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If you handle any sort of personal information about individuals, then the data protection act is an incredibly important issue and course that all businesses, no matter how small, must take into consideration. How you obtain, store, share and use information is critical. Personal information is sensitive and it is people's fundamental right to know and control how their information is disclosed. This course aims to provide a comprehensive guide to how and why the Data Protection Act should be put into practice in your workplace, and explains what will happen if you don't follow the rules. Course Aims By the end of this course, learners will:
- Understand the background and purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998.
- Understand what the 8 principles of data protection are and understand how they relate to the workplace.
- Know what is expected of businesses in respect to data security, including the penalties for those who break the law.
- Know what rights data subjects have under the Data Protection Act.
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Hi All,
I need to pass the counter timer value to the pup up window or child window from a java script. but i think reference is a problem here .
childWindow is a pop up window which is opened from a parent window using window.open.. Now i have calculation part where the remaining time starts decreases from 10 to 1. I need to populate this value to a child window/pop up window.
in childWindow i have textbox with id ='remSeconds'. i have used the below and tried out many scenarios where i cant populate the child window with the remainingTime.
Please help me on this..
I have written this in a seperate JS its not in the childwindow..
childWindow.document.getElementById('remSeconds'). value = remainingTime;
What GUI library are you using? Swing? AWT? SWT? Or is this not a Java program but rather a JavaScript program? Our answers will depend on these details.
Hm, I guess you didn't feel the need to answer my questions...
Regardless, I have a sneaking suspicion that you're wanting a javascript solution here, especially with "window.open" type method. If so, then you're best bet is to seek out a javascript forum to ask this question in. This is a java forum.
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Month: August 2017
The Cat Who Ate
There was a poor old lady who had lost her mind. She lived between the dark woods and the sea, and owned a russian blue cat. Though devoid of reason or memory, she never lost her generosity; though the cat was also in ill health, his devotion and loyalty to his mistress never faded. And thus began their descent into tragedy. For not long after she had fed him, whether it was morning, noon, or night, she would soon forget. Then, seeing his empty bowl, she would feed him again. In the beginning, the cat assumed this was the reward of retirement. He would end his days in one long, grand feast. As he ate his second or third bowl, he gratefully looked up at her now and then, thinking he was already in paradise. There is, however, no paradise on earth. As her madness progressed, so too the promptness with which she refilled his bowl. What had begun as a pleasant dream of eating now became a nightmare. Sometimes, he would delay or hide behind the cast iron stove or under the sofa, but she would sense his hesitation and begin to softly lecture him in a voice filled with hurt, worry or confusion. Was he losing his appetite? Had he fallen ill? Was her food no longer to his taste? He would try to explain, but could never bring himself to tell the full truth, for it pained him to see how her mind no longer worked and how its absence burdened her spirit. With a great sigh, the now heavy blue cat would pad over to the steel bowl, sigh again, and then lower his head to dutifully eat his meal. At least this brought joy to her; she would stroke his ears and fur, and wander off for a few minutes to iron the dishes or sew potato skins together until the next meal only moments later. The cat invented ways to gag down the now tasteless feed. First, he imagined a different kind of bird for each meal. There were sparrows, thrushes, doves, canaries, larks, blackbirds, nightingales, starlings, swallows, jays and shore birds. When he could no longer think of any more birds, each meal became a fish: goldfish, carp, eels, anchovies, mackerels, sardines, saury, fighting fish, baby salmon, trout, the cataphractus, smelts and sweetfish. The cat ate all the herbs of an imaginary garden, then the rodents, the wattle fences and telephone poles. He ate the switchgrass, silver grass, goldenrod, dandelions, cat tails, rushes and lilies. Then he began to eat the trees—yews, cypresses, cedars, elms, firs, cottonwoods, pines, horse chestnuts, linden trees, willows, black locusts, acacias, maples, and the golden larch. Through tears and cramps, he ate the gravel roads, riverside stones, the scree from the cliffs, boulders and mountains. In a moment of hallucinatory reprieve, he ate the cumulus, cirrus and nimbostratus; he ate the ocean currents, the waves, the driftwood and the glass fishing floats. Stabbing pains ripped through him as he ate comets, meteors and shooting stars. The cat ate the planets and the sun. Night and day he ate, until a great black void of stars and angels remained. The cat sighed. Then the cat whispered to nobody in particular that he would never eat the sacred stars or blessed angels. The angels heard his prayer and began to slowly glide toward him. The cat saw the stars flicker into darkness.


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Finland, The Netherlands, and San Francisco, California have already shown their interest in giving people a regular monthly allowance — a system known as basic income.
Now Ontario, Canada, is planning its own basic income trial as well.
On April 24, Premier Kathleen Wynne outlined new details of the Ontario Basic Income Pilot (OBIP), which is slated to begin later this spring and last for three years.
A total of 4,000 people in three regions in the province will begin receiving additional income based on each individual's current salary.
A single person in the trial can receive up to $US16,989 per year ($22,451.44), though the equivalent of 50% of any additional earned income will be subtracted from that total. So a person who makes $US10,000 a year at their job, for example, would receive $US11,989 in basic income, for a total income of $US21,989.
Eligible recipients, who must be considered low-income and be between 18 and 64 years old, will be chosen through a randomised selection process
In her announcement, Premier Wynne said one goal of the pilot is to reassure people that their government supports them.
"It says to them, government is with you. Ontario is with you," she said.
The premise of basic income is straightforward: People get monthly checks to cover living expenses such as food, transportation, clothing, and utilities — no questions asked.
Along with Canada, a number of countries are conducting their own basic income trials.
Finland's government launched its pilot on January 1, and is giving 2,000 unemployed Finns $US590 a month. In various cities throughout the Netherlands, 250 people will soon receive an extra $US1,100 per month for two years. And in Kenya, the charity GiveDirectly has launched a trial version of a 12-year study that seeks to gather the first longitudinal data on basic income.
The concept of basic income has been around since the 1960s. In the decades since the radical idea was proposed, various researchers and government officials have given basic income experiments a try, with mixed results.
In general, however, the data seem to tilt in basic income's favour. One study, published in late 2016, found people who received unconditional cash transfers used vices like drugs and alcohol less frequently than people who didn't receive the money. And though it's easy to assume free money would make people lazy, research suggests the opposite is true. People in one 2013 study actually worked 17% longer hours and received 38% higher earnings when getting a basic income.
Sceptics, meanwhile, argue that because many basic income trials have been conducted in small villages in the developing world, the findings don't necessarily translate to developed countries.
Ontario's trial will begin in the regions of Hamilton, including Brantford and Brant County, and in Thunder Bay and the surrounding area. The third pilot will launch in Lindsay in the fall.
"Everyone should benefit from Ontario's economic growth," Wynne said in a statement. "A basic income will support people in our province who are reaching for a better life."
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Choosing an Effective Spyware Sweeper
Spyware is a program that you download without knowing and which spies on your computer activities. It includes programs that log your keystrokes and can discover your credit card numbers and secure passwords. It includes programs that profile your preferences and can generate pop-up ads or direct you to certain web sites according to your profile.
It even includes programs that can use your modem to dial the company that owns it to transmit your information. While spyware is easy to acquire, it is difficult to get rid of. It might disguise itself in the bundle of software that brought it in, incorporate itself into necessary operating processes or recreate itself after being found and "eliminated" by a spyware sweeper.
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An effective spyware sweeper has to cover a lot of ground. Many anti-virus programs do not deal with spyware or have a separate element that doesn't run automatically. Besides finding the hidden programs, eliminating the replicating programs and separate the incorporated programs, a good spyware sweeper should be able to block spyware from being downloaded in the first place.
Check out reviews done by unprejudiced sources like computing magazines and consumer testing organizations. Look for a spyware sweeper that doesn't eat up a lot of computer resources while it reliably protects the computer. The spyware sweeper works by comparing known spyware components with programs on the computer or being downloaded. When a new type of spyware comes along, the spyware sweeper has to be updated in order to be effective. Find out if the spyware sweeper you are considering has automatic updates, free updates and regular updates.
Learn the abilities of your new spyware sweeper. If it is a good spyware blocker, it may not need to be as good at finding and removing spyware. If it is good at finding and removing adware, you can boost its blocking effectiveness by using your browser to block Active-X controls and keeping the security settings as high as possible. Be aware of the dangers of free downloads.
There are many articles online warning about specific downloads that contain adware, malware and spyware. Affected downloads may not be the only way to get your free software. Look for alternate downloads that will supply the same benefits without the spyware. Your best protection from malicious spyware is education and careful practices. Along with a really good spyware sweeper, that should be sufficient.


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The revised Standard Version Second Catholic edition - compiled by Jeff Cavins, Mary Healy, Andrew Swafford and Peter williamson
This Bible includes:
A Twelve colour coded learning system
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This Bible simplifies the complexities by guiding the reader through the central story woven throughout scripture. Each colour coded section corresponds to a period in salvation history showing where each book fits within the overall story. 12 timeline colours provide a visual overview of each biblical period including important characters, key events, geography, major covenants, world rulers and contemporary events in secular history. The key to understanding the Bible is uncovering the story that ties it all together and puts it all into a meaningful narrative.
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House Detached, single storey, separate entrance, in a property
from $A85/Night (rates)
from 5 to 10 people 8 adults, 2 children
Liveable floor area : 250m²
Liveable floor area : 250m²
- View : Country side, garden/park, courtyard, forest, river, monument
- Children welcome
- Setting : Bucolic, Picturesque
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- Exposure : South
Meublés de Tourisme : 2 stars
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Interior House with View: country side, garden/park, courtyard, ...
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Liveable floor area : 250m²
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Signed in Blood is a quest available in The Elder Scrolls Online: Dark Brotherhood.
Description[edit | edit source]
"To prove myself to the Dark Brotherhood, Speaker Terenus wants me to murder the Imperial noble named Quintus Jarol."
Reward[edit | edit source]
- Unidentified Sithis' Touch Weapon
- Random Leniency Edict
- Shrouded Armor
- 1 Skill Point
- 73–302
- 10 Dark Brotherhood Reputation
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"To prove myself to the Dark Brotherhood, Speaker Terenus wants me to murder the Imperial noble named Quintus Jarol."
"To get close to the Imperial noble, I need to find a way to get inside his estate. It's located northwest of Anvil, along the Gold Road."
Optional Steps:
I'm inside the home of the Imperial noble, Quintus Jarol. Now I need to find him or uncover clues as to his current location.
I made it inside the Jarol Estate. Now I need to locate my quarry, the noble Quintus Jarol.
Quintus Jarol has finished a meeting with the Provincial Governor of Anvil and the Count of Kvatch. Now that the meeting has broken up, I should finish my mission and kill the noble.
Quintus Jarol is dead. Now I need to find a way out of his estate.
I should return to Speaker Terenus at the Anvil Lighthouse and tell him that the noble he wanted me to kill is dead.
I need to find the Black Door and gain entry to the Gold Coast Sanctuary of the Dark Brotherhood.
I gained entry to the Dark Brotherhood Sanctuary. Now I should find Astara and talk to her about what they expect of me.


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Money Spell
Casting Instructions for 'Money Spell'
- Voice
- Black or light or dark green makers.
- Green paper,Light or dark doesn't matter
- Belief
- Need
What you need is your voice and your believe, and a piece of green paper! You will need a black or dark green marker. Dark green maker will probably work best. Doesn't matter what I suggested in the spell ingredients category.
Take the piece of paper, (Green) and fold it half. Like a folder, then write a symbol of a money,(coins or a dollar,).Then write amount of money you wish to have.Then close it again take it very close to you to your chest and close your eyes. Chanting spell but only you are serious. Only if your need it! I am not going to make it sound clearer then that.
Then say this spell:
"May thee money come to me, as I need it greatly, I wish to spend it wisely not for greedy. All I requested is right amount for me. To use and buy only for joy and of the need. May thee money come forth and let me have the rightful cash I need. Some money is all I asked for, not too much not too little is all I ask for. So let it come forth and let it be of what I need."
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I love reading. Growing up without a TV there isn't much to distract you from a world of fascinating literature. However, like all things, literature is never appreciated by all. Specifically numerous students of a 3rd grade class.
When I say I love reading I mean it. Usually I would read a book a day. Not a Dr. Seuss book but a hefty (by 3rd grade standards) 100 to 150 page book. I would read during class. I already knew what they were teaching so rather than drool on the desk I would learn more. I read nonfiction as readily as fiction. Other students took notice and since I was in the library often (and my last name starts with an L) They nicknamed me Library.
I was fine with the nickname up until it became derisive. Then it got old. As pathetic as it sounds even 3rd graders need companionship. So what did I do? Nothing. I read more books to forget. Sort of like drinking away your sorrows, on a 3rd grade level.


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Series: Santos #1
Published by Mariana Zapata on June 10th 2017
Genres: Contemporary Romance
Pages: 485
Format: Kindle Edition
Source: Kindle Unlimited
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Ruby Santos knew exactly what she was getting herself into when she signed up to write a soldier overseas.
The guidelines were simple: one letter or email a week for the length of his or her deployment. Care packages were optional.
Been there, done that. She thought she knew what to expect.
What she didn't count on was falling in love with the guy.
Dear Aaron follows a young woman named Ruby Santos, who knew exactly what she was doing when she signed up to write to a soldier overseas. The guidelines were pretty simple, one email or a letter a week for the length of his or her deployment and care packages were options. What Ruby didn't expect when she finally got to writing to Aaron was falling in love with him.
This was cute, my first Mariana Zapata book and needless to say it will definitely won't be my last.
Dear Aaron was a sweet, slow burn romance that follows a very inexperienced Ruby (who is around 23/24 years of age) and a 29-30 year old soldier Aaron. Both seem to be at an odd point in their life. Ruby is a seamstress and loves doing her work, but she works for two of her aunts that seem to mistreat her and Ruby doesn't have a backbone to stand up to them until she starts corresponding with Aaron.
Aaron is a soldier that is almost done with his deployment, but serving is the only thing he knows. To his family, he feels like a failure because he didn't follow the steps of the family business and chose the military life instead. Aaron and his father are on a bit of a rocky terms, but despite his father's anger they still seem to get along.
When we first meet Ruby her age is a bit confusing at first because she does tend to sound like a child due to her inexperience and being sort of a pushover, but I found her character to be someone I could and could see myself in her shoes.
I love that despite knowing what was coming that the author took the time to develop the relationship and friendship between the two characters, I adore my slow burn romances.
I was also pleasantly surprised that this was a romance more primary focus was the growth between characters emotionally and as people.
I didn't know how to feel about Aaron's sudden flip in the book about being open in his feelings, I was actually expecting the moment to maybe go a bit differently, it just felt like an awkward transition – but it was still fine.
The writing was great. I did have the hardest time putting the book down and read it in a day.


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Rituals Gone Wrong
People thrive on rituals. Rituals serve as reminders of cultural roots, religious ideologies and anniversaries that mark important milestones or events. On a more mundane level they may serve to mark any reasonable excuse to get together for a party. Super Bowl Sunday is one of my favorites.
Ritualistic behavior is really nothing more than a repetitive act that either ensures the ability of a person or thing to maintain contact and equilibrium with its environment or to eat excessively and get drunk. On a social level, rituals ensure cultural bonding, a reaffirmation of life cycles; while in the extreme or at the more deviant level, they ensure a reaffirmation of perverse existence.
For example, my office manager's husband Fred thinks that every gathering with his friends becomes a first event that should be celebrated yearly, such as the "Annual First Time We Ever Got Together and Ate Chinese Food." He also likes to drive around playing the same Flying Burrito Brothers or Steve Goodman albums over and over again; a habit that makes his wife have to restrain herself from reaching over to strangle him. Repeatedly playing ones favorite tunes, as many of us are prone to do, is an example of a rather benign form of ritualistic behavior that makes us happy and soothes our nerves; whereas for example an Aztec ceremonial ritualistic evisceration, sexually addictive masturbation or the acts of a serial killer are not.
Some ritualistic behaviors such as repetitive hand washing however fall into the category of the mild psychosis of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
Ritualistic gatherings such as those centered on a holiday define our common roots, bringing us all together to allow or to facilitate both celebrating and reminiscing about the good old days or to anticipate potentially better times ahead. Christmas, Hanukkah and New Years fall into these categories.
In the Catholic Church as well as in the Jewish faith, rituals not only celebrate holidays and Holy days but also center on rites of passage.
Catholics have Baptism, a ritual that abolishes Original Sin. They also have Confirmation, a ritual that inducts a young man, as a Private First Class, into the army of Christ.
In the Jewish faith there is the Bris milah or circumcision, a ritual that affirms Abraham's covenant with God; then later on the Bar or Botz mitzvah, a ritual that signifies the rite of passage of boys or girls crossing from childhood to adulthood.
Of all the religious rituals however, circumcision seems to be the one most shrouded in mystery and the one least associated with common sense.
Even if one subscribes to the biblical proscription that it is mandatory to identify one as being a certified Jew, something that the Nazis used to their advantage in consigning people to death, this does not explain why the Islamic faiths as well as Eastern Orthodox and Coptic faiths also subscribe to this ritual; or even why the procedure is drawn on the walls of ancient Egyptian tombs.
This is especially so since there is no clear-cut medical evidence as to whether there is any benefit to the procedure except possibly for the purpose of allowing better personal hygiene, or as far as I know making absolutely no difference in the sex life of males who walk around with or without their putz intact.
The only possible reason would be eliminating the possibility of unwanted odiferous smegma ruining the potential for a good blow job.
I happen to be circumcised, for no apparent reason other than the fact that my mother was told by some Pediatrician that it was a good idea.
However the worst example of pig-headed determination to subscribe to blind ritual happened to my next-door neighbor's daughter.
She was a Christian of German descent who had married a Jewish man she described as not only being from California but who she also referred to as being a "California Jew." This is roughly translated into meaning that either he or his family, or both, virtually did not practice their faith at all and is equivalent to being known as a "Once a year Catholic" on Easter or Christmas.
However, when she had her first son, he insisted on having the child circumcised, which was done by a Pediatrician.But when the second son was born he went one step further by insisting that the procedure be done in the customary manner of the faith by a mohel (pronounced moyel).
A mohel is a person specifically trained to do circumcisions in a religious ceremony eight days after birth, in which some unlucky close family friend gets to hold the baby while this person cuts off the foreskin. Simultaneously the baby adopts the name of some other totally impersonal ancient dead ancestor.
In a more gruesome form of the ceremony known as a metzitzah, the mohel cuts of the foreskin after which he sucks the blood off the end of the incision. This practice was known to occasionally transmit herpes to the baby and so was largely discontinued as being an unhealthy; medieval, and outdated practice.
When you grow up how would you like to have to tell any of your potential girlfriends that story?
- I got genital herpes from the mohel when I was eight days old and he sucked my dick.
- Right. Pigs can fly too. Then you'll probably tell me we need to fuck because tomorrow you're being sent to Viet-Nam and you might die.
Like I said, brushing a little holy water on the baby's head is quicker, simpler, neater and cleaner.
In any case, my friend's husband insisted that the person to do the job was the "King Mohel" of Washington D.C., the mohel of all the mohels.
The only problem was that this person, who was in his eighties, had a senile hand tremor that resulted in him slicing off part of the poor kid's penis. This accident resulted in an injury to the urethra that caused the urinary stream to blast out sideways and then required about five cosmetic repairs. The aftermath caused enormous physical pain along with emotional difficulties for the victim over his first decade of his life. It also almost resulted in a divorce as his mother then had her own cross of guilt to bear over letting this happen in the first place. She said:
- The son of a bitch never even went to Temple and then he made me get this quack bastard mohel to do the job so he could push his own guilt aside, atone for his sins and bond with his stupid religious roots. I hate him. It makes me want to cut his dick off, too.
I told her I felt the same way about the new craze to let midwives deliver babies. I told her:
- People forget that the reason infant and maternal mortality is so low is because we have doctors delivering babies. They also forget that the risk is still so high that these guys are at the top of the medical malpractice food chain both in litigation as well as premium costs.
It wasn't really funny at all, but years later when I thought about it sarcastically, I could envision some tremulous old mohel in 500 B.C. bending over a baby, slicing off the poor kid's entire penis and handing the baby back to his mother saying:
- Congratulations. Now it's a baby gohel.
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Recognising the problem of cruel shark finning, the Animal Welfare Board of India has issued an advisory to all coastal States to help end this practice by having fishermen land sharks with their fins naturally attached.
Shark finning is driven by the shark fin trade, in which fishermen catch sharks, cut off their fins and throw the still-living animals back into the water, where they die slow and painful deaths.
In the advisory, Uma Rani, secretary for AWBI, explains that since shark finning involves mutilation of an animal, it is a violation and punishable offence under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960.
India is the second-largest shark-catching nation in the world, according to a study by the European Commission. Indian fishermen target and catch sharks primarily for their meat; however, they do export fins from sharks they catch. Additionally, fishermen on foreign vessels in or just outside of Indian waters also engage in this cruel practice.
The fins from tens of millions of sharks are used to supply worldwide demand for shark fins and fin products each year. Unlike other fish species, sharks produce few pups, and thus, many species are endangered and/or threatened due to the fin trade.
The AWBI, a statutory body under the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), is concerned with raising awareness about the inhumane treatment of animals as well as protecting animals from unnecessary pain and suffering.
In light of the advisory, Humane Society International/India, in collaboration with the Association of Deep Sea Going Artisanal Fishermen, renewed an appeal to the MoEF to consider adopting a shark fins naturally attached policy.
C. Samyukta, HSI India campaign manager for wildlife, said: "We applaud Animal Welfare Board of India for taking this step towards creating greater accountability for the care and protection of shark populations amongst all Indian coastal States' fisheries departments. We hope that the Central Government shall also follow in the footsteps of AWBI and bring into force a shark fins naturally attached policy."
Shark finning at sea enables fishing vessels to increase profitability and increase the number of sharks harvested, as they only have to store and transport the fins, by far the most profitable part of the shark.
Shark finning has increased over the past decade largely due to the increasing demand for shark fins, for shark fin soup and traditional cures, particularly in China and its territories, and as a result of improved fishing technology and market economics. The International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Shark Specialist Group says that shark finning is widespread, and that "the rapidly expanding and largely unregulated shark fin trade represents one of the most serious threats to shark populations worldwide".
Estimates of the global value of the shark fin trade range from a minimum of $540 million to $1.2 billion, a cursory scanning of shark fin trade data suggests. Shark fins are among the most expensive seafood products worldwide, commonly retailing at $400 per kg. In the United States, where finning is prohibited, a bowl of shark-fin soup can sell for $70 to $150. For trophy species like the whale shark and basking shark, a single fin can fetch $10,000 to $20,000.
Studies estimate that 26 to 73 million sharks are harvested annually for their fins. The annual median for the period from 1996 to 2000 was said to be 38 million, which is nearly four times the number recorded by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations but considerably lower than the estimates of many conservationists. It has been reported that the global shark catch in 2012 was 100 million.


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Fans can't read the scripts for big, anticipated movies beforehand so sometimes we rely on other means to pre-judge their quality. For example, if a good actor comes on board, it's usually a good sign. By that rationale, Wonder Woman just got a great sign as Nicole Kidman has joined the film.
The Wrap reports the Oscar-winning actress is joining the DC Comics adaptation as "a high-ranking Amazonian warrior" who'll stand beside Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman. Patty Jenkins (Monster) is directing.
At this point in her career, Kidman is one of those actresses who can do almost any movie she wants. So her joining Wonder Woman speaks volumes not just for Jenkins' vision, but Jason Fuchs' script too. It also suggests her as-yet-unnamed character is a significant one. And though there are no official details on that, one good guess would be Wonder Woman's mom, Queen Hippolyta.
Also worth mentioning is that Kidman is familiar with the world of DC, having played Chase Meridian, love interest to Bruce Wayne, in 1995's Batman Forever. However, at that point in her career, she didn't have quite the clout she does now.
Wonder Woman, which co-stars Chris Pine, opens June 23, 2017.
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PACE's Aim.
The ultimate aim of the PACE project is to provide an opportunity for people to turn their lives around and to break the cycle of offending and re-offending.
The focus of the PACE project is on developing the individuals capacity to lead a stable, crime-free life by tackling health and mental health problems, offering supported accommodation and providing education and training that is geared towards the labour market. By providing much needed support for ex-prisoners and ex-offenders at a high risk time, PACE makes a vital contribution to the safety of the wider community.
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The challenge for an organization like PACE is to ensure that we continue to develop and offer a range of services and supports that the people leaving prison need in order to not re-offend.
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Rist is a hands free interface that allows an aisle based way-finding guidance. Items are added on a phone or through voice on the watch with the "+" icon. The device then organizes them in the most efficient path. The user can check or un-check items and swipe to delete them permanently. Rist is a watch prototype that resulted from a semester long 4 member group project in the Human Computer Interaction class at Georgia Institute of Technology.
For this app, our team followed a rapid iterative design process that involved extensive formative research and design process and an interative prototyping and user testing process.


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One of the best reasons why anyone should volunteer is to become a member of the community. Not only will you meet new people and build new friends, but you will also help your community grow.
For many people, volunteering at the YCMA is often based on the values and resources of the organization. As not every organization is able to provide an extensive program, the YMCA helps to build collaborative networks.
Here are five reasons why you should volunteer at the YMCA.
You Will Gain a Forever Family
Once you volunteer at the Y, you will then become part of the YMCA family. With your time as a volunteer, the YMCA will be there waiting for you to join them with open arms.
Volunteers Will Impact the Lives of Many
Believe it or not – volunteers make a strong impact in the communities they work with. this selfless act will single-handedly change the lives of others. Whether it is through mentoring a child to the right path or coaching a team to get better, volunteers will change the lives of many – even if it is a single person.
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There are a ton of opportunities to volunteer at the YMCA. Whether you're into coaching a sport, joining the annual campaign, becoming a community mentor, or even a swimming instructor, there are plenty of ways to volunteer.
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Did you know that there are actual health benefits to volunteering? You can lower your mortality rate, increase functional ability, and lower the risk of depression.
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[bctt tweet="Life happens whether we want it to or not. So why not make it happen your way?" username="KoyamaRuth"]
So many people get lost in saying – Oh well that's life and never really asking why something happen. More often than not what happened was directly related to something they have or haven't done.
How often have you said that you didn't or couldn't do something because life got in the way? Really – life got in the way? Whose way did it get in, whose life was it?
It was your life and how did it get it the way? You are living your life, and every step you take should be moving you forward. If there is a rock in the way, you step over it. If there is a tree in the way, you go around it. Even if your life leads you to a river you find a way across it.
I'm sure you have read; Every action creates a reaction. Well, it is also said that no action also creates its' own reaction.
So why is it that so many people can't move their lives forward in a positive way? They procrastinate, they complain, they postpone their lives. Some would say they suffer from analysis paralysis. It isn't just the big things that stop them, it is also the small things which are often more important when it come to making things happen your way.
Here is list of small everyday decisions that people young and old have trouble making:
what to have for lunch
where to have dinner
when to go on holiday
which new phone to buy
- Silly, right?
But nonetheless, these are things I see people getting stuck on. When I was working in was an ongoing conversation at the office about what to have for lunch or where to go for dinner. Now was that due to having too many options that making a decision was difficult or was it the crowd waiting for someone to take control and tell them what they were going to have?
The same could be said for the rest- why are we always waiting for someone else to make decisions for us and if so why?
As we get older there are fewer people around to lead the way. Aging doesn't just mean getting older it also means making decisions for us that suit us and how we want to live our lives. It also means that we need to take action because there is no crowd for us to follow.
Taking action when it comes to our lives mean having faith in ourselves to do the right thing. We wouldn't consciously take the wrong road, just like we wouldn't consciously buy something that didn't do what we needed it to do.
All us of knows people who are just doers; they seem to know what steps to take, what things need to be done and when. There is another crowd who appear fearless; they have lots on the go, but somehow they never seem to finish.
Where do you fit? As we get older the less often we are able to make a decision for ourselves the less we will enjoy what is left of our lives.
So what to do? We know the problem – it's us! We all know that identifying the problem is the first step to finding a solution for it. So I ask you aging – What are you doing to make life happen way?
If you are not sure, let me help you by providing some of the ground work for taking action in your life.
It starts with asking yourself;
What do I really want?
What makes me happy?
What do I want my life to look like as I get older?
What have I been putting off?
And the most important question: What am I waiting for?
Once you have gotten your mind to work through, under, over or around these questions you will have reached the door of opportunity to step through to the next step.


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Richard Holbrooke Remembered
Richard Holbrooke, U.S. envoy to Afghanistan, died Monday after suffering a ruptured aorta. Video courtesy of Fox News.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Richard Holbrooke ... has been serving this nation with distinction ... for nearly fifty years ... from a young ... foreign service officer into Vietnam ... to the architect of the accords that ended the slaughter ... in the Balkans ... to advancing our regional efforts ... as our special representative to Afghanistan ... and August ... and ... Telesp crises in hotspots in between ... the Assembly ... one of the Giants of American foreign policy ... and as anyone who's ever worked with the most ... or ... ahead of the clear disadvantage of negotiating across the table from him ... 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I did indeed basically ... the conflict in terms of how Pakistan Afghanistan related to each other he kept arguing during that period ... that ... really you couldn't solve though that the situation in Afghanistan without taking Pakistan and check out ... The it was also done well documented in Bob Woodward's book ... Richard Holbrooke album that has no heat ... in the name was not taking into account ... Hommen during a meeting with the way you can have the strongest relationship with President Obama he felt like his opinion sometimes quite Heard ... but he was a crucial advisor to Secretary of State Clinton his relationship ... to the clients with back to the period ... again when he was negotiating the end to the Bosnian conflict he was appointed by ... Bill Clinton at that time to attend our correspondent Jonathan Hunt worked ... well quite a lot on that on the Bosnian court ... 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EU has become a good friend of Richard Holbrooke and said quite poignantly I think Opti dealt with ... rather than care of it in slow but an Milosevic ... to lead the team ... and toenail aorta is possible sadly ... Richard Holbrooke ... was one fight too ... this and all that the Bosnian peace plan ... it certainly was an architect or one of the writers the Pentagon papers ... he's his forceful style The and earned him a number of nicknames ... including the bulldozer or raging Bull ... Jennifer Griffin ... he was a fighter like few ever for this country ... absolutely and that he was known for his mercurial temperament ... and he had a terrible temper it's not surprising that ... day he ended up having with this heart trouble frankly knowing ... of knowing when a US Duncan free has this couldn't come at a more ... difficult time for the President amen Chino shed he is in the midst of receiving reports from his military commanders General betray us as well as Admiral Mullen and ... the Pentagon ... and the State Department or ... I were basically the Afghan review their respects to take place in December that is likely Life of Richard Holbrooke was meeting with his staff at a hospital bed because these are ... crucial hours in crucial days as the president decides the way forward in Afghanistan ... and Richard Holbrooke wanted his voice to be heard ... in that debate ... that ... I know I know that he was very much looking for do that because these are very crucial time for this country and for that matter for the rest the world ... were expecting something from the family shortly Alina ... I think we will get something from the family's shipping of course is that said President Obama had met with him privately before paying public tribute to him ... I just earlier this evening where the interesting things about Cobra Jet is that he was ... secretary of state in waiting for quite some time ... he was a key foreign policy advisor for John Kerry when he was running for president ... as a foreign policy advisor for Hillary Clinton when she was running for president ... have either one of those people become president ... Richard Holbrooke would vary with good very likely have become the Secretary of State ... it was a job for which he was uniquely qualified ... I have and all the things we've talked about here ... a man who was always ready to step into that spot but it was not to be because the people in the advised ... to not quite get elected and he never got that chance instead he'll reply ... became the Secretary of State ... and he became a special envoy for for for President Obama to ... change its ranks of just a flash from NewsCore which is our own not news CORP on the wire service ... which is just flash this is an urgent Holbrooke sixty nine at twenty one hours ... of emergency surgery from Friday into Saturday morning ... in a tent to repair the tear in his Eyal aorta ... the artery carrying blood obviously from the heart ... he was listed in critical condition ... the White House adviser David Axelrod described him yesterday ... as fighting for his life and then later yesterday ... he had more surgery in attempt to improve the circulation ... quoting now he's surrounded by his family friends and colleagues and staff ... that was yesterday at the State Department ... has now confirmed a Fox News Channel of his death ... Holbrook is survived by two sons David and Anthony ... was his wife of fifteen years ... the journalist and author Katie Martin ... on Saturday the president described him as ... a towering figure in American foreign policy ... a critical member of his Afghan and Pakistan team ... and a tireless public servant ... who has won the admiration of the American people ... and people ... around the world ... the hard charging Holbrook a well-known figure in American diplomacy ... for decades ... has helped broker peace accord in Bosnia was key player ... IP policymaker on the Afghan Pakistan situation ... his death came just before the administration was to release this new assessment ... on the war in Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke was taken at George Washington Hospital ... after he became ill on Friday while he was working nearby State Department headquarters ... according to at least one report he was in his office of the organ of the Office of the sectors to Hillary Clinton ... when it happened ... Obama and Clinton had been to visit his bedside ... along with Admiral Mike Mullen the chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff ... and Thomas Donlan ... Obama Social Security funds ... a man with a long career both in and out of service Richard old look Brooke was described by the Washington Post says and I quote ... against a diplomat ... and the ruthless negotiator with a knack for getting his way ... among his many positions in addition the current one ... where U S ambassador to the United Nations ... U S ambassador to Germany ... assistant Secretary of State for Europe a six that Syria Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific affairs ... he was also the chief architect of the nineteen ninety five Dayton peace agreement that ended the war in Bosnia ... outside the governor Richard Holbrooke held senior positions it to Wall Street firms ... Credit Suisse first Boston ... where he was a vice chairman of Lehman Brothers Worries managing director ... he also wrote ... to end the war ... a memoir of the day experience ... and the coauthored Prestowitz advisor Clark Clifford memoir ... counsel to the president ... he was born on the twenty fourth of April in nineteen forty one here in New York City ... graduated from Brown was the foreign service was in foreign service in Vietnam ... he is the Peace Corps director in Morocco ... was managing director ... of Foreign Policy magazine before becoming assistant secretary of state for ... East Asian and Pacific affairs ... in the Jimmy Carter administration ... he was appointed special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan in two thousand I'm ... and tonight Richard Holbrooke has died ... after a valiant effort ... to save his life ... 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16 Amarnath pilgrims killed, 20 injured in accident
Jammu: Sixteen Amarnath pilgrims were killed and 20 others injured on Sunday when a bus carrying them plunged into a gorge near Banihal town in Jammu and Kashmir's Ramban district.
According to a police official, the bus carrying the pilgrims from Jammu to Srinagar suffered a tyre burst, leading to the vehicle going out of control of the driver at around 2 pm in Nachnala and subsequently rolled into a gorge.
He said that the mishap led to the killing of 16 pilgrims and injury to 20 others.
Immediately after the incident, the police and the army personnel rushed to the spot and were carrying out rescue operation.
"Even IAF choppers have been pressed into service to airlift the injured pilgrims to the Government Medical College and Hospital in Jammu," said the police official.


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In this video, we'll discuss how students can mentally prepare themselves for the big day and then look back on their work.
Now students will turn their outline into a storyboard and (pending your approval) move on to building their actual slides!
After watching excellent speakers, students will outline their presentation.
Giving presentations is scary, difficult, and rarely taught. Help your students become better public speakers by first watching the greats and taking careful notes.


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Ghostbusters 2016 | Redux Reviews | The Writers' Room Podcast | Episode 315
The new Ghostbusters arrives smack dab mid-summer, the latest in a slew of continuing reboots, sequels, and other words that mean: no new stories. Beginning much like the 1984 original, a ghost pops up in a library. When strange apparitions appear elsewhere in Manhattan, two estranged friends, played by McCarthy and Wiig, reconnect to investigate, along with engineer, Holtzmann, played by the always alluring Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones' lifelong New Yorker who knows the city inside and out. Turns out a disgruntled dude plans to unleash ghosts all over the city (for reasons never all that clear) and mayhem ensues when the four new Ghostbusters intervene.
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Linked by its creators, director Paul Feig and producer Amy Pascal, to feminism, the studio has made reviewing this movie political: if you're not on board with it, you're sexist. The movie itself feels like a children's film based on the 90's cartoon The Real Ghostbusters rather than the 1984 adult aimed comedy (see Kate McKinnon as cartoon Egon). It's a confusing combination.
Fighting over whether or not an all-female cast of Ghostbusters was warranted is not the point, just a distraction that keeps audiences from realizing the true problem. The real concern is that in lieu of original ideas that could enliven audiences in new ways, studios continue to shill the same reheated stories, over and over again.
It's bad for hearts – people need new stories to offer fresh perspectives, shine lights, and to help put experiences in context, or else they cannot improve or move forward, individually, and as a people. It's no coincidence that there is widespread malaise right now, between political discontent, concerns over public safety and the environment, and a general feeling of hopelessness, and this summer has awarded a thirsty public very little cool movie lemonade to quench the thirst.
If this movie made you laugh and gave you an escape, then that's worthy of noting, but as a film, it has major problems. When you look past the surface comedy and ignore the distracting edicts on feminism, the story is nonsensical. It's riddled with logic problems, continuity errors, and is completely plot-driven (meaning the characters do what the plot tells them rather than having agency). We loved Kate McKinnon's one liners, but wish we actually knew anything about Holtzmann other than she has a bizarre sense of humor and dresses like steampunk Howard Hughes.
All of which to say – it's great to see talented actors employed, female and otherwise. Supporting cast like Michael McDonald and Ed Begley, Jr. show up and shine. And of course, four women headlining a big summer tent-pole and breaking through biases is not to be discounted. It's a shame there's not a better story at the movie's heart – it would be an unstoppable box office force for the studio AND it would enrich audiences.
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Dream Dictionary » S » Slot Machine
Slot Machine
To dream of seeing or playing a slot machine indicates that you are being too frivolous with your finances. It also implies that you should focus your efforts on a task or project that will create more important results.
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The fact of the matter is that the market is dancing with the devil to the above-mentioned tune and when you dance with the devil, you wait for the song to stop… And eventually, it will stop.
The ongoing big currency fluctuations and the recent drop in the major markets is more than just a typical "correction" it is much more. It is all part of the massive cluster F*#k we created known as the current global financial markets.
In 2013 it didn't mater what bond you put out there, the market would buy it. It didn't matter what stock market you looked at the market was chock-a-block with buyers. So Where do we go when the music stops?
Down the black hole is where we go. And I'll tell you why.
Because of the rise in stocks and bonds the finance sector should be doing well right now. Private banking should be doing a great business as assets under management (AUM) increase.
So riddle me this oh wise ones: How in the heck is it that private banks are constantly letting people go and kicking out smaller clients. Doesn't sound like a rip roaring brilliant business to me?
I'll tell you why, because business isn't good. Despite the rise in AUM, transactions are down and client activity is down. People aren't investing new money and the economy isn't really creating wealth. So where has the "growth" in asset prices been coming from?
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Annual Recertification
US Soccer announces new classifications for referees: Grassroots, Regional, National and Professional
All U.S. Soccer Grassroots Referee (previously 7,8,9) require annual recertification, including online modules, testing, and classroom session.
Additionally, Regional Referees (previously grade 5 & 6) also require an annual fitness test and on-field assessment.
National and Professional Referees recertify directly with U.S. Soccer.
To complete recertification:
- Log into your EPSARC account
- Register for a Recertification Clinic
- Grassroots Referees
- Hybrid recertification clinic (previous EPA grades 8,9 and Emeritus)
- Regional Referees (previously grades 5 and 6), Previous EPA grade 7 refs, Assignors, Instructors, Assessors
- Advanced clinic
- Fitness Test (Referees only)
- Grassroots Referees
- Complete Pre-Clinic items:
- Online modules
- Online test
- Current background clearances
- Must be completed every 5 years
- SafeSport training
- Must be refreshed every 1 year
- Attend Recertification Clinic
- College students do not need to attend the clinic.
- Send proof of enrollment (tuition bill or class schedule) to email@example.com


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Following on from the previous instructions on how to clarify your values for a particular area of your life, here's the next step that's vital to do before you set any personal goals – discover the order of importance of your values. This is another extract from my book, Achieve Your Goals (Dorling Kindersley 2006) which at the time of writing has all 5-star reviews (11 of them) on Amazon.co.uk!
Some values will be more important to you than others. The most important values will be the ones that have the most say in how you use your time, so the next step in clarifying your priorities for your chosen area will be to discover your values hierarchy.
The first value that came to mind in the previous exercise may well not be the most important. In fact, some of the 'submerged' values that came at the end of the list may be the ones that turn out to be most important to you.
Eliciting your values hierarchy is simple. Just take your list of values for a given area and ask:
"If I could only have one of these values in <area>, which one would it have to be?"
When you have identified that value, ask:
"If I could only have one more, which one would it be?" – and so on, until you have all the values in order.
Tips for getting the best from this process:
- If it's hard to decide which is the more important of two values, use this method:
"You can have either <one value> or <the other value> but not both. Which does it have to be?"
- You may find that a value in your initial list turns out to be the same as, or a slightly different aspect of, another value. If this happens, merge them – so "respect" and "recognition" might become "respect/recognition".
- You can write the values on sticky notes to make it easier to re-order them. This also makes the process more physically interactive, so you may feel a deeper connection with it.
An example, using values for "Work and Career":
A special case: Money as a value
If "Money" comes out at the top of the list, you may need to do some additional work on your list. Ideally, money would be a "means" value, one that is useful because having it helps to fulfil more abstract "ends" values. For example, having money might allow you to have more security, or freedom, or make more of a contribution.
Money does not make a good "ends" value. If someone has money at the top of their values list, they could end up with a pile of cash that means nothing to them.
Your priorities can change
The values that are most important to you in a particular area of your life may change over time as your circumstances change. For someone who is heavily in debt, money may be high on their scale of values. Once they have a comfortable amount of cash in the bank, money would probably be less important and other values might move up the list.
The values hierarchy that you have just elicited is a snapshot of where you are at this point in time.
Try this out, and let me know how you get on by leaving a comment below!
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Ella Jean Morgan is vice president of academic programs at the College of Oceaneering (COO), a professional diving school based in Wilmington and San Diego, California. The schools curriculum focuses primarily on commercial diving with specialties in underwater welding, non-destructive testing, and advanced dive medicine. Morgan came to COO fourteen years ago and rose through the ranks (as instructor, department chair, and dean) to her current position. As vice president of academic programs, she has responsibilities for faculty, courses, and students. Im intimately involved in the development of new programs and modification of existing ones, she explains. I also handle all faculty issues, including hiring, and I troubleshoot academic and disciplinary student problems.
A varied employment background has provided Morgan with the many experiences and skills that serve her well today. Previous positions include managing the building site office for a construction company, working as a high school teacher and dive instructor, and owning her own business. She holds a bachelors degree in biology (California State University Los Angeles), with an emphasis in marine biology, and a masters degree in occupational studies (CSU Long Beach), with a focus on career and technical education. The efforts Morgan went to in order to pursue marine biology, even when her university didnt offer a degree in that field, are testament to her determination. They also helped teach her the value of hands-on education. I went around the country taking courses that involved field work, she explains. Sitting in the classroom and hearing about a research project doesnt have the impact of going out on the ocean and doing the research. Learning is much more than just using your eyes to read a book. We learn by doing things; we learn through our muscles.
Studying marine biology led to her interest in diving. I didnt start out to be a dive instructor. I wanted to be a marine biologist and needed to dive in order to do that, Morgan explains. But as I gained diving skills, I became intrigued with the process by which I learned those skills. Before I knew it, I was teaching both basic sciences and diving. That work eventually led her to COO. People skills relating with people and being able to listen are the most important skills for her job as academic vice president, Morgan believes. And its obvious that the people side of things is one of the main aspects that attracts her to this position. I really enjoy seeing the successes of the individuals who come here, she says. Its not an easy program of study with academic work, hands-on activities, time in the water, and long hours in general. Seeing our successful graduates, who have truly achieved something, is very satisfying. Morgan offers important advice for students contemplating entering the diving field. Seek out roles in student organizations, such as the school paper or student government, she suggests. Dependability and responsibility really matter in the working world.


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"Kohelet" (2008) by Galia Goodman is based on text from Ecclesiastes, which is read in the synagogue every year at Sukkot.
Galia Goodman has been a working artist and calligrapher for over 25 years. Self-taught, her work now hangs in homes, synagogues, churches and universities around the world. She specializes in Judaica, notably Ketubot, and her style is eclectic, ranging from traditional papercut to brilliantly-colored abstract collage. Galia tells us "My favorite collaborations are the banners I have created for The Sukkah Project®".


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Oklahoma students battle poverty in fight to learn
HENRYETTA — Sometimes students climb onto the school bus wearing socks but no shoes, even in the wintertime. But when they get to school, they poke away at assignments on iPads in warm classrooms.
Statistics say Ryal Public School should be struggling academically.
An analysis by The Oklahoman shows a correlation between poverty and the state A-F school evaluation system. Schools with higher letter grades tend to have lower poverty rates, and vice versa.
But Ryal is one of the school districts bucking the trend. Poverty is rampant, but it doesn't rule. Technology, personalized learning and dedicated teachers are part of Superintendent Scot Trower's plan.
"We can save kids," he said.
Trower said he likes the idea of the A-F evaluation, but the letter grade doesn't say enough about what goes on in a school and what it takes for students, teachers and staff to get there.
"You have a formula that you're filtering through all our data," Trower said. "It's hard to use that same formula for Ryal and a school in Edmond. Ryal got a B and that school got a B. But we're totally different. ... We're dealing with different issues."
Trower drives past lazy cattle resting in dried-out hayfields in this McIntosh County school district. He points to a herd of three whitetail deer bounding off for the cover of a tree grove.
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"It's not unusual for these families to live off the land," he said, referring to his school's patrons.
"They'll go kill a deer, whether it's deer season or not."
He drives down into the Ryal Bottoms, a floodplain of the North Canadian River where many students live.
A maze of dirt roads is lined by tangled barbed wire and gnarly scrub oaks.
"Meth and alcoholism rule down here," Trower said.
Enclaves of prefabricated sheds — the kind you see set up in the parking lots of big-box home improvement stores — dot the hillsides. There's no electricity. No plumbing. Mattresses line the fences to protect goats and horses from the wind.
Most parents who work have jobs at a casino or at Muscogee (Creek) Nation headquarters in Okmulgee. But many don't work at all, Trower said. He's had parents ask to have gasoline out of the school pump. Water has been stolen.
None of that matters when it comes to testing for the students.
"They're going to go home tonight and it's going to be freezing cold," Trower said. "They won't eat until they come back to school the next day. And we expect them to score proficient or higher on state tests? It's survival. It's just basic survival."
School offers haven
High blue skies arch over Ryal Public School, which serves students in prekindergarten through eighth grade. It is an island surrounded by other districts — Henryetta, Dewar and Graham.
The school sits among empty fields and forests dormant for the winter. The silence is stark.
The district has 70 students, give or take. The classes have a few students; some grades are combined. About 90 percent of students are Muscogee (Creek) Indians. About 40 percent are designated as special education.
All the students here qualify for free or reduced-price lunches. Statewide, about 65 percent of students do, according to state statistics.
People here have a strong identity, Trower said.
"They identify with this school," he said. "People say, 'I'm from Ryal.' There's no Ryal town. There's no Ryal post office."
The smell of baking bread drifts from the cafeteria through the halls of the school. Girls toss around basketballs in the gym, their laughter bouncing off the walls. Trophy cases in the lobby are crowded with basketball and baseball honors.
It's a place where the whole school hangs decorated lunch sacks in the hallway for receiving valentines. A boy walks up to Trower, never looking the superintendent in the eye. He shows Trower his Valentine's Day bag. The superintendent praises him and pats him on the shoulder.
"They're just so happy for somebody to love them and care about them," Trower said later.
Recruiting teachers can be a challenge, but those who are here want to be. Trower said the teachers are the reason students are doing so well.
Teachers pick students up in the mornings and take them home at night. They feed the kids, buy them clothes.
"I don't have any use for anybody who doesn't make it a priority to change these kids' lives," Trower said.
Generational poverty persists
Most Ryal students are fourth-generation poverty, Trower said. Some families track back to the Trail of Tears. Everybody in school lives at or near the poverty line.
Students have the option of choosing what area high school to attend, but sometimes eighth-graders don't plan to go anywhere.
"Their families don't see a need for an education past the eighth grade," Trower said. "How do you get past that?"
Poverty is different in the city than it is in the sticks.
Urban students face violence and gangs. Services are within reach if they can find them and if they qualify. But out here, Trower said, support is a long way away.
Some factors, such as hunger, are universal.
"We have kids who when they leave here, they don't eat again until they come back to school," Trower said.
Alisa Holuby is in her second year as a Ryal paraprofessional. She works one-on-one with students who need extra help. She grew up here and went to school here.
It's hard for students to shut off their circumstances when they walk into the classroom, Holuby said.
"A lot of them are more worried about what's going to go on at home instead of math," she said.
Cindy Pigeon's youngest daughter, Heather, is an eighth-grader. Her grandson, LeBryant, is in the third grade. The family lives outside the Ryal school boundaries but transferred in to get extra help for Heather and LeBryant.
They rely on a teacher to help bring the students to school every now and then.
"We all have to drive to get them here, and do we have enough gas to get them here?" Pigeon said. "Are we going to get them here on time?"
Food is scarce for some kids, Pigeon said. Health problems are common in the wider community.
She cried while talking about how caring the teachers and staff are.
"When they walk through those doors, they are Ryal students. They are Ryal family," Pigeon said. "It don't matter who their family is."
'Aggressive turnaround'
Trower, 41, was hired in May 2011. His office is covered in cowboy decor and John Wayne photos. In addition to his superintendent gig, he's also a minister.
When Trower came in, the finances were solid, but the academics weren't. So he did what he knew best: "We started implementing a pretty aggressive turnaround."
In fall 2011, the "priority school" list came out from the state Education Department. Schools in the bottom 5 percent of academic achievement — 77 in all — were called out, and Ryal was one of them. Administrators were asked to come up with a plan or face possible state intervention.
Trower's plan was already in motion.
The goal is to combine educational technology with individualized learning.
Each student has a personal learning plan, Trower said, and teachers cater to academic strengths and weaknesses. Teachers test and adjust, test and adjust.
Joni Howk paced in front of her second-grade class. "Heavy," she said.
Her six students poked out h-e-a-v-y on their iPads, which were paid for by grants Trower won for the district.
In the kindergarten class, students sat with headphones on, listening to phonics sounds and picking out letters and words on a screen.
The third- and fourth-grade students sat quietly and tapped away at their iPads and laptops. Their teacher, Beatriz Hodge, said she likes to personalize lessons.
"They're all focusing on time," she said. "Some of them are telling time. Some of them are focused on elapsed time. Some of them are reading."
Last year, the average student was two grade levels behind in reading. Now, most everyone is caught up.
"Kids will rise to the expectations," Trower said. "It doesn't matter what their socioeconomic status is."
Carrie Coppernoll is a columnist and reporter. She was named the top personal columnist in Oklahoma in 2009 and 2010 by the Associated Press and Association of Newspaper Editors. She was also named the 2008 Journalist of the Year by the Oklahoma... Read more ›


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Forum: No need to plagiarize, just follow campaign speech formula
The dustup over Melania Trump's words at the Republican convention Monday evening is both well-placed and also missing the boat. Plagiarism genuinely is an issue of integrity. But really what struck me was why it would even seem to Mrs. Trump or her speech writer to be necessary. How hard is it to write a sincere, platitude-filled speech extolling the virtues of your parents, your spouse, and the U.S.? Blah blah hard work…blah values …..blah blah struggles… blah great nation. Done! Didn't have to copy one bit.
Virtually all of these introductions invoking one's family members as a means to promote a candidacy are pretty much the same. I know, because I analyzed hundreds of such texts from the 2002 elections for major party candidates standing for statewide offices, both on their websites and in their print campaign materials. While I haven't looked systematically at the speeches of candidates' spouses, they don't seem much different from the way candidates invoke their own family members in their campaigns, and there's a pretty formulaic way of composing these things to accomplish a few very basic goals:
1. Make the candidate appear human. It's sad that this is the number one goal, but it is. Campaigns want to strike a balance between portraying a candidate as an elite leader and approachable, so that voters can feel that the candidate will understand their problems.
All Melania Trump had to do was indicate that her husband, Donald, is a real person. This has to be done without going too far and embarrassing the candidate (say, by mentioning his hands), but this minor balancing act probably did not warrant any plagiarism. Donald Trump may have many flaws, but I think even his sharpest critics would acknowledge that he appears to genuinely love his children. Mentioning one's role as a parent and spouse are high on the list of ways to humanize a candidate.
2. Mention one's parents as a way to indicate the values one holds dear. Specifically, hard work and overcoming a challenge.
Whatever story you tell about your family, you must spring from the salt of the earth. Stress hard work and a lack of financial resources. Even if you inherited billions, you just refer to the money that your parents or grandparents did not start out with.
3. Indicate that you value service to the nation, perhaps military service, even if you (or the candidate) have never engaged in public service before.
The person has to be tied somehow to the nation. Yet lots of people who run have never actually engaged in much public service, and especially not military service. So, you invoke a generation of your family before you to do so if you can, and if you can't, you can invoke Bob Dole. Television commentators seemed to find it surprising that Melania was the one to direct the crowd's attention to the decorated veteran, but this fit her charge. Someone mentioned should have served the public somehow.
Should I ever run, I have two versions of a familial introduction. Both are equally true. The first: I was born to an upper-middle class white family. My parents received advanced degrees during the Vietnam era, and rose to the tops of the private organizations for which they worked and from which they retired comfortably. My husband and I aspire to do the same.
The second one (equally true), goes this way: I was born to parents who were the children of immigrant families, who found their footing in American society through service to the military in WWII and a toe-hold in the American dream in the post-war housing projects of Newark, New Jersey, that catered to returning soldiers. They gave back to their communities by leading the youth group at our church and serving on town boards. My parents were the first in their families to attend college, and because they value education, they sacrificed to provide me with an education that all children of this great nation deserve. As a mother of two, these are values that I try to instill in my own children.
If the second version sounds familiar, that's because it more closely hews to the pattern to which virtually all campaigns adhere. There are some stylistic differences in these presentations depending on if the candidate is a male or female, Democrat or Republican, incumbent or challenger, a fan of Ric Astley or not. But this is how all candidate family introductions get made. Why plagiarize when it's simple enough to just follow the formula?
Jennifer Schenk Sacco, Ph.D., is associate professor of political science and director, Women's and Gender Studies Program, Quinnipiac University.


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