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A Colne councillor and a prospective Barnoldswick representative are planning to sleep rough in March to highlight the plight of homeless young people.
Barnoldswick Town FC goalkeeper Lyle Davy and County Coun. Paul White will be ditching their mattresses for the flags of Barlick Town Square on Saturday, March 8th, to raise money for YMCA Blackburn, who help people in Pendle with nowhere to turn.
The duo are aiming to raise money for the YMCA so that the organisation can provide more bed space for what is a growing problem. Nationally, it provides 9,000 beds each night to young people.
Coun. Paul White said: "Our aim is two-fold really. We want to raise awareness, that this is an issue for young people who might not necessarily know where to turn.
"You might not see them in shop doorways, but for example one young man who the YMCA has helped locally had spent two years sofa surfing.
"We're talking about a really bright kid, who'd ended up in that situation through no fault of his own.
"We want to provide the funding so that the local branch is in a position to help."
The Citizens Advice Bureau said that numbers are on the rise and these can be for a variety of reasons such as relationship breakdown at home, unemployment and high property prices and rental.
It said the number of its clients aged between 17 and 24 without a roof over their head had increased by 57% from 2007/08 to 2012/13.
The charity also said there had been a 39% increase in problems for young people threatened with the prospect of homelessness during the recession years, and despite early signs of growth again, there was still a hangover.
Lyle, a 17-year-old business student at Nelson and Colne College, said: "We've had a lot of interest already, particularly through the college.
"I know some of my lecturers will be joining in, and Joe Cooney, Leader of Pendle Borough Council will sleeping rough too.
"It's a really important issue, and it seems to be connecting with a lot of young people. The response has been terrific.
"It's great to be able to get young people together to do good for the wider community, and it's fantastic that any money raised by us will be used here in Pendle. Just £1,000 would provide one young person for somewhere to stay for two years."
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It's well known that writer/director Kurt Wimmer hates movie critics. "Ultraviolet" is the reason why.
"Ultraviolet" opens with a title sequence made up of comic book covers, all showcasing the exploits of our heroine. This is Wimmer's indelicate way of announcing to the audience to leave all reality behind and embrace the superhero world. The next stage of transformation is found in the film's cinematography, which emphasizes broad colors and smoothed out facial features to replicate the comic page. It's an ambitious idea to tinker with the image in such a direct way (think "Sin City" without the budget), and it's the first and last moment of true inspiration to be found in the film.
Wimmer's previous movie was the cult hit, "Equilibrium." Another sophisticated project, Wimmer's vision for his "Fahrenheit 451" homage was simpler, thus making his shrewd direction all the more powerful. The picture also introduced the world to Gun-Kata: Wimmer's particular brew of martial art. "Equilibrium" demonstrated Wimmer's craving to mix-up the look and movement of action sequences, taking them to highly stylized realms of ass-kickery. "Ultraviolet" is Wimmer trying to reach that next level of visual elasticity, but forgetting to apply any self-control to the production.
With a heavy, often embarrassing use of CG, green-screen, and stiff fight choreography, Wimmer imagines a world for "Ultraviolet" where armies can be dropped with one swoosh of a sword, and the laws of gravity are mere suggestions to our hero. Trouble is, the fight sequences are so alarmingly repetitive, there's little reason to root for Violet. Wimmer keeps going back to the well of the title character entering a room filled with bad guys, killing everybody with whatever random weapon she dreams up, and then changing outfits like a mood ring on her way out the door. The first time it's fun, but Wimmer doesn't know when to quit, and keeps trudging out the same blueprint to his action, only separated by what tricked out convention center or airport lobby the production managed to film in that day.
Also baffling is the set design. A mix of Anime influences and familiar futuristic trimmings, the sets in "Ultraviolet" look more like Studio 54 leftovers, with a touch of Hype Williams arrogance and Sci-Fi Channel tackiness tossed in for good measure. And Wimmer makes sure all the costumes match the colors of these sets, further amping the unintentional hilarity of the combat set-pieces, which come dangerously close to looking like an incredibly expensive deodorant commercial.
It comes to a point where "Ultraviolet" doesn't know what kind of film it wants to be. Wimmer throws in some weepy emotional content in the relationship between Violet and the boy, but it's melodramatic in all the wrong ways, and kills the little flow the picture has. Wimmer soon shrugs and gives himself over to complete camp by the end, which features Violet dueling with the villain using flaming swords. Meant to shake action conventions, it looks more like a Hawaiian luau gone horribly awry.
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Formula One: Bernie completes Bahrain U-turn
The ill-fated Bahrain Grand Prix has been dealt the final blow after Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone admitted it could not go ahead without the support of the teams.
The FIA, the sport's governing body, are now set to perform a dramatic u-turn and at the very least move it from the October 30 slot and reinstate India to that date on the race calendar.
That would leave Bahrain, originally called off because of unrest in the country, scheduled for December, if it goes ahead at all.
Ecclestone had backed moving the race to October after the season opener had originally been postponed.
But now Ecclestone has admitted the race will not go ahead after 11 F1 teams objected.
Ecclestone said: "Hopefully there'll be peace and quiet and we can return in the future, but of course it's not on.
"The schedule cannot be rescheduled without the agreement of the participants — they're the facts."
Ecclestone's comments come after the move to put the Bahrain race on in October — and move the race originally schedule for that date in India back until December — attracted widespread criticism.
That move was condemned by teams and drivers and also by human rights organisations, who were unhappy with claims by the sport's governing body, the FIA, that the situation had returned to normal in Bahrain.
Global campaigning organisation Avaaz criticised the FIA's fact-finding report on Bahrain as like "stepping into the Twilight Zone", and has yesterday welcomed Ecclestone's latest comment.
Alex Wilks, campaigns director for Avaaz, said: "We welcome the news from Bernie Ecclestone that the Bahrain Grand Prix is no longer on.
"This is a tremendous victory for the brave people of Bahrain and hundreds of thousands of Avaaz members, who together with leading names in Formula One have vehemently opposed it and have forced this much needed u-turn.
"Formula One should only consider a return once it has been independently confirmed that torture and arrests of innocent civilians has ended and all political prisoners are freed."
Ricken Patel, executive director at Avaaz whose organisation has so far gathered nearly half a million signatures calling for the race to be called off, had earlier said: "Reading the FIA's Bahrain report is like stepping into the Twilight Zone.
"While the FIA's sham report says no human rights have been violated, at least 31 Bahrain citizens have been killed and hundreds more tortured and imprisoned."
The FIA and president Jean Todt have come in for considerable criticism, not least from former FIA president Max Mosley.
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How to Identify Common Bites and Stings
Getting bitten by a bug can be a creepy experience, especially if you don't know what tiny creature left you with that red, throbbing welt on your skin. Don't panic. Most bites and stings from common insects are harmless and heal quickly. But some bites and stings, like those from fire ants, wasps, hornets, and bees, may cause intense pain or even an allergic reaction. Others, like poisonous spider bites, require immediate emergency medical care.
Symptoms of bug bites provide clues to the cause and severity. For example, most bug bites cause red bumps with pain, itching, or burning. Some bug bites also feature blisters or welts. Tick bites can carry Lyme disease with a rash that looks like a bull's-eye. Most bug bites are transmitted directly from the insect, and most bug bites occur outdoors. Two exceptions are bedbugs — tiny mites that live in and near beds — and lice, which spread through contact with an infected person, a comb, or clothing.
The best way to prevent insect bites is to avoid insects, wear protective clothing, use pesticide, not eat foods or wear fragrances that attract bugs, and know your own personal risk for having an allergic reaction to a bug bite.
Because certain bites can also spread illnesses such as the Zika virus and West Nile virus (both transmitted by mosquito), Lyme disease (from a black-legged tick), Rocky Mountain spotted fever (from a dog or wood tick), or Chagas disease (from kissing bugs), it's good to know what bit you. Learning to identify a bug bite by how it looks and feels will help you know whether to seek medical care or treat the skin bump at home.
Mosquito Bites
A mosquito bite appears as an itchy round, red, or pink skin bump. It's usually harmless but can sometimes cause a serious illness, such as the Zika virus (particularly harmful in pregnant women), the West Nile virus, or malaria. For most people, Zika causes a brief, flu-like illness. But pregnant women with Zika infection have had an alarming increase in microcephaly birth defects in their newborns — a debilitatingly small head and brain size. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) posted a 2016 travel alert advising pregnant women to delay travel to 50 areas where Zika is active including Latin America and the Caribbean.
About 2,000 U.S. cases of the West Nile virus were reported to the CDC in 2014. Symptoms appear 2 to 14 days after the bite and can include headaches, body aches, fever, vomiting, diarrhea, and a skin rash. People with a more severe West Nile infection may develop meningitis or encephalitis, and have symptoms including neck stiffness, severe headache, disorientation, high fever, and convulsions.
The bite of a parasite-infected mosquito can cause malaria — a rare occurence in the United States, with only about 1,500 cases reported by the CDC each year. Symptoms are similar to the flu and can include fever, headache, muscle aches, nausea, and vomiting from 10 days to 4 weeks after the bite. Malaria is serious, but it's good to know it is preventable and treatable, according to the CDC.
Bed Bug Bites
You probably won't feel pain when a bed bug bites, but you may see a row of two or more red marks on your skin. Some people develop a mild or severe allergic reaction to the bug's saliva between 24 hours and three days later. This can result in a raised, red skin bump or welt that's intensely itchy and inflamed for several days. This can also include hives, and may mean a trip to your healthcare provider for treatment, notes the American Academy of Dermatology. Bed bug bites can occur anywhere on your body, but typically show up on uncovered areas, such as your neck, face, arms, and hands. It's good to know that although they're common, bed bugs do not carry disease, according to the CDC.
Spider Bites
Most spider bites are not poisonous and cause only minor symptoms like red skin, swelling, and pain at the site. Other spider bites are a real emergency. If you develop an allergic reaction to a spider bite, with symptoms such as tightness in the chest, breathing problems, swallowing difficulties, or swelling of the face, you need medical care at once. Because spider bites can get infected with tetanus, the CDC also recommends staying on top of your tetanus booster shots and getting one every 10 years.
A bite from a poisonous spider like the black widow or brown recluse is extremely dangerous and can cause a severe reaction. The black widow's bite, which shows up as two puncture marks, may or may not be painful at first. But 30 to 40 minutes later, you may have pain and swelling in the area. Within eight hours, you may experience muscle pain and rigidity, stomach and back pain, nausea and vomiting, and breathing difficulties. You might not have seen the spider that bit you, but always seek medical attention immediately if there's a possibility you could have been bitten by a poisonous spider. Call 911 or the American Association of Poison Control Centers at 800-222-1222.
Brown Recluse Spider Bites
The brown recluse spider is poisonous and usually lives in dark and unused spaces. Some people feel a small sting followed immediately by a sharp pain, while others don't realize they've gotten a brown recluse bite until hours later. Four to eight hours afterward, the bite may become more painful and look like a bruise or blister with a blue-purple area around it. Later, the bite becomes crusty and turns dark.
Symptoms of a brown recluse spider bite occur within a few hours and include fever, chills, itching, nausea, and sweating. Because some people will have a serious reaction that can lead to kidney failure, seizure, and coma, it's important to get medical care at once, according to the NIH National Library of Medicine. Be sure to seek medical attention immediately if you could have been bitten by a poisonous spider, by calling 911 or the American Association of Poison Control Centers at 800-222-1222.
Tick Bites
Some tick bites can be dangerous because they may carry disease. Black-legged ticks, formerly known as deer ticks, may carry Lyme disease, and dog ticks can spread Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Up to 30,000 cases of Lyme disease are reported each year in the United States.
Symptoms of Lyme disease include a skin rash in the pattern of rings, much like a bull's-eye on a target, that appears up to a month after the tick bite. You may also have fever, fatigue, headaches, muscle and joint aches, as well as irregular heart rhythms. But 20 to 30 percent of people who get infected never develop a rash. Symptoms such as swollen or painful joints, memory loss, or other autoimmune responses that mimic those of other diseases may present themselves later, when Lyme disease is in its advanced stages. A diagnosis may remain elusive because many doctors will not equate these symptoms with Lyme disease.
Rocky Mountain spotted fever from a tick bite is rare, with about 2,500 U.S. cases per year. It causes a fever, headache, muscle aches, and a skin rash. The rash begins on the ankles and wrists after a few days of fever, but later the rash spreads to the rest of the body; in some people, a rash never develops. Although this infection can be severe — and even fatal — it is preventable and can be successfully treated with prompt medical care, according to the CDC.
Flea Bites
Symptoms of flea bites may begin within hours after you're bitten, and the bites tend to appear in groups of three or four. You may notice itching, hives, and swelling around an injury or sore, or a rash of small, red bumps that may or may not bleed. Flea bites are more common on your ankles, in your armpits, around your waist, and in the bends of your knees and elbows. A flea-bite rash turns white when you press on it and tends to get larger or spread over time. Scratching the rash can lead to a skin infection, according to the NIH National Library of Medicine, and may need medical attention.
In extremely rare cases, the bites of fleas infected with the bacteria that causes plague can spread the disease from wild rodents to pets and to people. Over the past 10 years, as few as one, and as many as 17, cases of plague were reported in the United States, according to the CDC, most in the rural West. Symptoms of plague include swollen lymph nodes, headache, fever, and chills that appear from one to six days after the bite.
Bee Stings
Bee stings cause a sharp pain that may continue for a few minutes, then fade to a dull, aching feeling. The area may still feel sore to the touch a few days later. A red skin bump with white around it may appear around the site of the sting, and the area may itch and feel hot to the touch. If you've been stung by a bee before, your body may also have an immune response to the venom in the sting, resulting in swelling where the sting occurred or in an entire area of your body. If you have this type of allergic response, called anaphylaxis, it is a medical emergency that needs treatment immediately. Symptoms of severe allergy to a bee sting include hives, swelling, trouble breathing, dizziness, cramps, nausea, diarrhea, and even cardiac arrest.
Lice Bites
Lice bites are tiny red spots on the shoulders, neck, and scalp from small parasitic insects that can live on your clothes or in your bedding. Because lice bites are so small, they usually don't hurt, but they do itch. Some people may develop a larger, uncomfortable skin rash from lice bites. Continual scratching of the itchy spots could lead to an infection marked by symptoms including swollen lymph nodes and tender, red skin. An infected lice bite may also ooze and crust over, and will need to be treated by a doctor, but lice are not known to carry other diseases.
Ant Bites and Stings
Ant bites and stings are typically painful and cause red skin bumps. Some types of ants, like fire ants, are venomous and can cause a severe allergy. Fire ants bite first to hold on and then sting, giving a sharp pain and a burning sensation. If you're bitten by fire ants, you may see white, fluid-filled pustules or blisters (pictured above) a day or two after the sting that last three to eight days and may cause scars. The bumps may also be itchy and red, and you may have swelling around the site. It's important not to scratch or break the blisters open, because they can become infected, notes the American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology. Carpenter ants bites are also painful because they spray formic acid into the bite, which causes a burning feeling.
Mite and Chigger Bites
Mite bites do not usually spread disease, but they can irritate the skin and cause intense itching. Itch mites usually feed on insects but will bite other animals, including people. The bites usually go unnoticed until itchy, red marks develop that may look like a skin rash.
Chiggers are a form of mite that inject their saliva so that they can liquefy and eat skin. In response to the chigger bite, the skin around the bite hardens. As the picture above illustrates, the surrounding skin becomes irritated and inflamed, and an itchy red welt develops.
Mites also cause the condition called scabies which is contagious from person to person, notes the CDC. Female scabies mites burrow into the skin to lay eggs. When the eggs hatch, the larvae come to the skin surface, begin to molt, and burrow back into the skin to feed. This results in a skin rash that may look like acne pimples and create intense itching that gets worse at night. You may also notice light, thin lines on the skin where the mites have burrowed, including between the fingers, in the bends at the wrists and knees, and under jewelry on the wrists and fingers.
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Kissing Bug Bites
Kissing bugs, also known as assassin bugs, can pass on the parasites that cause Chagas disease. According to September 2015 research from the University of Texas at El Paso published in Acta Tropica, more than half of these insects carry the parasite. In the United States, Chagas disease affects about 300,000 people, according to the CDC.
Kissing bugs hide in the daytime but emerge at night, often leaving bites on the face and causing a swollen eyelid. In the first few weeks after infection, symptoms of Chagas disease can include fever, fatigue, body aches, headache, rash, a loss of appetite, diarrhea, and vomiting. But in the long term, and even decades later, the CDC notes that about 30 percent of people infected by kissing bugs will develop serious complications of Chagas disease: an enlarged heart, heart failure, abnormal heart rhythm, cardiac arrest, or an enlarged colon, also known as megacolon.
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Today, Titanfall developer Respawn Entertainment announced Titanfall: Frontier's Edge, the second of three planned DLC packs planned for the online competitive shooter. Frontier's Edge includes three new multiplayer maps.
The three new battlefields the DLC pack includes are Dig Site, an isolated mining outpost, Haven, an exclusive beach resort, and Export, a mining hub on the side of a mountain. Frontier's Edge will cost $9.99, and does not yet have a release date.
Titanfall's first DLC pack Titanfall: Expedition released on May 15 and also cost $9.99. You can read about whether or not we thought Expedition was a good purchase here.
Titanfall is available now on Xbox One, Xbox 360, and PC. If you can't get enough of Respawn's mech-shooter, check out Game Informer's Titanfall hub for exclusive developer interviews, behind the scenes video, and more.


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Boston Scientific Launches New Implantable Defibrillation Lead in Europe and Asia
Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) has received regulatory approval to market the RELIANCE® 4-FRONT™ lead, its next generation implantable defibrillation lead now available in Europe and Asia. Defibrillation leads are insulated wires that connect an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) or cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator to the heart for treatment of heart failure and sudden cardiac arrest.
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[JURIST] The US Senate Judiciary Committee [official website] held a hearing Tuesday to investigate "abusive credit card practices and bankruptcy" [hearing materials]. The hearing, chaired by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) [official website], was held in conjunction with the proposed Consumer Credit Fairness Act (CCFA) [S. 257 text, PDF], which would disallow bankruptcy claims for consumer credit card debt bearing high interest rates. The Senate committee heard testimony from individuals affected by high credit card interest rates, as well as from experts including law professors Adam Levitin and Mark Scarberry and researcher David John [testimonies, text]. In his opening remarks, Whitehouse said:
I have introduced legislation that would give consumers leverage to negotiate for reasonable rates with their lenders and ban abusive lenders from using the bankruptcy court system to enforce their claims. Under the Consumer Credit Fairness Act, or CCFA, claims in bankruptcy stemming from consumer credit agreements carrying interest above a variable threshold currently 18.5% would be disallowed. With the leverage of a bankruptcy threat, a customer struggling under a 30% penalty rate could negotiate for more reasonable terms. In addition, bankruptcy filers with debts carrying effective interest rates above the threshold would be exempt from the so-called means test, a tactic that was enacted in the bank-written 2005 reforms to make it more difficult to enter bankruptcy. In practice, the means test delays relief in bankruptcy, keeping consumers in the "sweat box" of credit card debt.The increased use of consumer credit cards has lead to an increased number of bankruptcy filings in the US. In April 2008, a federal appeals court reinstated a class action lawsuit [JURIST report] against a group of banks who required credit cardholders to use arbitration to settle disputes. Bankruptcy petitioners who have incurred consumer debt, including credit card debt, have faced increased barriers when attempting to discharge that debt due to the 2005 enactment [JURIST report] of the Bankruptcy Abuse and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 [text, PDF]. The law was prompted by concerns that an increase in personal bankruptcies was adversely affecting retail stores, banks, and credit card companies that had to pick up the tab after consumers became insolvent. The changes make it harder for debtors to cast aside credit card and other debt by filing under Chapter 7 [text], the most common type of personal bankruptcy, which currently allows consumers to wipe out most of their unsecured debts.


text: Blair serves as visiting scholar at Oxford UniversityAssociate Professor of Law Allen Blair served as a visiting scholar at Oxford University Law School during the fall semester, researching issues of economic justice and consumer arbitration. He will continue as a visiting scholar for the spring semester, focusing his research on international commercial arbitration and law and economics. Blair also recently became a contributing editor for the ContractsProf Blog. In addition, Blair has been invited to present his paper, "Is Less Really More?: The Supreme Court's Recent Stance on Limited Judicial Review of Arbitral Awards," at a symposium entitled, "The Role of the Courts: Judicial Review of Arbitral Awards and Mediated Settlement Agreements," held at the Penn State Dickinson School of Law on Feb. 22-23. Blair's paper will be published by The Yearbook on Arbitration and Mediation as part of its symposium edition in the spring.


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FEW PEOPLE are less popular these days than the trustees of the Mt. Diablo Unified School District. Every time they open their mouths they seem to be delivering bad news.
More than a year ago, they cut funding for high school athletics. Since then, they have eliminated fourth- and fifth-grade music programs. Library hours have been shortened, administrative and custodial staffs trimmed, and employees required to take furlough days.
A statewide budget crisis — meaning severe cuts in K-12 funding — has had the school board playing defense for more than two years. You can tell when it is about to assemble by the black clouds gathering.
Much of the disfavor can be blamed on the economy. It is difficult to make popular decisions when your only options are (a) bad and (b) worse. Right now, the question is how to slash $1.5 million from the budget, and trustees decided school closures are the answer.
It's the way this hand-wringing process has played out, spanning more than a year and countless meetings, that invites criticism. The ordeal has succeeded primarily in distributing angst as widely as possible.
A 23-member School Closure Advisory Committee has pondered at least eight scenarios touching 16 campuses. Name an elementary or middle school, and there is a good chance it has been on a hit list.
The for-sure cuts are Glenbrook Middle and Holbrook Elementary, which, curiously, are within a mile of each other in North Concord and have sparked understandable charges of geographic and demographic targeting.
A third school — Silverwood and Westwood Elementary are candidates — is almost certain to be added to the list, and the worry over that selection was written on the faces of an estimated 400 attendees at last week's board meeting.
Parental concerns run the gamut, from the splitting up of classmates to transportation to a new campus to the fear of the unknown.
Questions also were raised about how decisions are made and how much money is truly being saved. (The answer to the latter question is not much: about $450,000 total in administrative and utility costs per closed school.)
At the beginning, on the advice of consultants, schools were evaluated on criteria that included, among other things, facility conditions, maintenance costs and percentage of filled seats.
One of eight items on the checklist was academic performance, which many parents insist should have been given greater weight.
"Schools are not about the buildings," a Silverwood parent told the board. "It's about what's going on inside those buildings. This should be about academic performance, using fact-based standards."
That viewpoint has merit. A subpar mark on the Academic Performance Index is one indicator the state considers when recommending school closures. Silverwood (828) and Westwood (810) both surpassed the state target API of 800 last year.
Parents also have cause to wonder why there has not been more transparency in this decision making.
The names of the closure committee members are known, but how each voted is not. Outsiders are left to wonder if a member's decision might be influenced by his or her affiliation with a school.
Perhaps the greatest shortcoming, though, is the lack of anything resembling a big-picture plan.
Every decision seems to be a reactive, knee-jerk fix to problems as they arise without long-range considerations.
One example is the status of a $1.7 million School Improvement Grant the state awarded to Glenbrook, to be dispensed over three years for educational initiatives.
If Glenbrook is gone, is the grant forfeited? The school board, which voted to close Glenbrook, didn't know the answer Tuesday.
That reminds us of another trustees decision that now seems a tad shortsighted.
In the aftermath of a successful drive in June to pass Measure C, a $348 million school bond issue, the board gathered to decide how to spend its newfound capital improvement funds.
Among the trustees' decisions was to fund air conditioning and solar panels for Holbrook and solar panels and renovations at Glenbrook. The cost for those improvements were estimated at $4.8 million.
That's a lot of money to set aside for two schools they now are preparing to close.
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Queenstown - Four prisoners arrested for crimes including rape and murder have escaped from the Queenstown prison, Eastern Cape police said on Friday.
Monwabisi Roxa, Phumlani Robert Zulu, Bongani Bovu and Fundile Njokweni escaped from the prison at 21:00 on Thursday, said police spokesperson Zama Feni.
They broke a toilet window and cut through steel bars with a saw to make their escape, he said.
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Serrano Congratulates New Democratic Conference Leader Senator Andrea Stewart-Cousins
(New York, NY)- "I congratulate my friend, Senator Andrea Stewart-Cousins on her historic election to the role of Democratic Conference Leader in the New York State Senate. I was happy and honored to support her election and I look forward to working with her, as part of a united Democratic Conference, to tackle the numerous tasks at hand.
"Sen. Stewart-Cousins is hardworking, forthright, and widely respected on both sides of the Senate Chamber. The people of New York State have asked us to move forward on progressive legislation that is meaningful and long overdue. Under her leadership, I feel confident that we will be able to achieve great things on behalf of our constituents. Working together with Governor Andrew Cuomo, I look forward to a very productive upcoming legislative session.
"Finally, I would like to extend my heartfelt thanks to Senator John Sampson for his leadership, hard work, and dedication. He became our leader during a very difficult time for not only our conference, but for the Senate as a whole, and he worked very hard to get us to a much better place."


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Kentucky State Police in Pikeville received a call Thursday that a section of KY Route 40 had fallen away.
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Interesting, well-acted Rashomon knock-off. M-G-M's own M.O.D. (manufactured on demand) service, the Limited Edition Collection, has released Valerie, the 1957 Western courtroom drama from United Artists, starring Sterling Hayden, Anita Ekberg, and Anthony Steel. Directed with a steady, sure hand by Gerd Oswald, Valerie doesn't break any new ground within the flashback Western subgenre, but intriguing subtexts give this low-budget affair some spark. No extras for this okay transfer.
In the small western town of Limerock, Civil War veteran and town hero John Garth (Sterling Hayden), with his faithful ranch hand Mingo (Jerry Barclay) by his side, enters his father-in-law Louis Horvat's (John Wengraf) home and blasts away, killing Louis, his wife Lili (Iphigenie Catiglioni), a deputy sheriff, and wounding Garth's wife, the voluptuous, blonde Valerie (Anita Ekberg). Arrested for murder, Garth is put on trial, with his chief nemesis, Reverend Steven Blake (Anthony Steel), called back to town to testify against him. This situation causes intense interest among the citizens of Limerock―since the townspeople believe Garth was justified in shooting Valerie...whom they believe was having an affair with the incredibly handsome Reverend. On the stand, the Reverend tells his story, testifying that Valerie contacted him several times for help, but stood silent whenever confronted by the caring Reverend and the increasingly jealous Garth. Garth then testifies, seeing the story through the eyes of a wronged, cuckolded husband, with not only the Reverend a willing responder to Valerie's sluttish come-ons, but also Garth's ne'er-do-well brother, Herb (Peter Walker). And finally from her hospital bed, gravely wounded Valerie tells her side of the story, one where Garth is psychotically jealous of her, utilizing his talents of brutal interrogation learned during the War, to pry spurious admissions of guilt out of her. Who, then, is telling the real truth?
I hadn't heard of or read about Valerie prior to receiving this disc, but I've always enjoyed Hayden's oddly-rhythmed anti-hero portrayals, and director Gerd Oswald usually could be counted on to deliver at the very least a solidly-crafted product (when he wasn't coming up with the odd genuine work of art, like the mesmerizing A Kiss Before Dying). Watching the low-budget, chamber piece-Western Valerie (it takes place on just a couple of sets, mostly interior, with no attempt for the expected Western pictorial sprawl), one pretty much assumes that screenwriters Laurence Heath, working here as Leonard Heideman (television's The Invaders, Mission: Impossible, Murder, She Wrote, Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls) and Emmett Murphy had to have seen Kurosawa's 1951 Rashomon at some point, considering the obvious parallels here. And while the screenwriters and director Oswald largely eschew Kurosawa's focus on the chimerical nature of "truth" in alternate viewpoints and realities, going instead for a conventional mystery/whodunit framework that concretely answers the question about Valerie's supposed "sin," it's a structure that works well here despite its more limited goals.
Broken down into three parts, corresponding to the three courtroom testimonials by the lead actors, this framework also gives the performers a chance to stretch a bit, allowing them three different reads on their characters. Popular British matinee heartthrob Steel, who moved to Hollywood with his wife Ekberg (only to fail completely in crossing over like fellow U.K. idol James Mason), is the least successful here in delineating the necessary changes to his character to convey the alternate storylines. Entirely too soft-spoken and genteel (perhaps thrown by the religious nature of his role?), Steel fails to make much of an impression outside of his dreamy good looks. As the pious, helpful reverend, he's pretty much a stiff, and when he's asked to be the seducing reverend...he can't seem to summon up any heat for his achingly beautiful real-life wife, Ekberg―a failure which isn't so much a verdict on his acting skills but rather an indication that perhaps he's clinically dead.
As for Ekberg, I've always found her a perfectly acceptable actress...whenever I snapped out of looking at her gorgeous face and body. Here, director Oswald engages in a few fetish-worthy moments for the 1950s pin-up crowd, including her first introduction on screen: the most erotically-attractive mortally wounded woman you'd ever likely see, with her full, ripe body supine over a chair, her magnificent breasts attractively key-lighted, and her heavy blonde tresses cascading down to the floor (I feel faint...). Mostly, though, Ekberg is covered up here, with Oswald asking her more for acting skills rather than her overwhelming physicality. The result is that she pulls off the character nicely, having a few good scenes of being terrorized by Hayden, as well as some memorably sluttish moments with Walker. 1957 was probably right past the cusp of her peak influence in Hollywood, with bigger-budgeted titles like Frank Tashlin's Artists and Models and Hollywood or Bust, and King Vidor's epic War and Peace, behind her, and lower-budgeted affairs like Interpol, Paris Holiday, and Valerie awaiting her, before she achieved true iconic status with Fellini's La Dolce Vita. It's too bad she couldn't have parlayed her notoriety into better roles that showcased her acting chops.
Valerie was one of six movies Sterling Hayden had in release in 1957 (Zero Hour! is probably the best known of that group), proving that he must have had some kind of fan base that ensured his continued bankability in modestly-budgeted programmer fare. And as usual, his intense combination of quirky, sometimes even squirrelly line readings and emoting, and a barely-suppressed violence within his threatening 6′ 5″ frame, helps make him a truly unique Western performer. He's at his best in the final act of Valerie, where he lets loose with a sick, mean portrayal of a murderously jealous husband who enjoys smacking around his wife (Oswald helpfully dollies in so we can see Hayden smiling), and putting out cigars on her back, a technique that no doubt showed up in the book he wrote about his Civil War interrogation/torture techniques (Hayden is excellent in this scene were he manhandles a terrified Ekberg, discussing his role in the Union Army, letting the viewer guess whether he agonizes over his deeds...or enjoys the memories). Hayden brings a real sense of sadistic thuggery to these scenes, giving the thematically-interesting Valerie a jolt that Oswald and the scripters see through to the enjoyable finale, where Oswald stages (quite well) a quick, violent conclusion that plays like a twist...but which makes satisfying sense when you realize where the movie was going all along.
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I said I would post how things went with the Gigabyte MA78GM-S2H Motherboard so here we go. With this being a newer chip set, I expected to have a few problems with it out of the box. I used an Athlon X2 6000+ processor with 2 gig of the crucial ballistix memory and a Seagate sata hard drive. I threw in the LG 22x DVD burner to finish it. After ordering I remembered reading a article about Seagate no longer supporting Linux I guess that has not happened yet as this hard drive works well. Used the on board graphics. And the on board HD audio. Posted the board and seeing that all was working it was off to the world of Linux Mint. Booted up the CD (Elyssa 5.0 r1) and let it do it's thing. Upon reboot it found wireless card and set up security for it. No glitches there! Allowed it to get all the updates. No problems with this step! Then it was time to install drivers for the video! And wow no problems!!! But wait there is the HD audio to muck things up. But no good, all is working just fine. At this point in the set up I realized that the 22'' wide screen was running at the correct resolution! So there you have it! I had no problems with this set up, all works as it should. A very uneventful set up. And it worked out of the box. I would like to thank the whole Linux Mint team for such a great OS. To use a phrase that I keep hearing ''Linux Mint Is ready for prime time''! I have never installed a Microsoft system that did not need a whole lot more work to get it going! With Mint no need to load divers it lets you know what is needed and then gets it for you. No having to update firmware ,and to top it off I used the dreaded Linksys WMP54G wireless card. When the 64 bit comes out I am looking forward to trying it. Mike in Tucson
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I just did a very similar hardware upgrade. Gigabyte MA78GPM-DS2H with the AMD X2 6000. Already had Mint installed and a copy of windows that gets used hardly ever to never. With Mint all I had to do was cleanup - use Envy to uninstall the Nvida drivers from the previous MB, and install the ATI drivers with Envy. Everything was working correctly after the driver install; in minutes I was done. Windows was the typical no-go when you install new hardware. Not really worth the time it will take to get it working.
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Our MC uses the addiction analogy with us a lot in terms of describing what the WS goes through when trying to extricate themselves from an affair. I am sure that not many people in an affair feels in general at the time that they are being abused, but isn't it, by its nature, abusive? It brings out the worst in someone, causes them to go against their ethics and morals, causes them to hurt people they love, causes them to lose self-esteem, and self-control, and generally feel rotten about themselves, and it causes them to lie and deceive. It is so similar to having an abusive relationship with alcohol or drugs.
And then, it is the gift that keeps on giving if you go into R, because then you have to see all of this pain reflected in the eyes of the person you love.
And of course, for those whose waywards professed love for their AP, it is all mixed up with this totally crazy notion that you loved this person who caused you so much pain -- that this person had your back. I guess it is like thinking it is ok to "party" and thinking alcohol is this great thing, and finding yourself a decade later in rehab.
Anyway, I am wondering what others think.
I can't say that I feel like my H was 'abused' in the A, or by the A. I don't feel at all that he is/was any kind of victim. The biggest part of his healing has been all about taking personal responsibility for every single choice he made. I do definitely feel that he abused me in it, and by having it. I definitely feel that his FOO played a huge factor in his decisions, and that there are some real adult consequences for him to his childhood abuse. I definitely feel that he took my trust, my faith in him, my unconditional love for him, and he used it against me.
Huh. That's an interesting and bold question. My concern is that as a WS, an affirmative answer could be perceived as casting myself as a victim. I feel sorry for people in abusive relationships in which there's an imbalance of power, because no fault lies with the victim. I feel compassion for alcoholics or meth addicts. So that's where the analogy between a drug/alcohol abuser and a WS falls short for me. I don't feel deserving of anyone's sympathy for my participation in the abusive A relationship.
Like any substance abuser, my As were a means of self-medicating. I'm no expert on addiction, but alcoholics don't drink because they *love alcohol,* they drink to forget, to feel numb, etc....to self-medicate. The solution, I suppose, is the same...no matter what your poison. Figure out what you're medicating, and heal it. In that sense, the addiction analogy absolutely works for me, and it's been very helpful to my recovery.
If that's what you're asking, the A could be a form of self abuse. But it's also abusive to the spouse and that shouldn't be overlooked.
Finally reached indifference & looking forward to my new beginning
Their actions were destructive to themselves and to each other. (Not to mention, the rest of us collateral damage.) and, they knew it. But, the 'high' was so compelling.
20 Wrongs, it was like a knife in my heart every time my H said he felt trapped and powerless and like he couldn't get out prior to dday. The addiction analogy is the only thing that has made those sentiments bearable to me. So, the addiction analogy rings true for you as well? He was definitely escaping.
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It is interesting you mentioned this because I used to have recurring nightmares about my FOO. Not all the time, but very intense, wake up from a dead sleep kind of nightmares. I did start having fairly regular nightmares about infidelity after Dday. When my W, who had seen the FOO nightmares effects on me, found out that the nightmares I had were about her cheating on me, it crushed her.
Time and many IC sessions later I am better. I see the parallels though. In my experience, I felt the infidelity hurts more because I choose that family member that hurt me. If that makes sense.
Dday 8/31/11. EA/PA. Lied to for 3 years.
Every truth comes to light in a long enough timeline.
Every WS makes a choice to cheat, and continue cheating. We were never trapped or helpless. We have to own that.


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If there is one thing I've come to learn over the years, it's that it's great to be a strange little man in Hollywood. You can bang all the kids you want and still be considered a highly respected director, just ask Roman Polanski or Woody Allen! While Polanski is still banned from ever coming to America, Allen is back in the news again because his former daughter, Dylan, wrote a pretty intense essay about how he molested her as a kid. Gross.
However, as per usual, Hollywood sticks by their perverts. The fact that Allen was accused of molesting Dylan years ago isn't exactly a secret, nor is the fact he is currently married to his former step-daughter, yet just the other week the fanciest bitches in Hollywood were tonguing his asshole at the Golden Globes and giving him a lifetime achievement award. Hollywood: the place where no fucks are given as long as you've got talent.
In her open letter for The New York Times, Dylan writes about the 1993 incident, when she was just 7-years-old:
When I was seven years old, Woody Allen took me by the hand and led me into a dim, closet-like attic on the second floor of our house. He told me to lay on my stomach and play with my brother?s electric train set. Then he sexually assaulted me. He talked to me while he did it, whispering that I was a good girl, that this was our secret, promising that we?d go to Paris and I'd be a star in his movies. I remember staring at that toy train, focusing on it as it traveled in its circle around the attic. To this day, I find it difficult to look at toy trains.
Pretty intense stuff. However, the biggest thing she wrote, in my opinion, was when she called out big Hollywood names for continuing to not give a fuck about any of this shit:
What if it had been your child, Cate Blanchett? Louis CK? Alec Baldwin? What if it had been you, Emma Stone? Or you, Scarlett Johansson? You knew me when I was a little girl, Diane Keaton. Have you forgotten me?
A lot has been said about this whole scandal. Woody was never charged with anything and some people think Mia Farrow put these thoughts and stories in young Dylan's head to get back at him for banging her oldest daughter. And as I write that sentence I can't help but think "what the fuck?!" Even if the guy didn't diddle a 7-year-old, he still started banging the teenage daughter of his long-term girlfriend who was also the mother of his only biological child (even though we all know now that Ronan is totally Frank Sinatra's son. That dreamy piece of man is?obviously a spawn of old blue eyes, but that's besides the point).
Here's the thing: I love Woody Allen movies, I really do. I can rant all day about how people need to be throwing more shade at him for his shitty behavior, but it doesn't change the fact that I'm one of the dickheads who is keeping him rich and successful. Same with Polanski, and he's a CONVICTED kid rapist.
At the end of the day, Woody Allen has hurt a lot of people, I mean, the guy fucking destroyed Mia Farrow's family, but the chances of Hollywood giving a shit about what it's most?talented does are about?as good as Farrah Abraham doing something classy or Kayne West being humble. That shit just isn't going to happen.


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The interim final regulations lay out an additional way for organizations eligible for an accommodation to provide notice of their religious objection to providing coverage for contraceptive services. The rule allows these eligible organizations to notify the Department of Health and Human Services in writing of their religious objection to providing contraception coverage. HHS and the Department of Labor will then notify insurers and third party administrators so that enrollees in plans of such organizations receive separate coverage for contraceptive services, with no additional cost to the enrollee or the employer. The interim final rule solicits comments, but goes into effect upon publication.
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The Administration is also issuing a proposed rule soliciting comments on how it might extend to certain closely held for-profit entities, like Hobby Lobby, the same accommodation that is available to non-profit religious organizations. Under the proposal, these companies would not have to contract, arrange, pay or refer for contraceptive coverage to which they object on religious grounds. The proposal seeks comment on how to define a closely held for-profit company and whether other steps might be appropriate to implement this policy.
The administration continues to encourage Congress to act to ensure that women affected by the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby decision have access to the same coverage options offered to others, while it begins the process of soliciting feedback to determine how, through rulemaking, it can ensure that the religious concerns of organizations are respected and women are able to get coverage of recommended preventive services without cost sharing, as intended under the health care law.
Source: http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2014pres/08/20140822a.html


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We've seen all kinds of Asteroids clones on PSP over the years, and this is one more to whet your whistle with. It operates much like you would expect. The first level starts players off with one large asteroid to destroy, and each shot breaks the rock down into halves. Simply keep firing until the entire object has been destroyed. With each new level, you'll have more debris to clear, so the experience can become challenging. It should be noted that the game is natively French, but should be simple enough for anyone to understand.


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The final suspect in last week's shooting death of a 27-year old St. Paul resident has been arrested this afternoon.
Police had warned earlier today that they believed the suspect was armed and dangerous. He was taken into custody "without incident," according a statement released by the St. Paul Police Department.
The suspect was one of four individuals wanted in connection with the August 14 shooting death of Troy Leonard Crawford.
On Monday, officers with the St. Paul Police Department arrested two St. Paul men in connection with the shooting.
Another suspect turned herself in this morning, police said, and has been booked into the Ramsey County Jail on suspicion of murder.
The shooting occurred shortly before 6:30 p.m. August 14 near Case Avenue and Burr Street. St. Paul Fire paramedics responded to a call of shots fired. When authorities arrived, they pronounced Crawford dead at the scene.
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US Army, Lockheed Martin complete 2nd autonomous convoy demo; more vehicles, higher speeds. Update w/video.
12 June 2014
|The AMAS CAD II convoy of driverless trucks. Click to enlarge.
The US Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) and Lockheed Martin successfully demonstrated additional capabilities of the Autonomous Mobility Appliqué System (AMAS) at the Department of Energy's Savannah River Site in South Carolina by conducting a driverless line-haul convoy with seven military trucks at speeds up to 40 mph (64 km/h).
The recent AMAS CAD II demonstration built upon the capabilities that were demonstrated at Ft. Hood, Texas, in January 2014, where three unmanned military trucks negotiated oncoming traffic, followed rules of the road, recognized pedestrians and avoided various obstacles at speeds up to 25 mph (40 km/h) in an urban environment. (Earlier post.)
The driverless vehicle is coming in both commercial and military applications. The Army is at the forefront of this technology.—Bernard Theisen, TARDEC's AMAS Technical Manager
AMAS is a Joint Capability Technology Demonstrator, or JCTD—a joint program between the US Army and the US Marine Corps. The AMAS common appliqué kit consists of the bi-wire active safety kit and the autonomy kit.
It uses Global Positioning System (GPS), Light Detecting Radar (LIDAR) systems, Automotive Radio Detection and Ranging (RADAR) and commercially available automotive sensors in order to make the system affordable. The AMAS JCTD goal is to standardize these kits across both the Army and Marine Corps and give the warfighter the ability to transform ordinary vehicles into optionally-manned vehicles.
TARDEC is working closely with the US Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), military users and the acquisition community to advance the development of autonomous appliqué systems for tactical vehicles and make these capabilities available by 2020.
Autonomy-enabled vehicles are expected to reduce accidents while augmenting the warfighter and increasing capabilities by creating greater stand-off distance from danger; making supply distribution safer and more efficient; and providing the flexibility to adapt to changing and evolving threats.
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meh meh
use what you want to use i say.
theres no NEED to even get out the car in the first place
horses for courses, and all that guff.
meh meh
use what you want to use i say.
theres no NEED to even get out the car in the first place
horses for courses, and all that guff.
at the moment Im running a hardtail for everthing..
but thats because I havent got the pennies to get a full susser yet
me:full suss is overcomplicated and energy sapping
lets be honest here its not, its only complicated if your brain is in upside down
I meant 'prone to failure'. On my Intense, the shock eye bush would last about 10 weeks before it started knocking, and I'd have to replace numerous small cartridge bearings every year and dismantle the air shock to grease the insides etc. And all this effort to make the ride over rocks less exciting
"either get bored of havign nothing to do or scare myself shitless with the extra speed"
Yeah, I've noticed that! I really like my FS as a do-it-all bike, speed, pop, etc but I can't get over the feeling that a really good, 25lb HT is the best fun for 2-4 blasts on typical trails around here.
Fancy a Whyte 19 now!
FS as i cant be bothered with fully rigid beating me up all the time.
'prone to failure'. On my Intense
this i have to agree with you on this simon i have/had the same problem with my 5.5 changing bushes(x2) and replacing shock bolts (X3)but when she working she great
:oops:excuse the cave man talk
changing shock bushing is a five minute job, if that. hardly a major price to pay.
i ride what I have, hardtails can be fun but bounce is funner.
depends if you just grind/plod along or like to play around...
full sussers are not required in the UK - well for uplift days but thats about it
LOL! There had to be one!
Black runs/Red/blu - what are these?
richc - laggan black is perfectly manageable on a LT HT with decent tyres, and a good 130mm+ fork.
I wonder whether I could manage the black route at Laggan on my FS. Don't think I'd contemplate it on my HT!
LOL! There had to be one!
I was hoping for much more of an attack than that
Either/or, doesn't bother me. Neither one is better, just different. If I know the trails are going to be muddy then usually the HT, fewer moving parts to wear out.
I have one bike, so that one gets taken out for a ride.
I can sympathise with you on your back condition,I also suffer with back pain,but not as bad as you,I can get away with a Hardtail but I do prefer my meta 5.2 (2007) for its comfort factor.
I use the Full sus for the mountains,and am trying to be selective! on the hilly/rocky stuff with the Hardtail (Hummer)Great on the trail centres though,and I think thats where I will be using it the most.
More often than not, I ride my FS because it means I can go faster than I can on my HT.
There are some places that I ride where I prefer my HT though.
Whichever one I fancy riding or haven't dismantled.
You can ride most stuff on most bikes, you just have to ride it differently.
And that's the fun of it.
the hardtail is locked up in the shed back in the uk so no chance of getting on that till I come back in the summer. Shame as some of the trails in NZ are through native bush where there is literally just enough room for the bars, which are a hell of a lot wider on the fs.
Interesting thoughts though guys, just need to buy a vehicle big enough for both so I can choose when I get to the trails. Whatever the weather I will be removing that shimano xt tat from the rear of the hardtail and getting the sram x9 bobbed on!
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Title: CTSO Recruitment for the "Tech Savvy"
Career Tech Student Organization (CTSO) should be an integral part of Commerce Information Technology courses. This lesson will allow students to take an active role in promoting their CTSO organization. This lesson is an ideal teamwork activity in which students teams will be responsible for creating a Marketing Pamphlet utilizing photo's taken from previous and current year activities. This is a Commerce and Information Technology lesson plan.
Standard(s): [BMA] BA12 (9-12) 14: Determine career and entrepreneurial opportunities, responsibilities, and educational and credentialing requirements related to multimedia design.
Title: Snail Mail or E-Mail Blast! Which Proves More Effective?
Students will use business letters and email to recruit professional members for the Career Technical Student Organization (CTSO) using the Chamber of Commerce member listing. This lesson plan is targeted toward Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA). However, this lesson could be adapted by any CTSO.This is a Commerce and Information Technology lesson plan.
Standard(s): [BMA] BA04 (9-12) 3: Demonstrate effective writing techniques used to communicate in the business environment, including enhancing vocabulary and composing concise documents with clarity.
Title: Business Communication
This lesson will help students learn about business communication. Students will learn how to write various types of business letters and other communication.
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A dynamic new program open to Syracuse University and SUNY ESF students, faculty and staff will help people connect and share rides for free.
The new RideShare online program encourages group commute as an alternative to single-occupant vehicles, as well as matching up people to bike, walk and travel together.
The program offers a secure online registration at no cost to members of the SU and ESF communities.
RideShare, developed in Canada in 1980, uses geocoding technology to search for matches along a route, from an origin point to a destination and allows users to set the rules for their searches.
""For several years, SU has been searching for an online carpool system, so we are excited to launch Syracuse RideShare," says Darya Rotblat, director of SU's Office of Off-Campus and Commuter Services. "We feel that it will meet the needs of all of our students, faculty and staff, promote sustainable travel and allow students to connect with one another for one-time trips home and to other locations."
Another sustainable transportation offered through SU, the Zipcar car-sharing program, is now in its fourth year of availability to the SU community.
An overall goal of these programs is to help relieve the burden of fuel and commuting costs, while also reducing the amount of greenhouse gas emissions released through daily campus travel.
To register with Syracuse RideShare, visit syracuserideshare.syr.edu or call the Office of Off-Campus and Commuter Services at 443-5489 for more information.
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Climate Change and Role of Forests Biodiversity and Land Use (Carbon sequestration) in Mitigation of Climate Change
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Jan Szyszko, Polish Minister of Environment, was the 15th speaker of the FIIA EU-Presidency Series.
Minister Szyszko is a Professor of Forest Science. He is engaged in studies on the density and regeneration of forest systems and has published widely on the subject. Prior to his ministerial post, he was also the Polish Governmental Plenipotentiary for the UN Convention on Climate Change.
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E.W. Jackson debates Ralph Northam at George Mason University
ARLINGTON, Va. (WJLA) - Going into Tuesday night's debate between Virginia Lt. Governor candidates E.W. Jackson (R) and Democratic counterpart Ralph Northam at George Mason University's satellite campus here, the larger questions more or less were: Who exactly is Ralph Northam and is E.W. Jackson really as much of a loose cannon as his well-chronicled rhetoric suggests?
Yet no real answers were supplied.
Northam was, as he has been throughout the campaign, was soft-spoken, matter-of-fact and low key, much in the same manner he has conducted himself since arriving in the Virginia state senate in 2008. The Norfolk pediatric neurologist didn't appear intent on scoring points.
Jackson, as he does as a non-denominational bishop in Chesapeake, was much more demonstrative, his voice rising toward the end of most of his points. Toward the end, he dusted off his well-worn line that what he says about social issues during his sermons is not how he would govern.
Northam gently replied that "making statements against the LGBT community," whether said in church or on the floor of the senate "are offensive to me."
The primary thrust of the debate was billed as being about the state's fiscal future and seldom did it genuinely veer from the topic.
When it came to restrictive new laws that have forced the closure of some of Virginia's abortion clinics, Northam lamented the "social agenda" against which he fought. Jackson countered that he's "unabashedly pro-life," and will do everything he can to "protect the lives of unborn children."
When talking about mental-health issues, Jackson said some members of his extended family suffer from the disease and endorsed sending some patients to a mental institution: "We don't want them hurting themselves or hurting others."
Countered Northam, after expressing sympathy for Jackson's family: "How sad that you would go visit them in an institution," adding that there are many more alternatives than one being committed to a mental facility.
Asked about the gift scandal that has embroiled Gov. Bob McDonnell, Jackson acknowledged it as unfortunate but added that the system worked. Northam said it was "distressing and embarrassing."
When it came to the subject of Obamacare, Northam expressed support while Jackson voiced strong opposition.
On guns, Northam called for tighter control, while Jackson stressed the need to protect the Second Amendment.
Both agreed that transportation problems in the state is an ongoing issue but differed on funding.
Moderated by WUSA reporter Peggy Fox, the debate immediately took on a slightly awkward tone when, after Northam gave his introductory comments while sitting in the supplied brown leather chair, Jackson declared that because so many people had come to watch the proceedings, he would respect them by standing – and so he did.
As histrionics go, that was the highlight of the 90-minute affair.


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In Richard Prices novel Lush Life, police scramble to solve a murder in modern-day New York City. Eric Cash, a 34-year-old bartender, becomes a suspect after an acquaintance is killed during a mugging. Even though he didnt do it, Cash may not be able to pull himself out of the tangled mess. Witnesses lie, police officers chase a confession instead of the truth and the tabloids are calling the dead man a hero. The pressure is building to solve the case at any cost, and Cash is an easy fall guy. Readers know from the start who the killer is, but thats not the point. The mystery here is whos going to catch the killer. Price vividly depicts the many different cultures of the Lower East Side, a place where high-priced lofts exist next to rundown housing projects. And his fully believable characters grab readers attention with colorful dialogue.
The author of seven novels and an award-winning scriptwriter for the HBO series The Wire, Price will discuss and sign Lush Life as part of the Inprint Brown Reading Series. 7:30 p.m. Alley Theatre, 615 Texas. For information, call 713-521-2026 or visit www.inprinthouston.org. $5.
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This article accompanies The Changing Face of HR.
Recently, we had the opportunity to assist a billion-dollar-plus company in its search for a new HR leader for its North America operations. The opportunity was posted on several networking sites and what we received as responses made us fearful of the job-hunting skills of our profession.
After reading more than 100 resumes, we concluded that HR professionals must be near the bottom in their ability to write effective resumes and letters of introduction. What caused us to reach this conclusion? The following will give you some insight to our dismay.
* Many respondents did not seem to have read the posting as the skill set was not close to what was requested and then there were those whose experience and qualifications were way beyond what was being sought.
* There were candidates whose skills were evident but were not related to the industry where the opening existed.
* There were resumes from Ph.Ds who drifted in and out of consulting and seemed clueless about the requirements of the position but wanted to "sell" their expertise.
* There were resumes from individuals who changed jobs every two years -- not a good career strategy and resumes from consultants who thought now was the time to have an "in-house" assignment.
* Some attached poorly laid out resumes or failed to attach the resume at all. Others obviously failed to read over their own e-mail before sending.
But the resumes that really raised our concern for our profession were the ones that listed how they had implemented various programs, led major recruiting efforts, or improved corporate processes without any indication of the benefits or results.
What business leaders want to know is: What was the impact of what you did? How much did you reduce recruiting costs, reduce time-to-fill? How much did your training program reduce time-to-performance and improve productivity?
Programs for programs' sake have little value in the today's business world. Business leaders want to know how you contributed to revenue and bottom-line results.
HR professionals need to view their roles as facilitators and contributors to financial results of the company, and consequently they need to be able to express the value of their efforts and achievements in hard dollar terms.
Allan Kennel is a retired GE HR Executive that had major assignments in the U.S. Europe and Asia. Lately he has been engaged as a consultant for several companies in the U.S and Asia and does business as AHK Consulting Services.
Jim Williams is a consultant with a strong history in Learning and Development at IBM and GE. He authored the highly acclaimed book, Learning Paths (Pfeiffer and ASTD, 2004) showing how more people can reach higher levels of performance, faster.
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