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Let's start with Games. Does your family love to play board games? I have many to share with you! My family has been testing out and playing games like crazy. It's been fun! I even have a hot video game of the season.
A cooperative game. Know what that is? Everyone plays together to get to the goal. We either all win or all lose. In this case we are helping Baby Beluga and his Friends get to the Wild and Free without encountering any issues. What I love is that there is different levels of play for different ages so the 3-5 year olds won't feel left out, but my 8 year old can enhance the game by reading fact cards about whales and taking consequences if the card directs him to do so. It also comes with 32-page guidebook full of sea animal facts.
The board has beautiful illustrated graphics and cute playing pieces. All made in the USA with fair trade practices and sustainable materials.
Do you know the song Baby Beluga by Raffi? I'm singing it in my head right now. This game is based from that song and you can grab a download code inside the box!
I can't tell you the amount of times I have played this game since we received it. It's quick and cute!
Take turns picking up a card and adding it to the ice cream scoops on the table. Whoever makes a cone in the right combo gets the ice cream! Play til all cards are used and count up who has the most.
Everything from Petit Collage is eco-friendly and certified ethically made. Find lots of games, puzzles, books, and crafts. Use code: CrunchyBeachMama for 15% off anything in the store!
Do you know the game Guess Who? This is just like it but geared towards the 4-8 year olds. It's plastic-free and made with bright adorable pictures.
Each player takes turn guessing which animal their opponent is. Do they have glasses? Are they wearing a hat? Eliminate the choices until someone guesses correctly! Both games are made from recycled materials and printed with vegetable inks.
Another quick and easy for Rubik's Cube fans!
Shake the scrambler to see the pattern you'll be trying to make. Both players race to copy it. Who can do it first?
This has become a BATTLE in my house! C'Man and Hubby are super fast and no one wants to play them. ha! P'Diddy wants to play all the time and when he can't convince the rest of us to play AGAIN he plays by himself with a timer to see how fast he is!
Made by HABA for the older kids ages 10+. It has a lot of pieces and takes more than a few minutes to learn how to play. Then it is not a hard game at all!
Evil Rhujas are roaming the land and they want to capture the gemstones of the Inox, but the Inox have selected the hardest to reach and most dangerous places to hide their gemstones. Take turns using your cards skillfully by placing gemstones in spots that will benefit you. Earn points and bonuses from your choices and whoever has the most points at the end wins!
The board is illustrated beautifully and the tiny gemstones and water droplets you use on the board are unique and fun. I've never see a game quite like it!
I have 3 video game playing boys. How is it at your house? All three are into different types of games, but they all love playing LEGO games.
The Justice League has disappeared and havoc is all around. It's time for YOU, the player to be a villain. Customize your own character and unlock new powers. You will see The Joker, Harley Quinn, Lex Luthor, Deathstroke, Killer Frost, Sinestro, and countless others from the Legion of Doom. They don't want to be second-best and will battle you for power.
The graphics and voice overs are supposed to be really great! Our copy isn't here yet, but you know it will be tested out to the max. Buy it on XBox One, Playstation 4 or Nintendo Switch.
Does your family have a favorite board game?
Are games on the Christmas Lists this year?
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My family loves checkers and the board game Sorry!
We think that the game of Trouble is fun for kids and families to play.
We like the board games such as Payday and Find it games.
We love to play Jenga and Clue.
We j=have always loved to play Scrabble.
My grandson like Stratego! He is small yet.
We love cooperative games too! My youngest has a hard time "losing" so this gives him confidence to play games with his big brother!
Yes we like Monopoly and Trouble.
We love to play monopoly or Clue. Family game nights are fun.
We love this game called Toilet Trouble that squirts you in the face. The little ones think it's hilarious!
We like to play the game of Life! Would be fun to have new games to play!
My family love playing Monopoly and scrabble.
We don't have a favorite but like Canasta and Uno.
We love to play Yahtzee as a family!
We love to play Sorry ,Yahtzee,and Aggravation and so many more!
One of our favorite games is Scrabble. Thank you!
Our family loves to play Klask, Payday, Monopoly and Sorry.
Super Mario Yahtzee is our favorite family game to play!
We enjoy playing Don't Break the Ice and Crazy Eights.
We really like Apples to apples and Sorry!
We love to play Clue together!
We like to play Overcooked on XBox One.
Our favorite kid game is a cooperative board game. I'm happy to see another one!
We love playing the game Clue the kids just love it.
Oh yes.... My family loves to play scrabble just about once a week.
We like a game called Race to the Treasure.
That Rubik's Race looks like fun! We like Sorry and Uno!
We like to play Rummicube!
My daughter and I play board games almost every day of the week. Our favorites are checkers and Minecraft Uno.
My kids love the game Pop the Pig.
We currently love playing Chutes and Ladders.
At our house we love CandyLand. It's a game we play at least twice a week.
Uno by far is the favorite at our home.
yes we love playing jenga!
My kids love to play just dance together and monopoly.
My family likes games that make us laugh, like Apples to Apples.
I have a daughter who enjoys solving her Rubik's cube. As a family, we enjoy Telestrations.
My kids really enjoy board games! We usually play classics like Uno, Sorry, Trouble and Scrabble.
Our family has game night every Friday. We love to play board games.
My family enjoys playing Dice, Cards and Uno Wild Tiles.
I always enjoyed Monopoly myself as i was Queen for a long long time. Super nice you get all 4 games!
We like to play a Clue and Battleship.
We like playing Score Four and Scrabble.
Some of our favorite board games are Sorry, Survive, Yahtzee, and Kismet. Sometimes we play card games too. Thank you for the fun giveaway.
Our favorite game is Ticket to Ride!
We like playing Mexican Train.
Our family likes to play the game Sorry!
We love playing Bingo and Monopoly.
We like traditional board games and card games the best.
We like to play Sorry, Uno and Yahtzee.
Oh we love playing so many! Its one of our favorite things to do during the winter months! We try to play one every other night! Some favorites are Make N Break, Hungry Hippo, Surprise Slides, and Bingos!
We love playing all kinds of games. One of our favorites would be Uno.
We have been playing card games. We need some new games.
We love Jenga and Monopoly.
The kids like to play UNO, Old Maid and lots of board games.
My family enjoys playing uno at the moment. These games look fun!
We love all kinds of board games. Rubiks Race is my FAVORITE!! I even play solo.
My family likes to play UNO!
We are a game family for sure. We have a pretty good variety of games we like. I love to play Euchre. I do that with my extended family. My daughter just learned how to play Rack-O. And she also like simple card games like War and Go Fish. She also likes games like Chutes and Ladders and Candy Land. My older son likes Battleship, Clue, and Monopoly. I love word games like Upwords, Boggle, and Scrabble. And we also enjoy knowledge games like Trivial Pursuit.
My family really enjoys playing Dutch Blitz together.
We love to play Trouble. It's such an easy fun game.
My daughter is on a card game kick right now! She loves playing War!
For now our favorite game is "Game of Life"
My favorite game to play is Sorry!
Our family loves to play card games.
We love Rummikub, Backgammon, and poker.
We like to play card games and games like Monopoly and Scrabble.
We enjoy playing Yahtzee at our house!
We have monopoly family game night.
we love all kinds of games. We have a game night once a month with family and friends. I love games that make you answer questions and get to know people a little better.


Getting a new place is a very interesting transition in your life. However, it can be very daunting when you need to furnish each room. The living room is the core of your house or apartment since you will spend most of the time there. Adding furniture singapore can be a big deal if it is your first time. But it does not have to be bothersome if you know the key pieces of living room scandinavian furniture singapore. To create such homey and stylish living room, you could consider few furniture pieces which we'd like to mention below.
One of the most important furniture pieces to be added is the armchair singapore. In a smaller room, like one in an apartment or smaller home, you could consider adding armchair instead of a long sofa or L-shaped sofa. The armchair is a perfect solution for those who are concerning about the small space. The thing that you need to consider when purchasing an armchair is to select one with quality upholstery. Also, make sure that this piece will work well with the other pieces in your living room. Making the right choices to furnish your living room is important.
If you have the larger area, you could consider adding sofa furniture singapore. It will be a more pricey investment but you will get the benefits in return. That means your living room will be comfortable enough for your guests. You won't have to worry about inviting your friends over anymore. If you are not experienced in decorating some rooms, you can always take the easy way. Choose neutral color pallet to make it work when decorating. Loveseat sofa can also be alternative for smaller space.
Wondering where to put your beer glasses or your lamps? Or perhaps you are wondering where to put your laptop or other stuff? Consider adding end tables in your living room. The style of the end tables, just like we mentioned, must match with the overall theme of your room. If your room color pallet is light, you could choose a light color to finish. The theory will be the same if your room focuses on dark pallets.
Lighting is an important aspect to make your living room more "living". Whether you are adding floor lamps or standing lamps, you'll realize that it is worth your investment. The key to finding the right living room furniture singapore for your room is to stick to the theme. As long as you do this, you will not have any problem in mixing and matching the furniture pieces.
Should I choose a tv console with open shelves or closed with drawers & doors?


Are you a poker addict? Can't you find a site that offered a free poker game? If so, then you don't need to worry anymore for I have found some free poker game sites that would be best for you. So just try to read the entire information in this article for your great advantage and enjoyment.
Since I know that you are really interested to find a free poker game site where you can play a free poker game, allow me to give you these important details that most of the free poker game site required. As usual, the free poker game sites really required the free poker game player to register in the free poker game first before he can play the offered free poker game. As such, always remember that the common information that most of the free poker game sites need are the username, password, and e-mail address. As simple as that! After that you can play the provided free poker game as long as you want.
So, one of the free poker game sites is the Poker Forum.com that offered the Texas Hold'em as a free poker game. As I have mentioned earlier, before you play such free poker game, you first need to register, whether you are a registered free poker game user or a new free poker game user.
Another notable free poker game site for your urge to play a free poker game is the Free-Game.com in collaboration with the PokerDownload.com. With this free poker game site, I am sure that you will get not only a single free poker game but more. It is for the fact that this free poker game site has offered various free poker games that can be downloaded with accompanied free poker game video. You just need to select your preferred free poker game to be downloaded.
And to further enhance your excitement and interest, the Sunrise-Poker.com offered various free poker games that include the Sunrise Poker, Texas Hold'em poker, and much more. With this free poker game site, you just need to download their free poker game and you can start playing. And if you have never tried poker, then their free poker games are right for what you need. You can just choose the free poker game and master it as much as you wish. In fact, with this free poker site, you can begin with the easy kinds of free poker game and gradually reach Texas Hold'em poker, for example, which is played at the world poker championships.
So good luck to your navigation!


Maranatha is an independent, non-profit organization. We do not receive a subsidy from the Seventh-day Adventist World Church, and we fundraise for every structure we build. Your involvement is critical to fulfilling the thousands of requests for help.
There are two types of schools that Maranatha builds: the One-Day School and the Education and Evangelism Centers.
One-Day School | A complete sponsorship of a One-Day School kit is $15,000. The kit comes with the entire structure plus desks, chalkboard, and decorations. Donors are invited to fund an entire One-Day School classroom or to sponsor a share, which is $5,000. When a school is fully funded, each share sponsor receives a photo of the completed church and the GPS coordinates of its location.
Education and Evangelism Center | These large buildings vary in cost, depending on the number of classrooms included and the country where it is being constructed. To learn more about sponsoring an Education and Evangelism Center, please call (916) 774-7700.
Fund an entire One-Day School kit.
Sponsor shares of the One-Day School.
Make a general donation for schools in a specific country.
Make a general donation for schools, to be applied wherever needed most.


The most expensive colleges in the nation are charging close to $50,000 a year in tuition and fees alone. That doesn't even include the cost of room and board.
Topping the list is Landmark College, a small private school in Vermont specializing in teaching students with learning disabilities. It enrolls just 494 students and has a student-to-faculty ration of 6 to 1. Tuition at Landmark actually fell for from the previous year by about $100, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.
Columbia University takes second place honors, where tuition was also about $100 lower. It's located in New York City and has 27,000 undergrad and grad students. Despite its pricey location, students can expect to pay about the same for room and board as those at other institutions on the list: about $12,000.
The 10 colleges at the top of the list are the same as last year, except for Tulane University in Louisiana. It replaced Bucknell, located in Pennsylvania, for the tenth slot.
A lot of these schools offer scholarships and grants that students don't have to pay back, so not everyone is paying the full sticker price. In fact, the average Columbia student actually pays closer to about $20,800 a year, the National Center for Education Statistics said.
Public schools generally charge less for tuition than private institutions. The University of Pittsburgh charges in-state residents $17,100 for tuition and fees, and was the most expensive public institution on this year's list. Penn State follows, charging $16,992 a year.
The following schools charged the highest tuition and fees during the 2013 school year, according to data released July 1 from the Department of Education.


The Human Eukaryotic Release Factor, eRF1, plays a vital role in stop codon recognition3. Unlike its prokaryotic counterparts, RF1 and RF2, eRF1 recognizes all three stop codons rather than requiring separate release factors for each stop codon3. Though eRF1 works in concert with the release factor eRF3, eRF1 alone is sufficient to promote termination in mammals. In contrast, eRF3 requires eRF1 in order to hydrolyze GTP.
As a class 1 release factor2, eRF1 is a tRNA mimic; its three are analogous to the structures of the anticodon stem, aminoacyl stem, and T stem of a tRNA during protein synthesis2,6 (Figure 1; more information in the General Structure section).
Figure 1. Molecular Mimicry of tRNA Molecules, from Song et al.
Both in structure and function, eRF1 has striking similarity to a tRNA molecule6,2. Structurally, eRF1 and tRNA are similar in both width and thickness, although eRF1 is longer than tRNA2. Functionally, eRF1 and tRNA behave similarly, both interacting at the peptidyl transferase center of the large ribosomal subunit, recognizing mRNA codons within the small ribosomal subunit, and associating with a GTPase: eRF3 for eRF1 and EF-Tu for tRNA2 (Figure 2).
Figure 2. tRNA Mimicry During Protein Synthesis, from Nakamura et al.
Each domain has a distinct function. Domain 3, or the of eRF1, interacts with the C terminal of eRF3. Domain 2, or the , contains the highly conserved GGQ (Gly-Gly-Gln) Motif and therefore plays a significant role in tRNA release2,4.
The stop codon decoding site of eRF1 can be found in a highly conserved region of domain 1, also called the . This domain also contains the , which forms a loop between the alpha-2 and alpha-3 and may play a role in ribosome binding and stop codon recognition7,5,4. These two alpha helices form an antiparallel helix hairpin against a layer of , creating a groove which is thought to play a role in codon recognition1,2.
The distance between this site and the GGQ motif in eRF1 closely matches the distance between the functionally equivalent sites of tRNA, again demonstrating close structural and functional similarity between the two molecules2.
Finally, it's important to note that while we can see clear structural similarity between eRF1 and tRNA, the relatively few interactions between domain 2 of eRF1 and the rest of the molecule suggests conformational flexibility within the domain2,3. This flexibility implies that the conformation of the crystal structure may differ from the conformation of the protein when bound to the ribosome or in complex with eRF3. Functionally, however, the two molecules behave similarly, regardless.
The is a highly conserved component of eRF1s made up of a sequence of .2 It is thought that this motif, at the tip of Domain 2, plays an important role in mediating the hydrolysis of the peptidyl-tRNA2. A network of between Arg-189 and Ser 186 helps stabilize the conformation of the residue2.
Interaction with the peptidyl transferase center happens in eRF1 at the GGQ motif5. At the ribosomal P site, GGQ forms a peptidyl-tRNA bond via hydrolysis by a catalytic water molecule coordinated by Gln-185 of eRF1 located in site A2. The activity of GGQ here is equivalent to that of the aminoacyl group attached to the CCA-3' sequence of the aminoacyl stem of a tRNA molecule2. Furthermore, the position of the GGQ motif on the tip of an within domain 2 of eRF1 suggests that domain 2 as a whole is the structural counterpart of the aminoacyl stem of tRNA2.
Interactions between eRF1 and eRF3 occur in domain 3 of the protein from residues . An intact domain 3 is crucial for this interaction5. , one of the central beta strands, is responsible for stabilizing the domain. As a result, beta-15 is critical for the interaction between eRF1 and eRF32.
In yeast, another key binding site for eRF3 occurs on the extreme C terminus of the protein. However, the residues comprising the C terminus of eRF1 in human eRF1 are disordered and as such the C terminus has been demonstrated to be unnecessary for human eRF1 and eRF3 interactions2.
1. Bertram G, Bell HA, Ritchie DW, Fullerton G, Stansfield I. 2000. Terminating eukaryote translation: Domain 1 of release factor eRF1 functions in stop codon recognition. RNA. 6:1236-1247.
2. Song H, Mugnier P, Das AK, Webb HM, Evans DR, Tuite MF, Hemmings BA, Barford D. 2000. The crystal structure of human eukaryotic release factor eRF1--Mechanism of stop codon recognition and peptidyl-tRNA hydrolysis. Cell. 100:311-321.
3. Matheisl S, Berninghausen O, Becker T, Beckmann R. 2015. Structure of a human translation termination complex. Nucleic Acids Res. 43: 8615.
4. Dubovaya VI, Kolosov PM, Alkalaeva EZ, Yu L, Frolova, Kisselev LL. 2006. Influence of individual domains of the translation termination factor eRF1 on induction of GTPase activity of the translation termination factor eRF3. Molecular Biology. 40(2):270-275.
5. Kisselev L. 2002. Polypeptide release factors in prokaryotes and eukaryotes: same function, different structure. Structure. 10:8-9.
6. Nakamura Y, Ito K, Ehrenberg M. 2000. Mimicry grasps reality in translation termination. Cell. 101:349-352.
7. Frolova L, Seit-Nebi A, Kisselev L. 2002. Highly conserved NIKS tetrapeptide is functionally essential in eukaryotic translation termination factor eRF1. RNA. 8:129-136.


Has anyone managed to retro fit a highline trip computer to a mk V Golf GTI? Are there tuning or performance companies that will do this? Mine is fitted with the midline and to be honest I wasn't given the option of a highline when I ordered the car!
It is possible to do but the cost of such an upgrade is quite expensive and IMO not really worth it.
It is indeed possible to do and I do a lot of them. It's not that expensive either as I can properly fit a second hand cluster and correct the mileage to what it should be rather than a brand new one to keep the cost down.


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This article will help you add and edit a marketing campaign as well as provide an overview of the Client Report used to narrow your client list for targeted marketing.
Enter the campaign's name in the Campaign Name field.
Enter the campaign's description in the Detailed Description field.
Choose the date the e-mail blast should be sent using the calendar tool.
Optionally, select the Automatically send this e-mail on a recurring basis bubble and set frequency of recurrence using the Starting on calendar tool.
Optionally, select the end date from the Stopping on calendar tool.
Select the frequency of the campaign to send every | __ | day(s), week(s), month(s), or year(s).
Send to all active clients: includes every active client in the database with an e-mail address.
Once clientele have been selected, a blue link will be available to check list of targeted clients.
Select the information to be sent in this campaign. Use an existing marketing template with the Select Existing E-mail button or create a completely new template with the Create a New E-mail button.
Once you are ready to initiate the campaign, click the Turn on Campaign button to initiate. If you're not finished and want to save your work and come back to it later, choose the Save as Draft button.
There may be the need to reopen a campaign to edit settings or run a previously run campaign over again.
Make the adjustments to the campaign as necessary.
There may be times when you want to create a campaign very similar to an existing campaign. It's easy to copy a previous campaign using the Copy Campaign option.
Select the campaign you would like to clone, and click the Copy Campaign button in the General Options section on the left side of the screen.
A prompt window will appear.
Click Yes and a new campaign will be created based on the original.
A new window will appear asking if you would like to view the campaign.
Click the Yes or No button depending on whether you would like to do this at this time.
Occasionally, a marketing campaign may need to be deleted.
If a referral type was created specifically for that campaign, the referral type will not be deleted.
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The Client Report feature allows you to create a client mailing list that you may print directly to gum mailing labels, save as a file, or view. The mailing list can be highly customized by sort criteria, i.e. you might create a list of clients with a preferred employee if the employee leaves the business, or you may want to create a list of female clients that have birthdays in May.
Click the Client Report button/icon or select Client Report from the Messaging & Marketing drop-down menu.
The Client Report screen will appear.
You can choose one of the quick filter options here by selecting the Use a quick filter to find clients based on popular criteria.
You can also filter your client selection with dozens more criteria by selecting the Find clients based on customized criteria using purchase history, personal information, and visit history.
Choose Next after selecting desired filter option.
If you chose the quick filter option, the results screen will appear.
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Leave all the boxes blank to include all clients.
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Q: How can we use Amazon cognito as a identity provider for other applications like google or facebook We can associate google, Twitter, or any Oauth2.0 authorisation with AWS cognito. But, can we use our cognito as Oauth2.0 or an identity provider for other websites?

A: Amazon Cognito is an OIDC provider. So if website supports OIDC, you can use Cognito as an identity provider. You can find more details about OIDC configurations here: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cognito/latest/developerguide/amazon-cognito-user-pools-using-tokens-with-identity-providers.html

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L.A.Opera at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Mozart played dice with his characters in his exalted opera "Don Giovanni," breaking the rules of theater, morality and custom. The trickster, seducer and rapist never realistically gets his come-uppance because he's an anti-hero of such charm and force that he's irresistible, even to those who have suffered at his hands.
Playing the colorful role is the force of nature himself, Erwin Schrott, who made his L.A. Opera debut in the role in 2003. He's magnificently devilish, charming and irresistible, so attuned to his reprehensible role that he doesn't seem like the bad guy at all. Maybe because of its combination of wit, drama, satire, farce, tragedy and some undeniably sublime music, "Don Giovanni" is one of the most comedic, dramatic and entertaining of operas.
Under the direction of Mariusz Trelinski (who directed it here in 2003), it becomes, in perhaps the most suitable way, director's theater, categorized by the elegant and amusing use of all the elements that go into the makeover of a well-known beauty.
Boris F. Kudlika's amazing set design, Arkadius' fantastical, weird and wonderful costumes and Brian Gale's exquisite lighting all have important roles in the production. It seems all those elements have come out to play. While acknowledging its 17th century origins and huge nod to Expressionism, the Don, as the opera is familiarly referred to, is new again. If the characters have become caricatures, it's clear that was intentional, and always amusing, though strategic cuts in the second act might avert the lengthy anti-climax.
As Ottavio, Charles Castronovo, a very high tenor, is outstanding in the lovely "Il mio tesoro" as he asks heaven to protect his fiancee, Donna Anna (Alexandra Deshorties), whose father's death, at the hands of Giovanni, is the tinder that lights the fires of hell under the hellion. Deshorties as the cool, unapproachable beauty has to deal with Mozart's too-cool arias, unfortunately achieving the pitch but not necessarily the tone of the emotion-driven woman. Kyle Ketelsen, as abused servant/fool Leporello, delivers his role with fine humor. His accounting of his master's 2,065 conquests, in "Madamina! Il catalogo e questo," is a highlight of the first act.
Lauren McNeese and James Creswell (as the new bride, Zerlina, and her cuckolded groom, Masetto) cutely represent the economic underclass who are beneath the notice but not the exploitation of the arrogant sexual braggart. McNeese joins Schrott splendidly in the familiar "La ci darem la mano."
Maria Kanyova is lively as the seduced and abandoned Donna Elvira, who can't stay away from Giovanni's fire.
The L.A. Opera Orchestra, under the controlled baton of Hartmut Haenchen, joins the fun onstage but can't top the extreme visual battery of the overwhelming design, costumes, lighting and inventiveness of the production.
Presented by Los Angeles Opera
Libretto: Lorenzo Da Ponte
Conductor: Hartmut Haenchen
Director: Mariusz Trelinski
Set designer: Boris F. Kudlika
Costume designer: Arkadius
Original lighting designer: Alan Burrett
Lighting designer: Brian Gale
L.A. Opera concertmaster: Stuart Canin
Associate conductor/chorus master: Grant Gershon
Leporello: Kyle Ketelsen
Donna Anna: Alexandra Deshorties
Don Giovanni: Erwin Schrott
Commendatore: Kang-Liang Peng
Don Ottavio: Charles Castronovo
Donna Elvira: Maria Kanyova
Zerlina: Lauren McNeese
Masetto: James Creswell
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Last month, Yahoo's CEO Marissa Mayer, had decided to integrate their sales team with Tumblr. And now just a month later, they are already ditching that plan. And will keep Tumblr separate, something that Mayer promised when the sale of Tumblr was official in 2013. Yahoo has been seeing their profits drop, and even posted some pretty mediocre results for the fourth quarter of 2015. When reporting their quarterly results they also noted that they were putting themselves up for sale. Giving Verizon the reason to evaluate a purchase of Yahoo or at least part of Yahoo. Mainly their sales and advertising part of their business, which would work great with AOL and their Go90 video service.
When the initial plan of combining the Yahoo Sales team and Tumblr team together was announced, many Tumblr employees weren't too happy. Feeling that it broke the promise that Mayer made in 2013, and also that it wouldn't work out as well as they had hoped it would. It also created some confusion within Yahoo, as well as some power struggles, as you'd expect. Tumblr had seen some pretty good growth since being acquired by Yahoo. Their sales team went from 18 individuals to around 80. Their sales also expanded to Asia and Europe since being acquired.
The big problem for Yahoo and Tumblr is that you're looking at two different audiences and that's just not going to work for sales and monetizing Yahoo as well as Tumblr. So ditching this plan is going to help out Tumblr, but maybe not Yahoo as much. We'll have to see how things play out in the next few months. However, Yahoo needs to do something to raise their revenue, as they are already looking at laying off a good number of employees. Mayer is still saying that Tumblr's number one priority is to grow their user-base. Which makes sense, as that is their gateway into getting new users, and younger users at that. Something that Yahoo desperately needs. Tumblr's current user-base is around 550 million and about 80% of that user-base is on mobile. A big area for Yahoo, who has a number of mobile apps already available for both Android and iOS.


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Ghost walkers of Turtle Island : submergence, ecology and coastal migration into the Americas
North and South America were the last great landmasses to be inhabited by human beings. An investigation of a sample of sites claimed to be older than 11200 BP will show that early human occupation of the Americas occurred earlier than 14000 BP and that the distribution of these sites gives no indication of the route by which the Americas may have been settled. It is shown that coastal migration via the West Coast is a theory that, while believable, is beset by the problem of lack of evidence predating 11200 BP. Why would coastal inhabitants leave no trace of their existence? The use of submergence to explain site absence is explored using West Coast sea level measurements. It is shown that the effects of sea level rise differ depending on the proximity of the glacial ice-sheets and the gradient of the coast against which this rise occurs. The effects of sea level rise are shown decline towards the south so that the likelihood that submergence has affected sites here is slim. Modem environmental features on the North American West Coast are analysed from maps of the coastline. Resource data and topographic features are compared along the coast using arbitrary cells that allow identification of areas where change occurs. The use of modem data is tested using local evidence for the same features since the LGM. The evidence shows that since the LGM each part of the coast experienced environmental changes yet some of the constraining data did not change and had the effect of limiting the areas where change occurs to near where modem changes were observed. It is concluded that if coastal migration is a viable theory then the groups to first populate California must have hugged the coastline, utilising the marine resource and rarely venturing inland thus leaving little trace on currently subaerial landscapes.
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Susan Rembert
AMIS's Response to Duration of Status
The Department of Homeland Security published a proposed rule on September 25 that would end "Duration of Status" for international students. Currently students may remain in the US as long as they maintain student status. This proposed rule would require students to finish a degree in a certain amount of time or apply for an extension on their visa. People may comment on this proposal until October 26 at regulations.gov. This response has been submitted on behalf of AMIS.
Re: DHS Docket No. ICEB-2019-0006-0001, Comments in Response to Establishing a Fixed Time Period of Admission and an Extension of Stay Procedure for Nonimmigrant Academic Students, Exchange Visitors, and Representatives of Foreign Information Media
Atlanta Ministry with International Students (AMIS) is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization whose mission is to promote global understanding through friendship and hospitality with international students and scholars in the greater Atlanta area.
We urge that the proposed rule be withdrawn in its entirety, and that admission for the duration of status remain in effect.
For over 40 years, we have witnessed the many benefits that international students and exchange visitors have contributed to our campuses, communities, and country. International students contributed $850.6 million dollars to our state economy and supported over 10,200 jobs in the 2018-2019 year.
Many of the international students are the best and brightest of their home countries and the future leaders of the world. As a result of their interaction with Americans they return to their home countries with a better understanding of the warmth and generosity of the American people.
The education of American students and communities is improved with the presence of international students in our higher education institutions. American students develop an understanding of other countries and cultures that will help them be successful in a global marketplace and connected world.
The proposed rule is a significant unwarranted, unnecessary and harmful
intrusion into academic decision-making. The rule encroaches on the role of the academic institution. It should be the institution's, not the federal government's, decision whether and when to grant students additional time to complete a degree. Restricting international student enrollment in language training programs to a lifetime aggregate of 24 months (including breaks and an annual vacation) is arbitrary. The length of time students require in ESL programs varies, and can extend beyond 24 months.
The proposed date-specific admission does not conform to academic programs, and harms students' reliance on duration of status. The rule does not provide an admission period beyond 2- or 4-years. Four-year admission limits are impractical, and do not conform to academic program lengths. Most college students don't graduate in four years. Many PhD programs require more than four years to complete, even if the student works continually and diligently towards their degree. The rule doesn't recognize today's reality of the time needed for degree completion in many academic programs. This affects PhDs, surgery residents, neuroscience postdocs, joint degree program participants, and those pursuing BS/MS programs, among others. The new proposed rule would hold international students to a different standard. For instance, international students would only be able to request time off due to "compelling academic reasons," including medical conditions or other natural disasters or major events.
This rule makes US higher education less competitive internationally. The proposed rule change will discourage international students from applying to higher education institutions in the USA. Many students and postdocs are not able to transfer to other programs easily (if at all) if their extension is not approved, and must leave the United States as a result. If U.S. colleges and universities are unable to provide international students with the confidence that they will be able to complete their entire academic program with that school, they may decide to study in another country as a consequence. The U.S. will then lose a critical pipeline of advanced STEM knowledge and talent, possibly to competitor nations. Other countries see the value of international students and have policies to attract and retain them. It is a mistake to create yet another hurdle to study in the United States.
Implementing the rule will have significantly greater economic effects on U.S. higher education institutions, including from the loss of the international student population resulting from the rule. Any loss of tuition revenue from international students will also have an adverse multiplying effect on the local economy.
In summary, we urge that the proposed rule be withdrawn in its entirety, and that admission for the duration of status remain in effect. It is better for the United States to welcome international students, rather than make it more difficult for them to study here.
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The Bavarian media law specifies that the BLM contributes to the diversity and quality of commercial broadcasters, inter alia, by promoting the production of certain types of programmes or services or by supporting to technical infrastructures. In addition, the BLM is required to further media education and media literacy.
Ensuring the diversity of services not only means a wide range of different services but also a diverse range of broadcasts in each service. To this end, the BLM furthers the production of programmes covering cultural, economic, social or religious issues in commercial services in Bavaria, thereby aiming at the highest-possible amount of own productions.
Private broadcasters in Bavaria may apply for funds for the production of high-quality broadcasts and broadcasting series. Every year, the BLM lays down a theme on which the private radio and television stations are expected to give wide coverage in their services.
Local television stations are supported also by the Bavarian budget; Bavarian-wide television stations are supported by the national broadcasters. The BLM organises and distributes the funds for the television programmes.


Why would you make compressor gaskets?
A leaking air compressor gasket, or one that lets go at a certain pressure, is a primary cause of air compressors that run but don't build pressure at all, or past a certain tank pressure level.
If you have determined that a leaking gasket may be the cause of your compressor problem, you will need to chase down a source. Since there have been dozens if not hundreds of air compressor models for each brand of air compressor on the market, the sources for parts for older air compressors will likely be hard to find.
As a result, you may need to make compressor gaskets.
The gaskets in one such compressor pump can be seen in the following schematic.
If you don't acquire high-heat gasket material, the life of your new gaskets may be very short indeed, as compressor pumps get very hot when running.
Step two: With the power cord unplugged and the compressor tank completely empty, carefully disassemble the compressor pump.
If you are undertaking a gasket replacement, while doing so you probably want to take a close look at the air compressor intake and pressure valves or valve plate, and if possible, replace it too, so that you only have to tear down the pump once.
Identify all gaskets, and carefully remove the old gasket material and clean the surfaces.
Step three: Place the new gasket sheet over the pump where the old gasket was, and gently tap around all surfaces with a ball peen hammer, or small headed implement of some kind. This process will score the gasket material, and the score will, if this step is performed properly, be the perfect pattern for the new air compressor pump gasket.
Step four: Using scissors, xacto knife or shears carefully cut from the gasket sheet the new gasket, removing the material from all pathways using the score marks as a guide. Cut carefully.
Step five: Place the new gasket on the compressor pump, align additional pump parts, and tighten down the assembly bolts.
While the process will be complex the first time, once this change out is done, you will probably be able to disassemble and reassemble your compressor pump like a pro from then on, and if you need to make compressor gaskets to replace those in your air compressor again, you will find the process to be quick and easy.
And, if it were us making and replacing the gaskets in our air compressor pump, at the same time we would always change the valve plate to remove them as another possible source of air compressors that run but do not build air pressure.
Good luck. Let us know how you did as a comment here, and we'd love to post pictures of your project too.


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Coordinating forest sector development in Central Africa
J.P. Koyo
Jean Prosper Koyo is Chief of the Forest Conservation Service, FAO Forestry Department, Rome.
Numerous regional initiatives demonstrate the political will to reverse deforestation in Central Africa, but success on the ground will also depend on improved socio-economic conditions and better policy coordination between forestry and other sectors.
The forests of Central Africa constitute the second largest rain forest complex in the world after that of the Amazon. These forests have always been a source of varied resources, services and primary materials for their populations, providing timber, wood energy, bushmeat, fish and other foods, medicinal plants and other diverse wood and non-wood products.
Annual deforestation in ten Central African countries was of the order of 0.4 percent between 1990 and 2000 (FAO, 2001) (see Table). Deforestation and degradation of forest resources result from shifting cultivation and uncontrolled exploitation to satisfy the needs of both the local populations and the market for primary materials. Efforts to ensure the regeneration and conservation of these resources are ineffective in the context of poor governance and persistent poverty.
Faced with this situation, the countries of Central Africa and the international community have been undertaking initiatives to reverse these tendencies and ensure sustainable forest management. The African Timber Organization (ATO) was created almost 30 years ago to harmonize the policies of the member countries in regard to national timber trade and sustainable forest management. Other initiatives include the Conference on Central African Moist Forest Ecosystems (CEFDHAC), launched in May 1996 to facilitate cooperation and exchange of experiences and practices, and the summit of Heads of State in March 1999 which gave birth to the Yaoundé Process. Yet despite these efforts, the results obtained to date remain far from what is needed to curb deforestation and degradation of forest resources.
The political will currently demonstrated by the countries of the subregion in initiatives such as the Yaoundé Process and CEFDHAC shows how positive lessons can be drawn from the problems of the past. These initiatives have recently been joined by the important Congo Basin Forest Partnership, which is being set up with the support of the United States, France, the European Union and others.
Central African forests have always been a source of varied resources, services and primary materials for their populations (honey from a Congo forest)
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Forest cover in Central Africa
Forest area ('000 ha)
Annual forest cover change, 1990–2000
% forest cover, 2000
'000 ha
Source: FAO, 2001.
n.s. = not significant.
SITUATION IN THE CONGO BASIN
Ecological context
Crossed by the Equator, the forests of Central Africa cover about 240.7 million hectares (FAO, 2001). They are heterogeneous and rich in endemic plant and animal species.
The area of planted forests in the subregion is insignificant, totalling only about 648 000 ha, or less than 0.3 percent of the total forest area (FAO, 2001). Plantations are mostly based on exotic fast-growing species such as Eucalyptus spp. and tropical Pinus spp.
Between 1990 and 2000 forest cover dropped from 250.1 to 240.7 million hectares – a loss of 9.3 million hectares in ten years (FAO, 2001). Although the human population density is low in most Central African countries (with the exception of Burundi and Rwanda), deforestation has a particular impact on the more highly populated zones, i.e. urban and peri-urban areas and the vicinity of major roads.
A network of protected areas covers approximately 24 million hectares, or 10 percent of the region's total forested area. It includes national parks, forest reserves, hunting reserves and biosphere reserves.
Policy context
Forest policies – which generally descend from those of the colonial administrations in which forests were defined as the exclusive property of the State – are poorly articulated in almost all Central African countries. As a result:
forest-sector development is not integrated enough with national development in general and rural development in particular;
rural populations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), the private sector, etc. are not sufficiently involved in the conception, implementation and evaluation of forest policies;
education not only cuts off future forestry staff from their natural environment, but also produces highly specialized workers adept only in their own domain;
scientific research is poorly adapted to national needs and poorly supported by the public sector, and often fails to take rural problems into account;
public investment is strongly concentrated in and around the capital cities and economic centres, resulting in substantial population flux from the countryside to the cities;
recurrent political instability has resulted in civil war in some countries and has aggravated poverty among local populations.
With the lack of effective policies, augmented by the effects of unsatisfactory governance and high debt burden, it is understandable why rural poverty is exacerbated, with deforestation and degradation of the natural environment as direct consequences.
Socio-economic context
The ten countries of Central Africa have a total population of about 100.5 million and a population density of 18 people per square kilometre (FAO, 2001). The economies of these countries depend almost entirely on the primary sector, in other words the extraction and export of unprocessed raw materials produced through agriculture, forestry and mining. Mean annual income is US$677 per person (FAO, 2001). On average, the agricultural and forest sectors represent 23 percent of gross national product (GNP) and employ more than 58 percent of the economically active population.
Communication and transportation infrastructures are very weak in Central Africa. Of the subregion's total 220 000 km of roads, only 8 700 km are paved – truly a limiting factor for development. All, or nearly all, of the countries in Central Africa are deeply in debt and therefore constrained by structural adjustment programmes.
Traditional slash-and-burn shifting agriculture and harvesting for fuelwood are by far the main causes of forest loss. Selective harvesting of roundwood for export, often with external investment, remains an essential economic activity. Estimates for annual production of roundwood and woodfuel in 2003 were 11.8 million and 95.9 million cubic metres, respectively (FAO, 2004a). Wood energy represents more than 88 percent of total wood production. It is also notable that almost 40 percent of the wood that is cut is abandoned in the forest; not more than 30 percent of the wood removed from forests is processed, with productivity of about 25 percent.
The tropical moist forests of the Congo Basin also provide a number of other resources that supply local and international markets – in particular bushmeat (a million tonnes per year) and numerous edible and medicinal non-wood forest products.
REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP EFFORTS AND FOREST DIALOGUE
In the past 20 years, Central African countries have implemented a number of subregional planning and management initiatives for their forest resources.
African Timber Organization (ATO)
Created in 1976, ATO brings together 13 countries including those of Central Africa. Its objectives concern in particular the harmonization of national policies regarding forest conservation, reforestation, forest management and related subjects. In recent years ATO has focused particularly on the definition of criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management and on the establishment of certification in Africa.
Conference on Central African Moist Forest Ecosystems (CEFDHAC)
Also known as the Brazzaville Process, CEFDHAC was created in the Congo in May 1996. Meeting every two years, it provides a framework for the coordination and exchange of experience among stakeholders in the forest sector (governments, the private sector, NGOs, etc.) on questions concerning the sustainable management of forest ecosystems in Central Africa. It has ten members (Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Rwanda and Sao Tome and Principe).
Yaoundé Process
A summit of seven African Heads of State was held in Yaoundé, Cameroon in March 1999 to discuss problems related to the conservation and sustainable management of forest resources in the Congo Basin, particularly the creation of cross-boundary protected areas. At the conclusion of this summit, the Yaoundé Declaration was signed and the Conference of Ministers in Charge of Forests in Central Africa (COMIFAC) was created. Participants made a commitment to integrate forest programmes with those of other sectors, especially transportation and agriculture.
COMIFAC is currently considered an umbrella under which other subregional projects, networks and organizations such as CEFDHAC are associated. With the support of FAO, it has elaborated and adopted a Convergence Plan (COMIFAC, 2002) which defines strategies for countries and development partners in Central Africa. The Convergence Plan is now the major plan for the activities of the governments and national and subregional organizations in the Congo Basin area. Today the Yaoundé Process has an Executive Secretariat in Yaoundé and counts seven member countries: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon.
Congo Basin Partnership
Launched at the World Summit on Sustainable Development, held in September 2002 in Johannesburg, South Africa, the Congo Basin Partnership is an association of 29 governmental and non-governmental organizations working to improve communications and coordination of programmes, projects and policies with a view towards sustainable management of forest ecosystems in the six countries of the Congo Basin (Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon). The partnership's activities are organized within the framework of the COMIFAC Convergence Plan.
Other programmes and networks
Other regional programmes and networks include the Programme for Conservation and Rational Utilization of Forest Ecosystems in Central Africa (ECOFAC), founded by the European Union in 1987; RIFFEAC (Réseau des institutions de formation forestière et environnemental d'Afrique centrale), a network of forestry and environmental training institutions founded by CEFDHAC in 2001; and the Regional Environmental Information Project (REIMP), created initially by the World Bank, which promotes cooperation in the production, exchange, dissemination and use of environmental information among the six Congo Basin countries.
FAO activities in the region
FAO has long provided support to forestry in Central Africa at both the national and regional levels, notably in forest inventory, sustainable management practices and training.
The Organization has recently elaborated a strategy for current and future assistance in the six countries of the Congo Basin, in line with the COMIFAC Convergence Plan and taking care to create conditions for synergy and complementarity with the other agencies and donors working in the region (FAO, 2004b). The strategy is organized around four strategic orientations:
helping to develop and implement techniques for forest management, harvesting and wood processing in the context of sustainable development;
supporting the establishment and maintenance of a subregional forest information system that contains individual country data;
providing support to strengthen management capacity and sustainable use of forest resources;
providing support to strengthen institutional, political and legal frameworks with a view to better manage forest resources and equitably distribute the revenues they generate.
Shifting cultivation and harvesting for fuelwood are the main causes of forest loss in the region (wood harvested for fuel in Rwanda)
FAO/17645/G. DIANA
PROGRESS AND LESSONS LEARNED
The creation of several regional organizations such as CEFDHAC, COMIFAC and REIMP and the proliferation of NGOs and associations working on forestry matters in Central Africa are evidence of a raised awareness of environmental and forest management problems since the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in 1992. Nevertheless, the concrete results on the ground still remain below expectations. In effect, the conferences and summits of Central African Heads of State have not yet resulted in a significant decrease in deforestation or degradation of Central African forests.
Insufficient coordination between forest policies and the policies of other sectors (e.g. agriculture, energy, industry, public works and education) is undoubtedly one of the main reasons for this situation. Another is the inadequate dialogue among stakeholders, with failure to involve NGOs, civil society and local government in strategic decisions influencing the sustainable development of the forest sector. Participatory approaches to involve local communities and other development partners in identifying, formulating, implementing and evaluating projects are mostly lacking, and the institutions and personnel that would be expected to implement these approaches are not correctly prepared for the task. In general, institutional structures are lacking to translate the recommendations and resolutions of international and regional discussions into action at the national and local levels. Low levels of rural socio-economic development and inadequate forest resource management practices are aggravating factors.
Some might think that the proliferation of regional organizations in the not-very-favourable economic and financial context of Central African countries is ill advised. However, it is necessary to consider that one of the two principal organizations today is an intergovernmental organization (COMIFAC) while the other is a discussion forum (CEFDHAC). Many others (REIMP, the Organization for the Conservation of African Wildlife, etc.) are highly specialized. The Central African forests and their problems are not only very extensive, but also complex and diverse – thus the need for specialized approaches.
The new dynamic ushered in with the creation of COMIFAC, which serves as an umbrella for the other subregional organizations, and the adoption of the Convergence Plan seem to confirm the existence of political will. An agreement signed by Cameroon, the Congo and the Central African Republic on the management of transboundary protected areas is witness to this encouraging development.
It is clear that it will be extremely difficult to bridge the gap between the progress realized in terms of international and regional dialogue and elaboration of concepts and practices, and the high rates of deforestation and forest degradation in Central Africa, where people's livelihoods continue to depend on forest resources. The real solution to deforestation will undoubtedly be found in the improvement of the living conditions of human populations.
The real solution to deforestation rests on improved living conditions for the people of Central Africa
Conference of Ministers in Charge of Forests in Central Africa (COMIFAC). 2002. Convergence Plan for the Conservation and Sustainable Management of Forest Ecosystems in Central Africa. Yaoundé, Cameroon.
FAO. 2001. Global Forest Resource Assessment 2000 – main report. FAO Forestry Paper No. 140. Rome.
FAO. 2004a. FAOSTAT forestry data. Available at: faostat.external.fao.org/faostat/collections?subset=forestry
FAO. 2004b. Forests in the Congo Basin: an FAO action strategy – November 2004. Rome.


Gannon Nightstand The Gannon nightstand pulls off a look that's subtle yet stunning. This piece's clean lines lend a contemporary vibe, and its warm wood finish is versatile enough to work with any design scheme. Wire brush texture adds depth, and pewter-finished handles reveal 2 drawers for ample bedside storage.
The Gannon nightstand pulls off a look that's subtle yet stunning. This piece's clean lines lend a contemporary vibe, and its warm wood finish is versatile enough to work with any design scheme. Wire brush texture adds depth, and pewter-finished handles reveal 2 drawers for ample bedside storage.
Extremely happy with my purchase. This looks and fits lovely into the space I reserved for it. The drawers are nice and deep and hold plenty.
This night stand goes perfectly with my new bed. The best part of this night stand is that the top of it has plenty of room to put stuff on. It comes up to the perfect height next to the bed and the two drawers have plenty of space for everything i need next to me.
We just received this set for our master bedroom and we love it! It's masculine enough to make my husband happy and has that rustic detail that I was looking for. It's a really nice set and looks great in our space. I can't wait to finish off the look with some new decor pieces!
The Gannon nightstands have a rustic chic style which is modern yet a classic piece. It is well made with two large drawers that work well although would be nice if they slid out more smoothly. Would certainly buy again.
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I got the matching bed with these. They are perfect! The are very large and provide a lot of room uptop to set items as well as 2 large drawers for storage.
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The Much Too Promised Land
America's Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace
by Aaron David Miller
New York: Bantam, 2008. 416 pp. $26 ($16, paper)
Reviewed by Gerald M. Steinberg
Bar Ilan University
https://www.meforum.org/2503/the-much-too-promised-land
A key player on the U.S. "peace team" during three administrations, Miller is well-placed to compare and evaluate the different approaches, personalities, and outcomes of the efforts of these three U.S. administrations. The author adds to the flood of memoirs, often covering the same ground—the embrace of Palestinian victimization; surprise at Arafat's treachery; Jimmy Carter's doctored accounts. Ultimately, the main contribution of this book lies in its illumination of the perceptions and misperceptions emanating from Washington.
The most substantive sections cover the 1989 to 1992 period, which started and ended with U.S. pressure on Israel, though interrupted by the 1991 Kuwait war. In this phase, Secretary of State James Baker and his colleagues used the threat of blame for failure ("the dead cat on the doorstep" model) to press Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Shamir for concessions. The attempt did little other than increase tensions between Washington and Jerusalem.
The collapse of the Soviet Union and the U.S. invasion of Iraq amplified Washington's power of persuasion—saying "no" to Washington became more costly. After months of pressure, Shamir, Syrian president Hafez al-Assad, and a thinly disguised Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) delegation agreed to the 1991 Madrid conference. But the investment produced little more than a photo-op. The bilateral talks that followed simply regurgitated old slogans while multilateral efforts designed to promote visible cooperation between Israel and the major Arab countries were ignored—as they are in Miller's history.
However, the pressure eventually produced the Oslo experiment, which ended seven years later in a mass terror campaign and the Israeli response to it. One of the main causes of this failure was (as Miller shows indirectly) the top-down process that relied too heavily on PLO chairman Yasser Arafat. On the Palestinian street, no effort was made to challenge the core mythologies centered on refugee claims, Jerusalem, and (crucially) on the rejection of Israel's right to exist. In contrast, as terrorism grew, Israel's hyperactive democracy lost any initial enthusiasm for risk-taking—another aspect of the so-called peace process that is missing in Miller's version of events.
Eight years later, as the Obama team tries again, it might consider Miller's contribution to the literature of failure—concentrating, perhaps, not so much on what he has included in his book but on what he has left out.
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The context for the conversation was a forthcoming book by our ex-Chancellor and the founder of our undergraduate program in entrepreneurship in which they argue 1) that universities cannot and should not be run like corporations, and 2) that the basic social contract that generated support for public higher education from 1950 to 1990 is now badly strained, if not completely broken. Their book sets out to find a way to repair that broken compact. So the goal of the round-table, which was filmed, was to discover if there was any common ground on which to build in the effort to heal the rift.
Substantively, not much was accomplished. Everyone was on their best behavior, perhaps because being filmed. Our right wing guests didn't have much to say; they mostly listened. Everyone affirmed the idea of a liberal arts education; everyone seemed to sign off on the notion of "access," another key theme. Similarly, there was no push-back against the idea that the universities of North Carolina were an economic driver—and a major reason why we were not Mississippi.
Our businessman philanthropist was the one who said we, as a society, were failing to invest in our future—and that tax cuts had gone too far. No one really took up that point, although the state legislator was willing to say that tax cuts needed to stop—and that "maybe" we had gone too far in that direction. When asked about the legislature's thinking about higher education, he denied there was any hostility to it. The legislature simply faced a number of competing demands when it came to budgeting—and all of those demands were legitimate, good things to support. He made it sound all ideology-free, just a matter of making do with the available resources.
It didn't help that our dean told the group that North Carolina was still the 4th best state in the nation in terms of its support of its higher education system. (NC started out in 2008 as one of the best–and the pace of cuts here in NC was similar to the pace across the whole country, so we did not fall in this particular ranking.) That fed an unjustified complacency in the room—unjustified because it allowed everyone to ignore the ways recent actions have hurt instruction on our campuses and limited access. The egregious mandate from the Board of Governors (which rules over the whole system, as distinct from the Board of Trustees for each individual campus) that only 25% of tuition increases can be used to fund need-based aid never came up. (I have seen that number reported as 15% in the UNC Alumni magazine; I was pretty sure it was 25%, but could be wrong.) Thus, as the BoG approves tuition hikes, it makes sure the most vulnerable are hurt by them. Their rationale was that more affluent students should not be "taxed" to supplement the fees of less affluent students.
I have a friend who attends BoG meetings regularly. He confirms that they hate Chapel Hill in ways that they don't hate NC State or the other schools in the system. There is no consistency either to their hatred or to their ways they would like to transform UNC, Chapel Hill. He characterizes the BoG members as the wealthiest people from their rural communities—who have witnessed the precipitous decline of those communities after the death of tobacco and textiles and the furniture business (the three pillars of the NC general economy prior to 1990.) NC was never a rich state, but it was one that functioned for all of its citizens. Now we have a very prosperous middle of the state—with per capita incomes that rival Connecticut's—yoked to a depopulated east (except for the booming ocean front resorts) and an Appalachian west where the poverty levels match those of Mississippi. Governing a state that is both Connecticut and Mississippi is well-nigh impossible. But the legislative power rests in the hands of the white Mississippians.
Those rural legislators—and the supporters that they have appointed to our Board of Governors—have no remedies. They don't know any better than anyone else how to revive the dead economies of the places where they grew up and where they still live. They look at Chapel Hill and see an elitist, rich, and complacent institution that takes thousands of kids from the Raleigh and Charlotte suburbs, while taking one or two top students from the rural high schools, turning up their noses at the rest. So they (Chapel Hill) sneer at us (white Southerners), while stealing away our best and brightest—who they turn into Democrats and snobs, people who are never going to come back to the dying towns they grew up in. And while they are turning down our kids as not good enough, they (in the name of diversity) are giving slots to all those blacks, Latinos, and Asians who have crowded into the outer suburbs and inner cities of our state.
When it comes to solutions, these guys (again, I am going on the reports of my friend) swing wildly and incoherently between free market fundamentalism and socialism. They can move from praise of the market to suggesting all kinds of state interventions on the turn of a dime. They don't know what to do, but they know who the enemy is, and they want to lash out and do some hurting.
None of that came to the surface in our polite conversation. The right-wingers in the room would, I assume, distance themselves from the no-nothings. But the real conflict is that these educated, smooth right wingers (Paul Ryan types) are against public education. They are Milton Friedman acolytes. Education is a private investment that families make in their future—and schools get lazy, complacent, and inefficient when not subjected to competition and the resultant market discipline.
Here's how I make the case. I was in a room with some financial world people—hedge fund managers, and folks at Goldman Sachs—just shortly after the election in November 2008. The financial guys (and they were all guys, about 10 of them in a mixed crowd of about 25 total where the other 15 were not financial types) all agreed that the Democrats (Nancy Pelosi was their particular bête noir; I guess because dissing a woman was better in their eyes than dissing a black man) were going to screw the nation's economy horribly with their urge for regulations and taxes. Nothing about the financial collapse seemed to have altered one iota these guy's confidence that they knew what they were doing—and about how to best organize the nation's economic well-being. Sure there had been some mistakes, but they knew how to fix them. Just keep those no-nothing politicians from messing things up.
That's not good enough. To take just one example: there is now tons and tons of research that shows that presenting information (in no matter what format: a book, a lecture, a power point presentation) has very little impact. People do not learn things by being told them. Active learning produces vastly better results for the retention of information and the fuller comprehension of that information (as demonstrated by the ability to put it to use in different contexts). Yet many of my professorial colleagues resist that finding. Lectures and reading books worked well for them—with no thought about the fact that they are outliers or for finding ways to promote learning for the majority of their students, not just a talented minority.
Even more basic. We are now required to state the course's objectives on our syllabi—and are encouraged to think about how our pedagogical strategies and our assignments (what students are asked to read, write, do projects or reports on etc.) might lend themselves to achieving those objectives. Again, many of my colleagues think of this as philistinism, as creeping corporatization. The nerve of asking that we define "outcomes." I have no patience for such responses. We (the professors) are the anti-intellectuals we claim to abhor when we refuse to a) take seriously the research about what enhances learning and what does not, and b) refuse to self-consciously and critically think about our own goals and strategies in the courses we teach.
In short, the public has as much right to ask teachers to justify their practices and to reform them when results are not particularly good as they have the right to insist that bankers be regulated by external watch-dogs.
The measures are the hard part. Numerically based assessments of learning outcomes are crude at best, and worthless at worst. But stricter assessment of outcomes is coming—and it is in the interest of professors to be deeply involved in the establishment of the metrics. I am reasonably confident that qualitative assessment will be our friend, not our enemy. My bet is that such assessments will prove, rather conclusively, that education does not scale well. There are not many efficiencies that will actually produce better results. As teachers, we should stand staunchly and unequivocally for getting the best results for all of our students—and such results are not going to be achieved (in most cases) by on-line courses or 350 pupil lecture courses. In some select instances, on-line instruction may prove effective—and we (the professors) should embrace such cases. Any money saved can be used to promote more hands-on teaching in places where that is required.
In short, just as we would be appalled at doctors who did not make use of data about results to influence treatment of future patients, we as professional educators should be eager to discover what works well and what does not—and have it guide our future practice. To run away from such self-study, screaming "corporatization," is irresponsible and, in my view, indefensible. It also suggests we are terrified by what we might discover—which belies our publicly displayed confidence that we know what we are doing.
We are rightfully resentful of—and resistant to—a knee-jerk hostility to universities as elitist and left-wing, and to the professors as under-worked and over-paid sycophants. But that doesn't entitle us to a free ride and a total refusal to change our ways. I am going to allow myself a gross overgeneralization: I have seldom met any group more conservative (in the sense of clinging to the established ways of doing things) than a faculty that prides itself on being progressive, even revolutionary.


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When launching a new product, digital marketers follow the evidence. They measure everything, reach out to customers and prospects and test messaging, qualitatively and quantitively. They live on a steady diet of A/B testing. Then, based on feedback, they tweak their messaging and alter their offerings quickly. This agile response is exactly what's needed to compete for consumers' attention today.
Compare this process to how HR markets open positions to job seekers.
Even a simple task like posting a job gets mired in requisitions, assumptions and lengthy approval processes. And once that job posting is approved, it's set in stone until an offer is made. What's more, communication with the target audience (job seekers) is a one-way street. Recruiters seldom give candidates the opportunity to offer their feedback on the application process, regardless of whether or not they're hired.
But what if you emulated a marketer's test-driven mindset and approached job listings as an ongoing, evolving experiment that delivers actionable data and facilitates a two-way conversation with the target audience? I predict you'd not only get many more qualified applicants, but also create a process that informs your recruiting strategy with valuable data and insight. Here's how to step into a marketer's shoes and use testing to strengthen your job listings.
Try Different Versions of the Same Thing
To marketers, landing pages aren't final products. They are dynamic templates, living in continuous development. Marketers post an offer, evaluate the response, modify the design and adjust the messaging until they get the quantity and quality response they want. Digital marketers post different versions of the same pages at different times or use different versions at the same time on different sites. You must do the same.
Try multiple versions of every job listing. One job listing might emphasize the company culture as the magnet to attract more top talent. Another version may focus on pay and benefits. A third could include an option to chat, play a game, or interact with a video. Don't be afraid to experiment: Tell a story. Add a video. Uses images. Identify job titles that job seekers using a free keyword volume search tool, and see how your title can reflect the trends that emerge.
Most importantly, learn what works (and doesn't work) by asking questions and lots of them: How many candidates viewed my listing? How many clicked "apply" and then completed the application? How many applicants met my minimum qualifications? What was the best source for these qualified candidates? When a campaign fails to attract enough qualified candidates, recruiters, hiring managers and management alike should be diving into the analytics, getting candidate feedback and making adjustments on the fly.
Ask Job Seekers For Input
Your applicants are a goldmine when it comes to insight into the effectiveness of your recruiting process, so create a two-way conversation with them. Candidate feedback offers you an opportunity to engage with the candidate immediately, build your brand and improve your hiring process with instant feedback.
Hopefully you're already contacting each applicant to confirm receipt of his or her completed application. (If not, shame on you. Stop "ghosting" your applicants!) That confirmation email is the perfect opportunity to invite candidates to complete a quick survey. How many candidates opened the email? How many completed the survey? Why didn't more respond? Each interaction (or lack of engagement) is important in this dynamic digital age. Do what it takes to continue the conversation. You might even consider offering a small reward, such as an e-book you've created offering interview or job search tips.
Adapt to a New Generation of Search
In addition to desktop- and mobile-based search, recruiters now also have to think about voice-activated search. When a candidates asks Alexa (or Siri, Google, Cortana) "Who is hiring engineers near me?" will your job listing be selected for that coveted first result position, also known as "position zero?"
In the world where a shrinking labor pool is converging with the adoption of voice-search, a lot of non-HR related factors such as page speed, mobile responsiveness,domain authority and even readability count when it comes to job listing position. The verdict is still out on which factors might influence voice search rankings the most. But the shift to voice-driven search has begun, and the winners will be those companies that continuously test and adapt.
The word "done" doesn't make sense anymore when it comes to writing job descriptions and finessing recruiting strategy. Digital marketers live in a world of continuous testing, making and adjusting strategy, interpreting data, and testing again. HR and recruiters need to do the same.
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A Wichita Falls man remains in the Wichita County Jail Tuesday morning, charged with burglary of a habitation.
KFDX reports that a resident in the 3000 block of Stearns reported several items stolen from their home, including firearms, yard equipment and a television. Days later, police responded to call about a possible burglary in progress at a home on Lavell, just a couple of blocks from the robbery location on Stearns.
Police found 38-year-old Beau James Selby inside. Selby told police the home was his and he was using the flashlight because the power had been turned off. According to Wichita County Sheriff's Office info, Selby does indeed reside in a home in the 3000 block of Lavell. Police found meth in the home and reportedly had to use force to restrain Selby.
During the arrest, a checkbook fell out of Selby's pocket that belonged to the owner of the home on Stearns. Selby gave police consent to search the home and several other stolen items from the Stearns robbery were found in a shed behind the house. Selby is currently held on $10,000 bond.


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Man jailed over £53m robbery fighting for life after being shot
Police make arrest after Paul Allen shot six times at property in Woodford Green, London
Seth Jacobson
Sat 13 Jul 2019 10.01 EDT First published on Sat 13 Jul 2019 06.42 EDT
Paul Allen was convicted of involvement in the 2006 Securitas heist, Britain's largest armed robbery. Photograph: Kent police/PA
A man who was jailed for his part in Britain's largest armed robbery was fighting for his life in hospital on Saturday after being shot in the neck and chest during a suspected gangland attempted hit.
Paul Allen, 41, was shot six times through a conservatory window on Thursday night at a house in Woodford Green, north-east London.
The Metropolitan police said they had arrested a 50-year-old man on suspicion of attempted murder and firearms offences. He remained in custody on Saturday afternoon.
"This investigation remains ongoing and officers continue to follow a number of lines of inquiry," said DCI Nicky Arrowsmith. "We are still appealing for any witnesses or anyone who has information to come forward and speak to police."
Officers, some of them armed, were called to a property at 11.10pm on Thursday following reports of a shooting.
A spokesman for comedian Russell Kane, who owns the house and had rented it to Allen, said: "Russell's thoughts are with the victim and his family at this terrible time."
According to the Daily Mirror, Allen was initially attended to by a private security guard named Luke, who was patrolling nearby. The former Coldstream Guard said: "There was a lady in the doorway screaming that her partner had been shot. I found him half on the stairs, half on the floor.
"There was another lady and I helped her in giving first aid by applying pressure to the wounds. I told the partner, who was holding a baby, to take the children upstairs and stay on the phone to the emergency services."
Allen was convicted for his role in the 2006 Securitas raid in Tonbridge, Kent, during which a gang of men, including some dressed as police officers, stole £53m in cash from a depot.
The manager of the depot, Colin Dixon, and his family were kidnapped at gunpoint to force him to cooperate. The gang left behind £153m because they could not fit it into their getaway lorry.
Police later recovered £21m of the missing cash, but the remainder has never been found.
Allen, a cage fighter, fled to Morocco four days after the robbery with his share of the takings. He was subsequently extradited to the UK in January 2008 and sentenced to 18 years in prison, of which he served nine.
In August last year, the Crown Prosecution Service let Allen off repaying more than £1.23m, which was said to have been his proceeds from the robbery.