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As reflected in our Mission Statement, AIS strives to develop community members that, "have a solid sense of self and respect for others—as individuals, as members of a group, as citizens of their nations, and as members of the global community." Students support this in their Student Statement of Beliefs when they pledge to, "respect who others are, to have a solid sense of who we are, and to strive to develop our beliefs and sense of self through respectful coexistence and interactions with other members of the AIS community" and vow to, "commit to academic honesty including but not limited to never cheating and/or plagiarizing." These beliefs can find their foundation in the ten characteristics articulated in the IB Learner Profile. To this end, it is imperative that the community recognize the importance of integrity, not just in academic areas, but in every aspect of daily life.
All members of the AIS community are expected to adhere to the academic honesty standards set forth in this document. Community members should take advantage of the expertise and resources of the school librarians when questions arise about plagiarism, copyright, other ethical issues, and good academic practice for referencing sources. Teachers will not only teach academic honesty but will also model good practice. Administrators will support them in this effort. Parents also have a role to play by becoming informed of the expectations placed on students and supporting these practices. Together, all community members, working under the same understandings, will create an environment that promotes academic honesty. This policy promotes good practices and provides assistance in understanding and following the academic honesty policy and goals of the school. To aid in the understanding of these goals, common definitions of key terms can be found here. Age appropriate descriptions for how academic honesty pertains to referencing, group work, homework, classwork, tests, and exams can be found for PYP, MYP, and DP. It is understood that this academic honesty policy is integrally related to and is a part of our policies with respect to use of technology and student use of mobile devices; this is reflected in the school's Responsible Use Policy. The AIS community will follow the Modern Language Association style for referencing of sources, as applied in an age appropriate fashion following guidelines for K through 2 and Noodletools for grades 3 through 12.
If members of our community do not respect these academic honesty guidelines, the open communications policy and the procedures that support student expectations will be followed. Consequences for a diploma student who is found to have committed malpractice may include action by the International Baccalaureate Organization in accordance with its Academic Honesty publication.
Special effort should be made to make sure that cultural and language differences do not impede the understandings needed by all parties involved. Especially in a school community which reflects a variety of cultural backgrounds, parents and other legal guardians' understanding of the cross-cultural perspectives of academic honesty is vital.
Academic Honesty in PYP
The Learner Profile and the attitudes are the basis for the development of academic integrity in our students.• Students take responsibility for their own work.• Students work individually unless otherwise instructed.• Students recognize the difference between individual work and group work.• Students give credit to other people working in the group.• Students do not copy other people's work.• Students reference sources according to agreed-upon (age-appropriate) bibliographic formats for each grade. • Students use information technology and library resources responsibly.
Academic Honesty in MYP
The MYP strives to create principled, balanced learners per the IB Learner Profile through a focus on intercultural awareness, communication, and holistic learning. Because of these areas of focus in the MYP, students will often be working in collaboration with their peers and using sources from experts all over the world to respond to the MYP unit questions. Therefore, we expect students to meet the following expectations:• Students are expected to work together, to recognize and encourage contributions of others in the group.• Students are expected to know that the purpose of an assessment, summative or formative, is to show what they know, understand, and can do and must provide their own work.• Each group member takes responsibility for his or her roles/tasks and ensures that the other members of the group understand the task and their responsibilities.• When a product is required from a group, the product should reflect each member's contribution.• Each student's work should be explicitly acknowledged.• Each student is capable of reflecting on his or her participation and the participation of the other members of the group.• Students are able to reflect on the group's processing and communication.• Students will always appropriately give credit to any outside research used to inform their product.
Academic Honesty in the DP
"The Diploma Programme (DP) requires academic rigor and active involvement in all aspects of the curriculum [. . .] Behaving and learning in an ethical way means students will observe to following practices" ("Ethical Practice in the Diploma Program" 1).
In the DP, students will work individually to complete DP required assessment tasks as well as in groups. In addition to the references to group work listed in the MYP Academic Honesty Policy, DP students are expected to meet the following expectations:• Students are expected to complete all of the work submitted for assessment in the DP according to the DP Policies.• Students know that the purpose of an assessment, summative or formative, is to show what they know, understand, and can do and must provide their own work.• Students understand what constitutes plagiarism and use the tools, such as TurnItIn.com, Noodletools, MLA resources, and the school librarians to properly cite any sources, images, data, and/or ideas.• Students must also recognize that any behavior or activity that gives them unfair advantage goes against the school's and IB's philosophies. Activities like this include the following:
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As reflected in our Mission Statement, AIS strives to develop community members that "have a solid sense of self and respect for others—as individuals, as members of a group, as citizens of their nations, and as members of the global community." Students support this notion in their Student Statement of Beliefs when they pledge to, "respect who others are, to have a solid sense of who we are, and to strive to develop our beliefs and sense of self through respectful coexistence and interactions with other members of the AIS community" and vow to "commit to academic honesty including but not limited to never cheating and/or plagiarizing." These beliefs can find their foundation in the ten characteristics articulated in the IB Learner Profile. To this end, it is imperative that the community recognizes the importance of integrity, not just in academic areas, but in every aspect of daily life.
Why a Responsible Use Agreement?
At AIS, we expect that all members of the community--students, faculty, staff, and administration--use technology in a responsible manner. These guidelines are important, because if you don't follow them your actions might affect you, your peers, or even the entire AIS community. So do the right thing; follow the guidelines.
Respect and practice the principles of community
• It's a small world, and we're a global community; You're entitled to your opinions, but remember that what you say can be seen all over the world, and something you say in one culture might be inaccurate or offensive in another.• Engage fully with the environment you're in; Stay focused on the task at hand.• Seek help from an appropriate adult or colleague if you see or read something that makes you feel uncomfortable.
Respect and protect your privacy and the privacy of others
• Use only your assigned accounts and passwords.• Keep your own passwords secure and never use others' passwords.• When accessing or posting on social networks or other online environments, think about how your actions might reflect on yourself and how they might affect others.• Get permission before sharing personal information or pictures of others.
Respect and protect the intellectual property of others
• Just because it's on the Internet doesn't make it yours! Give credit to your sources and ask a librarian if you aren't sure how to do it. Check out our Academic Honesty guidelines for more info.
Respect and use all electronic devices in an appropriate manner
• Be a good role model in your use of technology and electronic devices; Remember there's always someone who will follow your example.• Technology is a tool; Use it when appropriate, put it away when it's not.• Remember that the web filter and other safeguards are there to protect all members of our community.Our online behavior and use of digital tools should reflect the same standards of honesty, respect, and consideration that we use face-to-face. These rules apply whether you're using a school-owned device, or one that you brought from home; whether you're using the school's Internet connection, or using the network connection on your mobile phone, laptop, or other personal device.
Community members who do not follow and uphold these standards will be addressed in line with school policy.
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the representation of the ideas or work of another person as the candidate's own
supporting malpractice by another candidate, as in allowing one's work to be copied or submitted for assessment by another
Duplication of Work
the presentation of the same work for different assessment components and/or diploma requirements
Intellectual Property
property that results from original creative thought
In-text Citations
citations that come at the end of a sentence in a paper, within parentheses, that identifies the source of that particular piece of information (also known as parenthetical references)
Academic Dishonesty
see malpractice
plagiarism, collusion, duplication of work, or any other behavior that gains an unfair advantage for a candidate or that affects the results of another candidate
restating another person's words using your own words
the process of giving a brief description of another's main points
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New Jersey Aid for Animals
P.O. Box 4
Cedarbrook, NJ 08004
In addition to transporting owned dogs and cats to get spayed and neutered to help stem the tide of over-reproduction, NJAFA has also been providing ancillary supplies and services for dogs and cats through PEP for the last five years.
PEP enriches the lives of dogs and cats after they get spayed or neutered. For example, pain medication - the low cost clinics do offer pain medication but the residents of Camden have to pay extra for it. Without the funds to pay for even a spay or neuter most residents do not have extra funds for pain meds. PEP pays for the pain meds.
PEP provides for much needed shots that will prevent PARVO, a very contagious sometimes fatal disease that dogs contract and can cost up to hundreds of dollars to treat.
Money donated to PEP also pays for flea treatment, a dog house, a bag of food or any extra component that will enhance the life of an animal after they are spayed or neutered and before they are returned to the owners. For more information email firstname.lastname@example.com
NJAFA is hosting shot clinics for dogs and cats in Camden City. These clinics provide much needed vaccinations for dogs that without the shot could acquire Parvo, a contagious and sometimes fatal disease. We also provide cat distemper shots, food for dogs and cats, flea treatment and collars and leashes.
President, Kathy McGuire, transports owned dogs and cats from the homes of Camden City residents to a clinic to get spayed or neutered for people who cannot afford it or do not have transportation. We pick up the animals in the morning, transport them to clinic and return them later same day.For more information email firstname.lastname@example.com
For eighteen months, NJAFA has been partnering with Atlantic Co. SPCA spaying and neutering feral cats to be released back into managed colonies.Recently, we hit our 500th mark and are going strong.
Contact them for more information about spay/neuter and their vaccination programs.
New Jersey-
Save US Pets
Based in New Jersey, the Save U.S. Pets Foundation will pay for life saving veterinary medical treatment costs for qualified pets. We encourage participating veterinarians to apply for grants to pay for medical treatment of ailing pets after all other options to pay for treatment have been exhausted by the pet owner. The Foundation acts within a structure of specific criteria and guidelines for the pet owner, participating veterinarians as well as the Foundation Board and is structured to act in emergency situations.
Listing of New Jersey vets who participate in the program.
New Jersey-Wayne-Wayne County-
Wayne Township Animal Control
Wayne Animal Control and Help Eliminate Lost Pets (HELP) have been successful in offering a Low Cost Microchip Clinic to our residents. This form of permanent pet identification ensures the safe return of a lost pet if he /she is found and scanned for the microchip. We run clinics concurrent with our free Rabies Clinics 4 times a year. Pre registration is required. The total cost is 22.00. For more details and to sign up please call Animal Control at 973-694-9295 or email us.
Wayne Township offers free Rabies Vaccinations to all dogs and cats. There are three clinics in May and one clinic in November at the Town Garage on Dey Road. Cat or Dog first rabies vaccinations are good for one year; subsequent shots are for a three-year duration. Dogs and cats may be licensed once they have a current rabies vaccination that does not expire before November 1st of each licensing year. Renewals for licenses are every January by mail or in person at the Town Hall 475 Valley Road. License renewals are mailed to pet owners automatically every January.
Information or applications for Low Cost Spay/Neuter programs are available through Animal Control. There are definite health benefits besides cutting down on overpopulation to altering your pet. Please call Animal Control at 973-694-9295 or email us for in depth information on the various programs available and health issues.
New Jersey-Burlington, Camden, Gloucester and Salem Counties-
PetPALS of Southern New Jersey, Inc.
100 Essex Avenue, Suite #300
Bellmawr, NJ
Phone: 856-931-4399
Fax: 856-931-4463
PetPALS of Southern New Jersey is a non-profit New Jersey corporation organized to provide services to the animal companions of people living with terminal, chronic or debilitating illness, or financially needy senior citizens. PetPALS' services are limited based on established policies, including a geographic limitation restricting services to Burlington, Camden, Gloucester and Salem counties.
Partner-veterinarians provide routine professional and emergency services at reduced rates to the organization for the benefit of our clients. More complex medical care is provided at the discretion of PetPALS. Short-term foster care and boarding opportunities are also offered, and permanent adoption can be arranged in extraordinary circumstances. Prospective volunteers are trained for service. PetPALS offers a unique opportunity for all friends of animals to provide a basic, caring service to neighbors living with serious or terminal illnesses, and their beloved animal companions,whether dogs or cats, birds, fish, large or small, domesticated or not.
Our assistance is available to pet-owning people who have a terminal illness, a chronic, debilitating illness, or a financially needy senior citizen, and who reside in Camdem, Gloucester, Salem or Burlington counties. In general, services are only limited by the availability of volunteers and resources, although certain programs are only available to those individuals demonstrating financial need.
Services Offered by PetPALS
In-home Pet Care- We provide volunteers who can walk your dog, clean bird cages and aquariums, exercise your cat and change its litterbox, or simply feed your pets.
Pet Food and Supplies- Assistance is available in obtaining pet food and supplies.
Veterinary Care- We can provide help in obtaining professional pet health care for a pet through our network of partner-veterinarians.
New Jersey-West Milford-
West Milford Animal Shelter
P.O. Box 72 - Lycosky Drive
West Milford, New Jersey 07480
Low cost spay and neuter certificates for cats available.
West Milford Messinger December 24, 2009
West Milford - The township council approved a trap-neuter-return policy for feral cats in West Milford. The policy attempts to ease the problems that over-populations of wild cats can cause in neighborhoods.
This ordinance names the West Milford Animal Shelter Society as a sponsor and gives it the responsibility to review and approve caregivers, those who feed, water and shelter the cats, of feral cat colonies. It also specifies that the shelter will bear any costs for caring for the cats.
Suggest you contact the shelter for more information about their programs for ferals.
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An Introduction to Retail Big Data & Predictive Analytics
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An Introduction to Retail Big Data & Predictive Analytics
Mon, Jul 17, 2017, 10:00 AM – Thu, Jul 20, 2017, 1:00 PM EDT
This workshop is a perfect opportunity for an architect, technology evangelist or manager to gain practical knowledge of best practices for Retail Big Data & Predictive Analytics. Offered by practitioners with decades of experience in Retail, the workshop emphasizes learning in a hands-on environment.
Attendees who complete the course will receive a digital Certificate of Completion. We also provide verification of attendance and successful course completion.
The key take-aways from this workshop include:
Recommendations on Technology Architecture
- Cloud vs. on-premise
- Key components of a big-data environment for Retail
Big Data Extraction, Transformation & Cleansing (PostgreSQL/Redshift & Hadoop)
- Collecting data from corporate, competitor and syndicated data sources
- Real-time event processing
- Job scheduling and error handling in a cloud environment
- Data 'cleansing' for in-stock, promotions & pricing effects
Scalable Analytical Tools & Techniques (R, Python)
- K-means clustering to identify store/customer segmentation based on customer, market and store factors
- Collaborative Filtering to identify item-item similarity as part of a marketing recommendation engine
- Information Gain Analysis, PCA/SVD and Correlation Analysis to select product & assortment attributes that influence sales
- Multi-variate regression modeling of temperature and precipitation to understand seasonality by product category & store
- Self, cross-product and event elasticity to inform price and promotions
- Decision Tree (CART, Random Forest) models to predict expected sales based on product & assortment attributes
- A/B Testing Methods
Data Visualization Tools & Techniques (Tableau)
- Executive dashboard: Understanding retail sales drivers (Traffic, Conversion, UPT, AUR)
- Floor set frequency analysis: shopper cohort by revenue/margin vs. visit frequency
- Size selling & case-pack buying
- A real-world example: A buying tool for merchants


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Capcom Won't Be Creating New Game Properties With Western Developers
Capcom isn't going to stop working with Western game developers, but the era of Capcom tasking them with brand-new franchises is over, according to Capcom president Haruhiro Tsujimoto in an interview with the Financial Times. Blame the poor sales of both Bionic Commando and Dark Void. Read More?
Capcom To Keep New IP Development In Japan
The poor critical and commercial performances of Capcom's Bionic Commando and the recently released Dark Void have caused the publisher to reexamine how it handles development of new and existing properties. Capcom tells GamesIndustry.biz that while Bionic Commando "demonstrated the difficulty of outsourcing the development of new...
GRIN -- A History In Screen Shots
Even though the last few games GRIN produced had trouble connecting with gamers and critics (though I'll hold out a candle for Bionic Commando, if only for its brilliant swinging mechanic), it's always sad when a developer shuts down. In memory, I've collected a screen shot from every game GRIN produced in its eight year history as a company...
Bionic Commando Developer GRIN Officially Shuts Down
GRIN became one of this generation's most talked about developers after the spectacularly well-received Bionic Commando Rearmed, but the studio fell into a series of missteps in 2009, with Wanted: Weapons of Fate, Terminator Salvation and their big-budget reboot of Bionic Commando all failing to find an audience critically or commercially. Now,...
Developer Grin May Be Shutting Down
There might not be much to smile about at Swedish developer Grin's corporate offices. Sources referenced by game blog Gamasutra say the company has seen significant layoffs, and may not be around much longer. Grin's Barcelona and Gothenburg offices have apparently already been shuttered, and its main office in Stockholm may be next. Grin was...
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Bionic Commando Sold Just 27,000 Copies During Its First Month Of Release
Normally, if a particular game manages to do solid enough business, its publisher is most likely willing to look past less than stellar reviews should the game fail to be as received as highly as anticipated. However, if a game fails to charm the critics and fails to sell well, then you have what the French call a "bad...
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Alphabet > Letter S &
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Colors > Green
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Shamrocks or Shawn
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Here are printable materials and some suggestions to present consonant digraph Sh with the topic of the shamrock. Review related topics in the themes column.
Level: Kindergarten and first grade after the basic alphabet sounds have been mastered.
Plants > Shamrock Emblem of Ireland
The shamrock is a three-leafed clover plant. It is an Irish symbol, which according to legend was coined by Saint Patrick for the Holy Trinity, Traditionally, the shamrock is worn on the lapel on St. Patrick's Day. March 17th.
A "lucky clover", or four-leaf clover is when a rare four leaflet occurs in a clover it is said to be lucky, and the leaves represent hope, faith, love and the fourth one, luck. This variation is not a shamrock.
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Explain that when letter 'S' and 'h' "tag along together" they make the Sh sound. Invite children to make the sound.
Finger tracing > Trace the Sh's in upper and lower case with your finger as you also sound out the digraph. Invite the children to do the same on their coloring page (first presentation) or handwriting practice worksheet.
Pencil Tracing > On the handwriting worksheet, encourage the children to trace the dotted letters, and demonstrate the direction of the arrows and numbers that help them trace the letter correctly. During the demonstration, you may want to count out loud as you trace so children become aware of how the number order aids them in the writing process.
Coloring Activity > Encourage the children to color the image and focus on the color green.
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Highland Perthshire has much to offer
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Highland Perthshire - free Guide and Website.
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Open to everyone 7 days a week.
"one of the best hidden gems in the world"
Buggies available, lessons, clubs for hire,
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Atholl Bike hire. Explore Highland Perthshire by
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natural mountain bike trails in the UK. Route information,
advice, trailers or child seats and even a packed lunch! All the
bikes are quality, fully maintained TREK bikes and are suitable
for off and on-road cycling. To book, or for more information
Tel: 01796 481500 Food in the Park cafe, Museum Car Park, Blair
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Adventure Outdoors - is an outdoor adventure
centre offering outdoor activities for adults, children and
families. Including white water rafting, kayaking, duckying,
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27th May to 9th September 7.45pm
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Forest Enterprise Tel: 01350
National Trust for Scotland. Tel: 01350 728641
Dam, Fish Ladder, Festival Theatre Circular Walk. This
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ancient settlement of Port-na-craig to the fish ladder and
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Along the route are the Festival Theatre, Port-na-craig Inn,
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Service offers two superb booklets, which open
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Way-marked Trails: This 10-page booklet provides details
of 6 way-marked routes ranging from 1 mile to 10 miles through
woodlands, along rivers and over heather-clad hills. Cycle
Routes from Blair Atholl: This booklet highlights 4 cycle
trails with a detailed area map included. Both booklets can be
obtained from the Atholl Estates Ranger's Office (beside the
Atholl Country Life Museum) in Blair Atholl. Tel: 01796 481355
Pitlochry Walks Leaflet,
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passing shaded woodland and climbing steep hillsides with
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The countryside is famous for
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PITLOCHRY PUTTING green.
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OPEN 7 days April to October £2.75 adult, £1.75 Child and OAP,
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Rie- Achan Road,on the way to the dam and fish ladder.
Taymouth Marina. The new Watersports and Activity
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range from the onsite luxury accommodation. The new waterfront
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The town was founded by Doad king shankar sahai. Hence the name: garh (Home of) shankar (Founders' name). Garhshankar was founded in 1000. AD by Shankar Sahai Doad, that time king.Garhshankar was converted as a Tehsil in the year of 1844 by British Govt. Doad is the surname that belongs to Rajput Caste.Majority of them live in Block number 22 of Garhshankar, especially in the upper villages of Garhshankar popularly known as BEET.In old times this area was under one king ( Shri Tikka Rana Saheb, Eldest son of the King is normally called Shri Tikka Saheb) who controlled all villages from Garhi Mansowal. In 1775, the Tika of The Ghorewahas conquered Garhshankar, killing the Doad King. Later during the reign of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, when he wanted to conquer the sub-mountainous region of Kandi, the Doads of Mansowal sent fifteen horse riders to help Maharaja Ranjit Singh in order to avenge their massacre by the Ghorewahas. In return, Maharaja granted the Doads the property of the lands of Mansowal. The British Empire also granted the property of eight villages to Doad Rajputs of Mansowal. This information is recorded on page 67 in Final Report of Revised Settlement, Hoshiarpur District, 1877-1884, by J. A. L. Montgomery, published 1885, Calcutta Central Press Co. After the slaughter of Doads at Garh Shankar, five grandsons of the last Doad King survived. The youngest grandson of the last Doad King, who was also killed Korewans, was married to a girl from Ajnoha. During the Garhshankar tragedy, the wife of the youngest prince was at her parents house in Ajnoha because she was expecting a baby. She gave birth to a son. In those days, it was not considered good to keep the son of a daughter in the village. Therefore, when the young prince became an adult in 1800, the villagers of Ajnoha built a house for him in the land of another village, Panchhat. In the course of time, his cousins, the sons of his two uncles, who were homeless until then, finally came to live with him in Panchhat. The son of his third uncle, whose name was Ghamandi, also came to live in with him. The brother of Ghamandi, named Jattu, went to live in Thakarwal.
Garhshankar is a city, near by the Shivalik Valleys, and having Punjab Himachal border near by. Distance from other cities is as given below:- Jalandhar = 62.5 KM , Amritsar = 143 KM, Ludhiana = 62.8 KM, Nangal = 42 KM, Chandigarh = 100 KM, Hoshiarpur = 45 KM, Khatkar Kalan = 18 KM (birth place of Sardar Bhagat Singh)
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Established in 1990, the Futures program is an effort to continually raise the level of field hockey in the United States by developing athletes for future consideration to the U.S. National Teams. Athletes train at their Futures site for 7 sessions from January through May. Futures athletes undergo elite-level training to improve their skills and develop a tactical understanding of the game.
At the conclusion of the Training Academies, each of the nine regions conduct a Regional Futures Tournament where the top athletes are selected to their respective Regional Teams for the Under 16 and Under 19 age groups. Under 14 athletes will be selected to move on to National Futures Championship and will play on mixed teams. The Under 16 and Under 19 Regional Teams will compete at the National Futures Championship. From the National Futures Championship, athletes will have the opportunity to be selected to various other elite programs, including the U.S. Junior National Teams and AAU Junior Olympics.
The inaugural Presidents' Day Showcase (PDS) held February 13-15 in Lakewood Ranch, Fla., marked the first time Futures Program athletes could be evaluated at a tournament for possible advancement into a Level I Futures training site. USA Field Hockey's selection team evaluated more than 100 athletes from across the country who had been recommended by their club team coaches. There was no cost to the athlete and all evaluations were done during regular pool play.
Based on the positive feedback received from the pilot program at PDS, the USA Field Hockey Futures Program has decided to offer similar selection opportunities at the 2016 National Hockey Festival being held in West Palm Beach, Fla. November 24-27. The next opportunity for this advancement selection will be at the 2017 National Hockey Showcase in Lakewood Ranch, Fla. from February 3-5, 2017.
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Online shoppers praise the ease and convenience of shopping with the click of a mouse and now, their habit is safer than ever
Technological innovation has made people's lives easier and more comfortable. A lot of things can now be done with a single mouse-click, literally. Watching movies, sending mail or shopping no longer require getting dressed, having to get into the car, navigating through narrow aisles between stacked shelves, and standing in the check-out queues. People can just lean back in their living rooms and browse through the broad range of offers online. Thanks to Klarna this experience is not only comfortable, but it is also safe.
Founded in 2005, Klarna – original name Kreditor – is the brainchild of three students, Sebastian Siemiatkowski, Victor Jacobsson and Niklas Adalberth, who met at the Stockholm School of Economics. The men's vision was to make online shopping simpler and safer. Ideally, creating a smooth undertaking that would eliminate the customer's hesitation of paying online and the retailers concern about credit and fraud risks.
The company, of which Siemiatkowski is the CEO, knows what makes consumer feel safe. "Klarna lets the consumer get the goods, actually see and feel them before payment," he explains.
The benefit for the participating e-stores is a revenue increase thanks to "an extremely high ease-of-use, which leads to […] more returning customers for the merchant."
Klarna further provides the retailers with a high level of security standards and risk analysis to increase trust and security.
"You have to believe in yourself and your idea so much so that you are prepared to put everything on the line"
Like any young company Klarna had to face challenges along the way and find people who would support its vision. "You have to believe in yourself and your idea so much so that you are prepared to put everything on the line," Siemiatkowski emphasises.
"So far we have not faced anything we could not handle or had not planned for in advance," he adds.
After seven years the company has conquered six countries and is currently introducing safe and simple online payments in a seventh, Austria. The experience gathered over the years, combined with a strong local focus, has helped Klarna develop a solid approach to any kind of new territory.
Klarna offers three payment systems, of which invoicing constitutes the strong core, but it is supported by an instalment service and "at the same time we see an amazing increase in demand for mobile payments. A lot of the industry growth is believed to happen in this area."
Klarna is growing not geographically and technologically, but also looking at the current number of employees (766), it is growing internally. With 2012 coming to an end, the company has more than seven million customers and is one of Europe's fastest growing.
"This is a very exciting time both for us and the industry as a whole," Siemiatkowski says before disclosing Klarna's New Year resolution. "We intend to continue to grow in both existing and new markets in the coming year."
Europe is only the first step towards a future in which Klarna sees itself as the world's leading provider of invoice-based online payments and creator of a shopping experience that is fun and safe for both sides.
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Ampelis Riefferii Boissonneau, 1840, "Bogotá", Colombia.Closely related to P. intermedia, and has been treated as conspecific; in addition to differences in plumage (especially tail colour), however, the two overlap in range in C Peru and in some areas occur together, although they differ in attitudinal range. Distinctive race tallmanorum, from outlying mountains E of main Andean range, may merit species status. Race confusa possibly better merged with chachapoyas. Six subspecies recognized (Snow 2004).
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Male Male nominate race has
Other races
Races differ mainly in
Diagnostic description
Male Male nominate race has
- hood blackish-green down to chest,
- collar hood bordered by yellow (except on nape)
- nape -
- green above
- white tips of tertials
- yellow below
- green streaks increasingly denser towards flanks
- iris - dark red-brown;
- bill - bright red;
- legs - red or orange-red
- no hood or collar, has
- head and forebody to breast plain green
- is dark olive-green above
- dull olive with yellow streaks below;
- adult plumage apparently acquired soon after fledging
Other races
Races differ mainly in
- size
- shade of hood and amount of
- green markings on underparts of male
- contrasting wings, more
- solid yellow on central underparts
- male hood glossy black (not greenish)
- female has ill-defined yellow collar
- occidentalis male has throat and chest washed greenish, pale tertial tips less marked
- chachapoyas is small, male hood black, underparts well marked with green streaks
- confusa is like last, but male with more greenish upper breast and more strongly marked central underparts
- tallmanorum is smallest, has brighter red eyes, male has glossiest black hood, unmarked yellow lower breast and belly, female lower underparts broadly streaked green (Snow 2004)
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Intelligence and the Neurosciences: Second Installment
In the first installment of these two blogs on Intelligence and the Neurosciences I recounted some of the important progress that has been made establishing the genetic, neurophysiological, and neuroanatomical underpinning of individual differences in cognition, i.e. of intelligence. The findings are steps toward establishing a theory of the biological basis of intelligence. In this blog I am going to turn the argument around, and argue that for many aspects of psychology a purely biological approach is not all that useful.
In the end all of psychology reduces to biology. (The only alternative explanation would be the influence of good and bad angels, and that is a topic quite outside of science!). However there are situations where it does not pay to think about behavior in biological terms. This argument stems from two things; a view of theory that may owe more to engineering than psychology, and a specialization of the concept of Brunswikian symmetry, about which a bit more later.
First an anecdote. A number of years (quite a number of years) ago I was in a meeting of department chairs, where our new Executive Vice President was extolling the virtues of goal-based management of academic departments. After telling us about the wonders of having clearly stated, objectively defined goals for research he turned to the Chair of the Physics Department, and said
"Ron, what are the goals of Physics?"
The physicist answered
"To understand the nature of the universe."
The VP asked the Chair if he wanted to be more specific. The Chair said "No."
The Chair was taking the classic reductionist view of science. Physics deals with the fundamental nature of physical forces and objects. Chemistry deals with the ways in which the basic elements uncovered by physicists can bond to create the materials we deal with. Biology then deals with how these materials form living things, geology deals with non-living things. Psychology sits on top of biology (with special concern for a particular species; us). Continuing on the reductionist path, Sociology and Economicsshould be derived from Psychology. And on we go. According to this view the purpose of a theory in Psychology is to connect behavior to its biological roots. Viewed this way, the modern emphasis on neuroscience is both understandable and highly desirable.
The reductionist approach assumes that "the truth" lays somewhere, and that science progresses by closer and closer approximations to that truth. This view is rather like the 19th century explorer's quest for the source of the Nile. The Nile had to arise somewhere. Starting in Roman times, successive explorations developed new approximations, until finally it was realized that the Nile was produced by the confluence of two rivers, one arising from a huge spring and swamp in Southern Sudan and the other arising from Lake Victoria. Similarly, we know that the brain controls behavior. Sufficient research should reveal the mechanisms of its action.
While reductionism is one of the goals of theory building, there is another. Theories provide models to guide action. When a theory is used this way it has to be stated at the same level of generality as the actions it dictates. When engineers and highway architects lay out plans for a road they think of vehicles as solid objects, capable of certain degrees of acceleration, deceleration and turning…all concepts rooted in Newtonian physics. The civil engineer and the architect do not want, and could not use, a quantum-level description of a car. The variables they control; lane widths, highway curvature and so forth, are defined at the ordinary level of everyday perception. Their model of the object they want to control, the vehicle, has to be at that level. Newtonian physics works just fine.
Egon Brunswik, a Hungarian psychologist who emigrated to the University of Califonia, Berkeley, in the 1930s, provided us with an argument for thinking about theory this way in Psychology. Brunswik argued that because animals in general (and people in particular) are embedded in an environment their behavior has to be understood in terms that connect with the environment. Consider learning, i.e. changes in behavior over time as a result of exposure to an environment. From a reductionist viewpoint the challenge for the neurosciences is to explain how the behavioral changes are related to changes in the state of the brain. Brunswik would (probably) have argued that the challenge for psychology is to model how regularities in the environment map onto regular changes in behavior. More generally, in order to construct an environment for controlling behavior…be it a school or a prison or an advertising campaign…models of human thought should be stated in terms of psychological constructs, such as working memory capacity, speed of decision making, and probability of recall of information from long term memory, without regard to how these constructs are realized by brain structures.
Education: Teachers deal with students at the behavioral level, not the neurophysiological level. Teachers can use information about the relative benefits of spaced vs. massed instruction, different types of rehearsal, patterns of language use that indicate dyslexia, behavioral ways to aid students in maintaining attention (which may be as simple as seating the affected student in the front of the room), the cost and benefits of repeated testing, and the identification of gifted students (including but not limited to the use of intelligence tests). It is true that language is substantially a left hemisphere function, that attention is controlled by circuits in the prefrontal cortex and the cingulate gyrus, and that the development of retrievable memories depends upon the functioning of the hippocampus. All these findings are central to understanding the neural basis of behavior, but they are only of passing interest to educators.
Personnel selection: Personnel selection represents an attempt to predict what behaviors a person is likely to emit in a target situation. This can vary from passing university courses (predictive device: The SAT) to showing up on time for a job (test of conscientiousness). Looked at abstractly, selection tests present a person with a problem or situation and ask the examinee to make a voluntary response saying what he or she would do. The predictive power of the test comes from correlations between overt behaviors in the test and target situation, not from correlations between brain states that may underlie behavior in either test or target situation. Brunswikian symmetry applies.
Decision Making: Classical economics assumes that humans will be rational decision makers, who maximize their expected utility. See, for instance, Von Neumann and Morgenstern's Theory of games and economic behavior, a work that is central to economics. Psychologists doubt that people are so rational, and as a matter of fact Nobel prizes have been awarded to two people (Herbert Simon and Daniel Kahneman) who pointed out that such rationality just is not there. Simon argued out that people have limited information processing capacity, and thus often select a satisfactory but easily identified alternative rather than searching for the best alternative available to them. (Think about buying a new car. At a certain point you just get tired of looking.) Kahneman and his colleagues extended Simon's observations by showing that we have all sorts of heuristics for decision making that work pretty well, most of the time, but that can lead us astray.
In the last ten years or so research on the neurolscientific underpinnings of decision making has shown that (a) decision making, like most problem solving, depends largely on the working of the prefrontal cortex, in combination with the cingulate cortex but (b) when the decision makng involves emotional content the activities of the prefrontal and (especially) cingulate cortex are also influenced by signals from "emotion centers" of the brain, and in particular a structure called the amygdala.
Now, let us put these things together and, because it is an election year, apply the combination of facts to politics.
One of the strongest "irrational" influences on decision making is framing. For instance, Kahneman and his colleagues showed that people are more likely to take an action that is presented as a way of avoiding a loss than if it is presented as a way of acquiring a profit, even though the anticipated economic value of the action is the same in either case. George Lakoff, a psycholinguist at the University of Berkeley, has pointed out that politicians avidly exploit the framing effect. One of his telling examples is the phrase "tax relief," which he points out implies that tax is an affliction for which relief is appropriate. An alternative would be to present taxes as dues that we pay for the privilege of living in a prosperous society. Viewed that way, taxes are not quite such an affliction.
Presumably some frames work and others do not. (Intuitively, I think "tax relief" does and "citizenship dues" does not.) Understanding how frames are used to sway opinions in electioneering and advertising is an important topic in social psychology. Studies of the use of frames do not require a neuroscientific analysis of the brain mechanisms involved in decision making. It is sufficient to know that emotional content influences decision making. Knowing where in the brain the emotional content arose, although certainly an important step toward the reductionist goals of science, is not a requirement for the study of propaganda!
Brunswikian symmetry again!


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From WICKED to ADDAMS FAMILY, Broadway will have a fun Halloween for kids
The Columbus Dispatch - October 30, 2010 08:55 AM
(Caption: Meredith Viera and a young Broadway performer help promote the annual Kids Night on Broadway. File photo
It's "Boo" time on Broadway. But instead of booing the shows, many kids will be scaring up Halloween treats, starting with the treat of enjoying a Broadway show. Kids' Night on Broadway will take place this year on Halloween. Expect little Elphabas, Billy Elliots, Simbas, ballerinas and Addams Family kids - offstage as well as on. "We're looking forward to seeing how Broadway characters inspire kids who love Broadway during Halloween, and all year long," said Charlotte St. Martin, Executive Director of The Broadway League.
(Caption: Elphaba in the musical Wicked. File photo)
Besides all the special-effects trits and star-studded treats onstage in kid-friendly shows from Wicked to Mary Poppins, young theatergoers will be encouraged to dress up in Halloween costume to attend shows on Sunday Oct. 31 in New York. The annual kids night is when kids from ages 6 to 18 can see Broadway shows for free when accompanied by a full-paying adult.
Among the participating* shows: BROADWAY THE ADDAMS FAMILY AMERICAN IDIOT BILLY ELLIOT THE MUSICAL CHICAGO FELA! LA CAGE AUX FOLLES THE LION KING LOMBARDI MAMMA MIA! MARY POPPINS MEMPHIS NEXT TO NORMAL THE PEE-WEE HERMAN SHOW THE PITMEN PAINTERS PROMISES, PROMISES RAIN - A TRIBUTE TO THE BEATLES ON BROADWAY WICKED
OFF BROADWAY AVENUE Q JOHN TARTAGLIA'S IMAGINOCEAN STOMP THE 39 STEPS (*Subject to change, and some shows not available for all performances)
(*subject to change, and some shows not available for all performances)
The KIDS' NIGHT ON BROADWAY ticket includes pre-theatre parties, restaurant discounts, parking discounts, special kids' souvenir program provided by PLAYBILL and Theatre Development Fund, and more. To kick off this year's event, there will be a pre-theater Halloween party from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday Oct. 31 at Madame Tussauds New York.
KIDS' NIGHT ON BROADWAY SOUVENIR PLAYBILL Written by teens, this special Halloween edition of Playbill will be an extra fun keepsake for young theatre fans. Generously provided by PLAYBILL and the Theatre Development Fund, it is provided free of charge to all kids who attend the theatre on Kids' Night on Broadway, and is available for download at KidsNightonBroadway.com .
Tickets to participating shows are on sale for the 2010 event, which celebrates the 60th Anniversary of Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF, one of the longest-running youth volunteer initiatives in America. For 60 years, Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF has served as The Original Kids Helping Kids® campaign, providing America's children with a fun and effective way to make a difference in the lives of the world's children.
IF YOU GO To check out the Broadway possibilities for the 2010 Kids Night on Broadway, visit www.KidsNightonBroadway.com
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Couple celebrates 80 years of marriage. What's their secret?
"Couple Celebrates 80 Years of Marriage!"
Just a sensational headline? Incredibly, no!
The latest in a number of marriages highlighted in the news over the past year tell the remarkable story of Mitchell and Mattie Atkins of West Philadelphia.
Married on January 14th, 1930, they were honored recently by family and friends at an anniversary party celebrating an incredibly rare 80 years together.
Mr. and Mrs. Atkins join a very small but extraordinary group of other couples who have celebrated an 80 year wedding anniversary. What are the secrets these amazing unions hold for us? Is it possible for love to last a lifetime?
Bill and Marie Decaro held the distinction of being the longest married couple in America on June 19th, 2009 when they celebrated their 80th wedding anniversary. When interviewed, they both said that laughter helps make every day special.
As does good communication, it appears: "We don't believe in getting mad at each other, we express ourselves, but that's the extent of it," Mr. Decaro said.
In Britain, Walter and Beatrice Postings, married on March 27th, 1929, related the following in an interview at their anniversary party: "It's all about give and take". Mrs. Postings is even more succinct saying, "I just love him and that's it."
They still hold hands on their frequent walks and when enjoying each other's company in the lounge at the residence home in which they live.
Is love destined to fade? Clearly, the answer is no. But there are things we can learn from those who have formed such a deep and lasting connection.
It's Mr. Atkins who reveals many of the "secrets" that we as therapists know and impart to our clients. Let me share three of the most important with you now:
Secret #1 Don't Deny the Power of Chemistry!
"She was the prettiest thing in the whole world," said Mr. Atkins, 97. "And she's still the loveliest, he said. "I fell for her right away, the first time I saw her. I liked the way she dressed and her hair. She was active. She was energetic."
Ah, the power of attraction is chemistry; it sets the relationship in motion and as Mr. Atkins so movingly relates, it can last a lifetime!
Romantic love, symbolized in art, song, literature – and movies (!) as "Cupid's Arrow" and "Love Potion #9", is actually chemistry between lovers.
Endorphins, the "feel good" hormones, are responsible for that first rush of excitement and pleasure. Known as the romantic love stage, this is the initial time chemistry is felt between the couple.
Once the relationship deepens, Oxytocin, a hormone that acts as a neurotransmitter, known as the "cuddle hormone" is released helping form a bond and increased level of attachment to one another.
Derived from the Greek for "swift birth", Oxytocin was most commonly known for its effect in three areas: 1) the stimulation of breast milk; 2) the stimulation of uterine contractions during childbirth; and 3) maternal bonding.
In fact, recent research shows that Oxytocin has a great deal of effect on our social behavior as well. Produced by both males and females, Oxytocin has the added benefit of producing feelings of security and contentment. It's responsible for our feelings of calm and connection with our lover and is key to bonding.
Interestingly, Oxytocin is unique in that the more that is released, the better the feelings and feedback, and these feelings in turn release more Oxytocin.
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A $460,000 gang-prevention grant from the city of Columbus was supposed to help youth resolve conflicts peacefully, which makes it all the more disappointing that this important effort was hampered because the adults in charge couldn't seem to get along.
It's unclear who is to blame, but three of the Urban League's eight gang-intervention counselors told The Dispatch that they quit this spring in frustration. They cited a power struggle between their boss and a City Hall coordinator, whom they said disagreed on who was in charge and how the program should be run. Often, the two leaders overruled each other.
This kind of turmoil isn't just bad for employee morale, it affects the work.
David Hodo, a former gang-violence intervention counselor, cited a tragic example: A bright 17-year-old boy gunned down last month on a South Side sidewalk. Hodo said he'd had spent the past year trying to pull Lamont "Mont Blood" Frazier out of the Bomb Squad clique, a branch of the Bloods gang, talking to him about a better life. He thought Lamont could have been saved, but a few months before the shooting, Hodo left the program, tired of being caught in the bureaucratic crossfire.
Urban League Director Stephanie Hightower called the three "disgruntled former employees." But many people who quit a job in frustration are disgruntled. That doesn't necessarily discredit their complaints.
However, she has taken action, including reassigning the Urban League's program coordinator, Dorian Wingard. This ends any conflict with the mayor's anti-gang violence coordinator, Corey Leftridge.
And while Mayor Michael B. Coleman said he's satisfied with the program and disagreed that the conflict affected services to teens, this year the city did opt to split the program's second-year grant with another nonprofit. City officials said this had nothing to do with the friction between the city and the League.
Any new program will have, as Hightower put it, "kinks" that need to be worked out. Sometimes, people have personality clashes that get in the way of doing a job. And, frankly, this is an important task. Gang-related violence is a significant factor in the city's homicide rate. The program claims credit for resolving disputes that helped avert gang violence at last year's Juneteenth Festival, the Ohio State Fair and at Red, White and Boom.
Coleman is absolutely correct that this community needs to mentor youth to prevent them from getting into gangs, or get them out of gangs, and redirect them to healthy recreation programs, jobs and educational opportunities.
Now is a good time for all involved to redouble their efforts to reduce gang violence and get this outreach program back on track — before another young man, searching for some semblance of belonging, ends up in a gang and then on a coroner's table.