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This Safety Guide is in line with national child-protection legislation (Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act (No. 32 of 2007)), and is endorsed by Connect Network, a non-profit organization dedicated to the safety of at-risk women and children.
What we do to keep our tutors and clients safe
- The screening of our clients (to protect our tutors)
- All clients are requested to supply us with their physical address.
- We also require upfront payment to ensure our clients are legitimate.
- The screening of our tutors (to protect our clients)
- We gather each applicant's contact details, physical address, education history, and relevant experience.
- We review each applicant's documents: ID / Work permit (if foreign), Matric Certificate and/or University Transcript.
- The selection of tutors for a job
- Our Tutor Team reviews tutor applications for each job, selecting the most appropriate (based on gender, age, location, and other relevant factors).
- If you are a female tutor tutoring a male adult (over 18) you will be briefed as to the situation before you are asked to accept the job. If you decide to accept the job you must also please notify your next of kin as to the lesson time and whereabouts of each lesson.
- We endeavour to make sure that the client lives within a 10-15km radius of your home.
- The management of the tutoring process
- We only disclose your contact details to the client once you've accepted the job and the Lesson Schedule is being sent to the client.
- After the first lesson we will make contact with you and client to ensure that everyone was happy with the lesson.
- If a client is unhappy with a tutor, or vice versa, we endeavour to change the tutor first, failing which we stop future lessons and refund the client.
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- Be aware of the risks
For a start, it's important for you to be aware of the possible risks associated with private tutoring. While we make every effort to mitigate any risks, it's important to be aware of them and take active steps to protect yourself.
These are a few of the risks that we've identified:
- Risks involved with travelling to unsafe areas
- Damage to musical instruments
- Stalking or inappropriate messaging
- Bogus clients with sinister intentions
- Theft
- Sexual harassment
- Other serious crimes
- Be vigilant
- All tutors should always inform their next of kin of their whereabouts and their expected time of return.
- Take action
- We also strongly recommend that if you feel uncomfortable about any aspect of your tutoring assignment that you contact your Support Manager immediately and/or take any additional steps you deem necessary, which might include contacting the authorities, such as the South African Police Service (SAPS), or a next of kin.
- Apply for a clearance certificate
- All tutors should have a clearance certificate before they start tutoring.
- Please contact email@example.com to find out how to apply for a clearance certificate.
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PARPG development has ceased but the art will live
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text: Lockheed Martin said its NIRCam near-infrared camera, developed in collaboration with the University of Arizona for the James Webb Space Telescope, exceeded expectations during recent testing. The instrument is the primary science camera on the telescope, and will also be used to align its primary mirror, which is made up of 18 adjustable segments. NASA's next deep-space telescope is slated for launch in 2018. "JWST is an infrared observatory, requiring all of the optical components to operate at a cryogenic temperature under 40 K," said Alison Nordt, Lockheed's NIRCam program manager. "That's a significant challenge when you're building low-distortion optical mounts, aligning optics at room temperature and designing mechanisms to move precisely." Lockheed said NIRCam performed significantly better than requirements during the first integrated cryogenic testing program at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. In April, NASA installed the instrument alongside others in the Integrated Science Instrument Module (ISIM), which finished cryogenic vacuum testing late last year. The ISIM is next set to undergo vibration testing in 2015. For more information, visit www.lockheedmartin.com.


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As a 'not-for-private-profit' social enterprise, our trading surpluses are invested into community–based projects that assist with social change or personal development for those that would not routinely be able to access such development. Here are some of the projects we have been involved in:
Confidence Building
After holding a series of five confidence-building sessions with members of a local mental health charity, ProAction Development financed and facilitated a residential course for charity members designed to boost confidence and build skills. The underlying aim was for delegates to return home with the objective of forming and belonging to a new Peer Support Group. The intention of the newly formed group was to provide mutual support to each other within their own project and to develop communication skills and working relationships with other members. The overall aim was to develop a strong group that would act as a role model for setting up further groups throughout Somerset.
Programmes For Ex-Service Personnel
On leaving the forces, many service personnel struggle to adapt to civilian life. The vast difference in culture, a sudden sense of loss and purpose, having witnessed traumatic events, PTSD and other factors can all contribute to some men and women failing to find a niche in society, and in some cases, becoming depressed, developing addictions and resorting to crime.
ProAction Development and associates offered free programmes for ex-service personnel in Exeter with positive results. The delegates, placed by The Royal British Legion and Combat Stress, went on courses run over three consecutive days. They were matched with personal mentors, ex-service volunteers from the South West, who had successfully made the transition from forces to civilian living. An adaptation of our 10 Actions® To Transform Your Life Programme was developed to help delegates discover a new purpose for their lives, come to terms with their past and move on from it. The programme called, Moving Forward was very well received:
"The course was extremely good and it has given me the push I need to move into security work. Since doing this course, I have now done a security work course too."
"The moving forward course is just what ex-service people are looking for to make the move to civvy-street much easier."
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My computer has completely shat itself.
Completely. I can't even get into it.
All it does is unrecognisable things with blue screens, which strikes me as tragic.
With any luck, it will be fixable. But I confess that I fear it will be Something Much More Dreadful.
In which case, I may be Gone Some Time, being in no position to replace an entire system, not right now, anyway.
See you when.
ps. That makes one sewing machine completely burnt out, another sewing machine definitively jammed and requiring professional intervention, one industrial sewing machine requiring late-night interstate diagnosis and a spare parts replacement, and one computer most probably cactus beyond repair.
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(Reuters) - UnitedHealth Group Inc won anti-trust approval to buy DaVita Inc's primary and urgent care unit for $4.3 billion, the Federal Trade Commission said on Wednesday.
The deal is part of an effort by health insurers to cut costs by playing a more direct role in medical services, including shifting patients to cheaper, more accessible locations for routine or non life-threatening emergency medical services.
The FTC approved the deal on condition that it sell a Las Vegas facility to Utah-based to Intermountain Healthcare.
The deal was announced in December 2017 as $4.9 billion but was reduced last December to $4.3 billion.
DaVita will be rolled into UnitedHealth's Optum unit, which has some 30,000 physicians. Denver-based DaVita operates medical groups in six states that serve 1.7 million patients through about 300 clinics.
Optum said on Wednesday it had completed the transaction.DaVita's kidney dialysis unit is not included in the deal.
The FTC was split on the proposed transaction, with the three Republicans voting to approve it.
The two Democrats, Rebecca Slaughter and Rohit Chopra, said that they would have pressed for stronger action in Colorado, even if it meant going to court. Separately, Colorado's attorney general, Phil Weiser, said that it won an agreement from the companies to take steps to address those concerns through a price freeze in one case and similar measures.
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Forget Sanchez, PL duo set to hand £40m-rated Arsenal star escape route
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With the FIFA World Cup coming up in Russia next summer, Arsenal striker Olivier Giroud's lack of regular football for his side in the English Premier League will not help his chances of making the France National team.
Giroud, 31, has featured in every minute for his team in the group stage of the Europa League, scoring six goals in 21 matches in all competitions.
There's no doubt about his importance to Arsene Wenger's squad as he offers a lot with his physical structure, particularly his aerial prowess in attack, but having brought in French compatriot Alexandre Lacazette during the summer, he has found regular playing time hard to come by with the boss favouring to go with one striker.
According to reports, The Mirror states that the striker could leave the North London club on loan in the New Year, as although a £40million transfer to Merseyside club Everton failed to materialize last summer thanks to Arsene Wenger, his stance hasn't changed as a switch to either Crystal Palace or West Ham United has been speculated.
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Scottish Labour Secure Waiting Time Guarantee
The Scottish Government has accepted a Scottish Labour amendment to the Charter of Patient Rights and Responsibilities, so that patients are entitled to an accurate waiting time for operations.
The SNP introduced the Treatment Time Guarantee in 2012, which promised patients that they would have to wait a maximum of 12 weeks for routine operations. So far the law has been broken 120,000 times - with the problem especially acute in Edinburgh and the Lothians. However, under the present system patients are not given an actual estimate about how long they will have to wait.
Scottish Labour have a been campaigning to extend patient rights so that they get accurate information about waiting times rather than what has ended up being a mere ambition on many occasions. This morning, the Scottish Government accepted the Scottish Labour amendment, meaning it will be passed this afternoon.
Labour Health spokesperson Anas Sarwar said:
"This is a real win for patients across the country, and the government should commit to delivering it by the end of the month.
"In 2012 the SNP made a promise to the people of Scotland that they would have a legal right to treatment within 12 weeks. That law has now been broken almost 120,000 times.
"Patients deserve this transparency when it comes to their treatment. Long and unknown waits can have a negative impact on a person's work, family life, mental and physical well being.
"NHS boards should communicate an accurate expected waiting time to patients. This upfront approach will at least provide transparency and comfort to patients rather keep them in the dark.
"The SNP has seen common sense here - now they must deliver for patients."
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The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board announced today the names of the participants in the roundtable discussion next week on its concept release on possible changes to the auditor's reporting model.
The PCAOB will host the roundtable on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2011, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., at 1201 15th Street N.W., Washington, D.C. The meeting agenda is available below.
The concept release, issued on June 21, 2011, presents several alternatives for changing the auditor's reporting model and seeks comment on these or other alternatives that could provide investors with more transparency into the audit process and more insight into the company's financial statements or information outside the financial statements. The comment period closes on Sept. 30, 2011. The concept release and the comment letters received are available on the PCAOB website.
As announced on Aug. 25, 2011, the objective of the roundtable is to obtain insight from investors and other users and preparers of financial statements, audit committee members, academics and auditors into the alternatives presented in the concept release for changing the auditor's reporting model, as well as any other alternatives not discussed in the concept release. The auditor's report is the primary means by which auditors communicate information about their audits of financial statements to investors and other users of financial statements.
The roundtable will be chaired by the PCAOB Chief Auditor and Director of Professional Standards Martin F. Baumann. The participants include the following individuals:
The roundtable will be open to the public, and also audible via Webcast and podcast on the PCAOB website.


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Do the shortcuts still work after restarting Thunderbird? It seem in Thunderbird 3 onward disabling doesn't work immediately for some reason.gwhtech wrote:I'm trying to get keyconfig working with the latest version of Thunderbird with no success. I can disable the key commands and they disappear (apply, close), but the key sequences still do the same thing. Does anyone have this working anywhere?
The entity names have changed, but you could also use keyconfig to change these.jek60 wrote:Any idea why the "b" and "u" key bindings don't work in the edit panel?
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Crawl spaces come with their own unique challenges. They can often be forgotten about since it's not a main part of the house, however, the health of your crawl space can impact the air quality inside your home. Crawl space service is important to keep it clean and free from moisture or mold-related issues. As an added bonus, cleaning your crawl space also gives you extra storage space!
If it's been a while since you've evaluated the health of your crawl space, there might be moisture, mold, or pest problems. If you are nervous about going into your crawl space to check it out, call the experts at Foundation Recovery Systems! Our crawl space experts have seen it all and can transform it with our crawl space solutions.
Contact us today to schedule your free inspection! We serve customers throughout all of central Missouri and Eastern Kansas, including Kansas City, St. Louis, Columbia, Moberly, and Springfield.
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If you already have a crawl space liner, it's a good idea to get the drainage matting installed underneath. One of the many things that set our products apart from the competition is that we always install a drainage matting underneath our CrawlSeal – encapsulation. This matting prevents any water from getting trapped underneath your liner and channels it outside to prevent flooding.
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Could Egypt violence could leave its and other countries' offshore IT reputations in ruins?
The recent events in Egypt have dominated the news over the last couple of weeks.
Before that we had the pro democracy protests in Tunisia.
It seems the globalisation of IT delivery makes many world events relevant today.
Egypt has been promoting itself in recent years as an alternative to traditional offshore IT locations such as Brazil, Russia, India and China, collectively known as the BRIC countries.
The Egypt Information Technology Industry Development Agency (EITIDA) even commissioned the London School of Economics (LSE) to carry out a survey of the best places to offshore IT outside the BRIC countries.
The 14 countries looked at were: Belarus, Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Egypt, Mexico, Morocco, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Tunisia, Vietnam and Venezuela.
Egypt did pretty well.
But now we here that Wipro and Infosys have evacuated staff from Egypt and foreigners have been forced to leave.
Wipro said: "… our expatriate employees have come back (to India). With the curfew in Egypt continuing, we are urging our local employees to leave office early to ensure their safety. The BCP processes are also in place wherever required. We hope the situation is resolved soon so business can continue peacefully."
Robert Morgan, director at sourcing broker Burnt-Oak Partners, says political insecurity is rarely considered when businesses consider offshoring work.
The troubles in Egypt, which is seen as a good place to offshore, could change this.
"Many of the offshore locations offer helpdesk services which is at the forefront for a business. Workloads can be moved around if there is a problem in one place but it needs to be in a disaster recovery plan."
He says smaller offshore destinations such as Egypt, with a small number of places providing services will find it more difficult to shift workloads.
He says businesses largely ignore political considerations when agreeing offshore contracts but this should change. The political unrest in Egypt could happen in many countries, he says.


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Been 'camping' a few times with my 6 year old boy in the back garden to get him used to the 'camping' experience. He realy wants to do some 'proper' camping now, so I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for somewhere the two of us could go.
I really want to avoid serviced campsites with plug sockets and showers and on-site shops and the like, and am looking for somewhere safe where we can wake up in the morning without being surrounded by other tents, or can sleep at night without being serenaded by drunken youths. I'm presuming there are plenty of places in Namadgi that are not too far off the beaten track and are reasonably easy to get to.
Anyone got any suggestions as to where we could find such a place? Or information about such places?
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We are deeply saddened by the death on 10th of May 2011 of one of our featured poets Patrick Galvin. We met with Patrick to record material for Podcasts.ie just over a year ago and though battling with the affects of a stroke which affected his speech and mobility, he was warm and generous with his time and through his wife Mary he participated in what for us will be a treasured recording. In our small way we want to honour his memory with a podcast featuring Macdara Galvin singing his fathers compostion of the song "James Connolly" along with recordings from the family archive of Patrick reading "Man on The Porch" and "Song for a Poor Boy".
It is a dark day for Irish literature to lose a man of his immense talent and generosity but we are proud and realise how lucky we are to have participated in one of his final recordings.
If you would like to add a comment to his page, in time, we will pass them on via e mail to his family.
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Unlike other websites, Booking.com only displays reviews from guests who have stayed at the property – meaning the listing only features real experiences from real guests. The more reviews a listing has, the more likely it will have a score that accurately reflects it.
Many listings also include free cancellation, meaning you won't pay a cancellation fee if your plans change.
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For decades, JBC Tools (JBC) has been a global leader in electronic ESD-safe soldering, desoldering, and rework stations. The company is at the forefront of the soldering tool market, with products that are innovative, efficient and reliable, and designed to meet the demands of electronics industry professionals.
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I love it! It reminds me of an art smock, too, which is probably why I like it :) How awesome that it was free!ReplyDelete
Target is my go-to place for tights, but I'm thinking I need to invest in some better quality ones. I pulled out my brown tights that I bought last year and they're already a little stretched feeling :(
Oh super super cute outfit! I LOVE your style. That dress would have had the meh effect on me at first too, I think pairing it with that striped shirt (which holy crap is adorable to have had for so long) makes it all just perfect! I happen to be wearing red tights today, got them at Target and LOVE them. That's where I usually get my tights or Kohl's, but I'm just now stepping out of my shell of colorful tight wearing so I'm still kind of a noob!ReplyDelete
Have a great weekend!
I agree: all shirts and sweaters should come with patches and all skirts and dresses should come with pockets. What a cute idea. I need to do this! Have a great weekend, dear. xoReplyDelete
Oh my gosh I love those tights! And the whole outfit. And seriously, what's up with dresses without pockets?!ReplyDelete
I'm such a sucker for buy one get one free deals, and if you go up to buy only one thing you have to explain that you don't like anything else in the store. Awkward. If it's really bad then I'll buy the prettiest thing either for a friend or to donate. I love these bright tights, they're gorgeous. I'm quite fussy with my tights., I get all my black ones from Marks and Spencers because they are great quality, although quite expensive, but I'm not so fussy about patterned or coloured ones so I get them from Primark. They aren't great but they do the job for those rare days I wear them xoReplyDelete
I have totally returned tights to Target that had a hole in them the first time I wore them, no problem. target is the best! Cute outfit, I really like your classes.ReplyDelete
I love those elbow patches on the shirt! It looks darling. And I loveee that jacket! I am obsessed with things like that right now. You are so cute and I love your blog girlie!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 16, 2012 at 11:59 AM
Adorable outfit. I have red tights that are my favourites, too. They are super torn and mangled, but luckily all of that action is hidden by skirts and dresses.ReplyDelete
I have bought most of my tights at Value Village during the Halloween season. They get brand new ones in and they are always amazing colours.. and they're cheap. There's just no going wrong.
loving the elbow patches on your top! way too cute. as for tights, most of mine are from gap. they are pretty good quality for the price, and sometimes they have 2 for $20 deals!ReplyDelete
You are the cutest ever. I want everything you wear! Tights are tough, I'm super picky about how they fit and how they feel. I'm so weird about the way certain fabrics feel against my skin! I know a lot of people swear by Sock Dreams though!ReplyDelete
There's that awesome coat! I've been keeping my eye out for one since you first posted about it!ReplyDelete
I love this outfit, especially the dress.
Such a great coat! And love those photos!!ReplyDelete
I WANT THAT COAT SO BAD.ReplyDelete
I have been eyeing it on Fredflare.com for so long now.
very cute outfit!ReplyDelete
Love your outfit, you put it together so well, very cute!ReplyDelete
Happy Friday! And I am always so enamored with your glasses! I love your white ones, but even these look phenomenal on you! So so cute!ReplyDelete
A sweet fall outfit!! Love the jacket and leggings! xo HeatherReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 17, 2012 at 4:38 AM
beautiful photos. love your coat!ReplyDelete
You look so stinking cute! That dress looks great on you, the patches on your sleeves are cute as a button and the best part is it looks comfortable to wear. Perfect fall outfit.ReplyDelete
Love that dress! My husband likes to make fun of me because it's hard to look good for pictures when you take your coat off and it's super chilly! :DReplyDelete
I like your style...love that you know how to mix & match pieces! Love the look of the tights with your aztec-y jacket!ReplyDelete
that coat is beautiful! love the print and it looks so snug and warm!ReplyDelete
Hi there! Thanks for commenting on my blog. You are so very cute! If I lived in a tiny country town, building a home, I would never get dressed up cute! And you are cute to the max! And please... return the tights. I have a loose return policy for me personal code of conduct.ReplyDelete
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Howdy! I absolutely LOVE your coat. The colors are amazing. I have always had a soft spot in my heart for southwestern patterns. As far as tights go i usually purchase mine from ModCloth. They are a tad expensive yes... but the quality is very nice. But if I'm in a pinch there is always Target! :)ReplyDelete
I love this outfit! And I even have the same coat, I'm in love with it! :) And that dress is really pretty, amazing that you got it for free xoReplyDelete
Great! This outfit is awesome and the photos are totally vintage :DReplyDelete
I love the vintage feel to both the pictures and the outfit! Thanks for the nice comment on my blog. Follow each other?ReplyDelete
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Love your style, this coat is gorgeous!!
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I love rediscovering things in your wardrobe! And after seeing this outfit, i'm especially annoyed at myself that I didn't take more advantage of layering cute tops and dresses like this this past winter!ReplyDelete
Love your blog, this post and the photos are great!ReplyDelete
Thanks for stopping by my blog and the lovely comment :)
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You are so cute! I love your glasses and the patterns you've put together here!ReplyDelete
Hey Amanda! So glad to have found your blog! My family is from WV so I'm always happy to find folks from there :) Your little house is adorable. Not to mention your style, I totally dig! Love this combo - and that COAT! Can't wait to see what you're up to next :)ReplyDelete
I buy tights from all over the place: Old Navy, Target, Ross... Im actually kind of in love with a black pair from ON that has tiny white polka dots all over.ReplyDelete
Thanks for commenting on my blog!ReplyDelete
I love your outfit and all the colors and patterns! Love your glasses! Want to follow each other?
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The RiiConnect24 Everybody Votes Channel is Out!
We at RiiConnect24 are happy to announce that the Everybody Votes Channel has now been brought back after over 4 long years after it was discontinued. Many people have missed the feeling of being able to vote in polls every few days, and a lot of people thought it was fun.
Now to the part most of you care about… You will have to install a patched WAD of the Everybody Votes Channel, even if you have it on your Wii, because it has to be patched. If you have RiiConnect24 installed, please follow the tutorial to get it here. If you don't have RiiConnect24, follow the tutorial here. If you get 231000 in the Channel when voting or suggesting, try restarting it.
The first poll that you will be able to see today (December 2, 2017) will ask you if you prefer using a button-fly or zipper on your clothes. I'm sure that most of you prefer zippers… In the days to come, more polls will come in. We're gonna use Nintendo's poll releasing schedule (release a poll every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, and release worldwide polls on the 1st and 16th of every month). By the way, we plan to release the first worldwide poll on December 16th.
We have released a few goodies to celebrate the launch of the Everybody Votes Channel:
- There is an Everybody Votes Channel wallpaper you can download.
- sks316 made a theme for the 3DS you can use. Download from ThemePlaza.eu, or directly.
- You can view poll results from all the original questions when the Everybody Votes Channel was officially up here.
Happy voting, and hope it works for you without problems!


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Debt Portfolio Management Quarterly Review - December 2013
In 2013, the state budget ended in a deficit of CZK 81.3 billion, which resulted in its decline of CZK 18.7 billion compared to the budgeted amount of CZK 100 billion. In accordance with The Czech Republic Funding and Debt Management Strategy for 2014, this difference will be reflected in the higher available cash reserve at the end of 2013, which amounted to CZK 62.7 billion, and will be fully used to cover financing needs in 2014. The lower decrease of cash reserve due to the lower state budget deficit in 2013 will result in the reduction of the gross borrowing requirement of the central government in 2014 to CZK 350.1 to 381.4 billion under the alternative scenario of funding programme. The reduction of the gross borrowing requirement of the central government implies the decrease of the maximum nominal value of the gross issue of medium-term and long-term government bonds on domestic market, which will not exceed CZK 262 billion.


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When a newborn comes into the shareholder community, first we say, "Congratulations!" Then, we help ensure that each child is properly registered with Tyonek Native Corporation as a new shareholder. Each newborn is given 10 shares in the Corporation. When the child turns 18, he/she receives an additional 90 shares, which brings them to the total adult allotment of 100 shares.
Likewise, in the event of a shareholder passing, those shares must be designated or assigned to others. Tyonek Native Corporation also provides life insurance to all shareholders, payable to designated beneficiaries.
At all times, it is essential that the Corporation has accurate contact information for each shareholder.
- Address/Name Change Form ~ Tyonek Native Corporation requires your current address so we can keep you updated on benefits, employment opportunities, dividends, meetings, and for proper delivery of company mailings. We cannot accept your change of address on the phone–it must be submitted in writing.
- Will Form for Tyonek Shares ~ All shareholders must fill out, sign, and submit to Tyonek Native Corporation a corporate stock will that states whom shall inherit your Class A or Class X stock. (Class B stock may not be left by inheritance, and automatically returns to Tyonek Native Corporation upon the death of the shareholder)
You can bring completed forms to the TNC Corporate Office.
Class B Stock
In January 2004, Tyonek Native Corporation shareholders authorized stock for descendants of the original shareholders. If you are a descendant of an original Tyonek shareholder and have not applied for your Class B Stock, this form must be submitted.
- Class B Application ~ Includes Designation of Successor & Custodian Acceptance.
- Transfer of Stock to Successor Custodian
Shareholder Career Development
Tyonek has developed the Shareholder Career Development Database for shareholders who are seeking a career or training/development opportunities. This database will store information about shareholders and provide you with job alerts via email if there are opportunities available at TNC that match your skills, education, and experience. You can input your job ready information by clicking on the link below.
- Shareholder Career Development Database
- Community and Cultural Donations Application ~ The Tyonek Native Corporation Board of Directors has set aside a modest fund to provide support to community and cultural events and initiatives. Funds are administered through the Corporation's non-profit arm, the Tebughna Foundation.


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Reliving the past can be an obstacle to grace. The present is the only place where we can encounter God. It's the reason we exist in the Year of Faith, 2013.
On Ash Wednesday, 2012, we posted "In a City on a Hill: Lent, Sacrifice, and the Passage of Time." It was about Lent from the perspective of prison, and time was its central theme. It was about a few people you have come to know and the persons they choose to be in present adversity.
This post is also about time, but from a different perspective. It's about the interconnectedness of time. The threads that run through our human experience of God are a tapestry of creation rather than just a linear existence where we are at the mercy of random events.
The importance of detecting these threads in time and history was recently made known to me by – of all people – Stephen King, and it's a story filled with its own tiny threads of connection. Ever since reading "Pornchai's Story" when The Catholic League published it in 2008, I have not exactly been enamored of author, Stephen King. You might remember that Pornchai delivered newspapers to Mr. King's Bangor, Maine home when Pornchai was twelve years old and barely spoke English.
There was really nothing in that story that I should hold against Stephen King, however. It was just guilt by association, and that's never fair and just. I wasn't very happy with anyone in Bangor, Maine circa 1985 after reading "Pornchai's Story." If I could travel through time, there would be some things I would try to fix back there. Like all of us, however, I'm stuck in the here and now.
But that's not really why I've been shunning books by Stephen King for all these years. It's because of that horrible clown! Because of one Stephen King story, I have been associating all his books with evil clowns, and I have a phobia for clowns. I've had it for as long as I can remember, and you might be surprised how many people I've met who share my disdain for clowns. Even Pornchai mentioned Mr. King's evil clown in "Pornchai's Story."
Early this week, while shivering in the cold waiting in line for a seat in the prison chow hall, a young African-American prisoner was behind me. Someone in line mentioned a clown he saw on TV, and I detected the young man's shudder, more than just a shiver in the cold. When I turned to him he said, "I can't stand clowns! They're creepy!" We spoke of that Stephen King film about an evil clown named Pennywise, and it was the reason neither of us read his books. We agreed that they're just too creepy, and in prison we have enough that's creepy on our plates – and we weren't referring to the food in the prison chow hall that day.
I know Stephen King wrote some good stories that became great films. One, "The Shawshank Redemption," has shown up in several of my posts. King's original title was, Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption published in a short story collection entitled, Different Seasons.
Pushed by a friend, I borrowed my first Stephen King book from the prison library this week. It's long – 849 pages. The Stephen King section in this library is huge, not just because he wrote a lot of books but because most of those books are also huge. You might recall from my post, "Les Miserables" a few weeks ago that I haul books to prisoners being punished in "the hole" each week. Prisoners in the hole ask for Stephen King books because they're long and they fill up the unbearably empty time. I feel like a pack mule lugging dozens of those immense books around. Has this man ever had an unpublished thought?
I have to admit, however, that the Stephen King book I'm now reading – and I'm exactly halfway through it – is fascinating. Even its title – 11/22/63 – is fascinating. That date will jump off the book's cover to lure in anyone who remembers the day President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas. This coming November will mark a half century since that day. I wrote of it, and the tumultuous decade to follow, in one of TSW's most widely-read posts "The Day the Earth Stood Still."
My friend's pushing me to read 11/22/63 might not have succeeded, however, if not preceded just the night before by another thread of connection. A month ago, I received a letter from a very nice woman who lives in New Hampshire but is spending the winter in Arizona. She wrote that as a New Hampshire Catholic she remembered some rumblings that I might be unjustly in prison, but never gave the story much further thought. Then, she wrote, while attending Mass in Arizona, the local priest asked her where she is from. When she told him, the priest asked, "Isn't that where a priest is wrongly in prison for life when he could have been free years ago had he lied?" The priest prompted her to go find These Stone Walls and start reading.
In a second letter, she wrote that she just finished reading "The Day the Earth Stood Still," and found it to be a walk filled with meaning through all those vivid memories of a half century ago. It was the morning after reading this letter that a friend in the prison library shoved Stephen King's 11/22/63 in front of me.
Such subtle threads of connection are center stage in this riveting book. The threads of history want to be noticed and connected as though some Divine Weaver has always been behind them. Stephen King's tale in 11/22/63 is narrated by high school English teacher, Jake Epping, who finds himself walking through a portal from 2012 to 1958, the world of my childhood. Living in 1958, the well-meaning teacher sets out to right a few wrongs and prevent some local mishaps and tragedies of the past. Then he takes up a more ambitious plan to go to Dallas and remain there until 1963 to stop Lee Harvey Oswald from killing President Kennedy.
While living in the past, Jake Epping gradually becomes aware of "the butterfly effect." Each small change he effects seems to produce subtle alterations and threads of coincidence that tell him that history itself resists those changes. "History is obdurate," he concludes repeatedly. "It does not want to change." Jake Epping develops a sense that his meddling with history bears consequences. One altered thread effects another after another until the entire tapestry of time is altered in ways no human could have foreseen.
In a recent Opinion Page in USA Today ("Have We Lost the Will to Live?" January 29, 2013), author Rebecca Costa raised an important point about the "Tragedy in Newtown" that I wrote of in my first post of 2013. Ms. Costa wrote that the solution to the long list of such tragedies is not new government regulations such as gun control, but self-control. She pointed out that the legacy of the last fifty years in our culture is a serious erosion in the will to live. Suicide in our culture has risen 60% over the last 45 years.
For Rebecca Costa, many of the events of mass murder that have so plagued our time involved first a decision to commit suicide, and then an awareness that such a decision removes the consequences for other aberrant behaviors: " . . . no arrest, no jail, no families of the victims to face, no remorse, no nothing. Dead is dead."
The Centers for Disease Control reports that one million Americans attempt suicide every year now, a 400% increase since 1988. Without a doubt, for any person of faith, there is a clear thread of connection between that problem and our culture's sharp turn from a culture of life based upon religious faith over the last half century. It could not be more obvious.
My post, "Tragedy in Newtown" raised the point that without faith, the aftermath of that tragedy for the human community is bleak. It sparked an exchange in the comments on that post about whether faith is really necessary for us to be compassionate and responsible people. My response to that is that the erosion of faith is the single most influential factor in the sharp rise of suicide and hopelessness that has plagued our culture since the 1960s.
Religious historian, Mircea Eliade (1907-1986) called the fact that we seem to be at the mercy of the past, "the terror of history." Eliade portrayed humankind as having evolved not just into Homo Sapiens (Latin for "man of wisdom") as anthropology has proposed, but also into "Homo Religiosis," human beings motivated in our essence by our capacity to detect the threads of history through an awareness of God.
For Eliade, humankind evolved with the capacity to detect God, to relate to God, and to view our lives in terms of that relationship. It's why we are here. My own take on Eliade's point is that the existence of religious experience is its own proof – even using the principles of Darwin. In Darwinian evolution, the principle of natural selection means that over time our species will enhance traits that contribute to our survival and dominance as a species, and extinguish traits that do not serve our continuation. And yet throughout the course of human history up to the present time, the one unifying factor of all human culture and every human society has been, and remains, our capacity for religious experience, and it is uniquely human.
Our capacity for religious has suffered at various points in our history. It suffers right now. But it has never been extinguished by evolution. Humans were given that capacity because we need it. Humans retain that capacity because we need it. We may not even still be human without it.
Humankind, for Mircea Eliade, came to deal with the terror of history from the viewpoint of faith, detecting threads of connection between historical events translated as religious events. The Israelite account of the succession of divine events in human history revealed time as both linear and connected – more like a woven tapestry than a long string. Our Catholic concept of Salvation History continued the Israelite tradition of event-oriented time connecting our divine events and their central figures – from Abraham to Moses to David to Christ, the central thread of God's tapestry.
Some people are able to detect these threads, to sense their presence and contemplate their meaning. These are the people of faith, and if you've read this far, you're likely among them. Faith is centered on a conviction that God has fashioned the tapestry of time and views both its threads and its entirety while we see only threads. Without faith, those threads of time's connections – so obvious to people of faith – become just random events, the experiences of random coincidence without any meaning at all.
As Lent, 2013 begins, it is not religious experience, but rather the hopelessness of this age that is the clearest threat to our continued existence. So I'm spending Lent in this Year of Faith in the practice of the Presence of God. What I'm giving up for Lent is any living in the past, any wishful thinking about what might have been.
One tangible expression of this practice might be to spend time this Lent in the Presence of the Blessed Sacrament, an immense gift to the Church. Whether daily or weekly, this time in the Presence of God is a powerful source of grace, though one that prison has denied to me for over 18 years. If you've seen the first part of my post, "The Sacrifice of the Mass," then you know what it would mean to me if you spent a few minutes of that time before the Blessed Sacrament on my behalf.
There is no greater Lenten grace that you could send to us behind These Stone Walls.
Memento homo, quod cinis es, et in cinerem reverteris.
Remember, O Man, that thou art dust, and to dust shalt return.


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Steve Reeves
While in high school, Steve Reeves became interested in bodybuilding and began working out at a local gym in Oakland, Calif. He was inspired by the son of a rancher friend of his mother's, telling a friend later in life that "when Vernon would take off his shirt and swing that hefty axe his muscles flexed with every move" [source: Steve Reeves International Society].
Reeves' first bodybuilding contest was the 1946 Mr. Pacific Coast. He went on to win the same contest the following year, along with Mr. America in 1947, Mr. World in 1948 and Mr. Universe in 1950. Unlike many of his fellow competitors, Reeves didn't have a long career in the world of professional bodybuilding. Instead, his physique and good looks eventually led to a film career, making him one of the first bodybuilders to become a successful actor. His most famous role was that of Hercules, who he played in a movie by the same name in 1957, as well as its 1960 sequel.
Throughout the 50s and 60s, Reeves starred in many "sword and sandal" or "pepla" movies. Most of them were made in Italy and were based loosely on mythology or historical events. These films made Reeves the highest-paid actor in Europe at the time. He famously turned down the role taken on by Clint Eastwood in "A Fistful of Dollars," reasoning that an Italian filmmaker wouldn't be able to make a successful Western. Unfortunately, a shoulder injury while filming "The Last Days of Pompeii" in 1960 eventually led to Reeves' retirement. His last film was in 1968, after which he bred horses, promoted bodybuilding and wrote his book "Building the Classic Physique: The Natural Way."
Click over to the next page for the story of the "Austrian Oak," a man you might know by another name.


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What Is the National Museum of Australia?
The National Museum of Australia is a government-created entity focusing on preserving the country's social history by presenting exhibitions and programs featuring its significant people, events, and ideas. It was created in 1980 under the National Museum of Australia Act. Located on the Acton Peninsula, its building boasts early-21st century architecture, which houses permanent collections and rotating exhibitions. These focus on key elements laid out in the 1980 Act. Museum staff embrace and implement new technologies in public outreach, programs, and exhibitions.
Established by an act of the same name, the National Museum of Australia was established in 1980 with the legislation detailing the museum's mission and powers as well as management details for its council, director, and finances, among other areas. The National Museum of Australia Act cited three areas of focus for the museum. It called for the creation of an aboriginal gallery to feature and maintain exhibitions chronicling and celebrating the country's native cultures. The museum also focuses on exhibitions, programs, and collections that preserve Australia's history from its settlement in 1788 forward and how people interact with the natural environment in the region.
Architect Howard Raggatt McDougall designed the permanent building, which opened in 2001. The National Museum of Australia's architecture was designed on a theme of intertwined rope knots, embracing the idea that the country is made up of many peoples and experiences. A walkway named the Uluru Axis loops around the outlying land and back to the building. The building interior has ceilings with amorphous shapes and walls with irregular nooks and corners.
Notable permanent collections include the world's largest holding of aboriginal tools and bark paintings. The national historic collection contains over 200,000 items illustrating Australia's past. The museum also features objects from approximately 20 categories including children, exploration, and agriculture, among others.
Numerous exhibitions are on rotation at any given time at the National Museum of Australia. Each exhibit focuses on either people, the land, and/or their interaction with the environment. Traveling exhibitions are also an important part of the National Museum of Australia's mission. The exhibitions travel throughout the country, each with a very specific focus covering themes like the struggle for indigenous rights between 1920 and 1970. Museum staff stress the importance of updating programs and exhibitions to expose visitors to as much regional culture and history as possible. It also gives repeat patrons the opportunity to see the museum anew when a new technology or perspective is presented.
The National Museum boasts a strong online presence, hosting several blogs from the director, the education staff, and the museum photographer, among other blogs focusing on current exhibitions. Collectorfest provides an online community and resource for collectors. The museum maintains active social media profiles as well.


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Art Sets.
Victorian watercolours: made for the middle class
By the Art Gallery of NSW
When it came to collecting art, the early trustees of the Art Gallery of NSW aimed to follow the cultural standards of the Victorian-era British middle class.
Eschewing the controversial, they favoured works that were accessible in subject matter, conventional in style, and capable of being appreciated and understood by audiences of widely differing social and educational backgrounds.
Watercolours fulfilled such requirements. As The Sydney Morning Herald noted in 1861 in relation to the private collection of Australian industrialist Thomas Sutcliffe Mort:
'The pictures… immediately commend themselves to the admiration of everyone possessed of the slightest taste, and do not need the services of professional connoisseurs to point out their excellencies, or to vouch for their genuineness. There is nothing whatever obscure or traditional in their merits; their essential truthfulness and exquisite beauty are quickly recognised even by those who have but little knowledge of art…'
The domestic and democratic appeal of the medium was repeatedly asserted by various commentators, including the highly influential writer and art critic John Ruskin, who declared – not without a hint of irony – in Notes on Samuel Prout and William Hunt (1879–80):
'…drawings of this simple character were made for the same middle classes, exclusively; and even for the second order of the middle classes, more accurately expressed by the term bourgeoisie. The great people always bought Canaletto, not Prout, and Van Huysum, not Hunt. There was indeed no quality in the bright little water-colours which could look other than pert in ghostly interiors, and petty in halls of state; but they gave an unquestionable tone of liberal-mindedness to a suburban villa, and were the cheerfullest possible decorations for a moderate-sized breakfast-parlour opening onto a nicely-mown lawn.'
The extraordinary scale of watercolour manufacture during Victoria's reign (the Queen herself was an enthusiastic watercolourist and collector) fed an insatiable appetite for pictures that suited the pockets of middle-class consumers and addressed an audience eager for reassuring images which, in contrast to the art of the Romantic period, reflected the tamer emotions of a domestic age: 'a gentle sentiment, an agreeable, quiet incident, a tea-table tragedy, or a bread-and-butter idyll', according to the novelist and art critic William Makepeace Thackeray.
Writing in The Pictorial Times in 1843, Thackeray contended that the new concerns of Victorian painters were 'at least natural, which the heroic was not. Bread and butter can be digested by every man'.
Images of contemporary life laced with homely sentiments comprised only one aspect of the expanding range of subject matter deemed worthy of the watercolourist's brush. Equally popular were historical anecdotes celebrating the past and subjects from literature. The untamed landscapes of Wales and Scotland also remained favourite attractions, as did the sea and the coastlines of England and France.
Idyllic rural scenes and country gardens became especially popular – subjects which despite their disarming prettiness nonetheless assumed added significance as defences against the ill effects of industrial cities.
Helen Allingham, for example, offered audiences in polluted and overcrowded urban centres an unashamedly sweet vision of pre-industrial rural life, where innocent little girls were dressed-up in old-fashioned smocks and sunbonnets. Even the lattice panes of cottage windows were 'restored' by the artist where they had never actually existed.
Beyond the British Isles many watercolourists found inspiration in the historic architecture of European cities while ever-increasing numbers – armed with newly invented pocket-sized Japanned tin paintboxes – discovered scenic novelties in the Middle East.
Edward Angelo Goodall in many ways represents the stereotypical image of the intrepid Victorian artist, travelling to destinations far beyond those to which British painters had traditionally been drawn: as official artist on an expedition to British Guiana and a war correspondent in Crimea, as well as painting in France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Morocco and Egypt.
From Victorian watercolours, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2017


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It's mostly water, with small amounts of sodium, chloride, potassium, and other minerals (collectively called electrolytes) that play an important role in regulating blood pressure and the body's water balance. Sweat from apocrine glands is different, however, and gives sweating a bad name. It contains proteins and fatty acids, and it mixes with oil and dirt, making it thicker and slightly yellowish. Body odor comes from compounds released by bacteria feeding on organic particles in apocrine sweat.
Sweat rates vary greatly. Sedentary people may sweat anywhere from a negligible amount to two quarts a day. Under extreme conditions, heat and physical exertion can increase the output to as much as two quarts an hour. Factors such as age, sex, genetics, and conditioning affect the amount a person sweats.
Your working muscles burn lots of calories and thus produce heat, which raises body temperature. The body reacts by increasing blood flow to your skin, which helps remove heat by a process called convection, and also causes you to sweat more, which cools you off by its evaporation.
Yes, but the sweat doesn't cool you off, since it doesn't evaporate as much and simply drips off. That's why a hot, humid climate feels more uncomfortable than a hotter but drier climate. Air movement does promote evaporation of sweat, so a fan may help— for instance, while you're exercising on a stationary bike or lifting weights.
Sweating reduces blood volume by removing water and thus boosts the concentration of sodium in the blood, which stimulates the brain to trigger thirst. But when you exercise or work hard, the thirst mechanism doesn't keep up with your need for fluid. By the time you're thirsty, you've already lost a lot of fluid. A fluid deficit of even a pint or two can impair physical performance. Always drink before, during, and after prolonged exercise, especially in the heat.
It can be. You can lose excessive amounts of water and sodium during severe and prolonged sweating. When you don't replace the water lost through perspiration, blood volume drops, you sweat less, and body temperature rises. This can lead to heat cramps, heat exhaustion, or heat stroke (a life-threatening condition). Sports drinks or salty snacks can provide some sodium during endurance exercise. In the long term your normal diet will replace the minerals lost in sweat.
It depends. As you become physically fit, your core temperature will rise more slowly, your heart will be able to beat more slowly at a given workload, and you'll sweat more efficiently. For instance, you'll start to sweat at a lower core body temperature and sweat more—assuming you're fully hydrated when you start. Thus you stay cooler and can exercise more in the heat. Your sweat is more diluted, containing less sodium and other minerals. Just as exercise increases efficiency and size of muscles, it boosts the efficiency of the heat-regulation system and even the size of sweat glands.
Yes, especially when you exercise regularly in hot weather. Changes in your cardiovascular and nervous systems (such as a lower heart rate and increased blood flow to the skin) help you acclimatize to the heat. Your sweat glands become bigger. Most of the adaptation occurs during the first five days, but full acclimatization takes about two weeks. The fitter you are and the more you exercise in the heat, the faster you'll be able to adapt. After a few days back at normal temperatures, you'll lose most of these adaptive changes.
Because their cardiovascular system is usually less fit. Thus they tend to pump less blood to the skin (but with a greater strain on the heart), sweat less, and thus are less able to dissipate internal heat. In addition, older people can more easily become dehydrated because they tend not to feel as thirsty as their younger counterparts, so they should make a special effort to drink plenty of fluids. Well-trained, healthy older athletes, however, can usually cope well with the heat.


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736 Record Highs Set This Week
Multiple cities—from Washington, DC to Toronto to Milwaukee—smashed temperature records this week, as a record February warm spell continues to spread across the U.S.Nearly 3,000 daily maximum temperature records were set during the first half of the month. During the past week, 736 record highs were set with no record lows recorded. Thursday, Falcon Dam, Texas recorded a (yet unverified) temperature of 107 F—the highest temperature ever recorded in the U.S. in February.
Source: 736 Record Highs Set This Week
Great article published on ThinkProgress also:
It might feel good, but February's intense heat is a very bad sign
The United States hits record high temps, as a climate change denier takes the reigns at the EPA.
By Jeremy Deaton
Meteorologists expect to see dozens of heat records broken this week, as an extended stretch of uncommonly warm weather continues across much of the United States.
Also this week, Scott Pruitt took the helm at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Pruitt, who has deep ties to the fossil fuel industry, has described climate science as a "religious belief" and said he expects to scrap the Clean Power Plan, an EPA initiative to limit carbon pollution from power plants.
Scientists have found that carbon pollution is warming the planet, producing more severe weather, including more extreme heat. February's spate of record-high temperatures offers the most recent example of how this process plays out.


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Are you fully focused on your goals?
It's easy to get distracted when you're working on your goals. There are days when you don't feel like working on them.
So to help you with that problem, here are some tips to help you stay focused.
Create a vision board
A vision board is a collage of pictures and images that represent your goals and dreams. When you create a vision board, it helps you to visualize your end goals more clearly.
This will lead to you to take necessary action consistently. Not only that, it also serves to remind you of your goals every day when you see the board.
Create milestones and celebrate them
If you just set one huge goal, it can be discouraging – especially when you don't achieve it after a short while. When that happens, you may find yourself procrastinating on the goal altogether – which won't help you at all.
What you need do is break a big goal into smaller goals, so you concentrate on achieving the smaller goals in the short-run.
To further motivate yourself, celebrate each milestones you've achieved no matter how small they are.
Track your results
Always track your results. Seeing the improvements you've made and the things you managed to achieve will motivate you to keep on going.
Tracking the results of what you do will give you the confirmation that you're making a difference.
It will let you know whether you're on track or off track, which in turn lets you know whether to tweak your actions or not.
Say NO to distractions
Do you often put your goals aside for other people or mundane things? It's okay to do that once or twice, but if you keep doing the whole time, something is seriously wrong.
You set your goals for a reason. You can't always put off working on them just because you're always distracted.
Learn to prioritize. Otherwise you're just slowing down the process.
Document the process
Start a journal documenting your goal pursuit. The best way to do that is to share every milestone on your blog.
Documenting your goal pursuit can be a therapeutic experience. Not only will you be constantly reminded of what needs to be done, you'll also be motivated to keep on going and to never give up.
This will help you further be focused on your goals.
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Allow new/additional responsibility to be added to an existing object dynamically. Decoratores provide a flexible alternative to subclassing for extending functionality.
Decorator, a structual pattern also known as wrapper, adds additional functionality to a class at runtime through composition. Decorators are alternative to subclassing which add behaviour at compile time. By wrapping, it allows us to add things to the component without requiring every subclass to inherit these new qualities. Each decorator class wraps a component, which means the decorator has an instance variable that holds a reference to a component.
As an example we can look at graphical user interface toolkits where we want to add responsibility such as scrolling behaviour or border property to individual objects, not to an entire class. By using inheritance to add responsibility to a user interface component is inflexible because it is made statically. A better approach is wrapping the decorator component in another object dynamically.
Sample Code
Beverage is the abstract component class
public abstract class Beverage { String description = "Unknown Beverage"; public String getDescription() { return description; } public abstract double cost(); //static abstract double size(); }
Leaf classes that inherit from Beverage class
public class DarkRoast extends Beverage { public DarkRoast() { description = "Dark Roast Coffee"; } public double cost() { return .99; } }
public class Decaf extends Beverage { public Decaf() { description = "Decaf Coffee"; } public double cost() { return 1.05; } }
Condiment Decorator class
public abstract class CondimentDecorator extends Beverage { public abstract String getDescription(); }
Mocha is a concrete decorator class that implements cost() and getDescription()
public class Mocha extends CondimentDecorator { Beverage beverage; public Mocha(Beverage beverage) { this.beverage = beverage; } public String getDescription() { return beverage.getDescription() + ", Mocha"; } }
Another concrete decorator
public class Vanilla extends CondimentDecorator { Beverage beverage; public Vanilla(Beverage beverage) { this.beverage = beverage; } public String getDescription() { return beverage.getDescription() + ", Vanilla"; } }
The main
public class StarbuzzCoffee { public static void main(String args[]) { Beverage beverage = new Decaf(); System.out.println(beverage.getDescription() + " $" + beverage.cost()); Beverage beverage2 = new DarkRoast(); beverage2 = new Mocha(beverage2); beverage2 = new Mocha(beverage2); beverage2 = new Whip(beverage2); System.out.println(beverage2.getDescription() + " $" + beverage2.cost()); } }
- Decorating our Beverages
- Java I/O
Gamma, Erich; Helm, Richard; Johnson, Ralph; Vlissides, John (1994). Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-63361-2. http://www.dofactory.com/Patterns/PatternDecorator.aspx


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Letters to the Editor
By The Numbers
It did not surprise me to find that Indiana ranks below 43 other states in the percentage of secondary school English teachers with fewer than 80 students ("Quality Counts: School Climate.") I am a second-year teacher who sees 128 students daily in six classes. My teaching load requires that I make four separate class preparations. Unfortunately, this is the norm for most young English teachers in this state. As a result, I have stopped devoting large chunks of my after-school time to reading and grading essays and exams. If I can't get it done during the day or in the hour or two I stay after school, I don't do it. Of course, this leads to student complaints about not getting papers returned quickly. But this is the only way I can maintain my sanity and my personal life and avoid burnout. I am dedicated to my students and to becoming the best teacher I can, but the overwhelming paperwork from so many students exhausts me. Until school systems in Indiana wake up to this problem, our state will continue to lag behind in language arts test scores, and many of our best young teachers will leave the profession after only a few years.
Jolie Lindley
Reading Redux
Your article "Phonics Is Back" (February) is of considerable interest. In light of the millions of phonetically bound adults in the United States, whatever method of reading instruction that schools use will have very little long-term impact. We have vast numbers of grown-ups who are so busy decoding language that they lose the flow, the meaning, and the pleasure of reading. They rarely pick up a book just for the fun of it. The result is that few people read books anymore, newspaper readership is falling, and everybody spends hours every day in front of one screen or another. Parents are setting a poor example.
Robert Kay
Uneasy Peace
As co-authors of Waging Peace in Our Schools, we were very disappointed with David Ruenzel's review of our book. Not only did he misinterpret the main theme, but he also used the review to dismiss without argument our vision of education.
Ruenzel seems to think that we believe that thoughtful, sustained, and systematic attention to children's social and emotional learning cannot take place without sacrificing academic achievement and excellence. That couldn't be further from the truth for the 5,000 teachers who are implementing the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program that is the focus of our book. They are demonstrating every day that schools can be places that educate the heart along with the mind.
Most educators realize that as we struggle with the breakdown of civility in our society, schools have a critical responsibility to renew society's long-standing commitment to civic education by preparing young people to be intellectually competent, ethically principled, and socially skillful.
An independent evaluation of RCCP in 1990 reported less violence in the classroom, increased awareness and verbalization of feelings, more caring behavior, and more acceptance of differences on the part of students. This kind of education is at the very least academically neutral and at its best enhances learning of all kinds.
Waging Peace deserves a more accurate and unbiased review.
Linda Lantieri
RCCP National Center
Janet Patti
Senior Program Associate
David Ruenzel's review of Waging Peace in Our Schools is inaccurate and misses the main point of the book: Safe schools and communities require a proactive rather than a reactive approach to conflict.
I am the former principal of Roosevelt Middle School, a 1,700-student, middle-class school in suburban California. The school implemented the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program in 1990. The benefits of this program have been tremendous. Although conflict still exists at Roosevelt, students and staff have developed strategies that allow for a positive resolution. Whereas a campus fight used to draw a crowd to watch and cheer on the combatants, student mediators now diffuse such conflicts. This is only one of many very real benefits of the program. While setting high expectations for behavior and academic performance, the staff at Roosevelt is able to respond to the diversity and personal differences of students, parents, and other staff members in ways that create a healthy and supportive climate.
Although I actually like John Wayne movies, I know Ruenzel really missed the mark on this book and program when he failed to realize that almost all of the characters John Wayne played would have benefited greatly from instruction in RCCP. Waging Peace is a must-read for educators, parents, and policymakers if we are going to successfully turn the tide against violence in our schools and communities.
Vince Jewell
Assistant Superintendent Personnel
Vista Unified School District
Vista, California
We have been actively involved with the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program for seven years, and we have trained student mediators in grades 3-6 for six years. As I read David Ruenzel's review of Waging Peace in Our Schools, I had to wonder: Did we read the same book? What is Ruenzel's agenda?
Waging Peace is a description of a program steeped in research and sound, objective educational practices and strategies. RCCP is not a collection of simplistic, touchy-feely, time-wasting activities foisted off on impressionable kids by maladjusted teachers. I am amazed at Ruenzel's patronizing language. Hardly what I expect from a professional book review in a magazine I've respected for years.
LeeAnn Crumbley
Nunaka Valley Elementary Anchorage, Alaska
Smoke Alarm
I read with fascination and horror the story on Sherry Hearn ("Up In Smoke," January). Windsor Forest High School, the Savannah-Chatham County school system, and the city have adopted a siege mentality. And the treatment of all students as hardened criminals (note the system's use of the term "lockdown") and the obvious harassment of a dedicated teacher who chose to challenge those actions and attitudes are appalling. But as I read the article, I realized something else: If there were three lockdowns a year at three hours each, nine hours were lost that could have been used for learning.
This school system needs to adopt a proactive stance rather than act as if it is under siege. It makes much more sense to start a drug-education program in the elementary grades followed by secondary school disciplinary tactics that deal harshly only with those students who bring drugs to school.
I shared this article with my high school American history class. Their response: "Are we moving to a police state?" Their words, not mine.
Virginia Ahart
Southampton, Massachusetts
In "Cyber Scout" (January), you conclude that if technology investments are to pay off, "techno-missionaries will have to win over the skeptics and computer phobics." I'm not sure we can lump these groups together.
I've been conducting a multiyear evaluation of technology in my school district. On paper, my district has committed to spending more than $70 million on technology. I see absolutely nothing wrong with educators approaching the integration of technology in schools with a healthy dose of skepticism. What's wrong with asking questions? How can we be sure that the computers alone raise test scores? How do we know that better access to information via the World Wide Web turns students into better researchers or lifelong learners? And how can we be sure that more technology ensures better reading habits or develops more critical thinking? These are fair questions.
This nation is pouring billions of dollars into schools to support technology. On the surface, this is a good thing. However, those of us who raise an occasional question are not the enemy. Like Kameron Conner in the story, I, too, believe that technology has the potential to level the academic playing field. But how does this happen? The only real way to know if technology levels the playing field for the have-nots (or for any other group of students) is to control the education experience of the have-nots. Some get technology; some get no technology (at least until after the conclusion of the field trial). And the choice of who gets technology would be random.
Educators, however, are reluctant to conduct such experiments. So as we speed toward the 21st century with more and more schools wired and plugged in, less and less is known about the value of technology for enhancing teaching and learning in schools. This lack of empirically derived information hurts us all.
Joseph Hawkins
Evaluation Specialist
Department of Educational Accountability
Montgomery County Public Schools
Rockville, Maryland
Shop Talk
The article "AVID Learners" (January) quotes Hugh Mehan, a sociologist and teacher educator at the University of California at San Diego, as writing that the AVID program "pulls out the rug from under the assumption that ethnic and linguistic minority kids can't do well in college-bound classes." I appreciate that the story attempts to dispel this common assumption, but I believe that it makes another detrimental assumption that needs the rug pulled out from under it.
The writer makes references in the article that tend to reinforce the stereotype that "shop" and "bonehead" math classes go hand in hand. Such references are inaccurate.
I teach social studies at an apprenticeship program in Pennsylvania that is part of the school-to-work initiative through vocational technical education. Many of my students have attended "shop," and I am preparing them for postsecondary education. They are focused on their future and on becoming productive members of society. Their mathematics coursework includes algebra I, II, and III, geometry, calculus, and trigonometry. I don't believe that you can place the skills learned in these courses in the "bonehead" category.
Rosemary Muller
Easton, Pennsylvania
Chalk Talk
In response to "Straight Talk" (January), I couldn't agree more with the author's argument that educators need to abandon the mumbo jumbo of educational lingo when talking with parents. It's not surprising that parents feel threatened and become obstinate when they hear the language associated with school reform and restructuring. It is part of human nature to reject rather than accept what we do not understand.
Christine Marie
St. Jerome School
Bronx, New York
Eight Deadly Sins?
As a Kingman, Arizona, resident, I resent the implication that ours is a remote school ("Desert Rose," January). The state has schools that are 400 miles away from a town even the size of Kingman. It burned me up when the story read: "To get on-line, residents have to pay long-distance charges." That leaves the impression that not having a local on-line service is akin to the seven deadly sins, right behind gluttony and greed. If not having local access to an on-line service is the price I have to pay for being able to take a walk at night without being armed, then I will pay it gladly.
I applaud the effort made to showcase a truly gifted educator like Sharon Hackley. The possibility of losing her due to burnout makes me shudder.
Clare Gaia Russell
Kingman, Arizona
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A novel sorbent tube for ambient hydrogen sulfide determination
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A novel tubular device has been developed for hydrogen sulfide determination in air. Several substrates such as commercial silica gel and alumina TLC plates, silica gel powder, alumina, CaSO4, CaCO3, BaSO4, MgO, chalk, α-cellulose and ethyl cellulose were tested as solid substrates. 30–70-mesh silica gel was finally employed in glass tubes of 4.0 mm internal diameter. Silica gel is treated with 0.5 M aqueous CdCl2 solution, dried, filled into the glass tube and sample gas is passed through the device using nitrogen as the carrier gas where 70% relative humidity is employed. The analyte reacts with the solid substrate to form a luminescent spot whose length in the tube is measured and correlated to concentration. The flow rate was 68 ml min−1. The analytical system is linear in the range of 0.2–1.3 ppm H2S for the specified conditions. The prepared devices are stable at least for 3 months prior to sampling; and after sampling, the luminescing spot is stable also at least for 3 months.


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Yan, J and Seshia, AA (2009) Thermoelastic dissipation in MEMS/NEMS flexural mode resonators. J Nanosci Nanotechnol, 9. pp. 1011-1014. ISSN 1533-4880Full text not available from this repository.
Understanding the energy dissipation mechanisms in single-crystal silicon MEMS/NEMS resonators are particularly important to maximizing an important figure of merit relevant for miniature sensor and signal processing applications: the Quality factor (Q) of resonance. This paper discusses thermoelastic dissipation (TED) as the dominant internal-friction mechanism in flexural mode MEMS/NEMS resonators. Criteria for optimizing the geometrical design of flexural mode MEMS/NEMS resonators are theoretically established with a view towards minimizing the TED for single-crystal silicon MEMS/NEMS flexural mode resonators.
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Hark! An unscheduled entry, as I wanted to post this while it was still relevant.
In February, I went to an art exhibition that included a friend's work. I was so taken by what was on display that I wrote a short story in response. The Fun a Day blog explains the rest:
Green Camels
By Gavin Cameron
Jayne affixed her final painting to the wall and checked the clock again. Almost ten past seven. A few folk had come in, but not many. Hadn't the Collective advertised enough?
A tap on the shoulder made her jump. "So this little event thingy is for DAfaM?"…
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Tom Antion – 5 Tips for Getting Better Recordings at Home
Record in a room with lots of clutter (this is perfect for me hahaha). This reduces echoes and harsh sounding sound.
· Unplug your phones so they don't ring in the middle of your recording (although you can go back to your last sentence and record over the ringing using your Sound Forge software)
· Turn off your air conditioner/heater. The background noise may be heard on your recording.
· If you have lots of street noises you may want to record in your basement or at a time when there is the least traffic.
· Some people get a long cord for their microphone and sit in the doorway to their closet. Talking toward the hanging clothes makes a really good dead space with no echoes.