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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Kenan-Flagler Business School | Poets&Quants For Undergrads
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Kenan-Flagler Business School
Poets&Quants Top Business Schools
Heather Soderquist December 5, 2016
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Kenan-Flagler Undergraduate Business Program
Campus Box 3490, McColl Building
Admissions Office:
Tuition & Fees In-State: $38,364*
Tuition & Fees Out-of-State: $138,692*
Average Debt: $25,329
Internship Rate: 93%
Graduates With Jobs 90 Days After Graduation: 98%
Total Average Compensation (Including Bonus): $73,410
International: 11%
Minority: 18%
First generation college students: 14%
When do students declare their majors: Sophomore Year
Acceptance Rate Transfers: 33%
Average SAT: 1,388
Average ACT: 31
HS Class Top Ten: 76%**
*The total cost of the degree over four years for the most recent graduating class inclusive of school fees, room, board, or living expenses.
** HS Class Top Ten is the percent of the student population that graduated high school in the top ten percent of their class.
*** Please note that these statics are provided for the business school major only whenever possible. If a school does not track these statistics separately, then the university-wide statistics are provided.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Kenan-Flagler Business School continues to differentiate itself among other popular undergraduate business programs. At UNC, the undergraduate business education is centered around its non-major program with a strong emphasis on global learning.
UNC's new Inclusive Global Leadership is the business school's latest push towards a more global education. The Inclusive Global Leadership is a degree requirement where students participate in a variety of activities and programs to develop global competencies from UNC's Global Education Model.
The Global Education Model
The Global Education Model, according to UNC's website, "serves as the road map for all of our degree programs to provide a systematic, comprehensive and transformative global education for every UNC Kenan-Flagler student." The model is based on four global business competencies:
Global Attitudes
"UNC Kenan-Flagler graduates can recognize, exemplify, and demonstrate Attitudes—flexibility, openness, respectfulness, resiliency, and introspection—that are conducive to positive global business interactions."
Global Skills
"UNC Kenan-Flagler graduates can identify, associate, and implement reflection, empathy, adaptability, collaboration, and communication Skills in cross-cultural interactions."
"UNC Kenan-Flagler graduates can identify, explain, and demonstrate business, logistical, intercultural, and self-awareness Knowledge in global contexts."
Global Business Practices
"UNC Kenan-Flagler graduates can understand, analyze, and apply Business Practices that are specific to at least one academic area based on each student's selected concentration or focus of study."
KENAN-FLAGLER'S HOLISTIC CURRICULAR APPROACH
At UNC, business students don't choose majors, but rather, customize their degrees through "Areas of Emphasis (AOE)," which require a minimum of nine credit hours of elective courses. AOE's are optional and business majors may choose to add up to two AOE's in one of the following areas:
Consulting Entrepreneurship
Marketing Management & Sales
Multinational Finance
According to UNC administrators, AOE's allow more customization for students and a holistic approach to business education.
"AOEs provide students with recommended curricular and co-curricular activities based on their business interests. For example, a student interested in consulting will take a required Consulting Skills and Frameworks course, choose from a list of applied learning experiences and then take one final 3.0 credit hour consulting focused elective. They are also guided to join our Consulting Career Club, participate in case competitions, Consulting Career Treks, and various workshops such as a Consulting Bootcamp."
NEARLY THREE-QUARTERS OF RECENT KENAN-FLAGLER GRADUATES HAD A 'GLOBAL IMMERSION'
At Kenan-Flagler, 72% of the graduating Class of 2017 graduates participated in an immersive global experience. With 291 semester abroad opportunities at UNC, students are encouraged to take part in a global experience.
UNC's GLOBE program is a partnership between UNC, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the Copenhagen Business School. GLOBE is an attempt to "offer a unique, integrated global business curriculum to prepare students as future managers and business leaders." Students apply to become GLOBE fellows their sophomore year and take part in an 18-month exchange program.
In a P&Q survey of Kenan-Flagler alumni, 67% say they engaged in a "global immersion" trip or project through UNC.
Carly Wolberg, now a Marketing Manager at Amazon, is a Kenan-Flagler alum who studied abroad through the university.
"Global immersion was one of the best experiences and programs offered through Kenan-Flagler," Wolberg says. "I went to Dubai as part of an elective course and we met with local business leaders and learned about the culture that is driving the growth and innovation in the country. The business school also made it very affordable through various merit scholarships offered."
EMPHASIS ON EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING
There are a number of applied and experiential learning opportunities available for UNC students. From consulting projects to case competitions, Kenan-Flagler offers experiential learning both in and out the classroom setting.
The STAR (Student Teams Achieving Results) program at UNC is a partnership with a number of Fortune 500 corporations and nonprofit organizations where students can gain real-world business experience. STAR teams of five to six students work under the guidance of professors with significant business and consulting experience to "collaborate with the corporate partner sponsors for ongoing dialogue in a similar manner as a consulting engagement," according to UNC's website.
One of the most popular experimental courses at Kenan-Flagler is "Consulting to Entrepreneurial Firms," a course where student teams partake in consulting projects to assist local startups.
"I participated in an Entrepreneurial Consulting course which gave me hands-on experience working with a startup in order to grow their digital footprint," Kristen Busby, a Kenan-Flagler alum, says. "Working alongside several classmates in my group with the business owner provided valuable experience and insight to behind the scenes at a startup."
Career Outlook For Grads
According to a P&Q survey, UNC reported that 97.64% of 2017 grads seeking employment were employed full-time within 90 days of graduation with an average salary of $66,616. Graduates from the class were scattered across the U.S. with majorities accepting positions in the South and Northeast, 48% and 23%, respectively. Graduates working full-time in the Northeast, according to UNC, had the highest average salaries at $75,180. Graduates working full-time in the Western U.S. had the second highest average salaries at $68,125.
Alumni views of Kenan-Flagler are high. According to the P&Q alumni survey, 60% of Kenan-Flagler alums believe their business degree will assist them in climbing to a new socioeconomic status. Some 89% say that their first job after graduating was in their desired industry with 76% saying their first job after graduation was at their desired company.
What Alumni Say:
"I took a Global Immersion Elective to Delhi, Mumbai, and Bengaluru in India after my freshman year of college that allowed me to understand business in a more holistic manner. I never truly understood the global capabilities of companies and the interconnectedness of every country, as well as the cultural differences even within a single country, until I took this GIE." – Class of 2016 alum
"I was the student trip leader on the South Africa Global Immersion Elective through the business school. I spent two weeks in Cape Town and Johannesburg learning about social entrepreneurship and the history of the country. I was able to go into a township and really get a first-hand look at grass root organizations over there." – Class of 2016 alum
"The GLOBE Program at UNC is a one-of-a-kind program that I am tremendously glad I took part it. It is an international exchange program between UNC, Copenhagen Business School, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong where 18 top students from each university are chosen to participate in the program. This group of students, around 54 total, study in a group for 1 1/2 years, spending a semester at each university and learning how business is conducted in the region they are in." – Class of 2016 alum
Where The Class of 2018 Went To Work:
EY – 21
Bank of America – 14
Wells Fargo – 12
Cisco – 11
Deloitte Consulting – 9
Capital One – 8
Newell Brands – 7
JPMorgan – 5
Morgan Stanley – 5
Red Ventures – 5
For an in-depth interview with Dean Murray, go here.
The Highest-Paying Jobs and Majors
Intern Recruiting Of Business Undergrads Starts Earlier & Earlier


We found eating in Istanbul slightly harder than we first thought, especially because we had a short time in Istanbul and centered ourselves in the old city, while most of the vegan restaurants are in the new town. If you are available to get to these areas then you could eat a good vegan meal, but below are recommendations of what to eat in the old city with limited options.
Vegan isn't a well recognised word in Istanbul although they understand vegetarianism. We tried to explain what we can and cannot eat to a waiter, and his reply was "What is the point of life without meat and cheese" and "What do you eat?".
So we ended up eating at nondescript restaurants and found that we could order vegan food (see pictures below), most places have bread (make sure they make it without milk or eggs), vegetable stew (made in a pot in front of you), hummus (again make sure no milk or yoghurt), rice (made with vegetable oil and not butter). The only dessert we tried was a fig in fig jam, although traditional Turkish delights are vegan but I do not like them.
Istanbul is pretty, with famous sights like the Blue Mosque, Hagia Sophia, Topkapi Palace, Basilica Cistern, Grand Bazaar and a boat ride through the Bosphorus Strait (all recommended). We ended up buying the museum pass (85TL for 5 days) but Hagia Sophia is 40TL and Topkapi Palace+Harem is 40TL+15TL, so you can make up your money quickly and it saves waiting in queues.
We flew with Turkish Airlines and we made sure to request a special meal (Strict Vegetarian is vegan), and as you can see the food was ok, even with chocolate cake! Although I would bring snacks with you, or eat in the airport. In Istanbul Airport there is a place upstairs opposite Starbucks, where you can find salads, roasted vegetables and juices, the salad in the glass jars with buckwheat/apple/raisins was really good.


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Brain overload and Grief
Posted on 20th Jul 2020 23rd Mar 2022 by Grief Probate Journey
As I woke up one morning, I started thinking about how I'm feeling, what is happening, everything that we have to do, and this is how this topic came about. Throughout our journey, there have been many moments where we feel like our brain is overloaded. These moments come in waves, but when they do, we feel: Overwhelmed…
Please see: Brain overload and grief which covers:
Introduction/our story
YouTube Video: How Grief Affects Your Brain And What To Do About It | Better | NBC News
Brain overload and grief with illustrative examples
Grief brain and illustrative examples
Loss of a parent and effects on the brain with illustrative examples
Loss of a parent as a child and effects on the brain
Our Final Thoughts and YouTube Video
1. Introduction/our story
As I woke up one morning, I started thinking about how I'm feeling, what is happening, everything that we have to do, and this is how this topic came about.
Throughout our journey, there have been many moments where we feel like our brain is overloaded. These moments come in waves, but when they do, we feel:
Also, in those moment's we feel like we have no time which becomes a worry. We do try our best to be positive, and also acknowledge that we have and are still dealing with a lot. We also try our best to acknowledge what we have achieved/completed throughout this time.
In moments when we are faced with big decisions or situations where we are not sure what is the best or right way to do things, these are the times we feel:
At a loss
At a low
Loss of concentration
At this moment in time we are once again focusing on the complaint against the hospital in which our Dad was an inpatient, this is why such feelings have started to resurface. As we previsouly mentioned, this complaint is always in our subconscious mind, but when we have to directly deal with it. A mass of feelings and emotions overcome us.
When going over the topic with my sister, I was saying to her that the way we feel and how we explain it could sound repititive, but in actual fact the reality is, that is exactly how our life can feel at times, like it is on repeat and we are living through a groundhog day. No matter how much time might pass in between dealing with this complaint, or any other difficult situation related to our Dad, right away when in that moment we are catapulted right back into the feelings, thoughts and emotions of whats the best thing to do, and how is the best way to do it.
We also can feel a lack of direction, guidance. None of these things are nice feelings, however, no matter what we try our best to remain calm so that we can:
Plan our next steps forward in the best logical way
And this is where we currently are, trying our best to move forward as calmly, logically and positvly as possible. With regard to the complaint process, we are very grateful for the Independent Advocate Service named PohWer who have been supporting us from the very begninning. Without their help and support we would feel even more lost in this process.
We hope this topic might be of use to somoene. Please see: Brain overload and grief:
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3. Brain overload and grief with illustrative examples
3.1 Illustrative Examples
3.2 Brain overload and grief
"These are symptoms of Grief Brain. Don't worry, this is a natural part of grief. Your brain is on overload with thoughts of grief, sadness, loneliness and many other feelings. Grief Brain affects your memory, concentration, and cognition".
3.3 What does grief do to the brain?
"When you're grieving, a flood of neurochemicals and hormones dance around in your head. "There can be a disruption in hormones that results in specific symptoms, such as disturbed sleep, loss of appetite, fatigue and anxiety," says Dr. Phillips. When those symptoms converge, your brain function takes a hit. 4 Jun 2018"
4. Grief brain and illustrative examples
4.1 Illustrative Example
4.2 How long does grief brain last?
"But for some people, grief doesn't subside. If it continues for more than six months, it can turn into what's often called complicated grief, prolonged grief disorder, or persistent complex bereavement disorder, according to a 2016 analysis of data from the Yale Bereavement Study published in World Psychiatry".
This is the case for my sister and I, it has now been three years since our Dad passed away, as we say very often, although three years have passed we are still in disbelief that our Dad is no longer physically here with us. Whenever we have these realisations it makes us sad. In momemts when I think about my Dad too much, I find mysef shaking my head, it's almost as though I am trying to shake the reality or the thought out of my head and mind before it gets a chance to manifest.Tanya also did this too back then at that time. (Whenever leaving the hospital when my Dad was an inpatient, if it had been an unsetlling visit, and I was leaving feeling uneasy, I would often do that so I could focus and get myself home, and ready for the morning when I would return to the hospital). I now realise, this is part of my coping mechanism.
4.3 What does grief look like in the brain?
"The emotions you experience look similar to grief – and underneath that grief are neurological changes that take place in the brain." … These involve emotional regulation, memory, multi-tasking, organization and learning. When you're grieving, a flood of neurochemicals and hormones dance around in your head. 4 Jun 2018"
4.4 Grief Symptoms: How Grief Affects the Brain
"13 Jan 2016 – Grief may impact you or loved ones in the following ways: concentration is compromised; completing projects seems impossible; memory and" …
4.5 Does grief cause brain fog?
"Grief Brain is real. It can release high levels of stress hormones in the body leading to confusion, fuzzy thinking, disrupted sleep, and depression. … Grief Brain is a natural reaction to loss and subsequent grief. The intense grief sets off a chemical reaction throughout your body and brain". (27 Jan 2019).
5. Loss of a parent and effects on the brain with illustrative examples
5.2 How Losing a parent can impact your brain?
Why Losing A Parent Hurts So Much, No Matter Your Age
"Studies show that losing a parent can lead to increased risks for long-term emotional and mental health issues, such as depression, anxiety, and substance abuse. 27 Sep 2017".
My sister and I can truly relate to this. We have never been the same since our Dad sadly passed away in 2017. It's still surreal. Our emotions feel like they are on a constant rollercoaster. We are grateful there are services available to help us, and we are happy we have decided to explore and engage in these services.
Without counselling and therapy, getting through what we are going through and dealing with would be even more difficult and daunting.
5.3 The Death of a Parent, Mother or Father, Affects Human Minds
"Even under the best circumstances, losing a parent changes an adult … all brain regions mobilized during grief processing, research shows".
Reading such articles, helps my sister and I to know that even though these many years have passed, and we feel this way, it is okay. It is okay that we are still not okay.
5.4 How Losing a Parent Can Impact Your Brain
"7 Sep 2018 – A 1970 cohort study examined over 11,000 participants to test the long-term effects of a parent's death in childhood on adult life".
5.5 How Parent Loss Affects Brain – Regardless Of Age
"It is widely believed that losing a parent is an event that affects children more than adults, as their immature mind cannot cope with the loss the way an adult would.".
6. Loss of a parent as a child and effects on the brain
6.1 How Losing a parent as a child affects adulthood?
"Studies of adults with early parental loss show that they are more likely to experience depression, anxiety, and substance use disorders, and use maladaptive coping strategies, including increased levels of self-blame, self-medication, and emotional eating (Høeg et al., 2016).2 Feb 2018"
6.2 How can bereavement affect a child emotionally?
"A bereaved child or young person will probably display mood swings and may display behaviours that appear polar to the behaviours of the child / young person prior to their bereavement. For example, a previously gregarious and popular pupil might become sullen and withdrawn following the death of someone close".
6.3 How does the death of a parent affect a child?
"Having a parent die at a young age is a life-altering experience that can make them feel different from their peers. Feeling socially isolated can hurt kids' self-esteem, which can put them at risk for anxiety, depression, and substance abuse." (23 Apr 2018).
6.4 What to say to a child who lost a parent?
"Be respectful: If you don't know the child well introduce yourself and refer to the deceased by name. Remember that the child may be meeting a lot of new people all at once. This can make them uncomfortable. Express your sympathy: Use your own words to let the child know that you recognize their loss".
6.5 What do you do when a child loses a parent?
Here are some things parents can do to help a child who has lost a loved one:
"When talking about death, use simple, clear words". …
"Listen and comfort". …
"Put emotions into words". …
"Tell your child what to expect". …
"Talk about funerals and rituals". …
"Give your child a role". …
"Help your child remember the person". (More items…)
From our experience since our Dad passed away and we have become part of a grief community within our social media platforms, we would also advise, maybe reach out to someone who lost a parent as a child, and if they are willing, seek their advice. Speaking to someone who has lived through a similar experience can make such a great difference.
6.6 Long-Term Effects of Parental Loss and Bereavement – LinkedIn
"10 Jan 2019 – Long-Term Effects of Parental Loss and Bereavement … Even under idea circumstances, many studies have shown that losing a parent changes an adult both … frontal cortex, and cerebellum brain regions in grief processing".
7. Our Final Thoughts and YouTube Video
My sister and I recently received some very sad news. A very good friend of our Dads who was practically like family has passed away. Hearing this news stopped me in my tracks. I was working my way through my planned list of things to do, but all of a sudden, I was almost frozen. I wasn't able to continue with what I was doing, as the shock and disbelief of this news took over.
For Tanya who was given the news first hand initially she got upset over the phone which she later felt bad about but even still, although this is a reality it is almost as though we are numb to it. This news has not sunk in properly yet as it is still very new. When the time comes that we would usually contact him, but we realise we cannot because he is no longer here, it will hit us. This is how we feel. Our thoughts, condolences and prayers go out to his family, friends, loved ones, and colleagues, and anyone who knew him. He was a very kindhearted person and we will miss him. May he R.I.E.P.
Our YouTube Video:
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RESEARCH I would like to investigate different strategies such as family involvement, individual meetings, more awareness of the program, and mandatory involvement and see if they maybe might help a student to recover from their loss.
While the myelograms are accurate, this procedure is very painful and sometimes dangerous for the patient. Whether you want to choose an unsolved problem or a poorly solved problem for your engineering project, there are plenty of problems out there!
Who has the problem or need? Here you would identify and explain i. Record this bug list in your Design Notebook. Some of the constraints are that it must be reasonably portable and it must be able to produce up to 6V in order to charge a handheld battery powered device.
There should be at least three sources of written information on the subject, as well as similar products to analyze.
Also, undue suffering could lead patients to choose another hospital with more advanced facilities. Spend time with the people the project is being financed by and the people that are going to be affected by the changes it makes.
Challenges often arise due to an inherent conflict between two or more parameters; for example speed vs heat, weight vs stability, tension vs shape etc.
Unfortunately, at the present time, only one of those three methods are being utilized: Or how do you pick and choose, from all of the products, systems, and environments already out there, one that you might want to improve? Only in certain locations, processes, products, etc. The problem is specific enough to allow you to design a solution.
A problem statement expresses the words that will be used to keep the effort focused and it should represent a solveable problem. For example, if you are improving a car radio, your problem statement might be: A design constraint is an "incidental" limitation, a boundary beyond which the design should not go, such as; weight, size, time -to- build, cost, safe.
It has a specific form: Your problem statement should incorporate the answers as follows: For this example, possible project ideas might be to design a product that can be used to remove stuck foods from vending machines or a new vending machine that makes it impossible for food to get stuck.
Public restrooms without toilet paper Long lines at amusement parks When food gets stuck in vending machines Dog or cat hair that gets stuck on clothing Sharing armrests with strangers at the movies Wasting water in the shower Losing one earring Draining tuna fish cans Challenge yourself to come up with as many bugs as you can.
The act of looking at the world around you to identify these needs is called need finding. How does your possible solution stack up against these issues?
These funds are made available in order to enhance student life and the out-of-class experience or improve the educational climate at University Park.
When printing this document, you may NOT modify it in any way. Successful Project[ edit ] Projects are judged successful in relationship to their problem statement.
Can you think of a way to measure whether your solution is better than what already exists? They may not agree to the changes. Nyman then creates a task force of parents and students who execute the program for him. Engineering Project Checklist Answer the questions in the quick checklist to find out if your project is on the right track.
Establishing the context is one of the hardest tasks associated with the project. Let us help your team get better solving your problems. Your problem statement should be solveable. The format for writing a problem statement uses your answers to the questions and follows these guidelines: Does your project meet all the rules and requirements for the science fair?
Good specifications outline the engineering requirements. Your problem statement should always look like this: There is currently a solution to this problem—the lint brush.
In addition, the procedures should not be overly painful for the patient. These lectures are not mandatory as a result, the majority of students do not attend. Do you have enough time to complete your design and make it before the due date? Key Challenges What challenges exist in the problem?
What Makes a Good Engineering Project?ENGINEERING DESIGN PROCESS Education Transfer Plan Prepared by Seyyed Khandani, Ph.D. [email protected] change the problem statement to read, "Design a device to launch a 1-pound snowball to Engineering design activity always occurs in response to a human need.
Before you can. Software Engineering help chat. Software Engineering Meta your communities Creating a good problem statement. up vote 10 down vote favorite.
1 Is the only current way to do the same thing to write the program yourself? Is there similar software that is too hard to use or too inefficient? You hint at this by saying "with a system that is. Formulating Problem Statements: Using Audience Awareness to Contextualize Your Research Goals A persuasive problem statement consists of three parts: 1) the ideal, 2) the reality, and 3) the consequences for the reader of the feasibility report.
For you to write your problem statement, you have to think of a topic that you think is relevant and requires immediate yet realizable solution. How to Develop a Convincing Problem Statement A problem statement is more than a medical statement because you need to work your mind to come up with a very important question or topic.
Define the problem in the engineering design process. Please enter a search term in the text box. Project Ideas: Write them down. They may seem like small and silly problems, but they can spark ideas for a project or lead to larger problems that you may not have noticed otherwise. The problem statement for any good engineering design.
The problem statement may be part of your report introduction (usually placed after you summarize the design brief) or it may be a separate .


Trust in the power of your divine spirit to overcome any adversity, and look to your embodiment of the indestructible energy of love and light in each moment as a part of the universe.
something natural and therefore wholesome?
being at ease in any situation, staying calm and always being in control?
showing your shortcomings in public and feeling overwhelming disapproval?
Mother Nature and the Universe?
But here I'm talking about something quite magical. So let me start off by telling you a little story. Stories always help because you become a child when you listen and the story magic works on your unconscious mind in a subtle and often long-lasting way.
Once upon a time there was a poor man with a big family who had to work so hard to earn so little money. It got to the point where he couldn't feed his children or plan for the future of his two beautiful daughters which as the custom went he would have to provide a dowry for when they married. So, reluctantly, he decided that they had no choice but to leave and go to a distant land where he could find ways of increasing is earnings and send money home. He packed a few possessions and set off for the long walk which would take him across mountains and deserts to reach such a land.
Once he arrived there because he was quite young and willing he quickly found work and began to earn more money. In time, his employers liked his work so much that they increased his wages and gave him more and more responsibility.
Eventually, he became a manager and was able to buy a big house and land, and live like a Lord. At this point, he had been away so long that he forgot about his wife and children in his distant homeland, and met and married another woman. His life was so changed. He could relax and start to enjoy it a little.
His employers gave him more and more responsibility but then he got in with the wrong type and started to drink excessively and to gamble. One day, he realized he had lost everything he had earned and acquired. So, finding he had lost even his fine clothes, he put on his tattered traveller's outfit and set out wearily on the long journey home.
When finally he arrived his family was very glad to see him to his surprise because he had let them down so badly. So, he settled back into family life with deep gratitude even though he was still poor. In his absence, his mother had died and he was called to her house to attend to her affairs. She had left a letter for him which he opened sadly because he had not been able to say goodbye to her.
The letter read, "My dear son, I am sad when I think about your life of back-breaking work for so little reward. I was sure you would return to us a rich man, but that was not to be.
He gently felt along the seam of his coat and sure enough he could feel something. He took a knife and gently cut the stitching and a large ruby fell out. He cried large tears which were a mixture of joy and sadness: joy that he and his family had a secure future and sad that he had been so blind and caused such suffering for his loved ones.
So, your true nature is just like the poor man's ruby sewn into the lining of his traveling coat. We all have a powerful gemstone inside us but because it is hidden and we neglect it, it steadily loses its shine and eventually becomes encrusted with dirt so that we cannot recognize its power.
Like the poor man in the story, he had given up on his own uniqueness, his treasure mind, his divine spark because he was forced to suffer in poverty and frustration. But if he had respected and gazed at the remarkable spirit he came into human life with, he could have polished his talents and changed his destiny.
This unique spirit, this talent to embody all love and light is something we can see so clearly in new creatures and babies. If they are healthy, their spirit is potent and gleaming, their curiosity and energy is joyful and their love unconditional. The world is new to them and the dominance of their culture and conditioning not yet exerting a strong influence.
If we watch children at play, we can see from the way they use their bodies that they are at ease, their spine and joins supple and open. They move around without effort delighting in or perhaps fearing the stimuli they find in their new environment. They are one with everything around them because they have not yet learned how to use thought to separate themselves away, to assert themselves, to develop their ego and personality. But most important of all, they do not wear any social masks.
If they feel anger, they usually show it spontaneously. If they feel joy, then their laughter in infectious. They live for love, crave the constant attention of their closest parent and seem not to have a care in the world. This lack of care shows in their bodies – free moving, balanced, no blocked energy, because they have not yet learned how to worry or compare themselves with others except at a superficial level.
We can also see this freedom especially in movement in animals. One of the most exciting sites I have ever witnessed was watching a cheetah hunting a gazelle on the African savannah. It totally embodies its instincts and its survival needs as it runs at lighting speed, flowing like a rapid stream of muscles, tendons and ligaments.
Remember! You have got a unique and glorious gem in your heart like the poor man. This is your inheritance, your true nature, and we can polish it until it dazzles and creates a bright light in the universe!!
This is the introduction to a new book I am building on my website at – http://www.flourishwrite.org. The title – 'TRUE NATURE: Our Supreme Inheritance; how to take down your masks and stop repressing your natural urges.' Please come and join me if you are curious about your gem stone within and how to polish it once you have found it!
Enjoy the invisible and the freedom of not interfering with your true nature. There is nothing to fear or to hide. You are spirit, eternal, indestructible, and unique.
Originally, before the secular mind developed, we were pure in mind and spiritually evolved.
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Materials, possessions, appropriations, membership, rivals, ambition, boundaries, nationalisms, differences…………. These are ulterior motives, ulterior agendas.
You are a living breathing candle. Your flame burns brightly at one moment then gutters and threatens to go out at the next.


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Q: How can I add icon to div via Javascript I have little problem. I have no idea how can I insert icon to div. I take data from weather API and I wanna create my weather widget. This is part of my code:
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I see vlue of property my Icon but I don't know how can I add url icon to this.

A: I'm not really sure about your question but if your data.list[0].weather[0].icon is a URL string to the icon you want to append to the table row, why don't you try this:
change your the line before your 	 tag to icon:

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The recent serious Idiom sequence make for nice partners to classes. Sanders' edition and Appropriation is a compact, transparent, usable textbook that cuts throughout the muddy water of serious debates on precisely what these phrases (and a bunch of different comparable phrases) suggest.
One of the preconditions for setting up colonial authority used to be communique with the colonised. Verbal exchanges relied on a shared communicative praxis offering universal floor on which unilateral claims can be imposed. Use of, and regulate over, verbal technique of conversation have been had to continue regimes - army, religious-ideological, financial - in energy.
A comparative evaluate of the transmutation of a decadent mentality into an identifiable narrative variety. the writer examines the paintings of 5 significant novelists within the final area of the 19th century and makes an attempt to track perplexities, perversities and combos of extra.
Via 1840, the epistolary novel was once lifeless. Letters in Victorian fiction, in spite of the fact that, have been unmistakably alive. Postal Plots explores how Victorian postal reforms unleashed a brand new and infrequently unruly inhabitants into the Victorian literary market the place they threatened the definition and improvement of the Victorian literary expert.
It is no coincidence that the Shakespearean canon has provided a crucial touchstone for the scholarship of appropriation as a literary practice 46 literary archetypes and form. Several book-length studies have considered appropriation from a Shakespearean perspective (see, for example, Marsden 1991; Chedgzoy 1995; Novy 1999; Desmet and Sawyer 1999; Fischlin and Fortier 2000; Sanders 2001; Zabus 2002). To cite Daniel Fischlin and Mark Fortier in the valuable overview essay that accompanies their recent anthology of dramatic adaptations of Shakespearean plays: 'As long as there have been plays by Shakespeare, there have been adaptations of those plays' (2000: 1).
Musical creations by Diego Ortiz, Marco Uccellini, and Henry Purcell, in Spain, Italy and England respectively, were commonly structured in terms of 'grounds' or repeated harmonic base instrumental patterns, often played by lute, harpsichord, or cello, or a combination of both, on the surface of which the more improvisational lines of instrumentation are performed by flute, recorder, bass viol, or violin. We have in this a rather beautiful model for the way in which intertext(s) in a novel such as Last Orders might operate as the base or 'ground' for the reader, informing the top note or improvisation that is the new creative act or cultural production.
And that in a way begins to unpack an answer to the charges of plagiarism levelled at this novel in relation to Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. Of course the Faulknerian intertext is crucial, revealing, moving even, in highlighting the South London analogue that Swift provides to the Mississippi regional literature of the 1930s. But, as Cooper has noted before me, we are not dealing with a single frame of appropriation or intertextuality but rather a 'symphony of intertexts'. It is in how these intertexts play off against each other that the full story of Last Orders emerges (2002: 37).


Our paper provides new methods to robustify productivity growth measurement by utilizing various economic theories explaining economic growth and productivity and the econometric model generated by that particular theory. We utilize the World Productivity Database from the UNIDO to analyze productivity during the period 1960-2010 for OECD countries. We focus on three competing models from the stochastic frontier literature, Cornwell, Schmidt, and Sickles (1990), Kumbhakar (1990) and Battese and Coelli (1992) to estimate productivity growth and its decomposition into technical change and efficiency change and utilize methods due to Hansen (2010) to construct optimal weights in order to model average the results from these three approaches.


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Apple Prunes Dealer Network
Image Searching on the Web, Part 1: Pictures via Text
Web Browsers, An Individual Choice
by Adam C. Engst <ace@tidbits.com>
Last week, Apple completed a significant pruning of its extensive reseller network by "deauthorizing" about one-third of its 3,600 U.S. dealers, retailers, and value-added resellers. In addition, Apple cut more than half its authorized service providers in the U.S. Apple's rationale was to focus on the dealers and service providers who do a good job at promoting the Macintosh. By making the cuts, Apple significantly reduced the costs associated with coordinating resellers and service providers.
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Although I'm sure Apple terminated some dealers who didn't deserve to be deauthorized, on the whole, I think this move makes sense. When I searched Apple's Dealer Locator to see how many dealers were in the Seattle area, I realized that I'd never heard of five of the eight businesses listed despite having lived in Seattle for seven years while participating in the local Macintosh users' group the entire time. None of those five specialized in the Mac, whereas two of the three I did recognize were marked as Apple Specialists.
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The fact that the resellers I hadn't heard of weren't marked as Apple Specialists is potentially telling. It's possible that these businesses were in part using their Apple authorization to attract customers, who they then steered toward PCs - I've heard numerous reports of this happening in the computer superstores Apple dropped earlier this year (see "Apple in 1998: Retreat or Focus?" in TidBITS-416).
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Even if these computer stores aren't using the Macintosh as bait, removing them from the mix of possible Apple dealers isn't a bad thing. When a store sells both Macs and PCs, at best they won't care which machine an individual or business wants to buy, and they're unlikely to offer the same level of knowledge and service as a store that focuses on the Mac. In the end, that's what all this is about - helping Apple focus its resources on those resellers who in turn focus on the Macintosh.


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Government of Canada invests in artificial intelligence and startup innovation across Canada
Investment will help create up to 22,000 jobs and accelerate growth of science-based startups.
By CDL Team | October 9, 2018
October 9, 2018 – Ottawa, Ontario – Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
In the face of global economic challenges, the Government of Canada is continuing to make investments in projects to help grow innovative companies, including start-ups, to create well-paying middle-class jobs and ensure Canada punches above its weight in a competitive global market.
Today, the Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, announced an investment of $25 million in the Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), a non-profit organization based at the University of Toronto that merges science-based projects with business expertise to help young companies scale-up into creators of new jobs, processes, and services.
Thanks to this investment, CDL will create up to 125 jobs, attract more investments into Canadian businesses, and see more intellectual property developed and retained in Canada. CDL's project will also involve more than 1,300 science-based ventures in a wider network across Canada over four years and it is estimated that these ventures could create up to 22,000 new jobs.
The funding will help CDL gain insight into the success of start-ups. The research project will facilitate CDL supporting business ventures that harness emerging technologies such as clean tech, energy, health, cities, space, AI and quantum technologies. The CDL project will also support the growth of science-based business start-ups through mentorship and access to angel and venture capital. In addition, CDL will boost its engagement of young women in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields to ensure broad representation for the next generation of technology and business leaders in Canada.
CDL will run experiments with start-ups at the following sites in the Canadian CDL Network:
Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia
Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary
HEC Montréal, Université de Montréal
Rowe School of Business, Dalhousie University
This investment is being made through the Strategic Innovation Fund, a program designed to attract and support high-quality business investments across all sectors of the economy by encouraging R&D that will accelerate technology transfer and the commercialization of innovative products, processes and services and will facilitate the growth of innovative firms.
"Creative Destruction Lab's exciting project promises to unleash a new wave of start-up innovation across Canada, creating thousands of middle class jobs, and further securing Canada's position as a world leader in the AI field. Our government is proud to make investments that will help turn hundreds of innovative ideas into the good jobs and companies of tomorrow."
– The Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development
"Our government is making sure Canadian entrepreneurs have the ecosystems of support they need to startup, scale up and access markets. Our strategic investment in Creative Destruction Lab will help accelerate the transformation of innovative ideas into commercial success stories, helping Canadian entrepreneurs, creating middle-class jobs and strengthen our innovation economy."
– The Honourable Mary Ng, Minister of Small Business and Export Promotion
"The Creative Destruction Lab was founded in 2012 to address a failure in the market for judgment. First-time founders of science-based companies, while fully committed to the success of their venture and possessing deep knowledge in their technical domain, often lack the business judgment required to prioritize among the almost infinite list of to-dos required to successfully build and scale their business. Our structured and rigorous program helps them with that prioritization process. While we fully leverage market forces to provide prioritization guidance from individuals who themselves have built successfully scaled businesses, the coordination of those market forces requires non-market support. That is why we are so grateful to the Government of Canada for supporting our mission that will drive economic impact and create jobs, learning opportunities, and global leadership for deep-tech and science-based companies across Canada."
– Sonia Sennik, Executive Director of Creative Destruction Lab
In its first five years since its launch in 2012 by Professor Ajay Agrawal at the Rotman School of Management, CDL has supported 500 science-based start-ups that have led to the creation of an estimated 1,100 jobs.
The Strategic Innovation Fund is a $1.26-billion program that is helping Canada become a global leader in innovation.
In addition to the Strategic Innovation Fund, there are hundreds of programs and services to help businesses innovate, create jobs and grow Canada's economy. With its simple, story-based user interface, the new Innovation Canada platform can match businesses with the most fitting programs and services in about two minutes.
Venture capital is an essential part of the innovation ecosystem as it enables innovative technology companies and small businesses to survive and thrive. The Government of Canada supports innovative companies with VC investments through the Business Development Bank of Canada, the Venture Capital Action Plan (VCAP) and the new Venture Capital Catalyst Initiative.
Associated link
Strategic Innovation Fund
Follow Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada on Twitter: @ISED_CA
Nilani Logeswaran
A/Press Secretary
Office of the Minister of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
ic.mediarelations-mediasrelations.ic@canada.ca
About The Creative Destruction Lab
The Creative Destruction Lab is a seed-stage program for massively scalable, science-based companies. Its nine-month program pairs founders with experienced entrepreneurs and investors to set focused, measurable objectives with the goal of maximizing equity-value creation. Founded in 2012 by Professor Ajay Agrawal at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, the program has now expanded with locations in Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal, Halifax, and New York City.
Since its inception in 2012, companies that have participated in the CDL programs have created over $3 billion (CAD) in equity value. CDL Alumni include Thalmic Labs (Waterloo), Atomwise (San Francisco), Deep Genomics (Toronto), Automat (Montreal), Kyndi (Palo Alto), and Heuritech (Paris).
James Liu
james.liu@creativedestructionlab.com
Creative Destruction Lab Rapid Screening Consortium Wins Project of the Year Award


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Protests at Fort Campbell Over Deployment of Wounded Soldier
Sarah Lazare Ryan Harvey &
Sarah Lazare,
Even If Your Voice Shakes | Report
A soldier at Fort Campbell, Kentucky is being forced to return to Afghanistan this week amidst claims he is not fit to deploy because he has not received treatment promised by the Army for severe Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder sustained during his deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Jeff Hanks deployed to Afghanistan early last year with the 101st Airborne Division out of Fort Campbell, Kentucky. He returned to the base on leave from Afghanistan this past September, where he sought and was denied treatment on two separate military bases for traumatic injuries sustained in combat.
Hanks subsequently refused to redeploy and was forced to go Absent Without Official Leave in order to get medical attention from civilian professionals.
Now, less than two months after surrendering himself at Fort Campbell, the Army Specialist awaits imminent redeployment to Afghanistan against his wishes and against the advice of his team of medical professionals.
Seeking help in fighting for his right to heal, Hanks contacted Operation Recovery, a joint-campaign of Iraq Veterans Against the War and the Civilian-Soldier Alliance, which seeks to end the re-deployment of traumatized and wounded soldiers.
Volunteers from Operation Recovery came to Kentucky to support Hanks throughout November and December as he sought treatment.Yesterday, they hand-delivered an Article 138 notice of wrongdoing to several commanding officers at Fort Campbell and delivered one notice to La Point Medical Center, where Hanks was routinely denied treatment.
The notice names Captain Jason Ambrosino, the commanding officer responsible for denying Hanks' right to heal, for violating both soldiers' rights and military law. The group was attempting to deliver the notice to Ambrosino himself, but he was not on post at the time.
In addition to filing the Article 138 complaint demanding that his deployment be delayed, Hanks' attorney James Branum will also be filing other formal complaints, including one with the Office of the Inspector General and another with offices of U.S. Congressional Representatives.
Fort Campbell officials could not be reached for comment as of the time of publication.
Supporters Gather at Base
Outside of the gates Fort Campbell this weekend, Operation Recovery members put pressure on Hanks' command. "We are here today to say that troops are human beings," said Lori Chambers, a veteran and Operation Recovery member from Nashville. "If there are issues in the civilian world, people get treatment. People in the military deserve treatment too."
Meanwhile, Operation Recovery supporters across the country sent over 1,500 emails of protest to Captain Ambrosino. "Soldiers have a right to heal from the traumas of war," the mass email reads, "but you have systematically denied that right in the case of Spc. Hanks. You have interfered with him receiving proper medical treatment, and you appear to be breaking the law by doing so.
Commanders had informed Hanks last this week that he was scheduled to redeploy to Afghanistan over the weekend, but as of today he has not deployed. The Army's mandatory pre-deployment mental health screenings denied Hank's PTSD claim, contradicting positive diagnoses by three separate civilian therapists, and results of an MRI yesterday that will not be available until after he is in Afghanistan.
"Four different mental health providers have diagnosed Jeff with PTSD, have advised treatment, and he has been denied treatment every single time. I am very worried about him," says Johanna Buwalda, a licensed clinical counselor working directly with Hanks and other veterans. "Our soldiers deserve the right to heal."
As increasingly reported by soldiers like Hanks, the Army behavioral health specialist who screened him suggested Hanks seek treatment while deployed in Afghanistan.
"These supposed medical professionals are the ones caving into the pressure of the military," said Jason Chambers, a U.S. Air Force combat veteran from Nashville and a volunteer with Operation Recovery. "They need to know that we are not going to let them get away with it.
Soldiers At Fort Campbell Are Speaking Out
Though Fort Campbell officials were unable to comment on Hanks' case at this time, they did confirm that they received his article 138 complaint. "We encourage all soldiers to use the resources available to them," a soldier at the Public Affairs office said in a phone interview. "There's a lot out there for guys suffering from PTSD."
But Operation Recovery organizers say that Jeff Hanks is not the only Fort Campbell soldier that has contacted them with similar complaints, he is just currently the only one who has gone public with his case.
Operation Recovery organizers have suggested that this silence may break soon.
"The redeployment of wounded soldiers has come to underlie the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan," said Jason Hurd, a U.S. Army Iraq combat veteran and Operation Recovery organizer. "As veterans of these wars, we are here to say that Jeff's case is not isolated, and these cycles of trauma must end. And Operation Recovery is going to work to stop this cruel and inhumane practice."
"I feel like it is important to demonstrate to Captain Ambrosino, along with all other commanders making the choice to deploy soldiers who need treatment, that we are not going to let them get away with it," said Brad Thomson, member of the Chicago chapter of the Civilian-Soldier Alliance and an Operation Recovery organizer. "I don't know how more clear we could be."
These organizers say they will continue to uncover violations of soldiers' rights at Fort Campbell and to bring to light those in the command structure there who are responsible for the abuses.
"We're not going to stop until we bring an end to the redeployment of traumatized troops," said Hannah Fritz, Chicago member of the Civilian-Soldier Alliance. "And after today, they know we are watching them."
The Operation Recovery Campaign, launched October 7th, 2010, seeks to stop the redeployment of troops suffering from PTSD, Traumatic Brain Injury, and Military Sexual Trauma. More info on Jeff Hanks and Operation Recovery can be found on the campaign's website, https://www.ivaw.org/operation-recovery.
UPDATE: As of Monday, Jeff had not yet deployed. In a message to supporters, Operation Recovery organizers said, "Late last night, we learned that Jeff Hanks was not deployed to Afghanistan yesterday as scheduled. Thank you for the hundreds of emails that you sent to his unit commander, Cpt. Ambrosino. His email inbox was flooded over the weekend with 2,000 emails!" But Hanks is still facing deployment or a dishonorable discharge, and base officials, citing privacy regulations, refused to comment on his situation.
Sarah Lazare Ryan Harvey
Sarah Lazare
Sarah Lazare is web editor at In These Times. She comes from a background in independent journalism for publications including The Intercept, The Nation and TomDispatch. Follow her on Twitter: @sarahlazare.


Another thing we are doing is learning about nature. We are lucky to live on a beautiful farming estate so we have lovely walks available to us when we want to go on one. Normally though, someone always gets stung while we are closely looking at something.
This walk consisted of looking at the different types of grasses that are out this time of year. Sadly, it has been very cold and we think that the normal spring grasses are going to be a few weeks late this year.
On our walk, we came to the end of our lane and found a lovely lake which was covered in lily pads. We have done a Monet inspired painting from this.
On the way home we came across this skeleton which we think was missing a few limbs and possibly the top of it's jaw, so Elsa thought it was a possibly a fox or deer and Anna thought it was a kangaroo or a bear, which Elsa thought was funny but I thought made sense really, as it was missing two legs. After a bit of research at home we found out that it is a muntjac deer.
We had collected lots of moss and stones and pine cones this time so we made a little fairy garden which looked really cute. The girls picked lots of flowers from our garden to pretty it up a lot.


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Q: Sliding Between Web Pages using jquery/ajax or html5 I am trying to understand how to create the effect of clicking on a right arrow and the content of the webpage (Everything except for the footer and header) slides off to the left, and another html page I have written slides in from the right.
From my research on stackoverflow I understand that this is possible with either jquery/ajax or html5, however, all of the resources provided thus far have not been able to explain how to accomplish this task. The web pages I have been lead to for jquery have shown me how to slide between different divs inside a single html page but not between the html pages themselves.
I am looking to replicate the effect of
http://www.kickstarter.com/year/2012#dark_sky
if someone can point me in the right direction of how to accomplish this it would be greatly appreciated.
Thankyou

A: as you can successfully slide between divs, why not simply embed the html-pages in different iframe and switch between those?
Not sure if this solution is appropriate for you, but I would give it a try ;)


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Arthur H. Gould
By NJJN Staff November 24, 2010, 12:00 am Edit
Arthur H. Gould, 77, of Berkeley Heights died Nov. 1, 2010. Born in Leipzig, Germany, he resided in Hackensack and Irvington before moving to Berkeley Heights in 1961.
Mr. Gould was director of purchasing and distribution at Ortho Diagnostics, Raritan, a division of Johnson & Johnson, until his retirement in 1998.
He is survived by his wife of 51 years, Anne (Keil); his son, Steven of Berkeley Heights; his daughter, Deborah Agisim of Charlotte, NC; a brother, Steven Peter Gould of North Brunswick; and three grandchildren.
Services were held Nov. 3 with arrangements by Menorah Chapels at Millburn, Union. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Stroke Association.


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Electoral Fun and Games
This year will be an electoral year in many parts of Europe. In France, François Mitterrand is scheduled to leave the presidency in May.
By Daniel Singer
This year will be an electoral year in many parts of Europe. In France, François Mitterrand is scheduled to leave the presidency in May. Italy's new government is clearly a caretaker affair, and the question is whether the next parliamentary vote will be staged in June or in the fall. Toward the end of the year the limelight will be switched to Eastern Europe. First the Poles must choose Lech Walesa's successor, and the former electrician is desperately trying to cling to his job. Then, in December, it will be the turn of the Russians to elect a new Parliament.
This round of elections, one feels, foreshadows deeper changes than previous ones and may reshape Europe's political landscape. The past is vanishing and the future is still uncertain. As Walt Whitman put it, "Society waits unformed and is for a while between things ended and things begun." The notes that follow, limited to the Western part of the Continent, are designed to convey the amusing paradoxes but also the more serious dilemmas of this Europe in transition.
How sacred is property? Though not yet launched officially, the French electoral campaign is already in full swing. Indeed, according to the pollsters the result is a foregone conclusion. Without much enthusiasm, the French people, we are told, will opt for a bourgeois king, a latter-day Louis Philippe: Prime Minister Edouard Balladur. With the Communists in chronic convalescence, the Greens splintered into three and the Socialists fighting bitterly over their candidate (Lionel Jospin, former party leader and senior minister, finally emerged triumphant in a ballot of party members), the left is not even certain of representation in the second ballot. That takes place on May 7. when the two contenders with the highest number of votes fight it out. The right, apparently, can afford its divisions, since Balladur is sure to win, whoever his rival. But with more than two months to go before the first ballot and more than half the electorate undecided, all forecasts should be taken with a grain of salt. After all, both Georges Pompidou in 1969 and Mitterrand himself in 1981 won after trailing in early surveys.
One candidate determined to give the lie to forecasts of Balladur's invincibility is his fellow neo-Gaullist and former protector, Jacques Chirac, now pondering the ways of political ingratitude (though the fickleness should not have surprised such a ruthless climber). Chirac is 62 and this is his third and probably last presidential bid. To succeed, he is ready to promise the moon and preach the opposite of what he has practiced. Indeed, in his zeal he has raised–at least symbolically–one of the significant issues of this campaign: Does the state have the right to requisition property to help those in need?
It all started before Christmas with the successful takeover by homeless people of a vacant block of flats in a fashionable district on the Left Bank. The squatters were sponsored by the veteran fighter for those without a roof over their heads, the highly popular priest Abbe Pierre. Sensing the mood, Balladur promised not to send the police to dislodge them. Chirac, Mayor of Paris, was first taken aback but then decided to outbid his rival. Brandishing a 1945 decree authorizing such actions, he promised to requisition empty flats to house the homeless. It was rather strange to hear a mayor, during whose seventeen-year tenure the poor were driven out of Paris, suddenly castigating wealthy speculators.
Chirac's conversion is, of course, an electoral gimmick, but it showed that a mechanism for tackling the housing problem does exist. There are more than 100,000 vacant flats in Paris proper, and three times that number in the greater Paris area. Add to this the empty office buildings that could be converted into apartments, and you would make a beginning in coping with the growing number of street people and those living in appalling conditions. Yet nothing of this magnitude has been attempted. The city has started requisition proceedings for only three houses. The big construction companies, to show their generosity, have vaguely offered some blocks of flats and, simultaneously, raised all sorts of legal obstacles. Once winter–and the election–have passed, Chirac's eloquent promises will be quickly forgotten.
But there is a lesson In this affair. The 1945 decree was issued by General de Gaulle in the exhilarating mood of liberation, when many in the Resistance cherished the hope that private property would no longer be allowed to stand in the way of social justice. How distant those days now seem. In Paris, where Pierre Joseph Proudhon once proclaimed that "property is theft," la propriété is now the object of a cult. Even the Socialists don't dare contradict the prophets of privatization. Chirac's antics have thus reminded the left of the elementary truth it seems to have forgotten all over the world, namely, that you can't defend the victims of the system without attacking the vested interests of the wealthy.
The bishop outcast. A Parisian wit suggested that the left could easily win the presidential contest if it chose as its standard-bearer Monsignor Jacques Gaillot, the former bishop of Evreux. I say former because, as if to prove that even with Stalinism dead and buried there is still a hierarchical order capable of kicking people out of their job for not toeing the line, the Vatican removed him from his diocese because of his views. Gaillot has always turned out wherever there was a fight for the oppressed, whether South African blacks or Palestinians; or, closer to home, the immigrants, the poor and the homeless (he was, naturally, among the squatters mentioned the outcasts.
Small, unassuming, bespectacled, with a twinkle in his blue eyes and a disarming smile, Monsignor Gaillot was also a popular television personality. With Christian charity, though to the horror of his superiors, he would show understanding for the abortion pill or the use of condoms to prevent AIDS, for the right of priests to be married or of women to be ordained. For John Paul I1 and his conservative followers such heresies were unbearable. And so it was the popular preacher's turn to become an outcast. In post-Stalinist Russia discarded dignitaries were appointed ambassadors and posted to Outer Mongolia. The Vatican's equivalent treatment for clerics disgraced but not excommunicated, since they don't question fundamental doctrine, is to appoint them as bishops to defunct dioceses (they are also known as bishops in partibus infidelium). Thus, Monsignor Gaillot became bishop of Partenia, the nonexistent diocese of Mauretania.
What Rome did not bargain for was the passionate reaction in France. While the Pope was being applauded by the millions in the Philippines, his decision was being cursed both in Paris and the provinces. The French Church is Gallican by above). He was and remains a self-appointed spokesman for tradition, resentful of interference from Rome; this may explain the uneasiness of some of the hierarchy in this conflict. But the main protest came from the lower clergy and from lay people who sympathized with Gaillot and who, in a country where Catholicism is the dominant religion but practicing Catholics are few, saw the value to their church of his appeal to the downtrodden. Indignation was also expressed by his fellow fighters against racism and oppression who did not share his faith. The support movement reached a climax on January 22 when some 20,000 believers and nonbelievers attended Monsignor Gaillot's last mass in Evreux. It clearly was not the end of the story.
But Rome has weathered greater shocks. Heinrich Heine once compared the two main churches in economic terms: He likened the Protestant Church to free enterprise, in which each parson must fend for himself, and the Catholic Church to a monopoly, in which all that matters is the success of the headquarters in Rome. The Vatican, obviously, is not on the verge of bankruptcy, but if it follows the reactionary line of the Polish Pope and his faithful servants on abortion, contraception and AIDS, it may soon have serious trouble not only with liberation theology in Latin America but with its liberal flock in Europe. As for the quip that Monsignor Gaillot should be the leader of the French left, it tells us a great deal about the latter's current disarray.
The thirty-nine votes. On January 25, in Italy's crucial lower chamber, the Cabinet of Lambert0 Dini was approved by 302 ayes against 39 nays with 270 deputies abstaining. These seemingly plain figures conceal a paradox: Italy's most reactionary government since World War I1 was voted in by parties of the left and opposed by parties of the right. Headed by a former director-general of the Bank of Italy, the new Cabinet includes representatives of the Employers Federation and the financial community, as well as a host of right-wing professors. To make the blessing of the establishment complete, Susanna Agnelli, sister of Giovanni, the boss of Fiat, was appointed Foreign Minister. Yet this reactionary government was not supported by the right: The legislators who abstained were all followers of Silvio Berlusconi and Gianfranco Fini. The caretaker government won with the backing of the remnants of Christian Democracy, the weakened Northern League and, above all, the Democratic Party of the Left, the majority of the former Communist Party. The thirty-nine negative votes were cast by Rifondazione Comunista, the minority of the former C.P., the nostalgics, radical unionists and New Leftists determined to keep the name and revive the idea.
For a time, while Berlusconi was actively threatening to bring down the government, those thirty-nine votes looked decisive and their intended use provoked a passionate debate on the left. The leadership of Rifondazione, headed by Fausto Bertinotti, claimed that it could not vote for Dini without betraying its own supporters and the vast protest movement that Dini's policies had prodded into life when he was Finance Minister in Berlusconi's Cabinet. The critics of Rifondazione replied that the party should not enable Berlusconi to stage an election at the most propitious moment and thus help him to return to office and get on with his dirty job. Since the threat of authoritarian rule is spreading, it is worth summing up the broader issues of that debate.
Those advocating a vote for Dini argued that you can't stick to ideological niceties when democracy is in danger. There is, they insisted, a difference between a conservative and an authoritarian right. A Dini interregnum would not only gain time. It may pass laws, notably dealing with the control of television, that would prevent Berlusconi's return. Behind the argument that democracy was in danger lay the memory of Germany in the 1930s, when the left bickered while the Nazis rose to power. To dismiss this line it is not enough to point out that history does not repeat, that the streets of Italian cities today are not filled with squads of jackbooted thugs. One must also realize that nowadays Big Brother may advance surreptitiously, hidden at first behind TV screens.
The snag, answered the other side, is that we have not been asked to back a government that is merely introducing democratic reforms but one that will carry out a policy of austerity with a clear class bias. To endorse such an unpopular program is to pave the way for the triumph of Fini and Berlusconi. This indictment raises larger issues. While Western Europe was being restructured in the past two decades, the left simply retreated, giving up position after position and principle after principle. The ideological void thus created, combined with growing discontent, provided a climate conducive to the rise of the far right. The problem is not striking temporary deals that, after all, can be explained to one's supporters. The problem for the left is to show that it has political and economic solutions to a deepening social crisis.
The rule of hot money. Throughout Western Europe there is a strong feeling that employers and their servants in government are preparing to launch a major offensive against the welfare state and other postwar gains of working people. The alleged reason is to solve the persistent problem of mass unemployment. Europe, it is argued, must rush to deregulate, following the example of the United States, where there are fewer jobless.
Paradoxically, it is in Germany, where the election is over, that the crucial question of unemployment and the idea of a drastic cut in working hours as a means for reducing it were revived this past January. Dieter Schulte, president of the Federation of German Unions, hinted that if a four-day workweek would really save jobs, then his organization might consider working on Saturdays and even break their rule that reduction in working time should not be coupled with a drop in income. This proposed extension of last year's Volkswagen experiment on a national scale has been greeted favorably by employers and less so by many unions, notably the engineers of IG Metall, who know from experience that the promise of more jobs seldom stands the test of technological change.
Why can't profits rather than wages be lowered to absorb the costs of shorter working hours? The answer you get is the same as when you make other suggestions to soften the impact of unemployment, such as the mass creation of socially useful jobs In health, education, care of old people or preservation of the environment. To do so–the argument runs–would be "unprofitable." Creating such jobs would mean raising taxes, and this can't be done because of foreign competition; and if you lower profit margins capital will simply fly away. Having created a world kingdom dominated by financial capital, our rulers and their servants preach that everything must be submitted to the tyranny of hot money–funds that can be transferred rapidly from one financial center to another to take advantage of differences in short-term interest rates. Now almost all money is potentially hot money. In this new setting, labor unions and left-wing parties can no longer be satisfied with domestic solutions; they must carry the struggle beyond their borders and make the entire European Union their battlefield.
All over Europe there are tremors announcing a social upheaval and, probably, the formation of entirely new political parties and other structures. I have limited myself to Western Europe, which can be treated as an entity, though it clearly does not act as one. From Bosnia to Chechnya, Western Europe sees signs of its impotence, while Algerian explosions remind it of impending troubles from the South. It is in this transformed, deregulated context that the left must invent new forms of organization of labor and of democratic management of the economy. It must also project them beyond the frontiers of the nation-state. In order simply to survive, and not to surrender, the left must thus both think internationally and prepare for new offensives. This imperative, on reflection, is valid on both sides of the ocean.
Daniel SingerDaniel Singer, for many years The Nation's Paris-based Europe correspondent, was born on September 26, 1926, in Warsaw, was educated in France, Switzerland and England and died on December 2, 2000, in Paris. He was a contributor to The Economist, The New Statesman and the Tribune and appeared as a commentator on NPR, "Monitor Radio" and the BBC, as well as Canadian and Australian broadcasting. (These credits are for his English-language work; he was also fluent in French, Polish, Russian and Italian.) He was the author of Prelude to Revolution: France in May 1968 (Hill & Wang, 1970), The Road to Gdansk (Monthly Review Press, 1981), Is Socialism Doomed?: The Meaning of Mitterrand (Oxford, 1988) and Whose Millennium? Theirs or Ours? (Monthly Review Press, 1999). A specialist on the Western European left as well as the former Communist nations, Singer ranged across the Continent in his dispatches to The Nation. Singer sharply critiqued Western-imposed economic "shock therapy" in the former Eastern Bloc and US support for Boris Yeltsin, sounded early warnings about the re-emergence of Fascist politics into the Italian mainstream, and, across the Mediterranean, reported on an Algeria sliding into civil war. The Daniel Singer Millennium Prize Foundation was founded in 2000 to honor original essays that help further socialist ideas in the tradition of Daniel Singer.


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England U21s To Return To Molineux
Molineux will once again play host to England U21s as the Young Lions take on Romania in an international fixture in March.
The match will take place on Saturday, 24th March (5.15pm kick-off) and act as vital preparation for the Young Lions' Euro 2019 qualifier with Ukraine in Sheffield three days later.
Molineux is a memorable venue for the U21s, as their last visit to the stadium saw Saido Berahino and Harry Kane on target as England secured a valuable 2-1 win over Croatia in the first-leg of their Euro 2015 play-off in 2014.
Discussing the international fixture, Wolves Managing Director, Laurie Dalrymple said: "It's an honour for the club to once again host an England U21 fixture at Molineux. The game is a testament to both our stadium as an international facility and the fantastic base of local football supporters.
"An attendance of over 23,000 in England U21s' game at Molineux in 2014 highlights the appetite for football in Wolverhampton and, as a club, we look forward to welcoming supporters of all clubs from the surrounding areas back to the stadium in March."
Wolves also played host to an U21 fixture in 2008 against Poland.
And the connections don't end there.
A number of Wolves players have represented England at U21 level over the years, including Steve Bull, Michael Kightly, Matt Murray, Joleon Lescott, Richard Stearman and the late Dean Richards.
U21s head coach Aidy Boothroyd said: "We're really looking forward to heading to Wolves for our opening game of 2018. Romania will provide a tough test in what will be our first fixture in four months.
"The stadium is a top-class venue and an enjoyable place to play and watch football. Hopefully we can put on a very good show."
Ticket details are as follows:
England U21 International - England v Romania
Kick-off 5.15pm, Saturday 24 March 2018
Adults: £10
Concessions: £5 (Over 65, U21)
Disabled: Full price with carer free
Family Tickets: £20.00 – 2 Adults and 2 Children
Season Ticket Offer: 50% Off until 12 February 2018
Group Booking: £5 Adults/£2.50 Concessions (based on 15+ people)
Charter Standard: Free (Max. 15 tickets & group rate after)
Deadline: Charter Standard and Group Bookings – Friday 16 March 2018, 5pm
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OXFORD, Miss. – Many pharmacy students are attracted to the profession because of a desire to help people and to build healthier communities. At the University of Mississippi, several pharmacy students have partnered with the McLean Institute for Public Service and Community Engagement over the last three years to get a head start on their goals.
Brittany Byrd, a third-professional-year student from Minneapolis, Minnesota; Kate Sackett, another PY3 from Canadian Lakes, Michigan; and Anna Katherine Burress, a sophomore in the early-entry pharmacy program from Water Valley, have participated in the Catalyzing Entrepreneurship and Economic Development, or CEED, initiative.
"We have been able to recruit outstanding UM students, like this group from the School of Pharmacy, who desire to participate with other university students and community partners in critically thinking about solutions to some of the state's challenges," said Albert Nylander, director of the McLean Institute and a UM professor of sociology.
With financial support from the McLean Institute's Hearin grant, students work to build community partnerships to promote entrepreneurship and economic development.
Sackett was the first CEED student to work directly with the James C. Kennedy Wellness Center in Charleston. Through a summer internship under the direction of Dr. Catherine Woodyard Moring, Sackett was part of the assessment and planning team for the opening of the state-of-the-art health center.
She completed her CEED work in 2016, but it has been carried on by a team of CEED students, including Audrey Dayan, a 2017 Ole Miss graduate with a degree in psychology, of Oxford. Dayan is a CEED innovation scholar who worked closely with Moring and the Charleston K-12 schools to help collect data on school health councils. The data were collected in partnership with the Mississippi Department of Education.
Sackett plans to complete her pharmacy education and specialize in pediatric care to help improve the health of future generations.
Byrd was part of the CEED planning team that conducted the inaugural Entrepreneurial Learning Center in Charleston this summer. However, instead of working this summer in Charleston, Byrd, a member of the Mississippi National Guard, was deployed to South Carolina for three months during a training exercise.
Two fellow students, Austin Carroll, a senior biochemistry major from Madison and a CEED innovation scholar, and Robert Patterson, a graduate student in health promotion from Como and a CEED innovation fellow, picked up the project and worked with nearly 20 youth at the Charleston Day Club, which is a part of the National Charleston Day Organization.
J.R. Love, McLean Institute project manager of CEED, and other students in the program supported Carroll and Patterson on a rotating system.
The CEED program has proven indispensable to Byrd's academic success, she said.
"I have been fortunate as a CEED innovation fellow to interact with many business owners and community leaders across the state," she said. "One skill I have learned while in CEED is the ability to establish networks to attain common goals.
Burress plans to continue the work set forth by her peers in the CEED program. Health care is a major factor in economic development in Mississippi and around the United States.
"Being a part of CEED has been an eye-opening experience for me," Burress said. "CEED has allowed me to see real-world issues and how we, as students, can positively impact local markets now and into the future in Mississippi.
Burress said she hopes to complete her Doctor of Pharmacy and be making a difference in a community within 10 years.
Goals of the CEED initiative provide valuable experience and opportunities for pharmacy students, said David D. Allen, dean of the School of Pharmacy.
For more information on CEED, contact the McLean Institute at mclean@olemiss.edu or 662-915-2052.


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PhillyVoice 'Quotes of the Week' quiz
How much do you remember from the week that just was?
By Brian Hickey
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Clues to this week's PhillyVoice Quotes Quiz can be found in this photo from the Fuse TV show 'Saturday Morning Fever.'
Welcome to PhillyVoice's weekly quiz about quotes that appeared in our stories during the past week.
The following quotes come from a wide array of topics, so if you're looking to get a leg up on the competition (in a contest for which the prize is personal pride), keep reading stories from the worlds of news, entertainment and sports.
The answers are tucked at the bottom of each post (with the context available via hyperlink). We will know – and tell everybody – if you scrolled down and illicitly claimed you went 20 for 20. Real talk.
PhillyVoice's 'Quotes of the Week' quiz (Feb. 26)
Your possible answers are:
Tony Aiazzi, restaurateur; Thuraya Ebrahim al Arrayed, member of Saudi Arabia's Shura Council; Dusty Baker, manager, Washington Nationals; Diane Barnes, Boots for the Homeless founder; Madeline Bell, CEO, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; Christine Brown, mother of 8-year-old fashion designer; Cynthia Daniels, professor of gender studies, Rutgers New Brunswick; Etienne Diaz, newly engaged dancer; Rogelio Gonzalez, Saturday Morning Fever co-star; Marvin Harrison, NFL Hall of Fame inductee-to-be; Matt Jones, Philadelphia Union goalkeeper; Kathleen Kane, Pennsylvania attorney general; Jim Kenney, mayor of Philadelphia; Deen Kogan, co-founder, Society Hill Playhouse; Tom Marino, U.S. Rep. (R-PA); Michelle Moore, head of digital banking, Bank of America; Thomas Nestel, SEPTA police chief; Curt Schilling, former Phillies pitcher; Joe Tesauro, @PhillyForTrump; Laura Vitale, Cooking Channel host.
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"We are doing a lot of babysitting right now," says SEPTA police Chief Thomas Nestel, of an ongoing problem with afterschool violence by students, often near the transit agency's transportation hubs.
1. "I'm super boring when it comes to my coffee. I like a plain black, original coffee."
2. "That's what she wants: kids to not be afraid. It doesn't matter what you have on. And sometimes we as adults need that, too!"
3. "These predators desecrated a sacred trust and preyed upon their victims in the very places where they should have felt most safe."
4. "[Endorsing Donald Trump is] one of my life-changing moments."
5. "Here I am meeting this huge celebrity, and I'm looking like an alien. It was basically E.T. meeting Bradley Cooper!"
6. "This will be successful this time."
7. "They walked out with smiles on their faces. They're not used to getting brand-new stuff."
8."Most people will leave their house and they will make sure they have their smartphone, but might not as much for their wallet or purse."
9. "It's a bad influence for the kids. Big time. I'll say that. But also, they're adults, too, at the same time."
10. "When someone offers you the chance to do something new, even if you're not 100% comfortable, just say yes."
11. "Basically, everyone across the country is saying the same thing: We want change, a change in government."
12. "We pray to God that a racist, politically incorrect personality does not win the election."
13. "We found a big box and we taped it and we put a bunch of old stuff inside and we just kept wrapping it and wrapping it and at the end, the very end, was a tiny box!"
14. "There are kids getting broken bones – one girl lost vision in one eye. There is really serious stuff happening."
15. "We find it concerning that a group of specialists in human anatomy might find so many statements unfamiliar to them."
16. "It forced me to step outside of my comfort zone, learn a new language, learn a new culture, and it was great."
17. "I love young people, but in this field you meet more of 'Me, me, me!' To work in theater, you need an ego, but there's a limit."
18. "The hell with him."
19. "Chefs are smart guys but they're not good at sitting behind a desk."
20. "[Hillary Clinton] should be buried under a jail somewhere."
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1. Vitale
2. Brown
3. Kane
4. Marino
5. Gonzalez
6. Kenney
7. Barnes
8. Moore
9. Baker
10. Bell
11. Tesauro
12. al Arrayed
13. Diaz
14. Nestel
15. Daniels
16. Jones
17. Kogan
18. Harrison
19. Aiazzi
20. Schilling
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5th Kalvari class submarine commissioned into Indian Navy
NEW DELHI, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- The fifth Kalvari class submarine "Vagir" was commissioned into the Indian Navy on Monday.
The Kalvari class submarines are being built in the country by the Mumbai-based Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited in collaboration with France's Naval Group. Four of the Kalvari class of submarines have already been commissioned into the Indian Navy.
According to a statement by the defense ministry, the Indian Navy Ship (INS) Vagir will boost the Indian Navy's capability to further the country's maritime interests.
The submarine is capable of undertaking diverse missions including anti-surface warfare, anti-submarine warfare, intelligence gathering, mine laying and surveillance missions, according to the statement. ■


The Good Attractive, space-saving package; first HP Slimline that's customizable; low starting price.
The Bad Outdated CPU; almost impossible to upgrade after-market.
The Bottom Line HP's small-form-factor Pavilion s7500y Slimline is compact and configurable, with features such as a TV tuner, but we wish the upgrade options included newer, more powerful CPUs.
HP is getting better at small-form-factor computing. We liked the original HP Pavilion Slimline s7220n and its successor, the s7320m, despite their wimpy notebook processors and lack of configuration options. Now HP tries it again, with the $830 (after a $50 mail-in rebate) HP Pavilion Slimline s7500y. The new system, which starts at a low $449 (again, after rebate) is still saddled with an outdated laptop CPU and is far from a being termed a blazing performer, but it now includes a TV tuner and specs that can be customized via the configurator on HP's Web site. While we would have preferred to see Intel's Core Duo CPUs as an option (as offered in the even smaller Shuttle XPC X100), the new Slimline will satisfy space-conscious consumers who want an attractive package at an approachable price. Given the lackluster CPU options and the limited upgrade potential, however, it's a better fit as a second PC in a room outside the office than as your primary, everyday PC.
Measuring 9.7 inches high, 4.4 inches wide, and 13.1 inches deep, the HP Pavilion Slimline s7500y is about the size of a large hardcover book or a big-city Yellow Pages. It's very close in size to an Xbox 360, and like the game console (and like small-form-factor PCs such as the Shuttle X100 and the WinBook Jiv Mini), the Slimline can stand upright or lie flat, making it easy to squeeze into tight quarters. While well designed, the Slimline is still gray and boxy, like a standard desktop that's been hit with a shrink ray. That's somewhat surprising, since HP--unlike, say, Dell--has already broken out of the midtower mold with systems such as the z500 Digital Entertainment Center series, housed in a slick, A/V-style chassis. Visually, a closer cousin to the Pavilion Slimline s7500y is the similarly thin Dell XPS 200.
A multimedia card reader is built in to the front panel, and our review unit already included the top optical drive choice, a LightScribe DVD burner. You can save between $20 and $80 by downgrading to a plain CD burner or a DVD-ROM drive.
Within the HP Pavilion Slimline 7500y's petite frame, we found 1GB of RAM and a 200GB hard drive. That's fine for average users, but if you want to record a lot of TV shows via the built-in TV tuner or store massive amounts of music, videos, or photos, the only available hard drive upgrade is to 250GB for an extra $40. (Smaller 80GB and 160GB hard drives are also available if you need less space.) A bump to 2GB of RAM--helpful for working with large video files--will cost an extra $120. Offering even limited expandability such as this is a great improvement over the previous incarnations of HP's Slimline series and can keep the system from prematurely aging. Picking the right options up front is especially important, because the Slimline is not made for aftermarket upgrades, although with a screwdriver and a little elbow grease, you can replace a hard drive or an optical drive.
If only the CPU options were as promising. Our review unit's 1.7GHz Intel Pentium M 735 processor, part of a dying breed of CPUs, is the second-fastest option offered on the Pavilion Slimline s7500y. (The AMD-based HP Pavilion Slimline s7500e model offers a similar selection of aging mobile Sempron and Turion CPUs.) Intel's Pentium M processors have been supplanted by the new dual-core Core Duo family and, more recently, by the newer Core 2 Duo processors, which are just starting to appear in standard desktops. In CNET Labs' Multimedia, Photoshop CS2, and iTunes-encoding tests, the Pavilion Slimline s7500y was an unimpressive performer, coming in even behind the ultrabudget-price eMachines T6536, which uses a woefully dated Athlon 64 3800+ CPU. Despite the lack of horsepower, the system is fine for hooking up to a TV as a Media Center or as a second computer for a den or a dorm room. For living-room tasks, we still prefer Apple's Mac Mini, which is similarly priced but with a more current CPU, a snappier design, and better software. And you'd have to be very desperate for space if you are considering the Slimline as your primary PC; you're better offer choosing a midtower budget system, such as the Cyberpower Back to School 2006, which will more ably stand the test of time.
With integrated Intel 945G graphics, gaming isn't much of an option on the Slimline, unless online Sudoku games are your idea of a hot time. For a small form factor that can handle 3D gaming, we'd look to systems from Shuttle, such as the XPC P2 2700. No graphics upgrade options are offered, and adding an aftermarket video card isn't an option because of size constraints.