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Special events call for a special venue! A truly unique venue that combines old world charm with modern sophistication, Olde Breton Inn has what it takes to make your special day a memorable one!
You'll create glowing memories and delight your guests when you hold your wedding at Olde Breton Inn. From the elegant grounds (including charming gazebo, water views and pristine landscaping) to our classic dining room, we've covered every detail to make your special day absolutely perfect.
Our beautiful bridal suite helps to set the mood before the wedding ceremony. The bridal party can primp and relax before the big moment arrives.
Let's not forget the photos! Our inn and grounds offer picturesque settings for your wedding photographs. Please browse our Photo Gallery for examples and inspiration.
holiday parties
Yes, Olde Breton Inn is simply lovely in the spring, summer, and fall but December brings a special added-touch of nostalgia to the Inn.
Charming gets even more charming with the addition of greenery inside and outside the Inn, along with poinsettias and twinkling lights placed throughout. The dining room gets dressed with an old-fashioned Christmas tree and sleigh, creating the perfect spot for holiday photos.
Winter makes it's own contribution to the ambience, providing a glistening view of the bay and evergreens through the floor-length windows. An occasional snowfall (if you're lucky!) makes the view even more spectacular!
Olde Breton Inn is available to host all types of events.
Local businesses hold corporate functions here from board meetings to retirement parties. Families turn to Olde Breton Inn to celebrate birthdays and anniversaries and also to mourn after a funeral.
We offer many different styles of service so you can make the event truly your own. Luau? Pig Roast? Clam Bake? Crab Feast? Yes, we can do it! All with the same first-class service you expect from the Bailey family.


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I'm pleased to let you know Ohio's State Board of Education has granted your school a 2017-2018 Momentum Award. Now in its fourth year, the Momentum Award is the State Board's way of recognizing schools that received A's on every Value-Added measure included on the Ohio School Report Cards.
As a Momentum Award winner, your school's report card shows your school is committed to its students' success by ensuring students exceeded the growth expectations in English language arts and mathematics. I also congratulate you on recruiting and motivating the high-quality leaders and staff needed to make this happen.
Ohio's strategic plan for education, Each Child, Our Future, is the state's plan to ensure each student is challenged, prepared and empowered for his or her future by way of an excellent prekindergarten through grade 12 education. Our mission is to prepare students for a future that has yet to be written. Many consider this to be a daunting endeavor. Your education team, however, has clearly embraced this challenge.
I want you to know how much we appreciate your leadership and the dedication your team has to providing a high-quality experience for all students. Please share our gratitude with all of those who contributed to this accomplishment.
Thank you for all you do for the students and families you serve.

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Here you will find resources to assist students of various levels, as well as additional items that may be interesting or useful to others. Keep checking back for new additions.
Beginning Students
Useful aids for beginning students, such as pictures of hand positions and links to audio and videos to help you practice in between lessons.
Intermediate Students
Useful aids for intermediate students, including practice aids.
Advanced Students
Useful aids for advanced students, including suggestions on how to practice.
Youth Orchestras, Chamber Music and Music Camps
Ensemble resources for students in the Seattle/Edmonds/Everett region.
Archery and String Playing
For many years Wes has used the imagery of archery in his string teaching. Violin playing and archery have a surprising amount in common, starting with the fact that both use a bow.


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For Brightly Penguin Randomhouse.
Did you know...
- That ice cream chefs put some pretty unusual things in ice cream - including bugs?
- That Washington and his wife, Martha, served ice cream at many important dinners in New York and Philadelphia, and had fancy ice cream bowls and serving spoons at their home in Mount Vernon?
- That a Japanese researcher tested morning ice cream eaters and found that they were more alert and less mentally irritated than those who hadn't had a scoop?
I did five illustration for five fun ice cream facts for Brightly's article here.


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Seagoe-based poultry firm Moy Park has been bought by an American company for £1 billion.
Janet McCollum, chief executive of Moy Park, said, "This announcement is a positive development for Moy Park and all our colleagues employed across the business.
"Pilgrim's is one of the leading chicken producers in the world with a proven track record and we see great opportunities for Moy Park as part of this successful business. Joining Pilgrim's gives us the opportunity to accelerate our growth plans, share best practices and leverage Pilgrim's expertise and operational excellence."
She added, "Moy Park will provide Pilgrim's with a platform for growth in Europe as well as access to innovation and increased exposure to prepared foods. Both Moy Park and Pilgrim's have a long heritage in agriculture and poultry production going back over 70 years and we share the same values.
"We look forward to this new and exciting phase of Moy Park's development as we continue to meet and exceed the needs of our customers and consumers, providing fresh, locally-sourced poultry and top quality, innovative products."
Bill Lovette, Pilgrim's chief executive officer. said, "Following our successful acquisitions of GNP and the assets in Mexico, Moy Park represents a logical next step in the evolution of our geographical and brands footprint.
"We welcome the talented Moy Park team members and management team, led by Janet McCollum, to Pilgrim's, and we look forward to working closely with them and their family farm partners to drive growth and deliver value for our shareholders."
Moy Park, which was founded in 1943, is now one of the top 10 UK food companies and one of Europe's leading poultry producers,
It has more than 800 farmers across the UK, processes more than 5.7 million birds per week and has 13 processing plants in the UK, Ireland, France and the Netherlands.


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It seemed like the wrong question to me. In my synesthetic kind of way, the sounds of music seem to emanate from (and sometimes reflect) my surroundings: the swelling horn sections emulating the unavoidable tensions of daily life, the fast-rising trumpet line as joyous as freshly-discovered love, the developing collective improvisation that makes its way through the musical story as yet to be completed.
So when a piece of music suddenly becomes extremely chaotic, it seems very natural to me. Life itself provides those kind of moments and, while the shifts in mood can be jarring, we have no choice but to carry on.
Now, I'm sure my friend would just shrug his shoulders at my explanations and get just as annoyed as Bill Dixon and Rob Mazurek draw their concepts in the air over the expanding and contracting pulse of Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra. This orchestra does explode here and there, mostly without warning. Not too far into Constellations For Innerlight Productions (For Bill Dixon)," a foreboding mood full of squirty horn tones, bells, short guitar figures, and much space ... flares up into a huge descending chord sequence for the entire group. Given a fair amount of time (over 24 minutes) for themes to repeat, morph, and further unfoldvignettes of swing, space, and chaos emerge and are then revisited. If that's not just like life, I don't know what is.
It must have been a thrill for Mazurek to team up with free jazz legend Bill Dixon. You can almost hear that sentiment as Mazurek's flugelhorn and Dixon's trumpet traverse the textures of Entrances." With intensity swinging from full boil to pensive rubato, it'll keep you on the edge of your listening seat wondering what direction is next.
This is what's great about music. It's a big 'ole listening world out there and there's always more to be said and heard. That me and my friend don't agree on the particulars is of little consequence. We all make our own paths, I'm just glad that Bill Dixon is on mine.
This story appears courtesy of Something Else!.
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The Flenser Membership Series - Series One
Regular price
PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING CAREFULLY (especially the "fine print" at the end):
Introducing The Flenser Membership Series. The initial installment (Series One) is a curated selection of 2019's new Flenser releases. Members will receive six LPs and three 7 inches. These will all be special editions unique to members only, meaning either special vinyl colors or supplemental artwork that isn't available to anyone else.
This is going to be a massive year for us. Not only will there be a brand new Have a Nice Life album (!!!!!!!!), but several of our most beloved artists will also be releasing new material in 2019. Those who sign up for Series One can expect to receive the most exclusive versions of each of these releases.
Our first release of the year—and the first installment of Series One—will be the debut full-length from Boston's Elizabeth Colour Wheel, titled Nocebo. It is an excellent album and we can't wait for you to hear it. We're confident that Nocebo will become a beloved Flenser classic, along the lines of Planning for Burial's "Below the House," or King Woman's "Doubt."
Beyond the six regular LPs, there will also be an exclusive "members only" 12 inch. This mystery record will feature music from a current Flenser artist that won't be available anywhere else.
The full list of Series One can be found below. As you can see we're making most of the titles known now, but we're keeping a couple under wraps for the time being.
- Have a Nice Life - Sea of Worry (Silk Screen Edition)
- Drowse - Light Mirror
- All Your Sisters - Trust Ruins
- Vale - Burden of Sight
- Elizabeth Colour Wheel - Nocebo
- Wreck and Reference - Absolute Still Life
- Street Sects - Gentrification III: Death and Displacement 7inch
- Unannounced 7inch
- Consumer - In Computers LP
- Drowse - Second Self (Members Only Exclusive 12inch not for sale elsewhere)
In addition to the new albums we have planned for 2019, there will be a number of reissues and represses from our back catalog. These will not be part of the Membership Series. Series One will include new releases only, so long-time fans of the label won't have to worry about receiving doubles of albums they already own.
Members will also receive Bandcamp downloads for all of the Series One releases, as well as a discount of 10% off distributed items and merchandise from The Flenser webstore. Postage is included in the price.
$200 for Domestic Membership (i.e. within the USA)
$250 for Canadian Membership
$300 for the Rest of the World Membership
The fine print:
MEMBERSHIP CANNOT BE CANCELLED OR REFUNDED AT ANY TIME. As with all of our vinyl releases, manufacturing and production delays are possible. In order to keep the postage costs reasonable, members in Canada and the Rest of the World will receive their shipments in batches. Domestic members may also receive shipments in batches if multiple releases arrive around the same time. Due to the already complex nature of this endeavor, new orders cannot be combined with membership shipments. Sorry, no exceptions. The records included with Series One are already planned out and finalized, but we may have other new releases land on our schedule that are not part of the Series One. If this is the case, they will NOT be added to the Membership Series after the fact, and a separate purchase will be necessary. Additionally, the reissues and represses we have planned for this year are not a part of Series One and will likewise require a separate purchase. Members will be given advance notice of any new releases that aren't included in Series One, as well as reissues. Changes of address must be reported immediately to avoid additional reshipping charges. Please submit address updates to firstname.lastname@example.com along with the order number received at time of purchase.


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This Movie Sets,City Block line continues with Low Poly Two. A very low polygon City Block intended for use in distance shots, or as background blocks for full City Block Sets. Works great with My 81 City Block Set or with any one of my City Block Sets. It is similar to the Low Poly One that comes with my 81 City Blocks Set. When you get a new set, simply load the block and move it to the hidden empty lots coordinates.
I have this Low Poly Block set up so you can move it easily to any one of 9 locations in a nine block set, or you can use the Block Mover that comes with the 81 City Blocks to move it to any one of the 81 City Block locations. That is not all! Once you move a block to a location, you can easily rotate the block and all the extras go along for the ride! So you can buy one set and have four different corners meeting at one intersection by simply loading 1 block 4 times and moving and rotating to do so.
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Bull Run Hydroelectric Project
|Marmot Dam and Little Sandy Dam
Map of the components of the Bull Run Hydroelectric Project
|Official name
|Bull Run Hydroelectric Project
|United States
|45°25′44″N 122°14′02″W / 45.42901°N 122.23395°WCoordinates: 45°25′44″N 122°14′02″W / 45.42901°N 122.23395°W
|Power generation
|Construction began
|Opening date
|Demolition date
|Portland General Electric
|Roslyn Lake
|Total capacity
|928 acre feet (1,145,000 m3)
|Installed capacity
|Annual generation
|110,000 MW·h (400 TJ)
The Bull Run Hydroelectric Project was a Portland General Electric (PGE) development in the Sandy River basin in the U.S. state of Oregon. Originally built between 1908 and 1912 near the town of Bull Run, it supplied hydroelectric power for the Portland area for nearly a century, until it was removed in 2007 and 2008; the project used a system of canals, tunnels, wood box flumes and diversion dams to feed a remote storage reservoir and powerhouse. The entire project was removed because of rising environmental costs. Marmot Dam on the Sandy River was demolished in 2007, and the Little Sandy Dam on the Little Sandy River was taken down in 2008.
History and overview[edit]
The Mount Hood Railway and Power Company (MHR&P), also known as the Mount Hood Company, began the project in 1906, building the Little Sandy Dam to divert water through a wooden flume, about 3.2 miles (5.1 km) long, to Roslyn Lake.[1] The dam reduced streamflows on the lower 1.7 miles (2.7 km) of the Little Sandy River and blocked all salmon and steelhead access to the upper 6.5 miles (10.5 km) of the river.[1] Roslyn Lake was at 656 feet (200 m) above sea level,[2] about 400 feet (120 m) higher than the mouth of the Bull Run River, at 242 feet (74 m);[3] the 140-acre (57 ha) lake acted as a reservoir for the powerhouse, which was completed and put into operation in 1912, the same year that the MHR&P merged with Portland Railway, Light and Power Company (PRL&P), the predecessor of PGE.[1]
In 1913 PRL&P built a dam on the Sandy River to supplement the Little Sandy Dam; the Marmot Dam, 45 feet (14 m) high, diverted water from the Sandy to the Little Sandy by canal and tunnel, the longest of which ran 4,690 feet (1,430 m) under the ridge between the two rivers. The new dam supplied up to 600 cubic feet per second (17 m3/s) to the Little Sandy above its diversion dam, and the Little Sandy provided up to 200 cubic feet per second (5.7 m3/s), all of which could be diverted through the flume to Roslyn Lake.[1]
The Marmot Dam included a fish ladder to allow migration of salmon and steelhead; however it performed poorly at first and required frequent upgrades and maintenance, which continued into the 1990s. To prevent fish from being swept into the diversion canal, PGE installed fish screens in 1951 and later added a bypass system to rescue fish trapped in the canal.[4]
In 1989 the original timber crib Marmot Dam was replaced with a concrete structure.
|Marmot Dam
|Little Sandy Dam
|Roslyn Lake
|Bull Run Hydro powerhouse
The powerhouse had a generating capacity of 22 megawatts (MW), enough to power 12,000 homes in 2007.[5]
The decommissioning project required significant oversight, because Marmot Dam was the largest concrete dam ever removed in the United States.[6] PGE sought and received initial approval for the project from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in 1999. PGE later employed RESOLVE, a non-profit dispute resolution organization, to help develop a detailed consensus plan among the interested parties. An agreement was reached in 2002 on the decommissioning;[7] the primary issues addressed by the reviews were the impact on fish species (particularly salmonids), their habitat, and the effect of the release of 1 million cubic yards (750,000 cubic meters) of sediment on the river course.[8][9][10] In 2004, PGE allowed its operating license to lapse, and filed a notice stating: "[...]the likely cost of providing the necessary level of protection, mitigation, and enhancement for the resources affected by the Project would outweigh the economic benefit of generation at the Project over the life of a new license[...]"[7] The project continued to operate with license extensions while decommissioning awaited approval. In 2006, PGE requested special approval of the decommissioning from the National Marine Fisheries Service, because of the project's potential impact on coho salmon; the final review was conducted by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, which granted approval for the decommissioning on May 21, 2007. A spokesman for the Corps stated that the removal project was unusual, because "Large dams usually don't get removed."[8]
Before Marmot Dam could be removed, a temporary coffer dam had to be built upstream; when this phase of the project was complete, the removal of the permanent concrete dam could proceed. The destruction of the permanent dam began on 26 July 2007, when a public controlled demolition weakened the structure; the rest of the dam was destroyed using pneumatic hammers over approximately 4 months.[11] The last concrete from Marmot Dam was removed on September 30, 2007,[12] and the final phase of removal was completed on 20 October 2007, when the temporary earthen dam washed away and the Sandy River began to flow freely for the first time since 1912.[13][14]
PGE removed Little Sandy Dam in 2008, eliminating Roslyn Lake; this restored Little Sandy River flow and made salmon and steelhead migration once again possible.[15] In May 2009, a fish biologist reported that salmon and steelhead were spawning upstream of the former dam.[16] PGE donated 1,500 acres (610 ha) of the dam site to the Western Rivers Conservancy;[15] this land is planned to form the core of a 9,000-acre (3,600 ha) natural refuge and public recreation area, which will be managed by the Bureau of Land Management.[15] PGE's water rights on the river were transferred to the state;[17] as of 2009, PGE biologists continue to monitor the streams.[15]
As part of its decommissioning, PGE planned to demolish the powerhouse until a private company offered to buy it.[18] Powerhouse Re Gen LLC, a group of historic preservationists, agreed to acquire the building which is eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. According to the Daily Journal of Commerce of February 2, 2010, although PGE and Re Gen had agreed on the purchase, Re Gen was required to seek approval from Clackamas County, complete an environmental study of the site, and seek approval from FERC.[19] Re Gen, which had not announced specific plans for the site, plans to preserve it as well as other structures near Roslyn Lake.[18]
Powerhouse ReGen (owners: Jeff Joslin, Karen Karlsson, Rick Michaelson) completed the acquisition in 2011, the property by then consisting of the powerhouse site, the historic former Bull Run elementary school, and portions of the former Roslyn Lake Recreational Area.[20] Since the transference of ownership, restoration has commenced on various elements of the sites, but no specific repurposing has been determined.
An event commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Powerhouse and its contributions to the region was organized by Powerhouse Re Gen in 2012; the event attracted 600 visitors, including a number of long-time employees of the facility whose stories were captured by an ongoing oral history project associated with the preservation effort.
The NBC series Grimm episode, Leave It to Beavers, featured the powerhouse and associated structures; the site's transformer building served as a gathering place for giant beaver creatures. The generator hall was the site of a battle between the show's protagonist and German "Grimm Reapers", culminating with the beheading of the would-be assassin reapers.[21]
In April 2014, the Clackamas County Board of Commissioners designated as the first Historic District within unincorporated Clackamas County the ensemble consisting of: the powerhouse site, the historic former Bull Run elementary school, and portions of the former Roslyn Lake Recreational Area.
Following a decision by the Clackamas County Board of Commissioners to approve uses for the site other than those uses no longer allowed following decommissioning, the decision was appealed to the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA); the decision was upheld in LUBA No 2015-022, allowing a balancing of statewide land use goals for historic preservation and high-value resource lands through the affording of such sites a precedent path for a Statewide Land Use Goal Exception. The decision established that adaptive reuse of historic structures on resource land is necessary to preserve them, and that local jurisdictions can and should strategically rezone to allow limited uses not otherwise allowed in resource zones; the decision not only supported viable approaches to preserve these specific sites, but also provided a bright line preservation path for all historic resources in Oregon Timber and Agriculture zones. [22]
In 2016 changes in ownership occurred; the historic schoolhouse and park components of the site were conveyed to Trackers Earth, an environmental education organization. The Powerhouse was established as an independent site as a result of the aforementioned land use decision, and was conveyed to the Powerhouse Center On The Bull Run, a non-profit established to maintain and preserve the Powerhouse, and identify future potential uses related to historic preservation and environmental education and stewardship.
- ^ a b c d Taylor, pp. 21–22
- ^ "Roslyn Lake". Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). United States Geological Survey. November 28, 1980. Retrieved January 16, 2010.
- ^ "Bull Run River". Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). United States Geological Survey. November 28, 1980. Retrieved January 16, 2010.
- ^ Taylor, pp. 22–24
- ^ Editorial staff (July 29, 2007). "A river released to the wild". The Oregonian. p. E04.
- ^ McOmie, Grant (April 11, 2005). "2 the Outdoors - Marmot Dam Comes Down Soon". KATU news. Archived from the original on April 16, 2005. Retrieved June 11, 2008.
When the dam removal begins it will be the largest concrete dam in America to come down.
- ^ a b "Decommissioning Plan for the Bull Run Hydroelectric Project, FERC Project No. 447" (PDF). Portland General Electric. November 2002. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 28, 2007. Retrieved February 9, 2010.
- ^ a b Tucker, Libby (May 24, 2007). "Bull Run dam removal poses engineering challenges". Daily Journal of Commerce. Retrieved November 18, 2007.
- ^ Numerical Modeling of Sediment Transport in the Sandy River, OR Following Removal of Marmot Dam, Technical Report prepared for PGE by Stillwater Sciences, March 2000. ( 3.7MB pdf[permanent dead link])
- ^ Evaluation of Geomorphic Effects of Removal of Marmot and Little Sandy Dams and Potential Impacts on Anadromous Salmonids, Technical Report prepared for PGE by Stillwater Sciences, March 2000. ( 2.1MB pdf[permanent dead link])
- ^ Sarma, Daisy (July 27, 2007). "Blasts Spell Beginning of the End for Marmot Dam". The Money Times. Archived from the original on August 31, 2007.
- ^ "Dam Removal Project". Portland General Electric. 2007. Archived from the original on September 28, 2007. Retrieved November 18, 2007.
- ^ "Rain helps Sandy River run wild, free". The Oregonian. October 29, 2007.
- ^ The decommissioning of the dam was the subject of an episode of Megastructures Breakdown broadcast on the National Geographic Channel.
- ^ a b c d "Sandy River". Portland General Electric. Archived from the original on February 13, 2015. Retrieved December 18, 2009.
- ^ Strobel, Burke. "Successful Salmon Spawning in Little Sandy River". Portland Water Bureau. Retrieved December 18, 2009.
- ^ Brinckman, Jonathan (October 12, 2002). "PGE will remove 2 dams in basin of Sandy River". The Oregonian; the Foundation for Water and Energy Education (FWEE). Retrieved December 18, 2009.
- ^ a b "Preservation group reaches agreement with PGE to acquire Bull Run Powerhouse". PGE. Archived from the original on November 29, 2010. Retrieved February 9, 2010.
- ^ Weinstein, Nathalie. "Preservationist group purchases Powerhouse". Daily Journal of Commerce. Retrieved February 9, 2010.
- ^ Jim Hart (May 2, 2012). "Sale Saves Bull Run Powerhouse". Sandy Post. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
- ^ George Kramer (April 28, 2012). "Penstocks of the Past, and Future". The Preserve Oregon Blog.
- ^ http://restoreoregon.org/saving-powehouse/
Works cited[edit]
- Taylor, Barbara (1998). "Salmon and Steelhead Runs and Related Events of the Sandy River Basin – A Historical Perspective". Portland, Oregon: Portland General Electric Company. Retrieved January 16, 2010.
External links[edit]
- Settlement Agreement Concerning the Removal of the Bull Run Hydroelectric Project..., PGE and interested parties, October 24, 2002. ( 1.2MB pdf)
- Clean Water Act § 401 Certification Evaluation and Finding Report For the Decommissioning of the Bull Run Hydroelectric Project (FERC No. 477), Sandy River Basin, Clackamas County, Oregon 1.2MB pdf.
- McOmie, Grant (2005-04-11). "Marmot Dam Comes Down Soon". KATU News. Archived from the original on 2005-04-16.
- Restoring the Sandy River Basin (American Rivers)
- Taylor, William Thomas; Daniel Harvey Braymer (1917). American Hydroelectric Practice. McGraw-Hill Book Company. pp. 123–124.
- Dams completed in 1906
- Energy infrastructure completed in 1912
- Buildings and structures in Clackamas County, Oregon
- Dams in Oregon
- Hydroelectric power plants in Oregon
- Former hydroelectric power plants in the United States
- Portland General Electric dams
- 1912 establishments in Oregon
- Demolished buildings and structures in Oregon
- 2007 disestablishments in Oregon
- Former dams
- Buildings and structures demolished in 2007


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ASUS R9 380 Strix RushKit
ASUS R9 380 Strix - RUSHKIT
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ASUS R9 380 Strix - RUSHKIT
Today we are having a look at ASUS's new R9 380 Strix GPU, which holds the accolade of not just being one of AMD's First R9 380 GPUs to hit store shelves and being one of ASUS's first GPUs which has been made using their new fully automated production method.
This GPU is available in 2GB and 4GB versions and in terms of specifications this GPU looks perfect for 1080p gaming. This GPU will feature all of ASUS' latest features, including their 0 dB fan technology and will be using ASUS' Strix Cooler, which they say will make your GPU 20% cooler than an AMD reference R9 380.
ASUS are the first GPU manufacturer to fully automate their GPU production, bringing the accuracy in which they build their GPUs to a whole new level.
The increased precision in which ASUS is making their GPUs allows them not just to produce cleaner PCBs, but allows them to use much stricter methods for internal testing, meaning that their GPUs will be less likely to be built with or delivered to retailers with faults. With this new method of production ASUS will have a greatly reduced rate of returns and their users will have a reduced chance of buying a faulty or dead GPU.
For more information on ASUS' Fully Automated GPU Production, please read our full article on it here.
Up Close and Extra personal
It is hard to deny that this card is a real looker, with it's full cover backplate, exposed nickel plated heat pipes the lack of crossfire fingers makes this GPU look exceptionally tidy.
With one of ASUS' unique selling points of this card being it's ultra accurate manufacturing process we decided to give this GPU a closer look, which meant that we had to take all of it's clothes off. Nerd porn is incoming, prepare to cover the eyes of any nearby children.
(Nerd Porn Alert!!)
ASUS were not lying when they said that their PCBs would be cleaner than ever before> Every point where we would usually see soldering points on the PCB (like under the capacitors and the MOSFETs) we see barely any solder, which makes the PCB look much tidier and much less visible inside your system.
We would almost say that this eliminate the aesthetic need for a back plate on lower end GPUs, as the large solder points are what we typically want a backplate to cover up.
We definitely see this new manufacturing process give ASUS a distinct advantage in the lower end market, where GPUs typically do not have a backplate, as the PCBs of their GPUs should look much cleaner than the competition.
GPU Tweak II
One other thing that ASUS has recently launched is their new GPU Tweak utility, which add many new features to the overclocking program.
The first of these new features is a new GPU-z style window, which will provide you with most necessary details for your GPU, though sadly it isn't quite as easy to measure maximum VRAM usage, temperatures and fan speeds.
Second on the list is ASUS' "Game Booster" utility, which will help gamers take back every possible piece of extra performance out of their systems by disabling necessary visual effects on Windows, turn off any unused Windows services and programs and allowing you to defragment your system memory for optimum memory performance.
These changes make GPU Tweak II almost an All-in-one overclocking/ performance gaming utility, as it almost eliminates the need for GPU-z and other gGame boosting programs. If ASUS make maximum VRAM and Temperature measuring as easy to use as GPU-z, they will really have a winner on their hands.
Conclusion and Video
The ASUS GTX 380 GPU is a great looking GPU both inside and out, with the best looking PCB that we have ever seen and an exterior to match.
Many words come to mind when we think of ASUS, quality is the one that comes to mind most often, particularly while looking at this GPU. ASUS expect a dramatic decrease in returns or faults in their GPUs thanks to their new manufacturing process, so much so that we expect other GPU vendors to follow suit over the next few years.
The R9 380 more or less a R9 285 which has a bump in clock speeds, making it a great competitor to Nvidia's GTX 960, especially for it's retail price of £179.99. With many R9 380 GPUs also offering a 4GB frame buffer, we also expect that it will be albe to cope with the ever increasing size of textures for at least the next few years, provided that you are playing at 1080p.
With that crazy tidy PCB and the first GPU we have seen from the 100% automated process the Asus Strix R9 380 wins our Innovation Award
You can join the discussion on the ASUS R9 380 on the OC3D Forums.


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ESMA seeks Investor Protection experts for Stakeholder Panel
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has issued today a call for candidates in order to renew the composition of its Consultative Working Group (CWG) which advises ESMA's Investor Protection and Intermediaries Standing Committee (IPISC).
IPISC undertakes ESMA's work relating to the provision of investment services and activities to different categories of clients by investment firms and credit institutions. Particular regard is made to investor protection, including the distribution of investment products and, more in general, authorisation of investment firms, conduct of business and organisational requirements regulated by the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive framework.
ESMA has established the CWG to benefit from the expertise of stakeholders who are involved in these topics. The purpose of the CWG is to provide technical assistance to ESMA in relation to the IPISC's work, and CWG members are selected for a renewable term of two years.
Interested experts are asked to send their application to ESMA, using this form , along with their CV and letter of motivation, by 28 April 2017 COB.


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Monday, April 8, 2013
Spelling--A Link to Meaning and Logic
I teach English, and I understand that not every student (nor every adult) is good at spelling. I acknowledge that English is an arbitrary language with all sorts of weird spelling rules, and if you don't love learning about it, spelling can be viewed as an annoyance.
And yet, as I found many times this year, spelling isn't just mandatory for the sake of a clean manuscript. Proper spelling is often the difference between what we mean and what the reader thinks we mean. This disconnect can be funny or potentially tragic.
The students like the sentence that's been floating around the Internet to show the importance of punctuation:
Let's eat Grandpa.
Let's eat, Grandpa.
Clearly that comma is important, at least for Grandpa's peace of mind.
In the same way, a properly spelled word can convey something clearly--or otherwise. Here are a few recent examples.
1. One student, in examining the psyche of Shakespeare's Ophelia, suggested that "Ophelia was considered mad due to her increasingly erotic behavior." I suggested that, while Ophelia's level of eroticism is a subject for some debate, the word she probably wanted there was erratic, since that implied that her behavior was unpredictable rather than ever-more-sexual.
When I have this sort of discussion with a student, I often get a bleary-eyed response, almost as if they're saying "I came close enough."
But consider this one:
2. A girl who had written a beautiful essay about her summer at camp and her first dance with a boy, wrote "He put his hands around my waste and we started to glide around the floor." I wrote "unfortunate misspelling" in the margin. I waited, when she read the comments, for her to turn red and look mortified, but she merely shrugged.
3. I know that many students do take pride in their work, and when I asked on a class survey what they had learned in a recent writing class, one student wrote: "I've learned to express myself in a more sophisticated manor."
Sometimes I yearn to express myself in a sophisticated manor, too, but at this point in life I can't afford it. :)
4. Another Hamlet fan complained of the injustice of Hamlet having to "give the thrown to Fortinbras."
5. A recent spate of class essays had one student reflecting on a dialogue with a friend not providing "the answer I saute." I went on a little Englishy rant, suggesting that "sauté" was a word one might use about frying something in butter or oil, while "sought" was the past tense of the work "seek."
But guess what? One of the biggest reasons (that I've determined, as a test-prep teacher) that standardized test scores are going down is that schools don't seem to make a big deal of grammar anymore, including the list of verbs, regular and irregular; students feel far less confident writing things in past as opposed to past perfect tense, and they are more likely to make errors or not recognize errors that should be corrected.
The other big reason? Students don't recognize the spelling of words like "sought" because they don't see them in books. Because many of them are not reading books.
I'm not sure what percentage of my vocabulary I got from my well-spoken parents and what percentage I can attribute to a childhood of reading, but I know that by the time I reached high school, I had a very large vocabulary. Now when I see students write "I would of given you a ride if you'd asked me" on a paper, I know that the error is rooted in the fact that they've never READ the contraction "would've." They've only heard it in conversation. Translation: Would of. Should of. Could of.
I'm not suggesting that reading is dead in young people. I just invited a YA author to speak at our school, and 52 students crammed into our small library to hear her speak. Many of them had read the book in advance.
But when I see errors in student writing, I can always see the ones that are rooted in a lack of reading.
For example, the boy who wrote that his mother kept her possessions in her Omwa. I stared at that one for a good five minutes before I figured out what he meant: Armoire.
One student wrote, in her final paper, that she didn't really like hanging around with big groups of students, and that "I'm really a loan shark kind of a person."
Here again, I had to use context clues to determine that she meant "lone wolf." Since the two idioms are significantly different, the spelling of "lone" was significant here.
I realize that decoding student spelling has always been a part of a teacher's job, and in fact spelling mistakes have never been linked to a lack of intelligence.
But they can be linked to misunderstandings and a loss of meaning, which is why I encourage my students to care about spelling.
4 comments:
- Elizabeth Zelvin said...
You'll be glad to know that the bestselling EATS, SHOOTS AND LEAVES (of great importance to mystery writers and pandas) is available for Kindle, so maybe grammar isn't dead yet. In a memorable incident I heard of years ago, an indignant student burst into the English Department office in his high school, shouting, "I shoulda went into Honor English!" I have a charming letter my 5-year-old granddaughter penned to the tooth fairy asking for "munnie." In general, I'm impressed by her willingness to take a risk on words she doesn't know how to spell in order to get her meaning across. But I think she'll outgrow the spelling errors.
- April 8, 2013 at 9:07 AM
I was quite startled this morning to discover that there would be delays on a road I drive on everyday due to "road and utitly work."
- April 8, 2013 at 10:03 AM
- Julia Buckley said...
Liz, I think she'll outgrow them, too. I'm sure you and I have old grade school writings in which we misspelled things, but grade school is supposed to eradicate those misspellings (as is lots of reading)?
- April 8, 2013 at 10:42 AM
- Julia Buckley said...
Janet, that's hilarious! Do you know that I'm so attuned to spelling errors that I find them all the time on television captions, and the other day I was watching a movie (A Die Hard) and I found a spelling ON A COMPUTER SCREEN in THE MOVIE!!
- April 8, 2013 at 10:43 AM


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Hi folks,
As we prepare to celebrate our congregation's 275th anniversary I thought we'd try something just a little different. So to add a little life to this blog, let's get into the habit of sharing with you the readings for the coming Sunday. This will help us "get ready" for church by reading what the lectionary wants us to read ahead of time. We can then begin to form our questions about what the scripture is saying to us in our own hearts and then perhaps share some of that with our friends at Church on Sunday. For those of us at St. Peter's we can use some of this material as a basis for conversation at "Coffee Plus" after church.
Here then are the readings for this coming Sunday.
The Seventh Sunday After Pentecost
June 29th.
The Parish Picnic at Winter Park
275 Years to the Day from the Founding of St. Peter's, Salem
Collect of the Day
Almighty God, you have built your Church upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone: Grant us so to be joined together in unity of spirit by their teaching, that we may be made a holy temple acceptable to you; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
Old Testament Reading:Genesis 22:1-14
God tested Abraham. He said to him, "Abraham!" And he said, "Here I am." He said, "Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains that I shall show you." So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac; he cut the wood for the burnt offering, and set out and went to the place in the distance that God had shown him. On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place far away. Then Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey; the boy and I will go over there; we will worship, and then we will come back to you." Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. So the two of them walked on together. Isaac said to his father Abraham, "Father!" And he said, "Here I am, my son." He said, "The fire and the wood are here, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?" Abraham said, "God himself will provide the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So the two of them walked on together.
When they came to the place that God had shown him, Abraham built an altar there and laid the wood in order. He bound his son Isaac, and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to kill his son. But the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven, and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" And he said, "Here I am." He said, "Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me." And Abraham looked up and saw a ram, caught in a thicket by its horns. Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son. So Abraham called that place "The LORD will provide"; as it is said to this day, "On the mount of the LORD it shall be provided."
Psalm 13 Page 597, Book of Common Prayer
How long, O LORD?
will you forget me for ever? *
how long will you hide your face from me?
How long shall I have perplexity in my mind,
and grief in my heart, day after day?*
how long shall my enemy triumph over me?
Look upon me and answer me, O LORD my God; *
give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;
Lest my enemy say, "I have prevailed over him," *
and my foes rejoice that I have fallen.
But I put my trust in your mercy; *
my heart is joyful because of your saving help.
I will sing to the LORD, for he has dealt with me richly; *
I will praise the Name of the Lord Most High.
Epistle: Romans 6:12-23
Do not let sin exercise dominion in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions. No longer present your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and present your members to God as instruments of righteousness. For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? But thanks be to God that you, having once been slaves of sin, have become obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which you were entrusted, and that you, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. I am speaking in human terms because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness for sanctification.
When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. So what advantage did you then get from the things of which you now are ashamed? The end of those things is death. But now that you have been freed from sin and enslaved to God, the advantage you get is sanctification. The end is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Gospel: Matthew 10:40-42
Jesus said, "Whoever welcomes you welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. Whoever welcomes a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet's reward; and whoever welcomes a righteous person in the name of a righteous person will receive the reward of the righteous; and whoever gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple-- truly I tell you, none of these will lose their reward."
There now...have questions...???
See you Sunday...or if you just happen to come across this blog, don't hesitate to leave a comment, or email me.
Blessings on all,
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2018 | September-October
From the start of JA's partnership with HSBC, our focus on financial literacy has been about #MorethanMoney.
We're celebrating GATHER (the JA global alumni community). which has reached its first milestone, connecting over 1,000 JA alumni from 85 countries.
We're excited to announce Avanade as JA Worldwide's Global Technology Partner to advise and inform the organization on our strategies as we seek to accelerate digital transformation.
The JA Labs Innovation Fund, funded by Citi Foundation, seeks to support organic innovation at JA locations (JA member countries, sub-national offices, and JA local areas) around the world.
Thanks to our 30-year partnership with Citi and Citi Foundation, JA's work is being featured in major media outlets . . . right now!
Well over 100 million JA alumni are making their mark in the world, and we're featuring a selection in our "I am JA" campaign. See how JA prepared David Cunningham for the future of work.
When SABIC went in search of a youth-serving nonprofit partner for its global initiative for education and innovation, JA Worldwide quickly emerged as the logical choice.
Season two of the FedEx Junior Business Challenge brought exciting student competitions, held at PGA TOUR locations around North America, and culminating in a championship event in Atlanta.
A JA USA and AIG survey on American teens showed that 69 percent of 13- to 18-year-olds say they know little or nothing about retirement planning.
Asheesh Advani was in China; Brandie Conforti in New York City, and Carolyn Bassett in Washington, D.C.
Leo Martellotto, President of JA Americas, recently completed the Ironman Triathlon in South Africa while wearing the JA Centennial logo. He discusses the ways the two overlap.
At the World Economic Forum Meeting of the New Champions, JA was on stage for the "Educating Innovative Societies" panel.
INJAZ Al-Arab and its fourteen member countries are celebrating a major milestone: reaching three million students.
Our Global Chief Development Officer, Brandie Conforti, calls on her nearly two decades of experience to discuss the importance of partnerships in achieving the United Nations Global Goals for Sustainable Development (SDGs).
At the G20 Summit this week in Argentina, the G20 education ministers will receive Education, The Future of the Labour Market, and Youth Skills, a policy paper authored by JA Worldwide and The Brookings Institute.
2018 | July-August
In the final qualifying event of the 2018 FedEx Junior Business Challenge, students from JA of Northern New England competed for a spot at the finals next month in Atlanta.
Our CEO, Asheesh Advani, made a visit to the Next Generation Leaders Forum, a global student event held each year in Canada, at which students learn a wealth of entrepreneurial skills.
JA Singapore hosted the FedEx Express/JA Asia Pacific International Trade Challenge (ITC), which challenges students to create a viable business concept based on specific parameters.
On International Youth Day, we're celebrating JA's impact on young people across the globe.
Are you undecided about where to attend university? Check out our partnership with Shorelight Education and U.S. News Global Education!
We're dedicating an entire post to the first JA Centennial event—the JA Global Youth Forum, held July 8–13 in Morelos, México.
Young entrepreneurs from JA Central Ontario competed this week in the FedEx Junior Business Challenge at the RBC Canadian Open in Oakville, Ontario, Canada.
Meet the best JA companies from across Europe, as they competed in the 2018 JA Europe Company of the Year Competition.
JA Worldwide is excited to announce the global online community for JA global alumni.
2018 | May-June
In the final qualifying event of the 2018 FedEx Junior Business Challenge, students from JA of Northern New England competed for a spot at the finals next month in Atlanta.
Our CEO, Asheesh Advani, made a visit to the Next Generation Leaders Forum, a global student event held each year in Canada, at which students learn a wealth of entrepreneurial skills.
JA Singapore hosted the FedEx Express/JA Asia Pacific International Trade Challenge (ITC), which challenges students to create a viable business concept based on specific parameters.
On International Youth Day, we're celebrating JA's impact on young people across the globe.
Are you undecided about where to attend university? Check out our partnership with Shorelight Education and U.S. News Global Education!
We're dedicating an entire post to the first JA Centennial event—the JA Global Youth Forum, held July 8–13 in Morelos, México.
Young entrepreneurs from JA Central Ontario competed this week in the FedEx Junior Business Challenge at the RBC Canadian Open in Oakville, Ontario, Canada.
Meet the best JA companies from across Europe, as they competed in the 2018 JA Europe Company of the Year Competition.
JA Worldwide is excited to announce the global online community for JA global alumni.
2018 | March-April
Congratulations to JA USA, which had a great month, including being named "Organization of the Year" by the Institute for Financial Literacy.
Students in the Wake Forest Executive MBA program teamed up with JA to give real-world experience in the classroom.
We're proud to announce that, starting today, you can officially purchase the JA Centennial book, written by entrepreneurship expert Larry C. Farrell.
Experience JA's first worldwide publication about our alignment to the UN Global Goals for Sustainable Development, a collaboration with our six regional operating centers.
2018 marked the eighth annual JA Asia Pacific Company of the Year Competition, with student companies from Brunei, China, Guam, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Turkmenistan, and Vietnam.
Devex, the social enterprise and media platform for the global development community, recently interviewed our CEO, Asheesh Advani.
JA Americas' collaboration with SAP to promote Latin Code Week earned the regional operating center a prestigious award from PR News.
In this year's first competition of the 2018 FedEx Junior Business Challenge, students in Austin, Texas, USA, pitched their business ideas to a star-studded cast of judges. See selected tweets and videos!
The Global Education & Skills Forum brings together leaders from the public, private, and social sectors in order to address the challenges of education, equity, and employment for all. JA was there.
tGELF and JA Asia Pacific are searching for a passionate, committed fellow to oversee and facilitate various elements of the joint tGELF/JA Asia Pacific program.
Congratulations to INJAZ Al-Arab (JA in the Middle East and North Africa), which has once again been ranked as one of the Top 100 NGOs in the world!
2018 | January-February
As we close out Bechtel's Stewardship Month, we're celebrating our six-year partnership with one of the most respected construction and engineering companies in the world.
Meet the inaugural class of the JA Worldwide Fellows Program, a group of high-performing leaders from around the JA network.
2018 is the Year of Engineering, and February is Bechtel's Stewardship Month, so we're celebrating our Signature Partnership with Bechtel in our thought-leadership magazine, JA Good Company.
JA Hong Kong alumna Bonnie Chiu works full time, runs a nonprofit, and landed on the Forbes Europe 30 Under 30 list.
We're proud to release our 2017 Annual Report, Factbook, and Online Year in Review.
JA asks the question, "Is this the secret to surviving in a fractured world?" and explores youth optimism.
"JA helps students learn to experience the entire analytical process," says JA alumnus Max Tang. "This is the value that JA brings to [China]."
Mark your calendar for the JA Global Youth Forum in Morelos, México, this July!
We're honored to have JA mentioned alongside giant corporations like Google, Virgin, Salesforce, Lyft, and more.
2017 | November-December
We're throwing back to last week, when JA South Africa hosted the JA Africa Company of the Year Competition. Relive the event and see all the competitors through Twitter Moments.
JA China was honored as one of a handful of nonprofit organizations officially recognized as foreign NGOs under China's new NGO law.
The Global Education & Leadership Foundation (tGELF) and JA Worldwide officially launched our partnership at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) in Hyderabad, India, last week.
Each year, INJAZ Al-Arab (JA in the Middle East and North Africa) celebrates Arab youth at the Young Entrepreneurs Competition.
A JA Sweden student company formed in 2016 to speak frankly about gender equality and macho culture in locker rooms received a one million kroner award from soccer star Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
Sylvia Chong's "Token for a Queue" innovation makes her the JA Worldwide and IAAPA Foundation Top Innovator! See photos and read her review of her time in Orlando.
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), JA Americas, SAP, and ManpowerGroup are collaborating on an initiative that will train 2,400 young people in the next three years.
2017 | September-October
Read a white-paper collaboration among JA Americas, the Americas Society (AS), and the Council of the Americas (COA) on closing the skills gap in Latin America.
Find out more about the FedEx Junior Business Challenge Final . . . and the winning team from JA of Southwest New England.
We're proud to be one of only four Signature Program partners with Bechtel, who created Dream Big, a documentary that will transform the way you think about engineering.
This week on The Money JAR podcast, teens take over the show to lead a discussion on two key performance characteristics—grit and curiosity—associated with success.
JA More than Money ntroduces students to financial literacy and entrepreneurship, and focuses on social studies learning objectives centered on money-management skills, goods and services, and global markets.
JA USA has released a new survey about concerns parents and teens have about global competition and automation.
The Next Generation Leaders Forum brought together high-achieving students from around the world to learn, collaborate, and innovate.
2017 | July-August
We've extended the deadline for the Business of Fun Contest, an exciting collaboration with the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions.
The International Trade Challenge is a wrap. Find out about the top teams' innovative products and marketing strategies.
"The current educational focus on exam results and academia means young people leaving education are at serious risk of not being prepared adequately for their future life."
Find out more about case-based HBX CORe from Harvard's HBX. JA alumni and volunteers receive preferential pricing and streamlined admissions.
In 2015, the Accelerating Pathways global research, supported by the Citi Foundation's Pathways to Progress initiative, featured award-winning JA alumna Buki Ajimobi. We caught up with Buki two years later.
JA alumna Jurnis Lanuza, CEO of Hiraya, won the FedEx Access Award at the JA Asia Pacific Company of the Year Competition.
We're pleased to announce that Art Papas, Founder and CEO of Bullhorn, has joined the JA Worldwide Global Council.
We've teamed up with IAAPA to encourage young people to innovate in the amusement park and attractions industry. Contest details inside.
Today, student competed at the fourth FedEx Junior Business Challenge, this one at the World Golf Championships Bridgestone Invitational.
For 30 years, Citi and Citi Foundation have worked with JA to ensure pathways to opportunity and upward mobility for youth. To celebrate, we're launching a series of Citi-JA success stories.
Dave Meltzer, CEO of Sports 1 Marketing, Entrepreneur top-five speaker for 2017, Forbes top-ten keynote speaker for 2016, and JA alumnus, takes us through his days in Atlanta for the JA 2017 GLC.
For 30 years, Citi and Citi Foundation have worked with JA to ensure pathways to opportunity and upward mobility for youth. Read our latest thought-leadership article on building and scaling global partnerships.
Looking for a recap of this week's incredible JA Europe Company of the Year Competition? Read about the top three teams, winners of signature awards, and info on the jury.
2017 | June
Thanks to Nokia's generous support, the 2017 Nokia Global STEM Innovation Challenge was a big success. Read more about the global finalists . . . and details about the overall winner!
His Holiness, Pope Francis, recently received a copy of JA Worldwide's Annual Report from Francesco Vanni d'Archirafi, CEO of Citi Holdings and JA Worldwide Board Chair.
Last night, at the JA USA National Student Leadership Summit, student companies were honored for their innovative, sustainable, and global accessible products.
At the Travelers Championship just outside of Hartford, Connecticut, students from JA of Southwest New England shared their business ideas at the FedEx Junior Business Challenge.
Our alumni documentary series features JA alums from around the world. Currently, we're in India, shooting videos of inspiring Indian entrepreneurs.
At the National Student Leadership Summit, JA USA students network, hone their leadership skills, and compete for Company of the Year and other awards.
JA Asia Pacific strengthened its relationship with the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions by attending the IAAPA Asian Attractions Expo.
Vivian Lau, President of JA Asia Pacific, recently moderated a panel at the JESSICA Leaders Forum in Hong Kong.
Learn more about the JA global network by viewing or downloading our 2016 Annual Report, Factbook, and online Year In Review.
Every week or two, we design inspirational graphics for our global network, suitable for sharing via social media or taping to your mirror.
Calling youth ages 14 to 19 who love amusement parks, museums, & other attractions to enter JA Worldwide's and IAAPA's The Business of Fun Contest!
2017 | May
When Forbes launched its Forbes Nonprofit Council last year, Jack Kosakowski (CEO of JA USA) took on the responsibility of writing a monthly column, aimed at helping nonprofit leaders address their biggest challenges.
During Global Volunteer Month, MMC volunteers are working with JA students to equip them with the work-readiness and financial-literacy skills they need to succeed.
Akef Aqrabawi, CEO of INJAZ Al-Arab, shares his thoughts on why young Arabs can't enter the industries that interest them.
Thanks to Blizzard Entertainment, JA was featured in TryHard for Good, a special version of the Heroes of the Storm online video game, which resulted in over $12,000 in donations.
The second FedEx Junior Business Challenge gave JA of North Florida students a chance to showcase their JA companies.
Our small staff is searching for an Executive Assistant in the Boston, MA, area. Read on for details.
Manpower Group captures JA's impact on alumni employability and entrepreneurship in this video about the future of jobs.
During Marsh & McLennan Companies' Global Volunteer Month, we're proud to feature the global firm's dedication to JA's programs.
2017 | April
#SwitchOnEurope advocates for entrepreneurship education throughout Europe. Find out how to support the campaign.
Harvard Business School's HBX CORe program offers preferential pricing for JA alumni and volunteers!
With the support of the Financial Services Roundtable and in conjunction with Financial Literacy Month, JA USA has launched a new series of videos with JA Kid Professor.
Last week, JA Worldwide's CEO, Asheesh Advani, and JA Americas' President, Leo Martellotto, participated in the World Economic Forum on Latin America.
Happy INJAZ Day, celebrating 12 years of teaching entrepreneurship, work readiness, and financial literacy to young people in MENA.
April is Financial Literacy Month, and this year's celebration is extra special, because JA Kid Professor has five new videos! Check out the first.
2017 | March
JA will take a lead role in the World Economic Forum on Latin America next week. Save the date and follow the event on Twitter.
What have you learned from your most unhappy #customers?
FedEx and JA kicked off the inaugural Junior Business Challenge today at the Shell Houston Open PGA TOUR event.
Big news! We're partnering with The New York Academy of Sciences Global STEM Alliance to sponsor the Global Youth STEM Challenge.
We're thrilled to team up with FedEx for a unique extension of the JA Company Program.
As part of the World Economic Forum on Latin America 2017, our CEO, Asheesh Advani, and JA Americas President, Leo Martellotto, have jointly written an article for the WEF blog.
Our CEO, Asheesh Advani, was in Canada with JA Central Ontario, Mastercard Canada, and Intrst Financial.
Young leaders around the world have the opportunity to apply for JA Canada's Next Generation Leaders Forum in Ontario, Canada.
Our Annual Report, Factbook, and online Year In Review are available to download, print, or view!
Catch up with Elizabeth Bintliff, CEO Of JA Africa, to find out how Africa's young people are changing the continent.
Are you traveling on Delta this month? If so, flip through the inflight magazine until you see the page featuring JA and discussing Delta's partnership in 23 JA locations.
We're celebrating International Women's Day by showcasing JA alumnae who inspire us with their creativity and innovation.
Inc. Magazine recently listed nine organizations that are turning kids Into entrepreneurs. Guess which one got the most ink?
2017 | February
JA Asia Pacific just wrapped up its 2017 Company of the Year Competition. Find out who won the presigious awards and view photos, videos, and more!
This weekend, Bechtel premieres Dream Big: Engineering Our World, a giant-screen movie aimed at inspiring young innovators to change the world.
Our regional operating centers make it possible for JA to serve 10M+ young people in over 100 countries each year.
JA USA and JA of Chicago worked with Bloomberg Businessweek to run a full-page, in-kind ad for JA.
Forbes recently featured Paycor founder and JA alumnus Bob Coughlin, who credits JA for helping him have the confidence to start his $200 million business.
When Bisman Deu was a 15-year-old competing in a JA Social Innovation Relay, she was looking for a solution to the environmental damage caused by burning rice waste. She found it.
Billionaire investor Mark Cuban—of Dallas Mavericks and Shark Tank fame—got his start in JA.
JA Canada alumna Liat Fainman is one of nine influential Toronto Millennials featured in Narcity Canada this month.
2017 | January
It's the Chinese New Year, a time to celebrate your accomplishments, take a break, reunite with family, and look forward to a prosperous year ahead.
Unable to attend the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland? No worries! Watch a live-streamed Shaping Davos session featuring our CEO, Asheesh Advani.
This week, in London, CrossKnowledge is leading a learning-management-system session for JA staff from across the network.
As our CEO, Asheesh Advani, takes the stage in Davos for a WEF panel on reshaping education, he has also released an article identifying the single most important skill students need for the jobs of the future.
Charles Fadel, founder of the Center for Curriculum Redesign, has contributed a powerful article to our thought-leadership magazine, Good Company.
As the United States celebrates a national holiday in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., we're motivated by his life and legacy.
The Globe and Mail, Canada's number-one national newspaper, released a summary this week of our CEO's recent podcast, recorded as part of McGill University's CEO Series.
We've partnered with Harvard HBX CORe to offer preferential pricing and streamlined registration forJA alumni. Applications for the February cohort are being accepted now!
Executive coach Mark C. Thompson who, along with our CEO is one of the Goldsmith100, offers two ways to reach your business goals in 2017.
Welcome to 2017, the year to reach your career, personal-finance, or self-employment goals! Here's your motivation for the week.
2016 | December
In early December, JA Zimbabwe hosted the JA Africa Company of the Year Competition for sub-Saharan Africa.
Earlier this month, JA Americas held its eighth Company of the Year Competition, sponsored by FedEx and Delta and hosted by JA México.
Celebrate the holidays with us . . . tell us over on social media how you'll be spending the next week or two!
JA and HBX (Harvard Business School) have teamed up to offer the HBX Credential of Readiness (CORe) at preferrential pricing for JA alumni. Join us Monday for a Facebook Live session to learn more!
Curious about whether the HBX-Harvard Business School Credential of Readiness (CORe) is right for you? Register for Wednesday's webinar!
Eastern Kentucky's economy has long been dependent on coal mining, and few industries can replace the higher wages of lost coal-mining jobs. Find out how one JA alumnus is working to retool the workforce.
JA Zimbabwe hosted this year's JA Africa Company of the Year Competition, where teams of the student companies competed for top honors.
Are you ready to earn your Credential of Readiness from HBX, the digital initiative that comes straight from Harvard Business School faculty? If you're a JA alumni, get ready for preferential pricing! Find out more in our webinar next week.
The JA-HSBC partnership drives financial-literacy education around the world, specifically through the JA More Than Money program.
In Mexico City, the top JA companies from the JA Americas region are gathering to compete for Company of the Year honors.
JA Europe held its Annual Conference earlier this week for leaders of JA member countries.
2016 | November
INJAZ Bahrain is hosting the 10th INJAZ Al-Arab Young Entrepreneurs Competition . . . the Company of the Year contest for JA in the Middle East and North Africa.
JA Africa just launched a new website. See a preview and find a link to the site by clicking below.
It's Small Business Saturday, a day to shop from your entrepreneurs and small businesses.
Last week, JA New York held its annual gala-fundraiser, which raised $800,000 to support the delivery of financial-literacy, entrepreneurship, and work-readiness programs.
Join our CEO, Asheesh Advani, at as he meets w/ Professor Karl Moore of McGill University on "The CEO Series."
The Harvard HBX CORe program bundles three essential business courses. Read about referential pricing for JA alumni.
JA of Central Florida students learned about animation, special effects, and other fascinating aspects of the attractions industry.
To celebrate, we're giving you four times the usual midweek motivation, drawing from our favorite entrepreneurial quotes.
We're pleased to announce a partnership with the IAAPA Foundation to connect global youth to attractions operators and industry suppliers in this fast-growing industry.
Meet Rhodes Scholar and JA Canada/JA Central Ontario alumnus Steven Wang, featured in our 100 Lives series.
When people ask Steve Martin how they can be successful, he doesn't tell them how to get an agent or how to network with the right people.
Last night, INJAZ Al-Arab & and MBC Hope launched the Soraya Salti Education Fund to support female education in MENA.
Harvard HBX's Credential of Readiness (CORe) helps new graduates, entrepreneurs, and seasoned professionals alike, at a fraction of the cost of Harvard Business School.
If you watched Jeopardy! last night, we're betting that you got at least one answer right.
If you're a beginner and want to become an expert, start today. Take a class, take a risk, make a new path.
The Arconic Foundation launched today, with a mission to advance STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education.
World Savings Day, held on the last day of October, aims to increase public awareness of savings for both individuals and the public sector.
2016 | October
INJAZ Egypt has launched an innovative entrepreneur-exchange program with Silicon Valley tech companies.
JA Europe's Leaders for a Day links JA students to executives from Nokia and many other companies.
Last week, JA Americas and SAP launched Latin Code Week, a digital-literacy initiative that trains young people in coding, business skills, and life skills.
Publishers Clearing House caught up with Holly Bloom at work to inform her of her $1 million (USD) prize. She decided on the spot to give back to JA.
Three of our six regions hold their Company of the Year (COY) competitions in late November and early December. Thanks to FedEx for supporting students as they compete for top honors in their regions.
Swami Vivekananda tells how to reach your dream: by centering yourself on one idea and letting it fill your life.
JA New Mexico (USA) and Santa Fe Indian School are teaming up with two partners to help young Native Americans to make sound financial decisions and career choices.
Find out what our CEO and the CEO of Manpower Group discussed when they spent the day job shadowing.
We love opening up Twitter and seeing notes like this! We're honored to partner with HSBC to teach financial education around the world.
Celebrate the International Day of the Girl with JA Nigeria and its LEAD (Leadership, Empowerment, Achievement, and Development) Camp for girls.
A new JA Ireland program will encourage all students—and especially girls—to look at careers in science, technology, engineering or maths (STEM).
Jyri Lindén and Mikko Jaatinen created their first business as students with JA Finland. Now, they run Nordic Business Forum, a global business conference.
Today, Junior Achievement Americas will sponsor a session at the International Monetary Fund/World Bank Civil Society Policy Forum.
How do we thank more than a quarter-million teachers in over 100 countries who teach JA programs? #nowords #amazing
Join JA alumnus Bruce Poon Tip, founder of G Adventures, for a small-business tweet-chat today!
JA Asia Pacific expands the JA Cha-Ching program with the assistance of Pru Life UK's Prudence Foundation.
2016 | September
This weekend, will you build your business, work on your ffinances, gain a career skill, vvolunteer? Relax? All of the above? See our weekend motivation.
INJAZ Saudi Arabia had additional resources to deliver the Steer Your Career program to 17- to 21-year-olds.
What happens when 23 MetLife Foundation volunteers spend seven hours with 150 young people? They learn critical financial and career skills!
Big news! We've teamed up with HBX to offer JA alumni preferential pricing on HBX's Credential of Readiness (CORe).
This week, JA Europe published three new articles on entrepreneurship education, hosted a two-day International Summit for Educators, and hosted a two-day entrepreneurship-education event!
Have you listened to the Giving Back Podcast, featuring our CEO, Asheesh Advani? Click for details.
JA Worldwide COO/CFO Margie Wang and CEO Asheesh Advani are at Clinton Global Initiative this week. Tune in live!
Freshman Zoree Jones wowed the JA Worldwide Board of Governors when she addressed them about her participation in the 2016 JA of Greater Washington Entrepreneurship Summit, where she received the Rising Star Award.
JA USA was featured in today's American Graduate Day, during which youth-serving organizations from across the United States are featured.
Ed Galante & his wife, Cathie, were honored last night for years of service to our board. See who jumped into his going-away photo!
Professor Theodore Levitt of Harvard Business School couldn't have summed up the JA Company Program approach any better: don't just sell a product; fill a need.
With avocados ranking as the number-one crop in Michoacán, Mexico, five JA Michoacán alumni set out to turn their agricultural bounty into a bonafide business. Read about AvoProducts.
There are just nine days left to register for our 100 Lives Video Contest. Entries are due September 11.
Congratulations to JA India, which officially celebrates ten years of work readiness, financial literacy, and entrepreneurship throughout India.
Last week's JA Alumni Europe conference brought together JA alumni from a dozen countries. We have a few more photos to add.
2016 | August
Thanks to Bloomberg Businessweek and JA Chicago's coordination with JA USA, our U.S. region will reach five million businesspeople with an in-kind advertisement that speaks to "Why JA?"
We're proud to present JA Mexico's Grupo Masari as part of our 100 Lives series, which features JA alumni who are making a difference in the world.
How many JA alumni can you fit into an elevator at the JA Alumni Europe conference in Stuttgart? Find out!
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. knew a thing or two about taking on overwhelming projects, in which success seemed an impossibility. But just climb that first step, and the rest will unfold.
Every JA alumni has a compelling story to tell. If you participated in the JA Company Program anywhere in the world and are age 13 to 25, apply for your chance to be featured in a video.
JA Canada celebrated another successful Next Generation Leaders Forum! Watch an inspiring video that sums up the week-long intensive program.
What do Albert Einstein and JA have in common? Plenty!
Peruse JA Asia Pacific's collection of photos from last week's FedEx/JA Asia Pacific International Trade Challenge, where 24 teams of JA students worked to solve a challenge topic.
Calling all JA Company Program alums, age 13 to 25: Enter for a chance to be part of our 100 Lives collection!
Looking for a place to celebrate International Youth Day? Join us for a Twitter chat on Friday.
We're pleased to announce that HSBC has made a three-year, $6.3-million commitment to continue our partnership.
JA of Southwest New England and United Technologies Corporation have created an international exchange between American and Chinese students.
Every year, JA Canada invites top JA Company Program participants from around the world to Toronto for the Next Generation Leaders Forum. The 2016 conference starts August 8!
A grant from FedEx allowed us to travel to Jalpan, Mexico, where Jonathan de Jesus Muñoz runs Blokera Muñoz, a concrete company.
What small opportunity will you seize on this Monday?
2016 | July
The Canadian Prime Minister takes time out of his busy schedule to congratulate Team OVERTIME.
The final day of the JA Europe Company of the Year Competition in Lucerne, Switzerland, featured a showcase of all the team's products, the final judging, and the awards ceremony.
Day 2 of the JA Europe Company of the Year Competition in Lucerne featured opening speeches, student interviews, team pitches/presentations, and a boat ride.
Day 2 of JA Europe's Company of the Year Competition begins in a few hours. Here's a look at Day 1.
Sixteen-year-old Italo Erazo first participated in a JA El Salvador program at ten years old. Get inspired by the rest of his story.
Scotiabank is investing $2 million in JA Americas' Road to Success project, which gives young people tools and hands-on workshops.
Looking for Monday motivation? Keep this graphic handy as a reminder that your bright light needs to shine on.
JA of the Eastern Shore teamed up with the town of Salisbury to hire 10 students this summer.
Because students tend to see only the public-facing jobs at financial-services companies, JA Isle of Man teamed up with Barclays to show the full range of employment opportunities, skills, and training available.
Vivian Lau, CEO of JA Asia Pacific, will moderate a Facebook Live Chat today with Clifford Hart, U.S. Consul General to Hong Kong and Macau.
Is there a right time to start a new business? Angel investor Ron Conway doesn't think so.
Sheikha Hanadi bint Nasser al-Thani, INJAZ Qatar's chairperson, spoke recently at an INJAZ Ambassadors launch.
Having trouble believing your financial, career, or startup dreams are possible? It's time to start practicing.
2016 | June
FedEx put the JA Worldwide logo on the #11 FedEx Cares Toyota, and Denny Hamlin raced our logo to a second-place finish!
"The unique model we have here—really an Israeli model—is that the instructors are not teachers as they are in Europe and the US."
Vivian Lau joined government officials, business leaders, and influencers from around the world in a panel discussion on "Shaping the Future of Production."
Our COO and CFO, Margie Wang, is in Tianjin, China, for the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting of the New Champions, speaking about STEM.
JA will ride along with NASCAR driver Denny Hamlin and the #11 FedEx Racing Team in the Sprint Cup Series race on Sunday.
JA USA and the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) will partner to promote work readiness in schools.
JA USA's top students are gathered in Washington, D.C., for the National Student Leadership Summit and Company of the Year Competition.
NGO Advisor released its list of the top 100 NGOs in the world . . . and guess who's on it? INJAZ Al-Arab, a member of JA Worldwide!
Students from across Canada and around the world will meet in Toronto, August 8-12. Registration is now open!
Thirteen young people join business leaders at tonight's JA Asia Pacific Youth Talk Conference at the Asia Society Hong Kong Center.
We're excited to share that the United Nations has launched a search for young leaders to help achieve the Global Goals for sustainable development.
It's time for our worldwide board meeting, and this time, we're in Hong Kong, where we also get to meet with JA Asia Pacific staff and the heads of JA-AP locations.
Thanks to the GE Foundation, JA students around the world are sharpening their STEM skills and adding to their career options.
Check out our thought-leadership magazine and discover what Senior Marketing Director Erin Sawyer has to say about the SXSW conference and access.
JA Americas' Development Director, Celia Deitz, is at the World Bank Global Youth Forum in Washington, D.C. Watch the livestream now.
The CEO of Citi Holdings (and our Board Chair) shares an inspiring talk.
We're looking forward to working with Citi volunteers during Citi's 11th annual Global Community Day to help improve our global community.
Su'a Cravens, Matt Ioannidis, and two dozen other Washington Redskins (National Football League) players spent time at JA Finance Park in Maryland, USA.
Richard Branson offers midweek motivation to hang in there when business realities set us back.
Have you been reading our thought-leadership magazine over on Medium? Our latest article discusses financial illiteracy, and explains that teaching personal finance in childhood offers a range of positive outcomes.
Johnson & Johnson announced a partnership today with JA to advance the education of young women and girls in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, Manufacturing and Design.
Matthew Chan, Xinyu Lin, and Neeraj Sakhrani from Bronx High School of Science took first place at the JA of New York Ninth Annual High School Business Plan Competition.
Our CEO, Asheesh Advani, was featured recently in an article about helping parents raise financially successful kids.


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Rangers "have every chance" of ending Celtic's dominance in the Scottish Premiership this season, according to Andy Walker.
Andy Walker claims Neil Lennon's tactics and transfer policy must be called into question following Celtic's shock Champions League exit.
Andy Walker reflects on the life and career of friend and Celtic great Billy McNeill, captain of the 'Lisbon Lions', who has died at the age of 79.
Ian Crocker and Andy Walker return from their international duties to layout their thoughts on the Premiership weekend.
Andy Walker believes the Old Firm fixture on December 29 will be key to Rangers' hopes of challenging Celtic for the title.
Celtic's defence were found out by Kilmarnock as they came from behind to beat Brendan Rodgers' side 2-1 on Sunday, says Andy Walker.
Rangers' performance in their Scottish Cup semi-final defeat to Celtic was described as "embarrassing" and "shambolic".
Ahead of the Edinburgh derby, former Hibernian striker Andy Walker previews the game at Easter Road...
Ahead of the third Old Firm clash of the season, former Celtic striker Andy Walker previews the game at Ibrox...
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Andy Walker airs his views on the Alex Schalk penalty saga and gives his take on penalties, diving and more...
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Andy Walker believes it is unrealistic to think Celtic will go through the Scottish Premiership season without losing a match.
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|Question 1: Unlike the United States Navy, personnel in the ________ and other Commonwealth navies addressing a Lieutenant-Commander do not abbreviate the rank to "Commander".
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