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"Overwhelming support" for Mortgage Sleep Out as 40 firms sign up
By Leah Milner	 10th August 2018 10:12 am
Brightstar boss Rob Jupp says that he has been "overwhelmed" by the industry's immediate supportive response to his idea for a Mortgage Sleep Out with 40 firms committing to joining the initiative since he first tweeted about it on Tuesday.
The idea came about after Jupp had been struck by the number of rough sleepers both in London and Manchester while travelling up to meet Brightstar staff.
On his train journey back from Manchester on Tuesday Jupp tweeted his reflections on how the homelessness problem had worsened over recent years.
Atom Bank's Maria Harris responded, suggesting Jupp participate in the CEO Sleepout initiative, which sees finance bosses spend a night on the streets to raise money for homelessness.
This prompted Jupp to put forward the idea for a wider mortgage industry sleepout in which companies could sign up staff from all levels of seniority rather than just management.
The #MortgageSleepOut hashtag quickly gained momentum with companies and individuals pledging their support.
Jupp has now set up a dedicated Twitter account @MortgageSleepOut which users can follow to find out details of the event as these unfold.
The date has not yet been confirmed, nor has it been decided exactly which homeless charities the sleep out should support.
Jupp says: "This wasn't something that was planned, but rather a spontaneous response to my tweet and Maria's mention of the CEO Sleepout.
"I think the homelessness issue is particularly relevant to those of us who are in the business of arranging mortgages.
"I'd like to see this evolve as lots of simultaneous sleepouts in different cities on the same night rather than one centralised event.
"It would have a dual function as we would be raising money but also highlighting the issue.
"For companies this could also be a great team-building experience for staff, which is meaningful rather than yet another expensive hospitality event.
"I'm sometimes of social media, but this is an example of how powerful and positive it can be when used in the right way – it can achieve amazing things."
Jupp says he wants the event to take place in November or December in order to highlight the true plight of those who have to regularly sleep rough in winter weather.
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Brightstar fundraising for Mental Health Awareness Day
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Brightstar promotes mental health awareness through charity partnerships
Brightstar Financial has partnered with Anxiety UK and Mind as it begins an initiative to fundraise and raise awareness of mental health issues in the finance sector. The specialist distributor has appointed Anxiety UK as its national charity for the year and Mind as its local charity and has set out a plan of action in […]
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Brightstar Financial is launching a campaign to help borrowers rejected for mainstream lending through education, research and lobbying the Government and regulators. The specialist distributor's 'Could You? Would You? Should You?' campaign is designed to help a group Brightstar dubs the 'credit crushed', who struggle to get the finance they need. A Brightstar statement says: […]
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Three reasons why the Indian bull market can continue
Indian equities have officially re-entered a bull market, with the benchmark index climbing to a 11-month high. But this is just the start, argues Neptune head of Indian Equities Kunal Desai. Read more: Important information Investment risks Neptune funds may have a high historic volatility rating and past performance is not a guide for future […]
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Rural Property Rights and Agricultural Productivity
A. V. Chari, Elaine M. Liu, Shing-Yi Wang, Yongxiang Wang
The Rural Land Contracting Law (RLCL), announced in 2003, is a landmark law for agricultural households in rural China. It provides new legal protections for leasing agricultural land. In theory, increasing free market exchanges of land should improve agricultural productivity by facilitating the movement of land towards the most productive users. We find that the property rights reform led to a 10 percent increase in land rental activity among rural households, a redistribution of land towards more productive farmers, and a 7 percent increase in the aggregate productivity of land. We also observe an increased responsiveness of land allocation across crops to changes in crop prices.
Almost four decades ago, China began reforming property rights concerning agricultural land by moving away from a communal system of farming towards a system of private use rights for individual households. This process of property rights reform in China has since continued in waves, allowing for freer market exchanges over agricultural land. These reforms are built on the idea that allowing for free market transactions should move land resources towards productive users. This movement increases agricultural productivity and transforms the rural economy, thereby leading to aggregate economic growth.
Theoretically, well-defined property rights over land should facilitate efficiency-improving transactions. Practically, however, the extent to which property rights in land markets matter is unclear. First, there may be other market failures or constraints that prevent the efficient reallocation of land, which may not (at least in the short-run) be relieved by restoring the missing land market. Second, the importance of formal rights is questioned in the literature — some evidence on the role of property rights in agriculture suggests that informal institutions that adequately substitute for lack of formal land titles and tenures may arise (Besley, 1995; Carter et al., 1994; Brasselle, Gaspart, and Platteau 2002). Therefore, the impact of formalizing exchange rights remains an open empirical question.
In a recent working paper (Chari, Liu, Wang and Wang 2017), we explore the idea that the reform of property rights institutions facilitated market exchanges and increase agricultural productivity. To demonstrate this, we focus on one specific reform announced by the central government in 2003 called the Rural Land Contracting Law (RLCL). The RLCL increased legal protections for land contracts and specifically granted farmers legal protections for leasing contracts.
Studying the impacts of a specific reform is complicated since the agricultural sector in China has changed significantly. In our analysis, we exploit the fact that different provinces implemented the RLCL in different years after 2003. Thus, we compare outcomes for the same agricultural households before and after the RLCL was implemented in their respective provinces. The timing of the implementation varies by province but does not seem related to conditions in the rural economy, thereby allowing us to separate out the effects of the reform from other aggregate changes.
We find evidence of a significant increase in land rental activity in rural households following the reform. Specifically, the probability of new renting transactions increased by about 10 percent and the area of land rented out increased by 7 percent. This indicates that the property rights reform allowed households to adjust their land holdings through renting agricultural property. Next, we examine the effect of the property rights reform on aggregate agricultural productivity and output. The findings show that at the village level, the land reform has significantly increased overall output and aggregate productivity by approximately 7 percent.
Figure 1: Distribution of Land Cultivated (in mu) by Farmer TFP Before and After the Reform
While both land renting transactions and agricultural productivity have increased, we are interested in specifically looking at the reallocation of land across farmers and quantifying the extent to which market exchanges of agricultural land accounts for the increase in output. We find evidence that the reform leads to an increase in the amount of land cultivated by more productive farmers, while reducing the amount of land cultivated by relatively less productive farmers. This can be seen in Figure 1, where we show the distribution of land by farmer productivity (as measured by total factor productivity, or TFP) before and after the reform. Low TFP farmers cultivate less land and high TFP farmers cultivate more land. This finding is consistent with the notion that reducing frictions in the land market produce a more efficient allocation of land.
We also consider the effects of the property rights reform on labor market outcomes. We observe a corresponding reallocation of labor. This isn't surprising given that labor is a complementary input to land. Specifically, the amount of hired labor increases on relatively more productive farms but declines on less productive farms, suggesting a within-village reallocation of labor.
We find that nearly 85 percent of the observed increase in aggregate productivity can be attributed to the reallocation of land and other inputs associated with the reform. We also find that when land changes hands, the mix of crops also changes.
Land reform may not only correct the allocation of land in a static sense, but may also increase the responsiveness of land allocation to agricultural shocks. One important source of risk in the agricultural sector concerns changes in agricultural prices. We analyze whether the reduction in land transaction costs due to the reform allow farmers to respond better to changes in agricultural output prices. In particular, we document that an increase in the price of a crop induces a greater reallocation of land towards that crop in the post-reform period (relative to the pre-reform period). This result provides some insight into one way in which the reform has reduced frictions in the efficient allocation of land resources.
In the context of agriculture in many countries beyond China, ownership and use rights over land are often poorly-defined and this plausibly affects the ability and incentiveness of farmers to conduct land transactions. Our research demonstrates that households cannot fully solve the contracting problem in informal ways and that legal protections for exchange rights are important for the efficient allocation of land across farmers and of labor across sectors and space. Overall, our results establish both the importance of land misallocation as a source of productive inefficiency in the agricultural sector, as well as the positive role that well-defined property rights can have in ameliorating the problem.
(A. V. Chari, Department of Economics, School of Business, Management and Economics, University of Sussex, University of Sussex; Elaine M. Liu, Department of Economics, the University of Houston; Shing-Yi Wang, Business Economics and Public Policy Department, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; Yongxiang Wang, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California.)
Besley, Timothy, "Property Rights and Investment Incentives: Theory and Evidence from Ghana," Journal of Political Economy 103:5 (1995): 903-937. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2138750
Brasselle, Anne-Sophie, Frederic Gaspart, and Jean-Philippe Platteau, "Land Tenure Security and Investment Incentives: Puzzling Evidence from Burkina Faso," Journal of Development Economics 67:2 (2002): 373-418. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304387801001900
Carter, Michael R, Keith D. Wiebe, and Benoit Blarel. "Tenure Security for Whom? Differential Effects of Land Policy in Kenya." In Searching for Land Tenure Policy in Africa, edited by John W. Bruce and Shem E. Migot-Adholla. Washington, DC: The World Bank, 1994. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/630121468742824113/pdf/2804310paper.pdf#page=151
Chari, A. V., Elaine M. Liu, Shing-Yi Wang, and Yongxiang Wang, "Property Rights, Land Misallocation and Agricultural Efficiency in China," Working Paper, 2017. http://assets.wharton.upenn.edu/~was/landmisallocation.pdf
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Daniel Morris | Computer Science Stud Hopes to Become Startup Ace
by Kristyn Back February 15, 2016
Daniel Morris is a force to be reckoned with, y'all. Not only is Morris currently wrapping up his degree in computer science from Rhodes College, he's also taking an online machine learning course at Stanford (yes, that Stanford). When he's off the field, you can find Morris developing his own website or tutoring fellow computer science peers. This ace is ready to close the books and hit a home run with a job in an Atlanta startup, so catch him while you can.
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I'm currently pursuing a major in computer science and a minor in business and commerce at Rhodes College. I am expecting to graduate in May of 2016.
What startup/tech project have you worked on?
Last summer, I worked at FedEx headquarters in Memphis, TN, as a programmer analyst. Another intern and I developed a web application that connected FedEx dropbox locations to customer locations. The application would list the three closest dropbox locations given a customer zip code. We developed the application using Visual Basic and SQL. In order for the run time to decrease, we implemented a heuristic that only looked for dropboxes within 100 square miles instead of looking at every single dropbox. This decreased the run time from several hours to two to three minutes.
In the summer of 2014, I worked at Dragon Army, a gaming startup founded by Jeff Hilimire, in Atlanta, GA. I created a dashboard, using an open source Framework called Dashing on GitHub. The dashboard showed potential investors the different applications that Dragon Army had created, the number of downloads of each application, and the amount of revenue of each application. Within the framework, I used API's to accumulate all of this data in one place. The framework was based off Ruby.
I've also served as a tutor for computer science at my college. I've helped students understand different algorithms as well as syntax, walking students through step-by-step instructions on why they are getting certain outputs and how to fix their programs.
What tech/tools are essential to you?
I'm a big fan of Eclipse. I use a lot of the keyboard shortcuts in order to code faster. However, Google is my most essential tool as every day I'm learning something new from the online community.
How do you stay informed & on top of emerging trends?
I like to read a lot. I'm currently reading The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver. It discusses how to find meaningful data in a world of Big Data. I also keep up with Entrepreneur magazine and the news.
What are your best technical or creative skills?
My best technical skills are coding in Java and Python. I am also pretty good with SQL.
What's next on your list to learn?
I'm currently going through Andrew Ng's online machine learning course at Stanford. I'm really interested in machine learning and plan to continue to learn about it. Also, I am developing a personal website in Django that I have connected with bootstrap.
Why the interest in startups and the technology field?
I've always been a competitor. I'm currently in my senior season at Rhodes College playing baseball. While I like to compete on the field, I am just as competitive off the field. I think that while working in a startup, the competition is much closer and transparent than if you are working in a corporation.
I think technology is the most exciting field to be part of right now, especially the fast developing field of big data and machine learning.
Interested in working for a startup, mid-sized company, or a corporate giant?
I would be really interested in joining a startup. I like the small culture and the diversity of problems that are faced while working in a startup.
Interested in hiring Daniel? Send an email or message him through LinkedIn.
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Funny, true, helpful. By Itchy Feet Comics.
Circa 1920's – the ladies enjoy using some fairly bulky equipment in an early concept version of what would one day prove to become the smartphone – prescient. The flying cars on the other hand…..
The older I get and the more I see, the more this iconic scene with Tommy Lee Jones makes sense.


A new publication from CLIR examines the use of digital technologies in classical studies, focusing on classical Greece, Rome, and the ancient Middle and Near East. Titled "Rome Wasn't Digitized in a Day": Building a Cyberinfrastructure for Digital Classicists, the report was written by Alison Babeu, digital librarian and research coordinator for the Perseus Project. It is available in electronic format only at https://clir.wordpress.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub150abst.html.
The 300-page report explores recent projects in the digital classics—broadly defined as the use of digital technologies in any field related to the study of classical antiquity—and how these projects are used. It also examines the infrastructure that supports digital classics as a discipline and investigates larger humanities cyberinfrastructure projects and existing tools or services that might be repurposed for the digital classics.
Digital technologies facilitate scholarship that is increasingly collaborative and cross-disciplinary—themes that are echoed in the author's overview of projects. Yet the issues and perspectives to which the study gives voice pertain beyond the digital classics to the humanities at large. They will be central to planning for a digital environment that supports advanced research, teaching, and lifelong learning in all areas.
It was a reach, and I thought it was a mistake.
To clarify: I thought I was a mistake—that my selection, admission, and scholarship to the Frye Class of 2011 were administrative errors. I hadn't applied thinking acceptance was impossible, nor had I wanted to waste the time of those whose assistance I had enlisted to support my application, but I knew it was a professional stretch. Frye was exceptionally tantalizing in what it could offer, and in what it might be able to pull from me to offer others. I wanted that, and I thought I might be ready. I might be.
Frye, which launched a new curriculum this year, is a weeklong immersive leadership institute meant to foster collaboration for transformative change and engagement in higher education. I was among the 22 individuals chosen to participate in this year's institute, which took place June 5-10 at the Emory Conference Center in Atlanta, Georgia. My recollection of the week's activities is somewhat jumbled, save for the standout moments, which are seared in my memory. I distinctly remember conversations I had with my new, now close friends, as we hurriedly bonded while grabbing snacks, taking walks, having drinks, completing group exercises, eating meals, and taking tours. I don't remember every lecture in great detail, but I knew I wouldn't: I took copious notes so I could go back. The lectures structured the week and gave rise to ideas for long-term group projects. We learned about disruption and the role it plays in innovation, cyberinfrastructure, digital scholarship, and copyright issues.
The most valuable part of Frye can't be emphasized enough: the cohort is key. Your classmates are your resources, your tribe, and your confidants. Frye 2.0 took a more open view than the Frye of the past, with a Twitter feed (#Frye2011), but was still a closed community with trust inherent in the room. I will not disclose conversations I had with other members of my cohort, just as I trust they will not disclose theirs with me. The Institute offered an immediately safe and open place to discuss issues, problems, and burgeoning ideas.
Both the classmates and the mentors made the week incredible and unforgettable. The mentors were past Frye participants who returned to share their experience with the new generation. Although their Frye experience differed from ours, Frye camaraderie remained. We met individually with our mentors at least once; some mentors later indicated interest in particular projects and will be monitoring progress on those fronts as well as staying in touch with current participants throughout the year.
The most comprehensive change between the Frye of old and Frye 2.0 is likely the shift to a focus on group projects. In previous years, fellows brought to Frye individual project ideas that were focused on their home institutions; they fleshed out their projects at Frye and then took them home to complete. With Frye 2.0, the project focus is no longer the home institution, nor is the project preplanned or individual. Instead, projects are group-based and seek to aid or advance higher education in some way.
We came to Frye armed only with our experiences and curiosities, and formed group project ideas and goals by the end of the week. One wall of the conference room was commandeered to house our burgeoning project topics; during breaks we'd peruse the posted topics, adding further detailed notes with our names indicating interest in one or more projects. As the week progressed, our leaders took time to evaluate, reorganize, and restructure our projects. Another list was posted, noting possible avenues of expression: webinars, white papers, conference presentations, and other modes of collaborative dissemination.
On the final day, each of us had the opportunity to "claim" a project, meet with others who were interested in that same topic to discuss the idea and potential mode of expression, and then present our initial ideas to the group at large. At this point, anyone else could decide to join or become a project "lurker," to see what exactly we were doing and whether he or she wanted to officially join while participating in another group.
The group in which I've become involved is exploring issues related to library/information technology group mergers in private liberal arts colleges. Tie-ins to personal or institutional interests and expertise will help keep us motivated; group collaboration, periodic nudges, and check-ins on deliverables from our leaders help keep us moving. While summertime activities have disrupted some of our group project meeting schedules, we've met electronically about every two weeks. These sessions have given us an opportunity to shape our project and assign tasks in order to best flesh out and realize our goals.
I'm extremely grateful for our group projects, which keep us in touch and working together. Frye is not just a leadership institute or a conference; it's a support group and one of the best social networks I've ever known. Frye is a life-changing experience, and one that I'm immensely grateful to have had.
Julie Kane is head of technical services at Sweet Briar College Library.
The first page of an important letter that Malcolm X wrote to Alex Haley during a pilgrimage to Mecca in 1964 has been discovered in the Grove Press archive in the Special Collections Research Center at Syracuse University Library. Archivist Susan Kline found the page, which had been missing for decades, during work on a project funded by CLIR's Hidden Collections grant program. The leaf had been put in a box of materials related to the Evergreen Review, Grove's monthly magazine. It may have been misplaced during one of the many moves of the Grove office or otherwise separated during the book publication process.
The first page of the letter is particularly important because it provides the precise date and time Malcolm X recorded his thoughts to Haley: Friday, April 25, 1964, 9 a.m.
The find helps complete the picture offered to scholars who wish to research the development of the Autobiography. Researchers can now study the letter in its entirety, which may enable them to shed additional light on Malcolm X's experience during his pilgrimage to Mecca and on the relationship between Malcolm X and Haley.
Meghan Frazer, digital resource librarian at Kenyon College, is the recipient of the first Rick Peterson Fellowship. Cosponsored by CLIR and the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE), the fellowship will be awarded annually to an early-career information technology (IT) professional or librarian who has reached beyond traditional boundaries to resolve a significant challenge or critical problem facing IT/digital libraries.
Ms. Frazer received the fellowship on the basis of her collaborative work with OhioLINK and The Five Colleges of Ohio and on "The Community Within" project, which digitally archives and provides "online free access to historical records of the Black community life and experience in Knox County, Ohio." The selection committee also noted Ms. Frazer's broader contributions to Kenyon College's Library and Information Services. The fellowship will support Ms. Frazer's participation in the 2012 NITLE Symposium and CLIR's DLF Forum.
The Rick Peterson Fellowship honors the life and work of the late Richard (Rick) Allen Peterson, an active promoter of collaboration in the area of IT services and digital libraries. He last served as chief technology officer at Washington and Lee University. Charles Henry, Joey King, and David Saacke, executive director of Information Technology Services at Washington and Lee University, made up this year's selection committee.
Ten individuals have been awarded CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowships in Academic Libraries for 2011-2012. The fellows, each of whom recently received a Ph.D. degree in the humanities or social sciences, will spend next year at an academic research library, where they will develop meaningful linkages between disciplinary scholarship, libraries, archives, and evolving digital tools. Six fellows from the previous cohort will spend a second year in their academic libraries.
The fellows began their program in August with a weeklong seminar at Bryn Mawr College, where they discussed cutting-edge issues and challenges facing academic librarianship through discussion, meetings with guest speakers, and readings about current issues in librarianship and the academy.
CLIR administers the fellowship program in collaboration with academic institutions as a means of recruiting talent into the library profession. Information on the fellowships is available at https://clir.wordpress.clir.org/fellowships/postdoc/postdoc.html.
Registration for the symposium on The Future of the Liberal Arts College Library closes September 5. The symposium, hosted by CLIR and the Council of Independent Colleges, will be held October 10–12, 2011, at Alverno College and the Hilton Milwaukee City Center in Wisconsin. The event is part of the "Leadership through New Communities of Knowledge" program and is made possible through support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
Symposium participants will consider how the evolving missions of private liberal arts colleges influence how their libraries plan and operate. Many colleges have added preprofessional, distance-education, and adult education programs to the traditional liberal arts curriculum, but their library collections and services have not always evolved in tandem. This symposium will offer staff from small and midsize colleges and universities a chance to draw on each other's expertise for effecting change at the intersection of libraries and liberal arts colleges. Campus administrators and faculty, as well as librarians and paraprofessionals, are encouraged to attend.
Victor E. Ferrall, Jr., author of Liberal Arts on the Brink, will offer the symposium's opening keynote. The general conference sessions will be participant-driven and interactive. A preliminary PDF version of the conference schedule is available here.
The registration fee is $240, with discounts for attendees employed by a CLIR sponsoring institution.
Questions about the symposium or other aspects of the Leadership through New Communities of Knowledge program may be directed to CLIR Program Associate Lori Miller at lmiller@clir.org.
Registration for the DLF Fall Forum opens September 6. The Forum will be held October 31—November 2, 2011, in Baltimore, Maryland, at the Hyatt Regency. Participation is open to all who are interested in contributing to and playing an active part in the successful future of digital libraries, museum and archives services, and collections. The Forum will feature presentations and panels, workshops, research updates, working sessions, and a tools showcase. A schedule will be posted on the DLF website September 16.
The Computing and Software Department and the University Library at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada invite applications for a two-year CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship in software design, with an emphasis on games, for multiple visual scales, from the iPod Touch to 60inch high-resolution screen panels. The Fellowship is part of the Gaming Scalability Environment (G-ScalE) project involving Jacques Carette (Computing and Software, Faculty of Engineering), Andrew Mactavish (Multimedia, Faculty of Humanities), and Jeff Trzeciak (University Librarian). A Ph.D. in computer science or software engineering is preferred but applicants with a Ph.D. in psychology, human factors, or mathematics accompanied by a demonstrable expertise in software development and mathematical modelling will also be considered.
If you have received your Ph.D. within the last five years and seek more information on this opportunity, contact Alice Bishop (abishop@clir.org); please include a copy of your c.v. with the message. Note that this is an immediate opening, and not part of the regular 2012 CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship cycle.
A new CLIR website is on its way! Scheduled for launch in October, the new website will offer a broader array of resources, improved search capability, and greater functionality, including group discussion areas and the ability to pay sponsorship fees online.
Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research in Original Sources: The program offers about 15 competitively awarded fellowships a year for dissertation research in the humanities or related social sciences in original sources. Each fellowship provides a stipend of $2,000 per month for periods of 9-12 months. For more information, click here. The application deadline is November 15, 2011.
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Academic Libraries: The program offers recent Ph.D. recipients opportunities to work for one or two years in an academic library on projects that forge, renovate, and strengthen connections between library collections and their users. For more information, click here. Remuneration varies by sponsoring institution. The application deadline is December 19, 2011.
A. R. Zipf Fellowship: The $10,000 fellowship is awarded annually to a student who is enrolled in graduate school, in the early stages of study, and who shows exceptional promise for leadership and technical achievement in information management. For more information, click here. The application deadline is March 30, 2012.
Rovelstad Scholarship in International Librarianship: The scholarship is awarded to a student of library and information science to attend the World Library and Information Congress of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). The scholarship covers conference registration and travel, meal, and lodging costs. For more information, click here. The application deadline is January 23, 2012.


a past participle of clip1.
verb (used with object), clipped, clipped or clipt, clip·ping.
to cut or trim the hair or fleece of; shear: to clip a poodle.
to pare the edge of (a coin).Compare sweat(def 22).
to cut short; curtail: We clipped our visit by a week to return home earlier.
Informal. to hit with a quick, sharp blow: He clipped him on the jaw with a sudden punch.
Slang. to take or get money from by dishonest means; swindle; rook.
verb (used without object), clipped, clipped or clipt, clip·ping.
anything clipped off, especially the wool shorn at a single shearing of sheep.
clips, (used with a plural verb) an instrument for clipping; shears.
Informal. a quick, sharp blow: a clip on the jaw.
rate; pace: at a rapid clip.
a device that grips and holds tightly.
a metal or plastic clasp for holding together papers, letters, etc.
an article of jewelry or other decoration clipped onto clothing, shoes, hats, etc.
a flange on the upper surface of a horseshoe.
Also called lug. Shipbuilding. a short length of angle iron connecting and maintaining the angle between two members or surfaces.
verb (used with or without object), clipped, clip·ping.
to grip tightly; fasten with or as if with a clip.
Football. to block by illegally throwing the body across a player's legs from behind.
Archaic. to embrace or hug.
Whereat he laughed and clipt my hand, and swore I was a true soldier and a brave gentleman to boot.
In some it is more, in others it in less worn, clipt, and otherwise degenerated from that standard.
The arrows flitted and clipt amongst us like a flight of bats!
In the house it may be let range at will after the wings are clipt.
So either kissed and clipt the other, and fair joy was them between.
"to cut or sever with a sharp instrument," c.1200, from a Scandinavian source (cf. Old Norse klippa, Swedish klippa, Danish klippe "clip, shear, cut") probably echoic. Related: Clipped; clipping.
Meaning "to pronounce short" is from 1520s. The verb has a long association with shady activities, originally especially in reference to cutting or shaving metal from coins (c.1400), but later extended to swindles from the sense "to shear sheep," hence clip-joint "place that overcharges outrageously" (1933, American English, a term from Prohibition). To clip (someone's) wings figuratively (1590s) is from the method of preventing a captive bird from flying.
"fasten, hold together by pressure," also (mostly archaic) "to embrace," from Old English clyppan "to embrace, clasp; surround; prize, honor, cherish;" related to Old Frisian kleppa "to embrace, love," Old High German klaftra, German klafter "fathom" (on notion of outstretched arms). Also cf. Lithuanian glebys "armful," globiu "to embrace, support." Meaning "to fasten, bind" is early 14c. Meaning "to fasten with clips" is from 1902. Related: Clipped; clipping. Original sense of the verb is preserved in U.S. football clipping penalty.
"something for attaching or holding," mid-14c., probably from clip (v.2). Meaning "receptacle containing several cartridges for a repeating firearm" is from 1901. Meaning "piece of jewelry fastened by a clip" is from 1937. This is also the source of paper clip (1854). Old English had clypp "an embrace."
mid-15c., "shears," from clip (v.1). Meaning "act of clipping" is from 1825, originally of sheep-shearing, later of haircuts. Meaning "rate of speed" is 1867 (cf. clipper). Meaning "an extract from a movie" is from 1958.
A fastener used in surgery to hold skin or other tissue in position or to control hemorrhage.


When it comes to ceiling fans, there are many great brands on the market. However, the Casablanca ceiling fan is at the top of the list for performance and quality of construction. The blades for the Casablanca fans are always made with quality materials to ensure strength, durability, outstanding appearance, and a wobble-free performance.
Before any blades make it on a Casablanca fan, they are fully inspected. This includes being matched for color and finish, being weighed within one gram, and meeting a long list of criterion before being sold. These steps, although time consuming are a part of the process for every Casablanca fan.
The Stealth ceiling fans are very popular and can be used in any room of the home. In fact, some people are now using the Stealth at the office since its appearance is both sophisticated and elegant. For a top of the line, ceiling fan that has blades designed to make a statement, you should consider the Stealth.
You know that the performance of this fan as well as all of Casablancas fans is excellent. You can sit back, relax under a coo breeze, and never worry about a thing. This is the confidence that Casablanca gives you in every fan they sell.


Data center solutions for High-Performance Computing (HPC) managing the Internet of Things and Big Data.
The automotive and airline industry, pharmaceutical companies, research centers and universities are examples of businesses that run intensive computing processes – HPC – and therefore demand server environments to match.
Getting enough electricity to power a large HPC facility is a challenge. For many data centers in urban areas, competition for power is high and electricity is in short supply. Thanks to its innovative design and unique solution from Falun Energy and Water, EcoDataCenter's facility can easily provide for this level of cooling and power.
Another obstacle for HPC is cooling capacity. This is partly due to the number of cooling compressors, how they are constructed and how they are installed, and partly due to electricity supply. EcoDataCenter uses liquid-based cooling built into the racks. Liquid offers 3,800 times higher cooling capacity than air, meaning that our system greatly reduces energy consumption too.
In urban areas, electricity in the amount needed to power a HPC facility is hard to find. We have a new standard for data center energy effectiveness, while still being able to guarantee electricity for 50MW. Heat from the servers is collected in "chimneys" and the warm air is transformed into water. This means we can recover 30-40 MW in heat from the facility with minimal energy loss. This heat is then used in Falun's heating and cooling systems and any excess helps to produce wood pellets – a way to store fossil-free energy.
EcoDataCenter is the world's first climate positive data center. The more energy we use, the more CO₂ savings we make. This is down to our renewable electricity supply, our outstanding PUE (1.15) and world-class heat recovery system. In addition, we use a cooling method that has a GWP (Global Warming Potential) of 0-1 and complies with greenhouse gas regulations. All this creates sustainable, energy efficiency – good for the bottom line and good for the environment.
HPC is a high-performance supercomputer cluster – it uses parallel processes to perform large amounts of advance, complex calculations in an efficient, reliable and fast way. A HPC facility has a totally different density than an ordinary data center and is measured in the number of kilowatts per rack. This density places high demands on the cooling and heating solutions.
Organisations that work with HPC, for example the automotive and airline industries, medicine and research, have high demands for the physical security of the server rooms. EcoDataCenter's facility has a solution that makes it extremely difficult to gain access to the HPC environment. We have physical walls, electric and double steel fences, as well as robust alarms, CCTV and permanent guards.


Advancement oversees fundraising activities to ensure that the Museum has the financial resources to reach and support its mission and annual programs.
Audit ensures that the Museum's financial systems are audited regularly by a qualified entity to ensure that they are accurate and meet professional standards.
Finance and Investment ensures that the Museum acts as a responsible steward in managing its financial resources to accomplish its mission in an effective and efficient manner, and to adhere to all legal requirements and accounting principles to ensure fiscal responsibility and build public trust.
Governance reviews the Museum's leadership and management infrastructure and refines the policies, procedures and legal documents that support best practices for nonprofit organizations and ensure that MOVC moves into the future with the strongest building blocks.
Accessions considers potential collections and deaccessions of history related materials.
Agriculture Advisory and Farm Implements advises in the operation of the Agriculture Museum (Ag Museum) and for the development and maintenance of the farm implement collection.
Docent Volunteer provides volunteer services to the Museum.
Latino Advisory provides counsel regarding museum-wide initiatives that reflect community needs and cultural interests.


Hospitality Builders experience in hotel and motel construction extends to each Hospitality Builders employee. The Project Manager brings years of construction experience to the project and stands ready to ensure that you get a timely scheduled project, quality product and economical construction costs. Professional training in negotiation aids their work with subcontractors and in all other areas of project procurement as well. In addition, each project is manned by a Job Supervisor that is literally on the job 100% of the time. He will work to see that all subcontractors, material suppliers, testing and inspecting officials and many other important aspects of the project are controlled every minute of your project. They also coordinate all of the FF&E, signage and telephone equipment suppliers to see that it is ordered and delivered timely for their installation. Everyone is working together to help make the development of your motel as comfortable as possible.
Hospitality Builders is uniquely suited for many other areas of construction as well. Our resume includes additions, conversions and the refurbishing of existing hotel and motel properties, restaurants, office buildings, apartments, townhouses and convenience stores. If you have an idea, we can help you bring that idea to reality.
Hospitality Builders is a dedicated group of solid professional people in whom we take a great deal of pride. Their knowledge of the many facets of this business is tops in the field; but it is the individual and the personal attention given to each project that is our stock in trade. We make friends; from owners to subcontractors to inspectors. Who could better assure the quality of your project from start to finish? We think that is what it is all about.
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            .serviceClient()
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Gift them the best of both worlds and pour out your hearty feelings for your beloved with this beautiful combo of the lucky bamboo plant and a heart-shaped truffle cake. The freshly baked delicacy will just melt into the mouth and the perfect heart shape will showcase your loving feelings to them while the luck bamboo will convey a gesture of happiness and fortune towards them. # The lucky bamboo is not really a bamboo. It belongs to the same family as Lily. # It is supposed to bring three kind of luck: Happiness, Long Life and Wealth.


While on the surface it seems to be sage advice to start a story at the beginning, it's not always the most useful approach. Instead, I will jump with both feet into the story pretty much right where we are now. Then I will have the freedom to move backward and forward as either need arises. I have realized something about stories recently. True stories, anyway. A true story starts out boring and ends with pain and loss. That's not to say that the beginning and the end are not worth reading, but it is only in the middle that true excitement can be found. I will begin, therefore, somewhere in the middle.
It's complicated. In my heart, I want to call her Friend. Since we are in the Partial Perspective Vortex, though, I suppose Girlfriend may give you, dear reader, a name that more closely resembles my feelings. That is to say, if I had the freedom to call her Girlfriend, and she had the freedom to accept that name, perhaps that name would apply. Perhaps. The complications arise, however, when the vortex reveals that I am married to Wife, who, by way of introduction, is an amazing woman whom I love dearly. Of course she has her faults, but nothing that would make me want to lose her. Likewise, Girlfriend is also married. To Mr. Wonderful. He is kind, outgoing, patient, accepting, energetic, and he knows where he wants to go in life and how to get there. If I had to choose someone for Girlfriend to be married to, I would pick Mr. Wonderful.
Things would be easier if I could call Wife a different name. Perhaps Insensitive. Or Cruella. And Mr. Wonderful? Wouldn't it make for a more strightforward story if he were instead Big Jerk, or at least Antagonist? Or even if I could really call Girlfriend simply Friend. Motives would be more clear, and we would know where the story should go. But the truth of the matter is that I am in love with Wife. Girlfriend is in love with Mr. Wonderful. And Girlfriend and I are friends. Well, more than friends. But never more than friends. And just to make things interesting, Mr. Wonderful and Girlfriend live right across the street from Wife and me. Understand? Complicated.
Now, Wife knows that I more-than-like Girlfriend, and has become increasingly unhappy about that. About two months ago, she demanded that I cease communication with her. We can get more into the backstory later, but to simply set the stage for now, let me say that I felt that the request was unfair and too strict, but that the circumstances were such that I felt obligated to comply. Or at least, to appear to comply.
I actually did a pretty good job meeting her demand. We cut our communication down drastically. A few more texts were sent over the next two weeks, and then stopped completely. We would see each other coming or going from our homes and would share a glance and sometimes a wave. I wrote poetry furiously, a poem a day for almost a month, trying to sort through my feelings, and I posted that where I knew she would find it. An email or two every once in a while to share a link to an article or a song. For the most part, though, we were compliant with Wife's request.
Until Girlfriend got an iPhone. I have an iPhone, but nobody to FaceTime, and that's just too cool a feature to ignore. The temptation was too much. We used FaceTime together. We had a lot to catch up on. We talked for hours. One day, perhaps as long as six hours. Seeing her again was a breath of fresh air. It felt absolutely wonderful. Until I got home and knew I had a secret. I couldn't stand it. I knew that Wife would ask. Someday. When she did, I knew I wouldn't be able to lie. But day after day she didn't ask. And day after day I continued to FaceTime. I couldn't stand the thought of not being able to talk to Girlfriend during the day, and I couldn't stand the thought of getting caught by Wife in the evenings. I don't remember now. Was it a week of FaceTime? Was it ten days? Eventually, though, I had to stop. I couldn't live that duality. We agreed not to use it any more. At least not for a long while. Perhaps after things had cooled off a bit more we would use it again. But for now, it was over. It was just four days later that Wife asked: "Are you communicating with Girlfriend?" I could answer that I wasn't, since we had stopped. It wasn't 100% an honest answer, but it was enough that I felt I could get away with it. And I did. She didn't press me, and I didn't have to admit that I had recently communicated. We had stopped just barely in time.
It was two weeks later when I saw Girlfriend working outside in her garden. I had received a single text about a week before that went something like this: "We changed our phone numbers and I wanted you to have it so we can keep in touch. Xoxoxo. -Girlfriend." I had known that at some point she was going to change her phone number, so it wasn't entirely unexpected to receive that text. But the "Xoxoxo" was completely out of character. Doesn't that mean hugs and kisses? Why would she write that? That wasn't something she would normally say. If anything, I would have expected her to write "(Frogman)" since that would have been almost perfect proof of who she was. But with "Xoxoxo" I wasn't entirely sure the message was legitimate. It seemed likely it was really her, regardless. But it also seemed it could have been an almost perfect way to lay a snare for me. I didn't think it was very likely, but I gave it maybe a 10% probability that perhaps the text was from a friend of Wife, trying to see if I would take the bait at some point in the future and send some incriminating text back to that number. It wasn't something that I would expect from Wife, but since Girlfriend and I weren't communicating, and I wasn't about to ask Wife about it, I had no way to verify which way it went. Until I saw her in the garden and thought about the question.
I thought to myself: I just need 30 seconds. I can ask her and be done, and then I'll be sure. Wife was not home. I didn't know when to expect her. I headed for the door. Children needed my assistance. I delayed and helped them. When they were busy, I headed again for the door. A visitor showed up. Talked. Talked. Talked. Finally left. Children again. Everything is fine. I walk across the street. "Hi," I say. A big smile on her face, and then a matching one on mine. "Did you change your phone number?" A puzzled look. "Yes. I thought I sent you a text. I signed it." Okay, it was legitimate, now how to explain why I had to ask? "You did. I just wanted to make sure…" and Wife drives around the corner and sees me talking to Girlfriend. "I'm sorry," she says. "It's my fault," I tell her, and walk back across the street to meet my doom.
See? I told you that if you want to find excitement in the story, just look somewhere in the middle.


New York City Officials Break Ground to Repair Seawall.
Queensbridge Park along the East River in Long Island City is getting an upgrade.
Local residents have been unable to fully enjoy the scenic view of the water because the park's seawall needs repairs, but city officials broke ground Friday to rebuild a fenced off area bordering the river. Holly Leicht, Executive Director of the advocacy group New Yorkers for Parks, said access to the waterfront would enhance the area.
"The fields, the other pathways, the playgrounds, sitting areas, really everything about this park is in pretty good shape but for the waterfront," Leicht said.
Queensbridge Park received a C+ rating from New Yorkers for Parks last year. Leicht said the score could improve to an A+ with waterfront access.
"It would be dangerous not to have the fence there, but it's been in that state for awhile," Leicht said. "It's great to see that it's finally going to start being repaired."


I discovered this lovely Destitute Gourmet salad recipe a couple of weeks ago and absolutely love it. It is so simple to make, yet tastes wonderful and is one that toddlers can manage - just remove any nuts from their helping.
Carrots and apple are two of the only things still producing much in my garden, so this recipe is an easy way to combine them into a tasty side for lunch or dinner.
1. Place all the ingredients in a bowl.
2. Toss and serve immediately.
The apple and sultanas give this salad a lovely sweetness, which contrasts nicely with the salty crunch of the almonds and the spiciness of the balsamic vinegar.


Please put a search button!!!! God I love this app, it just sometimes I want to search for a certain lock screen and to scroll thru so many beautiful lock screen can be overwhelming. Please put a search button.
Very encouraging wallpapers but I keep losing my favorites. It's a bit annoying given there are so many choices.
This is just amazing. Amazing.
I absoultely love this app!! The quality of the images is excellent and the huge selection let's me change up my wallpaper as much as I want! I do declare this is one mighty fine app! Boy I tell ya!
You can get lost in this app!!!
I downloaded this to find a John 3:16 lock screen. As I have searched for it I have found so many awesome wallpapers and lock screens that I may just set my lockscreen on random and let it automatically switch every time I open it because it's hard to just like one lol.
I like to change my wallpaper frequently and this app gives many selections to choose from. One can never have enough positivity in their life. I also like the FB covers.
Thought each day I would get a new screensaver or wallpaper. Unfortunately. I have to go to the app and manually look at them. B Very disappointing. Not what I expected.
while the updates lasted. We haven't had new material in over a year.
You call tell the driving force behind this app is love. Well done!
Best app on the App Store!
This is the best ever! It has so many wallpapers that will inspire you whenever you look at your device. It encourages you.
Amazing app filled with so many amazing wallpapers to remind you of the Lord each and everyday!
I bought this app a while ago and I have to say I was impressed at first but now I'm not. I'm actually a little irritated because in the 'new' section I keep seeing old wallpapers? Like they're not new at all? I don't really feel like I got my money's worth when I purchased this app.
I just downloaded this app, and it is just truly phenomenal. It it extremely great and easy to work with and is just truly an amazing app. Keep up the good work on spreading God's word!
I recently was looking for an inspiring app. This app is perfect! A ton of scriptures and great designs behind them! I used to search Google, but they didn't fit my screen. I'm so happy that I bought the app!
I'm so in love with this app! I bought it about 2 years ago and I haven't been disappointed once. It's so nice to have Bible verses to uplift you during the day. God bless!
This app is SO encouraging! So many awesome wallpapers to choose from! Highly recommended!
You'd have to be a moron to give this app a bad review. Awesome and great price. FREE.
This is an awesome app!!!
This is an awesome app! It helps me with my walk with God. Even though its a wallpaper it lifts me up! Get this app!!! It is worth it!!!!
These are gorgeous lock screens with inspirational words from the mouth of God Himself to help motivate you through the day when you look at your phone. It can help you with memorization as well. My only suggestion is to make this app optimized for iPhone 6 and especially 6 Plus. These lock screens would look STUNNING on that 1080p screen. Thank you so much Ryan for all you do!
I love this app! It's amazing and inspirational. Whenever I am feeling distraught or uneasy, I turn to this app for comfort. God is always good!
I absolutely love this app! Very encouraging posts and there is always something different and it's so much to choose from! Keep up the great work!!!
I paid for this app and it will not let me save or use any of the wallpapers. Very disappointed.
It's so awesome to have an app that just has encouraging messages. My only problem is that it doesn't load anything /: wish this could be fixed.
I love this app so much, the countless bible verses make it hard to choose one lol! All the bible verses and words of encouragements give me hope throughout the day. It's so helpful how it reminds me to think of God daily. It's an absolutely wonderful app, it's worth downloading.
I love this app! Thank you for providing positive, God-centered reminders to be seen throughout the day! Helps us to "keep His Words ever before us." Thanks!
Love the app. It's wonderful. But, if there could be like an option to have the lock screens change automatically that would be perfect!
There needs to be a search option for certain types of wallpaper. An upload option also. I like it and use it daily to share with friends.
I have been looking for Christian / Bible-Themed iPhone wallpapers for awhile now.. I found a few, but barely anything. I could never find one I liked. Through research, I found this app. First off, this app is well worth the minimal cost! There are TONS of great Christian and Bible-Themed wallpapers! The best thing is, they add more to their database quite often! I found tons in here I really like! There is only Christian wallpapers also, so you do not need to worry about surfing through other pics that could be thrown in! Really like it!
There's a lot more summarization/message type backgrounds than there are verse backgrounds. You can find free verse backgrounds online. I was hoping for more verses and just all around better quality. You will probably find some backgrounds that you like. For me, I expected more for an app I had to pay for.


CHARACTER COUNTS! is a grass roots initiative based on voluntary citizen action.
CHARACTER COUNTS! and the Six Pillars of Character are service marks of the CHARACTER COUNTS! Coalition, a project of the Josephson Institute of Ethics.


Trattopria Da Enza offers a friendly atmosphere, where you can safely order gluten-free. The kitchen at Trattopria Da Enza is well equipped to cater to the needs of people with gluten intolerance. The dishes are carefully prepared with gluten-free products. Gluten-free foods are correspondingly identified. The staff is also aware of gluten sensitivity. Enjoyment without risk: not only at home but also at Trattopria Da Enza!
Sehr leckere glutenfreie Pizza, klappt problemlos :-) !


Cavana Faithwalker was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He has a degree in public art marketing and management from Cleveland State University. "So, my degree is a mix of urban studies, marketing and communications and studio art."
In the 1980 while living in New Jersey, Cavana was invited to facilitate Quality Circles for the naval architecture firm where he was employed. That was his first endeavor into pulling departments together to work on company issues ranging from efficiency to culture to gender gap.
"Often (people, communities, organizations, etc., here) don't see how positioning themselves as creative, fully present good neighbors and world citizens brings organizational health, empowerment and profit.
Cavana's new best friend is Amit Goswami a quantum physicist turned spiritual guru. "I think something is happening worldwide as far as understanding spiritual consciousness and the marvels of the physical world and where they meet and confirm and inform each other." Other influences include Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Pema Chodron, and Jonathan S. Kaplan, Ph.D.
Cavana believes in unconditional positive regard, a term attributed to psychologist Carl Rogers.
"Through meditating when I play my didgeridoo, I may have zeroed in on the one thing that won't change in my world view, the constancy that anchors me: the lessons in science, those metaphysical concepts beyond the science of plant animal relationships surrounding oxygen are powerful."
A natural outcome of Cavana's mantra is win-win, big picture, and yin yang thinking.
"Australiandidgeridoos" by Hmarin - Self-made image, from photos of my didgeridoo collection. Licensed under Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Cavana is a visual and performance artist, he sings and plays didgeridoo and is aiming at attaining some level of expertise in throat singing, also known as overtone singing.
Cavana was awarded the Poet Laureate for the City of Cleveland Heights, Ohio from 2011-2013.
"Whether I'm engaging audiences through art or or helping organizations close the gap between who they are and who they can be, in the back of my mind I'm thinking, I wanna change the world - and, I've started with myself. More and more frequently, I catch myself being what I want to become."
Left Thumbprint Solutions, Your Pathway To The Creative & Surplus- serving Cuyahoga County and vicinity- Community and Personal Empowerment Strategist and Facilitator, Concept facilitation and realization/ Project managing /community engagement.


There are a small handful of Inkleaf bags out there in the world, but at this point I think it's been several years since the last one. It's not something we'd normally do these days, but this past fall I found myself designing a new bag for my nephew's birthday. Had some leather to use up, so why not?
The vegtan is Hermann Oak and Wickett & Craig. Tiger thread for stitching, cotton webbing for the strap and handle. I'm really looking forward to seeing this age - the brown patina of the vegtan is going to look great next to the natural color of the webbing.


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THE CHARIOT: New Video Interview Available; Seven-Inch Single Detailed
Georgia's THE CHARIOT is preparing to release limited-edition seven-inch vinyl album. Side A features two tracks. Track 1 is entitled "Music of a Grateful Heart" and is a brand new unreleased track from the "Long Live" recording sessions. Track 2 is entitled "Graciously" and is an alternate and extended version of the "Long Live" track "The Audience". Side B of the seven-inch is an etching of the band's familiarly infamous skull logo. The vinyl comes in four different colors with 250 pieces pressed per color (total of 1,000 copies). Each color set is hand-numbered 1 through 250. Each set will be available for purchase in a different way; one being available only at official tour dates from the band themselves, one is available at the official pre-order with a limited time bundle package, one will be made available exclusively through Hot Topic, while the remaining color set will be available to purchase at local music retail stores.
THE CHARIOT has just completed the "Winterizer Tour" with SILVERSTEIN, MISS MAY I, PIERCE THE VEIL, and A BULLET FOR A PRETTY BOY. In February, the band will head out with HASTE THE DAY, MYCHILDREN MYBRIDE and A PLEA FOR PURGING. The trek begins on February 3 in Seattle, Washington and comes to an end on March 11 in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Stinky the Blade of Capital Chaos conducted an interview the THE CHARION vocalist Josh Scogin on January 22, 2011 at The Boardwalk in Orangevale, California. You can now watch the chat below.
EICCA TOPPINEN Says APOCALYPTICA Wanted 'No Compromises' On 'Cell-0' Album


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On August 24, 2020, Dr. Konstantina (Dina) Karageorgos will assume the position of CSP's Associate Director of Instruction.
Welcome Dr. Konstantina Karageorgos to CSP!
On August 24, 2020, Dr. Konstantina (Dina) Karageorgos will assume the position of CSP's Associate Director of Instruction. In this role, Dina will provide vision, supervision, and leadership within an integrated portfolio of work. She will work alongside students, faculty, and staff to make connections between CSP's learning goals and outcomes, the development of the CSP curriculum and faculty, the evolution of scalable learning methods and materials, and research to advance best practices for student learning and access.
Dina will be joining CSP from the State University of New York, Oneonta, where she was an Assistant Professor of English and Africana and Latino/a/x Studies specializing in African American literature and culture, anti- and de-colonial theory, and the connections between historical traditions of dissent and emergent forms of protest. She brings to CSP experience designing, teaching, and assessing a range of cross-disciplinary courses and expertise in critical and inclusive pedagogy, high-impact teaching and mentorship, and curriculum development.
A U-M alum (PhD 2015), Dina is thrilled to return to her alma mater to serve the instructional and curricular aims of CSP and contribute to our learning community's radical ability to imagine new futures. She looks forward to joining CSP's leadership team, supporting the talented faculty, staff, and students of CSP, and collaborating with faculty and staff across the college.
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Let me first thank Mr. Luis.
Yes, you. The college tutor who this afternoon effortlessly breezed through the relations of trigonometric functions and how to apply them. His name tag said "Luis".
But thanks to Luis, I have a basic concept of how to do what.
I obviously still need a crapload of practice.
The past few days, I had been furiously tackling these trig problems all with no success. Each problem mocked me. The book had no examples of the problems that haunted me. Every time the computer gleefully threw the red "X" at me, I felt dumber and dumber.
I struggled with knowing what function to apply to find an angle or a side.
It's simple. I (now) know.
Have I introduced you to Karma?
No, not the good or bad luck associated with previous deeds, I'm talking about my classmate.
Yes, her name is Karma.
And she's European, raised in Dubai.
She thinks I'm both cool and smart.
I know I'm cool, but people (incorrectly) think I'm as smart as I look.
There is the exception of my boss who sarcastically tells me that I'm lucky to not be as dumb as I look. Have I ever mentioned that my boss is awesome? Well he is. Because (verbally) he takes as good as he gives.
Last Thursday in class, we had to do a group assignment which really sucked for my fellow group members because I was clueless.
The worst part was the professor picked me to go up and show the group solution on the whiteboard in front of the whole class.
Somehow, I have an odd capability of remembering large quantities of information for brief periods of time. Even weirder was that I knew I was going to be selected for the humiliating whiteboard. So my classmates showed me how to solve the problem, and then I confidently scribbled down the formulas and solution on the board, not having a clue as to what I was doing.
She probably has the brightest mind in the class. I have no comprehension of her often-asked questions. That's how I know she's smart. Plus, the professor always listens to Karma and discusses the deep mysteries of trig with her.
Was she insulting my penmanship? Or was she complimenting me by thinking I could help her?
She gave me a weird look of unbelief. "But you seem so smart".
I told her that I really wasn't as bright as I appeared, but she would have none of it. She said that she knew I was smart and just needed to grasp this concept before whizzing up and away.
I wanted to believe her.
I mean I like compliments. Even at my mature age of 23. Especially when some actually smart college girl thinks I'm smart.
After the emotional and mental abuse suffered at the cruel hands of my trig assignments, I needed someone to believe in me. I needed support and encouragement from someone – even if they were deceived by the illusion of my intelligence.
The logic of the last part made sense in that she had (non-creepy) ulterior motive in wanting to tutor me.
I have to accept her offer; because I have to pass this class.
When tomorrow evening rolls around, I'm going to accept Karma's offer. Like the cool guy that I am, I'll walk up and confidently ask her for her number – for tutoring of course.
If only all the smart college girls wanted to tutor me while thinking I was smart.
Actually, I'd be happy if a few of all the college girls just thought I was cool.
Everyone used to think I was smart in college too, but math – hell, it may as well have been Greek to me. I wish a cute college boy had offered to help me, but no dice.


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30 Most Inspiring Trevor Hall Quotes
Trevor Hall Quotes – Trevor Hall is a singer and guitarist of America. He is also a songwriter. Trever Hall sings songs with a mix of music. These songs are a mix of reggae, folk, and roots. The themes of his songs have the touch of life exploration and spirituality.
In Trevor, the passion for music comes from his father. His father was a musician and a drummer. From them, Trevor learns to play the guitar so that he can be a singer one day. He recorded his first album at the age of 16.
Then he learns classical guitar in Los Angeles at Idyllwild Arts Academy. At that time, he then starts the meditation process and yoga. All these things made a strong impact on his life.
Trevor Hall then wants to make music that helps other people in their life. He inspires many people with his music. Here is some famous Trevor Hall quotes.
Popular Trevor Hall Quotes
2."A sage once said, 'How shall I open my heart, oh friend? It is forbidden for me to speak." -Trevor Hall
3." I am about to die for lack of a kindred soul to understand my misery. Simply by looking in her eyes I find the beloved of my heart. But rare is such a soul who swims in ecstatic bliss on the high tide of heavenly love." -Trevor Hall
4."In our own selves sometimes we don't feel right in this body. "-Trevor Hall
5.'I think it's because our original nature is eternally free."-Trevor Hall
6."I'm not really good at hiding pain or taking something and transforming it into something good."-Trevor Hall
7." When those things come along, I really try to just sit with them and let it run its course because it's necessary to feel both sides of the coin."-Trevor Hall
8."Rush like a river from the highest mountain, drink from the fountain and stop your counting."-Trevor Hall
9." What kind of wine does he have in his tavern, oh so enchanted and sing like a mad man. "-Trevor Hall
10."Mad with the love of a wife for her husband, child or mother, sister or brother… sing for the Most High, sing for no other. We are all notes in this eternal song, God plays his flute and we all dance along."-Trevor Hall
11."You only see the top of a lily pad, but if you pull the lily pad out of the water, it has roots and tangled weeds and all the stuff that comes with it."-Trevor Hall
12."Tell me how many songs that I must sing before I can see you in your glory, hear your whole entire story, bathe inside your golden, golden sea?" -Trevor Hall
13."The world keeps turnin' It gets merry like a merry go 'round."-Trevor Hall
14."It gets cold like a frozen winter Well I change like summer fall."-Trevor Hall
16."The grace is always blowing
We've just got to lift the sail
And we're bound to hit the shore
We'll finally calm this storm." -Trevor Hall
17."If you say something, then it exposes you."-Trevor Hall
18."When you're young, you're not really worried too much about what people think."-Trevor Hall
19." You're just in this beautiful, natural place with creativity, and it's just flowing through you, whereas after a few years and a few records, you have all these pressures starting to build on your back." -Trevor Hall
20."It's just seems life without music would be death." -Trevor Hall
21."Music was such a love of mine. It was my way of exploring life, my internal world."-Trevor Hall
22." To be honest, I don't really know why or why not. It's just seems life without it would be death."-Trevor Hall
23."Mad with the love of a wife for her husband… sing for the Most High sing for no other. We are all notes in this eternal song. God plays His flute and we all dance along." -Trevor Hall
24."Ever since I was a young kid, I was always hungry for something."-Trevor Hall
25." It was this thing inside me that no matter what I did, I couldn't satisfy it." -Trevor Hall
26."I'm not really good at hiding pain or taking something and transforming it into something good." -Trevor Hall
27."I'm the type of guy that I wear my heart on my sleeve."-Trevor Hall
28."On my first trip to India, my guru took me to an ashram in Allahabad. I felt like I was walking into a place I had been before. It felt like it was my spiritual home." -Trevor Hall
Life is the combination of happy and sad things. All of us enjoy the happy moments. But no one likes to see sad moments in their life. Life is not always the bed of roses.
Without pain, we cannot even realize the feelings of happiness. When you are sad in life, then you do not have to hide it. Or it is not necessary to transform it. Start realizing that after every sad day, happiness comes.
" If I'm in a good or bad mood, then everybody knows it." -Trevor Hall
Never run from your problems and challenges of life. Always face them. Happiness and sadness are the two sides of one coin. You all of us have to see both sides. Trevor Hall always sees things from a different perspective.
By reading the quotes of Trevor Hall, you might get inspiration in life. You might get the motivation to face difficult times with full courage.
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Gentle Sound, Healing Touch
March 29th, 2010 | Author: John P. Olsen
NewAgeMusic.nu Review by B.T. Fasmer
I'm always amazed when an artist totally changes style from one album to the next. Only a talented and versatile artist is able to express something entirely different from one release to the next. Last year Clifford White gave us the massive The Gods of Olympus, which tells the story of the principal gods of the Greek pantheon. The 71 minute long album is simply a new age music Tour de Force, an album worthy of gods.
This year Clifford White has something truly different in store for us; The Healing Touch – Ascension II. It is just as laid back and chilled as The Gods of Olympus was dramatic. In other words; totally different. White is proving that magic also is to be found in the most gentle of sounds.
Indeed, you might argue that The Healing Touch is not all new. This is because it actually is the sequel to one of the most successful new age music titles of all time: Clifford White's debut album Ascension (New World Music, 1985). This album did not have a subtitle about healing like the new release, but nevertheless people all over the world has been aware of the album's healing properties since it was released back in the golden age of new age music. It truly is a pillar, both in the genre and in Clifford White's discography.
Clifford White is proving that magic also is to be found in the most gentle of sounds.
What makes The Healing Touch so special are the carefully crafted layers of sound. Like on all White's releases there are strong melodic elements – the lead instruments here are flute, harp, synth, bright piano and a nice selection of analogue sounding synths. But that is just one layer. In the background, much less audible, are quite extraordinary synth strings and bass effects that just takes my breath away (yes, I know, I'm a 80s type of synth fan – and proud of it 🙂 ). This is where the gentleness and healing is to be found. Most tracks are without a distinct drum beat (except for track six, Divination) – which makes it great for massage or chill out sessions after a hard day at work.
There are two types of tracks on The Healing Touch album. One is the chilled and positive type (for instance track 3, Luna). The other one is the almost sacral, larger-than-life type that makes one think of Vangelis' best moments or Patrick o'Hearn (for instance track 2, Eternity, or track 9, The Answer). White's magic is in the combination of these two worlds of sound, creating a package that is simply irresistible. Here Clifford White is just as chilled as on his compilation, An Island Called Paradise.
It is hard to select one favorite track on the album, but I instantly fell for track 3, Luna. It makes me think of Tangerine Dream's new material, and it is just as good – the piano part in the end is played with force and integrity. I'm sure Edgard Froese would agree. I also enjoyed the very deep bass and light high hat rhythm.
Last year's album, The Gods of Olympus, is just so impressive and complex – but clearly not for everyone. In this way The Healing Touch is different; this is an album that almost everyone will find enjoyable. It is just so relaxing, so warm. After all, we all need a healing touch from time to time…
Sample Ascension – The Healing Touch at CliffordWhite.co.uk. Picture montage copyright Clifford White.
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Gen. Keith Alexander, commander of U.S. Cyber Command and director of the National Security Agency, delivers opening remarks Wednesday at the fourth annual Cybersecurity Summit in Washington. (Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images)
By Ellen Nakashima
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National security reporter
The head of the National Security Agency delivered a vigorous defense Wednesday of his agency's collection of Americans' phone records for counterterrorism purposes, asserting that the program was helpful in investigations of the Boston Marathon bombing and the suspected plots against U.S. diplomatic outposts this summer.
"It provides us the speed and agility in crises, like the Boston Marathon tragedy in April and the threats this summer," Gen. Keith Alexander said at the Billington Cybersecurity Summit, a gathering of business and government officials.
Alexander's address follows calls by some leading lawmakers to end the program because of concerns that it invades Americans' privacy without having proven its value as a counterterrorism tool.
In a brief interview after his talk, Alexander said the program did not help identify the Boston suspects, brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev. But he said that by using the database of domestic phone call records, the NSA was able to determine that fears about a follow-up attack in New York City were unfounded.
"We did use [Section] 215," he said, referring to the USA Patriot Act provision that the government has claimed a federal court has agreed gives it the authority to collect data on practically all calls made in the United States. "We used it to support the FBI in their investigation."
A history of the NSA
The National Security Agency, which is embroiled in controversy over its digital surveillance operations, has a long and storied history. It recently celebrated its 60th anniversary by releasing archive photos.
The National Security Agency was established Nov. 4, 1952. But its lineage dates to World War I, when the Army began gathering information from foreign radio messages. During World War II, cryptologists used electromechanical devices, known as a bombe, to break German encryption in the 1940s. National Security Agency
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Similarly, he said the records database — which contains the numbers, times and duration of calls but not their content — was useful in determining that there were no threats against targets in the United States in connection with the suspected targeting of U.S. embassies over the summer.
In nearly hour-long remarks and the interview afterward, Alexander offered his most impassioned defense of a program that is under fire and that he fears could be curtailed or abolished. He said that the NSA's database, which former officials say contains billions of phone number records, is the only way the government can quickly "connect the dots" between suspect foreign numbers and those in the United States.
"Somebody who has a database that can look at the foreign and the domestic numbers can . . . get the information back quickly and can tell you where there's a threat and where there's not," he said.
The program began shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks under authority claimed by the executive branch. It was secretly put under surveillance court oversight in 2006 after U.S. phone companies balked at continued cooperation in the wake of disclosures of the NSA's warrantless collection of domestic e-mails and phone-call content in 2005.
Alexander stressed that the Section 215 program does not collect the content of Americans' communications. He accused the media of having "hyped" and sensationalized the facts to suggest that the agency listens to calls.
The NSA does read the e-mails and the transcripts of phone calls of Americans who are in contact with foreign targets overseas, but it does so in a separate program authorized under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. That program, authorized in 2008 under Section 702 of FISA, has been the subject of concern because it does not require an individual warrant for each target whose communications are intercepted.
Alexander said both programs are essential to thwarting terrorism. But some lawmakers, notably Sens. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), have asserted that, although the targeting of foreigners has shown value, they have not seen similar results from the domestic phone records collection. They have introduced legislation aimed at ending that program.
Hearings are scheduled this week and next on proposals to reform FISA and NSA surveillance to restore public trust and assess whether the balance between privacy and civil liberties needs to be altered, and if so, how.
Alexander denounced "the media leaker," a reference to Edward Snowden, a former NSA contractor whose disclosures to press outlets over the past three months have ignited a national debate about privacy and security and trained a spotlight on an agency that prefers to work in complete secrecy.
Snowden fled first to Hong Kong and then to Russia, where he obtained temporary asylum. "He was an IT administrator responsible for moving data to a common Web site," Alexander said, explaining how he gained access to thousands of sensitive documents. "We trusted him and he betrayed that trust. That won't happen again."
Alexander also made an appeal to save cybersecurity legislation that is facing serious opposition on Capitol Hill in the wake of Snowden's disclosures. Alexander, who also heads U.S. Cyber Command, said that without the authority for businesses such as large Internet service providers to share malware and suspicious network traffic with the NSA, the FBI and other government agencies, the threat posed by cyberattacks will continue to grow.
He pointed to a potential cyberattack on Wall Street. "What we can tell you is how they went down and how bad they were, but if we can't work with industry, if we can't share information with them, we can't stop it," he said.
Ellen Nakashima Ellen Nakashima is a national security reporter with The Washington Post. She was a member of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams, in 2018 for coverage of Russia's interference in the 2016 election, and in 2014 and for reporting on the hidden scope of government surveillance. Follow


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"The Videos" es el título de una colección de videos del dúo sueco de música pop, Roxette, lanzado en formato de VHS y Laserdisc publicado al mercado el día 16 de noviembre de 1991.
Cuenta con videos musicales de los éxitos de los álbumes Look Sharp! y, Joyride, así como "It Must Have Been Love" de la banda sonora de "Pretty Woman" y el documental "The Making of Joyride".

Contenido
"The Look"
"Dressed for Success"
"Dangerous"
"Listen to Your Heart"
"It Must Have Been Love" (original version without scenes from "Pretty Woman")
"Joyride"
"Fading Like a Flower (Every Time You Leave)"
"The Big L"
"Spending My Time"
The Making of Joyride

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Singapore – China's Banking Transformation: The Untold Story with James Stent [Monday, March 06]
For some time, experts have been predicting the impending collapse of the Chinese banking system. The collapse has not happened. What have these experts been missing? Why have their predictions not materialized?
Understanding how the Chinese banking system has transformed, and how it continues to effectively support China's ongoing economic growth, requires looking at China's banks not through a Western framework, but with insight into what makes the Chinese political economy tick.
In this presentation, challenging the current negative mainstream consensus, Stent will set forth his views on the drivers and strengths of the Chinese banking system, and will explain how understanding the banks serves as a prism for understanding the broader Chinese political-economy.
We invite James Stent to discuss.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ycw-sg-james-stent-chinas-banking-transformation-the-untold-story-mon-mar-6-tickets-32080913877
event location: Love Pal Cafe @ 8Q SAM, 8 Queen Street, Singapore, 188535
James Stent has pursued a career in financial services in Thailand and China. Commencing in 2006, he served six years as an independent director and chairman of the audit committee of the China Everbright Bank, followed by four years as a member of the bank's Board of Supervisors. From 2003-2006 he was an independent director on the board of the China Minsheng Bank in Beijing. He is presently an independent director and chairman of the audit committee of the XacBank of Mongolia.
James worked for 18 years in Bangkok at Bank of Asia, a Thai bank, serving as deputy president of the bank until his retirement in 2002, and thereafter continued as a director of the bank until 2004. James began his banking career with Citibank, working in New York, Manila, and Hong Kong. He then joined Crocker National Bank, working in San Francisco, Hong Kong and Bangkok, before moving to the Bank of Asia.
Aside from his banking career, Mr. Stent also has experience in cultural heritage protection and tourism development. He is Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Siamese Heritage Trust, and previously served as director of the Raks Thai Foundation and as a council member and honorary treasurer of the Siam Society. For three years in Beijing he was CEO of WildChina, a Chinese travel firm specializing in cultural and ecological tourism.
James grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and received a Bachelor degree in History at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master of Public Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, where he focused on development economics. He speaks and reads Chinese and Thai languages. He presently divides his time between residences in Thailand and California.
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