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'Cheering-up' Reflections on Rio+20
Rio 92 was first and foremost a classical deal between the South committing to some concrete sustainable development actions and the North committing to provide financial and technological support for those actions. Due to the environmental crisis the main agenda of the donor countries for Rio+20 was "how can we escape our financial obligations". The green economy agenda was the perfect vehicle for that, as it pretended to give business and industry a lead role in generating the investments for sustainable development (even though they are in crisis as well so have little to contribute in practice). The South retaliated by being difficult about anything that was concrete in terms of commitments. That is a classical pattern we have seen for the past 20 years.
What marked the Summit was that the G77, perhaps as a result of the hard lesson learned at the climate talks, decided to close ranks and negotiate as a group. This was quite remarkable, significant attempts were made by amongst others the EU to break the ranks on the UN Environment Organization proposal. But even though they succeeded briefly, the G77 decided to close ranks again later on and sort of blindly accepted the leadership of Brazil as host country in the final hours. From a perspective of those who criticized the green economy this joint stance was a major advantage, as there were many G77 countries who would have embraced this agenda individually (to please their own industry, often). While New York based bureaucrats had accepted the Green economy agenda three years ago, the G77 clearly woke up in the course of 2011 and 2012 (also because of the criticism of the larger social movements) and succeeded to downplay the agenda into an optional one. This should be seen as a major success for women and other groups that would be impacted by this corporate-driven agenda. The remarkably strong declaration of the Peoples' Summit, and for example the strong declarations of the Karioca 2 Indigenous summit and the Terra Viva Indigenous conference at the Peoples' Summit also demonstrate the strong consensus amongst very large and often very grassroots social movements that only a fundamental change in the system itself will bring real sustainability and harmony with our planet, and not a greenwash of current capitalist policies.
Another significant success women should celebrate is the recognition that gender and women's rights are an integral component of many different aspects of sustainable development. There might have been one painful debate about this, but in the end the official outcome of the conference includes numerous references to the role, rights and needs of women in sustainable development. The active and effective advocacy campaign of the women's caucus and other women's groups has definitely had its impact here, and I think we should recognize this success as something we should build on for the future. Being a bit of an outsider in terms of being involved in many other processes as well, I think the women definitely made a lot of NOISE in Rio!
The main defeat women suffered was the text on reproductive rights, and on a personal level I agree this is a scandal. However, I think we should realize that this defeat was mainly due to the G77 operating as a block. Many compromises had to be closed within the group to ensure they stayed together, and on a number of points this meant more progressive G77 countries decided to give in and agree with the deletion of strong texts that were opposed by a handful of conservative members. We can be rightfully angry at those few conservative countries, especially because the national situation on reproductive rights these countries is dreadful and many women suffer as a consequence. But we all know a strong statement in the Rio outcome pro reproductive rights would have helped only a little if anything in those countries. We simply need to continue the struggle, especially on the ground in countries themselves.
But similar to other issues, it also is not tactful to highlight too much that Rio did not agree on strong text here – it gives the impression the majority of countries would oppose reproductive rights, which certainly was not the case. There is no text in the document that opposes reproductive rights, we just know we lost text that would have supported them. But we won't help women in countries where their rights are not respected by highlighting this, rather, we could focus on the reference to the Beijing document and the many other positive gains and use them to further strengthen our campaigns in the future.
So let us please celebrate our successes and use them as lessons for the future!
Once again, thanks to all the women who worked so hard to achieve all of this.
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NPR's Evolving Story about Professor Gorsuch
Judge Gorsuch's confirmation hearing was scheduled to begin on Monday, March 20, at 11:00 a.m. On Friday, March 17, one of Gorsuch's former students at the University of Colorado, Jennifer R. Sisk, sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee. I do not recall seeing anything about the letter during the weekend. On Sunday evening–the eve of the hearing–the National Employment Lawyers Association posted a copy of the letter online. The organization also posted an email exchange between Sisk and the administration, anonymous affidavit from a student who made similar accusations.
A few hours later, at 12:15 AM, hours before Judge Gorsuch's confirmation hearing began, Arnie Seipel and Nina Totenberg published a bombshell headline on NPR.com.
The story reported:
"A former law student of Judge Neil Gorsuch, President Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court, alleges that in a course she took from Gorsuch at the University of Colorado Law School last year, the judge told his class that employers, specifically law firms, should ask women seeking jobs about their plans for having children and implied that women manipulate companies starting in the interview stage to extract maternity benefits."
In an interview with NPR, Sisk says she wrote the letter "so that the proper questions could be asked during his confirmation hearings," which begin Monday before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Other students in the class have not come forward publicly.
There is no indication in the story that the authors attempted to corroborate Sisk's statement with any other students in Professor Gorsuch's class. NPR (for fairly obvious reasons) did not reference the anonymous affidavit. There is only one reference to a statement from the Trump Administration:
Ron Bonjean, a spokesman for the Trump administration working on the Gorsuch nomination, noted that the judge had consistently gotten among the highest student ratings at the law school.
Granted, reaching out to students hours before the confirmation hearing would have been difficult. But this was not a new story. The author acknowledges that the allegations have been floating around since January.
Sisk raised these concerns publicly in a posting on Facebook in late January, shortly after Gorsuch was nominated by Trump to the high court.
Yet, there was another student who had already come forward. In a letter dated March 19, 2017 (I don't know what time it was submitted), Will Hauptman, another student in the same class, wrote to "refute [Sisk's] letter's veracity." It is unclear if Seipel and Totenberg were aware of Hauptman's letter when their story went to press, but by 9:15, the NPR story was updated with five additional paragraphs, buried towards the bottom.
Another student who took the class is disputing this characterization. Will Hauptman, a current law student at the University of Colorado, wrote a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee with his account on Sunday.
"Although Judge Gorsuch did discuss some of the topics mentioned in the letter, he did not do so in the manner described," Hauptman writes.
He continued, "The judge was very matter-of-fact in that we would face difficult decisions; he himself recalled working late nights when he had a young child with whom he wished to share more time. The seriousness with which the judge asked us to consider these realities reflected his desire to make us aware of them, not any animus against a career or group."
In refuting this account, Hauptman writes to the committee that if Gorsuch had made such comments, "I would remember—the statements would have greatly upset me."
At 10:10, another update was made. The fourth paragraph now asserts up front that there is a contrary opinion:
Other students in the class have not come forward publicly.
Another student in the class has disputed the account in another letter to the committee.
These two sentences, back-to-back, are jarring.
The update also includes a reference to another letter from 11 former female clerks of Judge Gorsuch.
A group of 11 female former law clerks for Gorsuch have also submitted a letter to the committee in support of the nominee.
"We each have lived long enough and worked long enough to know gender discrimination when we see it. Some of us have experienced it professionally on occasion," they write. "When we collectively say that Judge Gorsuch treats and values women fairly and without preference or prejudice based on their gender, we do not say that in a vacuum. We say it with the perspective of those who know that unfortunately, even in 2017, female lawyers are not always treated as equals."
The letter goes on to detail how the former clerks say Gorsuch mentored them in their careers. "The judge has spoken of the struggles of working attorneys to juggle family with work obligations; not once have we heard him intimate that those struggles are, or should be, shouldered by one gender alone," they write.
At 11:25, the article was updated again, and the third and fourth paragraphs were modified:
Another student in the class has disputed the account in another letter to the committee, and several women who worked for Gorsuch as law clerks have stepped forward in his defense.
There is also a quote from Judge Gorusch's former clerk, Jane Nitze, who went on to clerk for Justice Sotomayor, and work in the Obama administration.
When she heard these allegations, former Gorsuch law clerk Jamie [sic] Nitze told NPR, "I didn't know whether to laugh or cry." Nitze clerked for Gorsuch in 2008-2009, and was one of the 11 former female clerks to sign on to the letter sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday.
In a statement, Nitze says, in part, "the Judge is usually the first person I go to for career advice. And the first words he has for me when I do are: 'What can I do to help you?' The suggestion that he 'discounts the worth of working females' is patently absurd."
At 12:55 p.m., the story was updated again, with a new, far more accurate, headline.
Still, this headline does not acknowledge the contrary statements by Hauptman, who was also in the class.
The revised article also includes an editor's note (presumably not from Seipel and Totenberg).
Editors' note 12:55 p.m. ET: Since this story was first published, we have added material from another former student and former law clerks of Gorsuch, as well as more information about Jennifer Sisk's political affiliations.
Now, the third paragraph highlights Sisks's Democratic bona fides:
Sisk, once a staffer for former Democratic Sen. Mark Udall of Colorado and the Interior Department during the Obama administration, told NPR that she wrote the letter "so that the proper questions could be asked during his confirmation hearings," which begin Monday before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Another student in the class has disputed the account in a letter to the committee, and several women who worked for Gorsuch as law clerks have stepped forward in his defense.
NPR could have located all of this new information before running their bombshell story ten hours before the confirmation hearing would begin. Yet, the article had an impact. During his opening statement on the first day of the hearing, Senator Dick Durbin flagged the letter to Gorsuch, and said "Tomorrow we'll get to the bottom of it, I hope."
Over the next 24 hours, a number of Gorsuch's former students disputed Sisk's recollection.
CNN later reported that the University of Colorado never notified Judge Gorusch about Sisks's complaint.
The University of Colorado Law School did not inform Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch of a complaint filed against him last year for his conduct in a class he teaches, the law school dean said Monday. . . .
"In late April and May 2016, law school administrators met with the student to address her concerns and told her the matter would be raised with Judge Gorsuch after grades were submitted for the spring semester," Dean S. James Anaya said in a statement. "At the end of June, the law school had a transition of deans and, regrettably, preceding that change, no member of the law school administration spoke to Judge Gorsuch about the student's concern. We apologize to the student who expressed the concern and to Judge Gorsuch for not bringing this matter to his attention last summer."
This is another statement NPR should have obtained from the Univeristy before running the story. It's no wonder Judge Gorsuch's vetting team wasn't prepared–they were not made aware of it till the eve of the hearing.
During the second day of the hearing, Senator Dick Durbin asked Gorsuch to address Sisk's letter. He responded, in part:
"The problem is this: Suppose an older partner, woman at the firm that you're interviewing at, asks you if you intend to become pregnant soon. Your choice as a young person [is] you can say yes, tell the truth…. And not get the job and not be able to pay your debts. You can lie, maybe get the job…That's a choice, too, that's a hard choice. You can push back in some way, shape or form. And we talk about the pros and the cons in a Socratic dialogue so they can think through for themselves how they might answer that very difficult question. And senator, I do ask for a show of hands, not about the question you asked, but about the following question and I ask it of everybody: 'How many of you have had questions like this asked of you in the employment environment, an inappropriate question about your family planning.' And I am shocked every year, senator, how many young women raise their hand. It's disturbing to me. I knew this stuff happened when my mom was a young practicing lawyer, graduating law school in the 1960s. At age 20 she had to wait for a year to take the bar. I knew it happened with Justice [Sandra Day] O'Connor, couldn't get a job as a lawyer when she graduated Stanford Law School and had to work as a secretary. I am shocked it still happens every year that I get women, not men, raising their hand to that question. Thank you for the opportunity to clarify that.
After that refutation, the story seemed to vanish.
On a personal note, this episode illustrates one of the reasons why I record all of my lectures. For sure, it is a public service for my students, and other students who watch my videos. There is a selfish motive, however. If ever a student accuses me of saying something improper, my first response is "Show me the tape." As this episode illustrates, students can hear the same lecture, and take home very different messages. This is true for all lectures, but especially for those discussions that touch on sensitive topics. YouTube allows all lectures to be replayed, in context.
Update: Judge Gorsuch's class discussion was premised on Problem 15-1 of "Ethical Problems in the Practice of Law" (3rd Edition) by Lisa G. Lerman and Phil G. Schrag (I used an earlier version of this text when I took legal ethics).
What will you say?

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From Christian martyrs to Chaucer to Shakespeare, Valentine's Day can be traced back to Ancient Rome, but it is the Victorians who made it into the holiday we know today.
Victorian Valentine cards were flat paper sheets, often printed with colored illustrations and embossed borders. The sheets, when folded and sealed with wax, could be mailed.
'Sir Rowland Hill' – oil painting by Mary M Pearson, 1836.
First world postal stamp ever issued: the Penny Black, Great Britain, 1840.
In 1837, Rowland Hill published a seminal pamphlet: Post Office Reform; Its Importance and Practicability.
Hill observed that postal charges were by distance and by the number of pages, rather than by weight. To send one sheet from London to Edinburgh cost 1s 1½d, which was more than a days wage for the working class, and almost 14 times the actual cost to the Post Office.
On 10 January 1840, Great Britain introduced the Uniform Penny Post, meaning that Valentine cards could be mailed for just one penny. The mass produced Valentine card was born. Valentines were sent in such great numbers that postmen were given a special allowance for refreshments to help them through the extraordinary exertions of the two or three days leading up to February 14th.
Just one year after the Uniform Penny Postage, 400,000 valentines were posted throughout England. By 1871, 1.2 million cards were processed by the General Post Office in London.
A popular poem of the time, by James Beaton, alludes to the mass popularity of Valentine Cards.
Deliver them by bushels, the same as they do coals.
Rather than purchase a ready-made valentine, some Victorians assembled original valentines from materials purchased at a stationer's shop: lace, bits of mirror, bows and ribbons, seashells and seeds, gold and silver foil appliqués, silk flowers, and clichéd printed mottoes like "Be Mine" and "Constant and True." Victorian valentines commonly feature churches or church spires, signifying honorable intentions and fidelity.
A Victorian Valentine, c. 1860-80.
A selection of Victorian Valentine's Day cards went on show last year at Manchester Metropolitan University.
The cards, often handmade, featured lace, pressed grass and Valentine's jokes. One card, titled "The Bark of Love", featured a fairy in a gilded carriage drawn by two swans. Another, rather saucy card, featured what is possibly a pair of Victorian undergarments, with the message, "I think of you with inexpressible delight".
The cards were drawn from the Laura Seddon Collection at the university. The collection includes more than 50,000 cards, of which just over 1,000 are Valentine's. It was amassed over 25 years, and was donated to the university in 1991.
c. 1860 Vintage Valentine Card from the Beamish Museum, England.
Esther Rowland (1828–1904), known as the "Mother of the American Valentine", was an artist and businesswoman who is responsible for popularizing Valentine's Day greeting cards in America.
During her college years, students often secretly exchanged poems elaborately scrawled on sheets of paper. After she graduated, Howland received an ornate English Valentine from a business associate of her father when she was 19 years old. Elaborate Valentine greeting cards were imported from Europe and not affordable to many Americans. She wanted to change that and started importing paper lace and floral decorations from England to make her own cards.
Weddings now are all the go, Will you marry me or no?
Our beaux and belles are satisfied with a few miserable lines, neatly written upon fine paper, or else they purchase a printed Valentine with verses ready made, some of which are costly, and many of which are cheap and indecent.In any case, whether decent or indecent, they only please the silly and give the vicious an opportunity to develop their propensities, and place them, anonymously, before the comparatively virtuous. The custom with us has no useful feature, and the sooner it is abolished the better.
The sending of Valentine Cards in the US didn't pick up pace until after the Civil War.
On February 4, 1867, the New York Times wrote that in 1862 post offices in New York City had accepted 21,260 Valentines for delivery. 1863 showed a slight increase, but the number fell to 15,924 the year after.
However, in 1865, perhaps with bitter memories of the war starting to fade, New Yorkers mailed more than 66,000 Valentines, and more than 86,000 the following year.
19th-century Valentine fan with words "My Heart's Gift with loving Wishes and Kindest Regards to my Sweet-heart.
It puzzles many to understand how one of these trifles can be gotten up in such shape as to make it sell for $100; but the fact is that even this figure is not by any means the limit of their price. There is a tradition that one of the Broadway dealers not many years ago disposed of no less than seven Valentines which cost $500 each, and it may be safely asserted that if any individual was so simple as to wish to expend ten times that sum upon one of these missives, some enterprising manufacturer would find a way to accommodate him."
The question of whether Queen Victoria had a romantic attachment to her man servant John Brown - or even married him in secret - is often hotly debated in the British press today.
In her letters and journal, Queen Victoria called John Brown "darling one" and wrote, " ... so often I told him no one loved him more than I did or had a better friend than me: and he answered 'Nor you -- than me ... No one loves you more'"
Queen Victoria sent Valentines Day cards to John Brown, which were said to be of such "cloying winsomeness" and "artlessness" that some believe they stand as evidence of how innocent their relationship was.
Victorian Valentines: 1840 - 1900.
A Gallery of Greetings: A Guide to the Seddon Collection of Greetings Cards in Manchester Polytechnic Library . (Disclosure) The collection consists of a section of 32,000 Victorian and Edwardian greeting cards by major publishers of the day. It includes cards printed by hand like those produced by Sockl and Nathan and also mass-produced cards (a subsequent production method) like those produced by Marcus Ward & Co andRaphael Tuck & Sons. Some of the cards hold special significance, like Britain's first commercially produced Christmas card dating from 1843 and includes 450 Valentine's Day cards dating from the early nineteenth century. The cards vary from loving to crude and show a different side to the Victorian values that might be expected. The cards include fake wedding certificates, cards that make references to haliotis and others that suggest that the recipient may face being "left on the shelf".
Victorian Valentines: Valentine's Day Coloring Pages for Kids and Kids at Heart . Take a trip back in time with 30 coloring pages based on actual Valentines made during the Victorian era.
Photographic Print of Victorian Valentine Card This 30"x20" (76x51cm) print features an image of Victorian Valentine Card chosen by Mary Evans.
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist-the Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England . A delightful guide to the rules and customs that governed life in Victorian England through the eyes of 19th-century literary giants.
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The current memo is aimed at evaluating the position of the Culinary Trainee at Wynn Las Vegas Inc. Job description The vacancy, found at Wynn Las Vegas, Inc. website (Wynn Las Vegas Inc. , 2007), describes the primary obligations of the future trainee. The future trainee is thus expected to be responsible for the preparation of all meat products, as well as seafood, sausage, and poultry. Trainee's obligations will also include taking care for the cleanliness of the working area, which means that I will have to control sanitation of the premises in which I will work, especially the restricted area, where I will perform my daily tasks.
Company description The company is called 'Wynn Resorts, Limited', and it is currently well-known for being among the leaders of the hotel industry in the world. The company is aimed at providing luxurious clients with the hotel and entertainment services of the highest quality. Wynn Las Vegas, Inc. is operated by Wynn Resorts and includes a luxury hotel and a destination casino. (Wynn Las Vegas, 2007) It is currently managed by Mr. Stephen A. Wynn, the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer.
Being primarily targeted at luxurious services provision, the company executes well-designed code of business ethics; it is committed to following the rules and regulations of business conduct together with the principles of financial disclosure. Wynn Las Vegas, Inc. exercises the philosophy of treating its employees as guests, which means that openness, fairness and equality are the principles of relations between the employer and the employees. It is the basis of positive employer-employee relations and providing the highest level of hospitality to Wynn Las Vegas, Inc. guests.
(Wynn Las Vegas, 2007) Important qualifications Among the basic qualifications, required from the future trainee, the following should be listed: strong knowledge of the English language, ability to read and follow the menus and recipes, and basic mathematical skills. The trainee should be able to work in the team environment. Taking into account the company's commitment, the company looks for a person, who will possess basic practical skills needed to be a trainee, but who should also be aimed at providing the company's customers (guests) with the services of the highest quality.
The company is looking for a striving person, capable of learning. Job analysis As the position of culinary trainee requires possessing basic culinary experience and practical skills, I correspond to these requirements. Moreover, bearing in mind the company's philosophy and commitment, I am prepared to providing the highest level of services to the company's customers (guests) by being committed to what I do and aimed at the positive results of my performance. Submission format Delivering application via email is a widely accepted means of applying for a job.
Despite the fact, that many websites offer filling application forms, they still require submitting a separate file, which contains resume, cover letter, etc. The vacancy found at Wynn Las Vegas, Inc. website does not require the exact form of delivering the cover letter, but it offers filling the application form provided. As a result, and supporting my greatest wish to obtain this position, I still prefer sending my cover letter and resume directly to the Executive Pastry Chef for detailed consideration. It will attract his attention, and I anticipate him contacting me for further interviewing.
Project assessment memo Overview The aim for writing this PAM is to thoroughly analyze my job application process. As I sincerely wish to obtain the position of the Culinary Trainee at Wynn Las Vegas, Inc. , I should address each issue within the process of applying for this job. This PAM will assist me in weighing and analyzing each word I deliver to my future employer. Context of project I have chosen the position of the Culinary Trainee at Wynn Las Vegas, Inc. I am very serious about my choice, and I have emphasized this seriousness in my cover letter and in the Job Analysis Memo.
I view this job as the way towards realizing my dreams; it is the pathway towards my professional development. Working at Wynn Las Vegas, Inc. means earning by doing what I like. I view this job as a promising start of my successful career. Documents The cover letter, in which I have addressed the Executive Pastry Chef, was written in a business-like restrained manner. However, I've been capable to emphasize not only my experience, my skills and abilities; I suppose that I have caught the Chef's attention by being brief and specific. I have made special emphasis on the importance of this job to me.
The GPA included into the cover letter is the persuasive means to show, that I am serious towards my studies, and I will be equally serious towards my job. I have created a strong basis for future communication, making the recipient of the information interested and supplying him with the necessary information to contact me. Production It took me a long period of time to write the application documents (the resume and the cover letter). The reason is that I could not allow myself losing this chance, thus I had to think of every word I was writing.
I think I have done a good job, and I may hope my application will be approved. I have spent much time, researching the information about the company, to understand what person they wanted to see at the position of the Culinary Trainee. This process was valuable for me to understand, whether I correspond to the company's requirements. Ultimately, I have concluded that I have all chances to win this position and to start my career at Wynn Las Vegas, Inc.


A windy Friday evening found myself and a dear friend sharing a couple of Belgian-inspired beverages together in the outdoor dining area of our favorite local haunt. Somehow, I don't know how, we ended up on the topic of discipleship. He and I have read several of the recent books on discipleship, and the discussion revolved around trying to figure out what it means and where our lives are falling short. Then, we hit on the idea of discipleship vs. evangelism (a hearty discussion if you attend an "attractional-style" church these days) and a thought came to mind.
People typically consider evangelism (from a word meaning "good news-ing") to be the process of a person hearing that Jesus died for their sins and that through grace they could live a new life and have the promise of heaven when they die. Something like this is what most people would call "good news." Salvation from sin. It's good not to go to hell. Etc.
But then I see the images of Jesus in the Gospels calling the original 12 disciples and I find something interesting. At no point does He preach the good news to them, at least not as I described it above.
Instead He says, "Follow me." The call is so compelling they drop everything uncritically and head off after Him.
I'm assuming they felt that the call to follow Jesus was "good news."
What I fear most is that even though there is more discussion today than ever about Christianity being about more than "heaven when you die" there is still a line in the sand that somehow excludes discipleship from the talking points of evangelism.
In other words, we're scared to lead with discipleship in talking about faith because the threat of hell is so much more compelling and in turn we turn the good news into simply avoiding bad news.
I don't have a ton of answers on this because, yes, the early disciples were evangelized with the call to follow Jesus (i.e. discipleship). The first 3000 converts of the church answered the call to "repent and be baptized" (Acts 2) which sounds more like the heaven when we die paradigm but then they lived out discipleship in early communities. Once again, the Biblical narrative is less interested in solid lines and more concerned with the tension of God's Spirit working in a world that has lost its hospitality towards Him. So where does discipleship fit in the "good news"?
Is discipleship not compelling enough - discipleship meaning to shape our thoughts, motivations, and actions until they routinely fall into line with Jesus - to present it as the best news anyone has ever heard?
Are we practicing "bait and switch" when we emotionally charge people toward a decision "for Jesus" (or is it "against hell"?) and then hand them the discipleship plan? "You feel good and forgiven, huh? Well, now just take up this cross and die." Is that view of discipleship even accurate anyway?
If discipleship isn't good news, then what is the good news anyway?
If evangelism is about spreading the "good news", then how do we do "discipleship evangelism" (stolen from Willard, by the way) in our neighborhoods and churches?
Are we afraid of discipleship being good news because it is a status of living that we are completely ignorant of?
The good news must be reunited, reshaped, and revealed through people who know both the promise of rescue and the power of transformation. Discipleship must return to being "good news."


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Q: Conditionally tick the checkbox in modal dialog in Angular I have a bootstrap modal dialog which contains some checkboxes. Each checkbox represents a category from the database and I need to tick the checkbox only if the user is interested on that category.
following is my html for the modal

                                    <input id={{category.id}} type="checkbox" class="category-checkbox" [checked]="isUserInterested(category)" (change)="onCategoryCheckBoxClick(category)">

{{category.name}}

                <button type="button" class="btn btn-default" data-dismiss="modal">Submit</button>

As you can see, in order to tick the checkbox, I call the function isUserInterested(category).
The problem I face is, when the page reloads only, the function I mentioned gets called. The modal above appears when I click a link on my html page; but the function does not get called in that case. By the time I click the above mentioned link, the component has all the data required for the function to execute.
isUserInterested(category: Category) {
   if (this._user.interestedCategories.indexOf(category) > -1) {
     // if the _user.interestedCategories list contaians the category, that category should be shown as marked
     console.log("Category "+category.id+" interested");
     return true;
   } else {
     return false;
   }
  }

Why I am not getting the expected behavior? How can I get this implemented in the way I expect?

A: You should be using ngModel to achieve this as below,
<input id={{category.id}} type="checkbox" class="category-checkbox"
    [ngModel]="isUserInterested(category)"
    (ngModelChange)="onCategoryCheckBoxClick(category)">

Update 1 : Inside Modal dialog
The child model should contain the users object as below,
 @Input() users?:any[];

Method will be as
isUserInterested(c){
      if(this.category.interestedCat.indexOf(c) > -1){
        console.log(c)
        return true;
      }
      else {

        return false
      }
    }

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Your family, even if it's a divorced family, is important to you. You want to be the bigger person and make sure your ex-spouse gets what they need moving forward. You want to guarantee that your child is cared for and feels loved. You're in a great emotional state and are ready to do what you have to in order to move on.
Unfortunately, your spouse doesn't feel the same way. While you've tried to negotiate and be fair, they've gone behind your back and spent all of the money in the shared bank account. They ran up your credit card before you could lock it. They even went as far as to make false allegations about domestic violence.
If your spouse is acting out in a way that is threatening to you or your child, it is important to mention this to your attorney as soon as possible. Even if it's not physical abuse, false allegations and other actions they're taking are harming your financial security and hurting your reputation.
Instead of fighting back and stooping to the same level as your estranged spouse, it's more important to keep your head held high and to take steps to collect evidence on your spouse's behavior. It's somewhat normal for a spouse to be angry, but trying to ruin your life is beyond what's acceptable.
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A science gateway developer needs to enable a gateway to obtain detailed configuration or status information about a community resource so the gateway can use the resource efficiently. A community resource is a resource provided to the community by a service provider (e.g., a compute cluster, a storage system). Configuration information is information about how the resource is configured on a seldom-changing basis. (E.g., system architecture, job queue names, queue requirements, data transfer endpoints, storage systems.) Status information is the dynamic status of the resource. (E.g., current number of jobs in a queue, estimated queue wait times, current free storage.)
The capabilities, limitations, and use policies of community resources differ greatly. In order to use these resources efficiently, each gateway compiles and saves this information statically for its own use, obtaining the information in ad hoc ways. It would be better if the community provided this information for each resource in a standard way and made it easily available for all gateways to access.
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10 Reasons Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo Are Perhaps not the Best of All Time [GOAT] in Baseball
For the best area of the last decade, two titles have dominated earth football (soccer) significantly more than any others; Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. screalmississauga.ca/home have broken countless baseball records, obtained insane amount of objectives and sent each other all the way to wonder even though they are two completely different baseball participants, playing two different styles in two completely different roles for 2 various clubs. The thing that actually joins both could be the ocean of power that separates them from the remaining portion of the people in the world. There might be number issue as to whether the duo belongs in the pantheon of football all-time greats anymore. Even though any energy to determine the best footballer of all time is susceptible to generational opinion, it should be noted that Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo aren't separately or collectively the greatest baseball player[s] of them all as a result of subsequent reasons;
Cristiano isn't the most effective'Ronaldo'to perform the overall game: Despite his unmatched achievement in and down the area of perform, Cristiano Ronaldo remains not considered the most effective Ronaldo to own performed the game. Ronaldo p Assisi (also known as Ronaldinho) and Ronaldo de Lima (the phenomenon) are the other'Ronaldos'whose popular attacking prowess is usually compared to Cristiano Ronaldo's. Ronaldo de Lima was a far more explosive and complete striker who'd have in all probability been the'World's Most readily useful Striker Ever'if he'd stayed injury-free in his footballing career, while Ronaldinho was the singer who, at his peak, continually wowed the footballing world. Cristiano Ronaldo surpasses different'Ronaldos'in terms of constituency over time, remarkable goal-scoring costs, overall exercise and extended career (due to minimal rate of injuries) but for absolute talent, explosiveness, remarkable specialized power, and the'wow'factor, both'Ronaldos'are much better than Cristiano Ronaldo.
Lionel Messi is not the best actually Argentine player: It is a well-known undeniable fact that for a footballer to be the most effective ever on the planet, he has to be the most effective actually footballer in his state and sadly, Lionel Messi is not both. Lionel Messi is not the most effective football person Argentina has produced. That honor would go to Diego Armando Maradona. Maradona (widely regarded as you of the greatest baseball people ever) is really a footballing icon that inspired Argentina to a global glass success and S.S.C. Napoli (in the French Baseball League) to its first and next Group title [Scudetti] in its history. He's the scorer of the world's most questionable aim (the'Hand of Lord'goal) and the FIFA Purpose of the Century. There's virtually a cult about the ball player in Argentina. Diego Maradona (and Pele) is the standard for the illustrious South American nation each time a new star comes onto the block. So, while Messi has dazzled on the European stage, driving milestone after landmark and picking right up loads of prizes, his countrymen regard him because the country's next best football player ever.
Equally players have never won the World Cup: Even though the latter rounds of the modern-day UEFA Winners League could rival the FIFA Earth Pot with regards to quality, with abilities from about the globe increasingly focused in the hands of at the very top few, the Earth Pot still retains substantial symbolic price as a quadrennial opposition which pit the most effective of just one state against the very best of another. It is no key Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have not won (or influenced their respective places to win) the FIFA World Cup. Cristiano Ronaldo has won an American Pot (The Euros) along with his house state, Portugal but never been to the semi-finals or the finals of the World Pot while Lionel Messi was underwhelming in the 2014 earth cup semi-final and final together with his house state Argentina eventually losing to Germany. The World (and Messi) was surprised when he was named the best participant and granted the Wonderful Ball of the tournament. Lionel Messi can be a three-time runner-up in the Copa America opposition with Argentina. Many football players such as Zinedine Zidane, Pele, Diego Maradonna, Ronaldinho, Ronaldo p Lima etc. usually recommended because the world's best actually football person all performed dominant functions in the World Glass tournament they ultimately won. Exactly the same can not be claimed presently of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.
They are not Football's most readily useful Goal-scorers actually: Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are successful, effective and extraordinary goal scorers boasting remarkable goal per fit relation however they aren't one of the five most readily useful purpose scorers in football history. Neither of these have obtained up a lot more than 700 objectives within their particular occupations so they can not take the organization of great players such as for instance Pele, Romario, Josef Bican, Ferenc Puskas (he features a FIFA goal-scoring prize named after him), Gerd Muller. The charge of scoring of the popular participants is more outstanding than that of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo given they ended their footballing careers with aim tallies properly to the 800s. So if rating targets are why is footballers great, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, having better participants boasting greater goal tallies forward of these, cannot be the best footballers of most time.
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My passion is educating for digital equality. I want to make a difference in the world, through reporting and speaking about the digital revolution. I never talk about server parks. I never talk about fiber cables. It's always about the people – and how this massive transition that we are all a part of is changing lives, business, politics, love and society as a whole. Big and small. I am not a consultant. I will never tell you what to do. I will tell you what I see in the world – and ask of you to learn together with me: How does this apply to you? Where do we end up, if we apply your experience to the playing field I can lay out for you? I always custom make my talks, in close collaboration with clients. But then sometimes – news breaks. Something arises that needs special attention. So let me take this opportunity to describe how our view of the digital world effects the most urgent issue of today.
In author Vilhelm Moberg's epic novel "The Emigrants", the story of the Swedish starvation disaster in the 1800s is told better than anywhere else. Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson chose carefully: what should they take with them on the journey from hunger to freedom and prosperity on American soil? They settled for the essentials. But Karl Oskar made an exception. He packed his dead daughter's shoes. The shoes made it into the boxes they brought, as a reminder of why they had to leave. During the last weeks of dramatic events, it has become necessary for me and for many others to take a step forward and be a citizen – to live and breathe through fellow human beings lives.
I was walking around in my house one evening. I tried to think: What would we pack, were we forced to flee in the morning? The very first thing I would take would be cell phones, chargers and battery packs. Maybe even our thinnest and smallest computer. Some foreign sim cards that I have lying around too, you never know. Food of course, as compact as possible, and money and credit cards, even though they might not be possible to use. I'd get a pacifier and a stuffed animal for my little one. Millions of people have to make these decisions right now. Every so often, I hear someone question how "real" these refugees are – they have phones, right? Can't be too bad off? That is downright dumb on so many levels. Partly because the phones today are cheap. Partly because phones are the obvious communication path to anyone, and the key to the internet, which means everything from being able to get a train ticket to connect via Facebook, to maps and an opportunity to transfer money. It is simply more important to have a phone than to have good clothes, or enough food for the week. I would have made that priority, and I think that almost everyone would.
Then, of course, the most central insight of them all: War affects all. These people lived an ordinary middle-class life, they were mechanics and hairdressers and doctors and restaurateurs. These people do not come to the West from a tent or a cave, but from a life where it until just now was a safe to send the kids to school, and where the internet was a central part of daily life. This is the world we live in. This is the world in which from now on will do business and develop society together. This is the world where it actually makes sense to introduce the Facebook stock at Nasdaq at a value that may look ridiculous at first. It's only ridiculous if you haven't grasped what sort of massive change we are going through. Two young men, fleeing from first Syria and then Libya, described recently in Swedish media how they took great personal risks bringing their laptops, wrapped in plastic, taped to their own backs. "I wanted to try to get a quick start to get working once I reached Europe. I couldn't do that without a computer with an Arabic keyboard, and there is no way I can afford a new one right now", one of them said.
This is how we all should observe our time: We live in the digital age. Three billion people are online, four billion aren't, but will be within ten years. Doing business tomorrow? Building society tomorrow? Fleeing tomorrow? We should all pack the internet.
Andreas Ekstrom is a Swedish author and journalist, and a frequent speaker around the world, talking about how the digital revolution affects our lives.


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Verisk Shares Open Letter to Insurance Industry Over Intellectual Property Dispute with EagleView
On February 11, 2019, EagleView Technologies issued a press release concerning an intellectual property dispute between EagleView and Verisk (Nasdaq:VRSK). We would like to set the record straight.
Verisk introduced 3-dimensional modeling of structures in 1997 through our own application called Sketch®, which was available to users of our Xactimate® product. In 2004, Verisk enhanced this capability by introducing the ability to import image and blueprint underlays, which enabled our customers to use aerial photographic images to construct and improve their models, including the calculation of roof measurements.
In 2008, Verisk enabled customers to obtain EagleView roof reports through our Xactimate platform if they wished. This included Xactware-developed technology that converted the details of EagleView's static PDF report into a fully editable, 3-dimensional plan in Xactware's Sketch program.
On July 15, 2015, EagleView was acquired by Vista Equity Partners, a private equity firm with $44 billion of assets under management. In the acquisition agreement, EagleView affirmed that Verisk was not infringing its intellectual property. On September 23, 2015—85 days after coming under Vista's control—EagleView sued Verisk for the infringement of 153 claims across nine patents. Since this dispute began, EagleView has abandoned three patents and 142 claims. We have closely examined the 11 remaining claims and state confidently that our methods do not infringe the remaining few claims.
Verisk was doing 3-dimensional modeling of buildings nearly 20 years ago and began imagery analytics in 2004 to bring innovation to our customers. Verisk continues offering improved products today to bring value and choice to the industry. Over the last 15 years, all of the source code, models, analytic methods, visualizations, and report formats of our aerial imagery offerings are 100 percent the product of the research and development of Verisk teams and make no use of any other party's intellectual property.
In spite of being attacked by lawsuit, on September 16, 2016, Verisk entered into a new agreement with EagleView to maintain the distribution of its products on our platform. Verisk did this for one reason only: to maximize choice for our customers.
We eagerly look forward to the trial and the elimination of the last 11 claims that remain of EagleView's original 153.
Verisk has a long track record and bright future as a provider of aerial imagery solutions, and we look forward to serving our fast-growing list of customers in the years to come.
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LEGENDS ON SILVER
From Athens and Ionia to Thrace and Scythia
We are inviting you to explore the legends of ancient silverware and its relations to Early Archaic and Early Hellenistic rituals in the open lecture LEGENDS ON SILVER. From Ionia and Athens to Thrace and Scythia with
Prof. Dr. Athanasios Sideris, Head curator of Thrace Foundation.
When: 3rd May 2018, Thursday 18:30
Where: National Gallery – The Palace – Map
Please note that the lecture will be held in English. Headphones with translation in Bulgarian will be available.
A registration is required *
About the lecture
A series of silver artifacts of exceptionally high quality craftsmanship are found in Thrace and Scythia between the Early Archaic and the Early Hellenistic periods (late 7th to late 4th centuries BC). They are mostly related to the custom of male drinking parties (symposia), introduced from the Orient and further propagated by the Greeks. These vessels and utensils often bear figurative decoration of mythological, epic, and religious inspiration, and they have been created first in Ionian centers, and later on in Athens and Macedonia.
Prof. Sideris will examine the popularity of some legends represented on the silver ware, and their connections to the local traditions. He will also discuss the ways of acquisition and circulation of these luxury items, of which the largest and most representative assemblage belong to the Vassil Bojkov Collection. Diplomatic affairs, trade policies, and political alliances will be also addressed in a synthetic way, aiming to make intelligible the cultural frame, in which such social models have been adopted and adapted by the local elites.
Prof. Dr. Athanasios Sideris
Prof. Sideris is the Head Curator of The Thrace Foundation and a classical archaeologist with a solid background in history and art history. He obtained his PhD on metal vases from the Université de Bourgogne and is the author of Metal Vases & Utensils, a special collectible archaeological publication. The book features an impressive selection of bronze, silver and gold vessels ranging from the 8th to the 1st centuries BC.
Prof. Sideris has participated in more than 50 national and EU funded projects on cultural heritage, and he was the scientific director for 22 of them. For fifteen years, he was director of the History and Archaeology Department in the Foundation of the Hellenic World, Athens. During that time, he led a multitude of projects related to the digitization of cultural resources, especially in the field of Virtual Reality, and mostly in collaboration with eminent European institutions, such as the Louvre, King's College in London, the Allard Pierson Museum, and the University of Edinburgh.
His research interests encompass the economy and ecology of the Greek world, the toreutic artifacts and especially the metal vases, the Achaemenid art, the Phokian & Boeotian history and archaeology, the Graeco-Thracian & Greco-Scythian contacts, and the reception of Classics in the modern world. Dr. Sideris has in the past studied and prepared for publication toreutic artifacts from, among others, the George Ortiz Collection in Geneva, the Benaki Museum in Athens, the Shelby White Collection in New York, and the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon.
Sideris is currently an affiliated professor of Charles University (Prague), as well as an affiliated researcher in the University of the Aegean (Rhodes, GR).
He dedicates his spare time to the things he enjoys most – photography, traveling, botany, and scuba-diving.
Extended CV, updated list of publications, and more on his professional and disseminating activities can be found in the following addresses:
https://thracefoundation.academia.edu/AthanasiosSideris
https://www.linkedin.com/in/athanasios-sideris-88a18932/
Registrations are closed


Travelling to new destinations, exploring beautiful locales, cultures, cuisines, lifestyles, etc. is probably one of the few things almost every individual loves to do. These days people travel by different modes and channels like air, cruise, road, etc. However, the mode of transport might have advanced with time for human kind, but the exposure to risks remains more-or-less the same. Irrespective of the risk factors, people prefer visiting new countries with their families and/or friends and spend quality time together.
Purpose of travelling abroad can anything from pleasure trip to business to study, etc. No matter what is the purpose of your foreign trip, people often tend to forget buying right tour insurance policy. They fail to realize that in case of an unforeseen event like accident, a medical emergency or any liabilities, they may fall into financial crisis like situation. They don't realize that such uninvited situations can prove out to be more expensive than the total cost of your tour.
Understanding the various tour insurance policies and learning about their advantages is as important as it is carrying your passport during your trip.
While a basic tour insurance policy covers any medical expenses, losses that may happen while your are on a tour; an overseas travel insurance policy takes care of risk covers associated with medical and financial emergencies that may occur while you are travelling abroad. While you are on a foreign trip, you might be at risk of falling prey to medical emergencies and need to get hospitalized for the same, or you may lose your passport, checked-in baggage, etc. your overseas travel Insurance shall cover you during such situations.
By and large there are two types of overseas travel insurance - Single Trip and Multi-Trip or Annual Trip.
1) Single Trip: A single trip overseas travel insurance plan protects you for the complete period of your one trip only. Normally a single trip overseas travel insurance policy is offered for a period of 180 days.
2) Multi-Trip: A multi-trip overseas travel insurance policy also known as annual trip overseas travel insurance, is offered for a period of 365 days. Here, as the name suggests, you will be insured for multiple foreign trips.
Therefore, next time while you are planning to travel to a foreign land, ensure that with your baggage, money, passports and tickets you also carry your overseas travel insurance policy.


Water constitutes more than 90% of beer's total ingredients. If you're not using high-quality water, you're not going to be pleased with the taste of the finished product.
So when Glynn Williams discovered that his Guysborough pub, the Rare Bird Pub & Eatery, was sitting on top of a phenomenal water source, he knew it was the perfect spot for brewing award-winning craft beer.
In fact, there's so much of this pure water that Authentic Seacoast is in the process of rolling out Glanbùrn Pure Nova Scotia Artesian Water — which will run in parallel with brewing Rare Bird Craft Beer.
The coveted water comes from the pristine Milford Haven River system, just west of Guysborough. There's minimal industrial development, and the river is renewed naturally with rainwater, making it the perfect source.
Nicholas Denys started Atlantic Canada's first commercial brewery in Guysborough back in 1659, and Glynn suspects he took advantage of that same, special water.
Although Rare Bird Craft Beer varieties also include locally sourced ingredients like hops, malted barley, spruce buds, sap, roasted pumpkin, licorice, chocolate, and even Full Steam Coffee, Glynn says artesian water remains the single most important ingredient.


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Since announcing our upcoming partnership with Facebook, we've been truly humbled by how much attention our story has received. As a company, we're excited to continue focusing on offering as many people as possible the chance to stay connected with friends and loved ones, no matter who they are or where they live.
Unfortunately, there has also been a lot of inaccurate and careless information circulating about what our future partnership would mean for WhatsApp users' data and privacy.
Above all else, I want to make sure you understand how deeply I value the principle of private communication. For me, this is very personal. I was born in Ukraine, and grew up in the USSR during the 1980s. One of my strongest memories from that time is a phrase I'd frequently hear when my mother was talking on the phone: "This is not a phone conversation; I'll tell you in person." The fact that we couldn't speak freely without the fear that our communications would be monitored by KGB is in part why we moved to the United States when I was a teenager.
Respect for your privacy is coded into our DNA, and we built WhatsApp around the goal of knowing as little about you as possible: You don't have to give us your name and we don't ask for your email address. We don't know your birthday. We don't know your home address. We don't know where you work. We don't know your likes, what you search for on the internet or collect your GPS location. None of that data has ever been collected and stored by WhatsApp, and we really have no plans to change that.
Make no mistake: our future partnership with Facebook will not compromise the vision that brought us to this point. Our focus remains on delivering the promise of WhatsApp far and wide, so that people around the world have the freedom to speak their mind without fear.


A U.S. federal judge has ruled that chip seller Qualcomm must license some of its technology to competitors such as Intel.
It was not immediately clear whether the ruling would affect the settlement talks.
Settling with U.S. regulators would be a turning point for the San Diego chip firm, which has been defending its business model amid lawsuits from large customers such as Apple Inc <AAPL.O> and Huawei Technologies Inc, as well as dealing with regulatory challenges to its practices around the world.
In August, Qualcomm settled with Taiwanese regulators for US$93 million and an agreement to invest $700 million in the country over the next five years.


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Pennsylvania is a state built on history and culture. It is known as the Keystone State—due to its foundational role in the inception of the United States—and the Quaker State—due to its association with William Penn and the Quaker faith. In addition to its rich history, the state boasts many of the top colleges and universities in the nation, ranging from large research universities to small liberal arts colleges. Many of these universities and colleges were founded by the Quakers and still emphasize community camaraderie and service, alongside their high-level academic programs.
Below is a list of the 20 best colleges in Pennsylvania. The list was constructed with a focus on school quality, outcomes, and return on investment (ROI), along with considering a host of other factors such as retention rate, selectivity, endowment per student, student-faculty ratio, median earnings, and cost of attendance. You can find CollegeVine's rankings in their entirety here.
1. University of Pennsylvania (UPenn)
Acceptance Rate: 6%
Middle 50% SAT: 1460-1570
Middle 50% ACT: 33-35
Undergraduate Enrollment: 9,872
Penn is an Ivy League school, consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the nation. One of the most renowned schools at the university is the Wharton School of Business, with Elon Musk and Warren Buffett at the top of its alumni roster. While Penn boasts top-tier academic programs, it is also often referred to as 'the social ivy' because of its lively student body. With its urban location in Philadelphia, Penn gives students access to vibrant bars, restaurants, museums, art galleries, and parks. While some view Penn as a safety ivy, others view it as a unique school that promotes a healthy balance of academic and social life.
Learn more about UPenn and what it takes to get accepted.
2. Swarthmore College
Location: Swarthmore, PA
Swarthmore is a private liberal arts college that was originally founded by the Quakers but lost its religious affiliation over a century ago. The college is known for its quirky and engaged student population. Since Swarthmore's student body is small, the college fosters a tight-knit community. Students at Swarthmore have the unique opportunity to design their own majors and course plans if they choose to. Another unique opportunity offered to students is participating in the Tri-College and Quaker Consortium. Through the Consortium, Swarthmore students can take classes at Haverford College, Bryn Mawr College, and the University of Pennsylvania.
Learn more about Swarthmore and what it takes to get accepted.
3. Haverford College
Location: Haverford, PA
Acceptance Rate: 18%
Haverford is another small liberal arts college that is part of the Tri-College and Quaker Consortium. Within the Consortium, Haverford and Bryn Mawr have a particularly strong relationship as they share many resources (like a newspaper and a radio station), and also mingle their academic programs. At Haverford, students benefit from a 9:1 student-to-faculty ratio, with 60% of faculty living on the Haverford campus. Additionally, Haverford is known for its Honor Code and for its dedication to meeting 100% of accepted students' demonstrated financial need.
Learn more about Haverford and what it takes to get accepted.
4. Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon is simultaneously an impressive school in technical fields, like engineering and computer science, and creative fields, like drama and architecture. Because of the school's multifaceted academic success, it is characterized by a diverse student body—both with regards to race and ethnicity, student backgrounds, personalities, and programs of study. That said, common traits amongst all CMU students include passion and drive. CMU has name recognition with employers in most industries and graduates typically have great opportunities after obtaining their CMU degree.
Learn more about Carnegie Mellon and what it takes to get accepted.
5. Lehigh University
Location: Bethlehem, PA
Lehigh is a distinguished private research university that excels in science, engineering, and business. While the school has a lower enrollment than other research universities, students have access to the courses, advising, research, and other resources offered by large research universities. Lehigh students can easily explore multiple interests due to the cooperation between the university's five schools: the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Business, the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science, the College of Education, and the College of Health. There's something for everyone at Lehigh.
Learn more about Lehigh and what it takes to get accepted.
6. Lafayette College
Location: Easton, PA
Lafayette College offers an excellent private liberal arts education to students, though its academic prowess shines through its engineering and science programs. The school's location gives students access to major metropolitan areas like New York City and Philadelphia, though its location is just the start of the school's resources. Lafayette students are connected to an extensive alumni network and can easily find job opportunities, including research opportunities. The school has a very high medical school acceptance rate and a high freshman retention rate (indicating student satisfaction).
Learn more about Lafayette and what it takes to get accepted.
7. Bryn Mawr College
Location: Bryn Mawr, PA
Bryn Mawr is the third and final (and only all-female!) part of the Tri-College and Quaker Consortium. Like the other schools in the Consortium, Bryn Mawr has intensive academics and its small student body fosters a close-knit community. Some women from Bryn Mawr say the college feels like one big sorority—they even have a traditional bonding week called Hell Week. Bryn Mawr is a small college town, but it is just twenty minutes away from Philadelphia, so students have easy access to the big city.
Learn more about Bryn Mawr and what it takes to get accepted.
8. Franklin & Marshall College (F&M)
Location: Lancaster, PA
Median SAT: 1379
Median ACT: 30
Franklin & Marshall is a private liberal arts college that focuses on research and innovative student programming. It is a selective school with bright students. Independence is emphasized at Franklin & Marshall and about two-thirds of students do an independent study or self-designed academic module before graduating. F&M residential life centers around five Harry Potter-style houses where students in each house share residence halls, dining facilities, and programming. Additionally, the college boasts its own art museum and a Writers House that functions as a literary performance space.
Learn more about Franklin & Marshall and what it takes to get accepted.
9. Bucknell University
Location: Lewisburg, PA
Bucknell is an innovative liberal arts college on a gorgeous campus in central Pennsylvania. The university is made up of three schools—the College of Arts and Sciences, the Freeman College of Management, and the College of Engineering—and excels in technical fields in addition to the humanities. The student-to-faculty ratio at Bucknell is 9:1 and the average class size is 20 students. One unique aspect of residential life at Bucknell is that students can live in themed residential colleges that are tied to one of their first-semester classes. This allows students to live and learn alongside students who share their interests. Greek life is a popular interest at Bucknell and strongly influences the culture on campus as 41% of students participate in the Greek system.
Learn more about Bucknell and what it takes to get accepted.
10. Villanova University
Location: Villanova, PA
Villanova is a private Catholic university that emphasizes community service, in addition to strong academic performance. The school offers 48 academic majors within 6 colleges. Student involvement at Villanova largely takes place through volunteering, with most students involved in events like the Special Olympics, Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service, weekly service outings through the Campus Ministry, and service trips during academic breaks. When entering the Nova Nation, students describe how they feel immediately welcomed to the university's caring community.
Learn more about Villanova and what it takes to get accepted.
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11. Dickinson College
Location: Carlisle, PA
Chartered in 1783, Dickinson College is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the country. Despite its long and rich history, Dickinson has an eye on the future. In 2020, Dickinson became carbon neutral and its campus is home to six LEED-gold certified buildings and one LEED-platinum certified residence hall. The college also has numerous student-focused sustainability initiatives aimed at making the campus more environmentally friendly. Dickinson's campus also features an 80-acre USDA-certified organic farm—a significant amount of its harvest is served in the school's dining halls.
Learn more about Dickinson and what it takes to get accepted.
12. Gettysburg College
Location: Gettysburg, PA
Gettysburg College is a private liberal arts college with a 225-acre campus adjacent to the Gettysburg battlefield. The campus is beautiful—made up of elegant red brick buildings and white buildings, along with ample greenery. The school has outstanding resources and facilities available for students, including a five-floor, 24-hour library. Gettysburg College's social scene involves 120 student organizations and clubs, and 33% of the student body participates in Greek life. Academically, the small size of Gettysburg College allows for small class sizes and personal attention from professors and advisors.
Learn more about Gettysburg and what it takes to get accepted.
13. Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)
Location: University Park, PA
Undergraduate Enrollment: 39,809
Penn State is one of the biggest schools in the nation—it's home to almost 40,000 undergraduates and more than 45,000 total students! Penn State offers a huge number of opportunities to its students. Penn State offers more than 275 majors and 1,000 student organizations. To say football is a big deal at Penn State is an understatement—Penn State's Beaver Stadium is the second-largest football stadium in the country (it holds more than 100,000 people) and on football Saturdays, Penn State is the third-most-populous city in Pennsylvania.
Learn more about Penn State and what it takes to get accepted.
14. University of Pittsburgh (Pitt)
Pitt is a selective public research university with many academic opportunities for success in its 82 different majors. Due to the university's urban setting, students have access to numerous internship and job opportunities, as well as social and cultural opportunities. The university's student body boasts a lot of Pitt pride, and in accordance with the emphasis on school pride, students have access to a large and active alumni network that they find valuable for career guidance.
Learn more about Pitt and what it takes to get accepted.
15. Temple University
Temple is the largest institution of higher education in Philadelphia, one of the nation's most historic cities and within easy reach of other major metropolises like New York City and Washington, D.C. Temple has a reputation as a longtime leader in professional education and is among the nation's largest educators in the combined fields of dentistry, law, medicine, pharmacy, and podiatry. However, resources like Temple's Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute (IEI) at the Fox School of Business are helping students build the skills to disrupt current industries and bring new ideas to life.
Learn more about Temple and what it takes to get accepted.
16. Muhlenberg College
Location: Allentown, PA
Muhlenberg is a highly regarded liberal arts college affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and has its roots in the Protestant faith. That said, the college welcomes students of all faiths and is home to a diverse student body—about a third of students are of the Catholic faith, and about a third are Jewish. Muhlenberg has provided test-optional admissions since 1996 and practices holistic admissions.
Learn more about Muhlenberg and what it takes to get accepted.
17. Thomas Jefferson University
Thomas Jefferson simultaneously feels like a place unto itself and part of a bustling city. The university's tree-lined, 104-acre campus offers tranquility that feels miles away from the city, but world-class restaurants, museums, and entertainment are within easy reach of students. Thomas Jefferson University recently merged with Philadelphia University—together the two institutions are committed to delivering a modern curriculum designed to prepare students for success in an ever-changing world.
Learn more about Thomas Jefferson and what it takes to get accepted.
18. University of the Sciences
Middle 50% SAT: N/A
Middle 50% ACT: N/A
Undergraduate Enrollment: N/A
The University of the Sciences was founded in 1821 as Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and has the distinction of being the first college of pharmacy in the nation. Today the university offers a range of life science and health science majors—from Biochemistry to Spanish for Healthcare Professionals—through its three colleges: Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, Samson College of Health Sciences, and Misher College of Arts and Sciences. The price of college is something that the University of the Sciences is conscious of; the school has put an end to the cycle of 3% to 7% annual tuition and fee increases over the course of a student's education and students who enroll as undergraduates for fall 2021 will not pay more than $27,500 per year in tuition until they complete their degree.
Learn more about the University of Sciences and what it takes to get accepted.
19. Duquesne University
Duquesne University is the only Spiritan Catholic institution of higher education in the United States and one of the most prestigious Catholic-affiliated schools in the nation. Duquesne is deeply committed to the Spiritan values of:
Openness to the Spirit
A Sense of Community
Concern for the Poor
Commitment to Service
High Academic Standards
Duquesne comes from humble roots; it was founded in 1878 to educate Pittsburgh's poor immigrants, but today is considered one of the best colleges in Pennsylvania and is known nationwide. It offers more than 80 majors through nine academic schools.
Learn more about the Duquesne and what it takes to get accepted.
While each of these Pennsylvania colleges has a different average acceptance rate, they are all selective. It is great to be interested in selective schools, but it's also important to remember to create a balanced college list. If possible, a student should apply to 8-10 schools, with about 25% being safety schools, 40% target schools, and 35% reach schools. These categories—safety, target, and reach—are determined by your chances of acceptance at the schools you are applying to.
Because your personal chances of acceptance at these schools may differ from the average acceptance rate, we've made it easy to figure out which schools fall into which categories with our free Admissions Chances Calculator. By taking into account your grades, test scores, and extracurriculars, we'll estimate your odds of acceptance at different schools and give you tips on improving your profile.
Timothy Peck
A graduate of Northeastern University with a degree in English, Tim Peck currently lives in Concord, New Hampshire, where he balances a freelance writing career with the needs of his two Australian Shepherds to play outside.
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