UNC's recycling program makes Residence Hall recycling easy. Every residence hall room is provided with a blue tote for students to collect all recyclable materials, including newspapers and magazines, bottles and cans, and mixed paper. This blue tote is part of each room's equipment/furniture.
Take the recycling that you collect in the tote to the nearest Outdoor Site (blue carts located near your residence hall's dumpster site) and separated into the appropriate roll carts.
Residential Green Games is a student-run environmental competition among the fifteen housing communities at UNC. Green Games seeks to promote student awareness regarding issues of campus sustainability, energy and water conservation, waste reduction, recycling and other environmental concerns. The aim is to present opportunities for students to learn about these issues from one another and then we encourage them to incorporate what they've learned into their daily routines and lives here at UNC.
At the end of the fall semester 2018, plastic film recycling locations were installed behind the community desks in each residence hall community. The collection containers were furnished by RHA, and are serviced by OWRR staff. For information about what you can recycle with plastic film, please see this flyer.
Don't Ditch It, Donate It is making great things happen with the good stuff UNC students leave behind! Our students end up with a lot of stuff at the end of the year, and when they move out for the summer they can't take it all with them. Futons, carpets, televisions, desk lamps, binders, food, school supplies, microwaves… If these valuable items didn't find their way into the donation bin, they would be landfilled.
Empty and flatten cardboard boxes used for packing.
Bring these boxes to the blue recycling dumpsters located next to all trash dumpsters on campus. Look for special large containers labeled for cardboard recycling only.
Please be sure all packing material has been removed from boxes. DO NOT put plastic wrap or foam packing material in the cardboard recycling dumpsters.
Please place any regular trash in the appropriately labeled dumpster. Trash dumpsters on campus are usually green or gray in color.
Keep an eye out for shrink wrap and Styrofoam recycling areas at each residence hall recycling site!
Note: Cardboard is banned from the Orange County landfill. Every year the University pays thousands of dollars in fines from people disposing of this material in the regular trash. Don't trash UNC. Please recycle!
What do I do with my personal compost bucket?
If you checked out a compost bucket through the room enhancement program, you can hold on to it for use next year! If you're unable to keep it for reuse, the bins can be recycled since they're made of recyclable plastic.
What do I do with all my other stuff I'm not keeping?
Check out our Don't Ditch It, Donate It guide below!
As you start packing for move-out from the residence halls, you may discover that you've collected a lot more "junk" than you arrived with. You'll probably decide that some of this stuff will have to go, but don't throw it away! Other people can use items you think are junk, and you don't need to go very far to find a place to donate your stuff.
Though it may be tempting, remember that individuals are not permitted to enter dumpsters or remove items from donation stations. The only groups that are permitted to remove items from dumpster sites and donation stations are TROSA, OWRR, and Housing Support. More information.
For more move-out donation information, visit UNC Housing's website.
Appliances should be in good working order.
Broken appliances should be discarded in the open-top dumpsters. Please do not place broken appliances in the closed-top dumpsters.
Athletic equipment should be cleaned and in working order.
Please clean and fold bedding before donating.
Textbooks, novels, and paperbacks should be readable with the binding still intact.
Please place unusable books in the mixed paper recycling.
Please clean, vacuum, roll, and tie the carpets with the print side FACING OUT. Please leave them INSIDE in the donation station areas. If the area is full, please leave them adjacent to the dumpsters, but not inside.
Please do not dispose of carpet in the closed-top dumpsters.
Unopened, unused cleaning supplies may be placed in the donation stations.
Shoes should match and be tied together.
Please dispose of dirty, stained, or torn clothes in the dumpster.
All electronics may be placed in the donation stations. Electronics will be donated to TROSA for reuse, repair and resale.
Must be unopened, unused, and in good condition (not past its expiration date).
Please dispose of opened foods. Cans may be rinsed and recycled in the blue outdoor carts.
All furniture or household appliances should be clean and in good working order.
Broken furniture may be left outside in the open-top dumpsters adjacent to the permanent dumpster area. (Please do not place broken furniture, scrap metal, or appliances in the regular dumpsters).
Place futon frames (and other scrap metal) next to the outdoor dumpster sites for recycling.
Composition books, notebooks, and paper should be free of any writing.
Implements (pens, staplers, etc.) should be in good working order.
Please place any used notebooks and other paper in the mixed paper recycling.
Shoes should match and be tied together at the donation station.
Bath and personal products should be unopened and unused.
Please dispose of any unwanted used products. Rinse bottles and recycle in the blue outdoor carts.
Clean, untreated wood waste may be placed next to the outside dumpster for recycling.
Treated or painted wood waste should be placed in the open-top dumpster.
If you have questions about additional materials, please contact us at 919-962-1442 or recycling@fac.unc.edu.
Where are my donation stations, extra trash containers and bulky waste sites?
All scrap metal (including futon frames) should be placed in the designated Bulky Waste sites next to the dumpsters and extra containers.
The sites will be marked by labeled orange cones.
The materials will be picked up and recycled.
Do not place futon frames and carpet in the dumpsters.
Donation stations inside residence halls, as well as extra trash containers and bulky waste containers outside residence halls will be in place by Friday, April 28. Thank you for disposing of your waste properly and donating usable materials!
Extra trash containers will be placed next to or near the permanent dumpster sites unless otherwise noted.
Contact us at 919-962-1442 or recycling@fac.unc.edu if you have questions about your move-out waste locations.
This year, most of the items donated will go to Triangle Residential Options for Substance Abusers (TROSA). TROSA is a comprehensive two year residential substance abuse recovery program in Durham. Substance abusers live on TROSA's drug-free campus where they are provided vocational training, education, counseling, mentoring, leadership training, and aftercare. Residents gain work experience at one of TROSA's many businesses, including moving and storage, lawn care, furniture and frame, grocery, and tree lots. Over 1100 people have graduated from the program and gone on to live healthy, productive lives as members of their communities and families.
The end of April marks the end of the collegiate Spring semester. It's time for the population in Chapel Hill to drop and for the number of available parking spots to rise. It is also time for a huge slug of move-out goodies to hit the landfill. Do your part to make move out less waste-full. Use the following guidelines to reduce waste, support local charities, and recycle as much as possible!
If you are interested in an end-of-year-move-out collection point at your apartment complex for clean, dry clothing, canned foods and usable household goods, contact our office and we will work with you to set up such a site and help provide publicity to your residents as they prepare to move out. Our office would provide a set of labeled, clean roll carts during the month of May. Your obligation would be to publicize the program, locate carts in a secure, dry area that is easily accessible for residents. Periodic policing will help ensure that the contents are usable and sanitary. Let us know if you would like a set of roll carts for clothing, canned goods and small household items.
Reusable furniture and other household items in good condition can be offered for reuse at "Salvage Sheds" located at Solid Waste Convenience Centers except for BVradshaw Quarry Rd. Used mattresses can NOT be left at Solid Waste Convenience Centers.
Solid Waste Convenience Centers have recycling collection for bottles, cans, jars, mixed paper, newspaper, magazines, non-bottle plastics such as yogurt tubs and stadium cups and corrugated cardboard. Recycle all batteries, motor oil, antifreeze, televisions, computers, cell phones and other electronic devices there too!
Electronics can also be recycled at the Orange County Landfill on Eubanks Rd. in Chapel Hill. Hours are Monday – Friday 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday 7:30 a.m. to noon.
Clothing and household items in good condition can be donated to local charities and pick-up can be arranged for large loads.
Club Nova Thrift Shop, 103-C West Main Street, Carrboro 919-967-6985.
Furniture and appliances in good condition can be picked up by the Habitat for Humanity Hand-Me-Up store. Appliances must work and be less than 10 years old. Call 919-403-8668 to schedule a collection if you can't drop your items off at 5501 Durham-Chapel Hill Boulevard, Durham, NC 27707.
Donate unopened cans and boxes of non-perishable food items and unused personal care items to the Inter-Faith Council Food Pantry at 110 West Main Street in Carrboro, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. weekdays. If you need to make special arrangements for weekend drop-off, call them at 919-929-6380 ext. *16. Unserved perishable food can be brought directly to the Community House Facility at 100 W. Rosemary St.
Styrofoam packing peanuts and bubble wrap should be brought to local packaging companies like "Pack It Ship It" at MidTown Market on Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, or UPS packaging stores throughout the County. Packing materials should not be left at the recycling dropoff sites.
Metal cans, plastic bottles, glass bottles and jars and all clean, dry paper including, newspapers, phonebooks, envelopes, junk mail, class notes, can be recycled at all five of the 24-hour recycling drop-off sites.
If the site is full, please take the recyclables to another site (usually Meadowmont site or Hampton Pointe site at Home Depot in Hillsborough are underutilized). Never ever leave plastic bags at a drop-off site. Take clean, dry empty plastic or paper bags to grocery stores to be recycled.
Hazardous Waste such as "CFLs" (compact fluorescent lights), paint, hair spray, bug spray, drain cleaner and any flammable, toxic or corrosive liquids should be taken to the Hazardous Household Waste (HHW) Collection at the Orange County Landfill on Eubanks Road. HHW is open Monday through Friday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday 7:30 a.m. to noon.
Please contact Orange County Solid Waste Management if you have any move-out questions!
The ResHall Composting pilot program was launched in the spring semester of 2014 at four residential communities.
Currently, all residence hall communities besides Granville Towers have compost carts just outside, or near their communities. Some communities share a compost cart with other communities. Compost carts may either be green or black, but both should be clearly labeled for compostables only and clearly distinct from the blue recycling carts. (Pictures to the right.) Residents in these communities can check out a small compost bin for personal use and then empty their food scraps into the outdoor community collection cart provided by OWRR. The bins are airtight and are small enough to fit in a mini-fridge. Residents are responsible for regularly emptying and cleaning their personal bins and may keep their bins for the following year, or recycle it at the end of the year. The carts outside the communities are emptied twice weekly by OWRR and combined with the rest of Carolina's compostables, which are sent to Brooks Contractor.
Questions? Contact OWRR or Ask The Compost Cow (see video below)!
How do I compost at my residence hall?
If you live in one of the participating communities, you are in luck! You can check out a personal compost bin from your community office through the RHA Enhancements program.
*This is a different procedure from last year. Residents are NOT required to return bins at the end of the year!
What can I compost at my residence hall?
The primary purpose of composting is to divert food waste from landfills while creating a naturally sustainable fertilizer which returns nutrients back to the soil.
Food waste doesn't biodegrade in a landfill. Landfills are designed so that organic material doesn't break down rapidly. Over time in a landfill, buried organic materials break down anaerobically (without oxygen) and produce methane (a greenhouse gas with a warming potential about 25 times that of carbon dioxide).
But food "waste" doesn't need to go to waste! Through composting, it can be turned into nutrient rich soil amendment. Though there are a variety of methods, the end result is always compost, which improves soil structure, has benefits for erosion and runoff control, returns macro and micronutrients to the soil, and stabilizes soil pH. As you can see, there are many reasons to compost!
What is compost? What is it used for and what are its benefits?
Increases infiltration and permeability of heavy soils, thus reducing erosion and runoff.
Improves water holding capacity, thus reducing water loss and leaching in sandy soils.
Supplies beneficial microorganisms to soils and growing media.
Visit the U.S. Composting Council to learn more about composting and its benefits.


Graphic Audio Equalizer supports up to 10 frequency bands.
Suited for variety of mobile devices including mobile phones, PDAs, and portable media players, SRS Mobile EQ(TM) software-based graphic equalizer features adjustable frequency band controls and minimizes interband interference. Available for ARM 9-based processors and Windows Mobile OS, it provides ±12 dB per band on small-sized speakers. Product offers low MIPS/channel and high audio control, allowing users to craft and save their preferred sound styles.
SANTA ANA, Calif., Aug. 21 / SRS Labs, Inc. (NASDAQ:SRSL), a leading provider of surround sound, audio and voice technologies today announced the launch of SRS Mobile EQ, a graphic EQ (audio equalizer) solution designed specifically for mobile phones and portable media devices.
SRS Mobile EQ software-based graphic equalizer supports up to 10 frequency bands and offers superior audio quality through adjustable frequency band controls. Manufacturers can apply SRS Mobile EQ on a variety of mobile devices including mobile phones, PDAs and portable media players, providing extremely accurate control of frequency range. With Mobile EQ, SRS Labs introduces a proprietary filtering algorithm that minimizes interband interference. This is a marked improvement over EQ solutions currently in the market that use a series of bandpass filters where the filters in one band often cause interference in the adjacent frequency band.
For product developers, SRS Mobile EQ implementations can start as low as only 4 MIPS/channel. EQ is a standard function for music phones; however, in mobile phones battery life is always a critical factor because music listening time reduces talk time. SRS saw the need to provide a significantly lower MIPS/memory EQ for mobile devices, which not only saves precious battery life, but also provides up to a full 10-bands of extremely accurate EQ for superior sound quality for music and video. SRS Mobile EQ provides ±12dB per band to achieve higher quality sound at higher decibel levels on the small-sized speakers common to personal telecommunication and portable media devices, meeting the "loudness" requirements of many telecomm carriers.
For mobile phone and portable media device users, SRS Mobile EQ, one element of a range of mobile audio solutions from SRS, offers unprecedented audio control, allowing consumers to craft and save their preferred sound styles, for headphone and speaker listening, as personalized mobile music and video presets. In addition to user presets, SRS Labs, a leader in audio processing, has expertly tuned presets for SRS Mobile EQ, which includes Classical, Jazz, Dance, Rap/Hip Hop, Rock, Live Concert and Normal (Flat EQ).
"The demonstrable benefits of the SRS Mobile EQ technology allows our platform partners and portable device manufacturers to differentiate their mobile devices from all others on the market today, with improved audio quality and increased battery life," explained Tom Yuen, CEO for SRS Labs.
SRS Mobile EQ is available immediately on the Microsoft Windows Mobile Operating System as an object code package for ARM9-based processors. Subsequent platforms will be available shortly. Commercial licensing for SRS Mobile EQ is available directly from SRS Labs.
SRS Labs is a leader in audio signal processing for consumer electronics. Founded in 1993, SRS Labs holds 129 worldwide patents, with another 34 pending, for advanced audio, voice and surround sound technologies that optimize and improve the listening experience through techniques based on research into the human auditory system. Through partnerships with leading global manufacturers and semiconductor and software partners, over one billion products have shipped worldwide utilizing SRS audio technologies, primarily from one of three main technology families, SRS WOW®, SRS TruSurround® and SRS Circle Surround®. SRS Labs audio and voice processing provides the best possible sound from all content and in every environment including HDTVs, mobile phones, portable media devices, A/V components, PCs and automotive entertainment. And with 38 percent of the 58 million flat panel televisions shipped in 2006 featuring SRS audio processing, SRS Labs sets the standard for HDTV audio processing. Additionally, SRS Labs surround sound solutions provide the professional broadcast and recording industries with high- performance production, back-haul, storage, and transmission capability. SRS Labs supports manufacturers worldwide with offices in the US, China, Europe, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. For more information, visit http://www.srslabs.com/.


I've listened to "My Sharona" plenty of times before but I've somehow missed out on The Knack's album, "Get The Knack". Wikipedia tells me it was massive and rightly so - it's actually pretty awesome! There are some really great moments and it's certainly worth a listen. What do you think? I think it's a decent inclusion on Kurt's list.


This month's Employee Spotlight features Dr. Ivan Srut, O.D. Dr. Srut is the Chief Optometrist here at St. Hope.
This month we are proud to present the latest episode in our SHF Employee Spotlight series. This month we feature Patient Care Specialist Mayra Canales.


My watercolor sunflower painting series is very near and dear to my heart. My close family and longtime friends know and understand that sunflowers are part of my soul and signature. They have always been a primary or subtle subject in my. When I transferred from Illustration board to 140# Arches cold press paper, it was inevitable that the "IF I HAD ONE FLOWER IN MY GARDEN: SUNFLOWER SERIES" would cultivate.
The overall concept of the series was to show the human condition and emotional growth process into maturity. I chose a sunflower because there is something unique about the way they grow, flow with the weather and take on a charming human characteristic.


In the spirit of the season, we've created a small shopping guide comprised of student ventures from our VIP-Xcelerate program and clients from the Wharton Small Business Development Center. From beauty to baking, these are sure to make great gifts this holiday season!
Harnessing the power of India's ancient beauty rituals, aavrani has reimagined luxury skincare by curating best-in-class ingredients, formulating all-natural, highly effective solutions, and returning to a deeper, more authentic meaning of beauty.
The aavrani ritual is a complete skincare routine comprised of four powerful steps that work together to achieve your most radiant glow: dual-purpose cleanser + mask, toner, moisturizer, and eye treatment. This is your time to embrace your power both inside and out.
Chippin cricket protein snacks were developed to delight your pup and are crafted in small batches. Dogs naturally love the taste of crickets, and crickets are high in protein, Omega 3 and B12. Two Chippin flavor options include Apple, Cricket & Flaxseed and Peanut Butter, Cricket & Pumpkin. Snacks are made with all natural ingredients and no artificial flavors or preservatives. Give the gift of Chippin for a happy pup & happy planet!
The InstaHub is an affordable occupancy and vacancy sensor that can be installed instantly. Start reducing your energy bill and lowering your carbon footprint within seconds – no new wiring required.
InstaHub removes that huge upfront cost and simplifies the automation process with a smart "snap-on" solution.
Mansa Tea is a vintage single-origin tea company that offers aged tea, tea tastings, and tea education for modern tea drinkers. Even in the cultural diversity of NYC, tea is more commercialized with blends, tisanes, and bubble tea as the norm. Mansa Tea aims to elevate the tea culture in NYC and beyond so that high-end teas, such as aged pu'er and white tea, become part of a fine dining experience, just like aged wine and single-origin coffee.
We offer free shipping and gift wrapping on all purchases for the holidays! Come join the tea brewing demo and tea tasting, and #elevatetea with us! Our NYC holiday pop-up schedule is posted here.
Baby Jives is the brainchild of Jahje Ives and she came up with the business after being unable to find a baby mobile she liked enough to hang in her newborn's crib. Jahje tries to infuse wonder into each of her mobiles, accenting her popular mini cloud mobiles with twinkles and incorporating the moon on her "Milestone Numbers" gift set.
Jahje's studio is located outside of Philadelphia and she and her team handcraft her items with support from fair trade partners in India and the United States. Make sure to check out her best-selling luxe personalized mini star cloud and don't forget to use the code "Wharton" for 15% off any purchase made in December.
Delvage is a spin on the traditional yard sale concept. Instead of putting customers through the work of having to sell unwanted items, Delvage will photograph, market and ship on your behalf.
Through the use of their website, items are marketed to millions of potential customers and clients receive payment based on a consignment fee structure. Some featured brand names on their site include Lladro, Lenox, Longaberger and Waterford, and items range from collectibles to shoes and accessories. Throughout the month of December, you can use the promo code "gift" to save 15% on all of your purchases!
Ella Vanilla is a unique cake decorating supply shop in Chestnut Hill that offers hands-on classes for kids and adults of all ages and abilities. They also are your one-stop shop for supplies such as edible decorations, sprinkles and fondant.
The company has been in business since 2015 and was created by Noelle DeSantis who is passionate about the intersection between fine art and cake decorating. She graduated from the French Pastry School in Chicago in 2010 and she uses her expertise to teach decorating classes at her shop.
Puzzle So Hard is bringing the pastime of puzzling into the present with updated images and modern design. Puzzle So Hard wants to help you slow down, relax and just put the pieces together. We let you refocus attention away from screens and chatter, and on to your friends, your family, and yourself. We make cool puzzles. It's how we connect.
This Philadelphia-based company was created in 2018 by civil rights attorney Jen Hope to provide beautiful and challenging jigsaw puzzles for adults. The company licenses artwork of artists around the world, in various disciplines, and transforms the works into complicated puzzles that challenge even the best game players. The puzzles can be stored with book-like bindings that fit easily into a bookshelf or can be framed for display as stunning works of art.
For more information about our VIP-X companies, visit here.
For more information about Wharton SBDC and its clients, visit here.


How do you deal with stress in midlife? For many, there is the sudden realization that you still have a lot of life circumstances to juggle as you also are experiencing many physical and emotional changes. The normal distractions of life--such as the feeding, rearing and educating of children and the running of a household still provides challenges at times. Your job has constant deadlines. Additionally, you may be caring for an elder parent, or getting used to an empty nest.
The ability to deal with stress in midlife becomes easier when you can leave minor distractions behind. Life's big crises always cause stress. Divorce, a death in the family, losing a job or crashing a car cause stress and anxiety. But in midlife, when you thought that things might get a little easier, you often find yourself still climbing out of debt or still climbing the corporate ladder or assuming more caretaking responsibilities for aging parents.
Women at midlife provide more emotional support to others than during any other period of life. At this stage in your life, you may be taking care of both children and aging parents and dealing with menopause. Things may not have turned out the way you envisioned they would. Reasons like these are why stress in midlife can dramatically increase.
If you find that you do have extra time available, turn your energies into helping others. You can volunteer at various service organizations. Do you like cats and dogs? Humane societies are eager to have volunteers spend time in socializing their animal population. Are you a good communicator? Maybe you can share your life experiences with others in order to help them through their tough times.
Get out and stay active. Helping others is a great way to forget about your own stress and make a difference in other peoples' lives. Boost your self-esteem as you lower your stress levels.
Midlife is a transitional period in our lives. You're eager for new beginnings--but not so sure of your approach with age, health, relationship and/or financial issues causing concern and sometimes limiting your choices. At Healthy Lifestyle Success, Caroline Shipsey offers more options to create that healthy lifestyle in midlife you are looking for.
There are many options for building a rewarding midlife experience. This web resource also provides strategies to bring equilibrium into your mid-life transition.
Managing stress and anxiety may seem like a difficult challenge but these emotions are part of this transition. You are entering a new stage of life that often requires you to re-examine what you have planned for your future. Consider this time to be a new beginning and take advantage of the resources we have listed for your self-improvement!


The HymnQuest Project is a hymn and worship song database initiative set up by The Pratt Green Trust in the 1990s. The first publication, a book HymnQuest: A Dictionary of Hymnody was published in 1997 and a software version has been published on behalf of the trust by Stainer & Bell Ltd annually since 2000. The all-new version (16.0) was published in the Copyright Licence Users' Edition in February 2014 and HymnQuest Lite (replacing the old Standard Version) in June 2014. In August 2015 version 17.0 was introduced, which included a Web App to enable the indexes to be searched on mobile devices. The Joint General Editors are Revd Revd Dr Andrew Pratt and Revd Don Pickard.
The Pratt Green Trust is a charity established in 1984 by the Methodist hymn writer Fred Pratt Green, principally as a means of deploying the royalty income from his hymns for the benefit of authors, composers and users of Hymnody. The Trustees follow the wishes of Fred Pratt Green that they should concentrate on projects that were unlikely otherwise to be fulfilled, and that they were to spend funds, rather than hoard them for undefined future needs. HymnQuest fulfils both these conditions.


Our part time courses will set you on your way to becoming a teacher, a workplace trainer or an assessor and will open up many fulfilling career options for you.
Details: This course helps you identify the needs for safeguarding, what you should be looking out for to identify safeguarding issues and the next steps you can take if you have a concern for a child or young person's well being. It will enable you to enact your safeguarding responsibilities effectively, whatever your role and however frequent or infrequent your contact with children.
Requirements: Learners must be aged 16+, must be confident using computers to be able to use the online system and working at least at level 1 in English and Maths.
Details:This qualification is designed to increase learners' awareness and understanding of behaviour that challenges and its effects. You will learn how to recognise different types of behaviour and the reasons behind behaviours. You will learn different strategies to support positive behaviour as well as exploring how communication and reflection can support managing behaviour.
Content: This course consists of 4 mandatory units.
Progression: This course will support you to be aware and understand the causes and methods of dealing with challenging behaviour. It will give you a good foundation to enrol on to Level 3 Certificate in Understanding Mental Health and support you for employment progression.
Considerations: Students will need a suitable computer that is able to access the internet to complete assessments on the online system.
Requirements: You do not need any qualifications to begin this course, however you must have a good standard of literacy and numeracy, preferably GCSE Grade C or above in each, along with an interest in supporting teaching and learning.
Details: If you are new to supporting teaching and learning, looking to start your career or gain the qualification to go with your skills, look no further! This supporting teaching and learning Level 2 qualification will provide you with a recognised qualification and an excellent introduction to the subject where you will gain a comprehensive understanding of what a career in supporting teaching and learning entails.
Content: The course consists of nine mandatory units and two optional units. Learners will be expected to cover further learning hours in and out of a school setting.
Assessment: You will be assessed throughout the course in a variety of ways. Evidence of learner performance will usually be obtained from assessor observation, where the learner is carrying out real work activities in the workplace and written assignments. Other methods may include simulation, question and answer, discussion and recognition of prior achievement. It is imperative that learners attend the training so they will develop a responsible and co-operative approach to working on their own and in groups during the training.
Progression: Supporting teaching and learning assistants are skilled staff, employed in jobs ranging from part to full time in a variety of schools and other settings. On successful completion of this course you could also progress on to our supporting teaching and learning Level 3.
school voluntary or employed workforce who directly support the teaching and learning of pupils.
Requirements: You do not need any qualifications to begin this course, but you must have a good standard of literacy and numeracy, preferably Grade C or above in each. You must be employed as a supporting teaching and learning assistant.
Details: If you are currently supporting teaching and learning, looking to further your career or gain the qualification to go with your skills, look no further! This supporting teaching and learning Level 3 qualification will provide you with a recognised qualification and excellent further knowledge to the subject area you are working in. You will gain a comprehensive understanding of supporting teaching and learning. During this course you will learn the information needed to hone your skills as a successful supporting teaching and learning assistant.
Content: The course consists of 11 mandatory units. Learners will be expected to cover further learning hours in and out of their school setting.
Assessment: You will be assessed throughout the course in a variety of ways. Evidence of learner performance will usually be derived from assessor observation, where the learner is carrying out real work activities in the workplace and written assignments. Other methods may include simulation, question and answer, discussion and recognition of prior achievement. It is imperative that learners attend the training.
Progression: Supporting teaching and learning assistants are skilled staff, employed in jobs ranging from part to full time positions in a variety of schools and other settings.
Considerations: Learners are required to attend mandatory training sessions held at the college. The training sessions will cover all mandatory units and help achieve the guided learning hours (GLH) required. This qualification is for members of the school voluntary or employed workforce who directly support the teaching and learning of pupils.
Fees: £1,417 Please note that the fee indicated can only be confirmed once all submitted information is verified by our information, advice and guidance team.
Duration: This is a fully inclusive training programme designed to meet your individual needs. This comprises of a minimum of four delivered training sessions, followed by professional discussions, tutorials and practical assessments.
Requirements: Suitable for those who have candidates to assess within the workplace as part of a quality framework to show progression of candidates over a period of time and be able to differentiate using a variety of assessment strategies. A minimum of two candidates including special requirement arrangements is essential for at least two units per candidate.
Details: A practical based qualification for those who wish to assess occupational competence in the work environment. Intended for those who assess vocational skills knowledge and understanding in a range of environments. i.e. workplace, workshop, classroom, or other training environments.
Assessment: Through the production of a portfolio of evidence to demonstrate assessment practice, observation of practice, and professional discussion.
Progression: Level 3 Award in Education and Training or Level 4 Award in Internal quality assurances of processes and practice.
Considerations: Interview with Student Services and a member of the course team required.
Fees: £811 Please note that the fee indicated can only be confirmed once all submitted information is verified by our information, advice and guidance team.
Requirements: No formal pre-requisites are required. Desirable C grades or equivalent.
Details: The course is suitable for those who are interested in a career in further education or have recently started teaching. The course will teach about planning, preparation and basic course design. You will also gain teaching delivery skills by participating in micro-teach sessions.
Assessment: Through written assignments, presentations, production of a portfolio and micro-teach practical assessments.
Progression: Level 5 diploma in Education and Training. Level 4 certificate in Education and Training.
Requirements: You will need GCSE in English and Maths or equivalents and must be working a minimum of 12 hours per week in an advice and guidance role.
Details: The course is suitable for those working directly with clients in organisations providing advice and guidance services. Your employment must involve providing advice and guidance directly to clients, reporting to line management as well as associated services. You may also supervise and support other staff members. Students completing Level 3 must be aged 16yrs+.
■ Four mandatory units that include topics such as communication, support, reviewing own contribution and legislation.
■ Optional units that are personal to you but could include topics such as decision making, planning courses of action, negotiation and liaison with other services.
Delivery occurs once per week in a mixed Level 3 and Level 4 group, with some taught sessions as well as support workshops.
Assessment: You will be assessed through a complete portfolio of evidence gathered from your employment. This might include observations in the work setting, emails, written tasks and annotated documents.
Progression: Progress to a higher level in your current employment. Roles such as business link advisor, citizen advice bureau, counselling or on to other higher qualifications.
Considerations: You will need to be observed in your workplace and be self-motivated.
Level 4 must be aged 18yrs+.
■ Five mandatory units that include topics such as legislation, interaction, managing caseloads, networking and evaluation of own contribution.
■ Option units that are personal to the learners but could include topics such as creating materials, negotiation, facilitate learning in groups and undertaking research.
with associated services as well as be working for a minimum of 12 hours in an advice and guidance role.
Fees: £2,225 Please note that the fee indicated can only be confirmed once all submitted information is verified by our information, advice and guidance team.
Requirements: You need to be at least 18 years old and have level 3 qualification in teaching and learning or a relevant subject. You also need to be working in the sector for at least 12 hours per week.
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Call us crazy, but we can't help relating to this cute mug!
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Rowdy Cousin is building its own 1500-seat venue in Oklahoma City. It will be called the Broadway Pavilion and will be the home to many a rockin' evening, starting 2015.
Had a great time last night. Thanks to all of our fans who came out to cheer us on. Will let you all know when YouTube videos are posted.
Our album is now available on iTunes. We have arrived.
Our CD is available from CDbaby.com. It will be available in a couple of weeks from iTunes, MySpace Music and a host of other digital stores.


Dies ist eine beliebte Entdeckung. Mehr als 370 Leute haben sie gebucht.
This is a 'listening' club! There is lots of time on the night to socialize but we ask for talking to be minimal during the music out of respect for the incredible musicians and fellow ticket buyers.


It is with great sadness we announce the sudden passing of Sara.
She is survived by her mother Susane, and brother Nathan; and predeceased by father Alan.
In her 45 years, Sara shared much laughter and many good times with her family and friends. Her big smile and sharp wit endeared her to all who met her. She loved reading, all types of puzzles, video games, her two cats Elliot and Jake.
Sara grew up in Harrison Hot Springs BC, and upon graduating with her degree in Social Work from UFV, moved to Langley, BC. Sara worked on the Intake Team for the Ministry of Children and Families as a Child Protection Social Worker for over 20 years in Surrey.
She loved helping children and stayed many a night sending an immediate to Afterhours. She put others before herself and made a lot of good friends at the ministry.
Sara was always willing to truly listen to coworkers and friends and give honest advice. Sara was fond of saying, "We all have a choice". She took what life threw at her and overcame it with class.
She loved to laugh and had a great sense of humor.
Sara was truly one of a kind and will live in our hearts forever.


The West Bengal polls will happen over seven phases. With the declaration of the phases, Mamata first showed her disapproval but now making the best of the situation for turning things in her favour. Didi has identified 12 such seats where there will be tough competition – such as Malda, Asansol, Murshidabad, etc. She is now focusing on these seats to turn the dice in her favour.


Premier Technical Services Group PLC (PTSG) has recently installed sprinkler systems at the Great Scotland Yard hotel in London.
Located in Westminster, the Grade II-listed building is being developed into a 153-bedroom luxury lifestyle hotel and is expected to open at the end of this year. The iconic building was previously residence to the London Metropolitan Police and so holds a vast amount of historical significance. The famed landmark is known for its rich history, providing guests the opportunity to stay at the location where police pursued some of the country's most notorious criminals, including Jack the Ripper.
PTSG's Fire Solutions division has installed sprinkler systems throughout the hotel. Sprinkler systems are the most effective means of life and property fire protection available, limiting any outbreak of fire to a small area, which is especially important in such a large hotel. The Group's design teams can provide the perfect system for any site and can tailor installations to the client's needs.
All sprinkler systems for commercial and residential buildings are installed in accordance with the BS9251 standard and wet risers are installed to the current BS9990 2015 standard. PTSG's specialist Fire Solutions team offers a wide range of services to ensure the safety of building users in the event of a fire, including fire alarm and emergency lighting testing.


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There are two separate licenses required before a person or company can engage in the activity of operating a Massage business within the city.
Massage Center - required of any person or company that operates a business that offers or performs massage for members of the public or of a private club.
Massage Therapist - required of any person performing massage therapy, who has received a massage degree or certificate from an accredited institution.
An accredited institution is an educational institution holding accredited status with the United States Department of Education or Minnesota Office of Higher Education.
Proof that 500 hours of certified therapeutic massage training has been obtained - in the form of a certified transcript - must be submitted at the time of application.
The City Council approved the ordinance relating to Massage Centers on September 26, 2016. All license holders are required to be familiar with the provisions of this chapter and with applicable Minnesota Statutes and federal regulations.
License term(s) run September 1 through August 31, annually. Renewal must occur on or before date of expiration.


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By Corey Hockett, Winter 2021-22
Embracing the nature of winter.
Nothing good comes easy.
There's something special about being in the throes of a deep and relentless winter. The skiing speaks for itself, of course, but it's more than that. To thrive in harsh seasons requires grit and adaptation. Cold months are inherently inconvenient, especially to the non-skier. But with every long, brutal winter that passes, each of us gets tougher, more seasoned, and chiseled with a bit of character.
Modern-day living has distanced us from this process. No longer are we guaranteed days of hardship with the turning of a year. No longer does it require stalwart effort to make it till springtime. Nope, these times of reliable furnaces, advanced automobiles, and lightning-fast internet have made life so very easy. In many ways, easy is great, but I'm not convinced that it's always better. Make no mistake: this is not a gripe against 21st-century technology—I have an iPhone and drive a newer vehicle—but merely an observation.
When it comes to winter, convenient day-to-day living takes us away from the natural rhythm of the season. Cold snaps and deep snows used to stop travel in its tracks. Now, unless we're in the midst of some catastrophic storm, people count on getting from A to B, no matter how far, without hiccup. Again, not a bad thing on its own, but this trajectory of thinking leads to complacency. It leads to depending on everything always working out. It leads us to neglect nature. An easy existence in a perilous environment (which winter now offers) should bring about some level of hesitancy in everyone. If not, you will eventually be caught off guard.
Montana winters will do that. Those of us who've been here awhile know it, and if you're just moving here, you soon will too. Hopefully, at least. This planet could be past the fiery tipping point, after all. But when it does come—that frigidly bitter winter of spectacular snowfall and epic temperature surges—revel in it. Instead of shying away and distracting yourself with technological luxuries, embrace the storm. There are many ways in which to do so, but it starts by going outside. Yes, you're going to be cold and shiver and wince at unforgiving winds. Driving will suck and your back will hurt from shoveling. You'll struggle, but you'll survive—and therein lies fulfillment.
So, here's to the hard times. Here's to darkness and challenge and setback. And at the same time, here's to the breakthrough. Here's to face shots and powder turns and belly laughter next to a warm fire. Without sweating in the freezing cold, none of it would feel as good. Winter's lessons are still out there for those who take the hard route. Bundle up and look for them. You'll end up better because of it.
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Activities: Biking
Pedaling Through Winter
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Places: Cities & Towns
By the Numbers: Big Sky
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1st Round Recap; Murray Discusses Contracts and Kesler
Photo: USA Today
By Thomas Harrington and Michael Walters
The first two picks in the 2018 NHL Entry Draft went as expected, with Rasmus Dahlin going to Buffalo first overall, and Andrei Svechnikov going to Carolina second overall. But it was the third pick where things got interesting. A number of top end wingers and defensemen were available, but Montreal elected to take center Jesperi Kotkaniemi. That pick caused Filip Zadina to drop to Detroit at sixth overall. The Red Wings actually had two good players fall to them, first with Zadina and then Joe Veleno at 30th overall. The Islanders also had a great first round, with Oliver Wahlstrom and Noah Dobson falling to them at 11th and 12th overall. In an interesting twist, five Swedish defensemen were taken in the first round, but none by Anaheim.
With the 23rd overall pick, the Anaheim Ducks selected Isac Lundestrom, one of the many players who I thought the Ducks could select. He's played in the SHL over the last couple of seasons. This past season, he played 42 games for Lulea HF and scored six goals and 15 points. The year before he played in 45 games and scored three goals and six points. While those offensive totals aren't eye-popping, keep in mind that he was a teenager playing against men, in arguably the third best hockey league in the world. In the SHL, it's pretty rare for teenagers to light up the scoreboard. Instead, it's a chance for them to become more well-rounded players. He's a playmaking center who doesn't have a lot of flash in his game but is dependable all over the ice. In the playoffs, he went scoreless in three games. He did play in six playoff games in the SuperElit (Sweden's version of the AHL) and recorded five assists. Besides his time in the SHL, Lundestrom also played for Sweden at the World Junior Championships this past year, scoring two goals in seven games, while earning a silver medal.
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Lundestrom won't ever be a top scorer in the league, but he could turn into a reliable, two-way center. At his best, he could be a future Ryan Kesler, in that he'll play on the powerplay, penalty kill, shut down the opponent's top line, and score 20 goals a season. If his offensive game doesn't develop in the NHL, then he could at least turn into a solid checking line center. In watching some of his highlights, he's clearly a player who knows to go to the front of the net and how to cause some havoc while he's there.
Lundestrom won't be in the NHL for a little while. He'll likely stay in Sweden and the SHL this coming season, and it wouldn't surprise me if he's there for two years before coming over to North America. After that, depending on how he develops, he could see some time in San Diego before the Ducks bring him up to the NHL. But, if he plays well enough in the SHL, he could go directly to Anaheim. While he's in the SHL, I'd like to see his offensive totals start increasing over the next couple of seasons. He should also be back at the World Juniors this coming season, and I'd like him to be a much bigger part of Sweden's offensive attack.
With Lundestrom in the system, Anaheim's prospect center depth has significantly improved. He joins the ranks of Sam Steel, Antoine Morand, Julius Nattinen, Brent Gates, Jr., Mitch Hults, Alex Dostie, and Kalle Kossila. In my mind, Steel still has the highest ceiling of all these players, but Lundestrom could be second or third. I'm excited about his future and look forward to watching his development in the SHL over the next couple of years.
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With the first round now behind us, the Ducks will have six more picks on the second day of the draft, starting with the 54th overall pick. As the second round begins, there are several players who I had on Anaheim's first-round list still available. While it's unlikely any will still be there when Anaheim picks again, it could happen. Or the Ducks could consider trading up to grab them. Or, more likely, they've got a list of players likely to be available when they pick. Regardless of what happens, I trust Anaheim's scouting department and look forward to seeing who they pick on day two of the draft.
Contract Talks Begin; Kesler's Status
According to Eric Stephens, who now works for the Athletic, Bob Murray has begun contract talks with several players. He has started talking to John Gibson, Adam Henrique, and Jakob Silfverberg, who all only have one year left on their contracts. He has also made offers to Ondrej Kase, Brandon Montour, and Nick Ritchie, who are each restricted free agents(RFAs) on July 1st. The other Anaheim RFAs include Nic Kerdiles, Kalle Kossila, Kevin Roy and Andy Welinski.
The Ducks have several unrestricted free agents(UFAs), Kevin Bieksa, Jared Boll, J.T. Brown, Jason Chimera, Derek Grant, Chris Kelly, Michael Liambas, Scott Sabourin, Corey Tropp and Antoine Vermette. It's likely that most of these players don't return next season. Grant or Vermette could be back given Ryan Kesler's health situation unless Anaheim picks up another center during the summer via trade or free agency.
Murray did share some comments with Stephens about Kesler's health. He said there is "concern" for Kesler and how his hip will respond to treatment, but Murray wasn't happy with Sportsnet's article by Elliott Friedman claiming that Kesler could miss all next season. Nothing has been decided yet on Kesler's situation according to Murray. He said, Kesler's "got to do right for him and his family."
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March 25, 2013 College Sports, March Madness, NCAA, Sports News No comments
Sports fans roared or gasped in shocked. Players thrust theirs arms in the air to celebrate victory. People always love a good Cinderella story, and this year's NCAA March Madness has provided that in multiple games early on in the tourney. Some examples? Florida Gulf Coast University over San Diego State and Georgetown. Wichita State over Gonzaga. Cal over UNLV. You get the picture.
These underdogs have gone through a rags-to-riches run, and some of the teams have proven their worth dominating over successful basketball teams in just the first round. Sure, the fan favorites have proven their worth time and time, to earn their title as the possible winners. And of course, the media magnifies the publicity around it, even so much that the players get a little upper hand and shot to get drafted in the NBA.
However, it's the underdogs such as Florida Gulf Coast University that has given the beautiful Cinderella story so far. While their opponents have been superior, but ultimately it's the team's chemistry, heart, and drive that allows them to claim the title as victors. And surely, fans keep wanting more to see little David beat mighty Goliath.
March 20, 2013 College Sports, March Madness No comments
The madness is everywhere. Even President Obama has joined in on the frenzy and has selected who he thinks will advance every round of the March Madness tournament.
From the looks of it, he has picked favorites such as Louisville, Duke, and Kansas to make it far in the tournament, with Indiana taking it all in the end. How does your bracket compare to the Commander-in-Chief.
March 19, 2013 College Sports, March Madness, Sports News No comments
Today marks the beginning of the March Madness tourney – one the most exciting time in sports, for all those who follow. With brackets filled and locked in now, people bet on who they think is going to advance in every round and most importantly, win it all. There are many teams that stand out and ruled out as favorites, but this tournament can always be unpredictable, as 'Cinderella Story' teams tend to pull surprising upsets.
Who do you think is going to win it all? Tell us your thoughts.
MLB News: Greatest Closer to Retire After 2013 Season
March 8, 2013 MLB, Sports News No comments
This baseball legend is known for closing more games than any other closer in Major League Baseball history – and he aims to end his last season on a high note. The New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera is predicted to announce his retirement this Saturday at a news conference, after playing his entire 15-year career with the same team that magnified his best work, won five championships, and selected to the All-Star game for 12 seasons.
One of the most colorful players of all time, he has faced ups and downs throughout his career. However, it is his work ethic, talents, and humble demeanor that has fellow legends, athletes, and fans idolize him to a great extent.
With 608 saves under his belt, he will enter this season with his abilities tested by the current pool of some of most elite baseball players. In fact, 2012 was supposed to be the year to end his campaign. But a season-ending injury and surgery during spring training, pushed that on the back burner.
He has another (and last) season to continue where he left off and many people predict he will naturally shine, despite being absent for a year. After all, he is the most dominant closer for the past 15 years, posting a 2.21 ERA and 1.00 WHIP – the lowest in baseball history. Lucky for us, there's one more year, the sports realm have the privileged opportunity to watch the closer save the games in effortless fashion.
March Means One Thing: Madness
March 6, 2013 College Sports, Sports News No comments
It's almost the conclusion of the NCAA basketball season, leaving teams making a final push for a coveted spot in the tourney bracket, also known as March Madness. And with a week until the tournament, these collegiate teams are sure to put in blood, sweat, and tears in every game and hope to win a title at the end of all of it.
A total of 68 teams will partake in the battle for the prestigious title of NCAA champion. As with any sport, there's always a list of favorites and underdogs but any way can go; the tournament leading up to March Madness can be unpredictable because heavy weights have fallen during the regular season.
The Elite.
Top favorites include Georgetown Hoyas, California Golden Bears, and NC Tarheels, among the few who will finish off the year with a winning record. Despite some road bumps during the season, critics predict they will continue to strive and dominate in the tournament.
Crumble to Fall. The Syracuse Orange, Louisville Cardinals, and Miami Hurricanes were seen as strong contenders early into the season but after facing some woes and failures, these teams are predicted to make exits, even during the first round. The defense aspect of the teams has hindered them from from closing out basketball games.
The Surprising. A few teams, that are not even ranked, have been predicted to make headlines this year for their respective stellar performances throughout the year. Creighton Bluejays, Wichita State, and UNLV Rebels have made names for themselves amongst a competitive pool f teams.
The madness begins on Tuesday, March 19th and will last approximately two weeks, ending Monday, April 8th.


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The Whalebone Box. A new collaboration with Andrew Kötting
Artist, writer and director Andrew Kötting has built up a string of quintessentially British films. The Whalebone Box is another of his experimental jaunts made with his regular collaborators and this time with his daughter Eden in the lead role. Shot in Super 8, 16mm and with an inspired use of archive material, this is a strange, haunting and magical film … with a sting in the tale.
A box made of whale bone, entangled in a fisherman's net was washed up on a remote beach in the Outer Hebrides. Is it an enigmatic object containing a secret? A relic, a survivor from a mysterious shipwreck or perhaps possessing magical powers? No-one knows except that it was given to writer Iain Sinclair who sets out with Kötting and the artist Anonymous Bosch on an expedition to return the box to its place of origin on the Isle of Harris.
And all the while Eden Kötting narrates the story, working as both muse and soothsayer. She tries to make sense of the strange and mystical goings on as the journey unfolds, sometimes awake and sometimes in deep sleep. Ultimately the whalebone box is finally buried in the sand on the very beach from which it came all those years ago.
+ IN FAR AWAY LAND Dir: Andrew Kotting. UK 2019. 6 mins
A companion piece to The Whalebone Box, featuring Eden Kötting's animated drawings, collages and paintings by the artist Glenn Whiting and the voices of John Smith, Miranda Pennell, Mikhail Karikis and Marcia Farquhar.
Followed by a Q&A with director Andrew Ko?tting and Iain Sinclair
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LRB at 40: Rosemary Hill and Iain Sinclair
Join LRB contributors and editors at the London Review Bookshop in the month of the paper's 40th anniversary, as they reflect on the last four decades through the lens of subjects they've written about in the pages of the LRB. In the first event of the series, Rosemary Hill and Iain Sinclair will discuss shared preoccupations starting with London.
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Heritage Cruise with Iain Sinclair
Hop aboard a Thames Clippers boat and cruise to Barking and back with Iain Sinclair, one of London's most highly respected authors. Iain will be sharing smelly riverside histories, sights and scents and submerged Thames memories.
Part of The Barking Stink – a scented heritage project. Engage your senses to discover London's layered mysteries and stories.
Iain Sinclair is author of numerous critically acclaimed books focusing on London. He was born in South Wales. He went to school in the west of England and university in Dublin. He lives, walks and writes in East London. His books include Lud Heat, Downriver, London Orbital and, most recently, Living with Buildings (And Walking with Ghosts).
The Barking Stink is a new heritage project by Thames Festival Trust, a scented history created to explore Barking Creek's rich industrial past. Focusing on historical smells, from fragrant fisheries to noxious factory fumes, The Barking Stink project will engage children and young people in the heritage of where they live, via animated films, a pop-up exhibition, talks, walks and workshops.
Supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund and Thames Clippers. Delivered in partnership with Valence House Museum.
Link: https://totallythames.org/event/heritage-cruise-with-iain-sinclair
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IN THE TRACES OF THE MULE DANCERS. TRAVEL NOTES, PERU. JULY/AUGUST, 2019. Post 6 of 6
DAY FIFTEEN. THURSDAY AUGUST 11th.
AT THE COFFEE COLONY, PAMPA WHALEY.
VISION & CONSEQUENCE.
Having being engaged since childhood with Arthur's story as adventure – picaresque episodes, remote peoples, mountains, jungles, snakes, mules, rafts – it took some time (and hard information mined by Farne) to appreciate the true dimensions of the 1891 expedition. Arthur and Alexander Ross were fellow planters and visiting agents in Ceylon. They were investors, speculators in the booming coffee market. P.D.G. Clark, the invisible and unpublished third man, whose lengthy handwritten report to the Peruvian Corporation Farne tracked down, was a civil servant, employed by the Royal Botanic Gardens (in association with Kew) at Peradeniya, near Kandy in Ceylon. What has now been made clear, through books such as The Thief at the End of the World by Joe Jackson, is that Kew, in unacknowledged partnership with the India Office, operated a covert system of bio-piracy, plant smuggling on a massive scale along the Amazon and its headwaters. The basic pitch being to employ desperate men, crazed and addicted solitaries on a survivalist budget, to asset strip fertile non-imperial territory for the benefit of the British Empire. 'Liberated' rubber plants could then be propagated at Kew, before being shipped to Ceylon or Malaya. Economic guerrilla warfare carried out in conjunction with rapacious London corporations and bankers.
Sinclair and Ross were under contract, on a monthly stipend (in case they didn't make it), to the Peruvian Corporation of London. Born in modest circumstances, his father a small farmer and village thatcher, Arthur experienced a life of travel, making regular reports to the Aberdeen press. He was now, by the standards of the time – his investments blown, gold prospecting in Tasmania eating into his resources, a family to support – an elderly man. He was almost sixty. But it was always a done deal with the Peruvian government who couldn't honour their bonds on borrowings for railway expansion. The land was there for the taking: how best to exploit it? Sir Arthur Dent had no hesitation in appointing Sinclair and Ross as competent (and perhaps expendable) scouts. The two men, whatever their virtues as surveyors and witnesses, were obliged to return positive reports: to be delivered as books, lectures and promotional tours. I am struck by the conjunction of two appointments made, after meetings at corporate headquarters in Brussels and the City of London in 1890. Arthur Sinclair to the 'Headwaters of the Amazon'. And Joseph Conrad as riverboat captain to the Congo.
Arthur's account, which is delivered with the verve of a period novel, says very little about the reasons behind his journey. Events simply happen, carrying him along, like the approach to the Ipoki rapids. What is striking is his evident awe for the power of the landscape and his tender rapport with the fecundity of the flowers, plants and trees. Which he sketches, photographs and evaluates.
'Coca, from which the invaluable drug cocaine is obtained, is a native of this locality… Of the sustaining power of coca there can be no possible doubt; the Chunchos seem not only to exist, but to thrive, upon this stimulant, often travelling for days with very little, if anything else to sustain them. Unquestionably it is much superior and less liable to abuse than tobacco, betel, or opium of other nations… The flavour is bitter and somewhat nauseating at first, but the taste is soon acquired, and, if not exactly palatable, the benefit under fatiguing journeys is very palpable. Cold tea is nowhere, and the best of wines worthless in comparison with this pure unfermented heaven-sent reviver.'
Arriving by way of another impossible road at Pampa Whaley, the most successful coffee plantation of the Perené Colony, is to, visibly and emotionally, jump back in time. Back to archival photographs from the Smithsonian Institute of armed Asháninka standing against these very recognisable buildings in 1910. Back to the stories we were told of the range wars: how the plantation labourers killed the managers, not in a spirit of rebellion, but under instruction; the less successful operations jealous of the position and prestige of Pampa Whaley. The garden of broken concrete pillars was not a homage to Ballard or an art installation but collateral damage from the time of Shining Path. The present co-operative, dependent, it appeared, on a distant voice at the end of the telephone in Lima, came into existence when the Peruvian Corporation land was broken up and awarded to selected workers and applicants, but never (or rarely) to the Asháninka.
The Colony lasted much longer than we thought, even with shifts of ownership: it was still functioning in the 1970s. All the former plantation workers we interviewed delivered standard riffs on maltreatment, 'slavery', the violence of the 'corporals' and overseers. All of them, that is, up to the managerial class, the technicians of the co-operative. Those men spoke, very carefully, of employment opportunities, schools, medical care. And a splendid cinema screen, still present: a white wall with a decorative border at the end of the storage shed. Here the entire workforce, managers in armchairs, truck drivers, cooks and labourers scattered on the floor to watch 'mute' Mexican films, romances and gunfighter epics. 'We were made to grow coffee,' say the Asháninka, 'but we do not drink coffee. We were made to grow cocoa, but we do not drink cocoa.'
We were walked through the entire coffee production process: from arrival of trucks, through baths, grading, drying and ovens, to packaging in grey sacks and departure. It was as slow and precise and repetitive as alchemy. Then we broke for lunch and presentation of the documents we had recovered concerning the history of the Corporation.
Towards the end of his narrative, Arthur suddenly remembers that he is supposed to be making a report to London. It is a requirement of his contract. The contract that rewards him with shares in future prosperity. He delivers a panoramic rhapsody, barely touching on practical difficulties, the near impossibility of transporting product.
'The Perené valley, however, for a tropical climate, seems remarkably healthy; there is little or no malaria, few mosquitoes, while leeches – the great pest of Ceylon – are unknown… There is an abundant supply of the purest water, flowing freely from the snow-topped mountains, almost within sight. On the banks of the Perené we nightly slept in the open air, and drank almost hourly of its waters, unfiltered…'
And the reality of this paradise? 'This beautiful valley of the Perené has now become the property of a British Corporation, the concession having been duly ratified by the Peruvian Government, and arrangements are in progress for establishing a planting colony upon a scale never before attempted in Peru.
This land, as selected and conceded, extends to 1,250,000 acres, sufficient to grow the world's present requirements in coffee, cocoa, coca, chinchona, rubber, sarsaparilla, and vanilla, for all of which both soil and climate are admirably adapted. Here will be a favourable opening for many a trained Indian planter, and many a restive youth in England and Scotland will find elbow-room of the most interesting and lucrative description, helping, I hope, to solve many an anxious father the problem "what to do with our boys"'.
At the lunch table, Farne handed over a letter from a Colony manager, back in the '30s. He was asking for practical advice. Could somebody send him a book of instructions? He knew nothing about coffee, the machines, the methods. All of it a mystery to him.
Don Armando, the operations chief, a man who worked in the last days of the Peruvian Corporation as a soil fungus specialist, gave us the tour. And now led us through the old company offices: the huge safe, the iron doors behind which wages were kept, the primitive telephone exchange, cranking a particular number for each of the other plantations. And then, taking us by surprise, behind bars, the true archive of the entire history of the Perené Colony. (In Lima records have vanished or been shredded.) Sack after coffee sack spilling across the floor, tattered and rodent-gnawed papers, letters, account books, maps, legal documents. Paper history for an impossible paper chase. Here it is, here it decays. The evidence from which an adequate history of this painful episode might be assembled.
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DAY FOURTEEN. WEDNESDAY AUGUST 10th.
THE RAPIDS.
Heading downriver on his balsa raft, in what I projected, before I arrived on the Perené, as an Aguirre, Wrath of God voyage into chaos and dissolution of all that colonialist planter confidence, it started to come apart for Arthur. As it was doing now for Lucho, our guide, and for the underlying and on-going conflict between curated tourist highlights and the necessity of understanding and untangling the means and motives of the Sinclair/Ross expedition of 1891.
Arthur stumbled and slid from the ruined hutch of Juan Santos Atahualpa into the riverside camp of the Asháninka chief he called 'King Chokery'. (More probably, according to Ross, Kinchoquiri: a name associated with settlements on the Rio Tambo.) The king was sick, feverish, attended by a personal physician or shaman.
'Our chief priest cautiously approached, unbuckled his flask, a sort of bladder he always carried well primed with rum – the only spiritual matter he dealt in,' Arthur wrote. 'The tube attached to this he placed in the royal mouth, into which he injected a liberal supply of the spirit, which for the moment had the desired effect. The King, lifting his head, indicated that we might be permitted to lie down on the earthen floor at his feet, and there we lay, supperless and saturated with perspiration, till next morning.'
Kinchoquiri recovered and consented to the construction of balsa rafts. 'Trees were at once cut down and fixed together by pins of palm wood. The balsa, or raft, consisted of seven logs, about 24 inches in circumference, rather roughly pegged together, but sufficiently buoyant to support three of our party on each. Seven of these rafts carried our company of twenty; the King accompanied us, and as he himself had never been forty miles down the river, it was an interesting voyage of discovery to all concerned.'
And to me. I had been preoccupied for most of my life in London with the myth of this river voyage, the casting off into unknown waters. There had been a few adventures over the years along the Thames, a passage from Hastings to Hackney by swan pedalo, in company with Andrew Kötting, being the most recent (and eccentric) version.
We calculated, from Farne's researches and the study of maps by Ross, Sinclair, Padre Sala and others, that Kinchoquiri's camp must have been close to Puerto Yurinaki. And we made a detour on our return from Mariscal Cáceras to identify the launch spot. In grainy twilight gloom, romanticised by naked bulbs hanging outside stalls offering dusty fruit, beer and coca, we rambled along the river bank until we found a line of moored boats, pulled up on a shingle beach. With advertisements for balsa excursions.
On the following morning, we made our push to get to the rapids at Ipoki, the essential climax of Arthur's outward journey. And the heart of the matter. The rapids were where it came apart, divisions and rifts and simmering quarrels surfaced. After these dramas – vanished priests, disgruntled porters, whirlpools, a night spent with rifle on lap waiting for an imminent attack – the expedition lost focus. Arthur suffered serious altitude sickness on the return journey.
'It was a weary zig-zag: my mule and I got sadly short of breath, but it had to be done, and what is more, we were in a tremendous hurry, my companions being possessed by the one idea – to break the record – which neither my mule nor I shared… By and by the heart's action seemed to fail, and I suddenly collapsed, slipped off the saddle and lay down on my back, my mule gasping for breath beside me. When I gradually came to myself, I could see around me the bones of many a good mule and llama, cleanly picked, while high in the air floated the ever alert condor, said to be the largest and most powerful of all birds.'
The boatman Lucho had fixed to carry us towards the rapids had vanished like Arthur's priests. We'd stepped out from the shared minibus and were standing in the morning heat at a small settlement where no phone connections seemed to work and nothing our guide attempted was going to get us on the river.
But Lucho was resourceful. He flagged down a truck stacked with empty plastic fruit crates and got us a lift, wind-surfing and hanging on, dodging branches, on the road to Ipoki. We agreed to keep the driver on, if we failed to get an alternative boat at a riverside halt with café on stilts, hungry dogs and a couple of tied up motor launches.
But nothing was going to plan. Lucho called Beliza, telling her to gather up some food, take a taxi, and start work on the lunch. I placed Arthur's photograph in a dugout canoe, and then let it float away towards the rapids.
It was determined – 'Let's go, vamos, come on!' – that we would visit yet another waterfall. There was some confusion over the term 'cascades'. Lucho knew about jungle paths to waterfalls, but we wanted cataclysmic river features, rivers of no return. Ipoki was an initiation, a barrier between worlds. The Asháninka were reluctant to paddle any further, they would be swept into a whirlpool of dead ancestors. Arthur's first experience of the balsa was an epiphany. After the sweat and tangle and dirt, this flight.
'We started in single file, I electing to sit in the prow of the foremost balsa. It was a glorious morning, and as we glided onward at a rate of four miles an hour, through ever changing, but always enchanting, scenery, the effect was indescribably exhilarating. Every nerve seemed stretched to the highest pitch of enjoyment; the eyes, glancing from scene to scene, took in more impressions than the mental powers could take note of. Such a wealth of vegetation seems to mock at the idea of a few puny planters ever making much impression upon it.'
Then the Aguirre hallucinations begin.
'Turning a bend in the river we are struck by what seems the ivy-clad ruins of an ancient castle; but it turns out to be only an aged tree clad from top to bottom with verdant creepers, its huge horizontal arms supporting a perfect screen of living trellis-work below, while ferns, lycopods, and rare orchids, beautiful in hue as they are grotesque in form, grow upright from the damp decaying bark.'
Padre Sala shocks Arthur by fishing with sticks of dynamite: 'diabolical and unsportsmanlike'. The result is approved by the Asháninka who scoop up the dividend.
A woman and two children fall from a raft and are drowned. 'It seemed the standing joke of the day, and no one enjoyed it more than the woman's husband, who danced with fiendish glee the whole night through, encouraged by the screaming laughter of the native ladies.'
In the prow of the leading balsa, Arthur notices that they are gliding 'rather faster than was pleasant', and he hears a ' not very distant roar like muffled thunder.' They have arrived at the Ipoki rapids.
Further and further we bounce and shudder on the river road, stopping from time to time to ask about rapids. Eventually, just beyond a bamboo hut selling fruit and stale biscuits, we see the first angry ripples, white streaks in a river that is beginning to boil. The woman who keeps the stall advises that these rapids continue, getting higher and fiercer all the way, for about five miles. There is no road but a sort of track through the jungle. She warns us against taking it: 'a place of danger'. Beyond the rapids we are in conflicted narco territory, with private fiefdoms, guerrilla remnants from the Maoist days, traffickers, indigenous men paid to carry packages down impossible trails, bands of raiding forestry pirates. Leave well alone. As compensation, she gifts us with huge bunches of sweet bananas, which we devour as we jolt back to the riverside restaurant where Beliza is ready to serve up the lunch.
There is now a man sitting in the long launch, playing with an outboard motor. But Lucho won't approach him, he's hungry and there are more important matters to consider than our whim to be out on the water. 'Yes, there is a man in the boat, but he is not the boatman.'
But there is also a boy, paddling to the far shore in the dugout canoe. He can be approached and he agrees, for two soles, to take us on the river, once more at that magical time of day. Out towards the point where a tributary enters the Perené and the water begins to seethe and make patterns.
This is much better than any motor cruise. Low to the surface, leaking a little, rocking at the slightest movement, this short voyage is as close as I come to the exhilaration Arthur experienced and expressed.


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Real Name: Nicholas Fussell
HT: 5' 10" WT: 160
Age: 21 (03/01/1999)
Hometown: Surrey, BC
A native of Surrey, BC, Nicholas Fussell previously played with Surrey United SC in the EA SPORTS BC Soccer Premier League before joining Whitecaps FC Residency in 2016. He began playing with the club's Development Squad in 2018.
2017-18: Started 21 of his 24 appearances for the U-19 team during his final DA regular season, scoring four goals. He added two goals in the playoffs, in which he started five of his six appearances to help the team to the Academy Championship semifinals. 2016-2017: Fussell started 15 of his 25 regular season matches for Whitecaps FC U-18s. He scored five goals in those appearances. Fussell made two appearances in the playoffs, earning one start. 2015-16: Fussell started 11 of his 17 regular season appearances for Whitecaps FC Residency U-16, scoring six goals. He also started two of his three appearances in the playoffs.
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Prior to joining Whitecaps FC, Fussell played with Surrey United SC in the EA SPORTS BC Soccer Premier League from 2011 through 2015. He was a four-time provincial champion in the BCSPL and was a member of the U-16 national champions. Fussell was also a member of the BC provincial team from 2012 through 2015.
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Force sensing has been widely used for bringing the touch from binary to multiple states, creating new abilities on surface interactions. However, prior proposed force sensing techniques mainly focus on enabling force-applied gestures on certain devices. This paper presents Nail+, a technique using fingernail deformation to enable force touch sensing interactions on everyday rigid surfaces. Our prototype, 3×3 0.2mm strain sensor array mounted on a fingernail, was implemented and conducted with a 12-participant study for evaluating the feasibility of this sensing approach. Result showed that the accuracy for sensing normal and force-applied tapping and swiping can achieve 84.67% on average. We finally proposed two example applications using Nail+ prototype for controlling the interfaces of head-mounted display (HMD) devices and remote screens.


The goats you are looking for are in packs (herds?) roaming along the north-south ridge of land that juts off from the monkey village.
Bring a character level 95+ with AOE abilities.
Don't buy your potions of luck. Make them.
Move from herd to herd of goats, AoEing them down in your favourite style. If you happen to run out of goats, or face competition, hop across to another server with the Cross Realm Assist or Server Hop addons. Hurray for AoE looting and looterangs. If you don't have an engineer, or an engineering building in your garrison, you can grab a looterang from the auction house.
Keep your potion of luck active.
Open your plundered treasure as you farm, to save bag space.
MoP greens are currently worth more as vendor items than disenchanted. Sell them immediately.
Hunters: Misdirect macro for your pet: /cast [@pet] Misdirection. Approach group, hit macro, multishot or that volley replacement. Loot/skin. Profit. On to next group! Hozen occasionally wander in, they drop quickly and are another source of cloth.
Intestines drop regularly for skinners, too – usually 1g per, plus trash item, sometimes a green. I have a weakness for going back to old content, you see.


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Q: window.open function in HREF TAG not working I am trying to open popup using window.open finction but somehow it's not working ... well below is the code
string properties = "left=250px, top=245px, width=700px, height=450px,scrollbars=yes, status=yes, resizable=yes";
TableCell cell = new TableCell();
cell.Text = "" + "View Details";

But his is not working. While clicking the anchor tag getting javascript error "Invalid argument". Please tell where am I going wrong?
Thanks,
Rahul

A: How about using the target attribute on the anchor tag as in: Link text here
Anchor target attribute

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*_blank – Opens the linked document in a new window or tab

*_parent – Opens the linked document in the parent frame

*_self – Opens the linked document in the same frame as it was clicked (this is default)

*_top – Opens the linked document in the full body of the window

A: You're doing it wrong. Never put JavaScript into the href attribute. This is how you should do it:
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I added the second argument for window.open (the window identifier) as well, which is probably what was breaking your thing in the first place.

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on Page_load()
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C-store chain to exit the U.S.
TOKYO — Following the first Famima!! convenience store opening in 2005, FamilyMart Co. Ltd. planned to open as many as 200 stores in the U.S.
TOKYO — Nikkei, a Japanese newspaper, reported that FamilyMart Co. Ltd., a Japanese retailer, is closing all eight of its U.S. Famima!! convenience store locations, is liquidating Famima Corp. USA and will exit the U.S., according to CSPnet.com.
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With headquarters in Torrance, California, all Famima!! c-store locations are located on the West Coast throughout the Los Angeles area, stated the article.
The c-store's location in Santa Monica closed in late September according to social media reports, continued the article, and the rest of the sites are projected to close by the end of October.
Following the first store opening in 2005, FamilyMart planned to open as many as 200 stores in the U.S. within four years, reported the article, and from 2005 to 2013, the retailer opened and closed several locations, eventually settling with its eight stores.
The company still planned "extensive international growth," which included the U.S., as recently as 2014, informed the article.
However, this expansion did not take place, noted the article, and FamilyMart will concentrate future growth in Asia.
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The brand is breaking ground on three brand new locations in the Buckeye State, all with planned opening dates in the first half of the year.
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The chairman of the Greater Lincolnshire Local Enterprise Partnership has expressed his excitement after taking a tour around the UK's first robotic fruit farm.
Mark Tinsley, who chairs the LEP Food Board, was given a look around the farm, demonstration supermarket and robotic labs at University of Lincoln's Brayford and Riseholme campuses.
Mr Tinsley, who was joined by colleagues, was shown how the use of automated systems and robotics are helping to boost the productivity of labour as well as how the systems are more energy efficient in the growing agri-tech sector.
Martin Collison, a member of the LEP Food Board, said: "The tour was a great success. The LEP and the Food Board is committed to supporting and championing the trailblazing work being done by the University of Lincoln and its partners in this important sector.
"The purpose of the visit was to give the Food Board a first-hand view of the work that is happening in Lincolnshire developing new technologies to strengthen the agrifood sector.
Twenty-one members of the Food Board attended the tour including the Greater Lincolnshire LEP Chair Ursula Lidbetter MBE and Sir Peter Kendall, Chairman of the Agricultural Development Board, both of whom also sit on the UK Food and Drink Sector Council.
The agri-food sector, which combines agricultural and food manufacturing, is one of the largest industries in Greater Lincolnshire and is one of the LEP's six priority sectors.
Greater Lincolnshire is responsible for producing 12 per cent of England's food and the sector employs 75,000 people in the area.