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Back Home Again
Feisal Istrabadi seems to live in cycles.
As a child, he moved from America to his ancestral home of Iraq and back again; as a lawyer, he continued a family legacy, helping to draft an Iraqi constitution 80 years after his grandfather had done the same. Now, as a scholar, Feisal Istrabadi has returned to teach at the same university that gave him his law degree 20 years ago – and, in doing so, has come back to his childhood home.
"I grew up in Bloomington more than anywhere else," he says. "I have family here – my sister teaches here, my mother lives here as well. Thomas Wolfe said you can't go home again, but I seem to have done it."
After graduating from IU, Istrabadi spent 15 years practicing law, then returned to Iraq in 2003 to work with Adnan Pachachi, a member of the Iraqi Governing Council who he describes as his "mentor." Under Pachichi, he helped draft the interim Iraqi constitution that would form the basis for a permanent rule of law.
In 2004, he was appointed Deputy Permanent Representative of the Iraqi Mission to the United Nations, as well as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has also served as a frequent analyst for media outlets such as CNN and CNN International, MSNBC, and the BBC.
He returned to Bloomington this past fall with appointments in SPEA, Law, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, and the Center for the Study of Global Change. What drew him back, he says, was the ability to work in so many disciplines that are crucial to understanding international affairs.
"It's still very rare to see, in most universities, recognition of the fact that you cannot regard international problems as being just a public affairs concern or a legal concern," he says. "When I was serving as an ambassador, I gave something between 50 and 60 lectures at campuses literally from Harvard to Stanford, and yet there are things that are happening at this university that I really haven't seen anywhere else. There is a capacity to bring an interdisciplinary approach to issues like democratization and constitutionalism that you don't see elsewhere. It seems that this university gets it."
He refers to this past summer's conference held by the Indiana Democracy Consortium, which focused on the theme of "Democracy and the Modern World: Prospects and Challenges." The event brought together faculty from SPEA, Law, Political Science, and language and area studies, in addition to practitioners from around the world.
"The consortium had the capacity to bring together a first-rate group of people to discuss one of the most important issues of our time. There just was no other place that could have put that program together. It's the kind of thing that interested me in coming to Bloomington in the first place," he says.
At SPEA, Istrabadi's current course is a graduate seminar on "Democratization in the Middle East." He is pleased to see that the course has interdisciplinary appeal: His students come not only from SPEA, but also the School of Journalism and the College of Arts and Sciences.
"The insights that the students have coming from the different disciplines are obvious when you listen to their discussions. Each student has a slightly different view of the issues," he says. "It's more than a bit challenging, frankly, to teach in that environment. But it just forces one to listen and to reconsider how best to communicate these ideas."
He has been impressed, he says, with the types of international experiences the students bring with them.
"There is one student who has some expertise on Turkey, for instance, and I was trying to make a certain point and he was a couple steps ahead of me. He was forcing me to come up a step or two in my teaching, and it was very interesting to the other students and very interesting to me," he says.
Sometimes these insights are enough to stop him in his tracks. He describes one conversation about granting amnesty to perpetrators of violence in exchange for peace – a strategy that is rejected by nearly all scholars of international relations.
"In that class I had a number of officers who served in Iraq, and I don't mean they flew a desk. With one officer in particular, we started talking about Rwanda and what happened there – 800,000 people killed in six months, and it wasn't mass executions, it was people being macheted to death. So I posed the question with respect to amnesty: What if two months into it, somebody now wants to put a stop to this, but the price is leaving the perpetrator alone?
"We went through the scholarly arguments against that, but one of the officers, somebody who had been under fire, said, 'You mean to tell me that the international community is going to step back and do nothing and then prevent me from negotiating to bring the violence to an end?' That was a sort of a jarring experience really. There were a number of those sorts of experiences."
As a whole, he finds that students are more knowledgeable with respect to international relations than they were when he was in school, due to more ready access to information.
"I recall when CNN began broadcasting – I believe it was in 1980. It was a very different world in terms of what you knew about what was going on across the state, much less across the world. Students clearly have access to information that they didn't have when I was their age, in a very easy form," he says.
The danger of this easy access, however, is the ease with which misinformation is spread, he says.
He points to three common misperceptions that he regularly encounters: the notion that there has been no progress toward democracy in the Middle East; the idea that Iraq is an "artificial country" that can't be unified because of the different ethnic and religious groups represented within it; and the popular belief that "tribes have been killing each other for thousands of years" in the Middle East.
With respect to the first two, reminding students of American history helps to debunk the idea that democracy happens at all once, guaranteeing instant rights to everybody, and to affirm that a country need not represent only one ethnicity and religion in order to be unified.
As far as the third error, he says, "There's just absolutely no basis for that statement. There has never been neighbor-on-neighbor violence in Iraq. It has always been the central government perpetrating violence against identifiable groups."
The last few decades have in fact been the most violent in Iraq's history, Istrabadi says. He has only to think back to the time of his grandfather to remember a more hopeful, more progressive era in Iraq.
"The constitution my grandfather helped to write was actually more liberal than Iraq's current constitution," he says. "In 1925, it represented a very different era in Iraq's history – a vibrancy and optimism. The 2005 constitution is much more of a document that reflects fears and awareness of the tragic history that Iraq has had in the 35 years preceding it."
For this reason, Istrabadi hopes that genealogical cycle of nation-building ends with him.
"I hope that my grandchildren are not in the position of trying to reformulate the state of Iraq," he says.
– Elisabeth Andrews


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Although still much an unknown in the English-speaking world, Finnish-Estonian playwright, novelist, and activist Sofi Oksanen has become something of a household name in northern and central Europe. Declared Estonia's "Person of the Year" in 2009, Oksanen is the first to win both of Finland's prestigious literary prizes—the Finlandia and the Runeberg—as well as winning this year's Nordic Council Literature Prize for her virtuosic novel Purge. At once a daring exploration of the Soviet occupation of Estonia, as well as a wrenching consideration of the irrevocable effects of trauma on an individual, Purge navigates the tragedies, petty betrayals, and reverberating guilt of three generations of Estonian women, all struggling to survive their own violent circumstances, no matter the cost.
The novel opens in 1991—the year after Estonia reclaimed its independence from Russia—with the elderly and isolated Aliide Truu stoically weathering childish torments (rocks thrown at her window) and more aggressive harassment (her dog poisoned) at the hands of her neighbors. One rainy morning, Aliide notices an injured young girl huddling in her front yard, and despite her misgivings, allows the girl to take shelter in her home. Zara is a young woman from Russia—a sex trafficking victim on the run from her captors. Having withstood a year of degradation and repeated assaults, Zara has lost everything. Everything, that is, except a yellowed photograph of her grandmother and her grandmother's sister, with both young women and standing in front of the very Estonian house in which Zara has taken refuge.
Oksanen originally staged Purge as a play, an origin that can still be recognized in its episodic scenes and deliberately moderated tension. In its current form, however, the novel's fluid and unadorned prose (in a musical and nuanced translation by Lola Rogers) shares a closer kinship with a psychological thriller. Both Aliide and Zara are survivors in the truest sense of the word—their suffering purposefully repressed by sheer force of will, their sole motivation to protect themselves from further harm. And they are both connected by a dense and untold family history that has festered for over four decades.
As the novel delves into Aliide's past and the thirty-odd years that Estonia spent under Soviet occupation, it becomes apparent that the events of the present have all spun out from the same traumatic incident—a brutal "interrogation" that Aliide endured at the hands of several soldiers. Rape and assault were frighteningly common experiences for young Estonian women during this time, although not ones which were ever acknowledged—even by others who had gone through similar attacks. Rather, these women became isolated within their own communities and families, silent and ashamed. Aliide not only goes to great lengths to secret her experience, but also to distance herself from other victims. "She recognized the smell of women on the street, the smell that said something similar happened to them," we're told.
From every trembling hand, she could tell—there's another one. From every flinch at the sound of a Russian soldier's shout and every lurch at the tramp of boots. Her, too? Every one who couldn't keep herself from crossing the street when militiamen or soldiers approached. Every one with a waistband on her dress that showed she was wearing several pairs of underwear. Every one who couldn't look you in the eye . . .
When she found herself in proximity with one of those women, she tried to stay as far away from her as she could. So no one would notice similarities in their behavior . . . because you never knew when one of those men might happen by, a man she would remember for all eternity. And maybe it would be the same man as the other woman's . . . And they wouldn't be able to keep themselves from flinching at the same time, if they heard a familiar voice. They wouldn't be able to raise their glass without spilling. They would be discovered. Someone would know.
Even as Aliide's attempts at self-preservation become increasingly damaging to those around her—even as she allows herself to become complicit in the violations, abuses, and deportations that take place in her own home—the novel still treats her with a great depth of empathy. This is not to say that she is absolved of her actions—much to the contrary. But she is understood to be a casualty of her time and circumstances, and utterly alone with her memories and her guilt. As she realizes late in the novel, her whole life was spent "[w]aiting for someone . . . Someone who would do something to help or at least take away part of what had happened in that cellar."
Stroke her hair and say that it wasn't her fault. And say that it would never happen again, no matter what. And when she realized what she had been waiting for, she understood that that person would never come. No one would ever come to her and say those words, and mean them, and see that it never happened again.
There can be no real absolution for Aliide. This fact may be difficult for American readers, who have perhaps become accustomed to narratives of trauma and emotional distress which end in redemption—in the characters achieving some sort of closure, if not an out and out resolution to their suffering. In reality, however, true healing is extraordinarily difficult to achieve, and impossible, the novel reminds us, if the victims involved are not able to discuss their experiences.
Where Purge does take hope, however, is in Zara, a young woman who has broken free of the cycle of victimization. Through her, Aliide's experiences—as well as those of her grandmother and mother—will finally come to light. It is a painful history to be sure, as is that of the Estonian nation. But in order to move forward—in order to truly reconcile with the past—such stories must finally be heard and examined.
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Graphite One Resources Moving In Aggressive But Prudent Manner
I recently read an article entitled, "Graphite One is Dead Money." The author did a good job of pointing out the attributes of the Graphite One Resources (GPHOF) (GPH.v) story. And I commend the writer for writing a balanced piece considering both the pros and cons in a measured way. He mentions Graphite One's massive flake graphite project called, Graphite Creek in Alaska, USA.
For example he said,
"it is not implausible that the resource could grow substantially from the most recent estimates to become the largest graphite resource in the world."
The author also pointed out that trading volume in the stock is high. Further, the deposit was described as close to surface and, "it appears to have the potential to be a very low-cost mine in the future." However the author is betting against Graphite One, saying that the company is, "unattractive except in the most optimistic scenarios for graphite prices."
In my opinion this author in going through his list of negatives about Graphite One is really just speaking to the generic risks of most junior graphite companies. For example he says,
"maximizing leverage to the graphite space using graphite junior mining shares as option-proxies makes sense only to a very limited extent. Not only that, but it takes a fairly unique set of qualities to make a graphite junior attractive..."
Any investor in graphite juniors needs to know this is a high risk, high return sector. Still, it's better to be a U.S. domiciled company like Graphite One then a third-world or Chinese producer. Right now, virtually all Venture-listed stocks have been hammered, perhaps in part due to tax loss selling. I feel the author could have taken any number of graphite and other sector stocks and picked them apart. It's easy to play devil's advocate.
I will now attempt to refute some of the statements made by this author. For example, he described Graphite One as an early-stage flake graphite company due to a small number of drill holes. I would not call this an early-stage project by any means given that it has a giant inferred resource and is soon coming out with a new resource report that will include a portion of indicated resources. Would the author instead want Graphite One to have spent additional capital to drill many more holes when they have already found so much? CEO Anthony Huston had this to say about the stage of development of the Graphite Creek deposit.
"Our deposit has unique characteristics that, taken together, put us above some of our peers. We believe that our high grades, low strip ratio, proportion of large flakes and lack of deleterious elements are some of the best in the industry. Further work on characterization of the mineralization in our advanced stage metallurgical processing test work will lead to a pilot scale test in fall of 2015 in preparation for the Feasibility Study."
In fact, it's interesting that the author of the other article mentions drilling in a negative light. Graphite One's recent press release from December 1st describes in detail the company's drilling success. In this press release the company announces assay results on 10 of 20 drilled holes, bringing the total holes drilled to almost 50. From the press release,
"Graphite One Resources is pleased to announce the results of the first ten holes of the recently completed twenty-hole diamond drill program on their Graphite Creek Project located near Nome, Alaska. All 10 holes intercepted significant widths of high grade, near surface graphite mineralization. Select intercepts include 7m of 20.98%, 50m of 6.13%, 38m of 10.57% and 23m of 8.70% graphite. Geology and assays confirm excellent vertical and lateral continuity of the mineralization."
Despite what appears to be clear drilling success, the author suggests that a low cut-off grade of 3% is required to show a 10 million metric tonne resource. True. However, at a 7% cut-off there's still 3.5 million in-situ tonnes. And, as the author states, Graphite One could just mine the ore using a 10% cut-off, which would provide for 1.1 million tonnes at an average grade of 12.8%. That alone would be a 22-year mine life at 50,000 tonnes per year. As mentioned, a new resource estimate is out in a few months that is expected to move some of the inferred resource to the indicated category. I would reserve judgment until I see that report.
Graphite One states that its Preliminary Economic Assessment, "PEA" will be released in the 2nd quarter of 2015. Yet, the author of the negative article says that we won't see a PEA until, "2016 at the earliest." I prefer to go with company guidance of a PEA delivered in the second quarter of 2015! [See page 21 of the company's corporate presentation.] Further, with the size of the resource at Graphite Creek, the costs and scalability of the deposit may allow for multiple development scenarios to be delineated in the PEA.
Next, the author moves on to equity dilution. All graphite juniors are facing equity dilution at this time, why single out Graphite One? In fact, Graphite One in Alaska possibly has access to an Alaskan loan program that could deliver a very significant loan to the company post Bank Feasibility Study. According to this program's website,
"With approximately $1.4 Billion under its management, the Authority has an ownership position in 8 Alaskan projects, has issued in excess of $1.3 Billion in Conduit Bonds and has a loan portfolio in excess of $400 million."
Just ask Ucore, and Alaskan rare earths player what they think of this loan program known as AIDEA. That company is close to obtaining a $140 million loan from AIDEA.
The author says that the property is, "in the middle of nowhere." I disagree. According to the company's website, "The Property is 3 kilometers away from inter-tidal waters at the Grantley Harbour, approximately 20 kilometers away from road systems, and 3 kilometers from an airstrip to the southeast. Sure, a road might need to be built, along with some other infrastructure, but this is hardly in the middle of nowhere, especially with regard to its close proximity to barging and the town of Nome.
The company can barge graphite to an Alaskan seaport and then send it to west coast U.S. ports. Regarding another aspect of allegedly being in the middle of nowhere, management states that the project is a 45 minute drive from Nome, with a population of about 4,000. Don't get me wrong, there will be challenges, but I believe some of the other graphite juniors around the world face similar or worse logistical challenges. As security of supply becomes increasingly important, sourcing graphite from the U.S., (which imports 100%) will become an important strategic advantage.
The author states that prospective investors need to be bullish on the demand for graphite. I agree. I'm bullish, as are a number of notable pundits including Simon Moores of Benchmark Mineral Intelligence who states,
"Tesla's giga-factory isn't the only electric-vehicle battery factory on deck. Moores pointed out that 2014 also saw LG Chem break ground on its own factory in China, while Foxconn Technology has plans for its own plant in the same country."
At least three giga-factories coming online, and there will be more. Some pundits believe that li-ion battery demand alone could require the output of 8-12 new graphite mines by the end of the decade. I think that Graphite One's Graphite Creek will be one of those mines. Said another way, there's going to be ample demand for a number of North America's presumed front runners Mason Graphite (OTCQX:MGPHF), Focus Graphite (OTCQX:FCSMF), Northern Graphite (OTCQX:NGPHF) and Alabama Graphite (OTCQX:ABGPF), as well as Graphite One.
The author states that management lacks direct graphite experience. However, if the company is as far away from production as the author surmises, why hire more people, thereby increasing overhead? That lack of management experience argument can't cut both ways. More importantly, Graphite One has retained the TRU Group to help it manage the company's activities. If one wants to see solid evidence of graphite experience to the benefit of Graphite One, please click on the link to the TRU Group.
Graphite One's exploration team since inception has been a group of Arctic exploration experts with years of experience working in the north of Alaska and Canada as well as around the world in harsh environments. The project manager is based out of Fairbanks. The consulting engineering and environmental experts are almost all Alaska based companies with years of experience evaluating and building projects in Alaska. The company will continue to use local contractors as the project moves through the Feasibility review.
The review of senior management and the Board is short-sighted as many of the senior management team have worked in multiple natural resource markets including uranium, coal, copper, lead, zinc, lithium, as well as gold and silver. Several Board members have diverse experience in multiple disciplines including exploration, production, capital raising and marketing of natural resources.
The graphite juniors are high risk investments. Graphite One, trading at about a third of the valuation of Focus and Mason offers compelling upside to a strong graphite market. The author of the negative piece referred to at length above suggests that strong graphite prices are needed to make Graphite One viable. I believe that strong graphite prices will be needed to make most graphite projects viable. There's room for plenty of companies to serve the growing global demand for graphite. I believe Graphite One is likely to be one of those companies.
Disclosure: The author is long GPHOF. The author wrote this article themselves, and it expresses their own opinions. The author is not receiving compensation for it. The author has no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.
American Sands Energy Interview With CEO- Utah Oils Sands Play
The following interview of Mr. William Gibbs was conducted by phone and email on November 28-29. Mr. Gibbs is CEO of American Sands Energy, [AMSE] an unconventional oil producer proposing to extract oil sands in Utah. The company expects to be in production of up to 9,000 barrels of oil per day within 2-3 years.
Please give readers a brief overview of American Sands Energy.
American Sands Energy is a pre-production oil company, focused on cleaner and more efficient extraction of bitumen from oil sands. We control a large, proven resource in Utah and have a proprietary extraction process that is low cost and is water-free. Since our process is water-free, we will not require tailings ponds, making our process far greener and more acceptable to local communities.
Can you talk a little more about the Sunnyside Project?
Our Sunnyside project is unique to the oil and gas industry for two reasons. Foremost, we have a proven (P-50) resource of over 150 million barrels. It is very rare to have an early stage company likeAMSE that controls such a large resource. We are fortunate at Sunnyside in that the site has been developed in the early 20th century for road paving in the area and, more recently, was fully explored by Chevron and Amoco. It is the exploration work of these majors that enables us to have a proven resource without spending tens of millions of dollars drilling the deposit. Secondly, our Sunnyside location is as close to infrastructure ready as possible. We are approximately three miles from paved road and 7 miles from a train heading. There is three-phase power already run to the site, and we are also 7 miles from a co-generation facility. Between the large resource, the available infrastructure, and the support of the local community, we believe that our Sunnyside project will be a showcase project for oil-wet oil sands development.
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Anfield Resources Ignored Despite Spike In Uranium Price
With the spot uranium price up to $42/lb. according to Tradetech, up about 50%! from its $28/lb. low, investors should take another look at Anfield Resources (ARY-V) and (OTCQB:ANLDF). Many uranium peers are rallying on the substantial spot price move and on news that 2 reactors in Japan are in the process of restarting. Analysts at Cantor Fitzgerald noted,
"We continue to view the September announcement [by the Japanese Regulatory Authority that two reactors at the Sendai plant have met the safety requirements for a restart] as a positive signaling event for the uranium sector as a significant amount of the current U3O8 inventory is a result of material earmarked for Japan not being used. We estimate that 15 reactors including the Sendai pair will restart in 2015 with an additional four restarting in 2016. Ultimately we expect 32 of the country's remaining 48 reactors will be restarted by 2018 - amounting to about 14.5 million pounds of annual U3O8 demand on a steady state basis. Prior to Fukushima, Japan consumed 21.3 million pounds U3O8 on an annualized basis. With low uranium prices not incentivizing additional uranium production, a demand environment that is expected to grow continuously (we forecast 17% growth by 2020), we believe uranium equities are well positioned to move higher."
UR-Energy is up 36%, Uranerz (URZ) up 59%, Uranium Energy Corp (UEC) 84% and Energy Fuels (UUUU) 40% since October 15th lows. However, Anfield Resources' stock is unchanged at C$0.40 per share. This, despite Anfield close to closing a game- changing acquisition of 1 of only 3 licensed conventional uranium mills in the U.S. The increases in the peers' stocks since October 15th are significantly greater than the entire Enterprise Value, "EV" of Anfield, which is about C$8 million. Anfield is flying under the radar, when it should be soaring with the rest of the industry.
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I'm going to write a blog-item on the stunning torrent of boos that poured down on Joe Lacob during tonight's Chris Mullin jersey retirement ceremony, but thought I should get this transcript up first.
I stopped Lacob as he was walking into the owners' room and he said he absolutely would have no problem talking about the incident.
He obviously wasn't thrilled with the development–and definitely still a little surprised–but Lacob didn't sound like he was ready to fire a host of people or dive under cover forever.
This was a fairly historic moment in Warriors history, no matter what happens from here–either Lacob will turn this thing around and Warriors fans will look back on this as an errant blip.


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INN VIDEO: Tom Drolet On What's Next For Nuclear Power
At the 2013 Vancouver Resource Investment Conference, INN Senior Editor Andrew Topf had the chance to speak with Tom Drolet, an expert on nuclear power and uranium.In the interview below, Tom discusses the restart of Japan's nuclear program, nuclear power in the US, the potential for thorium to be used as a nuclear fuel and which countries are most important for uranium mining.
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- Hull recognized by the European Patent Office for his groundbreaking invention of the original 3D printing technology Stereolithography (SLA ®)
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hmmm slim to none im afraid, the IT industry has really taken a hit but nothing is impossible.
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While living in Auckland on a working holiday i decided that it was time for me to begin a career as an ICT Technician. After some research i have begun studying for my A+ essentials and IT Technician exams which ill complete when i arrive back in the UK in November.
My question is, with only personal experiences fixing and building computers and no current recognisable qualifications, what are the odds of landing a junior technician role?
Thanks i advance.
hmmm slim to none im afraid, the IT industry has really taken a hit but nothing is impossible.
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great.....lol, well ill try and break into it slowly. Im only 22 so im not exactly desperate to jump in right this second.
As for 2.4m unemployed, well that still means there are over ten times more who DO have jobs. It's more likely that far more people are affected by pay freezes or pay cuts for a period than actual redundancy during this 'recession'. But then if mortgage repayments have come down to peanuts for many on variable rate deals this recession is painting a very interesting picture in terms of cost of living, so a pay cut is not quite the disaster with rates so low. Not much help to those renting, but then paying rent out of your own income is a mug's game anyway.
I agree that there is a lot of competition but i couldn't tell you whether there were slim pickings as i haven't been trawling the papers and jobs boards for some time. I've been on to a couple of websites of companies in the financial services sector and they were advertising a ton of IT jobs. But then, they always have. They still have IT requirements and budgets to spend on the IT side of things.
Working in IT is definintely one where it's really important to show recent experience of working in the sector. That is likely to make an employer feel more confident that this individual can hit the ground running. But if you have been out of work for any length of time or don't have any IT employment experience then a college or uni degree course isn't a bad idea, as some of these courses can lead to different opportunities in IT to what the OP may have considered.
If you can afford to I'd get a part time job (any job) when you get home and then ask your local schools if they'll let you work on a voluntary basis. It should be a good way to gain experience and network.
Good plan, Thanks for the advice.
the recession is hitting youngest job seakers the hardest thats true, I could introduce you to a few companies/schools that would take on an apprentice or volunteer, once you get that on your CV future employers will see you are truly passionate about IT
also getting a crb check will help
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There is a problem with that. I've been looking into volunteering at local schools and yes you do need a CRB check. Unfortunately, you can no longer apply for a CRB check as an individual looking to volunteer with vulnerable people. Your CRB check has to come from the place you are looking to volunteer at. Gone are the days when you could contact a school, with a CRB check already having taken place and with the documentation to prove it, and offer your services as a volunteer with next to no hassle for the school. Since they have stopped private citizens getting CRB checks, it has added the extra paperwork to the school. The schools I contacted didn't want the extra paperwork my volunteer services would bring.
In todays world everybodys super caustious over liability, Thats why you have to wear your seatbelt when driving on your own, not because they care, because of insurance claims.
Anyway If i were looking to get in to the IT industry, Id get as many qualifications as I could, Cisco, MCDST, etc, maybe some linux qualification, then look for work experience with a private company.
It's the old chestnut of getting experience to get a job but can't get a job without experience... if you're enthusiastic, have a good work ethic and can do basic support there's a position at our organisation at the moment
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District honors contributors with lifetime achievement, appreciation awards.
Sixteen local businesses received awards from the William S. Hart Union High School District at this year's Business Partners Recognition dinner hosted by the district's Student Communications Council. A total of 86 businesses were nominated by local schools for the awards, and all were recognized at the dinner and presented with a Certificate of Recognition and a souvenir memo holder with the Hart District logo.
This year the committee awarded its Lifetime Achievement Award to Mike O'Connor and Dan Hamrick from O'Connor Photography. The business was nominated by a number of schools for the free services and photos it offers throughout the year to both the district and individual schools. The Lifetime Achievement Award is given to businesses which continue to rise to the top of the awards program over a number of years.
Five businesses were named Business Super Stars for their superlative support of local schools. All five of the top winners were lauded for sharing their time and expertise with local students in addition to any monetary support they provided.
Business Star winners for 2008 are Dr. David Martinez, College of the Canyons; Sabrina MacDougall, Junior Achievement; Living the Dream Productions; Jean Sutton with SC Free; and Kathy Norris, Valley Industrial Association.
Dr. Martinez mentors the Robotics Team at Academy of the Canyons, devoting countless hours on evenings and weekends to advise students as they built their competitive robot. MacDougall and Junior Achievement were honored for their work on the "Connecting to Success" career seminar and for providing speakers and mentors for career-oriented projects in many district schools.
Living the Dream Productions supports the video program at Golden Valley High School and this year assisted with a 12-hour film festival, offering video equipment, time, prizes and expertise. Jean Sutton with SC Free is a weekly visitor to classes at Sierra Vista Junior High as a career mentor in the Junior Achievement program.
Kathy Norris and the Valley Industrial Association were lauded for the VIA Star program, which allows high school students to create their own "business," expanding the program this year to accommodate even more student teams.
The program also awarded framed student artwork to 10 businesses named Outstanding Business Partners for their support of local schools. Three of the awards went to Jersey Mike's Subs, which had three separate locations nominated by a number of local schools. The awards went to Steve and Laura Youlios from the Bouquet Canyon store; Mike Wilson from the Copper Hill store; and Chris Irons from the Soledad Canyon Store.
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A magnificent show, with very talented acrobatic performers. The show takes place in Opera House, which you get to enjoy its architecture design before the show. If you book the ground floor (OOH) or mid-level balcony(WOW) tickets, you also get to enjoy a cup of complimentary hot/Iced tea before you enter the theater. The storyline was touching and choreography was beautiful. It gave us a perfect ending for this one-week trip to Vietnam. I'd definitely recommend to anyone visiting Saigon!
Doing what: A O Show in Ho Chi Minh City
We thoroughly enjoyed this show and highly recommend it to everyone of all ages! It is an excellent show depicting life of the Vietnamese through the ages in Cirque de Soleil style. Do yourself a favour and go and see it. It is an hour long performance in the Saigon Opera House which has been restored and worth the look as well.
Doing what: A O Show in Ho Chi Minh City
My partner and I had a fabulous time during our 'Mekong Delta Discovery Small Group Adventure Tour from Ho Chi Minh City'. We bought our tour through www.viator.com.
Linda our tour guide greeted us at our meeting point (Saigon Opera House), and almost immediately we were shown to our little tour van. During our drive towards the Mekong river, Linda talked to us about Ho Chi Minh and Vietnam.
Throughout the tour, Linda was very professional telling us all we needed to know about the Mekong River. The lunch provided was delicious!
After our tour, Linda gave us some tips on getting around in HCM - which taxi's to take, what to do on a taxi (remember the driver and number plate of the taxi just in case we left something behind). We were treated so well on the tour and Linda made us feel very special!
Thank you Linda and driver Thong (I might have gotten his name wrong!)
Doing what: Mekong Delta Discovery Small Group Adventure Tour from Ho Chi Minh City
The trip was very informative. The guide was very knowledgeable and attentive to our needs, especially when there was a heavy rain while we were crossing the Mekong river, he had ready raincoats for all of us.
The only hitch there was, as the lead traveller, i thought we would missed the trip because it took us a while before we found him at the Saigon Opera House. We approached the driver of the same bus we took and showed the voucher, and was given a "NO" answer, maybe because of language barrier. It could have been easy if the mobile phone of the guide was provided to us and vice versa for easy access.
Doing what: Mekong Delta Discovery Small Group Adventure Tour from Ho Chi Minh City
This tour gave us an excellent overview of central Ho Chi Minh City with focus on the War Remnants Museum, a collection of weapons and pictures based on the Vietnamese beating both the French and American armies, and the Reunification Palace, the home and office of the former president of South Vietnam which was captured by North Vietnamese troops in April 1975. The Palace is seen as it was when the president fled. We also visited the Post Office designed by M. Eiffel who also built the Eiffel Tower in Paris; the French colonial style city hall, the Opera House and other buildings. A speedboat your up the Saigon River showed us the poorer side of Saigon with thousands of shacks on stilts built along the river bank, and at one place on the river the most expensive housing in Ho Chi Minh City.
Doing what: Ho Chi Minh City Sightseeing Tour with Saigon River Speedboat Cruise
The trip commenced from the Opera House, the guide was there and we were taken the 21/2 hour trip to the Mekong Delta. Our guide spoke very good English and told us about the Mekong Delta and life around it on the coach trip. We stopped at a 'motorway cafe' equivalent in England which was very pleasant with a large lake and toilet/food facilities. We had a great time on the boats, motorcarts and a really nice lunch. Saw how coconut sweets are made and tasted the tripical fruits which are grown there. All in all an excellent trip and well worth it.
Doing what: Mekong Delta Discovery Small Group Adventure Tour from Ho Chi Minh City
Fabulous — Love the trip.
Started off from the Opera House in HCMC, where we met Thanth, our very knowledgeable guide {took me some time to figure out what he was actually saying due to the accent, but once I got the hang of it, it was a breeze}; crossed the Mekong … my what a huge river. No crocodiles seen so its pretty safe in case one decides to get adventurous; the trip through the paddy fields were humbling, knowing that Vietnam is a world exporter of good rice — and the trip to the Coconut candy cottage industry was worth the trip seeing how these maidens worked their nimble fingers packing these sweets fast and precise in rice paper; took the TutTut to an island to savour Elephant Ear fish, wrapped up in rice paper dipped in Tamarind sauce, and the mushroom soup was yummy without {what major cities in Asia like to add in their meals} monosodium glutamate — fresh, earthy and light. Finished with a refreshing energy drink of honey tea.
Our group of eight international travellers were fun to be with — definitely recommend if you have time to learn how the other end of the world lives. The tour ends with you being sent back to your hotel. Fabulous !!
Booked this trip — Mekong Delta via Viator
Doing what: Mekong Delta Discovery Small Group Adventure Tour from Ho Chi Minh City
I would like to give five star to our tour operator "Gem". I have very good time in Vietman, I like war Museum most.
Doing what: Ho Chi Minh City Discovery Small Group Adventure Tour
An enjoyable and interesting tour. We were a little dismayed at the staged large scale tourism, I had thought with the tour operators it would've been more intimate with the locals, perhaps offering more local families a piece of the tourism pie ( we did experience this up north)
Doing what: Mekong Delta Discovery Small Group Adventure Tour from Ho Chi Minh City
Departure from the Opera House was right on time; transportation out to the country was on a van; comfortable and good air conditionsing (95*F day !). We had about 12 people on the tour. We transitiioned to watercraft and travelled out to some islands in the river delta and also took Tuk-Tuks between some of the highlights of the island. Tourguide spoke very good english; made sure we tried many of the local offerings - both in the gift shops and at the restaurant. Very interesting and insightful day. Recommended if you're in the city and want to see some of the counryside; even the van transport to the river was interesting for the sights seen while traveling.
Doing what: Mekong Delta Discovery Small Group Adventure Tour from Ho Chi Minh City
We met at the Opera House and there were 7 of us. The tour guide spoke well and had lots of information and stories to share with us. We rode in a longtail boat, a tuk tuk and a small wooden vessel up a creek. Lunch was good and plenty of it. Unfortunately we didn't go to the floating markets.
Doing what: Mekong Delta Discovery Small Group Adventure Tour from Ho Chi Minh City
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Most of the tour is on visiting Coconut Candy, Rice Paper Making process and Fruit farm. However, I MUST WARN anyone of you who is having back problem like me or with elderly to be very careful because the journey to Rice Field took around an hour on Local Scooter Truck on bumpy narrow roads which is EXTREMELY uncomfortable. Think before you join. Other than this, Rice field owner offered us fresh coconut from tree and home-make tea from his on farm which was a bonus to the trip. The journey on the Delta took only 15% of the tour so if you were expecting a cruise on muddy water, you will be disappointed. Lunch included was good though. If this si your 1st day of tour and you have to confirm 48 hours before. Beware, the tour operator's phone is ALWAYS ENGAGED. I spend lots of long distance call and still CANNOT find them. In the end, I just have to wait at the Lobby and keeping my fingers cross to be pciked up. So make prior arrangement and not 48 hours before.
Doing what: Mekong Delta Discovery Small Group Adventure Tour from Ho Chi Minh City
A bit disappointed because War Remnants Museum was closed during our Tour. We have to go there on our own the following day. Also we did not go to the Opera House as our Tour Guide said this is close to our hotel so we are not going there. If I knew I should have gone on our own to tour the City.
Doing what: Ho Chi Minh City Discovery Small Group Adventure Tour
There were only 2 of us on the tour which we thought would be a good thing. Our guide simply dropped us off at the different locations and walked away. There was no explanation or guiding at all. I would suggest Viator change their tour operator for this activity.
Doing what: Ho Chi Minh City Discovery Small Group Adventure Tour
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That was then, this is now: Solar stocks have had a terrific year. So as 2013 comes to a close, a lot of people want to know: Is it time to get back in?
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Every theory of choice of which I am aware assumes that choice begins when a person encounters a problem. Theories vary on whether problem onset must be conscious or non-conscious, but they do not vary on the idea that the person who has arrived at a fork in the road began down the road because of a problem. (For a more comprehensive discussion of consciousness in decision-making see Carlson et al. 2014)
Problems can be big (the house is on fire) or small (the toaster is not working), personal (I am tired) or professional (I have too much to do), cognitive (I lost my train of thought) or social (some people think I'm mean). And problems may reflect difficulties (why can't I lose weight) or opportunities (what should I do with this inheritance). Initially it may seem odd to classify opportunities as problems. But to the person who is gracefully making her way down a path, an opportunity to change course, is indeed a problem, a problem that requires a choice. So for the purpose of understanding the ontogenesis of choice, opportunities are just as problematic as difficulties.


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