for only 75,000 attendees.
"We're told Amplifi Live needed a minimum of 100,000 attendees to make a go of it, so the company pulled the plug," the report said. "It's kind of weird ... no one seemed to factor in that there aren't a whole lot of hotels or Airbnbs in the small New York town with a population of around 2,000."
Source: John Fogerty Reveals Woodstock 50 Plans … If It Goes Ahead
Filed Under: Creedence Clearwater Revival, John Fogerty, Woodstock, Woodstock 50th Anniversary


It was a tremendous sound when all 35+ clarinet players started playing the new arrangement of Ernest Tomlinson's English Folk Dances in a massed play towards the end of the event on Sunday.
The day started with a fantastic Masterclass, led by Barnaby Robson (Professor of Clarinet at the Royal College of Music), with two students working on prepared pieces, and then a quartet masterclass with Cirrus Clarinet Quartet. The two students were wonderfully accompanied by John Keys, one of them had their first go through with the piano in the masterclass. Both students responded well to the advice given and immediate progress was evident.
Yamaha produced several beautiful instruments for the day, including a beautiful Hamilton plated top-of-the-range YCLCSG, and an amazing soprano E-flat, played on the day by Nottingham's Nigel Hinson (on his birthday no less!).
Windblowers team were on hand to offer any advice regarding instruments and accessories, and Dave also joined in for the massed play on his stunning Contra-Bass clarinet.
A good time was had by all participants, many of whom asked when the next one was to be!
Special thanks to Barnaby, Jeremy & Stuart (Yamaha), John Keys and all the masterclass players.


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Covid-19 is "Final Nail in the Coffin" for many Rural Hospitals
Press Releases • October 12, 2020
ST. PAUL, Minn. — With the nation's attention riveted on Covid-19, the Citizens' Council for Health Freedom (CCHF) says the closures of the nation's hospitals—170 closures of rural hospitals in the last 15 years and growing—is not getting the attention it should receive.
COVID-19 and the Impact of ACA Consolidation
Press Releases • March 23, 2020
ST. PAUL, Minn. — With coronavirus spreading nationwide, the Citizens' Council for Health Freedom (CCHF) wants to remind Americans how ten years of the Affordable Care Act have created barriers and regulations that reduce patient access to care, not only during a nationwide public health crisis but every day of the year.
Congress Shouldn't Take Advantage of COVID-19 to Impose Price Controls on Doctors
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Citizens' Council for Health Freedom (CCHF) opposes any last-minute attempt by the U.S. Senate HELP committee, as reported by Modern Healthcare, to use COVID-19 legislation to impose price controls on physicians as a way of solving surprise medical bills.
'Lower Health Care Costs' Bill Won't Help Pocketbook, Will Put Plans in Charge of Doc Pay
ST. PAUL, Minn.—As the U.S. Senate and House return to work in Washington, D.C., this week, Citizens' Council for Health Freedom (CCHF, www.cchfreedom.org) is alerting lawmakers and the public about the "Lower Health Care Costs" bill and how it will actually hurt rather than help patients.
Socialized Medicine Threatens Patients' Freedom, Privacy, Access to Care and Much More
ST. PAUL, Minn.— A crowded field of 2020 presidential hopefuls is already sharing platforms with the American people. And most of the would-be candidates support an expanded role for government. But socializing medicine bit by bit, as the Affordable Care Act has done, or in one fell swoop, such as Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal's Medicare for All bill would do, certainly isn't the answer...
Surprise Medical Bills Are Not the Problem— The Network Is
ST. PAUL, Minn.—It's an all-too-common problem many Americans have faced.
Patients visit a hospital or provider for a service or treatment they thought was "covered" by their insurance, only to receive a surprise medical bill weeks later with out-of-pocket costs totaling hundreds or even thousands of dollars.
Medicare for All is a Pipe Dream
ST. PAUL, Minn.—Democrats are touting Medicare for All and free health care for everyone. There's just one problem, says Citizens' Council for Health Freedom (CCHF).
It won't work.
Essentia Medical Consent Form
Medical Privacy • February 12, 2019
Essentia Medical Consent Form Web Page
Perspective of Former Canadian Physician
Articles/Letters Published • November 20, 2018
It is basic economics that since a single payer system of health care has zero attached costs at the point of service, the system is overrun with demand for care. Since no government on earth can finance infinite demand for anything, the inevitable occurs and the government must ration care. In Canada, rationing is done in a covert manner by limiting medical resources.


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This column by ACRU Policy Board member Hans von Spakovsky and Elizabeth Slattery was published May 6, 2016 by Conservative Review.
With all due respect to Mr. Wolf, we have a different view of why Judge Garland's nomination should not be acted upon. The goal of the Senate Leadership's decision to provide their "Advice" to the president by sitting on the nomination was not to deny Mr. Obama another appointment to the Supreme Court. Rather, the goal was to give the American people the ability to weigh in on who should fill this crucial seat when they cast their votes this November and decide who will be the next president.
This decision upholds a longstanding Senate tradition. As Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, has pointed out, for more than 80 years it has been the upper chamber's standard practice not to confirm Supreme Court nominees for vacancies that arise during a presidential election year.
If Senate Republicans choose to change their strategy at this point, they would be turning their backs on the groundswell of grassroots support for what they are doing.
This goal should be met — and this tradition be kept—no matter who the parties nominate as their presidential candidates. American voters should decide what kind of justice should sit on the Supreme Court.
There is no question that playing Russian roulette with a Supreme Court vacancy is a political gamble for conservatives. Although we can't be sure what caliber judicial nomination Donald Trump would make as president, he suggested Judges Diane Sykes or Bill Pryor at a debate in February, both of whom would be fine choices.
On the other hand, as Wolf reminds us, the next president might nominate an extreme left-wing radical who is much younger than Garland. Although this is not to say that Garland, who was nominated to the D.C. Circuit of Appeals by President Bill Clinton and confirmed in 1997, is the "moderate" judge many in the media have portrayed him to be.
In fact, the exact opposite is true. The decisions that Judge Garland has written or participated in during his nearly 20 years on the bench reflect that he is neither a centrist nor a moderate. His judicial history leaves little doubt that he would be the solid fifth liberal vote that would roll back parts of the Bill of Rights like the First and Second Amendment; eviscerate any remaining limits on the power of the federal government; and "create" nonexistent rights in the Constitution to meet the desires of the progressive world.
But the Senate Republicans' strategy has never been about the merits of Judge Garland, and it should stay that way. Without the Senate's support, an outgoing president is not entitled to make a decision about a critical position with lifetime tenure in the third branch of government that will affect the country for decades after that president's term has long ended.
If Senate Republicans choose to change their strategy at this point, they would be turning their backs on the groundswell of grassroots support for what they are doing, as well as the principle they have fought for — that the American people deserve a voice in this process.


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LEE Kyung-jin is one of the most powerful figures in Joseon but has been faced with a family crisis – his sons were found dead on their first day of marriage. Left with only his youngest son, Myung-kyu, LEE brings Ok-bun in the hopes of avoiding another death but Myung-kyu also dies while spending his first night with Ok-bun as a married couple. Nonetheless, Ok-bun, who was sold for money, gets pregnant, and becomes the youngest daughter-in-law. She suffers from severe hostility from other women in the family while a series of brutal murder and mysterious incidents occur in their home. Ok-bun soon realizes that her unborn child's life is in grave danger.
Genre:Horror, Mystery
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Listening to Beethoven #205 – Der Wachtelslag WoO 129
Posted on February 8, 2022 by arcanafm
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Der Wachtelslag WoO 129 for voice and piano (1803, Beethoven aged 32)
Dedication not known
Text Samuel Friedrich Sauter
Duration 3'45"
Background and Critical Reception
The guide to this song on the website of the Beethoven-Haus Bonn lists it as a 'box office hit'. Certainly Beethoven was aware of the popularity of Der Wachtelschlag (The Call of the Quail), informing the publisher Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig, "I am offering you the following works for 300 gulden: A quail song, the text of which you may know. It consists of three verses, but my setting is entirely durchkomponiert (through-composed)"
For some reason the publishers did not take the song and it was released the following year by Kunst- und Industrie-Comptoir in Vienna. The autograph score hints at another dedication to Count Browne, but this did not carry over to the original.
For Susan Youens, writing booklet notes for Signum Classics, the song "belongs to the antique tradition of bird calls in music…a bird whose calls invoke God". She compares Beethoven's setting with a later one from Schubert. "Both men inevitably devised the same dotted rhythmic figure for the quail's calls". Beethoven, however, "takes the poem far more seriously and from the perspective of the human being who listens to these worshipful injunctions. Ranging farther afield tonally than his younger contemporary, Beethoven's storms are more tempestuous (the low bass rumble of thunder is a particularly wonderful detail), his acclamations of God's praise grander, and his pleas for God's aid more plangent."
This is surely one of Beethoven's most descriptive and dramatic songs – and is an indication of his development into a song composer of greater experimentation. The form of the song is quite unusual, being through-composed and taking an operatic air at times. Beethoven also brings the piano and voice close together in a shared depiction of the source material.
As Youens notes above, the rumble of the piano, low in the left hand, is a brilliant dramatic touch, while the 'recitative' nature of some of his vocal writing brings Handel to mind (to this ear at least!). Around the time of this song Beethoven had been working on a large, dramatic score (Christus am Ölberge, to be covered shortly) and this may be a fruitful result of the inspiration from that stage work.
It certainly makes a strong impact!
Recordings used
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Jörg Demus (piano) (Deutsche Grammophon)
Peter Schreier (tenor), András Schiff (piano) (Decca)
Barbara Hendricks (soprano), Love Derwinger (piano) (Arte Verum)
Christopher Maltman (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano) (Signum Classics)
Hermann Prey (baritone), Leonard Hokanson (Capriccio)
Dietrich Fisher-Dieskau is the ideal singer for this song, forcefully bringing it to life with the equally fervent tones of Jörg Demus. Yet his is not the only way to express Beethoven's thoughts – Peter Schreier and András Schiff may be higher up the register (F major rather than D), and they glower less, but they still invest plenty of feeling in the text. The other versions listed are also very fine – including soprano Barbara Hendricks and Love Derwinger, at the same higher pitch but with a sharper tone from the singer. Christopher Maltman and Hermann Prey complete a formidable discography.
Also written in 1803 Krommer Symphony no.2 in D major Op.40
Next up Christus am Ölberge (Christ on the Mount of Olives), Op.85
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The combination of all of the versions of all of the genes in a species is called the gene pool of the species.
The DNA of a fruit fly is arranged on five chromosomes.
There are about 250 million base pairs in this DNA.
There are 13,601 individual genes (reference).
Each gene appears at a certain location on a certain chromosome, and there are two copies of the gene. The location of a particular gene is called the locus of the gene. Each of the two copies of the gene is called an allele.
The two alleles are the same, or homozygous.
The two alleles are different, or heterozygous.
If we look across a population of 1,000 fruit flies living in a jar, we might identify a total of 20 different alleles that occupy locus 1 on chromosome 1. Those 20 alleles are the gene pool for that locus. The set of all alleles at all loci is the full gene pool for the species.
Over time, the size of a gene pool changes. The gene pool increases when a mutation changes a gene and the mutation survives (see How Evolution Works for details). The gene pool decreases when an allele dies out. For example, let's say that we took the 1,000 fruit flies described in the previous paragraph and selected five of them. These five fruit flies might possess a total of only three alleles at locus 1. If we then let those flies breed and reproduce to the point where the population is once again 1,000, the gene pool of this 1,000 flies is much smaller. At locus 1, there are only three alleles among the 1,000 flies instead of the original 20 alleles.
This is exactly what happens when a species faces extinction. The total population dwindles down to the point where there might be just 100 or 1,000 surviving members of the species. In the process, the number of alleles at each locus shrinks, and the gene pool of the species contracts significantly. If conservation efforts are successful and the species rebounds, then it does so with a much smaller pool of genes to work with than it had originally.
The two most common places to see these effects is in animals nearing extinction and in animal breeds.
A lot of care must be taken when breeding animals in order to avoid genetic diseases. When breeding, it is sometimes helpful to outcross. In outcrossing, an animal outside the breed is allowed to mate with an animal inside the breed. The offspring from that mating increase the size of the gene pool, decreasing the probability of genetic diseases being passed on.
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The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ordered Britain to hand back the Chagos Islands, including Diego Garcia, to Mauritius "as rapidly as possible." This follows its landmark ruling that the UK's occupation of the Chagos Islands was unlawful.
The decision by an overwhelming majority of 13 to 1, with only the US voting against, follows the UN General Assembly's decision in 2017 to refer the legal status of the Chagos Islands to the ICJ, the UN's highest court.
The Chagos Islands make up the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), located halfway between Tanzania and Indonesia. Diego Garcia, the largest island, is the site of one of the largest US airbases with some 4,000 US troops as well as British troops stationed there. The implication of the ICJ's ruling is that the UK's leasing of Diego Garcia to the US is illegal.
The ICJ's ruling will be discussed at the UN general assembly, which has already voiced its opposition to Britain's position by referring the issue to the ICJ in 2017.
The ICJ's ruling has no binding status. The British government, determined to hold onto its colonial possessions, has rejected both the ICJ's order and its unanimous ruling that it has jurisdiction because it relates to a UN process of decolonization, not a dispute between two states.
The exact opposite is the case, with Britain allowing the CIA to use Diego Garcia as a "dark site" where it detained and tortured people and to refuel extraordinary rendition flights.
In February 2016, Britain also rejected a UN human rights panel ruling that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who sought asylum inside the Ecuadorean embassy in London due to his persecution by the Swedish and British authorities, has been subjected to "arbitrary detention" in violation of international law.
For more than five decades, Britain has carried out one crime after another against the Chagossians—lying, ignoring court decisions, and covering up its actions in pursuit of its imperialist interests.
Harold Wilson's Labour government granted Mauritius independence in 1968, but not before separating the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius, in breach of UN resolution 1514 passed in 1960 banning the breakup of colonies before independence. It then forcibly evicted the vast majority of Chagossians from the archipelago and prevented their return.
The UK denied Mauritius complete independence on all its territories and the 1,344 islanders' right to return to their homeland to provide the US with a military base, free of local residents. It signed a sordid deal with Washington that was kept secret from both Parliament and the US Congress. This granted the US a 50-year lease on Diego Garcia in return for an $11 million discount on the US-made Polaris nuclear weapons system, which Labour had, when in opposition, pledged to scrap.
Starting in 1965, the islanders were illegally deported to Mauritius and the Seychelles, another former British colony, where they have lived in desperately impoverished conditions, with a few being allowed into Britain. Since then, they and their descendants, who now number 10,000, have campaigned for their rights against a conspiracy of silence, obfuscation, temporising and lies.
In 1982, the UK paid Mauritius the derisory sum of £4 million for the archipelago on an ex-gratia basis. The 1,344 islanders, as a condition of accepting the funds, were required to renounce their right to return to the BIOT. In the 1990s, the few who settled in Britain finally won the right to British citizenship.
In 2000, representatives of the Chagossians came from Mauritius and the Seychelles to pursue a case against the Labour government of Tony Blair, winning a historic ruling that confirmed that the eviction was illegal. British government officials—duplicitous as ever—declared that the indigenous citizens were free to return, but to the "outer homeland islands only." While the High Court again ruled that the Chagossians were entitled to return, the Foreign Office won on appeal in 2008.
Investigative journalist John Pilger brought the plight of the islanders to the world's attention with his film Stealing a Nation in 2004.
After the WikiLeaks revelations, the Chagossians launched an appeal against the declaration of the reserve. In a perverse decision, UK high court judges, Lord Justice Richards and Mr. Justice Mitting, refused to accept the Foreign Office documents as evidence, even though they were now in the public domain, claiming that it would "breach diplomatic privilege." In effect, they ruled that evidence obtained from leaks or whistle-blowers was inadmissible, setting a dangerous precedent. In June 2013, the judges found against the Chagossians, arguing that the reserve was compatible with European Union law.
In 2015, Mauritius won a ruling at the permanent court of arbitration at The Hague that Britain had acted illegally in the way it had exercised control over the Chagos Islands. It criticised London for failing to consult over establishing a marine reserve around the archipelago, but this changed nothing.
In 2016, after years of delays, the Foreign Office finally announced that Chagos islanders would not be given the right of return to resettle, arguing that the cost and US objections made it impossible. This was confirmed last week, when in a largely unreported ruling the Divisional Court found against the Chagossians' legal challenge to the 2016 decision.
The 2004 Orders-in-Council issued a new legal ban on Chagossians living in their homeland, after their successful legal challenge to the original deportation. The Orders were brought in without any parliamentary vote or scrutiny, and effectively exiled Chagossians for a second time.


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5 Shows Like The Witcher If You're Looking for Something Similar
Published on January 4, 2020 | Updated on January 5th, 2020 at 10:34 pm Andrew McMahon
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The Witcher has been dubbed as "the next Game of Thrones" for a good reason.
Both feature plenty of adult subject matter, fantastical elements, and intense medieval battles that leave you on the edge of your seat.
Alongside this, both shows are character dramas, focusing on the struggles the main characters find themselves having to overcome.
More than anything, neither show is afraid to explore the seedy underbelly of the politics and poverty of the world, as well as the morally gray characters that make it up.
While they do have some differences regarding structure, the similarities in both setting and source material are strikingly similar.
Another series that borrows source material from the books of the same name, The Last Kingdom takes place during late 9th century AD, a time when England was divided into seven separate kingdoms.
Through the eyes of fictional protagonist Uhtred of Bebbanburg, the show mixes historically inspired events with innovative stories surrounding the time period. Themes of upbringing, loyalty, and many other politically-fueled subject matters are among those explored in The Last Kingdom, providing plenty of intrigue along the way.
Though it is certainly more historical fantasy, fans will find the characters and scenarios are certainly in line with the overarching story of The Witcher's weaving main plot.
In a world ruled by magic and the Wizards who wield it, the province of Westland lives separate, using a barrier to keep the sorcery at bay. Secrets and powerful people dwell deep within this barrier, though, and it is up to a group of adventurers to find them.
Much like The Witcher, Legend of the Seeker deals with the destruction that tyranny and war can cause, especially when magic is involved.
Prophosphy also plays a heavy role in moving the plot forward, as a young man, Richard Cypher, must accept his destiny and learn from a powerful Wizard in the hopes to save the world.
Can't get enough of the grit that accompanies alley fights in Blaviken? How about the brute culture that surrounds the isles of Skellige?
If you enjoyed either of those in The Witcher, then Vikings is definetly in your wheelhouse.
As the title dictates, Vikings is a fantastical version of the Nordic sagas of Viking Ragnar Lothbrok, better known as the scourge of England and France.
Follow Ragnar's rise, from his humble beginnings as a farmer to his coronation as a Scandinavian King, experiencing all of the action and drama that unfolds along the way.
The Tudors quietly altered the landscape of television when it debuted on Showtime back in 2007, combining historical text with modernized fiction to create one of the most compelling dramas on television.
Set primarily in 16th-century England, the show focuses on the early years of King Henry VIII's illustrious 40-year reign of England.
While it definetly explores more on the government side of things, fans of The Witcher will surely enjoy the wit and spectacle that accompanies it all.
From a familiarity standpoint, it also helps that Geralt of Rivia himself is in the show. Henry Cavil shines in a supporting role as Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk throughout the entire series.
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Sucking of the teeth and a slight shake of the head. I was speed-mentoring with SetSquared.
50% liked my pitch, 25% loved it, 25% didn't have a clue why I had built EvantoDesk [figures not exact by the way].
"Only about 5% of customers on a freemium model upgrade to a paid plan".
The potential cost of a highly popular Free Plan!
They were of course all valid points. And, who was I, a veteran of just 1 start-up, to disagree? These guys were highly successful entrepreneurs and mentors with SetSquared (officially ranked the world's Top Business incubator).
Yet, I did disagree. And, 6 months on, I'm still glad I did.
The reasons are outlined below.
In those 6 months, thanks in large to an amazing review by Capterra, we drove our customer base to over 200 customers without spending a penny on marketing. Most of these customers utilised our Free Plan.
They picked up small bugs that had been missed from our extensive beta testing. This was always going to happen - bugs will hide until there is a big enough volume of users, using an app in their own unique way, to unearth all the issues.
Using Google Analytics we were able to monitor exactly how many clicks these links generated. The average clicks over a 6 month period was 1.18%. That's free driven traffic and free advertising. What we should have then done is monitor how many of these led to conversions but given that we have about a 10% conversion rate on site visitors, it would probably be close to that.
The model of EvantoDesk is such that, after perhaps some initial help, customers just get on with it and we don't hear from them too often. As such, supporting 200 customers for free was entirely possible for us.
To work out how many customers you can support for free, work out how many minutes (m) you need to spend on average each week to support 1 customer. Divide these minutes into the available minutes you can spend for free on support each week (e.g. 37 hours x 60 = n).
So n/m = number of customers you can support.
The plan was always to cap the number of Free Plan customers at 200. Mainly for the reasons described by the mentors at SetSquared i.e. that as a boot-strapped company, we didn't have the resources to support more than 200 business for free.
So, as from now, we are no longer offering a Free Plan. Of course, those already on the Free Plan, can stay on it for as long as they like and we'll continue to give them outstanding customer service. After all, they've been instrumental in helping us build the EvantoDesk brand.
This post by ChargeBee is fantastic if you want a more detailed, technical analysis of whether or not offering a Free Plan is a good idea for you.
Careful consideration has to be taken when considering whether or not to offer a Free Plan for your business. If done right, it can help take your business to the next level. If done wrong, it can sink you like a stone.
So, always consider, how many customers you can support with the resources you have (use our calculation above).
Always consider pros and cons unique to your business. For us, we include a link to EvantoDesk on each email our Free Plan customers send.
Free plans are certainly not for every business so always consider the uniqueness of your business and then perhaps, like us, you can leverage a Free Plan is such a way that it can benefit and grow your company.


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Basic Gas Station Lighting Requirements and Standards
When you go to a gas station, chances are you don't give much thought to the station's lighting unless you're there at night. Even then, your mind may not be too preoccupied with the lighting, as you are likely thinking about other things. However, there is a lot that goes into gas station lighting that you may not have considered. There are requirements and standards to be met in order to ensure that gas stations are not only efficiently lit, but also safe and secure. With this in mind, you may change the way you see gas stations, and you may even notice when a station steps up their lighting standards to make a better experience for their customers.
Basic Gas Station Lighting Standards
At gas stations, there are a few rules for lighting that should be followed to ensure safety and energy conservation. As these stations are often open late into the night, if not all night, they use quite a lot of energy, making proper lighting standards a must. There is a bit of a push and pull between the brightness of the lights, and not choosing bulbs that burn bright but go out quickly. With this in mind, the basic gas station lighting standards include:
• Adequate Lighting for Visibility and Safety
• Power Conservation
Types of Lighting Used for Gas Stations
At gas stations, there is one standard type of lighting: canopy lighting. Due to the setup of a gas station and the functionality of one, this type of lighting is the easiest and most efficient one to use.
Some gas stations may utilize "lamp post lighting" or lighting in which pumps are clustered around an industrial street lamp or lamp post. This style is quickly dying out, though, as canopy lighting is gaining more and more popularity across the country. Due to its sleeker design, set up, and efficiency, canopy lighting is seen as a better fit for modern fill-up stations.
Canopy lighting, as opposed to lamp post lighting is executed by erecting a canopy or "ceiling" that completely covers the pumps of a gas station. This canopy is held up my sturdy pillars where the pumps are most often stationed as well. Within the canopy are super-bright bulbs that bathe the entire station in light, not just the pumps. This gives customers visibility both from the street and within the actual station, cutting down on shadows and dark areas where people can hide or lurk, especially at night.
One supplier of canopy lighting is ATG Electronics. They've recently debuted the eLucent Nebula Canopy, which transforms the way gas station canopies are seen. This new design is sleek and beautiful, with a one-inch profile that gives any gas station an enviable minimalist aesthetic. Easily set up, great for the environment, and a total money-saver, this product is making some serious positive change for gas stations in Southern California and beyond.
If you must use a "lamppost lighting" gas station, be sure to use it during daylight hours to avoid dangerous situations!
Benefits of Proper Lighting for Gas Stations
Proper lighting at gas stations comes with a number of benefits both for the patrons and the business itself. Aside from gas prices and similar factors, lighting does play a major part in how well any one gas station does business-wise. Here are some of the benefits proper lighting can offer:
• More Customers: That's right, the better lit the gas station is, the more customers will flock to it. This is primarily because more light means more safety, or a better feeling of safety overall. When things are well-lit, there is a much lower risk of theft, assault, and other serious crimes and issues from happening, making customers more likely to choose a well-lit station over, say, a dimmer option across the street.
• More Safety: This may seem redundant, but a feeling of safety and actual safety are very different. The truth is that a properly-lit station won't only make a customer feel safe, it will actually make them safer. This is especially true for vulnerable customers such as teens and young adults, and women of varying ages getting gas by themselves. Where there's more light, security cameras have better visibility, and criminals are less likely to act where they can be found out. In addition, there's safety in numbers: more customers mean more people to look out for one another, which makes the environment much safer overall!
• Better Advertisement for the Main Product Fuel: The main product fuel of a specific gas station will also have better advertisement thanks to proper lighting. It's a great way to advertise and get the word out on new products and prices, which can attract even more customers.
Proper lighting for a gas station doesn't have to be luxury. With new products and suppliers, canopy lighting is affordable and accessible to all gas stations and fuel suppliers. It's safer, easier, and saves more energy, making it worthwhile for the environment as well.
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