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Do you have a New Years Resolution?
For 2013, I thought that it was time I got out into the Great British countryside and saw more wildlife. So here's my selection of 13 wonderful wildlife sights for 2013. Some you can see from your garden, some require a bit more effort, but let's make 13 our lucky number this year. Fancy joining me?
1. Watch red deer rutting
Ok, so you have to wait until autumn for this one. But it's worth it as the testosterone-fuelled stags bellow and battle it out for the ladies. Top spots are the Highlands and islands of Scotland, Richmond Park in London and Exmoor.
The deep bellow of a male red deer is somewhat primeval, as is the rutting itself. It's nature laid bare: the dominant stag will stop at nothing to protect his harem of females from challengers, ensuring that he is the father of next year's calves. Essential viewing for 2013!
2. Lose yourself in a bluebell wood
Quintessentially British, the springtime spectacle of bluebells has inspired poets for generations. But whether you're planning on penning a lyrical ode to bluebells or not, a trip to a bluebell wood in early spring is a trip worth taking. The timing depends on the good old British weather, but it says spring is here to me.
3. Take a closer peek at your garden birds
How often to you stop and look at the birds in your garden? They're always there, aren't they? The robins, blue tits and blackbirds, but do you actually watch them? Why not make 2013 the year you really get to know your garden birds. The best thing about this is that, unlike some of the others on my list, you don't have to leave your house!
And don't forget Big Garden Birdwatch is here on January 26/27, so remember to count your birds over the big weekend!
4. Watch pink-footed geese wake up
Getting up early and heading to a cold saltmarsh whilst it's still dark may not sound like fun, but hear me out. Wrap up warm and you'll get to watch tens of thousands of pinkies erupt from the mud as one and head inland in long Vs like invading bomber squadrons. I'm an avid fan, so there is no way this spectacle was going to be missing from the list! The only way to top it is finishing up in a local cafe for a cooked breakfast. Birds and breakfast? Heaven!
5. Stare skywards at screaming swifts
Swifts are wonderful birds. Quick, mysterious and enigmatic, they join us for just a few short months in summer to raise their chicks. Like our garden birds, they're always around during summer, so perhaps we tend not to look too hard at them. This year, I'm making an effort. After all, they're not here for long, so when you spot one on a summer evening, stop. Look up and watch these scythe-shaped masters of the skies screaming past. It's worth it, trust me.
6. See a starling murmuration
OK, this is a real classic of British wildlife watching, and you may have seen it all before. But so what? The sight of thousands, even millions of these thrush-sized birds swooping and swirling as one above a reedbed is something else. It's amazing, it's awe-inspiring, it makes me want to leap up and exclaim just how wonderful nature is. So that's why it makes my list!
7. Keep an eye out for butterflies
Another easy one. You can attract many species such as peacocks, red admirals and commas to your garden. Visit a nectar-rich summer meadow and you're bound to catch sight of butterflies.
Take a closer look at these fragile little critters – they're a lot more than just bird food! If you like your butterflies more elusive, head to woodlands in Southern England from mid-June to mid-August and maybe you'll get an audience with the holy grail of UK butterflies - the purple emperor. Or for my favourite, head to Norfolk. Strumpshaw Fen is a good spot for the Britain's largest butterfly, the swallowtail.
8. Listen to the dawn chorus
As the sun rises on a still day in early May, I'll visit a scrub patch near my Bedfordshire home and listen out for mellow blackbirds, scratchy whitethroats and hopefully purring turtle doves. It's only a little scrub patch, but the song is uplifting and reminds me that British summer time is great! The choir of warblers have made the effort to come all the way from Africa, so the least we can do is go and listen to it! And then you can return to your warm duvet. I promise.
9. Be seduced by seal pups
With the UK's resident seal species giving birth at different times, you have two bites of the cherry here! Our common seals pup in summer, and greys during the winter. Take a trip out to somewhere like Blakeney point in Norfolk during summer and you'll see plenty of seals, including the newborn pups as they stare inquisitively at us with those big eyes. Greys pup from October through to November, often in inhospitable places. But you can get up close to them on the windswept sands of Horsey in Norfolk, and Donna Nook in Lincolnshire.
10. Watch an osprey soap opera
A staggering success story, ospreys only returned to breed in the UK in 1959. Since then they've spread out through Scotland, into Wales, and Cumbria. Thanks to a reintroduction scheme they also returned to the English Midlands.
However, Loch Garten in the Highlands is the first place these long-distance migrants came back to. Here you can watch the adults as they scour the lochs for tasty trout, the perfect meal for their boisterous youngsters, which you can see on the nest. However, you don't need to hotfoot it to the Highlands, as you can follow the annual soap opera via our webcam. The female will be back in late March, with the chicks hatching out in May/June. So stay tuned!
11. Go whale watching
My first (and so far only!) UK whale encounter came when I was 10. I sat with my family at Ardnamurchan point, the most westerly point on the UK mainland. As the sun went down, covering my world in gold rays, the long black back of a minke whale broke the still surface of the sea. It stayed for a few minutes, and then was gone. The west coast of Scotland, and the Isles of Mull and Skye in particular, are fast becoming the tourist hotspots for UK whale watching, so a trip there from mid-June to the end of September gives you a great chance of seeing these giants of the deep.
12. Visit a seabird colony
It's summer, and the sun is shining in cloudless, azure skies. What better than a trip to see the UK's famous seabird colonies? Nothing prepares you for the sight, the noise and the smell of thousands of seabirds coming together on our cliffs to raise their young. It's a cacophony, and they all have their place. Kittiwakes scream their name, razorbills and guillemots bicker, gannets patrol the cliffs, and you might even spot some puffins too. Bempton Cliffs in East Yorkshire is home to a spectacular seabird city, but there are plenty of others.
13. Spend a summer with dragons and damsels
Take a summer stroll alongside a lake, river or canal and look for the jewels of UK summertime: dragonflies and damselflies. Even if you can't identify them, you can appreciate their beauty, from dainty demoiselles up to the Emperor himself.
What do you think?
So there you have it, my 13 for 2013. Although I have to say that picking just 13 was incredibly tough! There's just so much good wildlife in the UK. Here's some that just missed out:
Watching kingfishers fishing, hares boxing, sunsets, badgers and glow worms.
What do you think? Are there any that I've missed out? What makes it onto your list of wildlife to see this year? Leave a comment below and let me know.
Thanks for your comments guys. Noc - Waxwings, yes certainly on a lot of people's list! Definitely keep an eye out for them, as there's a fair few knocking about at the moment. Lynn - good to hear that you've already got the geese and the starlings! It was really tough to narrow the list down to 13, initially I had it at around 30. There's so much good wildlife in the UK, but is there anything else missing?
Hi Kevin as above thank you for your list . My partner and I go beach fishing or sea wall fishing and we have seen many oyster catchers and sea birds flying low across the bay .
this year and yesterday we saw the geese flying over the mussel beds lots of starlings too.
By my partner's home there is a large park where we have robins blue tits and other birds flying around . This year I will be taking more notice of the beach and park land .
Hi Kevin, thank you very much for your list; I've saved it and I'll follow your suggestions during the year. In my personal list there are also waxwings, just because I've never seen any, and otters!


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You need to account for the costs of the goods you sell in your business. However, even if you are involved with only a few types of products, you may pay different prices for the same item when you make purchases at different times. When you sell large quantities of goods, keeping track of how much you paid for a particular item will be particularly hard.
FIFO Purpose
FIFO stands for first in, first out, which is an accounting method used to track the costs of goods sold. For companies that use the FIFO method, instead of trying to determine exactly which good was sold and how much was paid, the company simply treats it as if the first-purchased item was sold. For example, if a shoe store bought 50 pairs of shoe A for $22 each and later purchased 100 more for $21 each, when the first pair of shoe A is sold, the company automatically treats it as if the shoe was one of the first 50 purchased and assigns a cost of goods sold of $22 for the transaction. Once 50 pairs have been sold, the cost per shoe changes to $21.
For most companies, the FIFO method most accurately represents the company's costs of goods sold. For example, most companies stock their shelves with products purchased least recently. This means that the FIFO method more accurately reports the company's profits. However, if your company sells goods that go bad, it may not be as accurate. For example, customers in a grocery store are likely to take the most recently purchased goods rather than older goods.
The downside to using the FIFO method comes mainly for tax purposes. In general, the costs of goods rise over time. For example, if your company purchases steel for use in production, the steel that you purchase this month might cost more than the steel you purchased a year ago. With the FIFO method, you use up the older -- and typically least-costly -- inventory first, so your profits are higher, which means you have more taxable income.
The two main alternatives to the FIFO method for figuring the costs of goods sold are the last in, first out (LIFO) method and the cost averaging method. The LIFO method works in the opposite manner as the FIFO method in that the cost of the most recent purchase is used. For example, if your company recently paid $100 per pound of iron, even if you had older iron inventory you bought for $80, you would use the $100 iron first. The cost averaging method calculates the average price paid for your entire inventory to figure how much to attribute to costs of goods sold.
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Metalforming companies surveyed expect a slight uptick in business conditions during the next three months--a somewhat more optimistic outlook than the previous report. That's according to theJuly 2012 Precision Metalforming Association (PMA) Business Conditions Report, released earlier this week.
Following are a few key findings from the report:
"While there is a growing level of uncertainty among many in the metalforming industry, business conditions remain generally positive, with approximately 70 percent reporting orders and shipments will be the same or higher for the period ahead," said William E. Gaskin, PMA president. "Economic uncertainties in Europe, slower growth in Asia and political gridlock in the United States are not positive indicators. However, PMA's member companies have experienced 11 percent growth in orders and 10 percent higher shipments for the first half of 2012. There continues to be strong demand for hiring skilled workers, which are in short supply in most areas of the country." The full July PMA Monthly Business Conditions Report is available online.


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(July 25, 2013) It's every parent's worst nightmare: You turn around for one second and your child is gone. The fear associated with this scenario increases when your child is autistic, prone to wandering and doesn't always know the way home.
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Circa 1935 Mordecai Brown Signed Business Card
Starting Bid - $200.00, Sold For - $2,115.00
Texaco business card signed in blue fountain pen by Hall of Fame pitcher Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown. The front of the fold-over style business card features Brown's printed name (including his famous "Three Finger" nickname) and has been signed by him directly below ("9"). This card was almost certainly signed during the mid 1930s, at which time Brown was the proprietor of a Texaco service station in Terre Haute, Indiana. What is all the more interesting about the card is that the text on the interior (the fold-over style allows the card to open like a two page book) makes prominent note of his former Cubs teammates, the famed double-play trio of Tinker to Evers to Chance. Brown promotes his station on the interior of the card by stating "You are cordially invited to visit my Super-Service Station, where the combination of Fire-Chief Gasoline, Havoline Motor Oil Waxfree and Marfak Lubrication is just as fast as the old combination of TINKER to EVERS to CHANCE." Mordecai Brown, of course, was one of the finest pitchers of his era, leading the Cubs to four pennants and two World Championships between the years 1904 and 1912. He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1949, one year after his death. The business card (3.75 x 2.25 inches) displays toning on both the front and back, light surface wear, and tears and paper loss to the reverse. Technically in Good condition; however, nearly all of the defects are along the reverse and do not detract from its extraordinary display value. This is a fascinating example of a rare Hall of Fame signature consigned from the personal collection of one of the most legendary early autograph collectors in the field. LOA from James Spence/JSA. Reserve $200. Estimate $400/$600. SOLD FOR $2,115.00
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1967 Bob Gibson All-Star Game Pro-Model Bat - Highest Graded Example!
Starting Bid - $1,000.00 , Sold For - $3,231.25
Rare H&B block-letter model "W212" bat specially produced and issued to St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Gibson for use in the 1967 All-Star Game in Anaheim. Graded A10 by MEARS.
All-Star bats, like World Series bats, are favorites with collectors both because each is specifically made for use in a special game(s), and because each can be dated to a very specific year. Ideally, this bat was originally obtained directly from Bob Gibson, who, a few years ago, sold nearly all of his personal baseball memorabilia. The fact that Bob Gibson parted with the few pro-model bats he had in his collection in no way discounts their rarity. Years back, literally dozens of Killebrew bats were around once he made them available. No one saved more bats than Killebrew, yet they have virtually disappeared from the marketplace. In comparison, only six pro-model bats were in Gibson's personal collection. There will be no more, and they will most assuredly disappear as quickly as they surfaced. The rarity and significance of this bat is further reflected by the fact that it is one of only two Bob Gibson pro-model bats ever examined by MEARS, and the only example to receive a perfect grade of A10. The bat is stamped "All Star Game" and "1967 - Anaheim" in block letters above and below (respectively) Gibson's name (last name only) on the barrel. All of the manufacturer's stampings remain bold and well defined. The bat displays no use, save for a few light rack marks. It should be noted that the lack of use, especially for a pitcher, is appropriate for a special-event bat such as this. Gibson pitched two innings in the game, but did not appear at bat. The 1967 All-Star Game remains the longest on record. The game, won by the National League by a score of 2-1, lasted fifteen innings and took three hours and forty-one minutes to complete. The length of the game aside, it stands as one of the most memorable midsummer classics due to the dominant pitching performances on both sides. The game featured a record thirty combined strikeouts, with all twelve pitchers in the game registering at least one. Gibson pitched the eighth and ninth innings for the National League, allowing two hits, no runs, and striking out two. This is an exceptional bat from one of baseball's fiercest competitors, dating from the height of his great powers as one of the most dominating pitchers in the history of the game. Length: 35 inches. Weight: 33 ounces. Graded A10 by MEARS (5 point base grade, plus 3 points for special event use and two points for its All-Star Game provenance). This bat has been consigned to this auction directly from the personal collection/inventory of world-renowned bat and jersey authenticators David Bushing and/or Troy Kinunen. LOAs from Dave Bushing & Troy Kinunen/MEARS. Reserve $1,000. Estimate $2,000/$3,000. SOLD FOR $3,231.25
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A HUGE crowd of 700 people turned out at the West Cork Hotel on Friday night for a special public meeting organised by Skibbereen Town Council in opposition to proposed changes to ambulance services in West Cork.
Among those attending the packed meeting were local TDs Michael McCarthy and Noel Harrington as well as numerous local councillors.
Skibbereen Mayor Frank Fahy told attendees that proposals to replace ambulance cover in Skibbereen and Castletownbere with Emergency Response Vehicles after 8pm would have devastating and dangerous implications for ambulance cover across West Cork.
"We are not asleep down here in West Cork," he said, "and we will not let the HSE get away with this," which was greeted with thunderous applause.
Ann Cullinane of Clonakilty Town Council said that her members would be passing a motion in support of Skibbereen next week while Pat Lennon of High Street, Skibbereen suggested the group place open letters in the newspapers challenging the Government and the HSE.
Daniel Murphy from Heir Island said the implications of the proposed cuts for islanders was "very worrying indeed" while Ed Harper from Cape Clear said that his community was nine miles off the coast and it took 45 minutes in a lifeboat just to reach the shore, any delays in an ambulance arriving he said, could be disastrous.
Cllr John O'Sullivan from Timoleague who is a member of the Regional Health Forum urged people to build a strong, factual case against the cuts in a "language the HSE can understand".
He said that West Cork had 12 months before the changes were due to come into force and now was the time to act.
Frank Fahy said the HSE were asked to send a representative to the meeting but they had pulled out at the last minute.
TDs Noel Harrington and Michael McCarthy both pledged their total support for the campaign and pointed out that they had both challenged the Minster for Health in the Dáil on the issue and would continue to do so.
Cllr Dermot Sheehan from Goleen said that the huge turnout proved the people of West Cork are totally against the proposals, "now I know the people are with us," he said,
To support the campaign join the West Cork Ambulance Service Saved My Life, Let Them Save More Facebook Page.


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Volleyball Holds First Official Practice Of 2014
MUNCIE, Ind. - - It may be summer outside, but was in the air inside Worthen Arena Wednesday afternoon, as the Ball State women's volleyball team held its first preseason practice for the 2014 season.
Under the direction of fifth-year head coach Steve Shondell, the 2010 Mid-American Conference Coach of the Year, the Cardinals return 10 student-athletes, including eight letterwinners, from last season's squad which posted a 24-8 (12-4 MAC) record and won a share of the league's West Division title. Added to the mix this season are five incoming freshman and one transfer.
Highlighting the list of returning student-athletes are a pair of First Team All-MAC selections in junior outside hitter Alex Fuelling (Decatur, Ind./Bellmont/Morehead State) and junior middle blocker Hayley Benson (Hilliard, Ohio/Hilliard Bradley). Fuelling led the Ball State offense and ranked fourth in the conference last season with a 3.65 kills-per-set average, while Benson ranked third in the conference with a .353 hitting percentage.
The Ball State women's volleyball team opens the 2014 campaign Aug. 29-30, when it hosts the Ball State Active Ankle Challenge. The Cardinals' first match will be against Western Illinois at 8 p.m. on the 29th.
For the most up-to-date news on Ball State women's volleyball, follow @BallStateSports, @BallStateWVB and @SteveShondell on Twitter.


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Cape Town designer Heath Nash has sent us new photos of his lights, which are made from discarded items such as plastic bottles. More »
Cape Town designer Heath Nash has sent us new photos of his lights, which are made from discarded items such as plastic bottles. More »
Architects Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners have completed the first homes at Oxley Woods – a sustainable housing project near Milton Keynes in England. More »
Live from Dubai: A new book exploring architecture, design and urbanism in the Middle East has been launched at the International Design Forum. More »
Here are more images of World Carpets, a new concept for customisable carpets by Marcel Wanders for Dutch manufacturer Colorline. More »
Live from Dubai: OMA just sent us a few more images of the proposed Jebel al Jais Mountain Resort in Ras Al Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates. More »
Live from Dubai: here are images of a second proposed new store for Kuwaiti luxury fashion retailer Villa Moda, this time located in Bahrain and designed by Marcel Wanders. More »
Live from Dubai: here are some images of Jebel Al Jais Mountain Resort - a tourist village on a mountain in the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah designed by Rem Koolhaas of Office for Metropolitan Architecture. More »
Live from Dubai: Sheikh Majed Al Sabah, founder and chief executive of Kuwaiti fashion retailer Villa Moda, has unveiled designs for a new store in Dubai by Spanish designer Jaime Hayón. More »
Live from Dubai: Rem Koolhaas has launched Al Manakh, a book described as the first comprehensive guide to architecture and urban design in the The Gulf. More »
Over 30 UK artists and designers have submitted artworks doodled on napkins for a forthcoming exhibition in London. More »
We are heading for Dubai today to cover the International Design Forum, which starts on Sunday. We will bring you as much live coverage of the event as we can, plus there will be more to say when we get back no doubt. Keep an eye on our blog for the IDF for updates.
Here are some more images of work on show at the So Watt! exhibition that opened in Paris today. More »
So Watt! is the name of a design exhibition intended to raise awareness of energy consumption issues, which opens in Paris today. More »
Italian experimental architecture company Dynamic Architecture has proposed a revolving sustainable skyscraper for Dubai powered by wind turbines placed between each floor. More »
French designer Ora-Ito was a headline speaker at Belgrade Design Week earlier this month, where he also showed a special capsule version of his new kitchen range for Slovenian domestic appliance brand Gorenje. More »
Here are some photos of the opening party at the Patricia Urquiola show at the SuperSpace Gallery in Belgrade. More »
Architects Waugh Thistleton have won planning permission for this residential building in Ramsgate Street in Dalston, London. More »
Dutch designer Wieki Somers has created a new vase using a fragment of an old Delftware vase for an exhibition at the Gemeentemuseum contemporary art museum in The Hague. More »
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FRIONA - Pablo Gonzales Sr., 83, died Thursday, Sept. 13, 2001.
Services will be at 9:30 a.m. Saturday in St. Teresa's Catholic Church with the Rev. Ed Sweeny officiating. Burial will be in the Friona Cemetery by Ellis-Blackwell Funeral Home.
Mr. Gonzales lived in Friona for 36 years. He was a retired farm worker.
Survivors include his wife, Cruz Gonzales of Fort Worth; two sons, Paul Lucky Gonzales and Jimmy Gonzales, both of Friona; four daughters, Josie Bautista and Becky Perkins, both of Friona, Pat Toscano of Amarillo, and Susie Hudson of Fort Worth; two brothers, Thomas Gonzales of Seymour and Julian Gonzales of Pixley, Calif.; 19 grandchildren, and 14 great-grandchildren.
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Hello friends! I am popping in to announce that we were tremendously blessed this Thanksgiving with a little angel. Our baby girl Chloe Renee Gardner was born on November 22, 2012, 7 lbs 8 oz. Mommy and baby are doing very well and we are all settling in at home. This has been an incredible experience, and we are enjoying every second of being new parents to a beautiful baby girl. You can say... we are in heaven
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APEC Checklist for English Language Programs
In order to assist those trying to choose an effective language learning program, the Strategic Plan for English and Other Languages seeks to provide consumers with checklists to guide their decision. The following checklist developed by Kirsten Schaetzel of the Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) contains the main pieces of information needed to consider when looking at an English language program. Available from CAL are this Short Checklist, as well as a record of the Process of Development for this checklist and a more detailed Consumer Checklist with background information on English language programs for wise consumer choices.
Type of program
There are many different programs for studying English. The type of program should match the learner's purpose for studying English. Some of the most common types of English language programs are listed below.
_____ English for academic study
_____ English for general conversation
_____ English for special purposes
_____ Medical English
_____ Workplace English
_____ Business English
_____ English for government
_____ English for travel and tourism
_____ Other
It is also important to note the number of hours in the program. Intensive language programs usually meet for 4-8 hours a day, five days a week and continue for 4 to 12 weeks. Less intensive programs generally meet for 2 hours, 2-3 times a week.
Adult English language acquisition and number of hours required for proficiency
It is very difficult to give an estimate of hours of study required for a certain level of proficiency in English. Learner's purpose and motivation for English language study greatly affect how quickly the language will be learned. Another section of this wiki explores the factors affecting the time required to learn a language.
_____ Note any claims about the number of hours needed to achieve a certain level of proficiency that the program makes and consider this claim with reference to the following information.
A) The American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) has developed proficiency guidelines. They have levels from superior to novice in each of the four language skills, reading, writing, listening and speaking. (The ACTFL Guidelines)
B) The Foreign Service Institute estimates that it takes a native English speaker 44 weeks or 1100 class hours to reach professional working proficiency in Hindi, Thai, and Vietnamese, and it takes a native speaker of English 88 weeks of 2200 class hours to reach professional working proficiency in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
C) In a study of adult lawful permanent residents in the United States, the researcher found that an estimated 103 hours of study per person per year for 6 years would result in a level of language proficiency necessary for civic integration or to begin post-secondary education. (McHugh, M., Gelatt, J., & Fix, M. (2007). Adult English language instruction in the United States: Determining need and investing wisely. Washington, DC: Migration Policy Institute)
D) In research done with children, it can take 3 to 5 years to develop oral English proficiency and 4 to 7 years to develop academic English proficiency. (How Long Does it Take for English Learners to Attain Proficiency?)
Teacher qualifications and training
There are many different types of English language teaching credentials. Some of the most common teaching credentials are
A) Master's degree: MA (Applied Linguistics), MATESOL (Master's in Teaching English as a Second or Other Language). Fields of study usually covered in these degrees include second language acquisition (SLA), development of the four language skills (reading, writing, listening, and speaking), assessment, and materials and methods for teaching English as a second or additional language.
B) BA, BS, or BEd in Applied Linguistics, Linguistics, or Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL). These bachelor's degrees give teachers knowledge and skills in linguistics and language learning.
C) TESL certificate. This is a short course (4-6 weeks, full time) which gives teachers basic knowledge. Common certificates include the Cambridge University's Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA), the TEFL certificate, granted by universities in the United States, and the School of International Training TESOL Certificate.
For an overview of teacher qualifications, consult Common Qualifications for English Language Teachers
Class composition
The make-up of the class is important and several factors contribute to the class composition. Some programs have sufficient students and resources to have one class at each proficiency level while others have more than one proficiency level in a class. Skilled teachers can work with both of these situations.
_____ Number of proficiency levels in a class (e.g., one proficiency level, multilevel class). (The ACTFL proficiency levels are helpful when determining how many proficiency levels are in one class (The ACTFL Guidelines)
_____ Students' language background (e.g. all students are from the same language background, students come from various language backgrounds)
_____ Ages of students in a class
_____ Number of students in a class (Smaller is not necessarily better, but students need the opportunity to get frequent feedback from teachers and peers.)
Use of English outside of class hours
It is helpful when learning a language if students have opportunities to practice the language outside of class hours. For this, it is important to consider the following
_____ Location of school: use of English in city or town
_____ School sponsored opportunities for language practice (e.g., clubs, conversation pairs, films and discussions)
_____ Home stays: living with a local family
_____ Class assignments: assignments that ask students to use the language outside of class
_____ Other
Cost of the program
Different features of the program of language study may enter into the cost of the program. These features include
_____ Tuition (for a course, term, or year of study)
_____ Course texts and materials
_____ Technology use
_____ Accommodations
_____ Meals
_____ Field trips/activities
_____ Visa
_____ Other
The following chart may help to compare program costs
Program 1
Program 2
Program 3
Tuition (time unit)
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Technology use
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Kyle MacLachlan on 'Inside Out,' Personal Rhythms, and the Excitement of 'Twin Peaks'
Posted on Wednesday, June 24th, 2015 by Russ Fischer
It says a great deal about Kyle MacLachlan's work in Pixar's Inside Out that I didn't even recognize him at first as the voice of Riley's father. I just accepted the character as exactly who the film presents him to be, without thinking of the actor behind the role. Some of that comes from the fact that MacLachlan isn't part of the group of actors who regularly do voice roles, so I don't expect him in animation. But he's no stranger to animation (he was Superman!), and the strange rhythms of voice work clearly agree with him.
"Strange rhythms" could be a description for the actor's career overall. After the David Lynch films Dune and Blue Velvet, MacLachlan created the unforgettable Special Agent Dale Cooper for Twin Peaks, and has gone on to build other memorable roles, from The Hidden to Portlandia, Sex and the City, Desperate Housewives, and even Showgirls. "Predictable" is not a word anyone could apply to MacLachlan's choices.
In person, MacLachlan is exactly the thoughtful and attentive, quirky guy one might hope he'd be. Our conversation, prompted by his work in Inside Out, revolved around his personal quirks and rhythms, and touches upon a diverse set of career milestones, from his Pixar work to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and, of course, Twin Peaks. Read More »


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Chrysanthemum and Puer Tea Infused Pisco
Following up on my earlier experiment infusing Oolong tea in gin, I decided to do another Chinese tea inspired infusion. This time round I wanted to use a tea blend called Jupu (??), which is simply a mix of chrysanthemum flowers (??) and a black tea called Puer (???).
You do not buy this tea as a blend. You simply buy a pack each of Puer tea and chrysanthemum flowers and blend them yourself in the pot. The ratio is up to you, but the usual thing is to use enough puer to make a decent brew and then add a teaspoon or so of chrysanthemum. This tea is very popular among Cantonese as an accompaniment to dimsum.
Puer is an interesting tea from Yunnan province in southwest China. Puer is a black tea, meaning it is fully fermented. After fermentation and roasting the tea is pressed into bricks and aged. This aging makes Puer tea unique. The finished tea has an earthy and almost fungal flavor. The top of the range stuff can be decades old and sells for huge sums.
You can buy Puer tea in various forms from any Chinese grocery or tea shop. Traditionally it is sold in bricks of varying sizes, ranging from enough for a single pot up to huge things that could keep a person supplied with tea for years. You simply unwrap the brick and remove what you need using your fingers or a knife. Breaking off exactly what you need is tricky, and things can become messy if the brick crumbles all over the place. These days loose leaf Puer is popular. Although not traditional, loose leaf Puer is easier to deal with and tastes good enough for everyday use.
Chrysanthemum tea should also be available from any Chinese grocery. It is sold in the form of dried whole flowers and is quite inexpensive.
My first experiment with this infusion involved gin. I infused the gin with the tea for two hours, and then made a gin sour sweetened with honey. I did not particularly enjoy the result. The idea behind the honey was to mimic the honey sweetened chrysanthemum tea which is a popular iced summer drink in Cantonese areas. However, I found it did not work well as a cocktail. The honey dominated too much and the gin seemed to clash with the chrysanthemum.
My second experiment used a different approach. I dispensed with the gin and turned to pisco. I thought Chilean pisco, with its 'raisiny' character, would make a nice base for this infusion. Pisco would contribute some similar characteristics to honey but without dominating nearly so much. Moreover, the absence of competing botanicals would leave the delicate chrysanthemum unmolested.
I made my infusion by soaking the following for two hours:
100 ml Bauza pisco
1 tsp puer tea
5 dried chrysanthemum blossoms
Then I simply used that infusion to make a pisco sour, as follows:
1 ½ oz chrysanthemum and puer tea infused pisco
¾ oz lemon juice
½ oz simple syrup (2:1 sugar to water)
1 egg white
Shake over ice and double strain into a cocktail glass. I did not bother with the Angostura Bitters garnish because I wanted to be able to enjoy the flavors without extra distraction.
This really worked. The pisco provides a nice soft background and lets you really appreciate the chrysanthemum. It makes for an interesting drink, albeit a slightly lightweight one. If I was to refine this further I would look to increase the chrysanthemum. I might also do the infusion in two steps, first briefly infusing the tea (say for 2 hours) to get flavor without too much tannin, then giving the chrysanthemum a longer infusion.
I guess vodka could also work, though right now I prefer to use the more light bodied piscos I happen to have lying around. If I were to do this with a more full on pisco, such as Machu Pisco or Demonio, I would definitely look to take the chrysanthemum up a notch. This might also work nicely if sweetened with St. Germain, though again I would look to increase the chrysanthemum if I went down that route.
I will update with a name when I think of one.


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Hello, Santa Clarita Valley! Welcome to The-Signal.com's Daybreak, your point of entry for the day, and a quick journey through the past, present and future. Let the adventure begin:
Today in History
Today is Friday, Jan. 23, the 23rd day of 2009. There are 342 days left in the year.
First Word
"When we're not around, things can really go down and that's when we need them to step up."
- Josh Randall, asst. principal (Click here for story)
Today's Highlight in History:
On Jan. 23, 1968, North Korea seized the Navy intelligence ship USS Pueblo, charging its crew with being on a spying mission. (The crew was released 11 months later).
Ten years ago: A federal judge ordered Monica Lewinsky to submit to an interview sought by House prosecutors in President Bill Clinton's impeachment trial. During his visit to Mexico, Pope John Paul II urged his flock in the Americas to make the region a "continent of life."
Watercooler Talk
DALLAS (AP) — A high school girls basketball team that beat an opponent 100-0 has a case of blowout remorse.
The winning school now says it wants to do the right thing by seeking a forfeit and apologizing for the margin of victory.
"It is shameful and an embarrassment that this happened," the head of the school said Thursday on The Covenant School's Web site.
He added that Covenant has made "a formal request to forfeit the game recognizing that a victory without honor is a great loss."
Covenant, a private Christian school in Dallas, defeated Dallas Academy 100-0 last week. Covenant was up 59-0 at halftime.
A parent who attended the game told The Associated Press that Covenant continued to make 3-pointers — even in the fourth quarter.
Mega Millions
Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg, D-N.J., is 85. Actress Jeanne Moreau is 81. Actress Chita Rivera is 76. Actor-director Lou Antonio is 75. Actor Gil Gerard is 66. Actor Rutger Hauer is 65. Rhythm-and-blues singer Jerry Lawson (The Persuasions) is 65. Sen. Thomas R. Carper, D-Del., is 62. Singer Anita Pointer is 61. Actor Richard Dean Anderson is 59. Rock musician Bill Cunningham is 59. Rock singer Robin Zander (Cheap Trick) is 56. Princess Caroline of Monaco is 52. Singer Anita Baker is 51. Reggae musician Earl Falconer (UB40) is 50. Actress Gail O'Grady is 46. Actress Mariska Hargitay is 45. Rhythm-and-blues singer Marc Nelson is 38.
Mega Millions
1-9-10-35-46 Mega: 9
Draw date: Tuesday, Jan. 20
Jackpot: $21 million
6-15-21-29-37 Mega: 10
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Jackpot: $56 million
Fantasy 5
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Daily 4
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Daily 3
Midday: 5-0-5
Evening: 6-2-7
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Daily Derby
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Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 12/03/2010
Rating: Total score: 78% performance: 80% features: 80% mobility: 60% ergonomy: 80%
NVIDIA NVS 3100M: Business graphics card that is based on the GT218 core (e.g. GeForce 305 / 310M) but with drivers that are optimized for stability and compatibility in business applications).
Non demanding games should be playable with these graphics cards.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
The Core i5-520M has only 3 MB L3 Cache (compared to the I7-640M) and clocks between 2.4-2.93 GHz (Turbo Mode). Thanks to Hyperthreading, 4 threads can be processed simultaneously. An integrated graphics card (GMA HD 3150) and a DDR3 memory controller are also included in the package.
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Lenovo: Lenovo Group Limited is China's largest and the world's fourth largest personal computer manufacturer. Lenovo produces desktops, laptops, servers, handheld computers, imaging equipment, and mobile phone handsets. Lenovo also provides information technology integration and support services, and its QDI unit offers contract manufacturing. Its executive headquarters are located in China and USA. It is incorporated in Hong Kong. Lenovo was formed in 1984 as a spin-off of the Chinese Academy of Sciences new technology unit. The company initially began as a reseller, distributor and later CM for foreign brands, including IBM, entering the Chinese market. In 1990, Lenovo started to manufacture its own PCs and by 1997 became the market leader in China. In 2004, Lenovo bought IBM's PC business for $1.25billion. Market share regarding sales of personal computers in 2007 (market research IDC): HP 18.9 %, Dell 16.4 %, Acer 9.9 %, Lenovo 7.5 %, Apple 5.7 %
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GRAND RAPIDS -- The Grand Rapids school board tapped John Matias to fill the vacancy created by Senita Lenear's resignation on Monday, July 15.
The vote for Matias, 55, a therapist and community schools coordinator at Burton Elementary and Middle School, was unanimous. He beat out five other finalists to join the nine-member board.
Related: Grand Rapids selects six finalists to interview to fill school board vacancy
"I am committed to public education, which is charged with educating all citizens," said Matias, who works for Arbor Circle with the Kent School Services Network. "The unanimous vote shows the board has confidence in me. I am able to sit with parents and talk about issues but also can go into the board room and deal with those type of issues as well."
Matias, a second generation Puerto Rican, is the first Hispanic board member since Luis Pena, who was defeated in 2008. A resident of the Southeast Side, he and his wife have four children, two are school-age and attend City High-Middle School.
The candidates submitted to 30-minute interviews, with 11 questions ranging from the most pressing issues facing GRPS to their familiarity with the district's restructure plan.
"These candidates were so impressive," said board president Wendy Falb. "Mr. Matias brings an understanding of the role of public education and rich analytical skills about what the barriers to learning are for students."
She said he also brings an underrepresented perspective to the board.
The board received a total of 14 applications from seven men and seven women by the July 3 deadline. Criteria used to determine the most qualified candidate included: brings a new perspective, community involvement and educational advocacy, and demonstrates an embrace of diversity.
The other five finalists were:
• Tracey Brame, 42, a lawyer and assistant dean for Thomas Cooley Law School.
• C.J. Shroll, 69, a business consultant for workforce training and technology.
• Paul Ippel, 66, retiring executive director of network180, Kent County's mental health agency.
• Jamie Scripps, 35, a former teacher, who is a clean energy consultant.
• Mohan Krishnan, 38, director of Children's Services for Hope Network.
Lenear is running for the Grand Rapids City Commission. Her resignation was effective June 30. That was the original date her term was to end before changes in state election law.
Matias will serve until the next election in November 2014.
Monica Scott is the Grand Rapids K-12 education writer. Email her at email@example.com and follow her on Twitter @GRPScotty


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Toppling SUV sales sink GM Janesville plant
Doors to close permanently by 2010, taking 2,400 well-paying factory jobs
Doomed by $4-a-gallon gasoline, sales of the sport utility vehicle are crashing - and taking General Motors Corp.'s Janesville assembly plant with them.
GM announced Tuesday that production will end in 2010 if not sooner at the 2,400-worker factory and three other North American plants that make SUVs and trucks that many people cannot afford to drive anymore.
The announcement, a concession that energy costs are likely to remain high for the long term, left many Rock County residents wondering about their economic future.
Wages at the GM plant, which opened in 1919 and once employed 7,000 people, are in the range of $28 an hour. Plenty of nearby GM suppliers, such as seat-maker Lear Corp., also could be forced to cut production and jobs in the next two years.
"I'm devastated," said Bill Breidenstein, 72, a GM retiree who worked at the plant for 31 years. "I've got two daughters who work at Lear. My youngest son works at GM, and they're all going to be affected.
"When you rely on an income to survive, and all of a sudden that income's gone. . ." he said, his voice trailing off. "It's not affecting me personally as much as the whole family. It's going to tear us apart."
Rising oil and gas prices have resulted in a permanent shift away from large SUVs and pickups, GM Chief Executive Officer Rick Wagoner said in a conference call. The inability of oil suppliers to keep up with rising demand for energy worldwide means current prices will be the norm going forward, he said.
The exact timetable for phasing out the nearly 90-year-old plant remained uncertain and depends largely on sales of Janesville-assembled Chevrolet Tahoes, Suburbans and other large SUVs, said Troy Clarke, president of GM North America. The company previously said it would cut 750 jobs at the plant in July, eliminating one of its two shifts.
Clarke described sales declines of the big SUVs in May as "startling."
Through May, sales of models produced in Janesville were down about 33% from a year ago, including a drop of more than 50% in the sale of Yukons in May compared with May 2007.
"It's the wrong product in an old plant, and that makes it a tough situation," said David Cole, chairman of the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor, Mich.
GM also will end production at truck plants in Moraine, Ohio; Oshawa, Ontario; and Toluca, Mexico. Together with other production cuts announced earlier, the moves will save GM $1 billion a year beginning in 2010, Wagoner said.
Area has diversified
Losing GM will not be as hard on the area as it could have been earlier, economic officials said. The plant closing will not be immediate, and the economy has been diversifying, with more opportunities regionally for the jilted auto workers.
As recently as 1995, 12% of Rock County's jobs were in transportation equipment manufacturing. Since then, that sector has dropped by nearly 4,000 jobs, or 48%, while payrolls overall have grown by 3%.
Last year, transportation equipment manufacturing accounted for 6% of the county's jobs.
"It's been coming down for a while," said Dennis Winters, chief labor economist for the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development. "It's going to be significant, but they've weathered this stuff before."
Bob Borremans recalls the scare in the mid-1980s when the Janesville plant was spared only after hundreds of workers were laid off and relocated to the GM plant in Fort Wayne, Ind.
"Back then, there were no other jobs," said Borremans, executive director of the Southwest Wisconsin Workforce Development Board. "It's a matter now of matching up workers with good work histories, with strong backgrounds as good employees, and matching them up with employers and maybe giving them some training so that they have the skills that those employers need."
Lower-paying jobs
But workers cannot expect to find new jobs that pay as well as GM. Including management workers, employees in transportation equipment manufacturing in Rock County last year earned an average of $71,000, almost twice the average pay in the county, according to state data.
"In the short run, there's going to be a lot of pain," said Gary Green, director of the Center for Community and Economic Development at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Other businesses will suffer from the loss of GM and its employees as customers, Green said. Also, without the ripple effect of UAW union contracts, pay for other workers in the area won't go up as much.
Current economic conditions don't bode well for GM workers. Even if they find job opportunities elsewhere, picking up and moving could prove difficult in a housing slump, Green said, and lengthy commutes could be impractical because of soaring fuel costs.
Clarke and Wagoner stressed that GM has no plans to produce a different kind of vehicle in Janesville. "I don't want to leave anybody with any artificial sense of optimism there," Clarke said.
Wisconsin's two U.S. senators, Herb Kohl and Russ Feingold, and U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan of Janesville wrote to GM, asking it to reconsider.
Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle lashed out at GM for pulling the plug on Janesville just a few years after the state committed $10 million to support the company's $175 million investment to prepare the plant for a new line of Suburbans, Tahoes and Yukons.
The state already has disbursed about $9.3 million of that money, said Lee Sensenbrenner, a spokesman for Doyle.
"Certainly, we'll do everything we can to reclaim state money," Sensenbrenner said.
"Bad corporate decisions kept these lines turning out gas guzzlers as fuel prices went from $2 to $3 and now to $4 per gallon," Doyle said.
But several auto industry analysts said perhaps the biggest surprise is that the Janesville factory has survived as long as it has. The plant is GM's oldest.
Sales of big SUVs and pickup trucks have been on a downward slope for at least four years, said David Leiker, auto industry analyst at Robert W. Baird & Co. in Milwaukee.
"It's a little disingenuous to blame this all on fuel prices," he said. "What gas prices have done is accelerated that decline, and we just got there more quickly. We would have gotten where we are anyway but gas prices made it happen more quickly."
One factory for SUVs
As of 2010, GM will have one factory producing full-size SUVs, its factory in Arlington, Texas. That plant could run with three shifts if demand for the big vehicles revives, Leiker said.
The fact that GM announced it was "halting production" in Janesville rather than outright "closing" the factory may leave, for some, a sliver of hope that the company could change its mind. But don't bank on it, said Cole, the industry analyst.
"If the world changes, they could reverse that," he said. "But right now I don't think they're betting on that kind of a change."
Staff writer Rick Romell, reporting from Janesville, contributed to this report.
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That might be one of the first meteorites caught on camera over a populated area. I haven't looked at the link but I bet the shockwave wiped out approximately ALL the windows.


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The god of homosexuals,politicians,lawyers,nambla etc.
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Saddam's gay lover on South Park.
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Who politicians serve.
Who politicians want YOU to serve.
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The Dark One, a.k.a Martha Stewart.
Martha Stewart can help you decorate your home with just a pine cone and some glitter...and then she'll eat you soul.
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The profoundly evil adversary of God and humanity, often identified with the leader of the fallen angels, the Devil.the archfiend Satan, Old Nick, Devil, the Devil, Lucifer, Beelzebub, the Tempter, Prince of Darkness]
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After that child had broken my windows,Lit my house on fire and ate my cat spaghetti style, I believe he had satan in him.
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Christianity's big bad scapegoat/boogieman. Originally a Jewish demon-like character who tested you, but changed into the all-evil devil that Christians blame everything on. Allows for the dismissal of accountability.
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Auto Navigation Highlighting in ExpressionEngine
We've been using this technique for a while now and it works great! We always take the most used parts of a site and put them in templates for easy access when putting together a site. But what happens when you want to highlight the navigation to show the user where they're at? Enter this cool trick! And yes, you have to be using ExpressionEngine .
Alright, say this is your navigation code:

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Notice the
current class. I've styled that in my CSS to show that I'm on that page (for this site it would be white with a star to the left). I'm going to use Expression Engine's
if and
loc tags to automate the process. In my navigation template, I setup the code like this:

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The name after the double equal signs should quickly describe what page it is. Also, you can move the entire
if expression around; for example if it was the
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class. So once this is set up, we're going to use the "Don't Hire" page as an example. We need to embed the navigation template like normal, but add one small addition:
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Globalization, Risk, Crisis and Subjectivity
The aim of the RC47 scientific program at the ISA World Congress in Gotenburg Sweden in 2010 is to creatively and innovatively explore theories of collective action in the context of the current global crisis. We seek questions that articulate the current crisis - in its global, integrated and systemic form - to the question of subjectivity and the role of the subject in these momentous changes. The question we now ask in these transformative times: what are the likely outcomes and future of this turbulence in terms of our understanding of collective action and the future of globalization processes.
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Session 12: United we stand? Social movements in Eastern and Western Europe Organizer: TransNet Research Group: Christoph Haug, Social Science Research Center Berlin, Germany, firstname.lastname@example.com,
Kerstin Jacobsson, Södertörn University, Sweden and
Adrienne Sörbom, Stockholm University, Sweden
The session focuses on social movements in Eastern and Western Europe. It has often been argued that civil society functions differently in countries of the former Soviet block and Western Europe, and that the conditions for social movement mobilization and collective action differ in these regions. How does that express itself in the workings and the culture of different movements in this current period of crisis? And, to what extent are these differences relevant for newer transnationalized movements, such as the global justice movements? How does a transnational movement working various national contexts? We especially invite papers with empirical findings and/or a comparative perspective. We also invite papers about processes of transnational networking and coalition-building involving East and West.
Session 14: Suffering and Politics : New Sociological Perspectives?. Part I
Organizer: Marie Cristine Doran, Université d'Ottawa, Canada, email@example.com
Coming across problematics of violence, rights, domination/emancipation et religion, the scope of social suffering is the object of diverse representations, narratives and social claims. On one hand, themes such as poverty, violence, humanitarian catastrophes and human rights are among the most important for institutionalized political actors, which seek to reorganize suffering and present it in such a way that there can be a precise solution to it. On the other hand, the expression of suffering itself is often quite "disorganizing" for these political logics, and categories such as "victims", "beneficiaries", "poor and indigent" are then questioned by social subjects. Sociology is therefore summoned to analyze the new intersections between concrete expressions of social suffering and their political translations, in different fields: how do the logics of politics, that are based on the segmentation of suffering such as "demands", "political mediation", or the political use of "reconciliation" articulate with the social expression of suffering, that often come "from below", such as "Memory", "collective expression" and "healing"? Where does the politization of suffering take place in these encounters that are often confrontations? We shall give a special attention to the emergence of the Politics of Emotion in Latin America –and elsewhere- since it offers a new context where phenomena such as the influence of religions of emotion (Pentecostalism in particular), civil violence, social movements against impunity, political action of Indigenous movements and populist tendencies define new relations between social suffering and Politics.


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THE BUFFALO are gone, the beating drums replaced by tree branches colliding in the winter wind, and on a frigid afternoon last month a wide, metal gate blocked the entrance to what was once South Jersey's only Native-American reservation.
Beyond the gate, down a snow-covered road, the Powhatan Renape Nation's museum sat empty, its artifacts in storage. Deeper in the forest, two-pronged deer tracks led to the late Chief Roy Crazy Horse's rancher, built illegally atop a bluff overlooking Rancocas Creek, birds now fluttering in and out of its chimney and broken windows.
"There are no more Indians here," said a woman walking two small dogs on the land the tribe leased for 25 years in Westampton Township, Burlington County. "All their stuff is gone."


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Town of Tonawanda lawmakers have joined an effort to direct potential fines to be paid by Tonawanda Coke Corp. to the community it polluted.
In a 4-0 vote Monday, the Town Board adopted a resolution that supports setting aside fine money for the remediation and environmental enhancement of the neighborhood near the River Road plant. Town Supervisor Anthony F. Caruana was out of town and missed the meeting.
"This resolution was born out of the verdict that came out against Tonawanda Coke," explained Deputy Town Supervisor Joseph H. Emminger, who took the unusual step of reading the full resolution before the vote.
On March 28, following a monthlong trial in U.S. District Court, a jury found the company and Mark L. Kamholz, its environmental controls manager, guilty of multiple criminal charges related to polluting the air and ground near the plant.
The company and Kamholz face possible fines of more than $200 million; Kamholz also could be sentenced to up to 75 years in prison. Sentencing is scheduled July 15.
Keeping the fine money local was proposed by Rep. Brian Higgins, D-Buffalo. "We have to establish immediately – even before there is a specific fine – that whatever this company is fined, it should stay in this community," he said at a news conference outside the plant, two days after the verdict was announced.
Before Monday's vote, Councilwoman Lisa M. Chimera recognized the efforts of community activist Jackie James Creedon for "making sure that this issue did not go unnoticed."
Several years ago, Creedon had led the fledgling Clean Air Coalition of Western New York, which performed air quality tests before the state Department of Environmental Conservation embarked on a yearlong study of its own. That work led to a reduction in emissions of benzene – a known carcinogen – by local industry, including Tonawanda Coke.
In other business Monday, the Town Board:
• Approved a special-use permit for the operation of a used car sales and repair business at 3875 Delaware Ave., which has been vacant for more than two years and last housed a transmission repair shop.
• Approved rezoning an approximately 25,000-square-foot site, in the Colvin-Eggert Plaza, from general business to performance standards use, to allow the construction of a new 5,600-square-foot auto repair facility.
• Awarded an approximately $2.6 million contract to Kandey Co. of West Seneca for a state-mandated demonstration test to attempt to limit ground and rain water entering the sanitary sewer in an area containing 630 homes.
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In case you weren't aware, the holidays are here. And while your competitors are probably working hard to outrank, outsmart and outsell you, there's a little marketing tool out there that can help you stay on top. Say hello to the holiday video!
Creating an effective marketing video for the holiday selling season that's equally compelling and relevant is no easy task, but if done well, can offer big results. Here's a look a three holiday marketing videos that can teach us a ton about new ways to sell our products.
The Ultimate Turkey Leftover Sandwich
While almost all of us were overstuffed this Thanksgiving, Kraft realized that we always have room for more, especially when it's delicious leftovers! By showcasing this universal aspect of the Thanksgiving holiday, Kraft can also advertise their product indirectly and associate it as a factor in the classic tradition of repurposing leftovers. If you can demonstrate to your customers that your products are synonymous with good times, great food and warm memories then they'll remember it fondly during the their holiday shopping.
Takeaway: Use videos to highlight your products without overtly selling to customers. It's important to demonstrate the value of your product in a practical setting, much like Kraft did with its turkey leftover sandwich.
Crocs Fall Boots
Just because it's the holidays doesn't mean you have to beat viewers over the head with jingly music and graphics in your videos, especially if you offer seasonal products. Crocs did a particularly good job of introducing their fall fashions by leveraging experts within their team to explain how the new line came into fruition. Doing so not only presents the new product line, but instills confidence in the craftsmanship and makes an emotional connection with the brand. In other words, giving an expert-driven, behind the scenes look at your business is a proven way to help add credibility, no matter what you're selling.
Takeaway: Don't be afraid to create videos where you speak on behalf of your product. After all, you're the expert! Your passion and expertise can help transform one-time shoppers into lifetime brand ambassadors.
Lights Across America
Now this is a video with an intense holiday theme! That being said, the display of the lights in remote locations around the world lends an air of universality to this heavily tradition-themed commercial. Sometimes, you've just got to capitalize on the season to help customers connect with your products. Creating a "feel good" video will let shoppers identify your brand with the cheer and spirit of the season, making them more eager to visit your store year round.
Takeaway: Compelling videos can help to forge an emotional connection with customers, keeping your brand top of mind year round. This is a great idea to create a video content that truly celebrates the holiday season.
These holiday videos are a small sampling of the innovative ways to capitalize on the season. As an online business owner, the sky's the limit for your own seasonal video. No matter which theme you decide to go with, a well-crafted video can be very profitable when everyone is in the giving (and buying) mood.
What are some of your favorite holiday videos, and why do they work for you? Feel free to share in the comments section below!
Happy selling!
-Lauren Hill, Volusion


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Toronto Blue Jays shortstop Maicer Izturis makes a diving stop on a ground ball from San Francisco Giants' Buster Posey during the fourth inning of a baseball game on Wednesday, June 5, 2013 in San Francisco. Izturis forced out the Giants' Pablo Sandoval at second base on the play. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)


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Republican Party seeks to politicize the Florida Judiciary
caines | 10/11/2012, 5:30 a.m.
The general rule is that judges should be apolitical. A judge should make their rulings based upon the facts and law, and at all times be fair and seek justice. Judges do not run based on party affiliation, and in fact the party affiliation of a judge is not known when they are running or appointed for office. In a John Grishman novel, a conservative business group targets a moderate judge to change the balance of power on a State Supreme Court bench. The conservative business group pours millions of dollars into a campaign against the Justice who loses. The end result is that a horrible polluter wins its case before the Supreme Court. It seems that fantasy is now becoming reality. The Florida Supreme Court, an apolitical body, is now under attack by the Republican Party. They have targeted Justice Quince, Justice Lewis and Justice Pariente. All of the Justices are widely respected by attorneys because of their fairness and pursuit of justice. This opinion is held by Republican and Democratic attorneys, liberal and conservative attorneys and even by the conservative Florida Bar Association. No self-respecting attorney wants the judiciary politicized; we want judges who will base their decisions on the law and facts and not on party doctrine. The Florida Bar Association which normally is not involved in politics has taken a position against the Republican Partys open attack on the judiciary and strongly opposes it. Our founding fathers felt that in order to have a balance of power in government that there should be three equal branches of government: the Executive Branch (governor or president), the Legislative Branch and the Judiciary. What we see is an attack on the underpinnings of the constitutional foundation of our government. The Republicans now control the Executive Branch in the person of Governor Scott and hold a majority in the House and Senate of the Florida Legislature. The only Branch of government not controlled by the Republican Party is the Judiciary. The Judiciary to its credit serves as a check on the power of the other two branches by making sure that they comply with the Constitution and the laws of this State. The conservative groups that want to take over the judiciary and politicize it want to do so to ensure that they control all branches of government and there is no check on their power. They intend to pour millions of dollars into advertising to misconstrue the record of three justices and thereby get them out of office, so that Governor Scott can pick judges that follow his agenda instead of judges who follow the law. I strongly recommend all three justices. When you get in the ballot box vote YES to retain Justice Fred Lewis, Justice Peggy Quince and Justice Barbara Pariente. Do not let our judiciary become politicized. Keep the balance of power as our founding fathers desired. Reginald J. Clyne is a partner at Clyne and Associates, P.A. of Miami/Fort Lauderdale. By Reginald J. Clyne, Esq.,Miami Times columnist, firstname.lastname@example.com


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The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) has approved the application of Barclays Bank PLC for TASE membership.
TASE goes on to say that the inclusion of Barclays, which received the Bank of Israel's approval to operate in Israel as a foreign bank, brings the number of foreign TASE members to six.
It reminds readers that Barclays is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Barclays PLC and is traded on both the London Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange. The bank's long-term debt credit rating is AA- according to S&P's rating scale, Aa3 according to Moody's and AA- according to Fitch.
The accession to TASE constitutes an additional platform through which Barclays can expand activity in Israel. While headquartered in the U.K., Barclays operates worldwide with vast activity in retail and investment banking. The group maintains branches and representative offices in 50 countries around the globe.
Len Rosen, CEO of Barclays Capital, the group's investment banking division, sees TASE membership as a means to deepen the group's footprint in Israel: "Membership in the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange constitutes a badge of honour for us as a leading investment group in Israel. This decision enables Barclays to enhance the array of services it renders to the State of Israel, its economy and its citizens. In this manner, the bank will take another step towards its goal of becoming a leading investment force in Israel."
Ester Levanon, TASE CEO said: "We welcome Barclays as TASE's newest international member. Its membership constitutes an important vote of confidence in Israel's economy and capital market from a leader in international financial market services. Barclays' membership is certain to increase the exposure of Israel's capital market among international investors and will facilitate access of its global customer base to the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange."


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Great communication, used lot of supplement materials, and made use of technology. She not only has the notes printed out for the class and handed out at the beginning of lecture (although this may waste a lot of paper), she also has all of her lectures video recorded and available online in case you can make it to class or if you just want to review what was gone over. Very helpful and friendly as well. She wants everyone to succeed! She even spent the entire last week of the semester reviewing. No new material between the last exam and the final! (Study what was covered on those exams and you will do great on the final)
099 110 Biochemistry
She is very knowledgable and lectures are well organized and clear. All lectures are powerpoint presentations directly from the book, so they do not add much if you are doing the reading on your own. The exams are all multiple choice, with a short extra credit essay question. Exam questions are pretty straightforward and easy so long as you do the readings. I found it most beneficial to take extra notes on the lecture slides while I was reading the book. Also, she posts video & sound of each lecture on the website, which is very convenient when you miss a lecture.


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46th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)Toronto, Ontario, Cananda30 April - 3 May 2015 SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Sept. 30, 2014Panel description:"Preparing Successful Course Syllabi"This is a board-sponsored panel that aims to help graduate students, adjuncts, and faculty members from all ranks to prepare successful course syllabi for the following types of courses: large lecture courses, seminars and small classes, composition courses, language courses, online courses, hybrid courses, and graduate courses. Since this is a special panel, proposals must be sent as early as possible along with sample syllabi.Chair: Suha KudsiehArea: Pedagogy & ProfessionalTo submit an abstract, please go to: To submit an abstract:1) kindly go to: https://nemla.org/convention/2015/cfp.html2) Select the area of "Pedagogy & Professional" from the drop down menu3) Scroll down until you see the CFP for "Preparing Successful Course Syllabi", below it you'll see a "Submit an Abstract" button. Click on it and follow the instruction to upload your abstract.
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The Impact of News Coverage on Conflict: Toward Greater Understanding
Richard C. Reuben
University of Missouri School of Law
October 21, 2009
Marquette Law Review, Forthcoming
University of Missouri School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2009-29
This article develops an approach for the empirical study of the news media's impact on the conflict that it covers. While mass communications research has studied how the news media covers conflict, it has not taken the next step of assessing the impact of that coverage. This article contends that such an inquiry is necessarily an inter-disciplinary task, and joins conflict theory with mass communications research to identify the kinds of questions that may be empirically tested to determine whether the news media is having a constructive or destructive effect on the conflict that it covers.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 35
Keywords: news, media, conflict, mass communications
Date posted: October 22, 2009
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