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Markkanen, Dunn assistance Bulls outlast Knicks 122-119 in just 2 OTs
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作者:dailymail编辑团队 2018-09-14 15:30
The US university where a young Meghan Markle studied theatre is using the now Duchess of Sussex's photo to attract new generations of students.
Meghan's photograph appears at the top of a list of illustrious alumni in Northwestern University's new recruiting catalogue, which describes her as a 'humanitarian and the Duchess of Sussex' - prompting some fans to question why her time as an actress had apparently been ignored.
The 37-year-old royal, who graduated from the Illinois-based college's school of communication in 2003 with a bachelor's degree and a double major in theatre and international studies, features alongside fellow high profile former students including the female chairman of IBM, Virginia Rometty, and the comedian Seth Meyers.
现年37岁的王室成员,在2003年在伊利诺丽的西北大学毕业,取得了戏剧与国际关系的双学位,与她同上校友名单的还有IBM公司的女性领导人Virginia Rometty和喜剧演员Seth Meyers.
The text reads: 'You can do anything when you take a Northwestern Direction. They did.'
Other famous names who studied at Northwestern include the supermodel Cindy Crawford, actor Warren Beatty, the comic Stephen Colbert and the late founder of Playboy Magazine Hugh Hefner.
还有和她并列在西北大学知名校友的比如,超模Cindy Crawford,演员Warren Beatty,还有喜剧演员Stephen Colbert和已故的《花花公子》杂志创始人Hugh Hefner。
A snap said to be taken from the prospectus was shared by a royal fan account on Instagram on Sunday.
The fan, who posts under the handle @harrysmegri and has more than 29,000 followers, wrote: 'The Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle is at the top of the illustrious alum page in #Northwestern University's newest student recruiting catalog.'
The post has attracted hundreds of likes from followers, although some questioned why Meghan's brief bio beneath her photo made no reference to her acting career.
User @peoniesandpoems posted: 'Not sure why they didn't mention she's an actress,' before adding that Meghan's former career was 'a huge part of her identity'.
Another @rbnslesl2, posted: 'Nice, but would prefer "former actress, humanitarian, and Duchess of Sussex."
The former TV star appeared in seven seasons of the hit legal drama Suits, before turning her back on the small screen in 2017 and moving to London to live with her future husband, Prince Harry.

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So, today I got this message from my "I'm in a hurry" breakfast:
And I almost missed it.
Not only did I not read what my Luna Bar was telling me until after I'd taken a bite, but I literally almost allowed myself to miss today's awesome.
I could have gotten wrapped up in the "Monday" of it all – the hurry, the communication hiccups, and the downright urgency that accompanies campers' arrival to camp.
Instead, I did something special with my best friend across the miles. That was pretty awesome.
I got to be there for my coworker and friend, and that was pretty awesome.
I witnessed a staff member being helpful and kind while focusing on a solution for a child, and that was pretty awesome.
Today led to a LOT of awesome, all because I took the time to find it.
What awesome did you find today?


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Dover, Kohl & Partners' principal, Jason King, has been leading a series of workshops this week in San Marcos, Texas. These "Zoning for Character" workshops are allowing property owners and residents to learn additional details about the new "character"-based zoning districts and regulating plans being proposed in each of the six Vision San Marcos Intensity Zones.
Beginning in October 2014, the City of San Marcos, Texas and Dover, Kohl & Partners joined by The Street Plans Collaborative, helped re-envision downtown utilizing tactical urbanism—yielding low cost/high gain, long-term change. The Dover-Kohl team effectively engaged the city, the public, and transportation engineers and, in the end, the City of San Marcos presented a recommendation of changes in full detail that were publicized in the SMTX project, ready for permanent implementation.
As one of the fastest growing cities in the nation—for cities with a population of over 50,000 people—Long Range Planning Efforts, including the Code SMTX process to update the Land Development Code, are necessary steps in helping the City ensure positive growth within its community.
The remaining two workshops will be held today as follows:
San Marcos Activity Center - Room 2
Thursday August 20, 2 - 4pm
Thursday August 20, 6 - 8pm
To learn more about CodeSMTX and the City's Long Range Planning Road Map , visit their website.


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~The American Sewing Guild: Advancing sewing as an art and life skill
The American Sewing Guild is a membership organization that welcomes sewing enthusiasts of all skill levels and from many different walks of life. Chapters are located in cities all across the country and members meet monthly to learn new sewing skills, network with others who share an interest in sewing and participate in community service sewing projects. Membership in the Guild gives you an opportunity to experience your love of any type of home sewing with others who share your interest. Members can take advantage of:
- Monthly meetings: General meeting with a program plus neighborhood group meetings throughout the month
- Special workshops and events
- Online Sewing Classes
- Contests
- Special offers from industry resources
- Members-only magazine
- Annual conference
- Sewing-related travel and tours
The American Sewing Guild is committed to:
- Promoting and supporting strong chapter and membership vitality within the organization
- Publicizing, promoting, and stimulating interest in sewing activities and the ASG
- Collaborating and/or forming partnerships with other organizations for programs that are mutually beneficial
- Expanding ASG community service efforts
- Maintaining ASG as a financially viable organization
Be Our Guest
You have a standing invitation to join us for our monthly (no meeting in December) chapter meetings to see what our local chapter is all about. ASG allows potential members to visit two meetings before deciding on membership.
Check out the programs section to see what we have lined up for the upcoming months. You are also welcome to preview a Neighborhood Group meeting that meets monthly at locations around the area. For more details about locations, meeting times, and programs, click on the Meetings link above.


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Separation Anxiety Potentially Caused By Excess DUP7Q11.23 Genes
Separation anxiety is a normal developmental condition in children under two years old. Before then, young children associate a parents' disappearance from their sight as permanent, producing instant fear. Toddlers eventually learn that parents do indeed return, and their anxieties resolve. During stressful periods, however, it may reappear, especially in unfamiliar situations or when the parents are not nearby.
Canadian scientists identified a gene linked to separation anxiety, presenting their study at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in San Diego on November 16th. In assessing possible genetic causes for the anxiety disorder in children, lead researcher Lucy Osborne, PhD, of the University of Toronto, and colleagues investigated two types of children: those with Williams-Beuren syndrome (WBS), a disease typically characterized by a lack of a particular gene, and those with DUP7Q11.23, another rare, yet different condition associated with an excess of that same gene.
Phenotypic Expressions Due To Gene Deletion And Duplication
WBS is caused by a deletion of DUP7Q11.23, with patients typically lacking the GTF2I gene; children with WBS tend to suffer from cognitive deficiencies but do not suffer from social anxieties and are generally very sociable. Those with the other disease experience a high level of social anxiety and phobias. Their condition is caused by an excess of genes, including the GTF2I gene that is lacking in their WBS counterparts.
In examining the two different groups, the scientists learned that 26 percent of those with the excessive genetic copies suffered from separation anxiety, while less the 5 percent of the WBS children and youngsters in the general population experienced the anxiety disorder.
The next phase of the study involved breeding mice with either extra or missing copies of the GTF2I gene. Mouse pups with the extra genetic makeup exhibited signs of distress by vocalizing more frequently than normal when separated from the mothers. Baby mice with two copies of the GTF2I gene cried out an average of 192 times during four minutes, and those with three or four copies of the gene squeaked almost twice as often. Conversely, those missing the gene did not exhibit any extra vocalizations or distressing signs.
Can You Treat A Genetic Problem?
Osborne suggested the findings point to evidence of a gene that causes separation anxiety. She stated that the results could lead to more accurate therapies for those suffering from anxiety disorders. The study is the first to associate an addition or subtraction of a particular gene with the development of a form of anxiety. The findings should be considered preliminary, with publication in a peer-reviewed journal necessary for further exploration and validation.
Older children and teens exhibiting persistent signs of stress and fear when separated from their parents or caretakers may be diagnosed with separation anxiety. They may have never outgrown the stage or have regressed after experiencing a stressful event. Symptoms include ongoing distress when separated from parents, nightmares, fear of going to school or activities outside the home and concerns that the caregiver will be hurt.
Treatment for older kids and adolescents involves anti-anxiety drugs, along with psychotherapy for the parents and the child. Caregivers may also be instructed to change their parenting styles to alleviate symptoms.
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Date of original publication: April 02, 2013


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How to disassemble or deconstruct the "network of meaning" surrounding a given stuck situation.
We live inside a network of "assumptive implication", what we could call a "network of meaning". In this network of meaning, any given thought is associated via a "this means" or "this implies" relationship with other thoughts. ThoughtA implies or means ThoughtB, B implies or means C, C implies or means D, etcetera, etecetra, ad infinitum. I have written in A->B, B->C, C->D in the previous sentence but there are also of course multiple cross linkages. A implies B, C, D, E, etc. and B implies D,F,H, etc. and C implies A,G,K etc. This set of thoughts together with their linking relationships forms something like a network or a web. This web or network is what I am referring to when I say we live inside a "network of meaning" or a "network of assumptive implication." Any given issue or problem or stuck situation that we are working on could be said to be EMBEDDED inside such a network of meaning / network of assumptive implication.
The reason I am calling it ASSUMPTIVE implication is because ordinarily the relationship A means B NEVER GETS CHALLENGED. Although it may be a more or less reasonable assertion that A means B (maybe A REALLY DOES mean B), the fact that in our initial way of thinking A simply DOES mean B and it does so without question, means that the validity of the assertion is not open to being tested. Because of this we are unable to see any possible view of the world in which A does not mean B, and so we are prevented from being able to see all the many possible alternative ways of seeing the problem we are working on, and restricted to only being able to see the problem in ONE FIXED WAY (one fixed and quite probably rather restricted way). Could we allow ourselves to consider the possibility that: Actually A does not necessarily imply B – could that be possible? Actually B does not necessarily imply C – could that be possible? Actually C does not necessarily imply D – could that be possible?
In other words, it may be worth considering the possibility that we are blind to the assumptions that are embedded in our structure of implication. These A means B assumptions are so habitual that we barely even notice them. They are like "water for the fish". The structure of meaning that we are swimming in is so natural to us that the possibility that there could be other ways of putting this network of thoughts together, the idea that there might be new thoughts that could be added to the network that could have a transformational impact, is almost impossible to see any validity in.
We tend to think that we are thinking earnestly about the problems we are trying to grapple with, but our patterns of "thinking" are so transparent to ourselves, so habitual, that very often we do not even hear ourselves thinking some of the thoughts that are fundamentally shaping the way the world is appearing to us. From the perspective of our experience we don't even think that the brush off by the girl we fancy MEANS we're deluded about our chances. We simply experience the consequences (eg. the emotional state) that result from never doubting the absolute fact of that being the truth.
For example: I want to by a car, but I don't have any money to do so. Not having any money MEANS I cannot buy the car I want to buy. So now we stop for a moment and isolate the first clause (thought) from the second clause (thought). The first clause (A) is: "I don't have any money" The second clause (B) is: "I cannot buy a car" Lets imagine that without my ever questioning this, in my network of assumptive implication, I take it for granted that A means B. However does A really mean B? Possibly it doesn't. Possibly I could borrow some money. In fact in many places car salesmen are so keen to sell cars that they can arrange finance agreements to pay for the cars they are selling.
The point of this example is not whether it's good financial sense for me to buy a car or not buy a car, nor which one, nor how to pay for it, the point is that a SINGLE STRAND within a network of assumptive implication (network of meaning), when pushed on even just a little bit turns out to be less fixed than it was being assumed to be. It turns out that A does not necessarily mean B, but I have been assuming that A does mean B without even noticing that I was making that assumption. Inside of my web of meaning, my network of assumptive implication, it is so obvious that A means B, that it never even occurs to me that this is something that is open to question.
So if we were to take every relationship strand in my network, every Thought1 means Thought2 etc. and start to open up the possibility that Thought1 does not mean Thought2, all kinds of actions that I was hitherto blind to start to become apparent.
The network of meaning that the problem I am working on is embedded in can start to be seen for what it is. What becomes apparent is that I haven't actually been working on the problem I thought I was working on at all. I have largely been unable to work on the real problem because of all the constraints imposed on me by the network of meaning through which I have been viewing myself and the circumstances of the problem.
What is needed therefore, is a methodology by which we can start to disassemble or deconstruct this web of meaning that we as individuals and groups and communities have in place, and hold outside of the realm of being open to question so far that we can't even see it as being a matter of our own assumption. (Instead we imbue the world out there as being constructed in that way.)
What would such a methodology look like? How can we start to pull apart this network of meaning?
The first step is to ISOLATE the thoughts that go to make up clauses A and B.
We constantly fail to notice that A does not necessarily mean B in part because we are not even noticing that we are thinking A and B. So the first step to deconstructing the network of meaning, is to identify and isolate the thoughts that we are having. Which thoughts should we isolate in this way? I would recommend to start out by taking any thought that comes. The isolation of some thoughts may have more impact than others, but which thoughts are going to provide the most new freedom of action is not easy to predict ahead of going through the process. Some thoughts that appear to be empowering, such thoughts as those we think of as "good thoughts", may turn out to be restricting our actions in ways we had never appreciated. "I'm a kind and loving person", may turn out to MEAN, "I can under no circumstances ever get angry, even when I get a ridiculous speeding ticket for doing 31 mph in a 30 zone". Again please don't get hooked by my examples. I'm not advocating either getting angry or not getting angry. Neither of these. What I am advocating is that where we are having a problem with something, we could start to deconstruct the network of meaning inside which the problem is embedded.
The "this MEANS that" relationship has become so hard wired in our thinking processes that we are failing to even notice that it is happening, that it is shaping the view we have of any given problem, and that consequentially it is constraining any possible action we can see that we could take about that problem or project.
The isolation of this entire collection of thoughts allows us to start to disassemble this "NETWORK OF MEANING". The validity of any A means B relationship can in this way be easily challenged, and re-evaluated so as to be much more rigorously tested and reliable, rather than this whole set of meaning relationships going passed us as though they could not possibly be untrue.
Here are some more examples of A Means B type thought relationships:
If I try to stop taking my anti-depressant drugs and then decide I can't cope without them, that MEANS I'm a failure. If I take an exam and get a bad mark, that MEANS I'm stupid and I'm never going to amount to anything. If I try to chat up a girl and she brushes me off disdainfully, that MEANS I'm not attractive (or it MEANS she's a bitch, or it MEANS I forgot to put on deodorant etcetra, etcetra) Incidentally, for some men being brushed off disdainfully MEANS "game on"… and I'm not advocating that meaning either!
In each of these examples there are only 2 thoughts connected together by a "MEANS relationship", but in our thinking process there is a whole NETWORK of thoughts which are connected together in all directions in this same way. When we get to work on a problem in our lives, it is initially EMBEDDED inside a whole network of assumed A MEANS B relationships (where A and B are two thoughts which in fact don't necessarily have an A MEANS B relationship).
Sometimes implications may be more or less valid. But many implications may in fact be not at all valid. By isolating thought A and thought B and C, D, E, F etc, it allows us to uncover the whole network of assumed meaning that we have not previously been even questioning the validity of.
In this way we become able to DISASSEMBLE THE ENTIRE NETWORK OF MEANING inside of which a problem is EMBEDDED.
The accomplishment of this process allows for unprecedented freedoms to take actions that we have previously been completely blind to the possibility of.


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If you notice your expense report has Tenant utilities listed the metered utilities has been input incorrectly.
When you recieve money from a tenant it is your income/rent not your expense.
When you write a check to the utility company that is your expense.
Create metered utilites using a rent or income catagory for the account, not an expense.
In the chart of accounts you should have or need to create a utility account for tenant utilites under rent or income. This is to keep track of money you collect for utilies from the teants.
If you have done this in the past:
Go to the income form for each tenant and change the account type on outstanding payments and payment history for that utility to the correct account (rent or income)
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Toronto-based dance artist Sandy Watters performs unique fusion pieces that explore fluid movement through both traditional and experimental styling. Sandy began focused study of bellydance studies at Om Laila under Roula Said in 2005, learning the foundations of Arabic bellydance, through the unique teaching methods at Om Laila. Later her practice broadened further with an interest in tribal fusion and American Tribal Style (ATS). Sandy has been strongly influenced and inspired by the likes of Rachel Brice, Mira Betz and Carolena Nericcio.
As a dancer in the Om Laila Troupe in it's heyday, Sandy has performed at The International Bellydance Conference of Canada open stage, Midnight Mirage, Lula Lounge, Kensington Market Pedestrian Sundays as well as private events and fundraisers. Sandy was part of a unique percussion experiment directed by Roula Said, where she engaged in Om Laila-style alchemy of dance, drumming, zyll-playing and Arabic singing. Through this project, Sandy later performed as a Funkabelly Allstar, alongside Nomadica at Funkabelly events.
Sandy is a member of Serpentina North Ensemble, a tribal group improv dance form that fuses American Tribal Style (ATS)/Improvisational tribal Style (ITS) and various other group formats, under co-founder and director of the troupe, Orkideh. With a never-ending vocabulary of moves for this powerful group dance, Serpentina is versed in both improvisational styles as well as choreography.
With a longstanding appreciation for vintage dance, Sandy studied Charleston and solo jazz under Joanna Kassoulides. As a longstanding dancer with the 1920's flapper troupe, the Sugar Shakers, Sandy shared her love of all things flapper far and wide at festivals, weddings and vintage themed events such as Electro Swing Club and Salon Noir.
As a soloist Sandy delves into more experimental grounds and has performed at the Init multimedia festival, Funkabelly, Nuit Blanche, Darkside Studios Inversion and various electronic and world music events. With interests in cross disciplinary collaboration, Sandy worked with wearable tech artist Erin Lewis and drummer Jaash Singh (Nuit Blanche 2010), on a project that translated her hip movement into a visual display through a sensor in her costume. Sandy was a dancer in the Toronto debut of the Ancient Rumblings production of Inanna: an Ancient Bellydance/Rock Spectacle in 2014. Sandy is half of House of Shimmy, a theatrical bellydance-inspired duet that has performed at Fedora Upside Down and on stage with ska/punk/pop band Random Order. House of Shimmy, a bellydance a go-go act, brings bellydance into non-traditional and theatrical realms including concert stage shows, festivals, and themed events.
Sandy has completed the Seven Waves teacher training with Roula Said of Om Laila Studio. In 2015 she completed the 200-hour yoga teacher certification with Karma Teachers, in the vinyasa lineage, and aims to make yoga accessible to all bodies. She continues dancing with Serpentina North Ensemble, House of Shimmy, as well as solo performance and teaching specialty workshops around Toronto.
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Video marketing is one of the best ways to create awareness, build an audience, and drive people to your website. In addition to yielding high click and conversion rates, videos offer an engaging way to share your brand story beyond words.
Since the birth of YouTube in 2005, when companies like Nike and NBC began leveraging video marketing online, video has taken the marketing world by storm. Not only is our industry craving high-quality video content, but we're all guessing what the next viral video sensation will be- and hoping that it will be our creation. Gone are the days of a skateboarding bulldog becoming an internet sensation. It's time to take your video marketing seriously and leverage video to tell your best stories.
It's not just our opinion. There is a ton of data that tells us that people demand video, and that videos produce results. Here are some compelling stats:
- 73% of all internet use is accounted for in video traffic
- That stat is expected to rise to 82% by 2021
- 90% of online shoppers say that video is helpful in making a purchasing decision
- Facebook generates 8 billion video views per day
You shouldn't ignore the fact that your audience is drawn to video content, and they are more likely to click on a social media post and more likely to convert on a product listing page that use video rather than only static images.
Do you want clicks and conversions? If so, be sure that video marketing is part of your strategy and keep reading for five reasons to use video marketing.
Five Reasons to Use Video Marketing
- Video content promotes brand recall
According to our partner, Hubspot, 80% of customers remember a video that they have watched in the past month. Because video appeals to the visual and audible senses, it makes it easier for viewers to remember and recall what they watched.
When viewers remember your video, they remember your brand – and that's important when they later have a problem or need that you can solve.
To aid in brand recall, be sure to keep your videos aligned to your brand by using your colors, fonts, logos and tone of voice in your video marketing. It's important to build this consistency across all of your communications.
- Video content helps boost your site's SEO
65% of business decision-makers visit a marketer's website after viewing a branded video. Pause for a moment and digest that stat – 65% of decision makers visit the website. There are very few tactics that achieve a number like that! Since site traffic is one part of Google's SEO algorithm, quality videos can drive site traffic, helping your organic search ranking.
Video can also bump up your website conversion rates. Hubspot found that 39% of business decision-makers contact a company after viewing a branded video. Landing pages and content offers are a great place to add video to improve your click-through rates and gain new leads.
- Video performs well on all devices
There are no boundaries when it comes to when and where people consume content and watch videos these days. Video views from mobile devices are happening at the coffee shop, in line at the grocery store, over dinner, and during that business meeting where you pretend to be checking your email.
You have the opportunity to connect and interact with your audience all hours of the day and on all devices.
We know that most people access social media sites from their phones, and videos are the best way to share engaging content on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram to get clicks, likes, and shares.
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Acana is one of popular dog food with premium quality. Acana has rich protein and less carbohydrate. It is not only that, it is also has 60% free run poultry and freshwater fish and heritage meats. You can choose the best one to feed your dog. If you are choosing Acana Freshwater Fish you will get nourishing fish protein and oils. The ingredients of this dog food such as rainbow trout, whole catfish, catfish meal, catfish oil, mackerel meal, cod meal, chickpeas, natural fish flavor, red lentils, whole pumpkin, zinc chelate, vitamin E and many more.
Eagle Pack
Eagle Pack uses proteins, fats and carbohydrate then combined with antioxidant support and omega fatty acids for the nutrition balancing. This dog food is also has some dog food type like canned dog food, dry puppy formula and dry adult formula. On dry adult formula you can find 6 variants like Original Adult Lamb Meal & Brown Rice, Original Chicken Meal & Pork Meal, Reduced Fat Adult, Large & Giant Breed Adult, Small Breed Chicken Meal & Pork Meal and Power Adult. The ingredients of this dog food like beef, chicken, chicken meal, chicken liver, anchovy & sardine meal, lamb meal, dried egg product, pork meal, turkey, lamb liver, barley, peas, tomato pomace, vitamins and minerals.
Stella & Chewy's
This dog food is one of awesome brands because the ingredients made from premium ingredients. Stella & Chewy's dog dinner is really recommended for your dog because this dog food can make our dog's teeth and gums healthy, have great stamina and vitality, relief from certain allergic, improved appetite and digestion, vibrant skin and coat. The ingredients of this dog food like 90-95% meat, 100% organic fruits and vegetables, grass fed, cage free. Stella & Chewy's uses frozen and freeze food type.
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Meet the Cast of Among the Dead by Hansol Jung
WILL DAGGER (Jesus) has helped develop new work at EST, New Dramatists, The Lark, Ars Nova, Primary Stages, Colt Couer, The Actors Studio, The Pearl Theatre, and Naked Angels. Recent credits: The Convent of Pleasure (Cherry Lane), Trees in their youth (Signature Center), Napoleon in Exile (59E59), Tartuffe (Two Headed Rep), Pucker Up and Blow (FringeNYC Best Overall Play), Verano Place (FringeNYC Best Ensemble), and OKAY (Ugly Rhino). Will is the artistic director of Calliope, a theatre company that devises large-ensemble hyperrealistic plays through long-form improvisation loosely inspired by classic works of literature. He also writes songs. Kenyon College, BADA. willdagger.com
JULIENNE HANZELKA KIM (Ana Woods) was previously seen at Ma-Yi in Chairs and a Long Table and I_NY. Broadway: Metamorphoses; Golden Child. Off-Broadway credits include: Yellow Face at The Public; The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow at The Atlantic Theater; The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci at Second Stage; Blood Orange at the Cherry Lane Theatre and the Blue Heron Arts Center; and The House of Bernarda Alba for NAATCO. Regional and Int'l: Phaedra Backwards at the McCarter Theater, Language Rooms at the Wilma Theater; Three Sisters at A.R.T. and the Edinburgh Int'l Festival; Yellow Face at the Mark Taper Forum; Golden Child at The Kennedy Center, A.C.T., Singapore Rep. and Seattle Rep.; Everything That Rises Must Converge and The World is Round with Compagnia de' Colombari. TV/Film credits include: The Affair (Showtime); Blue Bloods (CBS); Elementary (CBS); The Good Wife (recurring CBS); Royal Pains (USA); Law and Order, CI (NBC); Rescue Me (FX); One Life to Live (recurring ABC); Children of the Northern Lights (ITVS, FutureStates); When We Dead Awaken, The Adderall Diaries; Shadows and Lies; The Tested; Robot Stories; Split; and Life in Bed. Julienne holds an MFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Acting Program where she was the recipient of the NYU Departmental Scholarship. She is a proud member of the Workshop Company at The Actors Center, on the steering committee of AAPAC (Asian American Performers Action Coalition), and is the recipient of a Van Lier Literary fellowship.
DIANA OH (Number Four) is an actor, singer/songwriter, bandmate, performing artist, & theatremaker, the inaugural 2016 Van Lier Fellow in Acting with the Asian American Arts Alliance, one of Refinery 29's Top 14 LGBTQ Influencers, the First Queer Korean-American interviewed on Korean Broadcast Radio, a Radical Diva Finalist, an Elphaba Thropp Fellow at NYU's Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program (MFA), a member of Rattlestick's Actors-Who-Write Lab, a Van Lier Playwriting Finalist at The Lark, a Playwrights Realm Fellow Semi-Finalist, Creator of {my lingerie play}: a genre-bending Rock-Soul concert & performance series in lingerie staged in an effort to provide a saner, safer, more respectful world for women to live in featured on Upworthy, People.com, Huffington Post, Marie Claire Netherlands amongst other publications and on stage at Joe's Pub, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Lark, & All for One. Sel. Credits: New Line Cinema's How to Be Single with Dakota Johnson, Cherry Lane's The Surgeon and Her Daughters, Wifey TV's Hey Yun, Winter Miller's Spare Rib, Taylor Mac's 24 Decade History of Popular Music & many plays by Mariah MacCarthy. She will be in concert in April 2017 at The Center (www.gaycenter.org). Watch her PSA #AsianPeopleareNotMagicians (feat. Ralph Peña!) on Mic.com. The Wall Street Journal & Upworthy call her "bad-ass." www.mylingerieplay.com
MICKEY THEIS (Luke Woods) made his professional acting debut in the 2013 Yale Repertory Theatre production of Hamlet, featuring Paul Giamatti. He has since appeared off-Broadway in the world premiere of Doug Wright's Posterity (Atlantic Theater Company) and Desire (The Acting Company), an evening of newly adapted plays based on the short stories of Tennessee Williams. As a musician, Theis has written and performed as a solo artist, for the theater, and with Motel Motel, a band with which he toured internationally. He is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, a recipient of the US State Department "Cultures in Harmony" Grant, the Jerome L. Greene Endowment Fund Scholarship, and the Oliver Thorndike Award in Acting. He appeared in Episode 9 of Vinyl (HBO). His debut album, Range Songs, was released in September, 2016.
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Lyon offer Man City hope in Ndombele chase
The highly rated midfielder is generating plenty of interest and his Ligue 1 employers concede that they may struggle to retain his services
Lyon acknowledge that Tanguy Ndombele could be the next top talent to leave the club, with Manchester City reported to be among his many suitors.
The Ligue 1 outfit have grown accustomed to seeing prized assets stolen away by European rivals in recent years.
A famed academy system has produced a number of leading lights, while a clever recruitment policy continues to unearth hidden gems.
Ndombele falls into that category, with a loan move from Amiens having been turned into a permanent €8 million (£7m/$9m) transfer over the summer.
The 21-year-old is now generating talk of a possible £55m ($72m) switch to England, with Tottenham joining Premier League champions City in monitoring his situation.
Lyon president Jean-Michel Aulas admits he may be forced into another sale, with the likes of Alexandre Lacazette and Corentin Tolisso having sealed big-money switches to Arsenal and Bayern Munich last season.
He told Radio Scoop of the mounting interest in Ndombele: "When players decide to play for Madrid, Barcelona or Manchester… You don't decide to sell Lacazette or Tolisso, and in the same vein, I can't guarantee that we'll be able to keep Ndombele or [Houssem] Aouar next summer."
Aouar is another Lyon star to have sparked talk of interest from England, with the 20-year-old midfielder having seen his potential spotted early.
Nabil Fekir is a third Premier League target, with the World Cup winner still generating transfer talk after missing out on a summer switch to Liverpool.


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I am thrilled and looking forward to seeing many of you in the beautiful Quezon City of Philippines for the 2017 conference of APCDA. This year's conference will expose you to cutting edge ideas in the field of career development and will provide you opportunities to network and collaborate with colleagues across many countries. To ensure that experts have an opportunity to share their knowledge, we added two expert panels to supplement the presentations. On Monday at 2PM, we will hear a panel on Gender Issues in the Workforce with panelists Leili Jin (China), Masumi Nagae (Japan), and Tina Ancil (USA). On Tuesday at 2PM, we will hear a different panel discuss Technology in Career Services. Joining me on this panel will be Hector Lin from Singapore, and the NCDA President and my dear friend, David M. Reile, who will be with us sharing rich experiences of 20 years as a career services business owner.
The planning and execution of a successful conference requires hard work, dedication and commitment. As the president of APCDA, I take on this daunting task of acknowledging the impressive qualities of my fellow board members, country directors and member organizations for their immense support and cooperation to make this event possible. I am extremely grateful to our key note presenters — Dr. Josefina Santamaria, Dr. Regina M. Hechanova, and Dr. Jim Bright — who have kindly agreed to engage in rich conversations and share their ideas with the participants. My special thanks to Carla Siojo and all the members of the Ateneo de Manila University for their collegial and efficient work to ensure a successful conference.
This year, there is something new in the conference. Our annual conference gathering takes the opportunity to personally honor colleagues for distinguished achievement and outstanding career contributions to the field. APCDA will honor professionals of outstanding caliber for their contribution in the field of career development through the APCDA Newsletter Award, Outstanding Career Practitioner Award, Outstanding Educator of Career Professionals Award, and Lifetime Achievement Award. I extend my thanks to the Selection Committee and for their work in ensuring that these contributions to the field have been formally recognized and celebrated.
Finally, annual conferences would not exist without the participation of attendees. I ensure a diverse and engaging experience to my participants and hope to meet and connect with as many of you as possible in Manila.
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This year 4 scholars were awarded Emerging Leader Scholarships to attend the APCDA Conference in Manila. All 4 of these scholars have exhibited leadership either during or immediately following earning doctoral degrees in the career planning field.
Dr. Timothy Hsi earned his doctorate from the University College London, Institute of Education this year and studied how counsellors in tertiary educational institutions develop and establish their professional identities. He applied this knowledge to Singapore, where he is a master instructor for Global Career Development Facilitators and has been invited to speak on career development trends in Singapore.
Dr. Nisha Chaudhary earned her doctorate in 2015 from the University of Delhi, India. She studied the impact of social, cultural, and family expectations on career planning in Indian families. She is especially interested in assisting parents to understand the impact of their advice on their children.
Ms Laarni Tolentino-Capinding attends Miriam College in the Philippines and is researching the engineering course preferences of high school students enrolled in STEM programs. She also provides career planning talks in high schools in her community and assists students at her university with their career planning needs.
Ms Nupur Gosain is working on a doctorate at Manav Rachna International University, Faridabad, India and is studying mid-career transition and emotional intelligence. Beginning with her past work in recruitment and assessment, she is looked for the psychological traits which influence transition during mid-life.
APCDA Is delighted to encourage these young people in their leadership efforts in the field of career development. Please join us in congratulating them at the APCDA Conference.
As a regional career development association, APCDA is very much involved in local and international career development associations. In fact, APCDA members are happy to provide presentations for other associations, if travel expenses can be provided.
After we announced our conference in the Philippines, the Philippine Guidance and Counseling Association (PGCA) invited us to provide speakers for its conference on May 17-19. Our President, Dr. N.K. Chadha, will present on Existing Counselling Services in India and Futuristic Approach to Strengthening on May 18 and on Career Orientation Styles and Counselling Practices on May 19. Our President-Elect, Dr. Brian Hutchison, will present on Trauma Informed Care in Schools on May 18 and on Career Intervention Workshop Using Narrative and Value-based Techniques on May 19.
To further our relationship with the Career Development Association of Australia (CDAA), our Executive Director, Dr. Marilyn Maze and member, Dr. Constance Prichard, will attend their conference in Brisbane on May 17-19 and present a paper on Career Development Services, Training, and Credentialing Around the World.
In June, the International Centre for Career Development, Planning, and Policy (ICCDPP) will hold a Symposium in Seoul, Korea, and seven of our Board members will form the APCDA Team, including Dr. Hsiu-Lan (Shelley) Tien (Taiwan), Dr. Yu-Chen Wang (Taiwan), Dr. Claire Ouyang (Macau), Sing Chee Wong (Singapore) Raza Abbas (Pakistan), Sungsik Ahn (Korea), and Dr. Woongtae Kim (Korea). If you cannot attend this important Symposium, you can read the country and association reports at http://iccdpp2017.org/key-outcomes/country-paper/
At the National Career Development Association (NCDA) Conference in Orlando, Florida on June 28-30, APCDA has sponsored a panel on Securing a 1st Job in Asia – How Asians Navigate the College-to-Work Transition including Dr. Jose Domene, Di Hsui-Lan (Shelley) Tien, and Dr. Narender Chadha.
These sponsored activities are only a small portion of the many involvements of our members. Staying connected brings us the opportunity to learn from others and share what we have learned.
APCDA offers one free year of membership to recent graduates of programs preparing career professionals. We are happy to announce that graduates of the Career Development Network, the Institute for Career Certification International, and Colorado State University's Counselor Education program will now be receiving certificates for a free year of membership in APCDA.
We are actively seeking other institutions that provide training for career professionals and would like to take advantage of this offer. If you are a student or faculty in an organization that prepares career service providers, contact email@example.com for more information.
As membership chair, I would like to encourage current members to consider becoming "lifetime" members. I joined my statewide college counseling association as a lifetime member when I was 30 years old and stayed active in that organization until I retired (which was more than 30 years!) Could you imagine belonging to an organization for 20-30 years? Such a commitment inspires one to become involved, share expertise and take leadership. APCDA hopes for this level of commitment from each of our members.
This section of our newsletter is devoted to highlighting the background of our newest lifetime members:
Dr. Jose Domene (Canadian Professor and Country Rep), Annabelle Yong (Singapore - one of only 3 GCDF Master Trainers in Singapore) and Poh Li Lau (Malaysia Senior Lecturer and doctoral student under Professor Samuel T. Gladding and Professor John L. Romano at Indiana University). These three professionals are great role models as lifetime members!!! As you read their following biographies, note their specialties and their career paths. Their many accomplishments truly demonstrate their passion for our profession. When you meet them at our conferences, you will have something to discuss with them because you have read about them here. Networking and finding mentors (or role models) is a core belief of belonging to APCDA.
Feel free to contact me at email@example.com if you have any questions about membership.
Dr José F Domene decided to become a lifetime member of APCDA after serving on the Board of our association for several years. Currently he is our Country Representative for Canada. Dr. Domene feels he has gained first-hand knowledge of the important work that APCDA is engaged in, promoting the career development profession across the region and supporting related organizations in many member countries. He also really enjoys the friendly, collegial atmosphere of the APCDA annual conference, as well as the many opportunities to learn about innovations in career development theory and practice from outside of North America.
Dr. Domene is a Professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in School to Work Transition in the Faculty of Education at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton Campus. His educational background is in counseling psychology (MA, Trinity Western University) and measurement, evaluation and research methodology (PhD, University of British Columbia).
His areas of teaching include theories of counseling, career development and counseling, statistics, and research methodology. His areas of research interest include:
His research work has generated over 50 journal articles and book chapters, and over 150 presentations at conferences around the world. For more information about his teaching and research, see:
Dr. Domene is also a licensed psychologist at UNB Counseling Services, where he provides counseling services to university students presenting with a range of complex academic, career, and mental health difficulties. He coordinates the Pre-Doctoral Internship Program in Counseling Psychology at UNB Counseling Services.
Aside from his work with the APCDA, Dr. Domene's service to the profession includes serving as the chair of the Counseling Psychology Section of the Canadian Psychological Association (2010-13), president of the Counselor Educators Chapter of the Canadian Counseling and Psychotherapy Association (2015-16), associate editor of the Canadian Journal of Counseling and Psychotherapy (2015-present), and Editor-in-Chief of Antistasis: An Open Education Journal (2016-present). He also is involved with College of Psychologists of New Brunswick, the New Brunswick Association of Counseling Therapists, the New Brunswick Career Development Association, the Canadian Psychological Association and, most recently, the US's National Career Development Association.
Dr. Domene's work has been recognized through several awards, including the Canadian Psychological Association's status of Fellow in recognition of his contributions to research and the Canadian Counseling and Psychotherapy Association's Lorne Flavell Award for Outstanding Volunteer Service for his service to the profession. He was also part of a team that created an innovative student development focused summer employment program at the University of New Brunswick, which was awarded Macaulay-O'Sullivan Administrative Service and Innovation Award in 2012.
Annabelle Yong, MCounselling, ACB CL, decided to become a lifetime APCDA member because she believes in the importance of continuous learning and professional improvement, especially in the areas of career development and national policies towards employment. In addition, she appreciates this platform to network with like-minded professionals from various countries throughout the region.
Annabelle's belief in lifelong learning can be seen by the degrees, diplomas and certifications she has received: Certified Career and Behavioral Consultant, Certified DISC and MBTI Practitioner, Global Career Development Singapore Master Trainer, Career Practitioner Supervisor and Advanced Certificate in Training and Assessment. She holds a Master in Counseling and a Graduate Diploma in Organizational Leadership. She has further achieved the educational title of Advanced Communicator-Bronze and Competent Leader in Toastmasters International, leading her club and area to the highest distinction – President's Distinguished Club and President's Distinguished Area Awards.
Annabelle has more than 10 years of experience providing career and training services to diverse individuals and groups to enhance their employment prospects. She has presented career talks in schools, public and private organizations as well as conducted career coaching and training to career professionals, providing them with the skills and updated knowledge to work with diverse groups. She is also a member of NCDA.
She is proud to have received the PS21 (Public Service) Star Service Award, the highest recognition for public officers who have consistently demonstrated outstanding service excellence nationally. She is one of only 3 GCDF-Singapore Master Trainers in Singapore, having played a vital key role in reviewing the GCDF curriculum to be localized and approved nation-wide. She also has been involved actively in the advocating, outreaching and marketing of the career development programme to Career Practitioners throughout the country. The GCDF-Singapore programme has since become the baseline course for Career Coaches in Singapore to attend and is also Singapore's first WSQ (Workforce Skills Qualification) dual certification course (with certifications from both Singapore and US). Annabelle is also one of the main assessors of the 150-hour Advanced Certificate in Career Development Facilitation (ACCDF)/GCDF-Singapore programme, where assessments via workplace observations as well as oral and written assignments are essential to demonstrate evidence for course competency and passing.
Having worked previously as an Assistant Centre Manager of a national career centre, Annabelle had been directly involved in managing career centre operations, improving the service delivery of career services, handling escalated cases of clients with complex career issues and facilitating case discussions of difficult and challenging cases. She also had created and developed a Career Profiling Tool, known as Structured Employability Evaluation Diagram (SEED), which has been incorporated within the national career system platform and is utilized as the foundation tool to date. Finally, Annabelle has trained career practitioners across the 5 national career centres island-wide to ensure familiarity and successful implementation of the methodologies.
(Annabelle can be contacted at: firstname.lastname@example.com or http://linkedin.com/in/annabelle-yong-138ba2126)
Poh Li Lau decided to become an APCDA lifetime member because she wants to be more connected to the profession in the Asia Pacific Region. She also finds that APCDA webinars and conferences perfectly meet her continuing education needs.
Poh Li is a senior lecturer in the Department of Education Psychology and Counseling, University of Malaya. She is registered counselor in Malaysia. She had worked as a counselor in one of the private colleges before she joined University of Malaya in 2007. Her research interests include career maturity, career adaptability, work readiness, resiliency, creativity, motivation, self-care and other positive psychology topics that relate to career development. She won the Dean's Award for her Ph.D. thesis in Counseling in 2011 "Effect of Career Exploration Program on Career Maturity and Self-concept among Four Form students". Her external examiners for her thesis were Professor Samuel T. Gladding and Professor John L. Romano. Currently, she is a visiting scholar at Indiana University until 2018.
Poh Li's thesis study investigated the effect of the Career Exploration Program on high school students (16 years old) in Malaysia. ("Four Form" students are high school students in Malaysia, with ages between 16-17. Form four students in Malaysia are required to choose the academic track (science track, art track or vocational track.) It utilized Super Vocational Development theory and Holland Typology Theory which was suited to the local Malaysian academic environment and research needs. The Career Exploration Program was divided into five stages. The first stage, self- knowledge, focused on activities designed to assist students in recognizing their personal interest, aptitude, and work values. The second stage, educational knowledge, was designed to provide students with information on course requirements, as well as information on the various vocational programs available in Malaysia. The third stage, career knowledge, focused on gathering career information as well as learning the occupation names. The fourth stage, career goals, focused on activities designed to assist the students in linking career information with their self- information, and in formulating their general career goals. The fifth stage, career plans, focused on activities designed to help the students plan their subjects and courses. The findings showed that the Career Exploration Program treatment had enhanced the career maturity and self-concept of the experimental subjects and that the level of career maturity and their increased self-concept could be retained after a period 4 weeks (delayed post-test). The findings also indicated that the Career Exploration Program had enhanced the career maturity and self-concept of both male and female students. The results of the students' evaluation in the Career Exploration program appeared to be satisfactory.
Education summary:
Ph.D., Counseling, University of Malaya, 2011
Honours B.Coun., University of Malaya, 2006
Areas of Teaching:
Career Guidance and Counseling
Vocational and Career Counseling
Professional Standards and Counseling Ethics
Assessment in Counseling
Development of the APCDA Journal is on schedule and the 2017 Conference is where membership gets to be involved! In the Philippines, conference attendees will be able to help name the journal, learn how you might contribute as an author, consider the qualifications to apply as an editorial board member, and contribute to the overall plan for managing the journal. All of these activities point towards our first issue scheduled for March 2018.
There will also be an exciting announcement about the first issue at the annual meeting!!
By way of a short update on progress, the APCDA Board has appointed Dr. Brian Hutchison to be the founding editor of the journal. He is assisted by Editorial Assistant Yang Ai from China who is currently a doctoral student at the University of Missouri - St. Louis specializing in Career Counseling. With input from the APCDA Board, Brian and Yang have completed draft author guidelines and editorial board job descriptions; in addition, they have outlined the proposed manuscript submission process outlined in the flowchart below.
We look forward to seeing you all in The Philippines and sharing our new journal with one another.
Background of Japan's national qualification system
In Japan, it has long been considered common to work for the same company from graduation until retirement. However, nowadays as people's values are diversifying, we are entering a new era in which more people want to realize their own way of working and lifestyle. Along with rapid changes in society, the demand for career services is increasing.
Given this background, the "100,000 Career Consultants Training Plan" aims to double the current number of career consultants (approximately 50,000) by the end of March 2025. In April 2016, a new national qualification for career counselors was created. Since the new system requires that career counselors renew their license every five years, improvement and standardization among qualified personnel is expected.
Improvement of work environment
Under the "Vocational Ability Development Promotion Law", the task of employers is to "secure opportunities for career consultation and other assistance as necessary" for their employees. Specifically, it will be required to make effective use of "a person with expert knowledge and skills related to career consultation" and "provide professional services for career consultation".
From the workers' perspective, it is expected that they will be provided with a work environment where they can easily consult with career consultants and counselors, and will be able to positively think about their own career. The employer's challenge is to reconcile the career plan required by the worker with their business plan, and then take measures to create a workable environment for the right persons in the right place. Given the rapidly declining birthrate and aging population in Japan, this policy seems to be a meaningful measure to sustain the labor force population.
Demand for Human Resources development and training poses a challenge
Many Japanese career consultants and counselors belong to public employment security offices, University employment support departments, and private employment support organizations. Many consultations are related to human resources matching. The percentage of companies involved in human resource development and training is about 20%. With 100,000 people planned, increasing demands for human resources development and career development will become a challenge.
Singapore's only asset is human capital. In order to sustain the country's growth, this asset is developed continuously. Initially, Singaporeans favoured academic pursuits above everything else to aid in this endeavour. Academic excellence not only ensured stable, well-paying jobs but it also touted the much-desired symbol of one's social status. Regretfully, it sometimes resulted in mismatches between individuals and their jobs. Hence, it became essential that this entrenched social culture be changed.
Several shifts are advocated, and these shifts are acknowledged as "the building blocks of transformation" that would set the stage for Singapore's continued progress for the next 20 years.
To support the lifelong learning and skills development culture, the Singapore Government initiated the "SkillsFuture" in 2014. Its aim is to develop Singaporeans to their full potential, and empower them to achieve their aspirations by developing mastery in what they do. Led by the Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore, SkillsFuture wants to develop an integrated system of education, training and career progression for Singaporeans. It will also promote industry support for individuals to advance based on skills, and foster a culture of life-long learning.
The four main thrusts of this initiative are:
There are several schemes in SkillsFuture for different groups of population.
SkillsFuture Credit
The most well-known scheme which benefits every Singaporean above the age of 25 years is the SkillsFuture Credit. This scheme aims to encourage individual ownership of skills development and lifelong learning. Everyone will receive an opening credit of $500 which will not expire, and there will be periodic top-ups so that individuals could pursue lifelong learning. The scheme which started in 2016, noted that 126,000 Singaporeans have made use of this fund in its first year. Information and Communications Technology was found to be the most popular training area across all age groups. Currently, there are more than 10,000 approved courses which could use the SkillsFuture credit for payment of fees.
Students, "Leaders of Tomorrow"
Since students are the nation's future leaders and economic pillars, trained Education and Career Guidance Counselors are appointed in every school and Institute of Higher Learning to guide and help students make informed choices regarding academic courses, training and careers. This is to ensure that they select courses and careers that would maximize their potential, and make them more 'future ready' when they enter, and contribute as members of, the workforce.
Mid-career Employees
Globalisation as well as technological disruption and changes accelerate the rate of skills obsolescence. Workers who want to keep abreast with technological advancement and growth have to deepen or learn new skills continuously. A Skills Framework has been developed to provide up-to-date information on employment, career pathways, occupations, job roles, existing and emerging skills, as well as relevant education and training programmes. This would facilitate workers' career planning as they take ownership for their development, with assistance from career professionals where required.
A wide range of short, skills-focused modular courses relevant to various industries are available to provide Singaporean workers with more opportunities to acquire required skills. For workers who want to switch careers, there are also many heavily subsidised programmes for them to learn and adapt to new careers. All these courses may be paid for by the workers' SkillsFuture Credit. Advisors and mentors working in the industries are appointed to guide and help these mid-career switchers identify suitable careers, as well as support them when they adapt to their new careers.
My SkillsFuture
MySkillsFuture, is a one-stop education, training and career guidance online portal that will empower every Singaporean to plan their education and training for their working life. Using this portal they could discover their interests, abilities and career aspirations, as well as explore various education pathways before they enter the workforce. Individuals could also use MySkillsFuture to search for suitable jobs and manage their careers. For individuals in mid-careers, MySkillsFuture serves to inform individuals of skills gaps that they may need to address to remain relevant in the workforce.
My SkillsFuture is expected to be available in 2017.
Employers' Role in SkillsFuture
People are the greatest asset of any business, so companies need effective strategies to attract and retain valued employees. Employers' role in facilitating workers' acquisition and deepening of skills is therefore recognised and encouraged. Incentives are available to employers to empower their employees to excel and discover opportunities to fulfil their potential with training and career advancement opportunities. All levels of staff should have access to achieve their skills mastery. Other more senior and experienced staff in the company could also contribute as Mentors and Advisors to their colleagues. Ultimately, a skilled worker not only contributes to the company's growth but also to the industry at large.
With transformation shifts and development of the SkillsFuture, exciting times are ahead for the practice of career development in Singapore. Career professionals should aspire to be "top of the class" practitioners in this nascent industry!
For more information on SkillsFuture, please refer to http://www.skillsfuture.sg/skillsfuture-for-you
In an era of industrial transformation and global economy, the Employment Consultation System of Taiwan Government is faced with the challenge of transformation, and expected to solve the problems: (1) the complication of occupational classification and contents. e.g. occupational categories are extended from 380 in 2002 to 505 nowadays, and occupational function and demands are much more complex; (2) the demand & supply unbalance of the labor market - there are numerous tools to evaluate what kind of work a job seeker suits, but few tools to evaluate it from the angle of talent seekers, which can endanger job seekers.
To solve these problems, the Taiwan workforce development agency entrusted Professor Wang and his team from Fu Jen University to build up a new career counseling and bilateral selecting system. This system is based on Taiwan work style (TWS), the compound personality traits relating with workplace, and connected to 505 occupations within Taiwan Standard Classification of Occupations. When job seekers use the finding-fit-job function, they can find the most congruent job. If job seekers and talent seekers use the bilateral first selection function, they can develop congruence between the needs of human practice of a company and the adaptation and development of a job seeker.
To develop TWS using the new system, we interviewed representative companies within every industry, collecting thoughts and suggestions of experts from I/O psychology, management, and statistics, and then developing the TWS scale. TWS was assessed with 59 items, containing 13 sub-scales, ? ranging from .72 to .85 (Md=.80). TWS is framed by Five-Factor Model and adopted the concept of Criterion-Focused Compound Traits (Ones et al., 2005) to link up practice with theory. The scales also showed a comparable pattern of construct validity with other similar measures and a great expert validity.
With regard to the concept of Criterion-Focused Compound Traits, TWS exhibited more reasonable or substantial prediction. The system is very easy-to-test. Each user can understand what job they suit and what work style is significant. Users also can discuss their output with a counselor.
Career development typically contains several career choices. The more a conscious selected work is suitable for a job seeker, the easier he or she will develop the talents and gain the sense of satisfaction and fulfillment. The job seeker also will remain in their job longer. For enterprises, conscious selected work will not only improve performance of staff, but also produce synergies in their company if the employee can develop their talents in the suitable position or company. Understanding the work style is both conducive to handling one's own career direction by connecting to their own personality, and assisting an individual to develop functional dominance or right habits by corresponding to related workplace behaviors.
Through the new system in government or personal counseling, the kind of work suited to an individual, an individual's style in workplace, and/or whether an individual needs to adjust self or work style can be evaluated.?https://exam2.taiwanjobs.gov.tw/Onet/TWS_Explanation /?For the Business Guidance Application in an organization, besides assisting an individual to understand the organization and handle its work, it can also be used in the aspects of department communication and employer-employee mutual understanding, thus adjusting talent demand, etc. ?https://exam2.taiwanjobs.gov.tw/Onet/TWS_Explanation/? We hope this new career counseling and selecting system can help both job seekers and talent seekers find what they want; leading to a greater match between supply and demand in the labor market.
Liang-Chen Lu, Ph.D., CDFI (email@example.com) received his I/O Psychology doctorate degree from Fu-Jen University. He is the Cofounder and CEO of TSquare system design Co., Ltd. in Taiwan. TSquare is a unique company provides O2O customized career design solutions for the coming unpredictable world.
Tao-Yuan Yang, Ph.D. student, (firstname.lastname@example.com) in I/O Psychology at Fu-Jen University. He is the assistant of Research Center of Occupational Asessment, Development & Health (ADHC), and RD of TSquare system design Co.
Sy-Feng Wang (firstname.lastname@example.com), a professor in the Department of Psychology, and a director of the Research Center of Occupational Assessment, Development & Health, in Fu-Jen Catholic University, Taiwan. He is also one of major researchers & developers of CVHS, which is a career information system developed by Fu-Jen University and shared and used by other 15 universities in Taiwan.
An overview of Vietnamese high school student's program choice in 2016
Key highlights of the 2016 HCMC Centre of Labour Forecasting career survey conducted with 120 high schools in Ho Chi Minh City:
Table 1: Career Trends of High School Students (HCM city) in 2016
University accounted for the highest percentage of 87.00% Bachelor degree; 7.00% college degree and middle - ranking took 6.00%.
Table 2: Trend of Level of Education (HCM city) in 2015 & 2016
The newly established HCMC Centre for Career Education Practitioners Development (HCCEPD)
With the increasing need in Vietnam, and Ho Chi Minh City in particular, for a proper training program for Education Practitioners, the HCCEPD has been approved to start its operations by end of March. Up to this current time, there isn't a professional training program for this important group of professionals who can provide career education for students at different levels of studies from secondary school up to university. The complete course consists a 7 days training of total 45 hours. The proposal received strong interest from the public sector. It hopes to train up 200 professionals in 2017.
As the US Country Director to ACPDA, I spend considerable time scouting for new ideas, career interventions that are changing practice, and new ways to spread career innovation across the world. Eight ideas follow the announcement of the passing of Dick Bolles. Each issue suggests ideas critical to the status of career development within the United States.
Dick Bolles, Career Giant, Even Larger Person
First, we all mourn the loss of Dick Bolles http://www.jobhuntersbible.com/. Dick donated his time to be APCDA's very first keynote speaker at our inaugural conference in Seoul, and he generously joined us again in Hawaii the following year. We loved spending time with him and his beloved wife Marci. This precious time together allowed him to touch, honor and enlighten so many APCDA members. His ideas pushed us all to find the best in each other.
Dick, known worldwide for his iconic What Color is Your Parachute https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/01/business/richard-bolles-dead-what-color-is-your-parachute.html, was so much more than an author. In my eyes he re-directed career development in the late 1970's and early 80's by moving career development from a placement model to a positivity model. He and his process freed people to reflect upon that which they wanted to do based upon a self-inventory of past achievements. His creative flower became a template for all practitioners to use as a way to understand the holistic nature of one's life planning process. Fortunate to be one of his early students, my flower from 1982-3 appears in all recent additions of his annual book. Dick Knowdell and I had the pleasure to join Bobbi Floyd, friends and family at Dick Bolles 90th birthday on March 19th.
His remarkable life is reviewed in this New York Times article https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/01/business/richard-bolles-dead-what-color-is-your-parachute.html
8 Ideas Useful to Understanding Career Development within the US.
For many years, the National Career Development Association (NCDA) members and the public at large have asked for clarification among the differences across the wide varieties of career practitioners. NCDA's Board of Directors has long reflected on the need for industry credentials for its members and first attempted to explain these differences through the Membership Designations Program. The feedback has been clear that this program did not go far enough in addressing the educational and experience levels in the field.
NCDA believes the complexity in the career field needs to be recognized by a variety of high quality credentials. NCDA has determined that setting up a credentialing body will allow NCDA's standards and ethics to be upheld most effectively. As a result, the NCDA Credentialing Commission (NCC) was formed. For more than a year, the Commission has researched and developed five new credentials.
The Certified Career Services Provider™ (CCSP) credential is intended for providers offering career services in an array of roles and settings, such as advisors, coaches, workforce practitioners, facilitators, trainers, recruiters, and resume writers. An applicant will need to demonstrate competency aligned with the current 12 competencies addressed in NCDA's Facilitating Career Development curriculum.
The Certified Master of Career Services™ (CMCS) is intended for providers who have mastered a variety of roles in career services, such as consultants, coaches, managers, workforce practitioners, facilitators, trainers, recruiters, and resume writers. This credential is open to practitioners with a minimum of 5 years of full-time employment or the equivalent (10,000 hours) and requires demonstration of mastery of the CMCS domains of practice.
The Certified Career Counselor ™ (CCC) credential is intended for a career counselor with an advanced degree (master's, educational specialist or doctoral level) in counselor education, counseling psychology or closely related counseling degree, engaged primarily in a career counseling practice or other career counseling related services. The Certified Career Counselor credential recognizes two important factors in training and experience, including both counseling and a specialization in career development, theory and practice.
The Certified Clinical Supervisor of Career Counseling™ (CCSCC) credential is intended for individuals who serve as clinical supervisors to career counselors and other practitioners who provide career services.
The Certified Career Counselor Educator™ (CCCE) is intended for counselor educators whose primary focus is on the career development aspect of counselor preparation.
These competency-based credentials provide a higher level of consumer confidence. Those career professionals holding an NCDA credential will have met rigorous standards set by NCDA, the recognized leader in the career development profession.
An online application process will be used for all NCDA credentials. All applications will be reviewed by a credentialed and trained reviewer. Applicants will be notified via email regarding their credential award. The credentials will be available in mid July 2017.
For more information about these new credentials, visit the NCDA website (www.ncda.org) or this link: http://www.ncda.org/aws/NCDA/pt/sp/credentials. Please address questions to the author at email@example.com.
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Gallery: Introduction to Ceramic Tile Mosaics
Ceramic tile is an excellent medium for both mosaic art work and functional mosaics, such as table tops, back-splashes, floors and murals, due to it's durable qualities. Learning to work with ceramic tile can be the gateway to creating larger scale, permanent, or functional mosaics.
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It is true that the "Garden City of India" that is Bangalore may conjure images of being a bustling metropolis, which full of urban constructions, sleek office buildings, a complex network of roads, etc., but there is more in Bangalore that meets the eyes on the first glance. The city is home to numerous tourist attractions and allure that are worth relishing. Besides, there are a couple of interesting getaways from the city that offer a respite away from the busy city.
Bangalore is a city where the green spaces are as significant as the ultra-modern buildings, a place where history and cultural heritage are given as much reverence as there is the inclination towards the luxuries and facilities of modernity. The capital of Karnataka, Bangaluru, as the city is now known, is the fastest developing city in the entire Asian continent. However, modernity is just one aspect of the city, and apart from being highly recognized for its contemporary nature, it is also a place that is abundantly blessed with wonderful weather, natural lakes, parks, and architectural marvels that are the timeless testimonies of the by-gone era. It is no exaggeration to state that living in Bangalurur is an experience of a lifetime as every day is an adventure here and the things that you will see and learn every other day is just amazing. There are sufficient attractions and allures in Bengaluru to keep you hooked to the city the entire time. However, individuals who seek a break from the city life, there are a couple of destinations in the city's surrounding that are dipped in the bewitching essence of nature and offer a respite from the hullabaloo of the city. Given below are some destinations that qualify as the most popular getaways from Bangaluru:
When one thinks of a holidaying, Goa is the place that immediately strikes the mind. Indeed, the home of popular beaches, quaint old churches, some of the oldest forts, and the crumbling Portuguese colonies, is one perfect destination to visit. Whether you like to start your tour with a stroll on the beaches or by exploring the golden history by taking a heritage walk in the narrow lanes in Old Goa, there are attractions that will entice you. There are direct flights on a daily basis. Besides, one interesting way to get into the state is covering the distance on a Bengaluru to Goa taxi.
The home of Bandipur National Park, the quaint town is rapidly picking up pace in becoming a popular trend amongst the backpackers in Bangalore. It perhaps offers the best respite when it comes to spending a memorable vacation in the midst of nature. The beautiful forest reserve is full with the purity of nature and offers some great opportunities to spot the rich flora and fauna of south India. Needless to say, the place is full of adventure and mysticism.
One of the most beautiful regions in Karnataka, Shimoga is a small heaven on Earth. Away from the chaotic, large cities, the place is very tranquil and blessed with the best of nature. An important aspect of the place is religion. It is important to know that the name of the place is the distorted form of Shiva-mukha, signifying the face of Lord Shiva. One's trip to the place will take them for a memorable ride. Tyavarekoppa Lion Safari, Mandagadde Bird Sanctuary, Jig Falls, and a trip to the site of Tunga Anicut Dam, are just a few of the place's electric character. Although, it is possible to access Shimoga via roads, but Bangalore to Shimoga train is a faster approach.