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Serves 12
- 3 garlic cloves
- 3 15-ounce cans cannellini (white kidney beans), rinsed, drained
- 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 2 1/4 teaspoons ground cumin
- 1 1/2 teaspoons chili powder
- Salt and freshly ground pepper
- 3 tablespoons minced fresh cilantro
- Additional minced fresh cilantro
- Fresh vegetables (such as carrot sticks, celery sticks and cauliflower)
- Tortilla chips
Finely chop garlic in processor. Add beans and lemon juice and puree. Mix in oil, cumin and chili powder. Season with salt and pepper. Add 3 tablespoons cilantro and mix in using on/off turns. Transfer to large bowl. (Can be prepared 1 day ahead. Cover and refrigerate.) Sprinkle dip with cilantro. Serve with vegetables and chips.
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type: Quick & Easy, Condiment/Spread
main ingredients: Garlic, Bean, Herb
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The Moms Basement community is growing, and it definitely isn't a secret. The Moms Basement team on Etsy is now a staggering 850 members large and our Street Team is growing because of that. This website, this team, this community exists for the sole purpose of getting the attention the geekery crafters in this community deserve.
Moms Basement has been around for over a year now, working hard every day to give credit where credit is due and grabbing the attention of crafters and buyers– and we aren't stopping now.
Recently we have rolled out the option to advertise your relevant website/store on our front page. If you scroll down below the buttons on the right hand side, you will see the array of current AD's that we are proud to support. If you are interested in renting space on our front page, please check out the "Advertise With Us" page for more details.
I want to say THANK YOU to all of our Sponsors!! Please help us keep doing what we are doing, and go check out these handmade/small business / geekery shops that took the time to support us and make what you love. :)
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Our Mission
ACAF's mission is for animals to experience a life of respect and be free from unnecessary suffering. Our objective is to offer pet owners in financial crisis an alternative to euthanasia when their pet faces a treatable, yet life-threatening condition. Companion pets are vital members of the family... we want to restore the quality of life for pets as well as their owner.
Organizational Goals
- Raise awareness & grow the Rogan Rexford Animal Blood Bank
- Host four annual fundraisers (Uncorked & Unleashed, Golf Classic, Rogan's Race, & Vegas Nite)
- Support Humane Research and Clinical Studies to control diseases and benefit long-term welfare of animals.
- Establish an Ambulatory Care Service for animals.
Board of Directors
Animal Care and Assistance Fund (ACAF) is governed as a single, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization by a volunteer Board of Directors, and is managed from its offices in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Because the Fund is organized as a single organization rather than as separate local legal entities, ultimate responsibility for the operation of ACAF lies with its Board of Directors. Although the Board of Directors cannot delegate its broad legal and fiduciary responsibilities, it does delegate responsibility for day-to-day operations to the president and chief executive officer, who in turn delegates responsibilities to his management team.
Board Members and Officers of ACAF
Board Chair & President
Dr. Kenton D. Rexford - Partner, PVSEC
Board Vice Chair
Jamie Sarris - Co-Owner, Sarris Candies
Board Vice President
Dr. Robert Meeder - President, Pittsburgh Gateways Corporation
Celeste Kopf - Litigation Paralegal, Cohen & Grigsby, P.C., Animal Advocate
David J. DelFiandra - Attorney, Leech Tishman
Charles Aftosmis - Real Estate Developer
Laura Aftosmis - Real Estate Developer
Anita Domalik - Counsel, Benefits and Employment, Mylan Inc.
Shea Murtaugh - President, Hoffmann Murtaugh Advertising
Alicia Passerin - Attorney, Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti, LLP
Stefanie Pate - Attorney, LeechTishman
Joseph Ross - Owner, Joseph M. Ross Professional Dog Training
Stuart Sheppard - CEO, Just Enjoy, Inc.
Advisory Board
Linda Bagley - Animal Advocate
Victoria Berdnik - Animal Advocate
Heather Cianfrocco - President and CEO, UnitedHealthcare
Bridget Fare - Assistant Vice President, Duquesne University Public Affairs
Kathy Newill - Board President, Action for Animals Humane Society
Val Porter - News Director, DVE Morning Show & Music Director, WDVE-FM
Suzy Silliman - Managing Director, Management Science Assoc. Inc.
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Kristy Wright - Health Care Consultant
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The school started to offer Chinese as a curriculum subject to Gifted and Talented Year 7 linguists in 2007. Since there is only one Year Chinese class, there is no setting. We are one of only a dozen state maintained schools that offer this subject, amazing considering the international role of China. Pupils work extensively in the language, learning to speak, read and write in mandarin. This is possibly not a subject where parents can check their child's homework!
The pupils who choose Chinese as their first modern language will take GCSE Chinese in Year 11. The textbook used is 'Chinese for GCSE', which was designed according to the National Curriculum. Assessment, which covers the 4 skills, is built into the units.


text: Hi! I'm new to IP and it is difficult for me to prepare packets at work for lunch, as I don't eat microwaved food. Would it be OK for me to just have a salad and veggies for lunch and have my lunch packet as an extra snack after work or after a low-impact walk in the woods? I'm really excited about IP but not yet clear on exactly how to make it work for my lifestyle. I welcome and appreciate Amy input, and I apologize if this topic has been covered in previous threads. I looked but couldn't find an answer.


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Junior Pass Program takes Augusta's youth inside the Masters
Updated: 04/08/2011 - It was a beautiful day for the opening round of the tournament featuring some amazing golf and four underprivileged kids in our area got to see it for themselves.
Updated: 04/08/2011 - It was a beautiful day for the opening round of the tournament featuring some amazing golf and four underprivileged kids in our area got to see it for themselves.
Updated: 04/08/2011 - Many say the best deals in the business world are made on the golf course. The annual Red Carpet tour rolled through town on Thursday.
Updated: 04/08/2011 - The Augusta National is not the only busy golf spot this weekend. Country clubs and golf courses all over our area say business is swinging in full force this week.
Posted: 04/07/2011 - You almost need a program to keep up with the players at the Masters this year. There's a whole new generation of golfers going for a green jacket.
Posted: 04/07/2011 - Out at Augusta National, a lot of eyes have been looking for one name in particular on the leaderboard. Just about everyone we talked to today said it would be right for the lefty, Phil Mickelson, to win.
Posted: 04/07/2011 - The players couldn't have asked for a better day. Sure, there's a little breeze, but nothing like we saw two days ago. The course is there for the taking, and there were a lot of red numbers this afternoon.
Posted: 04/07/2011 - The ceremonial first tee shot is a can't miss event for people who are serious about this tournament, and there were plenty of patrons out there this year.
Posted: 04/07/2011 - Everything from cameras to periscopes are prohibited inside the gates of the Augusta National.
Posted: 04/07/2011 - Wednesday at the Masters is known for the Par 3 contest, but the after party was Downtown at the Augusta Common. The Par 3 Party is just one of many ways locals are trying to get visitors to get a look at downtown.
Posted: 04/06/2011 - On a spectacular Par 3 Contest day, three legends teed up together, kids caddied for their dads, golfers got in their last day of practice, and only one hole-in-one was to be had.
Updated: 04/06/2011 - News 12 took a behind the scenes look at the airport operation during Masters and learned some good travel news. Augusta Regional Airport is announcing a new service.
Updated: 04/06/2011 - The Callaway Tour Van is in town, and we got a special treat when we stopped by. They put us behind the wheel of a brand new Lamborghini.
Updated: 04/06/2011 - The most exclusive golf course in the world is working hard to be more inclusive when it comes to kids.
Posted: 04/06/2011 - Tuesday's storms had quite the impact on Augusta National, but people weather storms too. News 12 met a man who survived a big one just to be here.
Updated: 04/06/2011 - Tuesday's storm took something away from Augusta National that won't be easy to replace. That was one of the many topics of Chairman Billy Payne's Masters Wednesday news conference.
Posted: 04/06/2011 - While lots of fans are trying to see the greens of Augusta National firsthand, others are trying to make some green. The only problem is that they are doing it illegally and undercover deputies are busy cracking down and locking up.
Updated: 04/06/2011 - At this year's news conference, Chairman Billy Payne had a lot to say about reaching out to a younger generation of golfers.
Posted: 04/06/2011 - Hospitality clubs see an increase in business as patrons return for the Masters and the economy shows signs of recovery.
Posted: 04/06/2011 - First Tee of Augusta has been around for ten years now. This is the seventh year Rock Fore! Dough has used music to raise money for the charity.
Updated: 04/06/2011 - Crews at Augusta National have been busy cleaning up storm damage there after heavy rains and strong winds swept through the CSRA overnight.
Updated: 04/06/2011 - A lot of golfers are sharing their Masters experience on social networking sites like Twitter.
Posted: 04/05/2011 - Everything from tree limbs to power lines covered the roads, but that did not stop dedicated patrons from making the trip to the Masters Tournament.
Updated: 04/05/2011 - Due to the storms, there will be a delay in access to the course at Augusta National today.
Posted: 04/05/2011 - It's considered the hottest ticket in town, but for the past couple of years brokers say the demand for a Masters badge has been down. This year, brokers like StubHub say that's not the case.
Updated: 04/05/2011 - Don Vickery is a PGA Pro now, but he had to overcome all odds to get to where he is today. That's because Vickery is a double amputee.


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Guide to the Dance Program Performance Films, 1990-2012
The Dance Program Performance Films are a video record of the performances put on by the Duke Dance Program from 1990-2012.
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Dance Program Performance films
- Creator
- Duke University. Dance Program.
- Extent
- 2.0 Linear feet
- Repository
- David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University
- Location
- For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
- Language
- Materials in English.
Collection Overview
The Dance Program Performance Films were recorded across three different formats: VHS cassettes, mini-DV cassettes, and DVDs. Most of the Dance Program's performances from 1990-2012 are represented. Recurring dance performances include Choreolab performances, November and December dances, Composition Class final examinations, and Ark dances.
Administrative Information
A majority of collections are stored off site and must be requested at least 48 business hours in advance for retrieval. Contact Rubenstein Library staff before visiting. Read More »
Access Restrictions
Collection is open for research.
Researchers must register and agree to copyright and privacy laws before using this collection.
All or portions of this collection may be housed off-site in Duke University's Library Service Center. The library may require up to 48-hours to retrieve these materials for research use.
Please contact Research Services staff before visiting the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library to use this collection.
Use Restrictions
The copyright interests in this collection have not been transferred to Duke University. For more information, consult the copyright section of the Regulations and Procedures of the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
Contents of the Collection
Video-disc DVD_0016
Video-disc DVD_0015
Video-disc DVD_0014
Video-disc DVD_0013
Video-disc DVD_0012
Video-disc DVD_0011
Video-disc DVD_0010
Video-disc DVD_0009
Video-disc DVD_0008
Video-disc DVD_0007
Video-disc DVD_0006
Video-disc DVD_0005
Video-disc DVD_0004
Video-disc DVD_0003
Video-disc DVD_0002
Video-disc DVD_0001
Video-cassette Mini DV_0045
Video-cassette Mini DV_0044
Video-cassette Mini DV_0043
Video-cassette Mini DV_0042
Video-cassette Mini DV_0041
Video-cassette Mini DV_0040
Video-cassette Mini DV_0039
Video-cassette Mini DV_0038
Video-cassette Mini DV_0037
Video-cassette Mini DV_0036
Video-cassette Mini DV_0035
Video-cassette Mini DV_0034
Video-cassette Mini DV_0033
Video-cassette Mini DV_0032
Video-cassette Mini DV_0031
Video-cassette Mini DV_0030
Video-cassette Mini DV_0029
Video-cassette Mini DV_0028
Video-cassette Mini DV_0027
Video-cassette Mini DV_0026
Video-cassette Mini DV_0025
Video-cassette Mini DV_0024
Video-cassette Mini DV_0023
Video-cassette Mini DV_0022
Video-cassette Mini DV_0021
Video-cassette Mini DV_0020
Video-cassette Mini DV_0019
Video-cassette Mini DV_0018
Video-cassette Mini DV_0017
Video-cassette Mini DV_0016
Video-cassette Mini DV_0015
Video-cassette Mini DV_0014
Video-cassette Mini DV_0013
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Video-cassette Mini DV_0010
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Video-cassette Mini DV_0007
Video-cassette Mini DV_0006
Video-cassette Mini DV_0005
Video-cassette Mini DV_0004
Video-cassette Mini DV_0003
Video-cassette Mini DV_0002
Video-cassette Mini DV_0001
Video-cassette VHS_0053
Video-cassette VHS_0052
Video-cassette VHS_0051
Video-cassette VHS_0050
Video-cassette VHS_0049
Video-cassette VHS_0048
Video-cassette VHS_0047
Video-cassette VHS_0046
Video-cassette VHS_0045
Video-cassette VHS_0054
Video-cassette VHS_0044
Video-cassette VHS_0043
Video-cassette VHS_0042
Video-cassette VHS_0041
Video-cassette VHS_0040
Video-cassette VHS_0039
Video-cassette VHS_0038
Video-cassette VHS_0037
Video-cassette VHS_0055
Video-cassette VHS_0036
Video-cassette VHS_0035
Video-cassette VHS_0034
Video-cassette VHS_0033
Video-cassette VHS_0032
Video-cassette VHS_0031
Video-cassette VHS_0030
Video-cassette VHS_0029
Video-cassette VHS_0028
Video-cassette VHS_0027
Video-cassette VHS_0026
Video-cassette VHS_0025
Video-cassette VHS_0024
Video-cassette VHS_0023
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Video-cassette VHS_0016
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Historical Note
In the 1970's, dance at Duke, under the excellent guidance of Julia Wray, was housed in a very supportive Physical Education department. The course offerings included two levels of modern dance technique, modern dance repertory, composition, improvisation, and two or three courses in dance history. Two full length concerts as well as 2 or 3 informal events were offered each year. In the late 70's, two levels of ballet technique were added to the curriculum. In the 80's, after dance was moved from Physical Education and placed within the Institute of the Arts, the program developed increased rigor in its training both in the studio and in theory courses. As the number of full time faculty grew from two to seven, the selection of courses increased dramatically.
Adapted from: http://danceprogram.duke.edu/about/history
Subject Headings
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Dance Program Performance Films, University Archives, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.
The Dance Program Performance Films were received by the University Archives as a transfer in May, 2013.
Processing Information
Processed by: Matthew Schaefer, January 2014
Accessions described in this finding aid: UA2013-0022


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How to Find a Sanjose Medical Malpractice Attorney
Nowadays, there are many people who are involved in medical malpractice cases. Some of these instances are unintentional and some are not. However, it is still an offense and victims can file a lawsuit against those doctors or surgeons who inexpertly conducted the medical procedure to them. One can hire a medical malpractice attorney which can greatly help him in filing the case and attending court trials. Medical malpractice attorneys are excellent in handling this kind of cases because it is their forte. They have special knowledge and awareness on it that's why victims can count on them when it comes to handling their cases.
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Rabbonim in Rechovot issued an impassioned called to boycott a concert by Yaakov Shweiki scheduled to take place in the city. Performances of this type stand in stark contradiction to Torah and halacha, and as such have been banned by gedolei Yisroel shlita.
"We hereby wish to make known to the public that the `singing performance' scheduled to take place in our city by the `singer Shweiki' involves severe Torah prohibitions," reads a letter signed by local rabbonim currently being disseminated to Rechovot area residents under the heading, "Notice and Warning," "and it is forbidden for men, women or children to participate in any manner whatsoever, even if there is separate seating. This [type of performance] has been banned in other locations by gedolei Yisroel, and by safeguarding our camp we will merit a kesivah vechasimah tovoh in the coming Yemei HaDin."
"I hereby join the published psak halacha by gedolei hador regarding this matter," added the moro d'asro, HaRav Simchah HaKohen Kook, "and join my fellow rabbonim in the city of Rechovot, and ask the organizer who is organizing the performance to cancel it immediately, and by doing so he will then be blessed, be'ezras Hashem Yisborach."


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Over at All We Can Eat, Tim Carman has a ton of photos showing you the interior of the renovated downtown Jaleo. Head there yourself to check out the new artwork, dishes, foosball tables, custom-made beads, hand-painted floors, designer chairs and that amazing colorful ceiling. The restaurant is reopening with limited seating today.
As he did with the Las Vegas edition of Jaleo, Andres asked his long-time friend Juli Capella, a designer and architect, to help reimagine the Penn Quarter restaurant, which first opened in 1993. Capella has a unique knowledge, the chef says. The architect knows "Spanish designers around the world," which allowed Capella to engage these artisans to design custom-made objects and artworks for the new Jaleo.
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Candied. Bacon. Yep, it is as awesome as it sounds. I brought this to Christmas Dinner this year and it was a smashing success. The vegetarians were appalled, but the rest of us ate it with wild and reckless abandon. This is not a dish to eat in large quantities, rather it is best enjoyed in small doses and savored for its decadent, luxurious frivolity. Yes it is excessive, but oh my is it good. My friend very quickly said it was one of the best things he'd ever eaten in his whole life and was overjoyed when I said he could take the remaining pieces home at the end of the night. Candied Bacon is not something to be taken lightly, no, no, it is quite serious. But make a batch for your next party and watch your loved one's faces glow with delight.
1.5 Lbs Thick Cut Smoked Bacon (Benton's or Wright's recommended in you're in the South)
1 Cup Brown Sugar
1/4 Cup Maple Syrup
1 Tbsp Paprika
2 Tsp Cinnamon
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line two baking sheets with aluminum foil, ensuring to wrap the foil around the edges (this will capture most of the Bacon grease and sugar and save you some mess).
2. Lay Bacon in a single layer on the foil lined baking sheets.
3. In a small bowl combine Brown Sugar, Maple Syrup, Paprika and Cinnamon.
4. With a spoon, coat top of Bacon with sugar mixture (see image below).
5. Place pans in preheated oven (if you have a good oven it is usually OK to layer on multiple racks, though cooking may take a bit longer) and bake until dark brownish red and crispy – about 20 to 25 minutes.
6. Line additional baking sheets or flat pans with aluminum foil. Remove bacon from the oven and, with a pair of tongs, quickly lift bacon off the hot sheet onto the fresh, cool sheet. The bacon will begin to stick as it cools, so it is important to move it to the clean sheet as soon as it comes out of the oven. Move the cooling bacon around occasionally to ensure it isn't sticking to the pan or to each other. (Note: If any pieces aren't crisp you may want to put them back in the oven for a few minutes.) Let the hot bacon grease cool, then fold up the edges of the foil, capturing as much grease and sugar inside as possible, and throw away.
7. Let the bacon cool for 30 minutes and serve. Pieces should be crisp and firm so they stand straight without bending. You can cook hours in advance for a party, but I recommend putting back in the oven to for about 5-10 minutes to re-crisp and render out some more fat if the bacon sits for longer than two hours. No matter when you eat it, be sure to do so with great joy! Enjoy!


text: QUOTE: "My response to her was I am a Christian, and as a Christian I too can be offended, and I am offended if I cannot pray in the name of Jesus." —Ron Baity, the pastor of Berean Baptist Church in Forsyth County, N.C., who was told that he could not use the name of Jesus in his opening prayer for the North Carolina House of Representatives because it may offend some in attendance. Baity was invited to give the opening prayer at the House session but had to submit it in writing first. Upon review, he was told he needed to drop the phrase "In the name of Jesus." For many years the house has requested, but not required, pastors to deliver nonsectarian prayers. Because of Baity's complaint, it is considering banning all prayers before sessions. [journalnow.com, 7/9/10]


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Meet Kelly Kelly Kelly. No- she doesn't just feel like repeating her name three times. It's from an episode of "Cheers" where Woody's present to Kelly is "The Kelly Song". The lyrics are now hanging in Burbank, autographed by Woody Harrelson for Kelly Doherty; one of the only female voice/radio producers in the world.
K3 was born in Los Angeles. She left SoCal the day after her high school graduation and found herself back home ten years later.
It began at KRQQ/Tucson where she produced, imaged the station and hosted overnights. Then on to Minneapolis to image KDWB and host middays on sister KTCZ. In 2000- she traded the snow for the sun to image the seven stations of Miami's Clear Channel cluster. Two years later… John Ivey called. And the rest of the world followed.
In addition to KIIS, Kelly is also the female voice of WHTZ/New York, WKSC/Chicago, WIHT/Washington, D.C., WWWQ/Atlanta, KZZP/Phoenix, KHTS/San Diego, Las Vegas, Cincinnati, Portland, Cleveland, etc.
She's also heard across Canada from British Columbia to Quebec and aournd the world in Lebanon, Dubai, Malta and more. Add another 800 stations with Premiere's "American Top 40 with Ryan Seacrest," over 150 more stations in the United Kingdom for "The Entertainment Edge with Ryan Seacrest" and don't forget the syndicated "Hot 30 Countdown" throughout Australia.
That's just the voice part… K3 is Clear Channel's Director of Imaging for National Programming Platforms while overseeing local imaging for KIIS FM and alternative 98-7 (KYSR), in Los Angeles. She's also voicing and imaging "On Air with Ryan Seacrest", syndicated on hundreds of more radio stations five days a week. So- if her voice seems a bit "bitchy" and "sarcastic"- It's not just an act: She's probably having a reeeeeeeeally busy day. …she's just sayin'.


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Lost my very good friend this morning, he had been battling luekemia for over a year and had just undergone a bone marrow transplant that was successful.
Unfortunately as he was recovering he got an infection and passed away this morning at 9.00.
He was only 19 and leaves behind a lot of friends and family.
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- Dec 3:
- Cosco Busan oil spill pilot grounded, will not get license back
- Jun 13:
- More oil washes up at Rodeo Beach
- May 3:
- Oil spill's environmental impact studied six months later
- May 3:
- County's oil spill cleanup tab: $600,000
- Jan 26:
- Public gets say on impact of Cosco Busan oil spill
- Nov 14:
- Oil spill: governor bans fishing in bay
- County: Worst likely over as oil spill cleanup continues
- Oil spill mop-up makes headway
- Nov 13:
- Bolinas works to protect lagoon from oil spill
- Site charts path of container ship
- No oil entered county's marine wilderness
- A group effort in care for oiled birds
- Nov 12:
- Oil spares Point Reyes, threatens southern coast - again
- Frustrated residents take on cleanup
- WildCare has its hands full after fuel spill
- Oyster farm closed after spill
- Nov 10:
- Massive cleanup effort: Flotilla tries to halt spread of oil
- Muir Beach man cited for cleaning beach
- Volunteers eager to help oily birds
- Seabirds mired in Marin slick
- Nov 9:
- Work to stem oil spill damage intensifies
- Marin's biggest oil-dumping nightmare came in 1971
- Oil spill leaves questions, contradictions
- Oil fouls Marin shores
- Marin businesses brace for impact along coast
- Nov 8:
- Fish wrap: Salmon arrive just in time for oil spill
U.S. Coast Guard Capt. William Uberti said Thursday that six emergency vessels from the Coast Guard and Marine Spill Response Corp. were on the scene within an hour after the 65,131-ton Cosco Busan hit the Bay Bridge at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, ripping a hole in its fuel tank.
But Segal Choski, director of programs at San Francisco BayKeeper, said her organization had a boat in the water at 3 p.m. Wednesday, "and there were no booms in the water near the Bay Bridge where the incident occurred."
She said when BayKeeper went out again the next day "there was a boom that showed up miraculously."
"Apparently the booms were not put in place when they should have been, where they should have been," Choski said. "Maybe the agencies were on the scene, but they certainly didn't take the actions they needed to."
Spokesmen for both the Coast Guard and the owners of the vessel that spilled the goo defended the speed of their response in a press conference at Rodeo Beach on Friday.
"Conditions were extremely foggy, and safety was our number one priority," said Barry McFarland, a spokesman for the O'Brien Group, a contractor that drafts emergency response plans.
The Coast Guard did not place an oil-restricting boom around the damaged ship after the spill because all remaining fuel had been transferred out of the shattered tank, McFarland said.
Choski said the BayKeeper boat searched for the container ship on Wednesday and was told that it had proceeded on to Treasure Island after hitting the bridge and then moved again to an anchorage south of the Bay Bridge across from the Potrero Hill power plant.
Choski said she spoke to officials with the state Office of Oil Spill Prevention and Response on Wednesday after learning that 58,000 gallons of fuel oil had spilled, not 140 gallons as first reported by the Coast Guard. BayKeeper is part of a task force the works closely with OSPR.
Choski said one OSPR official told her that communications between the Coast Guard and OSPR had broken down and that the Coast Guard had inappropriately left OSPR out of the loop.
The Coast Guard confirmed Thursday that it waited several hours before notifying the public after realizing that the spill was much larger than initially believed. The Coast Guard also showed confusion when it first said it had failed to test the bar pilot responsible for guiding the vessel into port for drugs and alcohol after the collision - then said, actually, it had.
The Office of Oil Spill Prevention was created by state legislation passed in 1990 on the heels of the Exxon Valdez spill, which dumped 11 million gallons of crude oil off the coast of Alaska. The Lempert-Keene-Seastrand Oil Spill Prevention and Response Act requires all oil tankers, as well as nontank vessels over 300 gross tons, to have state-approved oil spill contingency plans.
OSPR oversees these plans. It also is supposed to conduct unannounced drills to test the capabilities of the firms hired by ship owners or operators to clean up after spills.
Warner Chabot, vice president of the Ocean Conservancy, a San Francisco-based nonprofit, was one of the environmentalists who pushed hard for the drills. At the time, shipping companies were hiring the most inexpensive firms they could find to oversee their clean-ups, Chabot said.
"Companies that had few staff and resources were getting the contracts," Chabot said.
Hanjin Shipping, the South Korean company that chartered the Cosco Busan, contracted with the Marine Spill Response Corp. and the National Response Corp. to carry out its spill response plan.
Judith Norell, the Marine Spill Response Corp.'s vice president of marketing, declined to provide information about when her firm learned of the spill or when and how it responded.
"It's under investigation," Norell said.
The Marine Spill Response Corp. passed an unannounced drill conducted in San Pablo Bay on Aug. 21, said Mark McCaleb, an oil spill prevention specialist with the state Office of Oil Spill Prevention and Response.
Linda Sheehan, director of California Coastkeeper Alliance, a Fremont nonprofit, said the state agency carries out far too few unannounced drills. Sheehan said the office was promised more money and staff several years ago but never got it.
"The results of that is showing up now," Sheehan said.
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Fidel Santiago, CISA
In the world of audit the term "fraud or error" is widely used to refer to the misuse an authorized user may do to an enterprise's information resources. The term "fraud or error" avoids prejudging suspicious behavior by the enterprise's own users.
Security today is mainly focused on preventing access to an enterprise's resources by an external attacker, placing firewall, intrusion prevention systems or content gateways, with the aim to control and forbid the use of the enterprise's information. However, more than 60 percent of security incidents are originated by an employee or someone internal to the organization.1 CERT (Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Emergency Response Team) has created a group that specializes in internal threats2 to generate knowledge, best practices and awareness of this problem.
The traditional organization is a closed entity in which only a controlled number of users, mainly employees, interact with information systems. Today this scheme is changing and there are more external users who have legitimate access to computer systems of an enterprise, e.g., customers, citizens, partners and suppliers. Every organization is related to a growing ecosystem of stakeholders in the developing business. Customer relationship management (CRM) systems advocate a comprehensive relationship with a client, allowing direct access to information the company has about that client. If the enterprise implements supply chain management (SCM), it must also integrate its computer systems, and possibly its logistical systems, with its suppliers. Therefore, the new management techniques widely used today involve a larger number of actors interacting with an enterprise's information.
And in this time of change in the management model, which in turn affects an enterprise's information systems, the law requires ever greater controls on access and care about the information handled by each enterprise. This can be seen in regulations such as Spain's Organic Law on the Protection of Personal Data (LOPD), the US Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Basel II and the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS). Enterprises must adapt their information technology to carry out these legal and policy requirements with minimal impact on their operations.
For all this, the enterprise must implement a strong control over the access to its information— from a reactive point of view, in the worst case, and preventive whenever possible.
The first solution is to develop identity and access management (IAM) to control the access to information resources from a policy of "least privilege" and "need to know," so users can access the enterprise's systems and obtain the minimum information needed to conduct their task. However, this approach does not prevent the acts of misuse that users may do on the information to which their access is allowed. Complementary to IAM is information leakage detection and prevention (ILDP). Thanks to ILDP, enterprises can detect and prevent the leakage of information. With ILDP, network sniffers and desktop agents are used to detect and halt any possible improper transfer of information and implement security policies that minimize the likelihood of this happening.
These security technologies enable enterprises to control access to information and prevent theft of the same. However, there is still a risk to consider: the possibility of an authorized user conducting fraudulent transactions. There are countless examples of such cases around the world. The user has access to only the information resources and operations necessary to fulfill his/her tasks and is not doing any improper transfer of information. The solutions described so far do not protect against this scenario. For such a scenario, a leap must be taken toward user-tracking behavior. Applying developments related to artificial intelligence, an enterprise can monitor user behavior beyond operations to build a complete profile of both permitted and forbidden activities. With this approach to risk, enterprises can monitor the actions of individual users to identify and justify anomalous behavior and thoroughly manage access to its information resources.
Enterprises are constantly improving their protection of their systems from external assault by malicious agents, but forget or overlook the potential of internal and unprotected systems from their own internal users, relying on a certain unsubstantiated confidence in their internal agents. Unfortunately, statistics show that such confidence is not always justified.
1 Yachin, Dan; Combating Insider Threats: The Applicationlevel User Behavior Tracking Approach, IDC, April 20062 CERT, Insider Threat Research web page, Carnegie Mellon University, www.cert.org/insider_threat/
Fidel Santiago, CISAis security product manager at Bahía IT.
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Child abuse cases skyrocket
Published: Wednesday | May 27, 2009
Preliminary data indicate that with seven months left in 2009, reports to the registry are closing in on the total for all of last year. There have been close to 3,000 reports of child abuse so far in 2009, compared with 3,784 last year. The 2008 figure was a dramatic increase over the 2007 figure of 425 reports.
However, the increases do not necessarily signal a rise in the incidence of child abuse but might reflect an increased willingness by Jamaicans to blow the cover on offending parties.
"We have been meeting with stakeholders and making them aware of their legal responsibility to report, if they know or suspect that a child is being abused, and probably persons are just recognising that it is their civic responsibility and that we all have a part to play in protecting the nation's children," said Carla Edie, registrar at the Office of the Children's Registry.
Increase efficiency
The surge in reports has prompted the agency to increase its efficiency in tracking data related to child abuse by introducing a case management system and engaging the services of statisticians. Edie told the Jamaica Information Service the statis-ticians will help the agency analyse data and make projections.
"Based on the information that we get, we will be able to identify trends, what kinds of services are needed to address the issues facing the children and their families," she elaborated.
Employment of statisticians will also be accompanied by the introduction of a case management system, which will organise the reports and updates that the registry receives.
"So if somebody calls to say 'How many children in the year 2008, between the ages five to six, were sexually abused?' very easily we'll be able to generate that kind of information," she said.
The Office of the Children's Registry has been in existence since January 1, 2007. It was established to receive, record and store data on the maltreatment of Jamaica's children, in keeping with the Child Care and Protection Act. The act, passed by Parliament in 2004, places responsibility on all Jamaicans to report all types of child abuse, whether suspected or already happening. A person can be fined $500,000 or sentenced to six months' imprisonment, or both, for failing to make a report.
Edie said many of the cases probed by the registry have been due to mandatory reporters. These are persons who, because of their profession, are particularly required, by law, to report child abuse. This group includes physicians, nurses, dentists, other health professionals, hospital administrators, operators and employees of day-care centres, guidance counsellors, teachers and school principals. Of the 3,784 reports for 2008, roughly 2,000 were made by prescribed reporters.
Most common complaints
Incidents of sexual abuse, physical abuse, emotional abuse, incest and neglect are among the most common complaints.
"There are also those children who are in need of care and protection. Children who have parents, but their parents are unfit. The children are probably falling into bad associations, which means that they are probably becoming a part of gangs. Children who exhibit behavioural problems, so their parents have reached a point where they can no longer control them," the registrar said.
Edie says most of the reports received are from Kingston and St Andrew, though she did not provide specific data.
While the registry receives reports and records them, it does not carry out investigations. Reports are usually referred to one of two service partners - the Office of the Children's Advocate or the Child Development Agency.
The registrar said she is convinced that the number of reported incest cases are far below the true level of occurrence in Jamaica.
"Persons never want to 'disgrace' the family, so it's kept a secret and people suffer sometimes for years under that kind of abuse," she said. She added that incest in some communities was prevalent.
Just over a week ago, The Gleaner broke an exclusive story about three of four sisters who have taken their dad to court for years of alleged sexual abuse. Some of the incidents date back more than four decades ago.
Contact information
Reports can be made to the Registry by calling 1-888-PROTECT or 908-2132 or 878-2882 or 822-7031, Mondays to Sundays, between 7 a.m. and 11 p.m. Reporting forms are also available at the Children's Registry or CDA offices islandwide, which persons can fill out and submit to the Office of the Children's Registry at 12 Carlton Crescent, Kingston 10. These reports can also be faxed to 908-2579 or emailed to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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22 The Lord spoke to Moses: | 22 Then the LORD said to Moses, |
23 Take the finest spices: of liquid myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet-smelling cinnamon half as much, that is, two hundred fifty, and two hundred fifty of aromatic cane, | 23 "Take the following fine spices: 500 shekels of liquid myrrh, half as much (that is, 250 shekels) of fragrant cinnamon, 250 shekels of fragrant cane, |
24 and five hundred of cassia—measured by the sanctuary shekel—and a hin of olive oil; | 24 500 shekels of cassia--all according to the sanctuary shekel--and a hin of olive oil. |
25 and you shall make of these a sacred anointing oil blended as by the perfumer; it shall be a holy anointing oil. | 25 Make these into a sacred anointing oil, a fragrant blend, the work of a perfumer. It will be the sacred anointing oil. |
26 With it you shall anoint the tent of meeting and the ark of the covenant, | 26 Then use it to anoint the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the Testimony, |
27 and the table and all its utensils, and the lampstand and its utensils, and the altar of incense, | 27 the table and all its articles, the lampstand and its accessories, the altar of incense, |
28 and the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the basin with its stand; | 28 the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and the basin with its stand. |
29 you shall consecrate them, so that they may be most holy; whatever touches them will become holy. | 29 You shall consecrate them so they will be most holy, and whatever touches them will be holy. |
30 You shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, in order that they may serve me as priests. | 30 "Anoint Aaron and his sons and consecrate them so they may serve me as priests. |
31 You shall say to the Israelites, "This shall be my holy anointing oil throughout your generations. | 31 Say to the Israelites, 'This is to be my sacred anointing oil for the generations to come. |
32 It shall not be used in any ordinary anointing of the body, and you shall make no other like it in composition; it is holy, and it shall be holy to you. | 32 Do not pour it on men's bodies and do not make any oil with the same formula. It is sacred, and you are to consider it sacred. |
33 Whoever compounds any like it or whoever puts any of it on an unqualified person shall be cut off from the people." | 33 Whoever makes perfume like it and whoever puts it on anyone other than a priest must be cut off from his people.' " |
34 The Lord said to Moses: Take sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum, sweet spices with pure frankincense (an equal part of each), | 34 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Take fragrant spices--gum resin, onycha and galbanum--and pure frankincense, all in equal amounts, |
35 and make an incense blended as by the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy; | 35 and make a fragrant blend of incense, the work of a perfumer. It is to be salted and pure and sacred. |
36 and you shall beat some of it into powder, and put part of it before the covenant in the tent of meeting where I shall meet with you; it shall be for you most holy. | 36 Grind some of it to powder and place it in front of the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting, where I will meet with you. It shall be most holy to you. |
37 When you make incense according to this composition, you shall not make it for yourselves; it shall be regarded by you as holy to the Lord. | 37 Do not make any incense with this formula for yourselves; consider it holy to the LORD. |
38 Whoever makes any like it to use as perfume shall be cut off from the people. | 38 Whoever makes any like it to enjoy its fragrance must be cut off from his people." |
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BUSS4 Exam Prep. Making Connections to Achieve 5 Levels of Analysis
In preparation for June 18th, my class and I did the follow PowerPoint activity which focuses on planning and analysis.
The premise is simple; the BUSS4 questions invariably ask students to analyse the causal relationship between 2 concepts, such as "does strong leadership lead to a successful business?" or "Is targeting emerging markets the best way to improve profit?". Students therefore have to fill in the blanks and make the connections between these two concepts to achieve good analysis. More importantly, in doing so it forces students to answer the questions set without digression, deviation or departure from the subject.
The first example is given to get the ball rolling. There are 8 questions and some blank templates below to add additional questions. In terms of differentiation (if you like that sort of thing), they can obviously be made easier or more difficult by taking away or adding some "blanks", and a natural extension strategy would be for students to then add a paragraph of application to support the answer.
I sincerely hope it helps and wish you all the very best for the upcoming exams.
Exam Technique Classic: Evaluation in 2 Words
It all started when one of my A2 students asked me today: "How do you get full marks for evaluation?" in relation to a BUSS3 Question 4 (the 34 marker)
It can be summed up in 2 words:
(Just a note that the examples given are BUSS3 related but could be applied to any evaluation question in BUSS1 or 2 also)
read more...»Replicating the stress of an exam to show the importance of planning.
"If I had 8 hours to cut down a tree, I'd spend 6 hours sharpening my axe"
Abraham Lincoln
"The battle is won before the battle is fought"
Sun Tzu
"Time spent thinking about how to approach a particular question and ensuring the response stays focused is time well spent"
AQA Business Studies Moderator
Despite these wise words, it would appear, based on in-depth research from my classes and the 1000s of A2 students from the BUSS4 Revision workshops, that most students do not spend time planning their answers. Their reason is invariably "I don't have time".
To dispel this myth I did the following; I asked a student to stand at the front of the class and gave him 30 seconds to answer an on-the-spot business studies question "Analyse the benefits of operating in niche market". After lots of nervous umming-and-ahhing, the brave students managed to score one mark before the time was up.
I then gave him 30 seconds to plan an answer to the same question. He came back strong and gave a fantastic 6 mark answer! Conclusive, empirical, irrefutable evidence (sort of) that a small amount of time invested in planning in the short term will reap great benefits in the long term.
I wish you all the very best for the next month!
BAD Application by Michael Jackson
My students often struggle to fully apply their knowledge to the case, so to demonstrate the importance of application, I do the following:
1) Set up the YouTube clip of Michael Jackson's Smooth Criminal with volume DOWN to zero. (If, understandably, you're not a fan of MJ, choose another music video in which they dance in time to the music).
2) On another webpage, set up the YouTube clip of Michael Jackson's BAD with volume UP.
3) Show the silent Smooth Criminal video whilst playing the Bad song.
4) Ask students what the problem is.
They soon realise that it doesn't quite "go". I play the video with music as it was intended and ask how this links to their exam answers. The most perfect answer I've had is "it doesn't matter how well you "dance", you have to dance to the tune of the case study"!
Revision Party!
It's that time of year again when Year 11 mock exams are fast approaching and every subject in school is getting the pupils to revise, so after seeing various twitter posts about revision parties I decided to host one myself! With a £10 budget I set off to my local supermarket in search of party essentials and it has been the best £10 I have spent in a long time!
read more...»The view from the other side of the desk
I've been teaching Business for some years now. But I don't have any qualifications in the subject (my background is Economics). So this year, I thought it'd be fun to take my Business A-level. I'm getting sponsored within school on a per-mark basis with the proceeds going to a project the school is linked with in Ghana, but besides that worthy cause it's been a real eye-opener to be there in the thick of it with the students. With one exam to go, tomorrow, I thought I'd put up some thoughts on how its gone so far...
read more...»BUSS4 Exam Technique - The Basics of PEEL
In our exam preparation workshops, we coach students to develop their essay writing technique by using a series of approaches which help students write relevant answers to the required depth of application, analysis and evaluation.
A core part of that approach is the PEEL technique for writing powerful paragraph points. PEEL is a particularly powerful approach because it allows students to reach the highest levels of application (good application) and analysis (good analysis) in just one well-developed and argued paragraph point.
Here's a key-point summary of the PEEL method.
read more...»BUSS4 Section B - Prepare for Hybrid Essay Questions
I've been taking a close look through our AQA BUSS4 Topic Tracker to get a feel for how the Section B essay titles have been selected and structured in recent papers (and since the current spec was introduced). There is a clear progression in the style of the Section B essays and I suspect this has important implications for students refining their exam technique. I've jotted down a few thoughts about this below.
read more...»BUSS4: Don't be a Story-teller – Be an Expert Pundit
Ronnie Corbett is a superb story-teller. Once he begins, you can sit back, relax and allow the story to unwind, step by step. His stories ramble on and on…and on. Each story is filled with superfluous details, with Corbett easily side-tracked by related memories and very slowly getting to the point. Eventually you get to the punch line, but it's the journey or story that mattered.
Corbett's method of story-telling neatly sums up the approach taken by too many BUSS4 students in their use of evidence and examples in their essays.
read more...»What is evaluation?
I cant take credit for this fantastic, student friendly explanation of what evaluation is. It was sent to me by David Thresher, Trinity School, Croydon. Certainly worth reading!
read more...»Making the most of Edexcel ResultsPlus- updated for Jan 2013
Read on to find out how to print out individual grade reports for all your students using the complete results spreadsheet you can download from ResultsPlus
Extending student reading with the Institute of Directors
The Institute of Directors produces a regular magazine for its members, which includes lots of articles and snippets that students might enjoy. Great reading for all students, particularly those taking A2 modules
that require them to get a feel for decision-making, and involved in
that all-important independent research. Just take a look at the items highlighted on the cover of the November edition: Turn Your Business into a Great Brand, The Collaboration Game - are your teamwork skills up to the job?, Setting up in Brazil, Why we need more Engineers in Government, and the key-note article is an interview with Sir Stuart Rose about strategy, self-doubt and why business must embrace change. There are also articles on apprenticeship schemes, the Guardian Small Business Network, the effects of the US election result for business, start-up funding for young entrepreneurs and the secrets of success of winners of the 2012 Directors of the Year, as well as lots of mini interviews and items that give a feel for every aspect of running a business.
There's More Than One Right Answer: Ownership
This mini case study activity deals with the subject matter of ownership status but is more focussed on developing students skills at writing answers for Business Studies and demonstrating that business is not an exact science.
BUSS4 in June 2012: An Examiner's Perspective
Many teaching collagues who read the Business Studies Blog prepared their students for the AQA BUSS4 exam in June 2012. We've been sent this perspective from a BUSS4 examiner who has kindly agreed to pass on feedback about his/her experience of marking BUSS4 this summer. For obvious reasons, the examiner has asked to remain anonymous.
read more...»Plan your BUSS4 Essay!
How and why to plan your essays in BUSS4
read more...»Four ways to make your BUSS3 exam answers stand out
Every student sitting BUSS3 gets to answer the same four questions based on the same case study. Everyone gets the same time allocation. When the examiner starts marking scripts many answers will be similar; relatively few will stand out in terms of the quality of analysis and evaluation. So how can you make yours one of the stand-out scripts?
read more...»AQA A3 Business BUSS3 Online Revision Clinic - 12 June 2012
The tutor2u Business Studies team will be available on Tuesday 12 June 2012 to provide personalised revision support for students taking the AQA BUSS3 exam on 14 June. Our free online revision clinic will start at 9 p.m. and last for an hour. Students who wish to add their questions during the clinic need to login using their FB, Twitter or OpenID account.
read more...»A2 Evaluation - Read the Question!
Along with 'show your working', I vividly remember my own teachers writing 'RTQ' or 'Read the question!' on my work in red ink.
This simple and important advice is often overlooked of course. It is more important than ever in A2 essay questions in Economics and in Business Studies.
read more...»BUSS4 Exam Technique - Sniper or Machine Gunner?
One of the major difficulties with the BUSS4 paper is managing time effectively. Students- understandably under pressure- regularly neglect to take the time to understand the question before they start writing. They are unsure how best to address the essay and so try to reproduce their text book, hoping that some of their knowledge will hit the target. Another error from those who have learned the syllabus, and/or built up a vast portfolio of information on the research theme, often feel obliged to 'show off' in the exam room. Rather than scoring highly, however, their essays tend to read like a list of bullet points, interspersed with 'stories' about businesses they have studied.
read more...»BUSS4 - Keep Calm and Carry On…
Preparing for the BUSS4 exam involves getting yourself right mentally. Many students underestimate the influence that attitude has in determining how well they perform. They focus on learning terminology and concepts and on building a research file but don't spend enough time getting their psychological approach right. Here are some thoughts on how you can into the right frame of mind to do your best in BUSS4.
read more...»BUSS4 Exam Technique: Decisions, Decisions…How to Choose an Essay
BUSS4 students have a difficult decision when choosing which essay to answer from the two options in Section A (research theme) and the three in Section B. I have devised a list of questions that students can use to help with this difficult decision:
read more...»BUSS2 Exam Technique: Analysis – Limited, Reasonable or Good?
Having marked quite a few BUSS2 responses, it seems students have begun to get the message about application but are falling short on analysis. Frequently, they identify a relevant point but just describe it, failing to explain how or why their point is addressing the question. In the majority of questions, it is essential to explain how the course of action being described might affect business results.
read more...»Exam technique: Adding context to exam answers
A selection of headlines in the last 24 hours of this blog entry helps make this simple point - use real life business examples to help develop the strength and depth of business exam answers….
read more...»Exam technique: Can you compete under pressure?
The BBC has a study under way to analyse the psychology of pressure, which will offer "...a new look at why some people are particularly prone to pressure, while others cope rather well." Not surprisingly, with a launch at this time of year, the introduction to it focuses on exam pressure, and relates it to the pressure faced by athletes and others who have to perform to their best at a set time and under set conditions. The comparison is a good one; facing your A level exams means that all of the work you have done in the last two years comes down to how well you can perform in just two hours or so in the exam room.
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Here is a little exercise I have done with my AS Business groups this week. When trying to help with the longer essay questions, split the class into groups and and have them practice how to make a judgement for each essay question. I am using this for the OCR F292 Case Study of TSL. You can have one person in each group as the prosecution stating why they have made one certain judgement and then have another person acting as the defence stating why they think it should be a different outcome. The teacher can role play as 'The Judge' for the first exercise show the class what is expected.
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This is the first in a series of practice 9-mark questions for AQA GCSE Business Studies Unit 2. This one is on Kingfisher Caravan Parks Ltd.
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One of the key themes that teachers mentioned at the recent AQA GCSE Revision Conference in Stratford last week was the 9 mark question(s) and how students really feared them.
read more...»Developing Exam Skills: AQA GCSE Business Studies: Definitions and Accessing the Higher Marks
I wrote a blog recently based on ways for students to tackle the 9 mark questions in the AQA GCSE Business Exam. My blog was based around information from the Unit 1 Examiners report.
read more...»Developing Exam Skills: AQA GCSE Business Studies: Application
One area that students struggle with time and time again is the key skill of application and this was highlighted in the examiners report from the last Unit 2 exam sat in June.
read more...»Developing Exam Skills: BUSS2: Lessons Learnt from January
As BUSS2 approaches fast, what can we learn from Januarys exam?
read more...»BUSS4: The Seven Point Scale for Perfect Paragraphs
This is an idea I've developed following the recent tutor2u BUSS4 revision workshops for marking and feeding back to students when building essay skills. Like many of my A2 Business-teaching counterparts, I spent a large proportion of the Easter break marking BUSS4 mock essays. In a bid to help my students develop their paragraph writing skills, I made a note of the common areas for improvement and summarised them into seven key points for writing the 'perfect' paragraph:
read more...»Developing Exam Skills: Analysis: The Snoozatron
This is a 'cracking' little video that I used with my students to talk about analysis.
read more...»Effective evaluation for A2 business: the "halo effect"
The most important skill that candidates need to show off in their AS/A2 exams is an ability to effectively evaluate. Evaluation statements put candidates in the top mark band on most of the bigger questions.
For this reason, I'm always on the lookout for ways in which the quality of evaluation in student responses can be improved. When I was reading at the weekend I came across a new term (for me, anyway) that I thought would be worth adding to my list of tips – a so-called 'halo effect'.
read more...»Developing Exam Skills: It depends on how you use "it depends"
"It depends on". Three little words that allow students to reach higher levels of evaluation. However, the extent to which the use of these 3 words allows a student to achieve higher levels of evaluation really depends on how they use it.
read more...»Developing Exam Skills: Answer what you are asked!
I've blogged about this before but it is worth mentioning again as we approach what I like to call, the 'business end' of the academic year - exam season.
read more...»Evaluation in business essays? Its just like going on a date…
Maybe Paul McKenna should park his recent focus on helping people using neuro-linguistic programming and turn his hand instead to being a business studies teacher?
In a recent interview on the Steve Wright Show (BBC Radio 2) McKenna explained the concept of evaluation, first making reference to some well known entrepreneurs and then using the example of being asked out on a date…
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maybe you can try the "start up repair" option from your disc to fix your boot. If that works you can probably restore in win 7 itself. You need to do the start up repair action at least 3 or 4 times because it fixes only one problem at the time (MBR, bootmgr, boot folder). It can also be fixed in one cycle if you're lucky. Do you have a black screen when you boot? Check this tutorial for more info:
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one taken in war. Captives were often treated with great cruelty and indignity ( 1 Kings 20:32 ; Joshua 10:24 ; Judges 1:7 ; 2 Sam. 4:12 ; Judges 8:7 ; 2 Sam 12:31 ; 1 Chronicles 20:3 ). When a city was taken by assault, all the men were slain, and the women and children carried away captive and sold as slaves ( Isaiah 20 ; 47:3 ; 2 Chr 28:9-15 ; Psalms 44:12 ; Joel 3:3 ), and exposed to the most cruel treatment ( Nahum 3:10 ; Zechariah 14:2 ; Esther 3:13 ; 2 Kings 8:12 ; Isaiah 13:16 Isaiah 13:18 ). Captives were sometimes carried away into foreign countries, as was the case with the Jews ( Jeremiah 20:5 ; Jeremiah 39:9 Jeremiah 39:10 ; 40:7 ).
A prisoner of war. Such were usually treated with great cruelty by the heathen nations. They were kept for slaves, and often sold; but this was a modification of the ancient cruelty, and a substitute for putting them to death Although the treatment of captives by the Jews seems sometimes to be cruel, it was very much milder than that of the heathen, and was mitigated, as far as possible in the circumstances, by their civil code.
kap'-tiv (shebhi, galah; aichmalotos and its derivatives):
The frequent references in the Old Testament to captives as men forcibly deported (from the Hebrew root shabhah) or inhabiting a land foreign to them (from Hebrew galah) reflect the universal practice of the ancient world. The treatment of captives was sometimes barbarous (2 Samuel 8:2) but not always so (2 Kings 6:21,22).
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Except in Job 42:10 the figurative use of the idea is confined to the New Testament, where reference is made to the triumphal reign of the Lord Jesus (Luke 4:18; Ephesians 4:8), or, on the other hand, to the power of the devil (2 Timothy 2:26), or of false teachers (2 Timothy 3:6); compare also Romans 7:23; 2 Corinthians 10:5.
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i used to have a huge crush on some guy at school and i confronted him over last summer. i knew he was gay so there shouldn't be any awkwardness but he began to avoid me and i got the hint. he obviously had no interest in me. at first it was really hard accepting the fact we could not be together.
after the summer had ended he came back from some "jesus convention" (sorry for putting it like that i just really dont know what to call it) and he was telling people god did not want him to be gay. after that it became extremely easy to let go seeing as how the person had changed into something he was completely not.
though after all this i may not want to be with him anymore but i do want him to be happy. ive tried sending him some journals from this site that are so moving and relatable to his situation. but he ignores them. i dont want him to be himself again for me. i just want him to be himself again so that he can be happy again. if only he could understand that.
on top of all this i try to help all my friends with their issues. some i can help some i cant. some i just dont even want to talk to cause the problems are so petty. i just wish i could stop being the counselor and finally get some of my own help.
i know how that is, thinking god despises you for being gay. it sucks. i really hope the guy figures that. cuase i was misareable till i did. :/
"A loving man and woman in a committed relationship can marry. Dogs, no matter what their relationship, are not allowed to marry. How should society treat gays and lesbians in committed relationships? As dogs or as humans?"
I don't like that. I don't care how religious you are, there's no justification for telling kids that god hates them as they are, and that they should change something about themselves which is impossible to change. :/
There are plenty of religious figures that are plenty accepting; religion isn't an excuse.
But anyway, I get what you're saying, it's hard when you want to help someone so that they can be happy, but they reject any help you try to give them. I know what that's like. :[
I hope he comes around, for him. It's really sad to see that. He should feel okay with who he is, not like he has to disguise/repress/change it.


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Blocking protocols at Layer 7 with the L7 patch
If you need a tool for filtering protocols that doesn't depend on the port, try L7, an IPTables patch that operates through regular expressions.
Traditional firewalls decide whether to allow or reject packets based on IP addresses, TCP flags, MAC addresses, ports, and other criteria that reside in OSI layers two through four. Experienced admins can probably type commands like iptables -A FORWARD -i $IF -o $OF -p tcp --dport 80 --syn -j ACCEPT standing on their heads. But what if the web server listens on port 8500 rather than port 80? Or if a gaming server misuses this port? Peer-to-peer applications are even worse, as there is no way of predicting the ports they will use. And VoIP makes the chaos complete with Real Time Protocol (RTP), which definitely takes liberties when assigning UDP ports.
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