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What to do withchildren in Sri Lanka
Things To Do With Kids In Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka is a country worth spending your holidays with kids. It is a country with a lot of attractions for your kids. This article will let you know the things to do in Sri Lanka with your kids. By visiting these places make sure to take some pictures together with your kids. Your kids will like to see the turtle sanctuaries and have interaction in other tourist attractions in Sri Lanka. What you can do in Sri Lanka with your kids are below (Source: Sri Lanka evisa).
See elephants
Kids like to see animals, that is why some children's cartoons includes animal characters. Ten number of population of elephants on earth are in Sri Lanka. One place you can see these elephants is the Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage. This is a reproduction place for Asian elephants and these are wild elephants. Your kids might prefer these elephants feeding and bathing inside the river. Other areas where one can meet elephants is the Elephant Transit Camp. This Elephant Transit Camp is within the Uda Walawe National Park. There is a Elephant Trails here.
Tour the whales breach
Sri Lanka is the simply nation where visitors see the blue whales. These blue whales are accessible for tourists in the southern coast of the country. This region of Sri Lanka is close to the deep waters throughout the continental shelf which is the place where these mammals swim. To determine blue whales is rare as there is no much places to see them come near land. Visitors can watch these blue whales feeding which include calves in addition to their mothers. A lot of firms offer trips and illustration of such firms is the Jetwing. A ship trip service is available and this involves a specialist in ecotourism that will make sure that there's a substantial distance. The trips are long trips and are more desirable for youngsters who're older (More on: E-visa Sri Lanka).
Sri Lanka is a place where you can fish and increase your skills. You can find local fishermen there using stilt poles which you'll see over the southern coast and that is within some metres inside the water. There is a small bench attached to the poles for balancing the fishermen. This is the way to catch the small fish. Stilt fishing happens here specially within towns like Kaththaluwa Ahangama and Koggula is also towns for stilt fishing.
Tour the Kingdom of Kandy
Kandy is a cultural centre in Sri Lanka and it's also 115 km inside with a height of up to 500m. Jungles enters the hill town. It provides a lake. Here you will note relics of Buddhism like Sacred Tooth of Buddha in the palace. Solutions take place daily and this is when tourists see this sacred tooth. They've got an unusual festival called Esala Perahere and it occurs in August and in July. You'll find hotels like The Residency, Eco Lodge, Madulkeke Tea along with the Elephant Stables (More information on: e-visa-sri-lanka.info).
Visit the Lion's Rock
This rock is in the fortress of Sigiriya and it's also a mind-blowing site. This site is a World Heritage Site for UNESCO. It's in Kassapa so when you climb it, you view from up to 200 metres of height. You can find zigzag stairs and historical artifacts. You will note a small plate with a gateway that's like a lion where the place got its name. The hotels that are around here are Aliya Resort, Spa and Jetwing Uyana.
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The salted egg yolk craze has taken Klang Valley by storms - It all started from our neighbour across the causeway, spreading the fad and hype which was evident after the launch of the Molten Salted Egg Yolk croissant from Le Bread Days...to the Salted Egg Yolk burger at my BurgerLab, Salted Egg Yolk Waffle at GoGet Cafe, salted egg yolk pasta etc. etc.
It was clear that the salted egg yolk craze had not cooled off - Patrons were seen rushing in and out, carrying boxes of salted egg yolk goodies from Dotty's.
We were greeted with a wonderful feast of pastries as we set our foot into Dotty's. The place was packed to the brim, even though I thought we arrived relatively early (9.30am) on a Saturday morning!
Our order - The Salted Egg Yolk Cronut was not available yet as it was too early (take note that the first batch of cronuts is available at 12pm!). Even so, there were many other Salted Egg Yolk pastries for us to choose from - Salted Egg Yolk eclair, Salted Egg Yolk doughnut, Salted Egg Yolk roll etc. etc. etc.
Picking what to order was such an arduous task in Dotty's - we were simply too spoilt for choices!
The pastries were okay, nothing much to shout about. However, I thought the homemade kaya was truly a delight - one of the better ones I've tried out there so far.
Like a "Lau Sha Bao", but encrusted with a crusty, crispy and fragrant cruffin pastry crust. The salted egg yolk "sauce" had a thick and creamy consistency, bursting with a combination of sweet & savoury salted egg yolk flavours.
Being an "okay" fan of salted egg yolk, I thought that the cruffin was an enjoyable pastry to share, as it is a little too cloying for me to finish one on my own.
Tad pricey given its size on my opinion but nevertheless an enjoyable savoury quiche, packed with generous amount of root vegetables and decent amount of cheese.
If pastries are not your thing, Dotty's do serve hot meals as well. Prices are on the higher end (most pastries are priced above RM10).
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Challenger Ammunition uses the most modern ballistic laboratory equipment for testing shotgun shells. A universal receiver, combined with an ultra-sensitive "quartz pressure transducer" and sophisticated chronograph system is used to test pressures and velocities. All other parameters are consistently inspected to insure quality control.
No noticeable difference between these and the Aguila. At a couple bucks cheaper I am a happy man. Hope Ventura keeps them in stock.


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Israeli Warplanes Carry Out Airstrikes Over Syria's Damascus
Damages are seen inside a building in Damascus, Syria in this handout released by SANA on November 20, 2019. | Photo: Reuters
"At exactly 1:20 a.m. today, Israeli warplanes from the direction of the occupied Golan Heights and the Lebanese Marjayoun targeted the perimetre of the city of Damascus with a number of rockets," a Syrian military source was quoted as saying by the Syrian state news agency SANA. Marjayoun is a city in the south of Lebanon.
Israel said its aircraft struck dozens of Iranian and Syrian military targets in Syria on Wednesday in retaliation for rockets fired towards Israel a day earlier.
US Would Attack Even Its Friends To Keep Its Hegemony: Assad
Syrian state media reported two civilians were killed and several others injured in the attacks, but said Syria's air defenses destroyed most of the missiles fired by Israeli jets over the capital Damascus before they reached their targets.
The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said 11 people were killed, including seven who were not from Syria, citing their own sources.
Israel's military said its missile defense system shot down four rockets fired from Syria toward Israel on Tuesday.
"I have made clear that whoever hurts us, we will hurt him," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said early on Wednesday.
"This is what we did overnight vis-a-vis military targets of the Iranian Al Quds force and Syrian military targets in Syria after a barrage of rockets was launched at Israel," he said.
The elite Quds Force is the overseas arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guards (IRGC).
The Observatory said weapons and ammunition storage facilities belonging to the Al Quds force were destroyed in the attack.
On Twitter, Israeli military spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Avichay Adraee said warplanes attacked dozens of targets, including surface-to-air missiles, headquarters, weapons depots and military bases.
Israel says it has carried out hundreds of strikes in Syria against Iranian targets trying to establish a permanent military presence there and against advanced weapons shipments to Tehran-backed Lebanese militia Hezbollah.
"Yesterday's Iranian attack on Israeli territory by firing missiles ... is the best proof of Iran's real cause in Syria. The Iranian position poses a threat to Israel's security, stability in the region, and the Syrian regime," Adraee said.
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US Military Says 500 to 600 Troops to Remain in Syria
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The Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) is a project to digitize the original analog data tapes from the five Lunar Orbiter spacecraft that were sent to the Moon in 1966 and 1967; it is funded by NASA, SkyCorp, SpaceRef Interactive, and private individuals.

The first image to be successfully recovered by the project was released in November 2008. It was the first photograph of the Earth from the Moon, taken in August 1966. On February 20, 2014, the project announced it had completed the primary tape capture portion of the project. One medium resolution image, most of one high resolution image and parts of three others are missing, apparently due to lapses at the time they were being recorded. The rest of the Lunar Orbiter images have been successfully recovered and have been published in NASA's Planetary Data System.

Background
The images taken by the Lunar Orbiter spacecraft were primarily used to locate landing sites for the manned Apollo missions.  Once those missions were over, the data, on about 1,500 tapes, was largely forgotten since it had served its purpose. The original tapes were carefully archived for 20 years by the government in Maryland. When the tapes were released back to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, in 1986, the decision of whether to scrap the tapes became the responsibility of JPL archivist Nancy Evans. She decided that the tapes should be preserved. She recalled, "I could not morally get rid of this stuff".

Within a few years, Nancy Evans and a few colleagues were able to start a small project with funding from NASA. They managed to find four rare Ampex FR-900 tape drives — highly specialized drives that had only been used by government agencies such as the FAA, USAF, and NASA. (The FR-900's transport was adapted from the two-inch Quadruplex videotape format, only in the FR-900's case, the drive was designed to record a wideband analog signal of any type for instrumentation or other purposes, rather than specifically a video signal as in the two-inch Quad's case.) Over time, Evans' team also collected documentation and spare parts for the tape drives from various government surplus sources.

The project was successful at getting the raw analog data from the tapes, but in order to generate the images, they discovered that they needed the specialized demodulation hardware that had been used by the Lunar Orbiter program but no longer existed. The members of the team attempted to get funding from NASA and private sources to build the hardware, but they were unsuccessful. Eventually, both Nancy Evans and Mark Nelson went on to other projects while the tape drives sat in Evans's garage.

In 2004, Philip Horzempa was doing research on the Lunar Orbiter program at the NASA History Office in Washington, D.C. In its archives, he happened to come across a memo from 1996 containing a proposal by Mark Nelson to digitize the Lunar Orbiter images, as described above. After about a year of searching, Horzempa made contact with Mark Nelson. The two of them decided to find funding and to restart the Lunar Orbiter tape recovery effort. They made contact with Jen Heldmann of the NASA Ames Research Center.

In early 2007, Horzempa commented on the Lunar Orbiter tape recovery effort on a Web forum, NASASpaceflight.com. As a result, Dennis Wingo contacted Philip Horzempa through that forum. Horzempa put Wingo in contact with Nelson and Evans, and they invited Wingo to join the team. In addition to the tape drives mentioned above, Nelson had been able to obtain several tape heads. The tape drives were absolutely essential to any effort to read the original Lunar Orbiter data tapes.

Dennis Wingo is president of the aerospace engineering company SkyCorp and a long-time worker in space and computing technologies. He knew he could muster the technical skills to tackle the management of renovating the tape drives, he could find contacts at NASA, and most importantly, he knew that the Moon was becoming a hot property again. Wingo said, "I knew the value of the tape drives and the tapes". Another group thought the same, writing, "future missions to the Moon have re-energized the lunar community and renewed interest in the Lunar Orbiter data".

A newer spacecraft, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), entered orbit around the Moon on June 23, 2009, and, after testing, it began its photographic mission that September. One of LRO's primary goals is to determine the risk to people working on the surface of the Moon. The LRO can create images of the surface that are comparable to the highest resolution images taken of the Moon from orbit during the Apollo era. The original Lunar Orbiter images were the highest resolution images ever taken of the Moon from orbit prior to the LRO's photography. Digitized Lunar Orbiter images would be invaluable to scientists studying changes in the Moon's surface.

Expertise and facilities

In February 2007, Wingo visited the four Ampex FR-900 tape drives for the first time in Evans's garage. Each drive was about  tall,  wide, as deep as a refrigerator, and weighed about . These were all coated with thick layers of dust and cobwebs. They were stored with a pallet of manuals and schematics for the tape drives, along with hard copies of data related to the lunar images. Meanwhile, the tapes were stored safely in a climate-controlled warehouse. There were about 1,500 tapes, all packed into boxes, stacked four deep on pallets, and shrink-wrapped.

Wingo and Keith Cowing, a former NASA employee and president of SpaceRef Interactive, respectively, now served as co-leaders of the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP). Both Cowing and Wingo provided the funds required to get the project started. They spent about a year looking for more funding, facilities, documentation, and expertise. Pete Worden, director of NASA's Ames Research Center, agreed to store the tape drives and tapes in unused warehouse space until funding and facilities could be found to begin the restoration project.

In April 2007, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory released the tapes to the custody of Ames Research Center. Evans also transferred the ownership of the FR-900 drives to Wingo and Cowing. Wingo and Cowing rented two transfer trucks, loaded up the tape drives and documentation into one truck, and loaded the pallets of analog data tapes into the other truck. Cowing and Wingo then drove the trucks up to Mountain View, California, from Burbank. The drives and tapes then sat in storage for about the next year as funding for the project was sought.

Since the team required a facility with proper heating and cooling, and a sink, available vacant buildings outside the gate of Ames Research Center were whittled down to two: a barber shop, and a McDonald's restaurant that had closed weeks before. The barber shop was relatively small, so working there would have required that the tapes be stored at a separate warehouse. On the other hand, the former McDonald's was much larger, had good lighting, adequate power, air conditioning, and parking. The building turned out to need some improvements in the electrical wiring. By July 2008, the team had moved into the former McDonald's (Building 596), now dubbed "McMoon's".

Wingo and Cowing quickly found more expertise in Ken Zin, a U.S. Army veteran who had long experience in working with analog tape machines, including the FR-900 series. By coincidence, Zin's brother worked at NASA Ames Research Center and it is via this coincidence that Wingo and Cowing initially got in touch with Zin. With the assistance of Ken Davidian at NASA Headquarters, funding was found in 2008 for a pilot project to show that the drives could be repaired, and that images could be recovered from the original tapes. The first task was to methodically disassemble and clean the tape drives. Meanwhile, Zin began testing the systems of the tape drives and making lists of devices to replace and refurbish. Parts for the drives were bought on eBay, online electronic parts stores, and other places.

Management and recruiting allies
Wingo and Cowing plunged into the management of the project: ordering parts, managing funds, searching surplus yards for equipment, researching refurbishing companies, and recruiting allies to the project. He began sending out an email newsletter, one that was later converted to a blog, MoonViews.com, and posting photos to the project's Facebook page. Student interns from the nearby San Jose State University were recruited, and the team requested help from retired employees of Ampex and from blog writers with audiences that might be able to help. Every day there seemed to be a new visitor to McMoon's, such as Dr. Lisa Gaddis from the USGS project to digitize the Lunar Orbiter films, and Charlie Byrne, who wrote the memo recommending that the Lunar Orbiter data be stored on magnetic tape. The project was reported in the Los Angeles Times, Computerworld, National Geographic, the Associated Press, American Libraries, the local news, and numerous blogs.

Included in every news story was the message that the images are a vital piece of history, but more than this, that they contain scientific data of a time, place, and quality that has not been repeated. These are images that can assist in the current research about the Moon and the climate of the Earth. There may even be other lost data from the same era recorded using the same tape drives that could benefit from the efforts of the LOIRP team.

Media and metadata

Shortly after moving into McMoon's, a group of students from the NASA Astrobiology Academy was recruited to remove all the tapes from the boxes, and put the tapes in order. Each tape takes about an hour to run on the tape drive, and holds one high-resolution image and one medium-resolution image. When archived in the early 1970s, each reel of tape was labeled, wrapped in a clear plastic bag, and enclosed in a mu-metal tin, and sealed with yellow plastic tape. Additional labels have been placed on the outside of the tape container. Each tape is labeled with a code that usually consists of two letters and two numbers, for example: MT_19, WT_45, and GT_46.  One of the Astrobiology Academy students realized that the first letter indicated which ground station recorded the data on the tape in that container: "M" indicates that the tape was recorded in Madrid, Spain; "W" indicates that the tape was recorded in Woomera, Australia; and "G" indicates that the tape was recorded in Goldstone, California. This guess was confirmed when the team listened to the audio track at the beginning of a few of the tapes, wherein the operator of the ground station recites information about the tape and the recording. On tapes marked with an "M", the operator has a distinctly Spanish accent. On tapes marked with a "W", the operator has a distinctly Australian accent. On tapes marked with a "G" the operator speaks with an American accent.  Sometimes audio track captures an operator at one tracking station talking to an operator at another tracking station.  Each tape's opening audio includes the date that the tape was recorded in both local and Universal Time.

There are many other confusing problems with the tapes. Each tape is supposed to hold a complete pair of images, but some contain just a few minutes of audio signal, and some contain the same tiny portion of an image, over and over. In the early stages of the project, the team wanted to rescue images that have the most value and impact, but they found that it was very time intensive to find images in this disordered array of tapes.

Hardware and funding

In a completed and working magnetic tape drive system, the tape-drive heads apply a very specific magnetic field to the tape; the tape then induces a change in electric current, which is captured. The data from the Lunar Orbiter tapes is then run through a demodulator, and through an analog-to-digital converter so that it can be fed into a computer for digital processing. Each image is divided up into strips on the tape, so the computer is used to bring the strips together to create a whole image. Before even beginning the project, the team evaluated the risks and determined that there were two: one was that the tapes had deteriorated to the point where they could not be read; the second was that the tape drives would not be able to read the tapes. The milestones of the project were developed to test these risks as soon as possible with the least amount of money spent.

Once the project started in earnest in July 2008, results came quickly. In only a couple of weeks, the first tape drive had been powered up, although it was clear that many parts still needed to be replaced. Another week of cleaning and testing revealed that among the four drives and batches of spare parts there were enough good power supplies to run one of the tape drives, and there was at least one working head for the drive. The head is the mechanism that touches the tape and reads and writes data, so it is absolutely critical; in the case of the Ampex FR-900 tape drives, the heads were not manufactured after 1974, cannot be replaced, and can only be refurbished at great expense by a single small company.

After another month of repairing and replacing parts, testing and tuning mechanisms, the project got the first solid result that the tapes were good. Each tape starts with a short standard-format audio clip of the operator, and the tape drives were able to read the audio signal. (Hear a sample of the audio.) This does not use the video heads that are needed to read the Lunar Orbiter data off the tape, but this demonstrated that the tapes had not deteriorated and that many of the sub-systems of the tape drive were in good working order.

The documentation for the tape drives was substantially incomplete, which kept the team from understanding the right way to repair, maintain, and use the tape drives. The search for documentation has been extensive and usually disappointing, as it often turns out that retired or elderly engineers have just recently cleaned out their garages. Posting to a blog, Dennis Wingo said, "I cannot tell you how many times we have heard similar stories of recently tossed manuals over the last six months". At just the right moment the team heard from a friend of a friend that a mother lode of maintenance documentation stored on aperture cards (microfilm embedded in computer punch cards) had been saved by the retired head of Ampex field engineering. This documentation would make it possible for the team to understand the correct procedures for repairing the tape drives and aligning the mechanics.

At this point in the restoration, the demodulation of the tapes had become the biggest issue. The team was not sure if the demodulation board that came with the system was the correct one, if they needed a different one, or if they needed this one and another one. At the same time, they discovered a tape, which, from the audio clip at the start, sounded as if it contained a demodulated recording of one of the images. This was a lucky break, as it meant that a demodulator would not be needed to generate images from this tape. If the team could rescue this image, the project would prove "that the drive can be refurbished to the point of reliably playing a tape back". Work continued, and the team coined the term "technoarchaeology" to describe the process of researching which tape contained what image.

Posts to the blog continued, but with little substance until suddenly NASA announced a press conference.  On November 13, 2008 NASA held a press conference and announced that they were releasing the first image that had been restored: a striking image, taken on August 23, 1966, of the Earth as viewed, for the very first time, from the Moon. This was a major milestone that showed that the tapes and the tape drives were both good. Preliminary analysis showed that the image had "four times the dynamic range of the ...  film image and up to twice the ultimate resolution". The NASA Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (ESMD) had sponsored the team so far with a small grant of $100,000. With these results, more funds were released—another $150,000 to complete a major restoration of the drives and to create the demodulation hardware needed for the other tapes. Gregory Schmidt, deputy director of the NASA Lunar Science Institute at Ames said, "Now that we've demonstrated the capability to retrieve images, our goal is to complete the tape drives' restoration and move toward retrieving all of the images on the remaining tapes".

Within a month, the next round of funding came through and restoration began in earnest. The heads, capstan and rotor motors were being restored by two different companies. New documentation about the demodulation was discovered, and the team began building a board by hand. Custom belts were being manufactured to replace the old ones. Software was being written to process the digital images. The biggest expense was the heads, which cost around $8,000 each to be refurbished.

On March 21, 2009, the team announced that they had rescued an un-demodulated image from one of the tapes, using the newly perfected demodulation system. The image, of the crater Copernicus, is from the Lunar Orbiter 2 spacecraft taken on November 24, 1966. NASA Scientist Martin Swetnick was quoted in a Time magazine article from 1966, calling this image "one of the great pictures of the century".

By April, the team had digitized 30 images. A couple of months later an article in Computerworld revealed that the project had a new grant of $600,000, and had hopes to completely digitize all the images by February 2010. Most of the new funding came from NASA, but about 10% came from other donors. This new funding allowed the team to restore a second tape drive to full operation by November 2009, which made the process of restoring the images that much faster.

The Ampex FR-900 heads were refurbished by Videomagnetics of Colorado Springs, Colorado, the only company in the world that still refurbished Ampex and RCA Quadruplex video heads.

Future preservation
By April 2017, all images had been delivered to the NASA Planetary Data System (PDS), a digital repository for NASA mission and ground support data. Peer review of the LOIRP PDS submission began in May 2017. The LOIRP Online Data Volumes were published for public access by NASA at the PDS Cartography and Imaging Sciences Node on January 31, 2018.

See also
 Apollo 11 missing tapes
 International Cometary Explorer, a spacecraft in solar orbit recontacted in 2014 by many of the members of Lunar Orbiter tape recovery effort

References

Further reading
Publications

News

External links

McMoon's at Ames Research Center:

Lunar Orbiter program
Digital preservation
Film preservation
Historic preservation organizations in the United States

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GLASSBORO, N.J. – The Ursinus field hockey team defeated Rowan in last year's season opener but couldn't quite get the same result to start the 2018 season as the Bears fell 3-1.
Highlighting for Ursinus was freshman Jamie Mayer, who scored in her collegiate debut just a few minutes after Rowan's first tally. Mayer took advantage of a loose ball in front of the cage to knot the score 1-1 about midway through the first half.
Rowan (1-0) kept the Bears on their feet as they applied pressure into Ursinus' defensive zone for a majority of the game. The Profs were led by Rachel Galante, who scored twice and added an assist on the third goal. Rowan's leading returning scorer netted the first goal of the game off an intercepted pass about 14 minutes in. She then dribbled up the field before finding the upper left side of the net.
With a few minutes remaining in the first 35 minutes, Galante gave the Profs a 2-1 lead into the break. Galante drilled a laser off a penalty corner from the top of the circle into the net. Krystyna Hovell assisted the goal on the corner for the Profs.
Rowan increased its lead to 3-1 in the second half after a pass from Galante to Bridget Guinan, who put home a goal from inside the circle to round out the scoring.
Several Ursinus shots were scoring chances but the Bears couldn't get any more by Rowan goalie Morgan Novak. Senior Mikayla Jordan deflected a ball just over the cage in the first half.
Jordan and sophomore Devon Carroll took a team-high three shots for the Bears, and Carroll put two on goal.
Novak made five saves in victory and Ursinus senior goalie Jules Singer had four.
Rowan took 13 shots with seven on goal, compared to Ursinus' 10 shots with six on goal. Both teams attempted 11 corners.
Ursinus travels to No. 2 Messiah for a 7 p.m. game Wednesday.


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Filemon Vela & Adam Kinzinger
Compare the voting records of Filemon Vela and Adam Kinzinger in 2017-18.
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Represented Texas's 34th Congressional District. This is his 3rd term in the House.
Represented Illinois's 16th Congressional District. This is his 4th term in the House.
Filemon Vela and Adam Kinzinger are from different parties and disagreed on 64 percent of votes in the 115th Congress (2017-18).
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July 12, 2018 — Reclamation Title Transfer and Non-Federal Infrastructure Incentivization Act
May 16, 2018 — Veterans Cemetery Benefit Correction Act
May 8, 2018 — Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection relating to "Indirect Auto Lending and Compliance with the Equal Credit Opportunity Act"
Nov. 8, 2017 — Hydropower Policy Modernization Act of 2017
July 20, 2017 — King Cove Road Land Exchange Act
July 19, 2017 — Promoting Cross-Border Energy Infrastructure Act
March 16, 2017 — Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act
March 1, 2017 — Disapproving the rule submitted by the Department of Labor relating to "Clarification of Employer's Continuing Obligation to Make and Maintain an Accurate Record of Each Recordable Injury and Illness"
Feb. 14, 2017 — Red River Gradient Boundary Survey Act
Feb. 1, 2017 — Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of a rule submitted by the Securities and Exchange Commission relating to "Disclosure of Payments by Resource Extraction Issuers"
Nov. 16, 2018 — Strengthening Coastal Communities Act
Nov. 14, 2018 — Providing for consideration of H.R. 6784, the Manage our Wolves Act; and providing for proceedings during the period from November 19, 2018, through November 26, 2018
Sept. 25, 2018 — Expanding Contracting Opportunities for Small Business Act of 2018
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July 25, 2018 — The American Legion 100th Anniversary Commemorative Coin Act
June 21, 2018 — Providing for consideration of H.R. 4760, the Securing America's Future Act of 2018
June 7, 2018 — Beyer of Virginia Part B Amendment No. 18
May 23, 2018 — Engel of New York Amendment No. 43
May 23, 2018 — Tenney of New York Amendment No. 19
May 23, 2018 — McKinley of West Virginia Amendment No. 13
May 17, 2018 — Westerman of Arkansas Part C Amendment No. 13
May 10, 2018 — Titus of Nevada Amendment No. 3
Sept. 8, 2017 — Carbajal of California Amendment No. 57
Sept. 7, 2017 — Correa of California Part B Amendment No. 76
July 26, 2017 — Griffith of Virginia Amendment No. 5
July 19, 2017 — Tsongas of Massachusetts Part A Amendment No. 1
July 19, 2017 — Tsongas of Massachusetts Part B Amendment No. 2
July 19, 2017 — Engel of New York Part B Amendment No. 1
July 14, 2017 — Byrne of Alabama Amendment No. 17
July 13, 2017 — Garamendi of California Amendment No. 1
June 6, 2017 — Condemning in the strongest terms the terrorist attacks in Manchester, United Kingdom, on May 22, 2017, expressing heartfelt condolences, and reaffirming unwavering support for the special relationship between our peoples and nations in the wake of these attacks
June 6, 2017 — Condemning the violence against peaceful protesters outside the Turkish Ambassador's residence on May 16, 2017, and calling for the perpetrators to be brought to justice and measures to be taken to prevent similar incidents in the future
May 19, 2017 — Jackson Lee of Texas Amendment
Feb. 27, 2017 — To facilitate the addition of park administration at the Coltsville National Historical Park, and for other purposes
Feb. 13, 2017 — BRAVE Act


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A Word on Admissions Agents
Admissions agents are quite common in China. At lower-tiered American universities, they help these schools land international students.
We've written in the past about admissions agents, people — often in countries such as China — who receive commissions from universities after the international students they recruit end up enrolling. America's most highly selective colleges, of course, don't offer commissions to such admissions agents. And why? Because they don't need to incentivize people to encourage students to matriculate when international applicants apply in droves to America's elite universities. It's some of the less selective schools, schools that struggle with international enrollment, that offer such kickbacks to admissions agents.
In any case, in an editorial for Inside Higher Ed, Brian Whalen, the executive director of the American International Recruitment Council, defended admissions agents, writing in a piece entitled "Agents Aren't the Problem," "At a time when the United States seeks to rebuild international student enrollment and reassert its position as the leading destination for a high-quality education, we should not shrink from the responsibility of doing all that we can to ensure that students are provided with high-quality experiences throughout the educational life cycle, including during recruitment and enrollment. Rather than limit the tools that institutions have available to them to attract international students who are excellent matches for them, we need instead to bolster their efforts by setting and enforcing standards, providing training and education, and holding the field accountable."
Oh but we beg to differ. The authors of Freakonomics, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, taught the world how we shouldn't really fully trust real estate agents. And why? Because of reverse incentives. The more one spends on a house, the more that buyer's agent makes in commission. The faster one sells a house, the quicker the seller's agent gets their check. Similarly, as long as these admissions agents get kickbacks from colleges, they will always push students to attend these institutions even if these aren't the right institutions for these students — even if, maybe, these students could do better. Counter to the argument of Mr. Whalen, no college should have all these recruitment tools at their disposal — namely, the ability to offer commissions to admissions agents luring international applicants to matriculate.
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Categories: College Admissions
Tags: A Word on Admissions Agents, Admission Agents, Admissions Agents, International Applicants, International Students
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