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Winning to give awayTrevecca wins $5,000 worth of food from Natureís Path to donate to the food bank of their choice.
Trevecca Fishing club places 12th out of 40Treveccaís fishing club placed 12th out of 40 teams on Saturday, Sept. 18, at the National Guard FLW College Fishing Southeast Division event on Lake Chickamauga near Chattanooga, Tennessee.
International autism expert speaks at TreveccaTreveccaís Social Work program, ARC of Williamson County, and the Center for Understanding host international autism expert Stephen Shore, PhD, on Treveccaís campus.
Health conference held on campusTreveccaís Physician Assistant Program and Baptist Healing Trust sponsored ìHealth Disparities Among Nashvilleís Disenfranchised Population: Training the Next Generation to Serve.î
Technology upgrades on campusThroughout the summer, Treveccaís Information Technology Services team installed significant technology upgrades around campus.
Fall Celebration deadline extendedThe registration deadline for the Fall Celebration and Trevecca Showcase has been extended.
Croatia Teamís journey beginsIt is happening right now. The dream of 5 Trevecca graduates, born in a missions class with Professor Kathy Mowry, requiring funding of over $50,000, and occupying the next 2 years is becoming a reality.
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Community Work DayMore than 200 new students and mentors spend a day in community service prior to the start of classes.
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Providence, RI (Sports Network) - Sharaud Curry led the way with a season-high 22 points and four assists as the Providence Friars upended the struggling 15th-ranked Syracuse Orange, 100-94, in a Big East showdown at the Dunkin' Donuts Center.
Curry connected on 3-of-4 shots from beyond the arc while Marshon Brooks went 4-of-6 from long distance en route to 17 points for Providence (14-6, 6-2 Big East), which has rebounded from a two-game slide by winning each of its past three outings.
Geoff McDermott and Jonathan Kale contributed 15 and 14 points, respectively, as the Friars had six players in double figures. Randall Hanke and Weyinmi Efejuku had 12 points each in the win.
Jonny Flynn logged a career-high 35 points and a game-high six assists, connecting on 12-of-22 field goals including 4-of-9 from three-point range.
Eric Devendorf found twine on 6-of-13 from long distance in totaling 27 points for the Orange (17-5, 5-4), who after winning 16 of their first 17 games, have dropped three straight and four of five outings.
All three setbacks during the recent stretch had come against Top-25 teams and by double figures, before Wednesday's loss in which Syracuse committed 21 turnovers.
Rick Jackson had 14 points and 10 rebounds while Paul Harris collected eight points, six boards, two blocks and three steals in the setback.
Jackson opened the second half with a pair of baskets for the Orange but Providence went on to score 16 of the next 19 points to take a 63-51 advantage. Curry tallied seven points on the surge, which was interrupted by a Devendorf three-ball.
A three-point play by Jackson moved Syracuse back within six but the Friars extended their lead back to double digits, 79-65, on back-to-back layups by McDermott and Kale -- and moments later on consecutive three-pointers from Curry and Brooks, leaving 8:23 to play.
Providence continued to hold onto its double-digit lead until a Devendorf three-pointer sparked a 10-3 run. Devendorf finished what he started, connecting from long range to make it a five-point game, 89-84, with nearly two minutes remaining.
The Friars turned to the free throw line to seal the game, hitting 11-of-18 from there to secure an important Big East win despite the best efforts of Flynn and Devendorf.
A Flynn jumper just past the midway point of the opening 20 minutes started an 8-2 spurt for the Orange with Harris' dunk capping it off for a 29-23 lead with a little more than seven minutes on the clock.
The Friars got back within one on a Efejuku jumper and subsequent three- pointer and pulled ahead 39-37 on a Curry layup, capping a run of seven straight points.
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AUGUSTA COUNTY, Va. (WHSV)-- 703 Burketown Road in Weyers Cave, also known as The Roadcap Farm, had a wheat field that caught on fire when a power line came down.
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The Weyers Cave Volunteer Fire Department was on scene and had the fire under control quickly.
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12.26 Deborah Wadsworth, Former President of Public Agenda, Has Passed Away
Thursday, December 26th, 2013 | Public Agenda
We are saddened to report that Public Agendas Deborah Wadsworth, who led our organization between 1986 and 2003 and served on our board after her retirement, died on December 24, 2013.
As many of you know, Deborah was a woman of astonishing warmth, intelligence, integrity, and commitment. In fact, her contributions to our work began even before she joined Public Agenda. As a program officer at the John and Mary R. Markle Foundation in the 1990s, Deborah introduced Public Agenda founder Daniel Yankelovich to Kettering Foundation President David Mathews, setting in motion an institutional partnership that has endured for decades, bolstering our common mission of engaging citizens in addressing national and local challenges.
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12.12 Is Progress Possible? Bill Bradley on Changing the Future
Thursday, December 12th, 2013 | Allison Rizzolo
What is your vision for a future in which our national political leaders collaborate, in spite of their differences, and do the work their people want and need them to do? Can you even imagine it?
For former Senator Bill Bradley, a Democrat who represented the people of New Jersey for 18 years, there are a few variations of such a future.
Senator Bradley joined us this week for the latest installment of our Policy Breakfast series. On a snowy, messy New York morning, Bradley addressed a full room at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York, our partner in the series.
Adam Davidson, of NPR's Planet Money and The New York Times Magazine, spoke with the former Senator about the past, present and future of American politics.
Senator Bradley fondly recalled a time of personal relationships among members of Congress. "It was a time when there were personal relationships among members of Congress People lived in Washington and socialized with each other. It made a big difference," he said.
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12.03 Welcome to Beyond the Polls
Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013 | Jean Johnson
Welcome to Beyond the Polls, our regular commentary on what Americans are thinking about pivotal issues our country and communities face. Each month, we offer a second look a deeper look at public opinion. We try to put survey results in context and enrich them by drawing on our extensive experience listening to citizens in both research and community settings over the years.
Our aim is to explore and understand the hopes, values, concerns, and priorities people bring to todays issues the public questions and controversies we think about every day. Just as important, we want to juxtapose the views that polling typically captures with what happens to those views when citizens have a chance to absorb and weigh different options for addressing issues and hear what other citizens have to say about them.
So what led us to develop Beyond the Polls? Here is some of whats behind the series:
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12.03 Is There Really a Generation Gap on Social Security?
Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013 | Jean Johnson
Its reasonably clear that younger and older Americans think differently about tattoos. And maybe theres a divide over e-mail versus texting. But now that Congress and the President are resuming talks about long-term federal budget issues, proposals to reform Social Security to stabilize its costs are back on the table.
In contrast, opinion leaders like Paul Krugman and Senator Elizabeth Warren say we should expand Social Security, arguing that current retirement policies will leave too many Americans living in poverty in their later years.
So that raises a question: Are the views and preferences of younger and older Americans really at odds when it comes to Social Security? What do polls show, and what happens when Americans of all ages have a chance to talk together about this issue?
The answers to these questions will be important for us to explore as we and our elected officials discuss and negotiate solutions to the issue of Social Security.
A quick glance at some recent polling does seem to show some wide gaps among the generations:
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11.13 3 Ways the White Houses College Scorecard Can Better Serve Adult Prospective College Students
Wednesday, November 13th, 2013 | Christopher DiStasi
When the White House released a new College Scorecard earlier this year, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan wrote, Too often, students and their families dont have the right tools to help them sort through the information they need to decide which college or university is right for them. The White Houses scorecard aims to fill this gap by providing, in an easily digestible format, information like graduation rates, average costs and loan default rates. Policy makers say such data are important to judging the quality and performance of our schools. But the College Scorecard may not be reaching the students who need it most.
Earlier this year, we sat down with adults who are considering going or returning to college. It had been years since these individuals had seen a high school guidance counselor or a college prep class. For them, a tool like the College Scorecard could be immensely useful. But, in our focus groups, we found that the White Houses strategy does not line up with the habits of adult prospective students. In order to reach this group, which sorely needs unbiased college information and advice, the White House must better align the scorecard with their college search practices and priorities.
The following are three simple ways that the College Scorecard could be improved, based on our research.
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11.11 How to FAIL at Engaging Faculty and Staff in Student Success Efforts
Monday, November 11th, 2013 | Isaac Rowlett
This post was originally published on the Completion by Design blog. Completion by Design is a national initiative, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, that works with community colleges to significantly increase completion and graduation rates. Read more about our work with Completion by Design.
Youve been there before: grading papers, wrapping up a student advising appointment, and trying to muster the energy to make it through another committee meeting. You glance at your screen - a new email from your president announcing a new initiative that will boost student success rates. Details are scarce, but youre promised that specific information is forthcoming.
What exactly, you wonder, is this student-success initiative? Didnt we try something like this already? Do we even have time for this?How will it impact me?
At Public Agenda we spend a lot of time helping college leaders to engage their colleagues in student success efforts. Weve encountered the above scenario time and time again, and over the past decade weve learned a thing or two about the dos and donts of fostering meaningful and collaborative change toward improved student outcomes.
But instead of simply listing what weve learned, weve had some fun creating an anti how-to guide. In other words, if your goal were to fail miserably, how would you carry out a student success effort at your campus? In what follows, youll find our top-ten tips for failure, followed by the implications of these disastrous moves for what actually helps the work succeed.
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11.07 For adult students, confidence should be a good thing, but is it limiting their chances at success?
Thursday, November 7th, 2013 | Allison Rizzolo
For adults without a college degree, making the choice to go back to school can be intimidating. These adults have been out of practice as students for a year or often much longer. They need to believe that they will succeed in order to make it to the starting gate, never mind the finish line. Otherwise, they'd never go back. Ironically and unfortunately, this confidence can also prevent them from taking steps that could increase their chances for success.
We spent part of the last year speaking with many of these adult prospective students. None had degrees, though all were planning on taking the leap back to school within the next two years. In doing so, these adults face some grim statistics.
Just half of all undergraduate students earn a degree or certificate within 6 years. Among older students those who start college in their twenties or later the risk of dropping out is much higher. More than half (54 percent) of those students who start school at age 25 or older end up leaving within 6 years.
If adult students want to beat the odds, they need to start by choosing a school or program that's right for them. Most of the adults we spoke to were confident that they could do so:
- 76 percent agreed that there is enough information "out there" for people to be able to choose the college and program that best fits their needs they just have to make the effort to find it.
- 73 percent say they know someone who can give them good advice and guidance in choosing a program and college.
- 67 percent say they know someone who can give them good advice on how to pay for college and manage their finances.
On the one hand, this confidence and optimism could be advantageous in their pursuit of higher education. On the other hand, it may hinder these prospective students from asking important questions and properly evaluating all of the information they need to make good decisions.
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10.29 Post-Sandy New York: A Model for Collaboration in Problem Solving
Tuesday, October 29th, 2013 | Will Friedman, Ph.D.
Today is the year anniversary of Superstorm Sandy here in New York. To remind us of the important work we have done and inspire us to tackle the work we still must do, we are reprinting Will Friedman's commentary on collaboration in post-Sandy New York. This piece was originally published in the Huffington Post.
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Former Mayor Ed Koch once said that "New York is the city where the future comes to rehearse." While he spoke these words in 1986, they have perhaps never been truer than they are today. As the city shapes its future post-Sandy, can it also become a role model for how a community of leaders and citizens can work together to solve complex and potentially volatile public problems?
The city, after fall, faces a steep challenge. New York is living in changed circumstances. Hurricanes, rare in our past, are now a part of our normal weather pattern. Every borough other than the Bronx is, or is part of, an island, and one that's going to become more prone to flooding. Meanwhile, as it's virtually impossible to evacuate the city, what can we do to insure the residents' safety?
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10.22 Re-Linking the Self to Self Government: An Interview with Will Friedman
Tuesday, October 22nd, 2013 | Andy Fluke
Reprinted from the NCDD Community Blog
At the 2012 National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD) national conference in Seattle, NCDD member and filmmaker Jeffrey Abelson sat down with over a dozen leaders in our community to ask them about their work and their hopes and concerns for our field and for democratic governance in our country.
Today were featuring the interview with Will Friedman, president of Public Agenda, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that helps diverse leaders and citizens navigate complex, divisive issues and work together to find solutions. A leading organization in our field, Public Agenda is a long-time organizational member and friend of NCDD. Public Agenda sponsored NCDD Seattle at the partner level last year.
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10.17 Beyond the Polls: Why Polling on the Debt Ceiling is "Mushy"
Thursday, October 17th, 2013 | Jean Johnson
While we have avoided an unprecedented federal default for the time being, the debt ceiling matter hasnt been resolved. We could be right at the brink again in just a matter of months. Pundits and politicians from both parties lean on recent polls to demonstrate why their perspective is the one that the American public supports. But have a majority of Americans actually made up their minds about the debt ceiling? This is an issue where a single survey finding taken at face value or in isolation can be misleading.
What polling really reveals is that members of the public are still wrestling with the debt ceiling dilemma. Public opinion on this issue is still "mushy" a term used by Public Agendas founder Daniel Yankelovich to describe poll findings that arent stable because people are still absorbing new information and ideas, grappling with trade-offs and unsure what they really think. When opinions are still mushy, survey results can fluctuate dramatically. Once people become more realistic and settled in their views, public opinion tends to be remarkably steady over time.


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The GRAMMY Foundation® Announces 2014 GRAMMY® Signature Schools Grants Awarded to 12 Top U.S. Public High Schools for Excellence in Music Education, Including Seven Enterprise Awards Granted to Economically Underserved Schools Supported by the Ford Motor Company Fund Special GRAMMY Signature Schools Community Awards Given Throughout the Year in Partnership with Converse, the Hot Topic Foundation and Journeys Business Wire SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- March 18, 2014 The GRAMMY Foundation^® announced today that 12 schools nationwide have been selected as GRAMMY^® Signature Schools (www.grammyintheschools.com) for 2014 and have been awarded cash grants totaling $58,500. Created in 1998, the GRAMMY Signature Schools program recognizes the top U.S. public high schools that make an outstanding commitment to music education during an academic school year. Each of the 12 GRAMMY Signature Schools will receive a custom award and a monetary grant to benefit its music program. The top three schools are designated Gold recipients. The best of the Gold recipients is named the National GRAMMY Signature School and will receive $6,000. The two remaining Gold schools will each receive $5,000 and the two remaining GRAMMY Signature Schools recipients will each receive a grant of $2,000 to benefit their music programs. Seven schools will receive the Enterprise Award grant, which recognizes the efforts made by schools that are economically underserved. Each of the Enterprise Award schools will receive a grant in the amount of $5,500. The GRAMMY Signature Schools program is made possible in part through the generous support of the Ford Motor Company Fund. The GRAMMY Foundation also presents the GRAMMY Signature Schools Community Award, an extension of the GRAMMY Signature Schools program in partnership with Converse, the Hot Topic Foundation and Journeys. Through this alliance, the GRAMMY Foundation identifies financially challenged public high school music programs to receive this award and a $2,000 grant. During the current fiscal year, approximately 85 schools to date have received the GRAMMY Signature Schools Community Award, with grants totaling $170,000. "The impact of our GRAMMY Signature Schools program is truly significant," said Neil Portnow, President/CEO of The Recording Academy^® and the GRAMMY Foundation. "Through this GRAMMY in the Schools^® initiative, the GRAMMY Foundation is able to provide critical financial resources and bring attention to the excellence of music programs in schools across the United States. This program also helped inspire the Music Educator Award™ presented by The Recording Academy and the GRAMMY Foundation that honors music's unsung heroes — the teachers who encourage music's next generation." "Ford is proud to once again partner with the GRAMMY Foundation to support music education in schools," said Pamela Alexander, director of Community Development for Ford Motor Company Fund. 2014 GRAMMY Signature Schools: 2014 National GRAMMY Signature School ($6,000) Diamond Bar High School — Diamond Bar, Calif. 2014 GRAMMY Signature Schools Gold ($5,000 each) Las Vegas Academy of the Arts — Las Vegas Mira Costa High School — Manhattan Beach, Calif. 2014 GRAMMY Signature Schools ($2,000 each) Cherry Creek High School — Greenwood Village, Colo. Northwood High School — Irvine, Calif. 2014 GRAMMY Signature Schools Enterprise Award ($5,500 each) Ashland High School — Ashland, Wis. Bend High School — Bend, Ore. Mount Vernon High School — Alexandria, Va. Northland Preparatory Academy — Flagstaff, Ariz. Savannah Arts Academy — Savannah, Ga. West Valley High School — Fairbanks, Alaska Winnetonka High School — Kansas City, Mo. The selection process for GRAMMY Signature Schools begins each year in August when the GRAMMY Foundation mails notifications to more than 20,000 public high schools in districts large and small, urban, suburban and rural, requesting information about each school's music program. Applications are completed and submitted online in October at www.grammyintheschools.com. After the applications are scored, finalists are identified and asked to submit additional documentation, such as recordings of school concerts, sample concert programs and repertoire, which is then reviewed by an independent blue-ribbon committee of top music educators and professionals to determine the schools that merit GRAMMY Signature School status. The GRAMMY Foundation was established in 1988 to cultivate the understanding, appreciation and advancement of the contribution of recorded music to American culture. 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Heather Fons joined the UC sports medicine staff in Oct. 2010 as an assistant athletic trainer. She serves as the primary athletic trainer for the women's basketball and tennis teams.
Fons joined the Bearcats after two years as an assistant athletic trainer at Coastal Carolina University. She was the primary athletic trainer for the Chanticleers' women's soccer and softball teams.
Prior to her time at CCU, Fons was a graduate assistant athletic trainer at the University of Connecticut from 2006-2008. Fons worked with the women's soccer and women's lacrosse teams in Storrs.
Fons spent the 2005-06 academic year as an athletic training intern at Coastal Carolina. She worked with women's soccer, men's and women's track and field and football during that span.
She is a member of the National Athletic Trainers' Association and the Ohio Athletic Trainers' Association.
Fons earned her bachelor's degree in education at Miami University (OH) in 2005. She also was a student athletic trainer at Miami from 2002-2005. She earned her master's degree in sports management and sociology from Connecticut in 2008.
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It's political convention time again and, once again, it is time to offer kudos to two of the best sites in terms of the religious language and symbolism of this media event. As with the Democrats, the yin and the yang of Republican God-talk is being served up by Beliefnet Editor-in-Chief Steven Waldman and Christianity Today blog maestro Ted Olsen.
Yesterday, Olsen offered up a lively contrast of the activities of the various "non-partisan" groups on the religious left and the religious right. (Another AP Stylebook aside: Why does it look strange to leave "religious right" lower case, yet "religious left" looks strange upper case?) The headline on this blog report was a classic: "They'll Know We Are Christians By Our Ad Hominem Attacks."
Don't miss the coverage of the Family Research Council fortune cookies being handed out in New York. And there is this especially concise commentary on President Bill Clinton's non-partisan sermon at Manhattan's cathedral of the lifestyle left, Riverside Church:
Kevin Madden, spokesman for the Bush campaign, told the New York Daily News, "It's astonishing that anyone would use a church pulpit to launch a baseless attack containing nothing but false accusations."
Oh, come on. Bill Clinton accuses Republicans of only following nine of the Ten Commandments and of bearing false witness, and the best response you can come up with is that he's misusing a pulpit?
On the other side of the aisle, sort of, Waldman has really come out of the blocks smoking in his convention blog. Some of the commentary is especially interesting in light of our recent discussions here at GetReligion.org on the meaning of religious labels such as "fundamentalist." Apparently, these kinds of issues are hotly discussed among the members of God's Own Party. Check out this anecdote from the almost-Libertarian front lines:
Went to a party thrown by the estimable conservative magazine National Review. Spoke to a woman wearing an "I Only Sleep with Republicans" button.
"Hey, I thought Republicans advocated abstinence before marriage," I said.
"That's conservative Republicans," she said.
Who says they don't have a big tent?
There's more. Political conventions are, these days, about as spontaneous as discussions of the morality of abortion in a meeting of the Political Science department at the University of California at Berkeley. In other words, most of the speeches and texts are carved in stone long before the spotlights are turned on.
But perhaps it is hard to make some of the Republican Party's religious voices seek the soft, non-offensive hymns of the party elite. Many of our readers would be interested in the online dialogue that is taking place between Waldman and Dr. Marvin Olasky of World magazine about the policy implications of George W. Bush being "twice born," while John Kerry has only been "born once." This is one of those cases where the views of the two men should be read — instead of turned into quickie headlines.
And here is another choice Waldman anecdote from the pre-prime time podium action at the convention.
When I read the prepared text of the speech by Mississippi congressional candidate Clinton LeSueur, I saw the line "The foundation of this great nation is faith," and thought there was nothing controversial in that. Chris Suellentrop at Slate listened to the actual speech, in which LeSueur declared instead: "The very foundation of this country is Christianity and faith in Jesus Christ."
Go ahead, Cosmo and company, serve up your favorite one-liners about Thomas Jefferson.
Actually, I haven't been paying that much attention to the convention for reasons that are obvious for anyone who can tune in the Weather Channel. Does anyone know how to put up metal hurricane shutters?
What I have seen so far has — surprise! — raised more questions for me about the way the mainstream media use certain loaded words. This time around, I am wondering what the word "moderate" means when applied to members of the Republican Party who are pro-abortion rights. As they march to the platform, commentators are noting that their presence is an attempt by the GOP to reach out beyond its "conservative" base and reach "moderate" voters.
I am confused and want to ask this question. If abortion on demand is the "moderate" position, what is the "liberal" position? For years, polls seem to indicate that the public is divided three ways on this most painful of issues. On one side is a camp of people who do not want to limit abortion in any way, even when dealing with the partial-birth procedure that some Democrats have compared with legal infanticide. On the right are the conservatives — fundamentalists, even — who want an outright ban with few, if any, exceptions. In between is the great muddy middle in the electorate that favors some legal restrictions.
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Location, helpful staff, ambience.
Extremely small room and bathroom. Noisy airconditioner.
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Wifi didn't work.
Excellent location; room was small but comfortable; reasonable price for the location and time of year [summer]
Wifi was inconsistent; coffee facilities in room would be nice [instead of in the lobby, which isn't very convenient early in the morning]
Location and proximity to restaurants, shops and subway. Friendly staff.
Air conditioner close to bed head and noisy. Lack of natural light in the room.
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incline bathroom
Nice price in a good location
Those working at the front desk should try smiling now and then. They should also at least pretend to appreciate your visit (the bellman was always nice so that's the exception)
Price, Location, nice small bathroom and staff kidness.
adjacent room's door really noise, bad TV reception.
Central Park was only two blocks away.
The room was way too small and not very clean. For that price you would expect a little bit more.
The location was great. The second room we stayed in was nice.
The first room we stayed in smelled like mildew, the ac was very noisy and the room was tiny.
Shower was powerful and hot. Free coffee in the morning was nice. TV was large. Short walk to Natural History Museum, Central Park and a subway station.
Room was very small- could only get out of one side of bed so had to climb over each other to get out! Not much space to put anything. Very expensive for what you get. Air conditioning unit was loud and we couldn't turn it off.
room is too small and facilities are poor
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Staff was friendly and helpful!
For a single room with a shared bathroom, you're much better off getting a hostel.
Room tiny for the price, NYC ripoff
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No possibility of getting an evening meal.
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The caring consideration of the graduate student ..who came out and showed us where the car park was as we had missed it completely..that same young history student also showed us to our rooms and carried our cases for two oap's bless her. Sadly we didn't see her after that. But we wish sincere blessings for her future.
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lovely out look
Clean room
Bar area a bit tired
The location was ideal for our purposes.
The rooms ned a bit of up-grading.
Liked the price great value for money
Friendly bar staff
The prices have gone up to £37 that put me off,and I,ve been going for quite a few years.but not this trip
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The picture on the site looks like a stately home, but when you get there it's a tired run down pub with delapidated rooms that haven't been renovated and modernised in some time. Trying to get into the room while the hall light switch stays on for a maximum of ten seconds leaving you in the dark. Bedroom is adequate but old fashioned and overlooking the Runcorn bridge which traffic travels throughout the night. Toilet, washroom, shower appaling. A big crack in the polystyrene ceiling tiles, a chemical toilet which makes a dreadful noise everytime it's used, as for the shower I didn't feel like using it as it looked so awful. Missed breakfast, big disorganisation on leaving only a cleaner available no one seemed to know if he had already paid for the room or not. A total shambles, wouldn't recommend the place to anyone.
Shower control handle fell off . Grubby and dated. Hotel is badley in need of refurbishment. Cobwebs in room. Exspecting cooked breakfast which consisted of cerials and toast. Grubby hotel.
The proprietor was lovely very friendly and helpfull. I only stayed 1 night due to work and it was adequate although the bed was not so comfortable. The breakfast was cereal toast and fruit which was enough, just help yourself
The place is a local pub with rooms but it is clean and very easy for Liverpool which is what I needed.
The view of the bridge. The friendly staff. The comfy bed. The lovely room.
The noisy cistern which filled with water every 10 minutes.
The staff was friendly especialy Anne who i really enjoyed talking to at breakfast about the local history and the runcorn bridge. Even allowed me extra time before i had to vacate the room, I relly enjoyed my few days away and hoping to go back later in the year. Its excellant value for money if on a tight budget.
The only problem i had was the tea and coffee was not refilled. But this did not take anything away from the stay.
Staff were very friendly.Checking in possible late at night,past midnight on a weekday.Pub open for a good night cap and lovely Jukebox music.Excellennt View from rooms.
The friendliness of the staff.
The noise of the pub downstairs.
Made to feel very welcome by both the staff and the regular customers. The bed was big and comfy and the T.V in my room was exceptional,though be warned that this was the exception. The view of Runcorn bridge was amazing from my window and gave off no traffic noise..
I would have liked at least a bacon roll for breakfast but what was at hand "toast,cereal and tea" filled a gap..having said that I would visit again without any problem.
Great room with view over river
The room was quite large.
The location; it was right under a bridge and it was noisy. I did not like the area.
Accessibility i.e. a short walk from Runcorn station. V. helpful staff booking a minicab for me in the morning
Friendly staff and lovely view of the river
Noise from traffic on the bridge Uncomfortable bed Not much choice of continental breakfast
Great view and friendliness of staff.
Limited breakfast choice.
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Federal authorities arrested Donald Ray Morgan, an ex-convict from North Carolina and a fervent supporter of the terrorist group, the Islamic State (formerly called ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant). Morgan was arrested on August 2 on firearms charges. He is the eighth American arrested this year linked to Syrian jihadists, seven of which shared the Islamic State's ideology.
Morgan declared his loyalty to the Islamic State's leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on Twitter, where he posted under the pseudonym of "Abu Omar al-Amreeki." His account is deleted but a snapshot of his account shows he supported the Islamic State and Hamas.
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Morgan is the eighth American arrested this year who was suspected of planning a trip to Syria for jihadist purposes. The other seven are:
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- Shannon Maureen Conley of Colorado, who was intercepted on her way to provide medical and military assistance to the Islamic State. She became romantically involved with an Islamic State member online;
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Becoming a Fashion Designer answers these key questions:
Here is the completely up-to-date guide to today's careers in fashion design—a clear and concise survey of the fashion design profession and advice for navigating a successful career. Filled with interviews and insight from leading fashion designers and industry executives, as well as current fashion design students and interns, it covers everything from educational requirements and design specialties to finding a job, building a career, and launching your own fashion collection.
FOREWORD vii
by Nanette Lepore
PREFACE ix
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xv
1 An Introduction to a Career in Fashion Design 1
What Is Fashion Design? 4
What Do Fashion Designers Do? 32
History of Fashion Design: Then and Now 59
The Worldwide Fashion Industry by the Numbers 76
Embracing the World of Fashion 87
Finding Balance 109
2 The Education for a Fashion Design Career 111
Choosing a Collegiate Educational Program 111
Undergraduate Education 112
The Value of Internships 128
Studying Abroad 136
Postgraduate Education 137
Continuing Education 138
3 The Job Market 141
Determing Your Design Specialty 141
Personal Branding 152
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Creating a Résumé that Pops 166
Networking Your Way to a Job Offer 171
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Perfecting the Job Interview 180
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4 The Fashion Design Process 207
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5 Launching Your Own Fashion Collection 217
Writing a Business Plan 218
Choosing Type of Ownership 218
Defining Your Brand 223
Protecting Your Designs 231
Creating Accounting, Budgeting, and Bookkeeping Systems 236
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Developing a Marketing Plan 239
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In spite of his humble and merciful nature, Pope Francis will not show leniency towards pedophile priests. The number of clerics defrocked by the Vatican was likely to have fallen to about 100 in 2013 from about 125 in 2012, Monsignor Charles Scicluna; the most authoritative Catholic official on the Church's abuse crisis says that truth and justice are more important than protecting the Church.
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Keywords: Pedophilia, defrocked, Minsignor Scicluna, abuse, Pope Francis
LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Scicluna vowed that Francis will have zero tolerance for those who have abused their priestly powers, reminding that the abuse crisis was declared by the pope as "the shame of the Church" last week.
"I have met with Francis and he has expressed great determination to continue on the line of his predecessors," Scicluna said.
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"His gospel of mercy is very important but it is not cheap mercy. It has to respect the truth and the demands of justice," Scicluna, who served in the Vatican for 17 years before he was named an auxiliary bishop in his native Malta in 2012, said.
Elected last March, Pope Francis set up a commission of experts to address the sexual abuse of children within the church, in his first major step to tackle a crisis that has plagued it for two decades.
The commission will try to find ways in order to better screen priests, protect minors and help victims in the face of charges that the Vatican didn't do enough to guard the vulnerable or make amends.
Scicluna served as the Vatican's expert last week in Geneva when United Nations child protection experts pushed Holy See delegates to reveal the scope of the decades-long sexual abuse of minors by Roman Catholic priests.
Scicluna says that the experience was very helpful for the Church. "We have a great responsibility to our people . I think it was a blessing that we had this meeting (in Geneva) before the commission is set up," he said.
He confirmed the published Vatican records show that in 2011 the number of priests defrocked hit a recent peak of some 260.
He said the rise was due to "contingent backlog problems with some historical cases" and that he expected the numbers were "stabilizing" at about 100 in 2013.
The numbers for most years are made up of about 50 percent by priests who were defrocked. The rest were those who had asked to leave the priesthood after admitting their crimes.
"Dismissal is imposed and dispensation presupposes the request of the priest but the effect is the same," he said.
The Church has had to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation in sexual abuse cases worldwide, bankrupting a string of dioceses. The pope said it was right last week to pay damages to victims.
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Volunteer Abroad with Children in Cambodia
Volunteering on a Projects Abroad Care project in Cambodia – one of Asia's poorest countries - can be challenging but incredibly rewarding. Whether you are on a gap year, vacation from your studies, or coming to development work as an older volunteer on a career break, you will make a valuable contribution to those you assist during your time abroad. Volunteers are based in Phnom Penh.
Although the civil war in Cambodia has long since finished, its legacy continues to haunt this beautiful country. Children remain particularly vulnerable, but by working and interacting with children in day care centers, kindergartens, and care centers for children with physical disabilities or illnesses, you can help to improve their confidence and future prospects.
I had no idea in what kind of health the children would be, or any idea what to expect. But as soon as I walked through the gates, two little ones took each of my hands and dragged me away to play. Their innocence and trust was so touching, and something that I encountered every day with my kids. True to Cambodian culture they were all so friendly, funny, and I got to know each of my students individually. Read more...
Volunteering at Kindergartens and Day Care Centers in Cambodia
In Phnom Penh most volunteers work with a Non-Governmental Organization called Khemara. Khemara is the oldest locally registered NGO in Cambodia. Since 1991 they have played a significant role in working for the advancement of women and children in Cambodia by working directly with local communities. Projects Abroad and Khemara run nine kindergartens and day care centers on the outskirts of Phnom Penh.
Disadvantaged mothers drop their children off at the centers and kindergartens so they can go out to work for the day. As a volunteer you will be looking after the children, aged between 3 to 6 years old, and help with their early childhood development. Your daily tasks may range from reading to the children to working individually with local staff to build their English capacity. All volunteers are supervised by local staff, and may also work directly in the communities raising awareness of children's rights.
You will make sure that the children are taught about hygiene, are fed, and provided with monthly health check-ups. As far as education is concerned, you will provide assistance to the staff at the centers and kindergartens, and run activities incorporating learning about literacy, numeracy, and social skills. You will also teach activities like songs, games, drawing, and painting. There is an opportunity to participate in one of four mini-campaigns that we run throughout the year. These campaigns focus on education and literacy, sports and the outdoors, the environment, and health and hygiene.
Volunteers usually start work around 8:30am and finish by about 3pm. This can vary, and your exact hours will depend on your project and individual schedule. Some volunteers who live close to their placement return home for lunch. Otherwise it will be provided at the placement. Most volunteers work from Monday to Friday, and have the weekends free to travel.
You can read more detailed information about the aims of the project in our Cambodia Care Management Plan.
Volunteering with Ill and Special Needs Children in Cambodia
A smaller number of volunteers in Phnom Penh work with children and adults in care homes run by the charity of Mother Teresa. These homes provide shelter, medical treatment, and care for abandoned children and sick and disabled adults and children. These placements can be challenging but are also among the most rewarding. Many of the children need all the help and support they can get. No experience working with disabled children is necessary, but these placements are ideal for people with some experience of working with disabled children or in a medical capacity.
Volunteers are needed to help at these centers on a basic level. For example, you may be washing and feeding the children, or teaching them personal hygiene. On a social level, friendship and support are some of the key things you can offer on this placement. Whether you are helping children complete their homework, playing sports, or teaching them a new game, the time and attention you give to them is invaluable. Any skills or talents you have are welcomed.
Volunteering Abroad with Children with Projects Abroad
Projects Abroad are happy to provide extra help to volunteers on the Care Projects. This may include buying some arts and craft materials, or arranging a day where all the volunteers help to renovate a play area at one of the kindergartens or centers. Input from volunteers is welcomed, and we are open to any ideas you may have to help make the lives of these children brighter.
If you are a high school student and first-time traveler you may want to consider our High School Special programs in Cambodia.
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