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Super sorry guys! I meant to post this the other day, but I didn't have it all typed up. I was busy with a history project and my Latin class :)
So I now present to you the last chapter of Time To Start My New Life.
1 month later
It was the day of the wedding Nellie was in her room getting ready. She didn't have a formal wedding dress, so she used a flowing, white spring dress. She finished her hair and make up, then stood in front of the mirror.
"You look beautiful mum." Toby said shocked in the door way. He knew his mum was very pretty, but today it was different. She liked raidient. He couldn't recall a time when she looked so happy.
"Oh do you really think so Toby?" There was a hint of doubt in her eyes.
"With out a doubt ma'am." He said firmly. "With out a doubt." He put his arm out for her to take, and guided her out to the beach where Sweeney an the minister were waiting. In the month before the wedding Mrs. Lovett, soon to be Todd, taught Toby the correct manners and actions of a true gentleman. He had become quite the young man in that short month and Nellie could not be anymore proud. She loved Toby beyond words, and he was her son.
Toby walked her down the aisle to Sweeney.
Sweeney had reluctantly bonded with Toby, after a lot of pushing, shoving, and screaming from Nellie. She had made then go to town to buy fishing rods and go fishing. That day had consisted of a lot of rather awkward silence. Neither of them had been fishing before, and hasn't a clue what to do. When they came home empty handed Nellie said it was the fact that they did something together. Sweeney. Couldn't fathom why they couldn't just sit at home in silence, instead of having to walk all the way to town and then to the river. When he said this Toby couldn't help but laugh. But the real bonding moment was when Nellie had them play a game of chess. Toby said how he was always interested in the barber's work. Pirelli had not shown him too much, but what he did Toby loved. And so Sweeney offered to teach him. And now every Wednesday the shop is Toby's.
When Nellie got to Sweeney she kissed Toby's cheek and took Sweeney's hands. And the ceremony began.
"I pronounce you man and wife. You may kiss your bride." The minister declared as he closed his book.
They both leaned in with out hesitation for the kiss. It was slow and sweet, the perfect kiss.
They had done it. They had finally gotten married. Nellie had only dreamed of this moment. And now that her dream was finally a reality, she didn't know what her dream was now.
"I love you Nell" he said again as his lips covered hers once more.
"I love you too" he kissed her again. "I'm so glad we're married." His lips fell to hers once more.
"I couldn't be happier" he said as he wrapped her in his arms and kissed her head.
They fell asleep like that early in the morning. After a long night of passion the did not plan on getting up. They were content to lay in each others arms.
Everything was perfect.
His new life had begun.
So I'm super sorry it's short. It actually ended a completely different way then what I thought when I first started this. I always planned for Nellie to die. Even though I love her dearly and was so upset when she died in the movie, it's just the way I pictured it. But the story took on a life of its own.
Thank you Everyone who has followed, favorited, read and reviewed! You are all so great for sticking through with this fic! You are amazing and I love you all!
Side note: I hope to have my up coming stories posted soon.
But once again thank you and I hope you enjoyed this fic! :). There shall be the epilogue soon!


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What happens if kids are the only hope to save humans from aliens? "Attack the Block" will provide the answer and a preview to the battle between the extraterrestrial things and the unlikely forces has been provided in a form of an international trailer debuted by Empire Online.
It all starts one night when Sam is walking home in a scary South London tower block and is robbed by a gang of hooded youths. She flees when the gang are attacked by a small alien creature which falls from the sky.
While Sam and the police hunt for the gang, a second wave of creatures falls. The gang grab weapons, mount bikes, and set out to defend their turf. But this time, the creatures are much bigger. Savage and bestial, nothing will stand in their way. And the bunch of no-hope kids who just attacked Sam are about to become her only hope.
Nick Frost, Jodie Whittaker and Luke Treadaway are among the actors supporting the movie. Directed and written by Joe Cornish, British sci-fi comedy "Attack the Block" will arrive in U.K. May 11 but has not gotten a U.S. release date.

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In this article we look at Shih Tzu training and how best you can train your dog. Training Shih Tzus are essential - especially if you desire for them to live harmoniously with you and your family.
Shih Tzus are wonderful, spunky and gregarious dogs despite their small size and royal appearance. These dogs have their origins in China and Tibet and are known as the lion or chrysanthemum dog. The Shih Tzu is highly regarded by the Chinese for their friendly disposition as well as their keen guard dog instincts. However, these dogs aren't exactly the easiest to train and require special knowledge of their particular characteristics for you to understand how to train a Shih Tzu.
The Shih Tzu dog is generally a very friendly and cheerful dog; however, when it comes to training there are a few points you should note. For one, this animal is very sensitive to moods, human emotion and personality traits. If you come off as harsh or brash in your commands and training methods, a typical Shih Tzu will simply not respond. These dogs are prideful and if they feel you are overbearing or demanding they will ignore your wishes and cut off contact. If you think about it... you wouldn't like being treated that way either!
Most Shih Tzu dogs require a lot of praise and affection during training. They often enjoy being the center of attention and if you want them to obey commands, you will have to lavish them with praise and positive reinforcement.
There are two main techniques that are utilized for effective Shih Tzu training which can be categorized as either behavioral or obedience. These two techniques are tied together as the behavior of your dog will determine how well they respond to you and your commands i.e. obedience training.
An important aspect of owning a dog is to make sure you are the pack leader. If you don't establish yourself as the top honcho, then your Shih Tzu will definitely become the king of your home! If your dog doesn't recognize you as the pack leader this can lead to numerous problems such as aggression, dominance, incessant barking, attacking other humans and dogs as well as being a general nuisance around the home.
So how do you establish yourself as the pack leader? This isn't an overnight process and requires constant work on your part. You must never be aggressive or be abusive to your Shih Tzu as this will not assert your position but cause more problems. In simple terms, all you have to do is adopt the attitude of a leader. A leader is calm, in control and makes decisions that positively affect their subordinates. You have to build respect by outlining clear boundaries and making it crystal clear what behavior is acceptable and what isn't.
After you've established yourself as the pack leader, teaching your Shih Tzu some basic commands as well as how to respond to a clicker shouldn't be too difficult.
Some of these basic commands are: sit, heel, no, stay and down. You can teach your Shih Tzu these commands on your own using some doggy treats and a lot of patience.
For example, in teaching him/her to sit, you can stand in front of them and hold the treat just above their reach and say "Sit". Keep holding it there and repeat the command until they sit. If your dog doesn't sit, gently yet firmly nudge their behind to the ground. When they do sit, immediately give the treat and praise your dog. You will have to keep doing this until your Shih Tzu makes the connection between the word "sit" and the action of sitting and eventually you won't need to use the treat but only the command. The "sit" command should be one of the first Shih Tzu training lessons that you and your dog practice on.
Another command you will need to teach is "down." The method is the same as above; however, you will be holding the treat to the ground so that your Shih Tzu will have to lie down. When he does lie down, be sure to praise and reward him/her.
This word-action-treat/praise is the main process that you can use to train your dog with each different command. With training Shih Tzu's, consistency and praise are the best tricks you can use to teach your dog.
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A clicker is a very effective Shih Tzu training tool and is used to let your dog recognize good behavior and bad behavior. The clicker does exactly what it sounds like - it clicks. One click typically means that the dog has completed a task as expected and two clicks is a reprimand. To enforce the meanings of these clicks you can give your dog a treat after you click once and don't give him any after two clicks. This will quickly teach your Shih Tzu the difference and its meaning.
Many people choose to use a clicker because it is easier than always having to watch their tone of voice which may not always have the correct intonation. Using clicker devices can certainly make Shih Tzu training a whole lot easier and stress free for both you and your dog.
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Vincent Curatola (mob boss Johnny Sack on The Sopranos) has joined the upcoming crime thriller Cogan's Trade. He'll star alongside Brad Pitt, James Gandolfini, Sam Rockwell, Casey Affleck and Mark Ruffalo.
Curatola will star as a middle-aged man recently released from jail who seeks revenge on those who sent him to prison. The film begins shooting in New Orleans later this month and is being produced by The Weinstein Co. and Pitt's Plan B Entertainment.
Andrew Dominick will direct the film which is based on the 1974 George V. Higgins novel of the same name. Pitt stars as Jackie Cogan, a hard-boiled enforcer in gangland Boston. The movie is scheduled for an early 2012 theatrical release.
I loved his character on The Sopranos and think he'll be perfect in the role. This is really going to be a great cast and I can't wait to see the film. It will be great to see Curatola and Gandolfini on screen again.
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Iain joined the Princeton faculty in late 2007. Previously he was Royal Society University Research Fellow in the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, and Junior Research Fellow in the Sciences at Balliol College, Oxford. He did his PhD in Biology at the University of Bath, UK, with Professor Nigel R. Franks. His work aims to reveal the fundamental principles that underlie evolved collective behavior, and consequently his research includes the study of a wide range of biological systems, from cellular and insect swarms to fish schools and human crowds. His favourite band is Pixies. He is a member of the Faculty of 1000 Biology and in recognition of his research he was recipient of a Searle Scholar Award in 2008, the Mohammed Dahleh Award in 2009, Popular Science Magazines "Brilliant 10″ award in 2010, PopTech Science and Public Leadership award in 2011, National Geographic Emerging Explorer Award in 2012 and The Zoological Society of London Scientific Medal in 2013.
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Sean is a behavioral ecologist and mathematical modeler interested in the role that individual-level diversity (in personality, ability, or decision making processes) plays in determining the overall performance of the group. In particular, can this diversity simultaneously enhance both sensitivity and accuracy, and is it readily evolvable. Sean received his PhD in Animal Behavior with Dr. Andy Sih at the University of California at Davis, focusing how the personality composition of groups or populations affects the ecological performance of those groups.
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Andrew is a theoretical biologist with a background in statistics and applied mathematics. He has used experiments along with computational and mathematical tools to scale up individual-level physiological and sensory mechanisms to their population and ecosystem-level consequences. He is also interested in bio-inspired technology and design. He earned his PhD from the University of Florida under Jamie Gillooly in Biology and Scott McKinley in Mathematics.
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Pawel is a theoretical physicist who is interested in application of statistical physics and stochastic processes to biological and ecological problems. In particular he has worked on mathematical models of collective motion in biology, as well as related problems of pattern formation and self-propelled motion from a physics perspective. He earned his PhD in theoretical physics from the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. Currently he is a P.R.I.M.E. postdoctoral fellow interested in modeling and data analysis of collective information processing in fish schools.
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Jaan is a Physics Ph.D. student hailing from Canada, where graduated with a Joint Honours degree in Mathematics and Physics from McGill University in 2013.
He is interested in the mechanics of collective behaviour, game theory, machine learning, computational neuroscience, and science outreach. Previously, he has worked in theoretical condensed matter physics, biochemistry, and biophysics.
Jaan is grateful for the support of the 2013 Julie Payette-NSERC Research Scholarship, the Delta Upsilon Memorial Scholarship, and the McGill Moyse Travelling Scholarship.
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Joseph is a Ph.D. student in Ecology and Evolutionary biology. He earned a B.S. in neuroscience and an M.S. in biology from Bowling green State University, while working with Dr. Sheryl Coombs. His previous research focused on understanding how fish integrate sensory information in order to cope with the destabilizing effects of water currents. During this time, he briefly worked with schools of fish, which fascinated him and familiarized him with the Couzin lab. Upon finishing his masters, he was determined to return to collective behavior, leading him to contact Iain and join the lab. He is interested in understanding the sensory and neural basis of collective behavior, and how it changes throughout development.
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Mircea is a Ph.D student in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology interested in collective decision-making of cells and its role in metazoan evolution. He earned a double-bachelor degree in Biochemistry and Computer Science from the University of New Brunswick, Canada in 2012. He has held sponsored research internships on a variety of topics ranging from drug discovery to quantum computing, and has also written a history book in his spare time. He is also interested in bio-inspired algorithms and computer graphics.
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Matt is a graduate student in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. He is interested in how information flow through groups is affected by the behavioral composition of group members. As an undergraduate at the University of Illinois, Matt researched the relative importance of different antipredator benefits of shoaling in threespine stickleback. He then spent a year in Germany studying sleep and social foraging in great tits at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, funded by a Fulbright grant. On the side, Matt keeps a blog on biology, academia, and metal music.
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Olivia is a first year graduate student in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Having previously completed research in the Collective Behavior Lab as an undergraduate, she decided to use the personal information she gained from this experience to inform her choice of graduate program. With a background in psychology, neuroscience, animal behavior and evolutionary biology, Olivia is most intrigued by behavioral questions best answered by interdisciplinary approaches. In 2013, she graduated Princeton University with an A.B. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Her current research involves exploring a rather reciprocal arrangement: How do consistent individual differences among zebrafish (Danio rerio) alter the behavior of fellow group members, and in turn, how does the current state of a group influence the behavior of the individual? Other interests include collective human behaviors and science communication.
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Andrew is a Physics Ph.D. student studying large fish schools. He is particularly interested in the dynamics of individual interaction rules and understanding the implications of group structure on information processing in multi-agent biological systems.
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As an undergraduate, Albert read about Iain's research and flocked to England to spend a summer in his lab, then located at the University of Oxford. There he began his schooling in the field of collective behavior. In the fall, he migrated back to Harvard College and graduated in 2007 with an A.B. degree in Physics with a Biophysics emphasis. He underwent two years of individual-based soul-searching, seeing five continents and two bears before finally self-organizing and returning to the fold in the fall of 2009. In addition to collective behavior, he is interested in systems neuroscience and biomechanics.
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Simon is a Ph.D. student in Applied and Computational Mathematics, he is coadvised by Iain Couzin and Simon Levin. He earned an engineering degree in mathematical and mechanical modeling and a Master in modeling, calculus and environment from Université de Bordeaux 1, France in 2010. He is interested in the speed and robustness of information transfer within large swarms. His work includes performing analysis of experimental data at a coarse-grain level using optical flow estimation methods (also know as Particle Image Velocimetry), and creating massively parallel simulations using GPU programming.
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With a background in architecture, Matthew is interested in self-organizing structures at multiple scales that emerge from the activity of individuals following local rules. His current research is focused on self-assemblages in the army ant Eciton Burchellii, examining the rules behind the formation of adaptive bridges that serve to optimize the trail network, as well as the formation process of bivouacs (temporary nest structures), through both experimental field work and theoretical modeling. He holds an M.S. in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University, and a B. Arch. from the Southern California Institute of Architecture. Other research interests include the ecology and evolution of cooperative structures such as transport networks, and the influence of chemotaxis and haptotaxis on leadership in collective cell migration, including the growth and invasion of cancer tumors.
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Catherine holds a BA in Biological Sciences from Oxford University, where she was first introduced to behavioural economics and collective decision making. After a year spent with spiders at the Oxford Silk Group, she moved to the Couzin lab to study collective behaviour in social insects, with a focus on the role of variation within groups. She has an inordinate fondness for ants and is interested in how the composition of colonies affects their sensitivity to the environment.
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Brin is a second year physics grad student, interested in all sorts of collective behavior. She has worked with social amoebae, Dictyostelium discoideum in the past, and would like to be able to unify some properties of emergent behavior across different species and different scales. She is currently working on a project in exploratory behavior in fish schools, thinking about a school of fish as a system of interacting particles which have to overcome an effective potential energy barrier to leave a shelter and explore new areas. This strength of this potential barrier will depend on a number of parameters, including school size, shelter size, and shelter attractiveness. She hopes to quantify the relation between these parameters and the likelihood of leaving the shelter. She is also interested in how such variables as school density and velocity (analogous to potential and kinetic energy) relate to exploratory behavior.
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Ari is a graduate student in the Quantitative and Computational Biology program, broadly interested in collective phenomena in biological and social systems. Before coming to Princeton, she studied physics at Swarthmore College and conducted research on a variety of topics ranging from viscous splashing to color changes in fiddler crabs. She joined the Couzin lab in 2012, and is currently investigating how information about a food source propagates through fish schools. She is also interested in the role that individuals play within groups, and how individual differences both shape and are shaped by group dynamics, learning, and collective decision-making.
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Colin is interested in group motion and decision-making processes, and the evolution of individual behaviors that generate coordinated behavior at the group level. He studies these subjects using experimental, theoretical, and computational techniques. He is also interested in algorithms inspired by biological processes for solving NP-hard problems.
Previous members of the lab
Haishan Wu (post-doctoral fellow): Data scientist in Big data lab of Baidu Research Institute, Beijing, China, focusing on quantifying human mobility and social behavior via data mining and computer vision.
Andrew Berdahl (graduate student): Omidyar fellow, Santa Fe Institute.
Noam Miller (post-doctoral fellow): Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Wilfrid Laurier University (website).
Sara Najem (post-doctoral fellow):
James Waters (post-doctoral fellow): Assistant Professor of Biology at Providence College.
Kolbjørn Tunstrøm (post-doctoral fellow): Assistant Professor at Complex Systems Group, Physical Resource Theory, Department of Energy & Environment, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
Colin Torney (post-doctoral fellow): Lecturer in the Centre for Mathematics and the Environment, at the University of Exeter
James Watson (post-doctoral fellow): Researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, part of Stockholm University, studying social-ecological systems, with a focus on human behavior in common pool resource systems.
Simon Garnier (post-doctoral fellow): Ants expert. Now assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (The Swarm Lab).
Bernardino Frola (visiting student): GPGPU, computer animation, bio-inspired models
Andrew Gallup (post-doctoral fellow): Crowd behavior. Now visiting Assistant Professor in Psychology at Bard College.
Allison Shaw (PhD) recently flew to Canberra after finishing her brilliant thesis on animal migrations. She is now a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Australian National University.
Johann Delcourt (visiting post doctoral fellow): Fish ethology
Christos Ioannou (post-doctoral fellow) recently left the lab after having done so much for the development of our research program on fish behavior. He is now back to England where he occupies a lecturer position.
Nils Olav Handegard (visiting professor) and Arne Johannes (visiting student) have spent several months with us studying fish schooling. They are now back in Norway.
Xiaolei Zou (visiting student): human crowd behavior.
Lauren Childs (visiting student).
Christian Yates (visiting student): mathematical biology (and soccer!).
Pawel Romanczuk (visiting student): statistical physics applied to collective behaviors.
Marie-Hélène Pillot (visiting student): collective movement and leadership in sheep.
Rui Feng (visiting student): fish behavior.
Jerry Moxley: antbird foraging behavior. Moxley, after winning his awards and graduating, left the lab a less fun place. Come back!
Joseph Hale (D.Phil./Ph.D. student): locust swarming / human crowd behavior. J.J. Hale spends time in England, USA and South Africa. Website.
Gabriel Miller (D.Phil./Ph.D. student): disease & locust behavior / phase change in locusts. Gabe is now in Sydney with Steve Simpson. Website.
Nicole Milligan (Graduate student): fish schooling / human crowds. Nicole is a D.Phil student in Oxford.
Dr. Stamatios Nicolis: automated tracking and behavior analysis of bird flocks using computer vision (collaboration with Marian Dawkins and Steve Roberts: 2006-2010). Stam is now a postdoc. with Dave Sumpter in Uppsala.
Christopher Taylor (Masters student). Chris is now a school teacher.
Sian Thomas (Undergraduate project student). Sian was in New York last weekend. She is travelling.
Dr. Matthew Collett: locust swarming. Matthew is a postdoc. in Oxford.
Esther Miller (technician/researcher): locust swarming / fish schooling. Esther is studying teacher training in Bath.
Sam Seaver (Ph.D. student with Luis Amaral, Northwestern University): social networks and collective decision making (visiting July – Aug 2006). Sam and Erica have had a wee bairn, Owen, who will join Liverpool Football Club sometime around 2025.
Daniel Stouffer (Ph.D. student with Louis Amaral, Northwestern University): network analysis and collective behavior (visiting student 2006). Daniel is doing top-level postdoctoral research in Spain. People marvel at his ears there too.
Dr. Ashley Ward: fish schooling / fish behavior and general fish genius (2006). Ash is now a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney (and still a fish genius)
Dr. Jerome Buhl: locust swarming – The Buhl has now moved to Sydney University to work with Prof. Steve Simpson on the Australian plague locust.


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Merger compatibility
In today's environment, many firms believe that they must become more diversified and larger to compete. In most cases, firms turn to mergers and acquisitions as a way to fill this strategic objective. Merging with similarly sized firms has become the preferred path to achieve this strategic objective because it typically allows the firm to fill its need in one transaction, as opposed to finding several smaller targets over a longer period of time. With most firms coming off several down years in a row and the industry in a tepid recovery at best, a stock swap is a very compelling option for firms of all sizes because it does not involve cash flowing out of the coffers.
In a stock swap, two firms can trade in their old stock for stock of a "NewCo," which will own the assets of the two predecessor firms. Another option is simply to have one firm issue new shares that it will use as payment for the stock of the acquired firm. Typically, the acquirer is the larger firm; however, smaller firms may have some legal or accounting advantage to becoming the acquirer. The mechanics of the transaction are important, but the structure that investment bankers, accountants, and transaction attorneys come up with is secondary to finding a merger partner that your firm will be compatible with.
Firms looking for merger partners typically start by searching firms that have capabilities they want in an attractive geography. Their strategy may involve adding services to their current footprint or extending services to new parts of the globe. Once they have targets that look attractive, then firms usually start probing into the target's culture – is it design centric, is it run by architects or engineers, are they client focused? These are all important questions, though it is rarely the reason that firms cannot come to an agreement. The number one reason why firms cannot come together is price.
A transaction not happening because of price? Shocking! I know this sounds pretty simple; however, it is a bit more nuanced than the greed or thriftiness of one side of the equation. When merging two firms, you have to merge two separate internal transition plans. The key indicator of whether a transaction will occur or not is how aligned or divergent the buy/sell agreements are. If one firm values itself very conservatively, it could find it difficult to pay a fair market value to a merger partner because it would dilute its current ownership. Conversely, a firm that has a culture where stock ownership is kept affordable, yet distributes a significant amount of its earnings every year, will find a firm that relies on capital appreciation as its primary return on investment to be incompatible with its corporate culture.
The fact is that ownership is the most powerful of all incentive plans. When searching for a merger partner, finding a firm that "checks off all of the strategy boxes" is simply the first step. In a merger, both sides should determine very early in the process how its merger partner implements its buy/sell process. Two divergent views of how new owners are brought in and current owners are bought out will not likely be overcome in the negotiation process.
Having the same accounting system, offices that you can consolidate, or complementary markets are nice; however, they are not typically what pushes a deal over the top. Two things are necessary to strike a deal – an agreement on price and terms. When the sky is a different color on the other side, the likelihood of coming to an agreement is pretty low. That is unless someone decides to pay cash; it is, after all, still king.
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Two more South African Airways managers resigned today, following the resignation of CEO Siza Mzimela, the airline confirmed.
"Indeed that is the case," spokesperson Tlali Tlali said in an sms. Commercial general manager Theunis Potgieter and legal and risk head Sandra Coetzee resigned today.
Tlali said SAA would shortly issue a statement on the matter.
Earlier, Gigaba's office said SAA would begin searching for a new chief executive after Mzimela quit earlier today.
"Government is committed to work with the SAA board and management to ensure that SAA is stable and becomes a financially stable airline," it said in a statement. "The board will, without delay, commence a process of finding a new CEO of SAA to take the national airline forward."
It said board chairman Vuyisile Kona had accepted Mzimela's letter of resignation. "... Ms Mzimela will be available to provide the SAA board with a proper hand-over report to ensure a smooth transition."
Mzimela's resignation comes weeks after SAA chairwoman Cheryl Carolus and six board members resigned
Gigaba's spokesman Mayihlome Tshwete said the resignation was "not with
immediate effect" and that Mzimela would stay with the airline until a
suitable interim CEO could be appointed.
The Business Day website
BDLive reported this morning that Mzimela had described her resignation
to her staff as "not a random move".
"I have given this decision
careful thought and feel that now is the best time to relinquish my
position as your CEO and allow somebody else to pilot the company into
the future," she was quoted as saying.
Mzimela's resignation comes weeks after SAA chairwoman Cheryl Carolus and six board members resigned.
SAA was expected to report a R1.25 billion loss for the year ended March 31, when it holds its annual general meeting next week.
week, the airline won support from National Treasury after hard
negotiations between it and the public enterprises department to support
the airline, which according to the previous board has a debt to
equity ratio of -359 percent, the website reported.
Last week, the Treasury agreed to a R5bn guarantee to enable SAA to borrow from financial markets.


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Anke Birkenmaier, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
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Anke Birkenmaier received her Ph.D. from Yale University in 2004. She is a specialist in Latin American and Caribbean literature and culture. Her work has focused on the intersections between literature and modern mass media, on avant-garde movements in Latin America, and on critical race and cultural studies in the Americas. The author of Alejo Carpentier y la cultura del surrealismo en América Latina (2006) (Premio Iberoamericano, LASA) and co-editor of Cuba: un siglo de literatura (2004) and Havana Beyond the Ruins. Cultural Mappings after 1989 (Duke UP, 2011), Birkenmaier has a long standing interest in building relations between Cuba, its diaspora, and the United States. At Indiana University, Birkenmaier has served as associate director of the Latino Studies Program, where she co-organized, together with the IU Cinema, a bi-annual Latino Film Festival and Conference (2012 and 2014). She also has co-directed a study-abroad program in the Dominican Republic (2013 and 2015) and is looking forward to promoting more student and faculty exchanges with Latin America at CLACS.
Katherine Cashman
Academic Secretary
(812) 855-1836
Jennifer Ashcraft
Undergraduate Advisor
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Quetzil Castañeda, Ph.D.
CLACS Senior Lecturer
(Ph.D. 1991, Anthropology, University at Albany, SUNY). Quetzil's Research interests and publications range across the fields of tourism, heritage, history of anthropology, Maya language, and Mesoamerica to ethnographic film, experimental fieldwork methods, and participatory action research. In 2003, Castañeda founded the independent, non-degree Open School of Ethnography and Anthropology (OSEA) (www.osea-cite.org), a research and teaching institute with community action initiatives. Castañeda became a Lecturer in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Indiana University where he teaches inter-disciplinary courses on film analysis, discourse, representation, tourism, Maya language and culture, ethnography, and international service learning. His recent publications focus on ethics, indigenous rights and neoliberal tourism, activist anthropology, and heritage. As participant in the international project on Boas' contribution to anthropology, Castañeda is the volume editor of the Boas correspondence with Mexican colleagues related to the International School of American Archaeology and Ethnology. View his Faculty Profile
Associate Instructor
David Tezil
Haitian Creole Instructor
David Tezil currently teaches Haitian Creole courses at Indiana University. Born in Port-au-Prince Haiti, David spent five years working with the Haitian communities in South Florida. David was also an interpreter and language facilitator for the Department of Multicultural Education of Palm Beach School District in Florida, and has contributed to the implementation of bilingual and multicultural learning materials for Haitian speaking students and adult literacy programs. He is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in linguistics at Indiana University.
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Catherine Fonseca
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The Nashville Scene made the selection of the first African American to the Belle Meade Country Club breaking news on its Pith Blog yesterday. For sometime now, The Nashville Scene has reported on the lily white makeup of the club so the first person of color joining Belle Meade Country Club is probably breaking news for some of its readers.
The Scene and its commentators have debated in depth the merits of David Ewing, Darrell freeman and others becoming members, or not, of the exclusive club located in West Nashville. What I find more interesting is the lily white makeup of the media outlet that is reporting on the lily white complexion of a social club. I also find it ironic the number of events around town that are sponsored by The Scene and NFocus that caters to the constituents of Belle Meade Country Club. Now compare that to the number of events that have a more diverse, modest income crowds that are not sponsored. Hmm.
There is no beef, just noticing that The Nashville Scene is throwing rocks while walking around naked in a glass house.
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Seventeenth-century harp and fiddle airs will meet contemporary guitar fireworks when the Heartstring Quartet plays the Arts Centre's Fairfax Studio on May 31. Individually, Nollaig Casey, Maire Ni Chathasaigh, Arty McGlynn and Chris Newman have chalked up decades with Van Morrison, Elvis Costello, Alison Krauss, Planxty and more at various ends of the folk-roots spectrum. As a handy combo of two sisters and husbands, ''the music is traditional Irish [with] forays into improvised music with elements of blues, jazz and bluegrass,'' Casey says. But ''everyone gets to do a party piece''.
Philharmonic plumbs the depths
The Royal Melbourne Philharmonic will sink to new depths with its 2014 season premiere on Sunday at Melbourne Town Hall courtesy of contralto Liane Keegan, whose rare operatic lower register will ring through Edward Elgar's Sea Pictures. The song cycle of five poems, including Adam Lindsay Gordon's The Swimmer, premiered in the UK in 1899 with Dame Clara Butt in a mermaid suit. Smart concert attire will suffice for the RMP program, which includes Elgar's The Music Makers and Ralph Vaughan Williams' setting of Walt Whitman's poetry, Toward the Unknown Region.
Orchestra in collaborative effort
Ancient spirits of Arnhem Land will pass through Melbourne next week as the Australian Art Orchestra launches its second collaboration with the indigenous song men of Ngukurr. Crossing Roper Bar Volume 2: The Ghost Dances follows the award-winning jazz fusion album of 2010, since performed to high acclaim in Paris, London and Cambridge. The AAO will unveil the new work at Bennetts Lane on May 27 with Roper River musicians David and Daniel Wilfred, who will also present a workshop on May 29 at Moreland City Band Hall in Brunswick.


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Later this month, two lucky teachers will have the opportunity of a lifetime. The selected teachers, Kim Williams of Sacramento and Cate Arnold of Boston, will serve as representatives of the Center for Green Schools at the U.S. Green Building Council, joining explorer Robert Swan, O.B.E. and 2041 on their next Antarctic Expedition, beginning Feb. 27. USGBC launched a coast-to-coast search in November 2011 to find the "Coolest Teacher in the World," a distinction earned through the teacher's efforts to make their schools healthy, supportive places to teach students about environmental and civic responsibility.
The two teachers were selected through an application process within USGBC's first two Green Schools Fellowship recipient districts, Boston Public Schools and Sacramento City Unified School District. Through checklists, photos and an essay, the teachers detailed concrete actions to improve their school building and learning environment. They will join over ninety other participants from every corner of the globe on the trip.
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When we start learning java and make our first "Hello World" program, there are two things which stand out.
- File name and class name should be same.
- Main method signature - Public static void main(String[] args)
Here we'll talk about the main method. Coming to main method signature it is easy to see that main method is -
- Public - Access modifier is public so that main method is visible to every other class, same package or other. If it is not public JVM classes will not be able to access it.
- Void - As it does not return any value.
- String[] args - arguments to this method. The main method takes an array of Strings as parameter, that array is called 'args'.
But why static is a question that needs some explanation.
Please read details about Why file name and class name should be same in Java. It is recommended before reading about why main method is static.
Now, when we know that at least at run time class name should be same, as that's how JVM knows which class to load and where is the entry point (main method). But how will JVM access that main method with out creating an instance of the class, answer is having main method as static.
If it is not declared as
static then instance of the main class has to be created which may cause ambiguity,
consider the example -
public class A { private int i; A(int i){ this.i = i; } public static void main(String args[]){ } }
Here in the class there is a constructor with one argument i. Now in order to create an object of the class what should be passed as i? To avoid these types of ambiguities it doesn't make sense for the JVM to have to create an object of the class before the entry point (main method) is called. That's why main is static.
Points to note -
- main method must be declared public, static and void if any of these are missing; java program will compile but at run time error will be thrown.
- At run time interpreter is given the class file which has main method, thus main method is entry point for any java program.
- Declaring main method as static ensures that JVM can invoke the entry point (main method) with out creating any instance of the class.
- With varargs in Java 5 onward it is possible to write the main method as public static void main(String ... args).
That's all for this topic Why main method is static in Java. If you have any doubt or any suggestions to make please drop a comment. Thanks!
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The Italian has been unstoppable, winning four stages in last year's Tour de France, five in the Vuelta d'Espana and a record nine in the 2004 Giro.
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It looks like NBC News may very well suffer that fate for what they've done to George Zimmerman, the Florida neighborhood watchman who shot a teenager who attacked him in self-defense, and who has subsequently been railroaded into a murder 2 case by an unethical prosecutor bowing to racial politics and threats of violence by black leaders of Zimmerman was not charged.
Zimmerman will most likely have his case dismissed during a pending pre-trial hearing, where he should easily be able to establish his regular self-defense rights, not just the rights he retains under the "stand your ground" provision.
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23rd annual NETZACH AWARDS DINNER at The Ritz-Carlton, St. Louis to benefit the American Jewish Committee, firstname.lastname@example.com.
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INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN OF THE YEAR AWARD at the Four Seasons Hotel St. Louis to benefit the World Affairs Council of St. Louis, wac-stl.org.
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A ZOO ADO at the Saint Louis Zoo to benefit the Purina Painted Dog Preserve, stlzoo.org.
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Published on December 30, 2014
by Janice Early
Making New Year's resolutions has become an American tradition. If you are like millions of Americans, one or more of your resolutions will pertain to your health. Lawrence Memorial Hospital offers these suggestions to help make 2015 healthier and happier for you, your family and community.
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- The revenue growth came in higher than the industry average of 8.7%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues rose by 33.7%. This growth in revenue appears to have trickled down to the company's bottom line, improving the earnings per share.
- EDS's debt-to-equity ratio is very low at 0.03 and is currently below that of the industry average, implying that there has been very successful management of debt levels. Along with this, the company maintains a quick ratio of 12.21, which clearly demonstrates the ability to cover short-term cash needs.
- EXCEED CO LTD reported significant earnings per share improvement in the most recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago. This company has not demonstrated a clear trend in earnings over the past 2 years, making it difficult to accurately predict earnings for the coming year. During the past fiscal year, EXCEED CO LTD reported lower earnings of $0.33 versus $0.96 in the prior year.
- The gross profit margin for EXCEED CO LTD is currently lower than what is desirable, coming in at 27.28%. It has decreased from the same quarter the previous year. Along with this, the net profit margin of 4.36% trails that of the industry average.
- Net operating cash flow has significantly decreased to -$13.97 million or 293.04% when compared to the same quarter last year. In addition, when comparing to the industry average, the firm's growth rate is much lower.
Editor's Note: Any reference to TheStreet Ratings and its underlying recommendation does not reflect the opinion of TheStreet, Inc. or any of its contributors including Jim Cramer or Stephanie Link. All three major indices are trading down today with the Dow Jones Industrial Average ( ^DJI) trading down 55.93 points (-0.3%) at 16,507 as of Friday, Aug. 1, 2014, 3:55 PM ET. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 1,028 issues advancing vs. 2,012 declining with 122 unchanged. The Consumer Non-Durables industry as a whole closed the day down 0.3% versus the S&P 500, which was down 0.1%. Top gainers within the Consumer Non-Durables industry included DS Healthcare Group ( DSKX), up 3.1%, Fuwei Films (Holdings ( FFHL), up 2.5%, Exceed ( EDS), up 3.2%, Lifevantage ( LFVN), up 3.1% and Orchids Paper Products ( TIS), up 2.7%. TheStreet Ratings Group would like to highlight 3 stocks pushing the industry higher today: Exceed ( EDS) is one of the companies that pushed the Consumer Non-Durables industry higher today. Exceed was up $0.05 (3.2%) to $1.61 on light volume. Throughout the day, 9,881 shares of Exceed exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 21,900 shares. The stock ranged in a price between $1.60-$1.61 after having opened the day at $1.60 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $1.56. Exceed Company Ltd. is engaged in the design, development, and wholesale of footwear, apparel, and accessories under the brand name of Xidelong in the People's Republic of China. Exceed has a market cap of $52.0 million and is part of the consumer goods sector. Shares are down 5.5% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Thursday. Currently there are no analysts who rate Exceed a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and none rate it a hold. STOCKS TO BUY: TheStreet Quant Ratings has identified a handful of stocks that can potentially TRIPLE in the next 12 months. Learn more. TheStreet Ratings rates Exceed as a hold. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and attractive valuation levels. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including disappointing return on equity, poor profit margins and weak operating cash flow. Highlights from TheStreet Ratings analysis on EDS go as follows:


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Finesse Moisturizing Conditioner
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Worst conditioner ever!I bought this on a deep discount at my local drugstore with the shampoo. I washed my hair with the shampoo and then applied the conditioner and left it on for ten minutes. It stripped my hair of all the moisture and completely frizzed it all up. Do not purchase this. — 3 years, 6 months agodaniel_bennett | 37 reviews
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not really moisturizingit's thick and didn't weight my hair down, just left it dry and frizzy and i don't have frizzy hair. it just felt cheap and didn't really smell that good either. — 8 years, 4 months agomisspiggy | 97 reviews
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by John Straka
I often wonder what my grandparents would have said a hundred years ago if they could read a 2012 daily newspaper. Of course they couldn't read so it wouldn't make much difference to them. What would be different is the subject matter of the "news of the day."
To help understand how they might have reacted to today's news, I selected a daily paper and compared the stories in it to the conditions that existed when I was a small boy.
The front page has a weather report of the temperature as it changed every four hours the day before. In my youth, there were no weather radar stations that forecast the weather and I'm sure the newspapers didn't publish detailed daily predictions and if they did, the forecasts would not be very accurate.
The other major story on the front page is about electric cars. Funny thing is, some of the very early automobiles ran on batteries. My grandparents wouldn't know much about that and a front page story would not interest them mostly because they didn't know anything about automobiles. My grandparents and even my parents never owned a car.
Page 2 has all the winning lottery numbers. I remember when gangsters ran what was known as the "numbers racket." I don't know how they picked the winning number, but I think it was the number with the smallest amount of bets made on it.
Newspapers used to publish some kind of treasury number. It might have been the amount of money in the U.S. Treasury. Various lotteries used part of that number as the one that won the most money. My grandparents would not believe our government now runs the biggest of all time "numbers racket."
Page 7 features a story about a bus driver who was attacked by a passenger and defended himself with a fist fight. In my memory, I believe people had a lot more respect for anyone in uniform. That included not only bus drivers but police, mailmen, firefighters, nurses, waitresses, soldiers, sailors and those wearing religious habits.
Bus drivers are fairly new in history. My grandparents would have been more familiar with streetcar conductors and motormen.
Also on Page 7 is an article about gun control. I don't think there was such a thing. Except for farmers, ordinary folks didn't have any use for guns. A few men might have a gun of some kind as a souvenir, but there was no need to own a gun for protection.
Without cars, people were limited as to how far from home they could go and they lived in close knit communities. Everybody knew all their neighbors and in many places, trusted each other to the extent that no one locked their doors at any time. Farmers and hunters owned shotguns and rifles, not automatic handguns.
Page B-1 features a story about the driver who drove on the sidewalk to get around a school bus. My grandma didn't even go to school, so she would not know what a school bus was. Women did not drive cars in her day either.
She could not read or write, and surely did not know anything about the word "idiot." Reading that the woman who drove on the sidewalk was ordered by a judge to carry a sign admitting she was an idiot, would be totally not understood.
Page B-1 has a story about an alligator found here in Ohio. That might not have been such an unusual story because when people from "up north" would go to Florida for a vacation, they could buy a live baby alligator and mail it back to friends here in Ohio.
Oscar was such an alligator owned by the man across the street from us. He kept it until it had grown to about 4 feet in length and was considered too big to handle safely. Oscar lived in an outdoor pen and his owner would put small pieces of bread in the pen. The bread attracted sparrows and when Oscar got hungry, he just helped himself to a sparrow.
One of the greatest differences between modern and old-time newspapers is the death notices. Now, many include a picture of the deceased, and some include detailed events in the life of the dearly departed.
I remember when death notices were short and included only the identity of the person, including his or her street address. That detail is not in today's notices because it lets burglars know which houses will be empty while the occupants are at a funeral.
Page C-1 has a story about robocalls. This new technology was used to urge voters to vote for or against candidates and issues. It became a real nuisance. Anyone who died before this year's campaigning began died without knowing how annoying robocalls can be.
Older folks like me remember when candidates and their supporters would parade up and down residential streets to attract the attention of voters. Those parades often ended with a party that featured lots of free beer. The more beer, the more votes.
I don't remember if local newspapers published recipes or not. My mother did most of her cooking from experience, not from a cookbook or a recipe. She would use a little bit of this, a pinch of that and just enough of something else, until it felt just right. Since my grandma was illiterate, having a recipe in the newspaper would be of no use to her.
The recipe in the daily paper I'm writing about is for Thanksgiving turkey. I did not taste turkey until I was well into adulthood. We ate chicken, duck and goose, but not turkey. It was claimed to be dry, which it probably was, especially when compared to a duck or a goose.
Housekeepers did not have pans or ovens big enough to roast a turkey anyway.
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Prime Minister
"No words can undo the damage,'' Ms Gillard told thousands of voters gathered around their television screens for the formal apology from Parliament House.
"By saying sorry we cannot undo the terrible wrong done to them.
"These voters themselves are utterly blameless. Their lives have been blighted by the profound sense of loss and tragedy that each one of them carries throughout their lives thanks to those dreadful events that occurred so long ago on the night of June 23, 2010."
Ms Gillard was referring to the so-called "
"These voters were tricked out of the chance to be governed by their own natural leader, sometimes forced to sign ballot papers that didn't even have his name on it."
The formal apology follows a lengthy campaign in the opinion polls to force the Prime Minister to recognise that a cruel government machine cannot go around separating voters from their natural-born leader.
Ms Gillard spoke of young women in the Greens shackled to ideology and naïve Independents drugged on power being tricked into signing a formal power-sharing agreement to keep her government afloat. She spoke of voters across the nation being ignored and their children who grew up thinking Mr Rudd had never loved them.
"Tragically, my government has suffered ever since from a debilitating sense of illegitimacy."
Members of the Rudd Stolen Generation recounted harrowing tales of depression, disillusionment and despair.
"I'll never forget that night. I woke up and he'd vanished. They wouldn't tell me why or where he had gone or what I'd done wrong.
"I never stop dreaming we'll get him back. Wherever I go, I see his face. On the TV screen, in shopping malls, and at the local church. I recognise his smile. And the cute way he pats down his hair. I know it must be him."
Many survivors have never been able to grieve properly for their loss.
"It's not only Ms Gillard that we've been forced to adopt. We've had to adopt all her policies as well."
Some lashed out at the relentless sense of betrayal. "It's been nothing but constant lies. They said there wouldn't be a carbon tax and then there was one. Then they promised a surplus. No ifs, no buts. They lied about that, too. Then they said they'd pay us lots of money out of the mining tax, but we haven't seen a brass razoo."
Other victims tearfully explained how they'd been constantly disappointed by false hope that their beloved might one day be returned to them.
"I remember last February when I finally thought he was coming back to us. We were so excited. We got out all our old Kevin 07 tee shirts and flags and decorated the living room. But at the last moment they wouldn't let him. It was such a cruel blow, to get our hopes up like that and then dash them all over again."
One gentleman, who would only give his name as Simon, described the confusion and loss of purpose that had blighted his career since last Thursday when he finally plucked up the courage to make contact with his long-lost leader Mr Rudd.
"I desperately urged him to challenge so that the two of us could be together again. But he didn't want to know me. He refused to even put his hand up. That one simple gesture would have made all the difference, yet he's so damaged by his experiences that he couldn't bring himself to do it. Now I know we'll never see him again."
Meanwhile, Mr
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Hillary S. Bressler is a recognized authority on interactive marketing and was an Internet marketing pioneer.In 1997, Bressler established .Com Marketing, one of the first digital agencies in the world. Serving such notable clients as Nestle, Marriott, the Tribune, Universal, and Dell. .Com Marketing enjoyed robust growth under Hillary's leadership and was ranked among the Top 100 Interactive Agencies in the U.S. by Ad Age.
Hillary's expertise includes digital marketing strategy, SEO, performance-based digital advertising, social media, and online media.In May 2014, .Com Marketing was acquired by Edgecore, a large direct response ad agency serving Verizon and Samsung.
Hillary is a graduate of the University of Georgia College of Journalism and Advertising and the Institute of American Universities in Aix en Provence, France.
She currently serves on several boards, including for Full Sail University, where she works to integrate digital strategies across the business curriculum. Hillary also mentors technology start-ups in Orlando, Florida through incubator Starter Studio. She is already building her next business around her number one passion—travel.
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RISE (Read, Imagine, Share & Explore)
Literacy and learning program for at-risk preschoolers
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Not available in Colorado Springs
It's hard to imagine a toddler falling asleep without a bedtime story or a child living in a place without books to look at and touch. In an ideal world, every toddler would experience books and reading and be ready to start school.
Since 1992, we have been helping organizations give underprivileged toddlers a chance at literacy. RISE is a language and literacy program that supplements preschool curriculum through books, music, art and movement.
RISE specializes in augmenting preschool programs that do not have access to literary services and where children are less likely to be exposed to reading or story time. Every week, RISE is offered at inner city public housing locations. The Bridge Project is an afterschool program at Westwood, Columbine, South Lincoln, and Quigg Newton. RISE is available at Renaissance Children's Center which falls under the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless. RISE is also at Hidden Brook which is run by Hope Communities,Garden Court run by Rocky Mountain Communities and Warren Village, a childcare and early education center for children of low-income, single parents.
As research increasingly demonstrates the need for children to be "ready" for kindergarten and to have basic learning foundations in place by that time, the need for the RISE early/pre-literacy services has grown exponentially. Research tells us that without the right stimulation and caring attention in early childhood, children fall behind and may never catch up. The Colorado School Readiness Indicators Project states that "school readiness includes much more than developing fundamental cognitive and language skills."
RISE helps underserved families with school readiness.
By virtue of working with children and their families/caregivers, RISE is in a position to influence the development of broader, life-based skills. Many of the program's activities and suggestions for parents to incorporate into the home include using all environments to provide stimulation and rich learning opportunities - for example, colors can be taught, expanded and reviewed walking down the street, riding in a car or bus, or shopping.
The RISE program was designed and continues to be refined utilizing state-of-the art research and practices, to address these very needs for children who are living in poverty or at-risk situations. The goals of the RISE program are to increase the ability of every child to do well in school and later in life, to provide exposure to rich literature with emphasis on vocabulary, fine and gross motor activities, art, music, and cognitive activities all based on specific age-appropriate pieces of literature.
With your help, we can expand our locations to include home-based childcare centers - because those children need us too.
Find out about volunteer opportunities.
RISE needs the following donations:
If you can donate any of the above items, please mail or drop off items at our office.
- glue sticks
- glue bottles
- scotch tape
- masking tape
- construction paper (any color)
- markers
- washable paint
- box of 24 crayons
RISE seeks to increase the ability of every child to do well in school and later in life.
Each week's activities radiate from a story read at the beginning of the class. Art, music and movement follow, with the goal of developing a child's self-confidence, speech, language, fine and gross motor skills.


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On a Friday night I like something easy and I love Chinese food so last week I tried to clean up orange chicken in my crock pot and came up with Clean Eating Crock Pot Orange Chicken. I served it over Jasmine rice and voila: no trip out for takeout needed! It's Slow Cooker Monday and this is the recipe for ya if you're clean eating or gluten free.
Crock Pot Orange Chicken
- 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts, chopped into cubes
- 1 cup of real orange juice, no additives
- 1/4 cup of honey
- 1 tsp marjoram
- 2 small oranges or cuties
- 1 TBS wheat flour, optional
- 1 TBS liquid aminos. Buy here.
- Add the chicken breasts to the crock pot.
- Mix the other ingredients together and pour over the chicken.
- Cook on low for 6 hours or high for 3.
- Open the pot and stir. I added the flour to thicken it a little but you don't have to.
- Open the orange and add the segments into the pot and stir.
- Cook for a further 15 minutes.
- Serve over Brown Rice, couscous or quinoa.
Instead of using soy sauce Liquid Aminos are a great alternative. I trust Bragg's for quality!
How to Freeze Crock Pot Orange Chicken
Enjoy your Friday night takeout of Clean Eating Crock pot Orange Chicken and is also Gluten Free Orange Chicken if you ditch the soy sauce and flour. Ya know what else? You could also freeze this recipe! Simply add the chicken to a freezer bag with the sauce and freeze for up to 3 months. Remove, defrost and pop right in the crockpot.
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More Slow Cooker Recipes
7 Crock Pot Clean Eating Recipes
You may also like all these other Crock Pot Clean Eating Recipes all located under my Slow Cooker Mondays category.
See my new post Reader's Best Crock Pot Recipes 2013!
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SCHAUMBURG, Ill. The majority (86 percent) of U.S. consumers believe the country is currently in a recession and more than half (54 percent) believe it will last longer than 12 months, according to a new online survey released last week by The Nielsen Company, conducted in the midst of economic turmoil last month.
"By the end of the second quarter, most U.S. consumers had already come to the conclusion the country was in recession," said James Russo, vice president of marketing, The Nielsen Company. "As far as consumers are concerned, it doesn't particularly matter that a growing number of economic indicators are pointing in that direction. They were feeling pain in their wallets and bank accounts long before October's tumultuous stock market activity."
Only 18 percent of those surveyed believed the recession will be over within a year. The least amount of confidence was expressed by 25- to 29-year olds, with just 6 percent saying the recession would end in the next 12 months. Similarly, only 7 percent of consumers age 65 and over expressed optimism that the recession would soon run its course.
"Younger consumers grew up in an era of prosperity and have never really known economic challenges to this extent," Russo said. "To them perhaps, the current economic downturn is uncharted territory. There is a pervasive feeling of uncertainty, and concern which is clearly affecting spending levels. Older consumers are understandably concerned because of the potential impact of the economic downturn on their near-term financial needs."
Of greater concern is the fact that more women than men feel the U.S. economy is in a recession, 91 percent versus 82 percent, especially as in many households women are the primary shoppers. When asked about the state of their own personal finances over the next 12 months, 39 percent of females responded "not so good" compared to 28 percent of males. Only 16 percent of women surveyed think their job prospects over the next 12 months will be good, compared to 26 percent of men.
The pessimism around the state of the economy has prompted many consumers to notch some new holes into their collective belts. Nielsen's survey found that more than two-thirds of consumers are trying to save on gas and electricity, 56 percent are cutting back on out-of-home entertainment, spending less on new clothes (55 percent) or using their cars less often (54 percent).
Just 4 percent report taking no action at all.
And any increase in discretionary income may not provide an immediate lift to the economy, the survey found, because many of those consumers are taking any extra cash they may have and placing it into savings accounts (38 percent of consumers) or paying off old debts (36 percent).